cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
creepily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more creepily
form: most creepily
Etymology: From creepy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a creepy manner.
examples: text: I returned quietly, creepily, to the tent, first taking another exhaustive look round and—yes, I confess it—making a few measurements.
ref: 1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Willows:
glosses: With a furtive creeping motion.
criminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more criminally
form: most criminally
Etymology: From criminal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.
ref: 2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a criminal manner.
crucially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːʃəli/
Forms: form: more crucially
form: most crucially
Etymology: From crucial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: England were again thankful for the brilliance of Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who has yet to concede a goal in the tournament and saved crucially from Timo Werner and Kai Havertz in each half, while Thomas Muller missed a glorious chance to equalise before Kane struck.
ref: 2021 June 29, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Germany”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a crucial manner.
flag captain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag captains
Senses: glosses: The captain of a flagship in the Royal Navy.
crudely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːdli/
ipa: /ˈkɹudli/
ipa: /ˈkɹʉːdli/
rhymes: -uːdli
Forms: form: more crudely
form: most crudely
Etymology: From crude + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 159:
text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Mr Netanyahu also called Mr Shapiro’s observations “unacceptable”. The ambassador too was accused of demonstrating a “double standard” and was crudely dismissed by a former Mr Netanyahu aide as a “little Jew boy” courting favour.
ref: 2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, archived from the original on 22 May 2021, retrieved 08 Feb 2016:
glosses: In a crude manner.
crustily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crustily
form: most crustily
Etymology: From crusty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crusty manner.
cryptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cryptically
form: most cryptically
Etymology: From cryptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cryptic manner.
flag officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag officers
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A naval officer with the rank of rear admiral or above. Such officers are entitled to fly a personal flag, especially on the flagship.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In addition to naval officers of Navy and the Coast Guard, a general officer in the Army, Marines, or Air Force with the rank of brigadier general or higher.
Related terms: flag lieutenant
flag rank
general officer
culpably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more culpably
form: most culpably
Etymology: From culpable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a culpable manner.
cumulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cumulatively
form: most cumulatively
Etymology: From cumulative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Rather, the object is to consider them cumulatively in order to obtain an overall picture of the lexicography of Indian English.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 296:
glosses: In a cumulative manner.
cuttingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cuttingly
form: most cuttingly
Etymology: From cutting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cutting manner.
flag rank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag ranks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: Royal Navy
glosses: The rank of a flag officer.
glosses: Any of several equivalent ranks in several other naval or other military organizations.
crablike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crablike
form: most crablike
Etymology: From crab + -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.
Senses: examples: text: It was in this stream, I recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: Having some characteristics of a crab
glosses: Walking or moving sideways
Derived terms: crab-like rove beetle
Related terms: sidle
cracklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackling
crackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cracklier
form: crackliest
Etymology: From crackle + -y.
Senses: examples: the crackly sound of a fire
glosses: Involving or producing a crackle.
crackup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackups
form: crack-up
Etymology: Deverbal from crack up.
Senses: examples: text: They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and disengage himself from the crack-up.
ref: 1936, Joseph R. James, "More Gates Air Circus Antics" (Popular Aviation, November 1936)
glosses: A crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.
crannied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crannied
form: most crannied
Etymology: From cranny + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having crannies.
Derived terms: uncrannied
crapshooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapshooters
Etymology: From crap + shooter.
Senses: glosses: A person who plays the game of craps.
crawly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: Crawley
Forms: form: crawlier
form: crawliest
Etymology: From crawl + -y.
Senses: examples: 1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider.
a crawly insect
glosses: Crawling around.
examples: a crawly sensation
glosses: As if covered in moving things such as insects.
Related terms: creepy-crawly
crenelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crenellated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crenelate
crenelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crenelated
form: most crenelated
form: crenellated
Senses: glosses: Having crenellations or battlements.
examples: text: The coat of the Vicomtes de Grandlieu is the same quartered with that of Navarreins : gules, a fess crenelated or, surmounted by a knight's helmet, with the motto : Grands faits, grand lieu.
ref: 1896, Honoré de Balzac, A Harlot's Progress, page 92:
glosses: Having a series of square indentations; (in particular, heraldry) embattled.
Derived terms: crenelated molding
crestless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crest + -less.
Senses: examples: a crestless bird
glosses: Having no crest
glosses: Having no coat of arms
Derived terms: crestlessness
cribber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cribbers
Etymology: From crib + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cribs from others; a plagiarist.
glosses: A horse that has the habit of cribbing (seizing a solid object with the teeth and drawing in wind).
criminality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminalities
Etymology: From French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. See criminal.
Senses: glosses: The state of being criminal.
examples: text: rampant criminality
text: The memorandum of understanding between the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of Rail and Road and the police states: "In the absence of a clear indication that serious criminality has caused the accident, RAIB will normally have precedence in respect of the investigation and will assume lead responsibility for the investigation."
ref: 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
glosses: Criminal activity.
examples: text: The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds. There was no fact in his history that had not been distorted into a criminality or a vice. This public making of him over into an iniquitous monster had pretty well crushed any lingering hope he had of getting acquainted with Dede Mason.
ref: 1910 October, Jack London, chapter VIII, in Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II, pages 181–182:
glosses: A criminal act.
Synonyms: criminalness
villainy
Derived terms: cybercriminality
double criminality
crinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crinkle
crinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crinkled
form: most crinkled
Senses: glosses: Having crinkles
translates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translate
translates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of translate
telemicroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemicroscopes
Etymology: From tele- + microscope.
Senses: glosses: Any of several optical instruments that combine the functions of a telescope and microscope e.g. projecting a microscope image onto a screen.
crippler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cripplers
Etymology: From cripple + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or thing which cripples.
glosses: A corrugated board used to grain leather.
crippling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cripple
crippling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crippling
form: most crippling
Senses: examples: text: crippling depression
glosses: That cripples or incapacitates
examples: text: The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small firms.
text: The company, appreciating the crippling affect ^([sic]) that this scheme will have on its activities unless the railway is diverted, has petitioned against the North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Bill at present before the House of Lords.
ref: 1955 April 24, “Notes and News: Restoring the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 288:
glosses: Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
examples: text: crippling debt
text: Today, the world is seeing record-shattering storms in California and catastrophic drought in places like East Africa. But by the 2030s, as temperatures rise, climate hazards are expected to increase all over the globe as different countries face more crippling heat waves, worsening coastal flooding and crop failures, the report says.
ref: 2023 March 20, Brad Plumer, “Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe. The Next Decade Is Crucial, U.N. Panel Says.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023:
glosses: Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.
Derived terms: cripplingly
crippling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cripplings
Senses: glosses: State of being crippled; lameness.
glosses: Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
crisply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪspli/
Forms: form: more crisply
form: most crisply
Etymology: From crisp + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'It was quite abominable,' said the girl crisply.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 152:
text: `Off you go then,' she said crisply.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 81:
text: I can smell the smells and see the sights in crisply focused detail.
ref: 1983 December 24, Nancy Walker, “Pachyderms: A Delightful Regression”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 14:
glosses: In a crisp manner.
criticizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criticizers
form: criticiser
Etymology: From criticize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who criticizes; a carper or faultfinder.
croaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊki
Forms: form: croakier
form: croakiest
Etymology: From croak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a croaky voice
glosses: Like that of a frog.
raw_tags: of a sound
Derived terms: croakily
croakiness
crocheter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocheters
Etymology: From crochet + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who crochets.
rhythm sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythm stick
crocheting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crochetings
Senses: glosses: A form of needlework that is made using a crochet.
crocheting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crochet
crookneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crooknecks
Etymology: From crook + neck.
Senses: synonyms: yellow squash
glosses: Any of several yellow varieties of squash having a curved neck.
Derived terms: summer crookneck
winter crookneck
rhythm stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythm sticks
Senses: examples: The kids in the courtyard played with a rhythm stick so that they could learn rhythm.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One of a set of cylindrical hardwood sticks used as a percussion instrument, especially by children learning the rudiments of rhythm
Synonyms: Lummi stick
crop-dusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crop-dustings
Senses: glosses: The application of fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides onto crops from an aircraft
glosses: The act of breaking wind in public while passing by people.
crop-dusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crop-dust
lancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lance
lancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancings
Senses: examples: text: Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.
ref: 2011, Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology, page 46:
glosses: The act by which something is lanced.
laces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.sɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of lace
laces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.sɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lace
landings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landing
cropland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croplands
Etymology: From crop + land.
Senses: glosses: arable land
Derived terms: noncropland
laminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laminate
crossbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsbəʊnz/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsboʊnz/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑs-/
Forms: form: cross-bones
Etymology: From cross + bones.
Senses: glosses: A representation of two femurs (thighbones) crossed diagonally, chiefly combined with a human skull as a symbol of danger or death.
Derived terms: skull and crossbones
Related terms: Jolly Roger
cross-cultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cross- + cultural.
Senses: examples: text: The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
glosses: Between two or more cultures; intercultural.
crosscut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒskʌt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔskʌt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑskʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: crosscuts
form: cross-cut
Etymology: From cross- + cut.
Senses: glosses: A crosswise cut.
glosses: A shortcut.
glosses: An instance of filmic crosscutting.
glosses: A crosscut saw.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.
crosscut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒskʌt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔskʌt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑskʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: crosscuts
form: crosscutting
form: crosscut
form: crosscut
form: cross-cut
Etymology: From cross- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut across something.
glosses: To cut across something.
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
coordinate_terms: rip
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
examples: text: Once we've implemented a concern in the component language, we need to perform an analysis to determine where ancillary concerns might crosscut the code.
ref: 2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.
cross-dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossdressing
form: x-dressing
Etymology: From cross- + dressing, a calque of German Transvestismus.
Senses: glosses: The wearing of clothing which society considers appropriate for the opposite sex rather than the wearer's sex.
examples: text: Now, a study published in Nature shows that cross-dressing does indeed occur and is important for boosting memory CD8+ T cell responses in vivo.
ref: 2011 April 21, Olive Leavy, “Cross-dress to impress”, in Nature Reviews Immunology, volume 11, number 302, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Display by antigen-presenting cells of antigens obtained from the surface of infected cells.
Synonyms: CDing
CD-ing
transvestism
Derived terms: crossplay
cross-dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cross-dress + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-dress
cross-examiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-examiners
Senses: glosses: A person who carries out a cross-examination.
UDF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UDFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Universal Disk Format.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of user-defined function.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: UHB
propfan
hypernyms: jet
coordinate_terms: turbofan
turboprop
turbojet
glosses: Abbreviation of unducted fan.
UDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of United Democratic Front (Kerala)
boors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boor
Ella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: Ellas
Etymology: A 19th-century shortening of Eleanor or Ellen, later also used for any name ending in -ella, such as Gabriella or Daniella. Similar abbreviations have been formed independently in many European languages, for any name containing the syllable -el-, e.g. Elisabeth.
Senses: examples: text: She was named Ella Lorena, Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable name of the day for girls […]
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XLII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, Gabriella, or Daniella.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Uva Province, Sri Lanka.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in the town of Frankfort, Pepin County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: Elle
Ellie
Elly
Kirk Ella
janitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janitresses
Etymology: From janitor + ess.
Senses: glosses: a female janitor
Synonyms: janitrix
fibro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 322:
text: There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.
ref: 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 19:
glosses: Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
examples: text: When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.
ref: 2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia, page 43:
glosses: Fibromyalgia.
house mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house mouse
benjamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benjamin
thwarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thwart
thwarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thwart
triumphalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more triumphalist
form: most triumphalist
Etymology: From triumphal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Proud of one's belief or culture, and having a feeling of superiority.
triumphalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triumphalists
Etymology: From triumphal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A triumphalist person.
Related terms: triumphalism
defenestrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defenestrate
error message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: error messages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A message displayed when a failure condition occurs, usually on a computer or device.
defenestrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defenestrate
olive grove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olive groves
Senses: glosses: A cluster of olive trees.
Synonyms: oliveyard
Hypernyms: orchard
defenestrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defenestrate
cross-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-eyes
Senses: glosses: A form of strabismus in which the eyes converge; esotropia
Derived terms: cross-eyed
cross-fertilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-fertilizes
form: cross-fertilizing
form: cross-fertilized
form: cross-fertilized
form: cross-fertilise
Etymology: From cross- + fertilize.
Senses: glosses: To undergo (or cause to undergo) cross-fertilization.
extraneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɹeɪni.əsnəs/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɹeɪni.əsnəs/
Etymology: From extraneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
Synonyms: extrinsicness
inessentialness
irrelevantness
Related terms: extraneous
extraneously
livelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lively: more lively
liveliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lively: most lively
Pennsylvania Avenue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A street in Washington, D.C., that runs between the White House and the United States Capitol.
glosses: The relationship between Congress and the President.
time tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time tunnels
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A passageway enabling time travel.
somen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 素麺(そうめん) (sōmen, “white noodles”).
Senses: glosses: Thin, white noodles usually served cold with sauce for dipping.
Synonyms: word: somyeon
flabellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈbɛləm/
rhymes: -ɛləm
Forms: form: flabellums
form: flabella
Etymology: From Latin flabellum (“fan”).
Senses: glosses: A large fan used for religious ceremonies.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fan-shaped structure.
Related terms: flabellate
remarkableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remarkable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: remarkability
coordinate_terms: notability
glosses: The state of being remarkable or striking; extraordinariness; unusualness.
tip wage credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip wage credits
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: tip credit
qualifier: labour
glosses: A law that allows an employer to count tips received by an employee toward the latter's minimum wage.
glosses: A monetary benefit to an employer under this law.
pootled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pootle
rara avises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rara avis
rarae aves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɑːɹiː ˈeɪviːs/
ipa: /ˌɹɑːɹaɪ-/
ipa: /ˌɹɛːɹiː-/
ipa: /ˌɹɛːɹaɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈɑːviːs/
ipa: /-ˈæviːs/
ipa: /ˌɹɑɹi ˈeɪvis/
Forms: form: raræ aves
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rārae avēs.
Senses: glosses: plural of rara avis
slighter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slight + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slight: more slight
slighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slighters
Etymology: From slight + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who slights.
lightest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of light: most light
lightest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of light
tip credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip credits
Senses: glosses: A tip wage credit.
pausa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.
Senses: examples: text: The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.
ref: 1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta orientalia: posthumous writings and selected minor works:
text: Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.
ref: 1998, Pádraig MacCoisdealbha, The Syntax of the Sentence in Old Irish, →ISBN:
text: In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa.
ref: 2004, Gerhard Endress, Rüdiger Arnzen, Jörn Thielmann, Words, Texts, and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea, →ISBN:
text: For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.
ref: 2005, Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani, Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, page 245:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
Derived terms: pausal
allograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allografts
Etymology: From allo- + graft.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical transplant of tissue between genetically different individuals of the same species.
Synonyms: alt: homotransplant
word: homograft
Coordinate terms: word: autograft
word: isograft
alt: heterograft
word: xenograft
Derived terms: semiallograft
allograft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allografts
form: allografting
form: allografted
form: allografted
Etymology: From allo- + graft.
Senses: glosses: To perform a transplant of this kind.
sleeper berth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeper berths
Senses: glosses: A seat, on an aircraft etc, that can be reclined to form a bed.
glosses: A small compartment on a long-distance truck in which the driver can sleep when taking a break.
Africana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæfɹɪˈkænə/
ipa: /ˌæfɹɪˈkɑnə/
ipa: /ˌæfɹɪˈkeɪnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Latin āfricāna, the neuter plural of āfricānus (“African”). By surface analysis, Africa + -ana (“things (plural)”), analogous to Americana. First attested in 1908.
Senses: examples: Africana is a word of many different meanings; to one it means books and other printed or manuscript material, to another it means objects other than books. For Africana Notes and News it is used in its widest sense ... it is restricted only from a geographical point of view; it denotes not the whole of Africa but only Southern Africa. (Africana Notes & News, 1943)
glosses: Collectible objects, such as maps, documents and artifacts, peculiar to Africa, especially Southern Africa.
glosses: The various cultures and peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, considered collectively.
cross-grained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
raw_tags: of timber
examples: text: It is quite wonderful to me, in such a cross-grained, hardening, and harsh world as ours, where she can have contrived to keep so much of open, fresh, and kindly feeling.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152:
text: It was my old cross-grained companion, Professor Summerlee. "What!" he cried. "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: For five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next door. His heart was beating violently. He had risked all on this throw. How would they decide? And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:
glosses: Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome.
Derived terms: cross-grainedness
Related terms: knurl
cross-hatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-hatchings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crosshatching.
cross-hatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-hatch
crosshatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crosshatch
crosshatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosshatchings
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect.
glosses: A method of indicating terrain on a map by using the same technique.
cross-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having one leg over and across the other.
glosses: Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.
Synonyms: sense: of sitting on the ground
word: criss-cross applesauce
sense: of sitting on the ground
word: crosslegs
sense: of sitting on the ground
word: Indian style
sense: of sitting on the ground
word: pretzel style
sense: of sitting on the ground
word: tailor-fashion
sense: of sitting on the ground
word: tailorwise
cross-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a cross-legged position.
crossness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossnesses
Etymology: From cross + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth […] wished he were beside her, and was so glad to think he would soon be beside her always, with all his humours and weaknesses, all his little crossnesses and complainings[…]
ref: 1863, Dinah Maria Craik, Mistress and maid:
text: At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: the state of being cross; mild anger
crosspatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosspatches
form: cross-patch
Etymology: From cross (“grumpy”) + patch (“fool”).
Senses: glosses: A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.
Synonyms: grouch
cross-pollinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-pollinates
form: cross-pollinating
form: cross-pollinated
form: cross-pollinated
Etymology: From cross- + pollinate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To fertilize by the transfer of pollen from an anther of one plant to the stigma of another.
glosses: To inspire, stimulate, or influence between diverse elements.
Derived terms: cross-pollination
cross-purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-purposes
form: cross purpose
Etymology: Attested (in the plural form) since the 1660s, originally meaning ‘contradictory intentions.’
Senses: examples: text: We are working at cross-purposes here, if you're trying to reduce the count and I'm trying to increase it.
glosses: A contrary or conflicting purpose or understanding, especially an unintentional or misconceived one.
Derived terms: cross-purposes
at cross-purposes
cross-purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-purpose
cross-purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I danced; and so till 12 at night, and to supper, and then to cross-purposes, mighty merry; and then to bed - my eyes being sore.
ref: 1667 January 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “December 26th, 1666”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
Derived terms: at cross-purposes
at cross-purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Mutually misunderstanding each other's plans, intentions or meanings.
Related terms: talk past
trip over one another
cross-refer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-refers
form: cross-referring
form: cross-referred
form: cross-referred
Etymology: From cross- + refer.
Senses: glosses: To make or use a cross-reference
crossectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Beam elements with various crossectional configurations are considered.
ref: 1989, in Bahram Ravani (ed.), Advances in Design Automation, 1989: Presented at the 1989 ASME Design Automation Conferences--15th Design Automation Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 17-21, 1989, Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 101, 104, 109
text: The major limitation of crossectional surveys is their inability to determine any temporal relationship between the factor and the event.
ref: 1993, David Banting, “Alternatives to Conventional Clinical Caries Trials”, in William H. Bowen, Lawrence A. Tabak, editors, Cariology for the Nineties, page 274:
text: Measurements were made at eleven crossectional locations and averaged to determine overall channel dimensions.
ref: 2007, Brandon S. Field, Two-phase Pressure Drop and Flow Regime of Refrigerants and Refrigerant-oil Mixtures in Small Channels, page 52
glosses: Alternative form of cross-sectional.
cross-sectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cross sectional
form: crossectional
Etymology: From cross section + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
cross-stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-stitches
Etymology: From cross- + stitch.
Senses: glosses: A double stitch that forms a cross.
synonyms: counted cross-stitch
glosses: Embroidery or needlework made using such stitches.
Derived terms: counted cross-stitch
cross-stitcher
cross-stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-stitches
form: cross-stitching
form: cross-stitched
form: cross-stitched
Etymology: From cross- + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To embroider with such stitches.
cross-train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-trains
form: cross-training
form: cross-trained
form: cross-trained
Etymology: From cross- + train.
Senses: glosses: To train in a different task, skill or sport
glosses: To train in a variety of tasks, skills or sports
Derived terms: cross-trainer
crossways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossway
crossways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cross + -ways.
Senses: examples: text: I stared and stared again - he was perfectly right - the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves! On rushed the bearers of the flaming corpses, and, meeting at a spot about twenty paces in front of us, built their ghastly burdens crossways into a huge bonfire.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: transversely; crosswise
croupy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːpi/
rhymes: -uːpi
Forms: form: croupier
form: croupiest
Etymology: From croup + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
Derived terms: croupily
croupiness
crowfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowfoots
form: crowfeet
Etymology: From crow + foot.
Senses: glosses: Any of many plants, mostly of subgenus Ranunculus subg. Batrachium, that have a leaf shaped somewhat like a bird's foot; especially the buttercups
Derived terms: word: crowfoot cell
taxonomic: Eleusine indica
word: crowfootgrass
word: great water crowfoot
word: water crowfoot
Related terms: crowfooted
crow's foot
crow's-feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crow's feet.
crow's-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crow's foot.
crow's-nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow's-nests
Senses: examples: text: It was becoming increasingly clear, with every successive sighting from the crow’s-nests, that the Ottomans had more ships.
ref: 2008, Roger Crowley, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580, Rearsby, Leics.: W F Howes Ltd, published 2009, →ISBN, page 393:
glosses: Alternative spelling of crow's nest.
cruller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crullers
Etymology: From Dutch kruller (“cruller”), from krullen (“to curl”).
Senses: examples: text: "Take a cruller, any way," said she, handing him a cake-basket containing a dozen or so of those unspeakable, Dutch indigestibles.
ref: 1872, James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley:
synonyms: wonder
glosses: A donut in the form of a twisted ring.
crumby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: crumbier
form: crumbiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crummy.
examples: Near-synonym: crumbly
glosses: Crumbly; inclined to break into crumbs.
Derived terms: crumbily
crumbiness
crustal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌstəl/
Forms: form: more crustal
form: most crustal
Etymology: From crust + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The hope was to lower a drill through over 4,000 metres of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 5,000 metres through relatively thin crustal rock.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 189:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet.
Derived terms: intracrustal
noncrustal
subcrustal
cuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubers
Etymology: From cube (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another interesting exhibit was a bread cutter with circular revolving blade. Their newest machine is the Sterling vegetable cuber […]
ref: 1920, Hotel Monthly, volume 28, numbers 322-333, page 29:
glosses: Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
cuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubers
Etymology: From cube (noun) + -er.
Senses: synonyms: cubist
Rubik's cuber
Rubik's cubist
glosses: A player of Rubik's cube.
cultism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultisms
Etymology: From cult + -ism. The linguistic sense is from Spanish cultismo.
Senses: examples: text: Also keep in mind that the Democrats of today are part of a new woke cultism – They are not necessarily the same Democrats from 30 years ago.
ref: 2023 June 2, Brandon Smith, “How To Solve Violence In The US? Remove Democrat Run Cities And Bring Back Asylums”, in Alt-Market.us:
glosses: The system or practice of a cult.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of culteranismo.
synonyms: word: culteranismo
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: learned borrowing.
Derived terms: anticultism
Related terms: cultist
cultivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultivable
form: most cultivable
Etymology: From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable.
Senses: examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183.
These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.
glosses: Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
Synonyms: cultivatable
arable
Derived terms: noncultivable
uncultivable
cupolaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cupola + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more cupolas.
curability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curabilities
Etymology: From cure + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being curable.
Synonyms: curableness
Derived terms: radiocurability
curbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curb
curbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curbings
Senses: glosses: A row of curbstones; the material used to construct such a curb
glosses: The damage caused to a wheel or tire by curbing (running the wheel or tire into or over a curb).
curer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹə/
ipa: /ˈkjɔːɹə/
enpr: kyo͝orʹər
enpr: kyûrʹər
ipa: /ˈkjʊɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈkjɝɚ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: curers
Etymology: From cure + -er.
Senses: glosses: A healer.
glosses: A person who, or device which preserves food by curing.
curler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: curlers
Etymology: From curl + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair / Waiting for a girl, she has no money anywhere
ref: 1968, Jagger–Richards, “Factory Girl”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by The Rolling Stones:
text: There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
synonyms: hair roller
glosses: One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
glosses: A sportsman who plays curling.
examples: text: The captain sent a curler into the top corner of the net.
text: Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.
ref: 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
text: Liverpool were energised at the start of the second half, with ­Curtis Jones shaping a curler just past the far post.
ref: 2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.
examples: text: Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.
ref: 2021 August 25, Jilli Cluff, “Kelly Slater’s Artificial Wave Will Crown ‘The Ultimate Surfer’ on Hulu”, in GearJunkie:
text: There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.
ref: 2023 March 18, Sam Anderson, “Weekend Warm-Up: Liquid Lines, Entrancing Tunes, Mesmerizing Moments in ‘MALIA’”, in Explorersweb:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A wave which breaks with a barrel
Derived terms: amen curler
butter curler
curlered
eyelash curler
hair curler
hot curler
lash curler
curlicue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curlicues
form: curlycue
Etymology: From curly + cue.
Senses: examples: text: I put in plenty of curlicues after the figures so that no one could raise the check into $400,000; then I got out my old rattan suit case and put in some clothes.
ref: 1917, Christopher Morley, chapter 3, in Parnassus on Wheels, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC:
text: There was not the slightest use in trying to make its twisty curlicue streets conform to any engineering plan on earth; so those sensible old-time folk didn't try.
ref: 1917, Anna Alice Chapin, Greenwich Village, page 45:
text: (Curlicue hand-drawn cartoons blossom frequently throughout, touching base with the source material’s distinctive visual style while adding an aptly hallucinogenic vibe when required.)
ref: 2015 August 6, Leslie Felperin, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops.
Derived terms: curlicue fractal