cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ballade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballades
Etymology: Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade[…
ref: 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:
text: Even a 10-minute Chopin ballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time.
ref: 2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.
Derived terms: ballade royal
Related terms: ballad
ballades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballade
plasmalemmae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmalemma
balladic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balladic
form: most balladic
Etymology: From ballad + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Still, my favorite moments are the quiet ones, like when Henry, the tell-me-about-the-rabbits-George deviate, croons his balladic confession, "I did a thing."
ref: 1989 July 21, Anthony Adler, “Game of Love”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Vedder and the rest of the band are at their best when they're feeling balladic.
ref: 1994 December 2, Bill Wyman, “Posture After Posture”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Characteristic of a ballad
immunomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunome
nosepieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosepiece
bandleading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From band + leading.
Senses: examples: text: Great jazz quartets have often flowered when a bandleading pianist finds a soulmate on sax: Monk and Charlie Rouse, for instance, or Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
ref: 2005 May 13, Neil Tesser, “Vijay Iyer Quartet With Rudresh Mahanthappa”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Leading a musical band.
bandleading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From band + leading.
Senses: examples: text: But Israel belongs to the select group of drummers--Art Blakey, Max Roach, Paul Motian, and Ronald Shannon Jackson among them--who approach bandleading with fresh and distinctive vision.
ref: 1997 June 6, Neil Tesser, “Yoron Israel Quintet”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Gonzalez has undoubtedly developed his musical facility by learning to occupy either the foreground of a piece as a trumpeter or its background as a conguero; his bandleading and horn playing have kept him pretty busy over the years, but he easily could've succeeded as a drummer.
ref: 2001 March 23, Neil Tesser, “Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band”, in Chicago Reader:
text: […] it’s taken a while for him to bring his ideas about composition and bandleading into balance with his own playing.
ref: 2007 June 9, Ben Ratliff, “Vamps, Grooves and All Sorts of Ideas, Old and New”, in New York Times:
glosses: The art of leading a musical band.
Related terms: bandleader
foldomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foldome
banjolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more banjolike
form: most banjolike
Etymology: From banjo + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In flashes, they do transcend their influences--particularly Newman, whose beautifully illogical machinations can morph from dry harmonic plinks to banjolike plonks to ominous, industrial-sounding hums.
ref: 1999 December 24, Peter Margasak, “Wrist Error”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The lyrics were in several West African languages, and the lineup paired African instruments — the kora (the djelis’ 21-string harp-lute), the xylophonelike balafon, the small banjolike ngoni and the booming djembe (hand drum) — with modern counterparts: electric guitar, bass, keyboard and trap drums.
ref: 2007 April 2, Jon Pareles, “A Musical Coalition That Raises the Roof”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a banjo
selenomethionyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenomethionyl
secretomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretome
loblollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loblolly
peginterferons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peginterferon
banjouke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbænd͡ʒəʊˌjuːk/
Forms: form: banjoukes
Etymology: From banjo + uke.
Senses: examples: text: […] Morris's banjo and banjouke improvisations pulse along with William Parker's basslike zintir and Hamid Drake's drumming for an avant-garde Moroccan hoedown.
ref: 2003 October 10, Peter Margasak, “Joe Morris”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A ukulele with the head of a banjo
banjoukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjouke
bannerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bannerlike
form: most bannerlike
Etymology: From banner + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In the center of Flag are five bannerlike horizontal colored bands, each containing a row of plants--but this flag is no fixed symbolic entity.
ref: 2000 October 27, Fred Camper, “Language of Nature”, in Chicago Reader:
text: On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.
ref: 2008 August 24, Alessandra Stanley, “Plus-Size Sideshow”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a banner
bannerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bannerlike
form: most bannerlike
Etymology: From banner + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: So as to resemble a banner
barnburners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barnburner
barleycorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barleycorn
barklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barklike
form: most barklike
Etymology: From bark + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] a gray vertical cylinder has a rough barklike exterior and a smooth white plaster interior[…]
ref: 1991 September 13, Bonnie McLaughlin, “Palpable Surfaces”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling the bark of a tree
barless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bar + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war.
ref: 1883, Richard Francis Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron, To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II:
text: Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal.
ref: 1922, Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, The Story of the "9th King's" in France:
text: The regulars were left barless but, like the White Russians of Paris and the Cubans of Miami, they religiously awaited the day they could return.
ref: 2000 July 14, Done Rose, “The Grub Game”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Lacking bars or a bar.
Derived terms: barlessness
barracudalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From barracuda + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It's hard to be sorry that Peyankov almost upstages his fellow players, who are excellent but not amazing--such as Mary Kay Blaschke as the sometimes whimpering, sometimes barracudalike Cutts[…].
ref: 1993 February 26, Josefa Smith, “The Hothouse”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a barracuda
bashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃi
Forms: form: bashier
form: bashiest
Etymology: From bash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The record doesn't refuse to rock: the trebly attack of songs like "Drown" and "Route" is reminiscent of the bashy splendor of the earliest Tupelo releases.
ref: 1995 August 4, Bill Wyman, “Son Volt”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Intensely percussive
basswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bass + work.
Senses: examples: text: His basswork is both sure-fingered and mercifully sparse[…].
ref: 1994 April 22, David Whiteis, “Ernie Williams”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The playing of the bass
terminal figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminal figure
batidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batida
bearbaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearbaitings
form: bear-baiting
form: bear baiting
Etymology: From Middle English bere baityng; equivalent to bear + baiting or bearbait + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries.
ref: 1858, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England:
text: By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bearbaiting.
ref: 1900, Mary Johnston, To Have and To Hold:
glosses: A blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear
examples: text: All of these pivoted on the larger Problems: Not only how the press should discuss sexual morality of public officials but whether this ever should be a measure of fitness for public office; not only how the local press will allow its judgment to be pre-empted or conditioned by the Washington press, but also how news judgments, always contagious, can degenerate into bear baiting.
ref: 1977, The Journalism Quarterly - Volume 54, page 454:
text: But that's not the worst part of the phenomenon that the press conference bearbaiting illustrates.
ref: 1983, Editorials on File - Volume 14, Part 2, page 774:
text: ...recalls a typical scene of bear-baiting, the news-hounds tearing away at her flesh with those sex-hungry looks and sexually inquisitive questions.
ref: 1987, New Quest - Issues 61-66, page 102:
text: Granted, it wasn't that much of a reach to line up panels of Wal-Mart gross-outs for that bearbaiting audience of hers to hoot and gibber at; and it's also true that her guests, more than those on other shows, do routinely show up for the taping in outfits so grotesque they can turn unwary spectators to stone.
ref: 1995 December 15, Lee Sandlin, “Watch Yourself”, in Chicago Reader:
text: He would pause outside the courtroom just long enough to give the TV press five minutes of crazed rhetoric for the Evening News, then he would shepherd his equally crazed 'clients' into the courtroom for their daily war-circus with the Judge. When you get into bear baiting on that level, paranoia is just another word for ignorance. ... They really are out to get you.
ref: 2003, Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, →ISBN, page 497:
text: Tyson took the hint and stood up in his brash white suit. He waved lamely and accepted questions from a group of people which the New York Daily News ridiculed as 'sycophants and psycho fans'. It made a change from the usual bear-baiting boxing-press jamborees in Vegas.
ref: 2014, Donald McRae, Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing, →ISBN:
glosses: A bloodthirsty free for all.
Related terms: poke the bear
bearbaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bear-baiting
form: bear baiting
Etymology: From Middle English bere baityng; equivalent to bear + baiting or bearbait + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bearbait
beanbrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beanbrawls
Etymology: From bean + brawl.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fight between teams at a baseball game, typically caused by a beanball.
examples: text: The Sox had fought their way out of the doldrums, just as they'd done in April in their beanbrawl with the Detroit Tigers--another game that involved Parque.
ref: 2000 July 21, Ted Cox, “Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A fiercely competitive baseball game.
whatevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whatever + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Maybe it's neither fiber, optics nor wires that are incubating the revolution in communications. Maybe it's the cellular whatevers that go into those phones you see people ostensibly talking into while driving automobiles.
ref: 1993 August 28, Russell Baker, “Observer; Man Here Can't Jubilate”, in New York Times:
text: In 1999, when lists featuring the best and worst whatevers of the last hundred or thousand years were appearing all over, A. S. Byatt wrote on the Times Web site that she loved lists.
ref: 2008 June 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Rank and File”, in New York Times:
text: What he can be, however, is drunk and high and ass-grabby with Russian singers/models/whatevers.
ref: 2009 April 19, Malene Arpe, “Off the rack: Entertainment”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: plural of whatever
whatevers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From whatever + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whatever.
synonyms: word: whatever
Related terms: whatevs
whatev
w/e
battement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battements
Etymology: Borrowed from French battement (“beating, hitting”).
Senses: examples: text: […] he raised slowly his rounded arms, stretched them gracefully backward and forward, moved his feet with precision and lightness, took a few small steps, made some battements and pirouettes, and disappeared like a butterfly.
ref: 1894, Arthur Machen, Memoirs of Casanova:
text: Ernst and Watson are superb dancers--extraordinarily agile and acrobatic, and their unison spins, battements, and body lines showed a split-second timing.
ref: 1988 March 11, Dorothy Samachson, “Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble”, in Chicago Reader:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg
examples: text: Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience[…].
ref: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Vol. I:
glosses: A thumping or beating sensation
battements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battement
beanbrawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanbrawl
loblolly bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loblolly bays
form: loblolly-bay
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat elegant evergreen-tree, called in South Carolina and the Floridas, the Loblolly-bay[.]
ref: 1770, John Ellis, “A Copy of a Letter from John Ellis, Esq; F. R. S. to Dr. Linnaeus, F. R. S. &c.”, in Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), volume 60, page 519:
glosses: An elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, Gordonia lasianthus, growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning.
glosses: A similar West Indian tree, Gordonia haematoxylon
Synonyms: sense: Gordonia lasianthus
word: black laurel
sense: Gordonia lasianthus
word: holly bay
sense: Gordonia lasianthus
word: tan bay
sense: Gordonia lasianthus
word: swamp laurel
sense: Gordonia haemotoxylon
word: bloodwood
sense: Gordonia haemotoxylon
english: no longer used
translation: no longer used
word: Laplacea haemotoxylon
loblolly bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loblolly bay
barwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bar + walking.
Senses: examples: text: He sang in an urgent, desperate sort of chant, and on saxophone he exaggerated the squealing sharpness of the R & B barwalking tradition.
ref: 2003 October 31, Peter Margasak, “Punk Primer/Postscripts”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of showmanship in which a musician stands on the bar
barstaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barstaurants
Etymology: Blend of bar + restaurant.
Senses: examples: text: It's hard to find spiritual reverence in an advertisement for "Kokopelli," a Chicago "barstaurant" that "endeavors to honor its namesake […]"
ref: 1998 August 18, “The Most Famous Flutist from Kitsch to Fine Art, Kokopelli is King”, in The Gazette, Colorado Springs, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2021:
text: Thus the owners of Boka hope to imprint an atmosphere of fellowship on their new venture, LANDMARK, a noisy and for the moment crowded barstaurant at the epicenter of the neighborhood once voted Most in Denial of the Housing Project Next Door.
ref: 2005 October 7, Martha Bayne, Kathie Bergquist, Mike Sula, “The Hot New Barstaurant, Fancified Mexican, and Upscale Irish”, in Chicago Reader:
text: I was a little surprised to hear that the owner of this so-called "regionally inspired," "rustic," tin-ceilinged Italian spot was also a partner in the generic barstaurant Charlie's Ale House next door.
ref: 2007 June 1, “What's New: Rustic Italian, Coal-Oven Pizza, and Thai Tapas”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The seafood-centric barstaurant will have a few specials (lobster ravioli with beurre blanc, anyone?) plus the usual seafood towers, and the excellent bar staff will keep the drinks flowing.
ref: 2022 December 20, Nikita Richardson, “A Plan for Every Kind of New Year’s Eve”, in The New York Times:
qualifier: chiefly Chicago
glosses: A combined bar and restaurant.
barstaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barstaurant
talkathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkathons
Etymology: From talk + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: Another senate talkathon shaped up today as southern solons fashioned a vocal onslaught against new anti-lynching legislation.
ref: 1945 March 26, Ernest B. Vaccaro, “Another Senate Talkathon On Anti-Lynch Bill Looms”, in The Evening Independent:
text: Moreover, opponents are threatening a prolonged talkathon that could drag on into next year's presidential primary season.
ref: 1979 November 19, “Nation: Soured SALT”, in TIME, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2010:
text: Republicans accused Democrats of wasting time on a fruitless talkathon.
ref: 2007 July 19, Carl Hulse, “Stymied by G.O.P., Democrats Stop Debate on Iraq”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lengthy speech, discussion or debate.
solons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solon
talkathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talkathon
barotrauma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barotraumas
Etymology: From baro- + trauma.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, one must take care not to inadvertently seal the ear canal with the suction tip, thereby risking "tympanic membrane barotrauma" and possibly sucking out the patient's brains.
ref: 1997 September 19, Cecil Adams, “the Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The timing raised suspicions that the whales had been disoriented by "barotrauma," or pressure injuries to sensitive ear and brain tissues caused by sound waves.
ref: 2001 January 26, David Malakoff, “A Roaring Debate Over Ocean Noise”, in Science, volume 291, number 5504, →DOI, pages 576–578:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Damage to body tissue caused by a difference in pressure between an air space in or near the body and the surrounding air.
Hyponyms: sense: tissue damage caused by air pressure difference
word: aerosinusitis
sense: tissue damage caused by air pressure difference
word: aerotitis
sense: tissue damage caused by air pressure difference
word: barodontalgia
sense: tissue damage caused by air pressure difference
word: barotitis
barhopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barhoppers
Etymology: From bar + hopper.
Senses: examples: text: They water their patch lawns and struggle to pick up the garbage left by Belmont Avenue barhoppers.
ref: 1988 August 5, Lynda Gorov, “Nasty boys: Clifton-Belmont neighbors want their block back”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who engages in barhopping.
barback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbacks
Etymology: From bar + back, due to working in the back area of the bar and not interacting with the patrons. Compare back of house and back office.
Senses: examples: text: Cerda moved to Chicago and worked at a series of bars and clubs: the Orbit Room, the Paradise Club, even a stint at Limelight, where he supplemented his earnings as a barback by performing as Nina Hagen in one of the cages.
ref: 2000 December 1, Jack Helbig, “Reindeer Games”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An assistant to a bartender.
Synonyms: word: runner
barback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barbacks
form: barbacking
form: barbacked
form: barbacked
Etymology: From bar + back, due to working in the back area of the bar and not interacting with the patrons. Compare back of house and back office.
Senses: glosses: To work as a barback.
Related terms: back of house
back office
barbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barback
barbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barback
barhoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barhopper
timecourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timecourse
plasmalemmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmalemma
plasmalemmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmalemma
transflective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of transmissive + reflective
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Of a liquid crystal display: that reflects and transmits light.
secondee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌkɒnˈdiː/
Forms: form: secondees
Etymology: From second (“to transfer temporarily to alternative employment”) + -ee. First attested in the 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: At the very least, the government should consider restricting the emigration of skilled people who are in short supply and extend its monitoring system to include emigrating graduates of vocational and higher institutes, as well as government secondees and people officially contracted to work abroad.
ref: 1983, R. Paul Shaw, Mobilizing human resources in the Arab world, Routledge, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Operator shall engage or retain only such employees, secondees, contractors, consultants and agents as are reasonably necessary to conduct Joint Operations.
ref: 2005, Charlotte J. Wright, Rebecca A. Gallun, International Petroleum Accounting, PennWell Books, →ISBN, page 436:
text: In the above situation secondees from the back-offices were put in the contact centre environment, however their knowledge was not exploited to complement and enhance the quality of the end-user training.
ref: 2007, David Jesse Finnegan, Leslie P. Willcocks, Implementing CRM: From Technology to Knowledge, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Haines pointed out that GBR in fact has a team of about 50 people currently, while Hendy was quick to refute the Telegraph's claim: "The vast majority [of GBR employees] are secondees from other parts of the railway. There aren't 200 people just being recruited to set up some monolithic organisation. There's a whole range of secondees from all over the place.
ref: 2021 December 15, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Great British Railways: start the railway reform now”, in RAIL, number 946, page 7:
glosses: A person who is transferred temporarily to alternative employment, or seconded.
disclarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + clarity.
Senses: examples: text: […] film (with its postmodern allegory: disclarity between text and subtext) […]
ref: 1962, John Storey, An introductory guide to cultural theory and popular culture:
ref: 2002, Moshe Maor, Developments in Israeli public administration:
glosses: The quality of being inconsistent; inconsistency
examples: ref: 1978, John Eden, The eye book:
ref: 2002, Raymod Loewy, Glenn Porter, Never leave well enough alone:
glosses: The quality of being opaque, vague or unclear
Uachtarán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish.
Senses: glosses: Title of a person who holds the office of President of Ireland.
glosses: The head of state of Ireland; the Irish president.
Related terms: uachtarán
viscously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more viscously
form: most viscously
Etymology: From viscous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a viscous manner.
quartzose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quartzose
form: most quartzose
Etymology: From quartz + -ose.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to quartz; made of quartz.
putschist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊtʃɪst/
Forms: form: putschists
Etymology: Borrowed from German Putschist. Equivalent to putsch + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 150:
text: The alleged putschists are said to have taken inspiration from the global QAnon movement.
ref: 2025 March 6, “Five jailed for far-right plot to overthrow German government”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One who participates in a putsch.
Synonyms: putscher
putschists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putschist
hyperenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperenergetic
form: most hyperenergetic
Etymology: From hyper- + energetic.
Senses: examples: text: "The Moor's Last Sigh" -- a narratively manic, verbally hyperenergetic, comical, fantastical, roiling multicultural mulch of a novel of India -- would also have been a commendable winner.
ref: 1995 November 26, Eva Hoffman, “The Super Bowl of Fiction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely energetic.
tsebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtsɛbeɪ/
Senses: examples: text: […] the Tsebe, or Spring-Boc, Prong-Boc, or Showy Goat, is perhaps the most graceful in its proportions, and beautifully varied in its colours, of all the antelope tribe.
ref: c. 1856, Natural History, Charles Knight:
text: Pair of Antlers of Axis Deer and Horns of Spring-Boc, or Tsebe, Antidorcas Euchore.
ref: 1888, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, page 275:
glosses: The springbok.
tilapias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tilapia
turboencabulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turboencabulators
Etymology: A fanciful construction from turbo-, en-, cab, -ule, -ate, and -or.
Senses: glosses: A fictional machine whose name is used to illustrate the perils of excessive jargon in technical writing.
turboencabulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turboencabulator
Rastus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of American usage.
Rastus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rastuses
Etymology: Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris.
Senses: examples: text: But neither did it turn them into Rastuses and Sambos; nor deprive their behaviour of logical and recognisable roots in the conditions of a regional culture whose impact had been distilled into Negro spirituals or the blues.
ref: 2016, Eva Lennox Birch, Black American Women's Writings, page 59:
text: From the end of slavery to the period of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, ads in the U.S. continued to show blacks as Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Bens and Rastuses—individuals subservient to whites.
ref: 2019, Patricia H. Hoffman-Miller, Marlon James, Douglas Hermond, African American Suburbanization and the Consequential Loss of Identity, page 21:
glosses: A stereotypical African American man, often a cheerful character in minstrel shows.
Erastus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐραστός (erastós, “lovable”).
Senses: examples: Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
glosses: A certain early Christian and city chamberlain. (biblical character)
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of biblical derivation.
Related terms: Rastus
sleeping cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping car
reëvaluate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëvaluates
form: reëvaluating
form: reëvaluated
form: reëvaluated
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of re-evaluate.
reëvaluating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The Commission amended its previously issued Order 19, reëvaluating the needs of the various services on the grounds of public interest, convenience and necessity.
ref: 1939, QST., Volume 23, page #24 (American Radio Relay League)
text: […] and reëvaluating existing test procedures and methods of reporting data.
ref: 1963, High Fidelity, Volume 13, page #51 (Audiocom)
glosses: present participle and gerund of reëvaluate
reëvaluates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reëvaluate
reëvaluated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of re-evaluated; simple past and past participle of reëvaluate.
re-evaluate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rēĭvălʹyo͞oāt
ipa: /ɹiːɪˈvæljuːeɪt/
Forms: form: re-evaluates
form: re-evaluating
form: re-evaluated
form: re-evaluated
form: reevaluate
form: reëvaluate
Etymology: From re- + evaluate.
Senses: examples: text: The long hours and poor working conditions led him to re-evaluate his job.
text: DBC Head of Sales Roger Neary added: "Rail freight is already a much greener alternative to road haulage, so to reduce our carbon footprint even further will, I hope, make businesses re-evaluate their own transport strategies."
ref: 2021 January 27, “Network News: Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil performs well in DBC tests”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 11:
glosses: To evaluate again; reassess; revisit; reconsider.
re-evaluates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-evaluate
re-evaluating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-evaluate
re-evaluated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-evaluate
bellies up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belly up
bellying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belly up
bellied up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belly up
pre-nuptial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prenuptial.
Gioconda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gioconda
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gioconda. Doublet of Joconde.
Senses: examples: text: He too willingly uses the help of landscape, and thus gives the last touch in the portrait of the Gioconda (Louvre) to the thoroughly dreamy effect produced by this portrait of all portraits.
ref: 1879, The Cicerone, page 114:
synonyms: Joconde
glosses: The Mona Lisa.
Derived terms: Giocondan
dirty jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty joke
hydraulic retention time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulic retention times
Senses: glosses: a measure of the average length of time that a soluble compound remains in a constructed reactor
river beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of river bed
ö
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ô
ȯ
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the THOUGHT vowel
glosses: – see ◌̈
raw_tags: in words like coöperate
mailshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailshots
Etymology: From mail + shot.
Senses: glosses: Bulk advertising sent through the mail.
mailshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mailshots
form: mailshotting
form: mailshotted
form: mailshotted
Etymology: From mail + shot.
Senses: glosses: To send bulk advertising to (somebody) in the post.
mailshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailshot
mailshots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mailshot
striplight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striplights
Etymology: From strip + light.
Senses: glosses: A fluorescent lighting tube.
glosses: A long bank of directed lighting used to illuminate a stage, etc.
suprised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of surprised.
epistolographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epistolographic
form: most epistolographic
Senses: glosses: Relating to the writing of letters
glosses: Characteristic of a letter
Derived terms: epistolographically
belsire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belsires
Etymology: From Middle English bellsyre, bel sire, belsire, belsyre, equivalent to bel- + sire.
Senses: glosses: grandfather; old man.
Related terms: belchild
beldame
c̄
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin cum
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: w/
w
w.
wth
wᵗʰ
wt
wᵗ
antonyms: w/o
w/out
mul:−
sans
coordinate_terms: &
+
glosses: With.
Veluws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dutch Low Saxon dialect which is spoken on the Veluwe, usually divided into West Veluws and East Veluws, the former being more influenced by the neighboring Hollandian and Standard Dutch than the latter. (ISO 639-3 code: "vel".)
snork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snorks
form: snorking
form: snorked
form: snorked
Etymology: From Dutch snorken or Middle Low German snorken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *fnoʀukōn (“to snore, snort”).
Senses: glosses: To snore.
glosses: To snort, grunt; breathe or inhale noisily.
examples: text: There’s a lot of it this year because there were few trick-or-treaters, leaving many Americans with no choice but to snork down the weight of an adult male cocker spaniel in mini Snickers.
ref: 2020 December 27, Dave Barry, “Dave Barry’s year in review: 2020 was a year of nonstop awfulness”, in Anchorage Daily News:
glosses: To eat quickly or voraciously
raw_tags: followed by "down"
Derived terms: snork down
snorker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɔːkə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snorkers
Etymology: From snork + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The women do most of the business, the men condescending to attend to such matters as the sale of goats, or an occasional “snorker,” which is led by a string, and invariably lends its voice to the general uproar.
ref: 1890, J[ohn] Rose Troup, “At Manyanga”, in With Stanley’s Rear Column, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, →OCLC, page 80:
text: He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out. He’s gone to his home now,” he added; […] He seemed to have no fear—he had evidently never been disturbed since he first made his home close to; and had he not been attracted by the grunts of the cottager’s young snorkers, his proximity would never have been suspected.
ref: 1891 February, a Son of the Marshes [pseudonym; Denham Jordan], “On Surrey Hills.—II. Fin and Fur.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCIV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275, column 2:
text: OH, ’twas Christmas Eve, and, by your leave, / I’ll tell you a wond’rous tale; / For the moreporks porked and the snorkers snorted, / And the tom-cats wailed a wail.
ref: 1904 December 3, “What Might Have Been: On the Wallabi with a Spectre”, in W[illiam] J[ohn] Geddis, editor, The New Zealand Observer […], volume XXV, number 12, Auckland, →OCLC, “The Observer Christmas Annual” supplement, page 6, column 1:
text: With the aid of a heavy chair he had the pig bailed up in a corner and hog-tied in no time at all. Put into a sack, the young snorker was carried back to captivity.
ref: [1961], Andrew Dow Griffen, Laughter Lingers On…: Seven Merry Tales of Early Auckland, Mount Roskill, Auckland, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: A pig, especially a piglet.
examples: text: […] a snorker left on the plate. Sam groans, but obediently sinks his fork into a third sausage […]
ref: 2012, Chris Terrill, Shipmates, page 56:
text: Tim is told off for trying to smuggle Dad a 'snorker' (sausage) from the catering trolley.
ref: 2022, Emily Bevan, The Diary of Losing Dad, page 15:
glosses: A sausage.
coruscatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coruscatingly
form: most coruscatingly
Etymology: From coruscating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a coruscating manner.
Synonyms: dazzlingly
sparklingly
twinklingly
nonsoap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsoaps
Etymology: From non- + soap.
Senses: glosses: That which is not soap.
nonsoaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsoap
nondetergent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondetergents
Etymology: From non- + detergent.
Senses: glosses: That which is not detergent.
nondetergents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondetergent
antiscuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + scuff.
Senses: glosses: Preventing scuffing.
raw_tags: of engine oil
Synonyms: antiscuffing
noncheerleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncheerleaders
Etymology: From non- + cheerleader.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence suggests that both acute and chronic laryngeal changes (aphonia, aphonic syllables, diplophonia, and pitch breaks) occur more frequently among cheerleaders than among noncheerleaders.
ref: 2002, Moya L Andrews, Anne C Summers, Voice treatment for children and adolescents:
text: ...the great noncheerleader, the ultimate anti-salesman. What Disney and McDonald's and Coca-Cola are for, he is aggressively indifferent to...
ref: 2002, David Kirby, What is a book?:
text: The noncheerleader girls, wearing their boyfriends' leather jackets and popping gum in time to the music, swaggered between rows of combination lockers...
ref: 2003, Edward Allen, Ate it anyway:
text: I would walk home alone, sulking over my status as a noncheerleader.
ref: 2004, Vicki Courtney, Your Girl: Raising a Godly Daughter in an Ungodly World:
glosses: One who is not a cheerleader.
noncheerleaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncheerleader
nonemergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + emergent.
Senses: glosses: Not emergent.
Derived terms: nonemergently
nonambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ambulance.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to an ambulance.
canarylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canarylike
form: most canarylike
Etymology: From canary + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a canary or having some aspect of one, such as its song or yellow colour.
iconicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconicity
Greeklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Greeklike
form: most Greeklike
Etymology: From Greek + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the Ancient Greek language or culture, or some aspect of it.
decigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪɡɹeɪd/
Forms: form: decigrades
Etymology: From deci- + grade.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angular measure equal to one tenth of a grade
unenthralled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enthralled.
Senses: glosses: Not enthralled or in thrall; unenslaved.
unangelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unangelic
form: most unangelic
Etymology: From un- + angelic.
Senses: glosses: Not angelic (sweet or well-behaved).
glosses: Not of or pertaining to angels; nonangelic.
Derived terms: unangelically
nonangelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + angelic.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to angels.
Synonyms: unangelic
noncalendrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + calendrical.
Senses: glosses: Not calendrical.
Synonyms: noncalendar
logogrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
signaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signary
reverse boustrophedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of boustrophedon in which the page is rotated by 180 degrees after writing each line, so that alternate lines are upside down relative to one another.
savantish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more savantish
form: most savantish
Etymology: From savant + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […
ref: 2004 March 26, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The savantish 11-year-old interjects naïve, untested idealism; the landlord provides the rapacious entrepreneurial spirit that vacuums capitalism clean of conscience.
ref: 2007 March 18, Bob Shacochis, “Headline News”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a savant
Zapotecan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zapotecan
form: most Zapotecan
Etymology: From Zapotec + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Zapotec.
Zapotecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zapotecans
Etymology: From Zapotec + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Zapotec.
rongorongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒŋəʊˈɹɒŋəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒŋəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Rapa Nui roŋoroŋo (“to recite, chant”), a reduplicated form of roŋo (“message”).
Senses: glosses: An early glyphic writing system of Easter Island, written in reverse boustrophedon and as yet undeciphered.
nonglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glyphic.
Senses: glosses: Not glyphic.
nonboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + board.
Senses: examples: nonboard games
nonboard members
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a board (in any sense).
unsecreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + secreted.
Senses: glosses: Not secreted.
nongenealogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + genealogical.
Senses: glosses: Not genealogical.
nonjade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + jade.
Senses: glosses: Not made from jade (the semiprecious stone).
unchangeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unchangeabilities
Etymology: From un- + changeability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being unchangeable
glosses: The extent to which something is unchangeable
ersatzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ersatzer
non-quantified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonquantified
Etymology: From non- + quantified.
Senses: glosses: Not quantified.
Synonyms: unquantified
nonidentified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + identified.
Senses: glosses: Not identified.
nonidentifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + identifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not identifiable.
nonideally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonideal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonideal manner; not ideally.
nonqualitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + qualitative.
Senses: glosses: Not qualitative.
Derived terms: nonqualitatively
nonelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonelements
Etymology: From non- + element.
Senses: glosses: That which is not an element (of a mathematical set, etc.).
nonelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonelement
logosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌlɒɡəʊsɪˈlæbɪk/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to logosyllables.
nongrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nongrammatical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nongrammatical manner.
nongrammar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + grammar.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to grammar.
Zoquean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Zoque + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Zoque languages.
croppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpəbəl
Forms: form: more croppable
form: most croppable
Etymology: From crop + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for the growing of crops.
examples: a croppable image
glosses: Able to be cropped or cut short.
Related terms: arable
preconquest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + conquest.
Senses: synonyms: preconquestal
preconquestual
glosses: Prior to conquest.
nonterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonterrorists
Etymology: From non- + terrorist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a terrorist.
Related terms: nonterror
nonterrorism
nonterroristic
nonterrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonterrorist
noncrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncrops
Etymology: From non- + crop.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a crop.
nonharvest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + harvest.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a harvest.
noncrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncrop
nonglue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glue.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to glue.
nonsceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsceptics
Etymology: From non- + sceptic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonskeptic.
nonsceptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sceptical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonskeptical.
nonsceptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsceptic
noncalibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + calibrated.
Senses: glosses: Not calibrated.
nonbully
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbullies
Etymology: From non- + bully.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a bully.
nonbullied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bullied.
Senses: glosses: Not bullied.
nonbullying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bullying.
Senses: glosses: Not bullying.
nonbullies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonbully