cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
colectivo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colectivos
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish colectivo. In reference to shared taxis, clipping of taxi colectivo. Doublet of collective.
Senses: glosses: A kind of bus or shared taxi in South America.
qualifier: Venezuelan politics
glosses: A government-backed far-left paramilitary group in Venezuela
equipments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equipment
firebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebirds
Etymology: From fire + bird, so called because of their bright red or orange plumage.
Senses: glosses: A scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea. (This species is now classified as belonging to the cardinal family: Cardinalidae)
glosses: A Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula.
glosses: A vermilion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubinus.
qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: A magical and prophetic glowing or burning bird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor
ǂHõã
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ǂHõã (isolate, genetically unassigned)
ref: 2001, Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages, Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Unclassified Isolates
28 ǂHõã
ref: 2007, Matthias Brenzinger, Language Diversity Endangered, page 189:
glosses: Alternative form of ǂHoan (Khoisan language of Botswana).
skin-tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skin-tight
form: most skin-tight
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skintight.
strumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strum
strumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strummings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to strum
Wigan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡən/
other: [wɪɡn̩]
Etymology: From Proto-Brythonic, ultimately probably from Latin vicus (“town”) + a diminutive suffix (cf. Welsh gwig + -an).
Senses: glosses: A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.
Derived terms: Wigan kebab
Wiganese
Wiganite
comuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comunas
Senses: glosses: The smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.
damselfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmzəlfɪʃ/
Forms: form: damselfishes
form: damselfish
Etymology: From damsel + fish.
Senses: glosses: Most fish in the Pomacentridae family.
Coordinate terms: sense: fish in Pomacentridae
word: clownfish
Derived terms: banded damselfish
blue damselfish
blue green damselfish
cocoa damselfish
domino damselfish
four-stripe damselfish
Galapagos damselfish
lyretail damselfish
pale damselfish
sergeant major damselfish
striptail damselfish
three-stripe damselfish
dashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæʃi/
ipa: /ˈdɑːʃi/
Forms: form: dashis
Etymology: From Japanese 出汁 (dashi, “essence, dashi soup”) (hiragana だし), from noun form of 出す (dasu, “to draw, to extract”).
Senses: examples: text: Kombu (KOHM-boo): This Japanese seaweed is used to make dashi, an Asian soup stock, and to flavor rice and stews.
ref: 2000 September, Vegetarian Times, page 28:
text: A great dashi (stock) is essential, as it is the crucial element in soups, dipping sauces, nimono (simmered dishes) and nabemono (hotpot dishes), and for cooking fish and vegetables.
ref: 2002, John Frederick Ashburne, Yoshi Abe, World Food: Japan, Lonely Planet, page 41:
text: Dashi is the basic soup stock for many Japanese dishes including noodle soups.
ref: 2007, Lee Geok Boi, Classic Asian Noodles, page 38:
glosses: A type of soup or cooking stock, often made from kelp.
datos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dato
globster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑb.stɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡlɒb.stə/
rhymes: -ɒbstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: globsters
Etymology: Coined in 1962 by Ivan T. Sanderson, presumably a blend of glob and lobster.
Senses: glosses: An unidentified organic mass which has washed up on a beach.
experientable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˌpɪəɹɪˈɛntəbl/
Etymology: experient- (stem of experience, experiential) + -able
Senses: examples: text: …Carnap which focuses upon how the sensation is given and upon sense-data, the most basic observable experientable unit and (2) the concept of the given of the Ordinary Language School and especially L. Wittgenstein and P. Winch who focus more upon…
ref: 1968, Catholic Anthropological Conference, Anthropological Quarterly, Catholic University of America Press, page 36:
text: This is a travesty of the idea of a quale. If the term qualia has any use at all it is to designate experientable differences; significantly different qualia can, in principle, be recognised as different. The point is not purely verbal.
ref: 1994: Howard Robinson, Perception, page 126 (Routledge; →ISBN, 978‒0415033640)
text: 2000: “leonardo dasso”, alt.talk.creationism: What % of evolutionists here are not athiests?, the 2ⁿᵈ day of October at 8 o’clock a.m.
Once you start refering to observable, experientable entities, you are in the realm of the empirical, and therefore, these entities can become the subject of scientific research.
glosses: Capable of being experienced.
cinecamera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinecameras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cine camera.
cinerary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cinerārius.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing ashes, especially those of a cremated person.
Derived terms: cinerary urn
Related terms: cinerarium
cooldown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːldaʊn/
Forms: form: cooldowns
Etymology: Deverbal from cool down.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: warm-down
glosses: The rest period between sets or workout sessions, when cooling of body temperature may occur.
glosses: Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.
examples: text: I had to wait for the cooldown to finish before recasting the spell.
text: Private Terminal: After using a power, you must wait for it to recharge before using it again.
Private Terminal: This is called the cooldown period. When a power is in cooldown, its icon is gray. A red icon indicates that the power cannot affect the current target.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tactical Mastery: Advanced Power Use:
topics: video-games
glosses: Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.
The minimum length of time that the player needs to wait after using an ability or item before it can be used again.
topics: video-games
glosses: Any rest period between sessions of an activity or event.
The minimum length of time that the player needs to wait after using an ability or item before it can be used again.
A particular ability with a powerful effect but long cooldown period, making it important to track when it was last used and when it can be used again.
Related terms: frag
chinoiserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃiːnwɑːzəˈɹiː/
Forms: form: chinoiseries
form: Chinoiserie
Etymology: Borrowed from French chinoiserie (“Chinese-esque”).
Senses: examples: text: The Baroness perceived that her entertainer had analyzed material comfort to a sufficiently fine point. And then he possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculptured monsters, grinning and leering on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; […]
ref: 1878, Henry James, chapter VI, in The Europeans, Macmillan and Co.:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A style in art, or an artistic object, that reflects the influence of Chinese art.
Related terms: orientalism
newspaperishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From newspaperish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being newspaperish.
cineraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinerarium
cineraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinerarias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Cineraria of flowering plants in the sunflower family.
examples: text: "It's wonderful. Those cinerarias are really show pieces. And what is that lovely tall flower - the rose-pink one?" "That's a Weigela, that is, Amabilis variegata."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 14:
glosses: Any of the garden flowers in the species Pericallis × hybrida (formerly classified in the genus Cineraria).
cinerea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cinereus (“ashy”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The grey matter of the brain
nitwitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nitwitted
form: most nitwitted
Senses: glosses: Being like a nitwit; being stupid or foolish.
Derived terms: nitwittedly
nitwittedness
crepuscularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepuscularities
Etymology: From crepuscular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being crepuscular.
Beki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A modern spelling variant of Becky, which is in itself, a shortened form of Rebecca, a female given name.
verticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vertical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being vertical.
Synonyms: sense: the property of being vertical
word: verticality
Related terms: word: horizontalness
english: the property of being horizontal
translation: the property of being horizontal
word: horizontality
english: the property of being anteroposterior
translation: the property of being anteroposterior
word: anteroposteriority
verticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɜːtɪˈkalɪti/
ipa: /ˌvɜːtəˈkaləti/
ipa: /ˌvɚtəˈkæləti/
Forms: form: verticalities
Etymology: From vertical + -ity; compare French verticalité.
Senses: examples: text: For these complicated reasons, although, when the sun is vertical, and darts a perpendicular ray, it is supposed to strike with greatest force; yet, in those countries where it is vertical twice a year, in passing to and from the Tropic of Cancer, the greatest heat is not during the instant of its verticalities, but some weeks after, when it is returning from one Tropic to the other, and its rays oblique.
ref: 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, London: T. Lowndes, Volume III, Book III, Chapter VII, Section X, p. 655:
text: 1847, Raphael Brandon and Joshua Arthur Brandon, An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, London: P. Richardson, Introduction, pp. 2-3,
A tendency to direct verticality, placing itself in, perhaps, violent contrast with the Romanesque horizontalism of the Anglo-Norman, had been in the Early English Gothick, the special characteristick of that beautiful style.
text: From their garden, a precarious terrace in a world of verticality, we could look down two or three thousand feet into the Teesta Valley below, an inky well imprisoning a fleet of porcelain clouds.
ref: 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 3:
glosses: Verticalness; the state or condition of being vertical.
Related terms: word: horizontalness
english: the property of being horizontal
translation: the property of being horizontal
word: horizontality
english: the property of being anteroposterior
translation: the property of being anteroposterior
word: anteroposteriority
horizontality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horizontalities
Etymology: From horizontal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Craving horizontality, we move into the bedroom.
ref: 2002, Andrea Semple, The Ex-Factor, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Horizontalness.
Synonyms: horizontalness
Related terms: word: verticalness
english: the property of being vertical
translation: the property of being vertical
word: verticality
english: the property of being anteroposterior
translation: the property of being anteroposterior
word: anteroposteriority
frameset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framesets
Etymology: From frame + set.
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bicycle's frame plus the front fork.
examples: text: The reloading of the frameset is obviously less attractive than simply changing the location of one frame.
glosses: The set of frames that constitute the layout of a webpage.
K ration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K rations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of K-ration.
quick-freezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quick-freeze
quick-freezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quick-freeze
quality control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quality controls
Senses: glosses: A control, such as inspection or testing, introduced into an industrial or business process to ensure quality.
kack-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kack-handed
form: most kack-handed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cack-handed.
new-mown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: newmown
Senses: examples: text: Phosgene has the odor of new-mown hay and chlorine has a strong bleach or chlorine odor.
ref: 2006, James T. Thurman, Practical Bomb Scene Investigation:
glosses: That has recently been mown.
kyebosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
qepik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qepik
Senses: examples: text: Azerbaijan
[…]
Capital: Baku
Language: Azeri Turkish
Currency: Azeri manat (100 qepik)
ref: 2000, Martyn Bramwell, Northern and Western Asia, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Prices paid under the contract were 10 times higher than market rates: Lamps that cost 0.22 qepik (US$0.25) at any Baku shop were purchased for about 4 manat (US$5).
ref: 2007, The Corruption Notebooks 2006, →ISBN, page 25:
text: I spent 1000 Manats and sold the onions to the middlemen for 30 qepik per kilo but after one week the prices changed again and I calculated that I lost a lot of money.
ref: 2011, Mursal, a farmer quoted in the Oxfam in Azerbaijan Annual Report 2011
glosses: Alternative spelling of qapik.
mystery tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystery tours
Senses: examples: text: Each week an inconspicuous paragraph in the daily press carries a warning to travellers on the London Midland Region of the delays and diversions to be expected on account of the weekend's engineering works. In fact, Sunday travel on the West Coast route has now become a kind of mystery tour which can prolong the London-Glasgow journey to twelve hours or more.
ref: 1960 October, J. N. Faulkner, “The purgatory period of B.R. Modernisation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 584:
text: I recall, Anderson went on, the fine story of a Welsh mystery tour by bus from Cwmrhydyceirw in my constituency.
ref: 1999, Vernon Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom:
glosses: A short-duration outing by coach to a destination that is not revealed in advance
mustanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mustang
mustanging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hunting of mustangs (wild horses), either for military use or for slaughter as pet food
quackism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quackisms
Etymology: From quack + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] who have let down the administration by their quackism and queer performances […]
ref: 1968, Nakuleshvara Nandi, The Income Tax and Its Grim Ordeal:
glosses: Behaviour of a quack; quackery.
quadrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrains
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of quatrain.
Mother Nature
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
ref: 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:
text: But when you’re in a struggle with one of Mother Nature’s challenges — like a virus or a climate change — the goal is not to defeat her. No one can. She’s just chemistry, biology and physics. The goal is to adapt.
ref: 2020 April 28, Thomas L. Friedman, “Is Sweden Doing It Right?”, in New York Times:
synonyms: Mother Earth
glosses: A personification of nature as woman, emphasizing fertility and fecundity.
quaintish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quaintish
form: most quaintish
Etymology: From quaint + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: A curved line of liquor stores, supermarkets and quaintish gift shops was all one could see from the vantage point of the ceaseless procession of cars.
ref: 1967, Emily Hahn, Romantic Rebels: An Informal History of Bohemianism in America:
glosses: Somewhat quaint.
quakeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quakeproof
form: most quakeproof
Etymology: From quake + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Capable of withstanding an earthquake.
quakeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quakeproofs
form: quakeproofing
form: quakeproofed
form: quakeproofed
Etymology: From quake + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To modify (a structure) to make it capable of withstanding an earthquake.
Quakeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quakeresses
Etymology: From Quaker + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female Quaker.
mongrelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongrelisms
Etymology: From mongrel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a mongrel
glosses: cross-breeding or hybridization
Related terms: mongrelize
quaking aspen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaking aspens
Senses: synonyms: trembling aspen
American aspen
quaky tree
quaky aspen
quaky
mountain aspen
golden aspen
trembling poplar
white poplar
quiverleaf
hypernyms: popple
glosses: An American aspen (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which have flattened petioles that cause them to tremble in the breeze.
glosses: A Eurasian aspen (Populus tremula)
mongrelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mongrelises
form: mongrelising
form: mongrelised
form: mongrelised
Etymology: From mongrel + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mongrelize.
mongrelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mongrelizes
form: mongrelizing
form: mongrelized
form: mongrelized
form: mongrelise
Etymology: From mongrel + -ize.
Senses: examples: To mongrelize a dog
glosses: To cross-breed an animal
glosses: To become mixed - inoffensive when used as an object.
glosses: To become ethnically mixed.
raw_tags: of a person
Quakerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Quakerly
form: most Quakerly
Etymology: From Quaker + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I was amused to hear his sister describe some of those eruptions in her slow, Quakerly fashion.
glosses: Pertaining to Quakers.
examples: text: Those pretty curls were not Quakerly.
glosses: Befitting a Quaker.
mongrelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongrelizations
Etymology: From mongrel + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of mongrelizing
quakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quakingly
form: most quakingly
Etymology: From quaking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He reads out the name of the boy, who rises respectfully and quakingly to his feet.
glosses: In a quaking fashion, especially with fear.
mongrelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongrelisations
Etymology: From mongrel + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mongrelization.
moneyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌniləs/
Forms: form: more moneyless
form: most moneyless
Etymology: From Middle English moneyeles, equivalent to money + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The result, say the few moneyless militants, is a divided national Indian leadership populated by Uncle Tomahawks, or “apples,” red on the outside, white on the inside.
ref: 1973 November 11, “The American Indians”, in The New York Times:
text: "There's a lot of times I wished I would have died because I was pathetic," [Stewart] says matter of factly. "I guess I started digging a hole for myself and it got so bad I got homeless, moneyless, friendless. I just started covering myself up instead of climbing out of the hole."
ref: 2006 October 25, Stan Grossfeld, “Ex-Sox pitcher Stewart threw it all away when he succumbed to drugs”, in Boston.com:
synonyms: word: penniless
word: ;
word: destitute
word: almsless
word: arm
word: badly off
word: bankrupt
word: beggared
word: beggarly
word: boracic
word: broke
word: broken
word: broker than the Ten Commandments
word: destitute
word: dirt poor
word: disadvantaged
word: down and out
word: down at heel
word: down on one's luck
word: down on one's uppers
word: empty-handed
word: feeling the pinch
word: flat
word: hard up
word: impecunious
word: impoverished
word: in need
word: indigent
word: insolvent
word: lower-class
word: necessitous
word: needy
word: oofless
word: pauperized
word: penniless
word: penurious
word: pinched
word: pok kai
word: poor
word: poor as a church mouse
word: poor as a rat
word: poor as Job
word: possessionless
word: poverty-ridden
word: poverty-stricken
word: shillingless
word: skint
word: stone-broke
word: stony-broke
word: strapped
word: stuck
word: threadbare
word: unwealthy
word: wealthless
glosses: Having no (or very little) money.
examples: text: Near-synonym: nonmoney
text: In eras when trade was largely by barter and taxes were usually paid in kind, moneyless transactions could constitute a large percentage of a national economy.
glosses: That does not use money as a means of exchange.
Derived terms: moneylessness
Related terms: word: unmoneyed
english: in its usual sense, quite different from moneyless
translation: in its usual sense, quite different from moneyless
word: cashless
moganite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline form of silica that has a different crystal structure than that of quartz
qualmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more qualmless
form: most qualmless
Etymology: From qualm + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the room was hushed and Maisie's voice went on, qualmless and strong.
ref: 1981, Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent:
glosses: Without qualms.
migradollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: migradollars
Etymology: Blend of migrant + dollar
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A dollar sent home by a foreign migrant worker, especially to Mexico.
quarantinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quarantine + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The quarantinable diseases are yellow fever, cholera, typhus or ship fever, small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and relapsing fever.
ref: 1892
text: If the master, owner or consignee of any quarantinable vessel shall neglect or refuse to do any act or thing lawfully directed to be done […]
ref: 1907
glosses: Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
extra-planetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extra-planetary
form: most extra-planetary
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of extraplanetary.
quantificational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quantificational
form: most quantificational
Etymology: From quantification + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or involving quantification, or the use of a quantifier
quarryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔɹ.i.mən/
Forms: form: quarrymen
Etymology: From quarry + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock:
text: He then described how a quarryman had bought the mineral rights of an estate at Melkridge, on the route of the Roman Wall, for twenty-one years.
ref: 1981, John Sheail, Rural Conservation in Inter-war Britain:
hypernyms: quarrier
glosses: A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).
quart-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quart-pots
Etymology: From quart + pot.
Senses: glosses: A tin pot holding a quart of liquid, used for measurement or drinking.
extraplanetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraplanetary
form: most extraplanetary
Etymology: From extra- + planetary.
Senses: glosses: Originating, or located outside of a planet
glosses: extraterrestrial, originating or located outside Earth
Related terms: extragalactic
extrasolar
extraterrestrial
interplanetary
intraplanetary
planetary
quartzless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quartz + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The majority of the Diorites are quartzless; but some contain Quartz, and are then termed Quartz-diorites.
ref: 1885, Charles Lyell, The Student's Elements of Geology:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Lacking quartz.
quatrumvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatrumvirates
Etymology: From alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.
Senses: examples: text: For after all Sweden can have no interest in allowing a quatrumvirate to put hands on the whole of Europe.
ref: 1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire:
glosses: Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
microsatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsatellites
Etymology: From micro- + satellite.
Senses: glosses: A miniature satellite.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of polymorphic loci in DNA that consist of repeat units of just a few base pairs.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: An artificial satellite between 10 and 100 kilograms in mass.
Synonyms: microsat
Hypernyms: satellite
Coordinate terms: nanosatellite
minisatellite
microfilariae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfilaria
metasomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metasomal
form: most metasomal
Etymology: From metasoma + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a metasoma.
metasoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasomas
Etymology: From meta- + soma.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The posterior part of the three-part body-structure of many arthropods, the other two parts being prosoma and mesosoma.
Derived terms: metasomal
fuck-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck-ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fuckup.
mesonychid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesonychids
Senses: examples: text: The ancestors of modern cetaceans were probably large land creatures called mesonychids [...] that lived in the Paleocene epoch.
ref: 1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 884:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An extinct carnivore of the order †Mesonychia.
megafaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From megafauna + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the megafauna.
mechano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: mechan(ic) + -o-
Senses: glosses: involving the use of machines or mechanisms
cytosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytosomes
Etymology: From cyto- + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The fundamental component of the protozoan body is the protoplasm which is without exception differentiated into the nucleus and the cytosome.
ref: 1946, Richard Roksabro Kudo, Protozoology, page 33:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: cytoplasm
glosses: The cytoplasm within a cell; the cell outside of the nucleus.
examples: text: Moreover, calcium is concentrated in cytosomes, specific membrane-coated vesicles, which are also known as 'tannin vesicles'.
ref: 1994, R. E. Kendrick, G. H. M. Kronenberg, Photomorphogenesis in Plants, page 725:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: multilamellar body
glosses: A type of cellular organelle which is enclosed by a membrane.
Derived terms: cytosomal
cytosomic
Related terms: cytosegresome
cytostome
cytosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytosome
cytostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytostome
superexcruciating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-excruciating
Etymology: From super- + excruciating.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone can suffer with a rotten tooth or a sprained ankle, but the man with kidney stones endures a superexcruciating kind of pain.
ref: 1980, Daniel Lamont McDonald, The language of argument, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: Extremely excruciating; of particular excruciation.
skeeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeeters
Etymology: Clipping of a variant pronunciation of mosquito. Compare tater, mater.
Senses: examples: text: One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on
And the swamp water overflowed.
Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist
Doctor Jackson was the first to go.
ref: 1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:
glosses: A mosquito.
Derived terms: skeeter hawk
skeeter syndrome
Related terms: skeeto
skeeter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skeeters
form: skeetering
form: skeetered
form: skeetered
Senses: examples: text: They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.
ref: 1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342:
text: The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.
ref: 2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.
ref: 2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:
text: A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.
ref: 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:
glosses: To skitter.
home school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: home schools
form: home schooling
form: home schooled
form: home schooled
form: homeschool
Senses: examples: text: I chose to home school my children.
glosses: To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution.
examples: text: I only started regular school when I was ten; before that I home schooled.
glosses: To be educated at home.
home school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home schools
form: homeschool
Senses: glosses: A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institution.
examples: text: I do not know of any home school for girls, East or West, which has a more thoroughly up-to-date equipment for heating its buildings[…].
ref: 1904, William Parker McKee, “Dean's Letter”, in Frances Shimer Quarterly, page 30:
glosses: A boarding school.
stand in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stand ins
form: stand-in
Senses: examples: text: Her stand in muffed a lot of lines.
glosses: A substitute; a replacement.
Related terms: topics: theater
entertainment
lifestyle
word: an understudy
stand in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands in
form: standing in
form: stood in
form: stood in
Senses: glosses: To substitute for; to replace; (theater) to serve as an understudy.
glosses: To make one of a party in a bet or other speculation.
glosses: To take a side in a dispute.
examples: text: That coat stands me in four dollars.
glosses: To cost (an amount).
less is more
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛs ɪz ˈmɔː/
ipa: /lɛs ɪz ˈmɔɹ/
Senses: qualifier: paradox
glosses: That which is of smaller quantity could be of higher quality.
examples: text: Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto" poem in Men and Women collection
text: The essence of Mies's architectural philosophy is in his famous and sometimes derided phrase, "Less is more." This means, he says, having "the greatest effect with the least means."
ref: 1954 June 14, “‘Less Is More’”, in Time:
text: The program, which features two premieres—"Songs," a solo, and "The Pleasure of Stillness," a quartet—is founded on the notion that less is more.
ref: 2007 March 3, Gia Kourlas, “Dance Review: An Ordered World Defined With Soothing Spareness”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Oct 2008:
glosses: That which is less complicated is often better understood and more appreciated than what is more complicated; brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity.
Synonyms: english: some contexts
translation: some contexts
word: a little goes a long way
obligator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obligators
Etymology: From obligate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: It should here be explained that in this form of natural-law theory, there is a distinction between the "obligator" who puts us under the obligation to do our duty, and the beneficiary of this duty.
ref: 1993, Michael J. Lacey, Knud Haakonssen, A culture of rights: the Bill of Rights in philosophy, politics, and law, page 29:
topics: law
glosses: One who establishes an obligation under law
Coordinate terms: agent
beneficiary
obligatee
Related terms: obligor
obscurities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obscurity
master plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master plans
Senses: examples: text: The creator has a master plan / Peace and happiness for every man
ref: 1969, “The Creator Has a Master Plan”, in Karma, performed by Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas:
text: "Of course, this wasn't part of some master plan. I impulsively used my vast power to do something nice without thinking it through. And then something I didn't expect happened. Even though I should have expected it."
ref: 2014 July 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jul 22, 2014:
text: Dr. Eric Green […] likens the pangenome to a new kind of bodywork manual for automotive repair shops. Whereas before, every mechanic only had the design specs for one kind of car, now there is a master plan that covers different makes and models.
ref: 2023 May 10, Elie Dolgin, “Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome”, in The New York Times:
text: The master plan for the site includes 3.3km of new surfaced and unsurfaced walking routes, more than 1km of new bridleways and cantering routes, and retention of the 2.3km Old Shire Lane bridleway.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: A comprehensive document that sets out an overall strategy; the strategy itself.
topics: architecture
glosses: A small-scale graphic outline that shows all the major elements of a project.
Related terms: game plan
mass culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: popular culture
marketing research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: market research
marly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: marlier
form: marliest
Etymology: From marl + -y.
Senses: glosses: Containing or resembling marl.
mard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mard
form: most mard
Derived terms: unmard
mard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mards
form: marding
form: marded
form: marded
Senses: glosses: To cosset (a child)
Dungeness crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dungeness crabs
Etymology: From Dungeness, a fishing village on the coast of Washington state.
Senses: glosses: Metacarcinus magister, a species of crab found in the Pacific Ocean that has sweet-tasting meat.
Synonyms: sense: Metacarcinus magister
word: Cancer magister
Related terms: Cancer magister
Badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Badgers
Etymology: See Badger State.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
Badger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Old English *Bæcg (“a personal name”) + ofer (“hill spur”).
The name of the town in Newfoundland likely derives from the surname of one of its first inhabitants.
Senses: glosses: A village in Shropshire, England.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ædʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Badgers
Etymology: From badger, the animal.
Senses: examples: text: She was also a leader, trainer and supervisor of the children's arm of St John's Ambulance (“the Badgers”). She worked over 50 hours a year but received no salary and was not required to attend events.
ref: 1999, John Bowers, Jeremy Lewis, Jack Mitchell, Whistleblowing: The New Law, page 44:
text: St John's Ambulance encourages 7-10-year-olds to join their Badger Setts and earn badges, learning skills in first aid and helping local communities as well as leadership and communication. Known as 'Badgers', their sweatshirts and badges use a badger logo.
ref: 2021, Jo Byrne, Badger Book, page 153:
glosses: A child member of the St John Ambulance medical volunteering organisation.
Buckeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buckeyes
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the American states of Ohio and Arizona.
Buckeye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former travel station in Plumas County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, named for buckeye trees there.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Carbondale, Amador County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Larimer County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Salamonie Township, Huntingdon County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Hardin County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Garrard County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri, named for buckeye trees.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio, named after the Buckeye Furnace.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington, named after the Buckeye Lumber Co.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, named after Buckeye Cove.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Buckeye Township.
Hawkeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawkeyes
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Iowa.
bathing beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathing beauty
guy-wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guy-wire
quick time events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quick time event
specific fuel consumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specific fuel consumption
peptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptidase
heads-up displays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heads-up display; alternative spelling of head-up display.
eccentric contractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eccentric contraction
corporealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporeality
homotheticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homotheticity
seadogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seadog
dunkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunking
prutot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prutah
Denver boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Denver boot
tetracyclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetracycline
mead-benches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mead-bench
anti-Witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-Witness
liftoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liftoff
performance bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of performance bond
common green lacewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common green lacewing
intrepidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrepidity
cycloneolignanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloneolignane
vomer bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomer bone
ascribed statuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascribed status
rake-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rake-off
superphyla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superphylum
pseudosciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoscience
grey-throated rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey-throated rail
polyphenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyphene
ternaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ternary
glyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyn
slapstickeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slapstickery
dogs in mangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog in the manger
extractor hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extractor hood
gas turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas turbine
deflocculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflocculation
horsehairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsehair
hit parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit parade
present tenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of present tense
roll cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roll cage
transductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transduction
metaevolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaevolution
jarls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarl
chlorostannates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorostannate
bubble baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble bath
boweries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowery
perhaloalkanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perhaloalkane
toastmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toastmistress
men of the world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of the world
multihyphenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multihyphenate
pungencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pungency
particle boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particle board
hot taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot tap
radiculopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiculopathy
amphibologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphibology
polyetherimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyetherimide
phytoequivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + equivalence. Calque of the German Phytoäquivalenz, a term of the same meaning which was introduced by the German Commission E, an expert commission on herbal medicine, in the 1980s.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: herbal medicine
glosses: A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.
Derived terms: phytoequivalent
gurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɝl/
ipa: /ɡʊɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ɡɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: girl
Forms: form: gurls
Etymology: Variant spelling of girl.
Senses: examples: text: An' Lee went closer to where the gurl was waitin'. His party follered an' I follered too.... Jest whin the moosic sthopped an' the gurl looked up—thin she seen Lee.
ref: 1920, Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail:
text: Damn white gurl Thought you was A1 Yet your existence a none
ref: 2012, Krystina V, A Diva's love Affair, →ISBN, page 22:
text: All gurl's good fur—jist To dust an' sweep, an' scold, An' sew on buttons what yo mus't Sewin' on last week. Wush't Iwuz a boy!
ref: 2013, Karen L. Kilcup, Angela Sorby, Over the River and Through the Wood, →ISBN:
text: Gurl! How well we know that feeling.
ref: 2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of girl.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Term of address between cis gay men, transgender women, or drag queens.
examples: text: For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.
ref: 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:
glosses: A trans girl or woman.
Derived terms: Miss Gurl
Related terms: girl
boi
gurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɝl/
ipa: /ɡʊɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ɡɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: girl
Forms: form: gurls
form: gurling
form: gurled
form: gurled
Etymology: From Middle English gurlen (“to growl, rumble”).
Senses: examples: text: The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.
ref: 1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:
text: “Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,
ref: 1845, Alexander Wilson, Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:
glosses: To growl or snarl.
Derived terms: gurly
H&P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: H&Ps
Etymology: Abbreviation of history and physical.
Senses: glosses: A report containing a patient's medical history and the results of his/her physical exam.