cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
riverage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From river + -age.
Senses: glosses: A fee charged for transporting goods on a river.
Robertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robertines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Robertian.
Robertian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robertians
form: Robertine
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Frankish predecessor family of origin to the ruling houses of France.
Robertines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Robertine
Robertians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Robertian
Austrasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Austrasian
rhizomatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizomatists
Senses: glosses: One who collects plants in order to sell them to herbalists.
Related terms: rhizome
rhizomatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizomatist
antidiarrhoeics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidiarrhoeic
Afrocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Afrocentrically
form: most Afrocentrically
Etymology: From Afrocentric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: African world must be seen and analysed Afrocentrically, with methods that are African and thus compatible with the African world.
ref: 1973, P. Chike Onwuachi, Black ideology in African diaspora, page 26:
glosses: In an Afrocentric manner.
Rhineland rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhineland rods
Senses: glosses: An old unit of length, equal to 12.36 feet (377.7 cm).
Rhineland rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rhineland rod
rightify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rightifies
form: rightifying
form: rightified
form: rightified
Etymology: From right + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To put right; to rectify.
rightified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rightify
rightifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rightify
rightifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rightify
Rice Bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced as a trademark by Kellogg's.
Senses: glosses: Rice Krispies.
metasemiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + semiotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metasemiotics.
metastatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastatements
Etymology: From meta- + statement.
Senses: glosses: A statement about a statement.
metastatements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metastatement
metacriticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacriticism
metacritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + critical.
Senses: examples: text: Through its critical and metacritical readings, then, Bad Environmentalism seeks to both diversify the archive of environmental art and reassess how that archive is constituted in the first place.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7:
glosses: Relating to metacriticism.
metagrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + grammatical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metagrammar.
blood and thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: blood (noun) + and (conjunction) + thunder (noun). First attested in 1696.
Senses: examples: text: […]she could fancy how Thurston was saying to himself: "But what's the good of this? It's blood and thunder we want. The old feller's getting past his work. He must go."
ref: 1920, Hugh Walpole, chapter IV, in The Captives:
glosses: Violent action and language, especially of a melodramatic kind, or the representation of this, or an aggressive or bad-tempered physical confrontation, typically in a sporting context.
glosses: A work of fiction featuring or characterized by bloodshed and violence; a sensationally violent story, drama, etc.
blood and thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: blood (noun) + and (conjunction) + thunder (noun). First attested in 1696.
Senses: examples: text: blood-and-thunder stories
text: Not Buffalo Bill's! He gave us a jack-o'-lantern scare once upon a time, which I don't believe any of us will ever forget. We had never seen that weird species of pumpkin, and Will embroidered a blood-and-thunder narrative.
ref: 1899, Helen Cody Wetmore, Zane Grey, Last of the Great Scouts:
text: "Your husband is an American. He should be able to keep you well entertained with blood-and-thunder stories," said he.
ref: 1904, George Barr McCutcheon, chapter VI, in Beverly of Graustark:
text: Very sincerely do we wish that at least one of the many romance writers who are so industriously inventing wild-animal blood-and-thunder stories would do more work with his eyes and less with his imagination.
ref: 1922, William T. Hornaday, The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
qualifier: action
glosses: Both melodramatically violent and aggressive; characterized by anger, or forthright ideas and expression.
raw_tags: of language
Derived terms: thud and blunder
blood and thunder
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: blood (noun) + and (conjunction) + thunder (noun). First attested in 1696.
Senses: examples: text: Strap following, with the knapsack on his back, chanced to take the other side, and, by a jolt of the carriage, pitched directly upon the stomach of the captain, who bellowed out, in a most dreadful manner, “Blood and thunder! where’s my sword?”
ref: 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XI, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 75:
text: "Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!"—was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Expressing anger or exasperation.
metemgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metagee.
metagee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metemgee
Senses: glosses: A Guyanese stew of meat, fish, and dumplings with coconut and vegetables.
ochroe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ochroes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okra.
ochroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ochroe
Mfengu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fengu.
synonyms: word: Fengu
Fengu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Bantu people, originally closely related to the Xhosas.
Synonyms: Fingo
Mfengu
miaskitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From miaskite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of miaskite
miaskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miaskites
form: miascite
Etymology: From Miask, an alternate name for Miass in the Urals, -ite.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:miaskite.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A granitoid rock containing biotite and elaeolite, a kind of nepheline syenite.
wikipedia: Miass
Derived terms: miaskitic
miaskites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miaskite
metropolitanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metropolitanizes
form: metropolitanizing
form: metropolitanized
form: metropolitanized
Etymology: From metropolitan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.
Related terms: metropolitanization
metropolitanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metropolitanize
metropolitanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metropolitanize
metropolitanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metropolitanize
microsociolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + sociolinguistics.
Senses: glosses: sociolinguistics at the level of linguistic interactions between individuals, rather than in wider society
macrosociolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + sociolinguistics.
Senses: glosses: sociolinguistics dealing with relatively large sections of society, rather than with individuals
microgeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microgeography.
microgeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + geographic.
Senses: examples: text: Mark Urban, an ecologist at the University of Connecticut and a co-author of the TREE paper, leads a research project that exemplifies the process of microgeographic adaptation, illustrating how nature’s grandest evolutionary forces operate in tiny worlds.
ref: 2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon:
glosses: Relating to microgeography
examples: text: a microgeographic race
glosses: Limited to a very small geographic area.
micropuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropunctures
Etymology: From micro- + puncture.
Senses: examples: text: Parapsis shiny, with close micropunctures and sparse coarse punctures; mesoscutal disc shiny, with sparse micropunctures, nearly impunctate in middle.
ref: 1982, Bulletin, volumes 81-82, page 81:
glosses: A very small puncture
micropuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micropunctures
form: micropuncturing
form: micropunctured
form: micropunctured
Etymology: From micro- + puncture.
Senses: glosses: To make a very small puncture
micropunctures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropuncture
mesoscutal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + scutal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mesoscutum.
coin toss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coin tosses
form: coin-toss
Senses: examples: text: Australia won the coin toss and chose to bat first.
glosses: A particular instance where a coin is launched in the air, and whichever side that it lands on finalises a decision.
synonyms: coin flip
toss-up
glosses: An uncertain selection between two outcomes of similar likelihood, or between two objects of similar quality.
platzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platzels
Senses: glosses: A traditional Jewish white bread roll made with onions.
platzels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platzel
power breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power breakfasts
Etymology: After power lunch.
Senses: glosses: A working breakfast at which important discussions may be held, and important decisions made.
power breakfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power breakfast
living history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "First person," sometimes known as "living history," is a museum-teaching technique where educators are in costume and in character, and the historic site is set to a specific year.
ref: 2014 December 28, Lapham's Quarterly:
glosses: The incorporation of historical tools, activities and clothing into an interactive presentation, to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time.
Related terms: living museum
Alleynian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alleynians
Etymology: From Alleyn + -ian, after the name of its founder, Edward Alleyn.
Senses: glosses: A pupil at Dulwich College in southeast London, England.
Alleynians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alleynian
Dulwichian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʌlˈwɪt͡ʃiən/
Forms: form: Dulwichians
Etymology: From Dulwich + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A pupil at Dulwich College in southeast London, England.
Synonyms: Alleynian
Dulwichians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dulwichian
metafictionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metafictional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being metafictional.
metachronously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metachronous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a metachronous fashion.
metafunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + functional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a metafunction.
microthin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + thin.
Senses: examples: a microthin metallic coating
glosses: microscopically thin
microimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microimages
Etymology: From micro- + image.
Senses: glosses: A microscopically small image.
Hypernyms: image
microimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microimage
microimagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + imagery.
Senses: glosses: microimages generally
iron bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron bombs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A dumb bomb, a type of gravity bomb, an unguided bomb dropped from an aircraft.
Synonyms: dumb bomb
Hypernyms: gravity bomb
iron bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron bomb
vent one's gall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vents one's gall
form: venting one's gall
form: vented one's gall
form: vented one's gall
Senses: examples: text: It would be in character if, unable to contain her suffering alone, she had vented her gall on her own husband.
ref: 2012, Christopher Hauke, Luke Hockley, Jung and Film II: The Return:
glosses: To openly express anger or frustration.
Synonyms: get something off one's chest
get something out of one's system
vent one's spleen
dumb bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb bombs
Etymology: From dumb + bomb, coined to contrast with smart bomb.
Senses: glosses: An airdropped bomb without any guidance system to control it after launch.
Synonyms: unguided bomb
iron bomb
dumb bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumb bomb
harrowed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harrow up
overbound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + bound.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbind
overbound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbounds
form: overbounding
form: overbounded
form: overbounded
Etymology: From over- + bound.
Senses: glosses: To leap over.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To provide an upper bound to.
examples: text: The Urbanized Area is often considered the best measure of urban size because it neither "underbounds" the city (by taking just the political city) or "overbounds" it (including peripheral, largely rural areas).
ref: 1975, James W. Clay, Douglas Milton Orr, Alfred Wright Stuart, North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State, page 58:
antonyms: underbound#Verb
glosses: To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.
overbound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbounds
Etymology: From over- + bound.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A Gaussian model of the (non-Gaussian) error distribution on a signal, which is conservative enough that the resulting confidence interval is guaranteed to be at least as wide as the actual confidence interval.
overbounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbound
overbounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbound
overbounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbound
scaleogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaleograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scalogram.
scaleograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaleogram
overmature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmature
form: most overmature
Etymology: From over- + mature.
Senses: examples: text: Large logs from overmature trees may not be easy to sell in a market dominated by small-log mills.
ref: 1998, California Forest Pest Council. Meeting, Stephen M. Jones, Jesse E. Rios, Forest health, hazard trees and other legal issues of mature and overmature forests: proceedings of the 47th annual meeting, page 32:
glosses: Excessively mature.
overmaturity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + maturity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overmature.
drop science
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops science
form: dropping science
form: dropped science
form: dropped science
Senses: examples: text: Her rapid-fire delivery and syncopation allows her to coast past hardcore beats as she drops science with her new school feminism.
ref: 1992, SPIN, volume 8, number 4, page 49:
text: His back catalog inspired 2005's self-published gem Rakim Told Me: Hip-Hop Wax Facts Straight From the Original Artists, a collection of legendary rap acts dropping science on their most celebrated records.
ref: 2007, Urb, volume 17, numbers 148-150, page 52:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To show off one's talent and ability, as if to educate others.
examples: text: I was finding college too hard, so I dropped science and switched to an easier course.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, science.
overscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overscore
bunker busters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunker buster
orgiasticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orgiastic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Wild, uncontrolled behaviour (especially sexual), like that of an orgy.
pinch of the game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinches of the game
Senses: examples: text: But the pinch of the game had not arrived yet.
glosses: The moment of determination or the most crucial point (of something).
orthoplasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A theory of evolution, stating that that individual modifications supplement, protect, or screen organic characters and keep them alive until useful congenital variations arise and survive by natural selection, and that this process, combined in many cases with 'tradition', gives direction to evolution.
be it what it would
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I know not, unless it was to see how the people would stand affected; be it what it would, it caused me a terrible fright.
glosses: Synonym of regardless.
synonyms: word: regardless
Synonyms: anyhow
anyway
at any rate
be it as it may
in any case
whatever the case
overpump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpumps
form: overpumping
form: overpumped
form: overpumped
Etymology: From over- + pump.
Senses: glosses: To pump excessively.
grandma'am
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grand- + ma'am.
Senses: glosses: The mother of one’s own mother.
Synonyms: grandmother
overpumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpump
overpumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpump
overpumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpump
overracked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overracked
form: most overracked
Etymology: From over- + racked.
Senses: glosses: Excessively racked; placed under too much strain or duress.
tight scratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight scratches
Senses: examples: text: We had a considerable tight scratch with about an equal number of the British.
glosses: A combat requiring arduous effort.
sport-fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Really, fucking — or sport-fucking, shall we say — has become one of the great indoor sports. We care now about how we're dressed for it and the equipment we use almost more than how we play the game.
ref: 1980, Burt Avedon, Ah, Men!: What Do Men Want?:
text: Because people in porn often forgot that not everyone accepted sport-fucking as a spectator sport, to be slickly packaged for home consumption. But then again, it all depended on your perspective.
ref: 2006, Gerrie Lim, In Lust We Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema:
glosses: Having sexual intercourse for its own sake, without a desire for commitment or emotional depth.
in close neighborhood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: And being in close neighborhood with the enemy we were necessitated to be pretty alert.
glosses: Alternative form of in close neighbourhood.
in close neighbourhood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in close neighborhood
Senses: glosses: Within close proximity.
elbow relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbow relations
Senses: examples: text: Pat Palmer Spence and Ralph Hudgins, direct descendents^([sic]) of Will Palmer, and Joan Hudgins who all related stories about a loving granny, eccentric aunts, vaguely remembered elbow relations, births and deaths, fascinating vintage letters, […]
ref: 2008, Janet Hudgins, Treason:
glosses: A distant relation.
the pock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of smallpox.
synonyms: word: smallpox
smartmodem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smartmodems
Etymology: From the trade name of a product, the Hayes Smartmodem; from smart + modem.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, some modems, and most smartmodems, come equipped with a row of status lights on the front of the modem, which make it easy to see what it is doing.
ref: 1989, Patrick R. Dewey, Email for Libraries:
text: In the previous section, we discussed the two basic types of modems, smartmodems and acoustic coupled modems. Remember that smartmodems require they be plugged directly into the phone line.
ref: 1992, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical papers, page 259:
text: The M2DM system comprised a Web access^([sic]), a CTI service based on an Interactive Voice response system and a smartmodem located at home. The Web pages were optimized for different access modalities, including mobile devices.
ref: 2007, Tomaz Jarm, Peter Kramar, Anze Zupanic, 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2007, page 16:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A modem controlled through a simple command language, rather than by manual switches.
smartmodems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smartmodem
Hissian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hissians
Etymology: Blend of hiss + Hessian
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly two of the club went out and shortly after returned with a Hissian, a cant word with the soldiers, for a goose.
glosses: Synonym of goose.
synonyms: word: goose
sea bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He missed his eggs and bacon, and his teeth were not too good for the grinding of hard sea bread. "Have some bread, Mr. Casy. This tack seems prime to me, not a worm, mind you, and that coffee's been around the Horn, if it is coffee. […]
ref: 1933, Felix Riesenberg, Mother Sea, page 31:
glosses: Synonym of hardtack.
synonyms: word: hardtack
Hessian matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hessian matrices
form: Hessian matrixes
Etymology: Named after German mathematician Ludwig Otto Hesse.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The square matrix of second-order partial derivatives of a scalar-valued function. It describes the local curvature of a function of many variables.
Hessian matrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hessian matrix
Hessian matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hessian matrix
back and forward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We left this place after marching and countermarching back and forward some days.
glosses: Synonym of back and forth.
synonyms: word: back and forth
overfraught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overfreight
overfraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfraught
form: most overfraught
Senses: examples: text: MALCOLM. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.
ovalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oval + -ing.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: distortion into an oval shape
ovaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of ovalling.
peasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peasy
form: most peasy
Etymology: From peas + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.
ref: 1991, Joan Day, R. F. Tylecote, The industrial revolution in metals, page 89:
text: Becker et al (1988) investigated the origin of a 'peasy' off-flavor note present in Central African coffees, defective green beans impairing considerably the flavor of the final roasted product.
ref: 2002, Ivon Flament, Yvonne Bessière-Thomas, Coffee Flavor Chemistry, page 72:
text: Have you ever seen a peasy armpit? Hey, just shave those rolled up corn. If you know of a man that's doing this, please send him an alarm clock, 'cause it's time to stop.
ref: 2013, Bettyjoe Cooper, The Dogs Who Screwed The Cats, page 200:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of peas.
Related terms: easy peasy
easy peasy Japanesey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extended form of easy peasy
antiroutine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiroutine
form: most antiroutine
Etymology: From anti- + routine.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to a routine, or what is commonplace and repetitive.
uptraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uptrace
downtraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downtrace
Perlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and small village in the south of Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Tom o' Bedlam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tom o' Bedlams
form: Toms o' Bedlam
Senses: glosses: A wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England.
glosses: Any wandering mendicant, either mad or pretending to be so.
glosses: A madman; a bedlamite.
til seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: til seeds
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit तिल (tila, “sesame”).
Senses: glosses: A sesame seed (from Sesamum indicum).
glosses: The seed of the til tree (Ocotea foetens).
glosses: The seed of ramtill (Guizotia abyssinica).
til seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of til seed
taperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taper + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a taper.
untapered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tapered.
Senses: glosses: Not tapered.
nontapered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tapered.
Senses: glosses: Not tapered.
anticathartic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticathartic
form: most anticathartic
Etymology: From anti- + cathartic.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: In no way causing or inducing catharsis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting as the opposite of a cathartic, preventing purging.
anticathartic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticathartics
Etymology: From anti- + cathartic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug that acts as the opposite of a cathartic, inhibiting purging.
anticathartics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticathartic
catch crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch crops
Senses: examples: 1900-1902, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture
Radishes […] are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables.
glosses: Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time.
catch crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch crop
sideswiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideswipers
Etymology: From sideswipe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sideswipes.
glosses: A type of telegraph key, similar to a straight (pump) key, but whose keying action is in a side-to-side, rather than an up-and-down, motion.
sideswipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideswiper
coelectron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelectrons
Etymology: From co- + electron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A positive free ion left behind when other electrons have joined onto other ions and become negative.
coelectrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelectron
offcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offcut
offcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offcuttings
Senses: glosses: An offcut; a piece that has been cut off.
offcuttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offcutting
factual relativism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: factual + relativism
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that scientific facts about the world are not absolute, but are relative to historical eras and to evolving scientific theories.
raw_tags: of science
examples: text: factual relativism ... attempts to argue that the world itself, or the “facts,” are different for different individuals (groups, cultures). Hence truth, too, is relative.
ref: 2013, Henrik Rydenfelt, Constructivist Problems, Realist Solutions, in J. Kegley and K. Skowronski, eds. Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 164
text: Factual relativism, according to which the facts ... may differ across perspectives — that is, different facts obtain relative to different perspectives.
ref: 2005, Iris Einheuser, “Varieties of Relativism: Indexical, Propositional and Factual”, in Varieties of Relativism: Indexical, Propositional and Factual:
text: Whereas moral relativism deals with matters of value, cognitive relativism deals with matters of fact (although sharp distinctions may at times be difficult to make) (Hollis and Lukes 1982, p. 2).
ref: 2001, Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal, “Chapter 3: Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace”, in Jay A. Labinger, Harry M. Collins, editors, One Culture?: A Conversation about Science, page 38:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The claim that the world itself, or the facts about the world, are different for different individuals, or groups, or cultures.
Synonyms: cognitive relativism
Mexpat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexpats
Etymology: Blend of Mexico + expat; compare Texpat, which reverses origin and residence.
Senses: examples: text: This site is geared toward young foreigners living in Mexico, especially el DF. Check out their forum and chat with other Mexpats about where to go, what to do, and what’s hot now.
ref: 2007, MTV Best of Mexico, page 88:
glosses: An expat (typically American) living in Mexico.
pack train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack trains
form: pack-train
form: packtrain
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after six, our pack train arrived. […] We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! It was a perfect caravan.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, chapter 41, in The Innocents Abroad:
text: Here they met a pack-train of burros that came down the mountain trail.
ref: 1914, Zane Grey, chapter 9, in Light of the Western Stars:
text: In Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go. […] Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid.
ref: 1944 June 12, “Medicine: War-Horse Hospital”, in Time, retrieved 24 May 2015:
text: Muybridge […] would travel through the Western landscape with as many as four assistants and a pack train to carry his glass negatives and chemical preparations and cameras.
ref: 2003 March 8, Edward Rothstein, “The Photographer Who Found a Way to Slow Down Time”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2015:
glosses: A procession of beasts of burden, such as horses or mules, laden with freight.
Related terms: pack animal
pack-train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack-trains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pack train.
amphiplatyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + platyan.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having flat surfaces at both ends
raw_tags: of a vertebra
bilobates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilobate
carcharodontosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcharodontosaurians
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the genus †Carcharodontosaurus.
carcharodontosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcharodontosaurian
coracoideal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the coracoid process
black lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black light
combination locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combination lock
defendability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From defendable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being defendable
glosses: The extent to which something is defendable
Denali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dɪˈnɑːli/
Etymology: Borrowed from Koyukon Deenaalee (“the tall one; the high one; the great one”) (/dinæli/, variously rendered Dinale or Denali), from -naał- (“be long, tall”).
Senses: examples: text: Mount McKinley was known to Russians as Bulshaia and to the natives of Cook Inlet as Traleyka. Both names signify 'high' or 'big mountain.' The natives of the interior know it as Denali.
ref: 1902, Dodd, Mead and Company, New International Encyclopedia:
glosses: The highest mountain peak in North America (the third most prominent peak after Mount Everest and Aconcagua), located in central Alaska.
Synonyms: Mount McKinley
Derived terms: Denali Borough
desmatochelyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmatochelyids
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus †Desmatochelys of extinct sea turtles.
echinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinate
Erlian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɜɹliɛn/
/ˈɛɹ-/
/-li.ən/
Forms: form: Erh-lien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 二連／二连 (Èrlián).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Erenhot.
synonyms: word: Erenhot
Derived terms: erlianensis
erlianite
Erenhot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹɪnhɒt/
/ɛˈɹɪnhɒt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian ᠡᠷᠢᠶᠡᠡ
ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (eriyee qota) / Эрээн хот (Ereen xot).
Senses: examples: text: At the border town of Erenhot, the people working beside the track look up and smile as the train enters China and begin to applaud.
ref: 1988 March, Paul Theroux, “China Passage”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 173, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:
text: Cheng would have to stop him further down in the Gobi’s dunes around the railhead of Erenhot, and so it was to Erenhot, the railhead on the border of China’s Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, that many of the reserves from Beijing’s Sixty-fifth Army Group were now being sent.
ref: 1993, Ian Slater, WWIII: Asian Front (Fiction), Fawcett Gold Medal Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 218:
text: Erenhot—known for little more than being a border town, a required stop for motorists and trains, as well as rich fossil territory.[...]"We cannot let you be seen," she shouted to him, when the first lights of Erenhot—and Zamyn-Uud, a little farther across the border between Mongolia and China— flickered into view. "No one would understand!"
ref: 2009 August, Marjorie Liu, The Fire King, Leisure Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 72–73:
text: On Monday, disease-hit Erenhot in Inner Mongolia banned travel in and out of the city and ordered residents to stay at home, while an outbreak in Ejin county prompted authorities earlier this week to shutter tourist sites and restrict travel.
ref: 2021 October 22, “Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four Covid cases found”, in France 24, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021:
glosses: A county-level city of Xilingol, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: Ereen
Erlianhaote
Erh-lien-hao-t'e
Erlian
Erh-lien
eumaniraptoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eumaniraptorans
Etymology: Eumaniraptora + -an
Senses: glosses: Any bird-like dinosaur of the taxon Eumaniraptora
extramorphologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + morphologic.
Senses: glosses: extramorphological
extramorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Other than morphological (in the context of morphology)
paleophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleophysiology.
palaeophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleophysiological.
palaeophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + physiology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleophysiology.
paleophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + physiology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the evolutionary basis of animal physiology.
Pamphylian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pamphylian
form: most Pamphylian
Etymology: From Pamphylia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pamphylia, on the southern coast of Anatolia.
Pamphylian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pamphylians
Etymology: From Pamphylia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Pamphylia.
Pamphylian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pamphylia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A little-attested and isolated dialect of Ancient Greek once spoken in Pamphylia.
Pamphylians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pamphylian
glacials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacial
haptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From haptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of touch.
glosses: With regard to haptics.
ichnoassemblage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnoassemblages
Etymology: From ichno- + assemblage.
Senses: glosses: An assemblage of ichnofossils
ichnoassemblages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichnoassemblage
ichnomorphologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichno- + morphologic.
Senses: glosses: ichnomorphological
ichnomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichno- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ichnomorphology
ichnomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichno- + morphology.
Senses: glosses: The morphology of ichnofossils
ichnomorphotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnomorphotypes
Etymology: From ichno- + morphotype.
Senses: glosses: The morphotype of an ichnofossil
Related terms: ichnomorphology
ichnomorphotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichnomorphotype
ichnotaxonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichno- + taxonomic.
Senses: glosses: Related to ichnotaxonomy
macroplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroplant
Mussolinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mussolini + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The form of Italian fascism associated with Benito Mussolini.
midlength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid length
form: mid-length
Senses: examples: text: The material used for the midlength skirt shown in Fig. 3-2, left, was purchased at a fabric sale.
ref: 1977, Phyllis Guth, Georgena Goff, Sewing with scraps, page 27:
glosses: Neither (too) short nor (too) long.
neognath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neognaths
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the infraclass Neognathae.
osteomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteomorphology
osteomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + morphology.
Senses: glosses: The morphology of bones
Related terms: osteomorphological
palaeofaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + faunal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleofaunal.
glosses: Related to palaeofauna
palaeofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleofauna.
Derived terms: palaeofaunal
paleofaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palaeofaunal
Etymology: From paleo- + faunal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleofauna
palaeognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleognathous.
palaeopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + psychological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleopsychological.
palaeoneurological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + neurological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoneurological.
phylogeographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylogeography
palaeoneurologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoneurologists
Etymology: From palaeo- + neurologist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoneurologist.
palaeoneurologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoneurologist
palaeokarstic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + karstic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleokarstic.
palaeokarst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeokarsts
Etymology: From palaeo- + karst.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleokarst.
palaeokarsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeokarst
palaeomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleomorphic.
palaeodemography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeodemographies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleodemography.
palaeoherpetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + herpetological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoherpetological.
palaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleological.
procoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procoracoids
Etymology: From pro- + coracoid.
Senses: glosses: A small bone, anterior to the coracoid, present in some, mostly extinct, reptiles
procoracoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procoracoid
saurolophine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saurolophines
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the subfamily Saurolophinae
saurolophines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saurolophine
palaeologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleological.
palaeophytologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + phytologic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleophytologic.
palaeosecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + secular.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleosecular.
solutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From solutional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As a solution (to a problem)
solutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solution + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a solution (to a problem).
examples: a solutional cave
synonyms: dissolution
al
glosses: Relating to, or formed by, the process of dissolving.
Britishman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Britishmen
Etymology: From British + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Pope made tea rhyme with obey, as indeed many an Irishman and Britishman would now. We are liable to fall into the use of provincial expressions by reason of such discrepancies.
ref: 1899, Metaphysical Magazine:
text: On seeing Gandhi ji, a Britishman got furious. He called the Railway officer, and both ordered him to get out of the train.
ref: c. 2010-2016', Yoginder Gupta, Balagokulam Guide (page E-17)
glosses: A man from Britain; a British man; a male Briton.
Britishmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Britishman
thalattosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalattosaur
palaeozoogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleozoogeographical.
paleohydrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleohydrologists
Etymology: From paleo- + hydrologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies paleohydrology.
palaeohydrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeohydrologists
Etymology: From palaeo- + hydrologist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleohydrologist.
paleohydrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleohydrologist
palaeohydrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeohydrologist
at all events
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: At all events, there never should have been any weapons in the mosh pit in the first place.
glosses: In any event, at any rate, anyhow.
examples: text: In future, at all events, the security staff shall screen all entrants for weapons.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, all, events.
verrucate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verrucate
form: most verrucate
Senses: glosses: Synonym of verrucose.
synonyms: word: verrucose
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: having verrucae
raw_tags: of a pollen grain
Derived terms: microverrucate
palaeoliberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + liberalism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoliberalism.
palaeocommunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeocommunities
Etymology: From palaeo- + community.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleocommunity.
palaeocommunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeocommunity