cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
derided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more derided
form: most derided
Senses: examples: text: […] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
ref: 1872, Publications of the Narragansett Club: George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, page 257:
text: There is nothing more derided than the raptures of a young affection.
ref: 1906, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, The Key of the Blue Closet, page 201:
text: Moreover, the legacy of anti-Asian racism has meant that even relatively modest efforts on foreign policy have been, as Paul Watanabe notes, "more discouraged than encouraged, more derided than applauded."
ref: 2016, Ronald H. Bayor, The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity, page 388:
glosses: Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.
Derived terms: underided
derided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deride
standpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standpipes
Etymology: From stand + pipe.
Senses: glosses: A vertical pipe into which water is pumped so that a desired pressure is available at the bottom.
glosses: A vertical pipe into which water is pumped so that a desired pressure is available at the bottom.
A vertical pipe used as an overflow protection drain in certain domestic plumbing fixtures (e.g. flush toilets).
glosses: The plumbing for a water supply in a building for the use of firefighters; the water supply itself (firewater).
glosses: A freestanding pipe fitted with a tap which is installed outdoors to dispense water for everyday use.
Related terms: fire hose
standpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standpipe
self-deception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-deceptions
Etymology: From self- + deception.
Senses: synonyms: self-deceit
self-delusion
glosses: The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.
Related terms: self-deceive
self-deceiver
self-deceptive
self-deceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-deception
self-fertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-fertilizations
form: self-fertilisation
Etymology: From self- + fertilization.
Senses: examples: text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: The fertilization of a plant by itself; self-pollination, autogamy.
self-explanatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-explanatory
form: most self-explanatory
Etymology: From self- + explanatory.
Senses: antonyms: un-self-explanatory
glosses: Obvious, having a nature that makes it clear or that explains itself.
tinware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinwares
Etymology: From tin + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Household items such as utensils, pots, and pans made from tin, generally before the development of metals with other benefits.
tinman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn.mæn/
Forms: form: tinmen
Etymology: From tin + -man.
Senses: examples: text: He seemed to feel quite at home at the tinman's, although they were hammering and tapping away there all day, but people said that the gudewife put a dish of porridge up in the garret for him every Thursday evening; and it's no wonder that they got on well and became rich when they had a brownie in the house.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:
glosses: A maker of tinware; a tinsmith.
glosses: A dealer in tinware.
tinman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn.mæn/
Forms: form: tinmen
Etymology: In allusion to the character Tin Man from the Land of Oz, who lacked a heart.
Senses: glosses: An uncaring or heartless man; a man lacking, or seeming to lack, feelings, emotions, or concern for others.
examples: text: Tinman belongs to a special class of genes. [...] But some genes make proteins that control other genes. Some act like master switches, triggering many different genes to work together to build a structure. Tinman is one such “master gene” for the fruit fly.
ref: 2000, Carl Zimmer, “The Hidden Unity of Hearts”, in Natural History, volume 109, number 3, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2009, pages 56–61:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.
toy soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toy soldiers
Senses: examples: text: The privileged son of a Detroit auto executive who grew up chubby and lonesome, playing by himself with 2,000 toy soldiers in an empty room of a suburban mansion, Mr. Williams, as a boy, hardly fit the stereotype of someone who would grow to become a brainy comedian, or a goofy one, but he was both.
ref: 2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times:
glosses: A figurine created to resemble a miniature of a person outfitted for military combat.
Related terms: action figure
sentimentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sentimentalizes
form: sentimentalizing
form: sentimentalized
form: sentimentalized
Etymology: From sentimental + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Let us not sentimentalize things just because they are old. Getting all dewy-eyed about it because it was started in the 17th century doesn't make sense when we're talking about the town dump.
glosses: To give a sentimental feel to.
examples: text: he learnt to sentimentalize over cathedrals and monasteries , pictures and statues , saints and kaisers
ref: 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental.
toy soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toy soldier
sentimentalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentimentalizations
form: sentimentalisation
Etymology: From sentimental + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making sentimental.
action figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action figures
Etymology: First coined by Hasbro in 1964 to market G.I. Joe.
Senses: glosses: A children's toy in the form of a posable plastic figurine of a character, often from a movie, video game, or television program, with moving parts and often capable of some form of spring-loaded movement. It is used to distinguish from dolls, which have acquired the reputation as a girl's toy, whereas action figures are more marketed toward boys.
wikipedia: G.I. Joe
Hasbro
Hypernyms: doll
action figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of action figure
tin soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin soldiers
Senses: glosses: A toy soldier made out of tin.
examples: text: By officers and men he was regarded as a tin soldier; by the church people generally, because of Parson Alvord's newspaper articles, he was thought to be a great hero.
ref: 1963, William Gates Le Duc, Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster, page 98:
glosses: One who only plays at being a soldier.
tin soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin soldier
deceptive advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: false advertising
glosses: Exaggerated advertising that attempts to deceive.
coolings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooling
flavorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavoring
craftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crafty: more crafty
craftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crafty: most crafty
sho
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊ/
ipa: /ʃoʊ/
homophone: show
rhymes: -əʊ
Senses: examples: text: “I sho am glad. You sho you all right? I thought sho you was dead this time.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 97:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sure.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of so.
Derived terms: fo sho
sho nuff
sho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊ/
ipa: /ʃoʊ/
homophone: show
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: shos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 笙 (shō).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.
sho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊ/
ipa: /ʃoʊ/
homophone: show
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: shos
Etymology: Of modern scholarly coinage. From its Bactrian pronunciation /ʃ/, and the final omricon (ο) found at the end of almost all Bactrian words.
Senses: glosses: A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase Ϸ, lowercase ϸ.
Related terms: gino-sho
kanto-sho
shukun-sho
cumulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumulants
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of parameters of a one-dimensional probability distribution of a certain form
Synonyms: peninvariant
semi-invariant
seminvariant
pilaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈlastə/
ipa: /pɪˈlæstɚ/
Forms: form: pilasters
form: pilastre
Etymology: From Middle French pilastre, from Italian pilastro. Equivalent to pillar + -aster.
Senses: qualifier: decorative architecture
glosses: A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it is attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration.
qualifier: structural architecture
glosses: A column or short wing wall attached to the foundation wall which provides lateral support, or to support a vertical load that does not fall on the foundation wall.
Derived terms: interpilaster
pilastered
pilasterlike
Related terms: buttress
firebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireboxes
Etymology: From fire + box. In the sense of a redheaded woman, from box (“vagina”).
Senses: examples: text: The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2." […] Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles.
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
glosses: The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
glosses: A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.
Related terms: red cunt hair
bull-whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull-whips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullwhip.
bull-whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bull-whips
form: bull-whipping
form: bull-whipped
form: bull-whipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bullwhip.
bullwhip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullwhips
Etymology: From bull + whip.
Senses: glosses: A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock.
Hypernyms: whip
Meronyms: fall
thong
Derived terms: bullwhip effect
bullwhip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bullwhips
form: bullwhipping
form: bullwhipped
form: bullwhipped
Etymology: From bull + whip.
Senses: glosses: To beat with a bullwhip.
Related terms: bull-whip
service line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service lines
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
qualifier: badminton
glosses: The line, in tennis and similar sports, from behind which the ball is initially served and which the feet must not cross when serving.
wikipedia: John McEnroe
nanocantilever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocantilevers
Etymology: From nano- + cantilever.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A strip of silicon carbide, a few hundred nanometres in width, whose vibrational frequency varies in proportion to the mass of objects resting on it; it can detect masses as small as one attogram
Related terms: nanobalance
toy dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toy dogs
Senses: synonyms: toy
glosses: Any of several breeds of small dogs, kept as pets.
Hyponyms: lap dog
toy dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toy dog
pilicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilicides
Etymology: From pili + -cide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several substances that reduce the number of hairlike pili on the surface of bacteria and thus reduce its ability to adhere to human tissue.
alpha-amino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-amino acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino acid that has the amino and carboxylic functional groups attached to the same carbon atom; especially those amino acids that occur naturally as peptides and proteins.
Related terms: beta-amino acid
beta-amino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta-amino acids
form: β-amino acid
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino acid that has the amino and carboxylic functional groups attached to adjacent carbon atoms; beta-alanine is the only one that occurs in nature, but not in peptides or proteins.
Related terms: alpha-amino acid
beta-peptide
beta-peptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta-peptides
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any artificial peptide made from beta-amino acids; used in some antibiotics in an attempt to counter resistance.
STED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STEDs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of stimulated emission depletion microscope.
stimulated emission depletion microscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stimulated emission depletion microscopes
form: STED
Senses: glosses: A scanning laser microscope that uses a short excitation pulse followed by a depletion pulse tuned to an emission line of a fluorescent dye
Derived terms: stimulated emission depletion microscopy
expurgator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expurgators
Etymology: From expurgate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who expurgates.
expurgators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expurgator
stimulated emission depletion microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Microscopy using a stimulated emission depletion microscope
maximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæksɪməl/
Forms: form: max.
Etymology: From maximum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC, /nmol/L*hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age.
ref: 2016 March 2, “Dietary Iodine Sufficiency and Moderate Insufficiency in the Lactating Mother and Nursing Infant: A Computational Perspective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
examples: text: In the sequence (1, 2, 10, 5, 12, 6), the fifth term, f(5) = 12, is a maximal term, as each of the first 4 terms are smaller than 12.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Larger than any previous term in the sequence.
raw_tags: of a sequence
examples: text: With respect to the ordering induced by set-theoretic inclusion, the set #92;#123;#92;#123;2#92;#125;,#92;#123;1,2#92;#125;,#92;#123;2,3#92;#125;#92;#125; has two maximal elements: #92;#123;1,2#92;#125; and #92;#123;2,3#92;#125;
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that no other element is greater (with respect to the given partial order).
raw_tags: of an element of a poset
Synonyms: word: maximum
Derived terms: bimaximal
halfmaximal
maximal ideal
maximalism
maximalist
maximality
maximalize
maximally
maximal munch
multimaximal
nonmaximal
perimaximal
postmaximal
premaximal
submaximal
supermaximal
supramaximal
tribimaximal
trimaximal
ultramaximal
Related terms: maximative
maximal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæksɪməl/
Forms: form: maximals
form: max.
Etymology: From maximum + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The element of a set with the greatest magnitude.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice: that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper).
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Said of a set of well-formed formulas: that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e. that for any well-formed formula φ, the set contains either φ or ~φ.
Synonyms: maximum
majors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major
collocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑləkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒləkət/
ipa: /ˈkɑləkət/
Forms: form: collocates
form: collocating
form: collocated
form: collocated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
synonyms: co-locate
glosses: To arrange or occur side by side.
examples: text: to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
ref: 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:
text: that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated
ref: 1600s, Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaries in Sacred Scripture,Tomus IX, p.35:
synonyms: co-locate
glosses: To set or place or station in the same place as something else.
Derived terms: collocability
collocatable
uncollocated
collocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑləkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒləkət/
ipa: /ˈkɑləkət/
Forms: form: collocates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Senses: examples: text: A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
collocate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑləkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒləkət/
ipa: /ˈkɑləkət/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Senses: examples: text: of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “X. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Set; placed.
booster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbustɚ/
Forms: form: boosters
form: boostering
form: boostered
form: boostered
Etymology: From boost + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Hey guys, on the first day of our holiday break I tested positive for Covid. I was vaccinated and boostered which made me lucky enough to only have mild symptoms," he wrote beside a photo that showed him sitting alone inside a testing room wearing a mask.
ref: 2022 January 3, Joelle Goldstein, “Jimmy Fallon Reveals He Tested Positive for COVID: 'I Was Vaccinated and Boostered'”, in People:
text: What I would prefer over hazard pay would be for every one of our patients to get vaccinated and boostered, as we request constantly. That would be what would make me happy.
ref: 2022 January 11, Jessica Jacob, “Health Workers, ‘Risking Their Own Lives to Save Ours’”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To give a booster shot to; to boost.
collusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collusive
form: most collusive
Senses: examples: text: Do not trust to what the French papers say about it. All their encomiums are collusive.
ref: 1826 January 10, anonymous author, “Sketch of the Remarkable Persons who have Died in France During 1825”, in The London Magazine, volume 4, page 341:
text: For purposes of evaluating monopsony cases from the standpoint of economic efficiency, it makes sense to adopt a "purpose"-oriented classification system. After all, all monopsony cases can be reduced to either a unilateral or collusive use of buying power in order to promote the interests of the buyer.
ref: 2010, Roger D. Blair, Jeffrey L. Harrison, “The Antitrust Laws and Monopsonistic Forms of Conduct”, in Monopsony in Law and Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 2.4 (A Taxonomy of Monopsony Cases), page 29:
glosses: secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose.
Derived terms: collusively
collusiveness
noncollusive
Related terms: collide
boosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booster
collared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.lə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.ləɹd/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English colered, colleryde; equivalent to collar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a collar (or other encircling demarcation).
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
antonyms: stray
glosses: Of a person, committed to submit to a particular dominant.
Derived terms: blue-collared
collared anteater
collared antshrike
collared aracari
collared carpetshark
collared carpet shark
collared crescentchest
collared crow
collared dove
collared flycatcher
collared lemming
collared lizard
collared peccary
collared pratincole
Eurasian collared dove
golden-collared honeycreeper
golden-collared manakin
radio-collared
red-collared lorikeet
red-collared widowbird
rufous-collared sparrow
collared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.lə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.ləɹd/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English colered, colleryde; equivalent to collar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collar
triggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trigger
triggers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trigger
infielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infielder
mercilessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːsɪləslɪ/
Forms: form: more mercilessly
form: most mercilessly
Etymology: From merciless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She mercilessly read off the list of his wrongs in front of their friends.
text: Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck[.]
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:
glosses: In a merciless manner.
consensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛnʃuəl/
Forms: form: more consensual
form: most consensual
form: con-sensual
Etymology: From consensus + -ual.
Senses: examples: text: He'd operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 5:
text: consensual sex
glosses: With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.
examples: text: a consensual contract
topics: law
glosses: Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
examples: text: consensual motions
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.
examples: text: direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition.
Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced.
Derived terms: consensual crime
consensualism
consensualist
consensuality
consensualize
consensually
consensualness
consensual non-consent
consensual reflex
consentual
nonconsensuality
semiconsensual
unconsensual
condescendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more condescendingly
form: most condescendingly
Etymology: From condescending + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]; and as there was some perilous probability, in the event of the Colonel and Coloneless saying ‘no,’ of the Captain’s proposing to Miss De Fudgeville, orphan daughter and heiress of the late Rear-Admiral De Fudgeville, who, though she was as ugly as sin, and had something the matter with her spine, had a fortune of ninety thousand pounds, the gallant Colonel, late of the Heavies, and his wife, condescendingly agreed to accept Algernon as their son-in-law.
ref: 1872, “The Toy Frigate. A Yarn picked up in the Model Dockyard.”, in Terrible Tales, page 91:
text: He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 10:
text: "What seems to be the trouble my child? Ah, the pains of youth," he nodded condescendingly.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:
glosses: In a condescending manner.
costliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costlinesses
Etymology: From costly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was not large, but of unusual height, and fitted up with great costliness. The bookcases were ebony, inlaid with green morocco, and so were the tables, and the curtains were of crimson velvet.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: The characteristic of being costly.
Derived terms: uncostliness
crookedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crookedly
form: most crookedly
Etymology: From crooked + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crooked manner.
what's shaking
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: what's happening?; what's up?
credulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more credulously
form: most credulously
Etymology: From credulous + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: incredulously
glosses: In a credulous manner; believably.
believably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more believably
form: most believably
Etymology: From believable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He acted the part believably.
glosses: In a believable way.
examples: text: Believably, Mikey said John pushed him first.
glosses: Used to express the speaker's assessment of the credibility of a reported statement.
creditably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more creditably
form: most creditably
Etymology: From creditab(le) + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a creditable manner; reputably, without disgrace.
credibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛdɪbli/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛdəbli/
Forms: form: more credibly
form: most credibly
Etymology: From credible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A suitor can credibly signal his love for a woman by offering her an expensive and extravagant gift.
text: He was in a position to commit to a credibly conservative monetary policy.
glosses: In a credible manner; believably.
examples: text: He [Mayor Koch] says he better understands the limits of government; less credibly, he says he has mellowed.
ref: 1989, The New York Times Magazine, page 38:
text: His deep-set eyes and expression of general despair lend him a look of utter dissolution—very credibly, he is dying from sexual desire.
ref: 1997, Vanity Fair, volume 60, page 95:
text: Perhaps less credibly she assumes that, as a necessary consequence of this move from the public space of the theatre to the private space of the closet, 'the emphasis shifted to subjective interpretation'
ref: 2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, number 51, page 132:
text: In his eyes, if he allowed things to continue as before, he would be little better than a male prostitute. All too credibly, he could imagine himself aging into the superannuated gigolo of Juvenal's satire.
ref: 2009, Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, page 289:
text: Perhaps, and more credibly, he meant that, had he been at the department, he would have ensured that the president expressly cleared that instruction.
ref: 2013, Frank W. Brecher, American Diplomacy and the Israeli War of Independence, page 171:
glosses: Used to report the speaker's assessment of the credibility of a reported statement
corporeally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more corporeally
form: most corporeally
Etymology: From corporeal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Corporeally, he stood between Robert and Millie, a parent of dark menace.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: In a corporeal manner; bodily; physically.
cornily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cornily
form: most cornily
Etymology: From corny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a corny manner.
corruptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more corruptly
form: most corruptly
Etymology: From corrupt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: More North-eaſt, where wild brookes meeting together make a broad poole among the parkes, and ſo ſoone as they are kept in with bankes runne in a chanell, is ſeated Kenelworth, in times paſt commonly called Kenelworde, but corruptly Killingworth: […]
ref: 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 566:
text: Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.
ref: 1806, [Thomas Maurice], Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, […] of Hindostan: […] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical Divisions of Hindostan, London: Printed […] by C. & W. Galabin […] and sold by John White […] , pages 231–232:
glosses: In a corrupt manner.
cosmetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cosmetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
ref: 2008, Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery, page 327:
text: Agreement has been reached with operator Freightliner for it to be moved, to be cosmetically restored.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: Crewe's final '90' rescued for Heritage Centre”, in RAIL, number 994, page 19:
glosses: In cosmetic terms; regarding appearance.
compassionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compassionately
form: most compassionately
Etymology: From compassionate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compassionate manner.
complicatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more complicatedly
form: most complicatedly
Etymology: From complicated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a complicated manner.
composedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more composedly
form: most composedly
Etymology: From composed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So far the letter had run composedly enough; but here, with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: "You have this down to a fine art?" I said. "A girl needs to," she said composedly.
ref: 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 63:
glosses: In a composed manner.
comprehensibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comprehensibly
form: most comprehensibly
Etymology: From comprehensible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a comprehensible manner.
Synonyms: understandably
compellingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compellingly
form: most compellingly
Etymology: From compelling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Despite being compellingly photogenic, many eagles are difficult photographic targets, particularly when there is bright sunlight.
ref: 2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: In a compelling manner.
competitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvli/
Forms: form: more competitively
form: most competitively
Etymology: From competitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For example, kalicludin 1-3 from A. sulcata binds competitively to Kv1.2 channels to paralyse the prey rapidly.
ref: 2015 June 18, Mahdokht Jouiaei et al., “Ancient Venom Systems: A Review on Cnidaria Toxins”, in Toxins, volume 7, →DOI:
glosses: In a competitive manner.
cosmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cosmically
form: most cosmically
Etymology: From cosmic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cosmic manner.
throw pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw pillows
Senses: synonyms: cushion
toss pillow
glosses: A small pillow, usually sealed, usually placed on a chair or sofa and used primarily for decoration rather than to sleep on.
boardroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɹdˌɹuːm/
ipa: /ˈbɔːdˌɹuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: boardrooms
form: board-room
form: board room
Etymology: From board + room.
Senses: examples: text: A President of the Royal Society, in the Board-room of the British Museum, is quite as likely as another person to sacrifice his public duty to the influence of power, or to private friendship.
ref: 1830, Charles Babbage, Decline of Science in England:
glosses: The room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings
examples: text: Though the new law is popular among the general public, it is hated in the boardroom.
glosses: Corporations or corporate management considered as a section of society
board-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: board-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boardroom.
board room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: board rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boardroom.
present indicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The present tense in the indicative mood.
imperfect indicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperfect indicatives
Senses: glosses: The imperfect tense in the indicative mood
Cairene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Cairenus, from Cairo + -nus (“-ene: forming related nouns”). Equivalent to Cairo + -ene.
Senses: examples: text: The shop, in typical Cairene fashion, was small.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
Cairene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cairenes
Etymology: From Latin Cairenus, from Cairo + -nus (“-ene: forming related nouns”). Equivalent to Cairo + -ene.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cairo.
Cairene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Cairenus, from Cairo + -nus (“-ene: forming related nouns”). Equivalent to Cairo + -ene.
Senses: glosses: The variety of Egyptian Arabic spoken in Cairo.
manzanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manzana
funt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭnt
ipa: /fʌnt/
ipa: [funt]
ipa: /fʊnt/
Forms: form: funts
form: foont
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian фунт (funt). Doublet of pfund, pood, pound, and punt.
Senses: glosses: An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 410 grams.
funt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭnt
ipa: /fʌnt/
ipa: [funt]
ipa: /fʊnt/
Forms: form: funts
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פֿונט (funt, “pound (unit of weight)”). Doublet of pfund, pood, pound, and punt.
Senses: glosses: Pound sterling: the currency of Great Britain; money generally.
qantar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qantars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kantar.
hombres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hombre
berkovets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berkovets
form: berkovetz
form: berkowitz
Etymology: From Russian бе́рковец (bérkovec); derived from бе́рковеск (bérkovesk), Old East Slavic бьрковьскъ (bĭrkovĭskŭ, “of Birka”), ultimately Old Norse Birka, a port city in mediaeval Sweden.
Senses: glosses: An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 164 kilograms or 10 poods.
elitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elitist
cephalalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛfəˈlæld͡ʒə/
Forms: form: cephalalgias
form: cephalalgy
form: cephalgy
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεφαλαλγίᾱ (kephalalgíā). By surface analysis, cephal- + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: The pungent pain, dyspnœa, cephalalgia, redness of the face, pulsations of the heart, strong and rapid, the pulse full and vibrating, induced M. Peyrade, then attached to that hospital, to practise blood-letting in the arm. It was followed with marked relief.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 207:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pain in the head; headache.
Synonyms: headache
insincerely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insincerely
form: most insincerely
Etymology: From insincere + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insincere manner.
facials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facial
gallnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallnuts
Etymology: From gall + nut. Compare Dutch galnoot.
Senses: examples: text: There was the smell of evening in the air, the smell of the fields in the country where they digged up turnips to peel them and eat them when they went out for a walk to Major Barton's, the smell there was in the little wood beyond the pavilion where the gallnuts were.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
text: [Y]our hands are always covered with gallnut [translating galla], vitriol, and alum, just like the varnish on a Moor.
ref: 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 195:
glosses: A gall on a tree, caused by insects, that resembles a nut.
Synonyms: gallapple
nutgall
Derived terms: gall-nut ink
flatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatter
flatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flatter
scut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skət/
ipa: /skʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: scuts
Etymology: From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.
As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).
Senses: glosses: A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
examples: Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
glosses: A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
examples: text: I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.
ref: 1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:
text: Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, for by your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me. Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XVII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 177:
text: So … so she show you her pretty li'l scut, he? Jesse, you are a lad; when will you learn?
ref: a. 1968, Keith Roberts, “The Lady Margaret”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, Modern Classics of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 233:
text: One of the sisters backed up to the fire and hiked up the tail of her dress and bent over and thrust out her scut to it and stared at Inman with a look of glazed pleasure in her blue eyes.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, “To Live Like a Gamecock”, in Cold Mountain: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
Related terms: word: scoot
scut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skət/
ipa: /skʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: scuts
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: Let's devote mornings to the scut, do real work in the afternoon.
ref: 1998, Jonathan Kellerman, chapter 17, in Billy Straight: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 112; republished London: Headline Publishing Group, 2009, →ISBN:
text: And the scut of weeding or washing clothes or waiting in the dentist's waiting room or the soccer field parking lot is actually far less brutalizing than the scut of grading freshman essays [...]
ref: 1999, Catherine Miles Wallace, Dance Lessons: Moving to the Rhythm of a Crazy God, Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse Publishing, →ISBN, page 163:
text: "What if you were called a scut puppy?" / "When I first started I was one. A scut puppy is usually a medical student or a nurse who does menial tasks. That's how a person learns in the beginning. We are under others who will teach us and work our tails off."
ref: 2003, Virginia Gayl Salazar, Gone: A Sci Fi about Cloning, New York, N.Y.; Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144:
text: So they give the people assigned to the Probation Squad every scut case that other squads don't want to handle.
ref: 2004, Clark Howard, “The Leper Colony”, in Ed Gorman, Martin H[arry] Greenberg, editors, The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Fifth Annual Collection (Tom Doherty Associates Book), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 445:
synonyms: word: chores
word: drudgery
word: drudgework
word: fatigue
word: razzmatazz
word: scut
word: scutwork
word: swink
word: toil
glosses: Distasteful work; drudgery
examples: text: There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do.
ref: 1999, Patricia L. Dawson, Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color, Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Pub., →ISBN, page 100:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
Derived terms: scut monkey
scut work
scutwork
scut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skət/
ipa: /skʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: scuts
form: scutting
form: scut
form: scut
Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish scutla (“to leap”).
Senses: examples: text: ―A fat lot you know about it, Thunder! Wells said. I know why they scut.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: To scamper off.
Related terms: whid
boatbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatbearers
Etymology: From boat + bearer.
Senses: examples: text: He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
glosses: A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.
Forrest Gump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forrest Gumps
Etymology: From the title character in the novel Forrest Gump (1985) or its film adaptation (1994).
Senses: examples: text: At a recent conference, I remarked that I felt a little like the Forrest Gump of interest rate futures. One accident after another has placed me in the company of people who have been innovative thinkers and doers in the futures business...
ref: 2003, Galen. Burghardt, The Eurodollar Futures and Options Handbook, page xxxix:
text: So, how do you present a two-week usability study of Quickenloans.com to senior leadership in Forrest Gump style?
ref: 2006, John S. Pruitt, Tamara Adlin, The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design, page 410:
glosses: A simple-minded but good-hearted person who becomes involved in historically significant events by chance; (derogatory, potentially offensive) a simpleton, a fool.
Derived terms: Forrest Trump