cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coproporphyrinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coproporphyrinogens
Etymology: From copro- + porphyrinogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of tetrapyrroles that are associated with some forms of porphyria
Derived terms: coprogen
coproporphyrinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coproporphyrinogen
fashioning needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashioning needles
Senses: glosses: A needle in a knitting machine that is used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.
droit of admiralty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droits of admiralty
Etymology: French droit (“a right”)
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any of certain customary rights or perquisites relating to enemy ships and property found at sea, including flotsam, jetsam, lagan, deodand, etc.
droits of admiralty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droit of admiralty
cotransport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotransports
Etymology: From co- + transport.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous transport of two substances (across a biological membrane).
cotransport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cotransports
form: cotransporting
form: cotransported
form: cotransported
Etymology: From co- + transport.
Senses: glosses: To transport two substances simultaneously (across a biological membrane).
Derived terms: cotransporter
maiden grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maiden grasses
Senses: glosses: Miscanthus sinensis, an Asian herbaceous perennial grass with purplish flowers.
unthematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthematic
form: most unthematic
Etymology: From un- + thematic.
Senses: glosses: Not thematic.
unthematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthematical
form: most unthematical
Etymology: From un- + thematical.
Senses: glosses: Not thematical.
unabstracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abstracted.
Senses: glosses: Not abstracted.
dart sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dart sacs
Senses: synonyms: bursa telae
stylophore
glosses: A sac connected with the reproductive organs of certain land snails, containing a love dart.
Khomeinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Khomeinian
form: most Khomeinian
Etymology: From Khomeini + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989), Iranian religious leader and politician.
Twelvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twelver
slippery elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slippery elms
Senses: examples: text: Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day. I try: Miralax, Restoralax, magnesium citrate (liquid and powder), […] licorice root, slippery elm, beans, […].
ref: 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: red elm
gray elm
soft elm
moose elm
Indian elm
glosses: A North American elm tree of species Ulmus rubra, with a mucilaginous and slightly aromatic inner bark.
synonyms: California flannelbush
California fremontia
flannel flower
glosses: A malvaceous shrub from the Pacific coast of Northern America (Fremontodendron californicum)
slippery elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slippery elm
canadianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canadiano
erecting shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erecting shops
Senses: examples: text: Erecting-shop work was always hard and slogging, so that at the end of a 9¾ hour day there were not many who felt inclined for much more physical activity.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
text: The erecting shop has pit accommodation for 39 locomotives, [...]
 [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and function of shops [...] Erecting Shop: Stripping and erection of locomotives and frame repairs.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162:
glosses: A place where large machines are put together and adjusted.
senile gangrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of gangrene occurring particularly in old people, and usually caused by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.
catingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catinga
berdachism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From berdache + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: English settlers, in turn, solidly repressed berdachism in North America, although a score of nineteenth-century texts reveal a lack of sexual assimilation.
ref: 2000, John W. M. Hallock, The American Byron, page 19:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state or practice of being transgender or third gender in a Native American society.
Related terms: two-spirit
transgenderisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transgenderism
cutias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutia
ferrado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrados
Etymology: From Galician ferrado, from Medieval Latin modius ferrātus (“reinforced modius”), from Latin ferrātus (“ironed”), from ferrum (“iron”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 12–18 L depending on the substance measured.
glosses: A trapezoidal measuring cup once used for measuring ferrados of grain.
glosses: A traditional Galician unit of mass equal to the amount held by a ferrado, varying from about 12–20 kg depending on the substance measured.
glosses: A traditional Galician unit of land area reckoned as the amount needed to sow a ferrado of seed, varying from 64–725 m² in different parts of Galicia.
Synonyms: tega
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of volume
word: cuartillo (1
sense: unit of volume
word: 24 ferrado)
sense: unit of volume
word: cunca (1
sense: unit of volume
word: 12 ferrado)
sense: unit of volume
alt: ¼ ferrado
word: cuarta
sense: unit of volume
alt: ½ ferrado
word: esca
sense: unit of volume
word: fanega (5 ferrados)
sense: unit of mass
alt: ½ ferrado
word: esca
sense: unit of area
word: cunca (1
sense: unit of area
word: 12 ferrado)
indelibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indelible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being indelible.
microcosmographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + cosmographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microcosmography.
cabinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cabin + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cabin.
unexploredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unexplored + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being unexplored.
startin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of starting.
wonderin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wondering.
cookin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cooking.
hearin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hearing.
hearin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hearing.
breakin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of breaking.
headin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of heading.
cuttin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cutting.
listenin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of listening.
pullin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊlɪn/
rhymes: -ʊlɪn
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pulling.
misbutton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbuttons
form: misbuttoning
form: misbuttoned
form: misbuttoned
Etymology: From mis- + button.
Senses: examples: text: I misbuttoned my shirt.
glosses: To button wrongly.
misbuttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbutton
misbuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misbutton
misbuttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbutton
stickin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sticking.
happenin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of happening.
happenin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of happening.
plannin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of planning.
semiauto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semi-auto.
semiauto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiautos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semi-auto.
semiautos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiauto
throwin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of throwing.
wastin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wasting.
worryin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of worrying.
stealin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of stealing.
shakin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shaking.
diggin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of digging.
jumpin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of jumping.
stoppin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑpɪn/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of stopping.
hittin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hitting.
yellin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yelling.
buildin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of building.
beggin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of begging.
overaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overaged
form: most overaged
Etymology: From Middle English overaged, equivalent to over- + aged.
Senses: examples: an overaged wine
glosses: aged too much
overaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English overaged, equivalent to over- + aged.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overage
snowclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snow + clad.
Senses: examples: text: The most popular reason for visiting the national forests is to get out and see pretty country — the trees and lakes, the mountains and valleys, the cliffs and canyons, the meadows and snowclad peaks.
ref: 1960, United States. Forest Service, National Forest Vacations, page 24:
glosses: Covered in snow.
untampered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tampered.
Senses: examples: text: On their grim features, now The plain unvisored index of the soul, The true untampered witness of the heart, No smile of hope, no look of vanity Beseeching for applause, was seen ;
ref: 1876, Rossiter Johnson, Keats to Morris, page 143:
glosses: Not tampered with.
backway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backways
Etymology: From back + way.
Senses: examples: text: Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts […]
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A back alley.
backways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backway
backgrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of background
backgrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backgroundings
Senses: examples: text: For example, in backgroundings, the causal connective does not introduce causes, motives, or norms, but rather, whatever items of information enable the recipient to "understand better" the speaker's claim.
ref: 1992, Applied Psycholinguistics, volumes 13-14, page 116:
glosses: The act by which something is backgrounded, in any sense.
glosses: An intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot, during which the calf's weight and immunity are significantly increased by feeding with forage and grains.
Related terms: backgrounder
ooohing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oooh
ooohed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oooh
cookpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookpots
Etymology: From cook + pot.
Senses: glosses: cooking pot
cookpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookpot
coalminer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalminers
Etymology: By surface analysis, coal + miner, or, by surface analysis, coal mine + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: coalworker, collier
hypernyms: miner
mineworker
coordinate_terms: coalowner
mineowner
glosses: One who mines for coal; especially, a worker who does not own the mine.
Related terms: coal cracker
coalminers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalminer
sharpwitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sharpwitted
form: most sharpwitted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sharp-witted.
dadblamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dad-blamed.
Instamatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Instamatics
Etymology: Trade name of the 1960s, from insta- + automatic.
Senses: examples: text: I wanna be Instamatic / I wanna be a frozen pea / I wanna be dehydrated / In a consumer society
ref: 1978, Poly Styrene, “Art-I-Ficial”, in Germ Free Adolescents, performed by X-Ray Spex:
glosses: A kind of inexpensive point-and-shoot camera.
Instamatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Instamatic
hellraising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hell + raising.
Senses: examples: text: Repartee between a mean mom and a bunch of girls getting ready to go out for a night of hellraising.
ref: 1982 April 24, “Women of Iron”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: Wild, wanton behavior.
hellraising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hell + raising.
Senses: glosses: Engaging in wild, wanton behavior.
Related terms: hellraiser
clothyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothyards
Etymology: From cloth + yard.
Senses: glosses: An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
clothyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothyard
decamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decampers
Etymology: From decamp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who decamps.
decampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decamper
roadbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From road + building.
Senses: examples: text: The default position of virtually transport minister has been to respond to increased demand for travel by arguing the case for more roadbuilding. The current government is no exception.
ref: 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
glosses: The construction of roads.
Related terms: roadbuilder
untarmacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tarmacked.
Senses: glosses: Not tarmacked.
washee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washees
Etymology: From wash + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: You are not the washer but the washee.
ref: 1863, Life and Correspondence of Theod. Parker:
text: The expression, "washed out," became extremely common, and not necessarily in any sense disparaging to the "washee."
ref: 1946, Intellect, volume 63, page 290:
text: I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]
ref: 1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:
glosses: One who is washed.
washees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washee
roadmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From road + making.
Senses: glosses: The construction of roads.
roadbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadbuilders
Etymology: From road + builder.
Senses: glosses: One who builds roads.
Related terms: roadbuilding
grader
paver
trailblazer
bridgebuilder
roadbuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadbuilder
superconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: The only approach to the superconscious, to the unreal, is through the real, the ultranatural, that is to say through nature and its normal, unforced, creative life.
ref: 1989, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Hermine I. Popper, Creating a Role, page 91:
glosses: Above or beyond the conscious.
superconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: You have to go to those who are at home in the unconscious and the superconscious, the artists and prophets; through myth and symbol in art, science fiction, or religion, they will describe the present by speaking about the future.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: That part of mind that is beyond the conscious.
sawblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawblades
Etymology: From saw + blade.
Senses: examples: text: From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:
glosses: The blade of a saw.
sawblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawblade
shakenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shakenly
form: most shakenly
Etymology: From shaken + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shaken or nervous manner.
ohmygod
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod! I can’t believe I’m going on a date with Chance Kain!”
ref: 2023, James L. Sutter, chapter 19, in Darkhearts, Andersen Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of oh my God.
overtight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtight
form: most overtight
Etymology: From over- + tight.
Senses: glosses: Excessively tight.
Derived terms: overtightly
overtighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtightens
form: overtightening
form: overtightened
form: overtightened
Etymology: From over- + tighten.
Senses: glosses: To tighten too much.
overtightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtighten
overtightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtighten
overtightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtighten
wagoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagoneers
form: waggoneer
Etymology: From wagon + -eer.
Senses: glosses: One who drives a wagon.
Synonyms: waggoner
wagoner
wagonner
Related terms: wagonmaster
wagonmistress
wagon train
waggoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waggoneers
Etymology: From waggon + -eer.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of wagoneer.
waggoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waggoneer
wagoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagoneer
waggonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waggonages
Etymology: From waggon + -age.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wagonage.
beerhall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beerhalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beer hall.
beerhalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beerhall
drawered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drawer + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Atop this many-drawered enormity was an additional set of drawers attached to a mirror.
ref: 2010, A. C. Nicholas, Anna and the Tale of the Wolf, page 251:
glosses: Having (a specified kind or number of) drawers.
smackdab
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smack-dab.
reticences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reticence
reticences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reticenses
Senses: examples: text: It required the blandishments and even the threats of the magistrate, to induce him to repeat his story; and then it came so involved and disfigured by innumerable reticenses and circumlocutions; he made such a sad jumble of it that no doubt remained in the magistrate's mind, and but little in the boy's own partisans', that the whole tale was an illgot-up fabrication, [...]
ref: 1845 November, L. Mariotti, “Morello; or, The Organ Boy’s Progress”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXV, number CCXCIX, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, chapter IX (Morello at Bow-Street), page 312:
text: [T]he endeavour to cloak the gubernatorial derelictions of duty, [...] is defeated as much by the revelations of the publication under review, as by its reticenses.
ref: 1853, “Art. III.—Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government—No. IX. Report on the Teak Forests of the Tenasserim Provinces. By H. Falconer, […] Calcutta, 1852. [book review]”, in The Calcutta Review, volume XXI, number XLI, Calcutta: […] Sanders, Cones & Co., […], →OCLC, page 155:
text: A Spanish novel writer who cannot be accused of undue sex reticenses is Vicente Blasco Ibanez, [...]
ref: 1923 May, “The Pornographic Spanish Novel”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 325, column 2:
glosses: Things that have been left out of a piece of writing, etc.
reticences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reticenses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reticence
gladiolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladiola
emptyheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emptyheaded
form: most emptyheaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of empty-headed.
lookie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lookee.
opportunity costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opportunity cost
'murica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of 'Murica.
assholio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assholios
Etymology: From asshole, with a pseudo-Spanish ending.
Senses: glosses: asshole
assholios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assholio
bisemous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having two meanings or interpretations.
Related terms: polysemous
monosemous
encaptivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encaptivates
form: encaptivating
form: encaptivated
form: encaptivated
Senses: glosses: To captivate.
encaptivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encaptivate
encaptivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encaptivate
encaptivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encaptivate
gammanym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tetracycline.
Angleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Angle + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Brazoria County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Angleton grass
xeroxcopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeroxcopies
Etymology: From xerox + copy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of xerox copy.
xeroxcopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeroxcopy
New Denmark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural community of Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A town in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.
potato skins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato skin
Senses: glosses: A snack food or appetizer made of slices of half-spherical pieces of potatoes with the skin left on one side and a quarter-inch or so of the inside of the potato on the other, covered with various toppings.
potato skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato skins
Senses: glosses: One of a dish of potato skins.
doss-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doss-house
Weaverville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Weaver + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Also known as Weaver.
glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Trinity County, California, United States.
glosses: A town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
doggie doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggie door
CLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Contributor License Agreement.
CLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Initialism of conjugated linoleic acid.
astral body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astral bodies
Senses: examples: text: "I suppose I am not talking to you at all. You are in Thibet with Shere Ali. This is your astral body, and if I were near enough, I could poke my fingers right through you, as you sit there, telling me you are an Edinburgh doctor, forsooth."
"Quite right, Mr. Griggs. At the present moment my body is quietly asleep in a lamastery in Thibet, and this is my astral shape.
ref: 1882, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 13, in Mr. Isaacs:
text: "I kept the Jewel within my great safe, whence none could extract it; not even Queen Tera herself with her astral body."
ref: 1903, Bram Stoker, chapter 15, in The Jewel of Seven Stars:
text: "You fool, have I no means of searching other than in the physical?" cried the man wrathfully. "I have been looking for him from the other side. It is as easy for me to use my astral body as this physical one."
ref: 1912, Fergus Hume, chapter 20, in A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance:
text: I am not ready to ridicule the claim of the Yogi adepts, that they are able to project some kind of astral body, and to communicate with one another from distant places.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] , book 6:
text: The voice in this case belongs to a lovely lady who has been most foully stabbed and while her body remains in a thug-infested old manse her astral body goes to ask Topper's assistance—probably the first instance on record in which the murdered victim was the first to inform the public.
ref: 1941 March 28, T. S., “Movie Review: Topper Returns (1941)”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Apr 2014:
topics: fantasy
parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A ghost-like replica of one's physical body which supposedly inhabits or is somehow associated with the physical body, conceived as a subtle body composed of some sort of ethereal material or as being non-physical and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body to travel to other places or to other realms of existence.
Related terms: astral plane
astral projection
out-of-body experience
soul
subtle body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtle bodies
Etymology: Translation of सूक्ष्म शरीर (sūkṣma-śarīra) or सूक्ष्म देह (sūkṣma-deha).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The second of three (or more) bodies that make up the fully embodied human in various Hindu philosophies.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
parapsychology
philosophy
pseudoscience
sciences
glosses: The embodiment of the soul or mind; part of the bodymind of the human being in syncretic, esoteric philosophy.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Those parts of the septenary, the 'seven principles of man' which constitute each human being, contrasted with the gross body, the physical human body.
Related terms: astral body
subtle
subtile body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtile bodies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subtle body.
missed call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missed calls
Senses: qualifier: telephoning
glosses: A telephone call which the responder does not answer.
qualifier: telephoning
glosses: A telephone call that is deliberately terminated by the caller before being answered by its intended recipient in order to communicate a pre-agreed message.
missed call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missed calls
form: missed calling
form: missed called
form: missed called
Senses: examples: text: Missed-call me when you get to the meeting point!
synonyms: prank
glosses: To deliberately terminate a call before the recipient answers in order to communicate a pre-agreed message.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: miscall
trestled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trestle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: containing trestles
knifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: knifers
Etymology: From knife + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who sells knives.
glosses: Someone who stabs another with a knife.
knifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knifer
horsethief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsethieves
Etymology: From horse + thief.
Senses: examples: ref: 1951, William Faulkner, Notes on a Horsethief, Greenville: Levee Press:
glosses: Alternative spelling of horse thief.
sarape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of serape.
goldpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldpieces
Senses: examples: text: He coveted the goldpiece, and thought that it would be easy to steal it.
ref: 1992, Conrad Aiken, "Strange Moonlight", Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices, University of Georgia Press, page 169
text: For he slid the goldpiece deftly into the box, without touching it.
ref: 1958, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Straw Hat Murders, 2ⁿᵈ Ramble House edition, Ramble House, (2004) page 15
text: I think another goldpiece would suffice.
ref: 2008, Joseph Hunt, Alan Adams, Blue Dharma: The Story of Anaiyailla, Blue Dharma Press, page 345
glosses: Alternative spelling of gold piece.
holovision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holo- + vision after television.
Senses: examples: text: They'll be materializing before them in the special reception chambers, transmitted by way of the wires and beams, and reproduced by the three-dimensional holovision system in all their natural solidity.
ref: 1968, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life, Collins, page 4:
text: But pass up the sci-fi stuff for now, like for instance the holovision technology that's put TV and radio in museums.
ref: 1973 October, James Tiptree, Jr., “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, New Dimensions 3, page 81:
text: Flinging open the control booth door, he sprinted around the carpeted perimeter behind the array of holovision cameras.
ref: 2003 February 1, William Walling, Triage, Virtualbookworm.com, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: holographic television
fireirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireiron
henyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henyards
Etymology: From hen + yard.
Senses: hypernyms: yard#Noun
<
area#Noun
;
place#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: pigyard
english: yards for livestock
translation: yards for livestock
word: swineyard
word: sheepyard
word: cowyard
word: horse-yard
word: ;
english: places for hens
translation: places for hens
word: henhouse
word: hencoop
word: chicken coop
word: chickenhouse
word: poultryhouse
glosses: A yard or similar area where hens run free.
Related terms: barnyard
mouthe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mouth.
mouthe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mouthes
form: mouthing
form: mouthed
form: mouthed
Senses: glosses: Rare form of mouth.
nightschool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightschools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night school.
followe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: followes
form: following
form: followed
form: followed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of follow.
blizzardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blizzardy
form: most blizzardy
Etymology: From blizzard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He decided to take the C downtown and fumbled through a blizzardy wind to Central Park West.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 322:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a blizzard.
tapedeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapedecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tape deck.
canyoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canyoned
form: most canyoned
Etymology: From canyon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Containing canyons.
canyoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From canyon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canyon
Derived terms: uncanyoned
uncanyoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncanyoned
form: most uncanyoned
Etymology: From un- + canyoned.
Senses: glosses: Void of canyons, without canyons
missed called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missed call
goldpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldpiece
deoxynucleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deoxy + nucleic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deoxyribonucleic.
synonyms: word: deoxyribonucleic
Danelagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Danelaw.
desynapsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + synapsis.
Senses: glosses: The separation of homologous chromosomes in the diplotene period of meiotic prophase
Neo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recent coinage from the prefix neo- (“new”). Popularized by a character in the science-fiction film The Matrix (1999), where it is explained as an anagram of "(the) One".
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage.
Neo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 梁 (Niû, Niô͘), or Teochew 梁 (nion⁵ / niên⁵). Doublet of Niu.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Neo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Neo Users Group in 2004.
Senses: glosses: An optimized German keyboard layout supporting nearly all Latin-based alphabets.
Neo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An international auxiliary language created by Arturo Alfandari in 1961, combining features of Esperanto, Ido, Novial, and Volapük.
desmotubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmotubules
Etymology: From desmo- + tubule.
Senses: glosses: A tube of appressed endoplasmic reticulum that runs between two adjacent plant cells
deoxyribonucleotidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deoxyribonucleotide + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a deoxyribonucleotide
diacytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The discharge of an empty pinocytotic vesicle from a cell
pinocytotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pinocytosis
Derived terms: pinocytotically
kinetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any structure, in a eukaryotic cell, that is used for locomotion
Derived terms: dikinetid
kinetal
monokinetid
polykinetid
work days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work day
naïve realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that perception supplies direct awareness of the external world
Synonyms: common sense realism
direct realism
short end of the stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short ends of the stick
form: short end
Etymology: Unknown. Attested since the 1500s, suggested by one theory to be a minced oath of shit end of the stick, as an 1840s cite uses crappy, but this theory is unlikely. Possibly also derived from a previous literal meaning, as wrong end of the stick is even older, though the precise literal meaning is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: shitty stick; shortest straw; raw deal
text: Soviet emphasis on high-yield weapons might give them a megaton surplus. . . . We might then be on the short end of the stick.
ref: 1963 April, Ralph E. Lapp, "The Strategy of Overkill," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, p. 10 (Google preview)
text: [T]he 44 Governors . . . spent three days in tense, often heated discussion of the enormous political and fiscal problems handed to the states under President Reagan's "new federalism." Said Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus: "There is some apprehension on the part of the Governors that we are getting the short end of the stick."
ref: 1981 August 24, Claudia Wallis, “Gee Thanks, Ronnie, but...”, in Time, retrieved 10 Apr 2014:
text: “[W]orking people are sick and tired of the bosses getting million-dollar bonuses and the workers getting the short end of the stick.”
ref: 2010 July 9, Bob Herbert, “Restoring a Hallowed Vision”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2014:
text: Does this mean Middlesbrough get the short end of the stick, with what will surely be the most ramshackle show of the tour?
ref: 2012 September 2, Tim Jonze, “Africa Express: rolling coverage”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 10 Apr 2014:
text: I learned the hard way that people who ditch cable TV still get the short end of the stick.
ref: 2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A situation, opportunity, or outcome which is less favorable than situations, opportunities, or outcomes experienced by or available to others.
Related terms: wrong end of the stick
short straw
short end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short ends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short end of the stick.
pathologizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathologization
dysbindin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for dystrobrevin-binding, + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dystrobrevin-binding protein in muscle cells
Pacific gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific gulls
Senses: glosses: A gull, Larus pacificus, native to Australasia and the Antarctic region.
kelp gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelp gulls
Senses: glosses: A black-backed gull found on coasts of much of the Southern Hemisphere (Larus dominicanus).
Synonyms: Dominican gull
bum deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum deals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of raw deal.
synonyms: word: raw deal
rum deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum deals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of raw deal.
synonyms: word: raw deal
pee shy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pee-shy
Etymology: pee (“urine”) + shy
Senses: glosses: Paruretic; having shy bladder syndrome.
Related terms: shy bladder
pee-shy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pee shy.
red-billed gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-billed gulls
Senses: glosses: A gull native to New Zealand, its surrounding islands and subantarctic islands; the Chroicocephalus scopulinus.
silver gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver gulls
Senses: glosses: A gull found in the coastal areas of Australia and its surrounding islands; Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae.
Franklin's gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Franklin's gulls
Etymology: Named after English explorer John Franklin.
Senses: glosses: A migratory gull that breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and winters in the Southern Hemisphere; Leucophaeus pipixcan.
wikipedia: John Franklin
cat's claw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat's claws
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cat, claw.
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Senegalia greggii, formerly Acacia greggii, a tree species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Senegalia lowei (syn. Acacia plumosa, feathery acacia), a medicinal plant species native to Brazil
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Carpobrotus edulis (Hottentot fig), a plant species in the Aizoaceae family
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Dolichandra unguis-cati (cat's claw creeper), a Central American climbing vine of the Bignoniaceae family
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Grevillea alpina (catclaws grevillea, a shrub species native to Australia
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Martynia annua (small-fruit devil's-claw, tiger's-claw, iceplant), a plant species endemic to Brazil
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Mimosa nuttallii (formerly Schrankia nuttalli), a plant native to the Midwestern United States
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Uncaria guianensis, a plant species found in Guyana
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Uncaria rhynchophylla, a plant species used in traditional Chinese medicine
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Uncaria tomentosa, a plant species found in the tropical jungles of South and Central America
glosses: Any of several species of plant having parts resembling the claw of a cat.
Biancaea decapetala (Mauritius thorn, Mysore thorn, caniroc, shoofly, woody wait-a-whiile), a thorny evergreen shrub of India
glosses: Caesalpinia crista (cadoque)
bayag-kambing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog bayag-kambing.
Senses: glosses: A prickly shrub of species Caesalpinia crista (syn. Guilandina crista) in the Fabaceae family, with loosely spreading or climbing branches and bipinnate, prickly leaves.
European herring gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European herring gulls
Senses: glosses: A common, large seagull, Larus argentatus, having a white and gray body and a yellow bill with a red spot and found in the coastal areas of Europe.
demosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demo- + -sophy.
Senses: examples: text: Elaboration of demosophy as a special doctrine assumes a new sociology of knowledge.
ref: 1931, Social Science Abstracts, volume 3, part 2, page 1332:
text: The central concept of Kohn is “demosophy,” a sort of sociology, which is not only observing, but creative and rejuvenating.
ref: 1937, Antonín Obrdlík, Bruno Zwicker, Survey of Recent Sociological Production in Czechoslovakia in American Sociological Review, volume 2, number 3, American Sociological Association, page 426
text: As democracy is a system to manage power, balancing individual interests through collective rule, so demosophy would be a system to manage knowledge, balancing individual experiences through collective wisdom.
ref: 2006, Peter Broks, Understanding Popular Science, Open University Press, page 154:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: the wisdom of the people; collective wisdom
the good die young
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: only the good die young
Etymology: Variant of the Latin Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur ("whom the gods love dies young"), from Plautus's Bacchides, apparently adapted from a line in Dis Exapaton (The Double Deceiver) by Menander.
Senses: examples: text: "You'll live," put in Mr. Pedagog, with a chuckle. "The good die young."
ref: 1895, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 9, in The Idiot:
text: [I]t is the men and women with vices who have ruled the world. The good die young because there is no useful work for them to do.
ref: 1906, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Malefactor, Book 1, ch. 12:
text: "The good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American war (1896-97).
In Madrid last week the doughty "Butcher," now aged 91, arose fully convalescent from a sickness during which Death had been expected hourly for weeks. "Pah!" growled he. "My doctors, my family had no cause for alarm. I had only pneumonia!"
ref: 1930 April 14, “Weyler Well”, in Time, retrieved 10 Apr 2014:
text: A 28-year-old pregnant woman was killed and a second woman was seriously injured on Friday afternoon when a driver, apparently intoxicated and following the women as they walked down a Midtown Manhattan street, lost control of a supermarket maintenance van. . . . “It hasn’t really sunk in,” said Ms. Ramos’s sister. . . . “The good die young,” she said.
ref: 2009 March 28, Anahan O'Connor, Colin Moynihan, “Pregnant Woman Killed When Van Jumps Curb”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2014:
glosses: Well-regarded people who are morally upright, kind, and beneficent tend to die at a younger age than do most people.
Related terms: nice guys finish last
only the good die young
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the good die young.
mixed drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed drink
vodka tonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vodka tonic