cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
airpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airpipe
steampipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steampipes
form: steam pipe
Etymology: From steam + pipe.
Senses: glosses: A pipe of a boiler, through which steam passes.
glosses: Any other pipe which conveys steam.
steampipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steampipe
honeybunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeybunny
smokepipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokepipe
honeybun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeybuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey bun.
melliphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meliphagous.
meliphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: melliphagous
Senses: glosses: Of an animal, that feeds on honey or nectar.
Synonyms: mellivorous
unwholeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwhole + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being unwhole.
noncompacted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + compacted.
Senses: glosses: Not compacted.
somatopsychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somatopsychic
form: most somatopsychic
Etymology: From somato- + psychic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the effects of the body on the mind.
Related terms: psychosomatic
stormtost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stormtost
form: most stormtost
Etymology: From storm + tost.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of stormtossed.
stormtossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔɹmtɔst/
ipa: /ˈstɔːmtɒst/
ipa: /ˈstɔɹmtɑst/
Forms: form: more stormtossed
form: most stormtossed
form: stormtost
Etymology: From storm + tossed.
Senses: examples: text: The stormtossed ocean waves beat against the side of the ship and washed over its deck.
glosses: Tossed by the wind in a storm.
examples: text: The fever left his body, and he rose to stotter about the doors; but he was still in his torments, and the mercy-seat was far from him. At last in the back end of the year came Mungo Muirhead to Caulds to the autumn communion, and nothing would serve him but he must try his hand at the storm-tossed soul.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Agitated by conflicting passions.
there we go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: This key doesn't seem to fit the lock... ah, there we go; it's starting to turn now.
text: When's this film supposed to begin? Ah, there we go; the lights are dimming now.
glosses: said after an action has been performed successfully
Related terms: here we go
there you go
countercurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercurses
Etymology: From counter- + curse.
Senses: glosses: A curse cast in retaliation to another curse.
countercurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercurse
mancation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancations
Etymology: Blend of man + vacation.
Senses: glosses: A vacation taken by a group of men and catering specifically to male interests.
Coordinate terms: girlcation
ladycation
mancations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mancation
mytharc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mytharcs
Etymology: Blend of mythology + story arc, used originally and most commonly in reference to The X-Files.
Senses: examples: text: This [Neon Genesis Evangelion] is one show that -really- has me sucked in. And yes, their mytharc has to be the most perfectly constructed thing I've ever seen. :)
ref: 1999, Heath Smith, “TAN: Neon Genesis and how to do the mytharc properly”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: I think this is what you seek to avoid in mytharcs - a plot that drowns out the character-based drama and morality plays that are still Gene's finest legacy.
ref: 2000, Allronix, “An open letter to Ms. Roddenberry”, in alt.tv.earth-final-conflict (Usenet):
text: The mytharc is a continuous story line about the government's involvement in a plot to cover up the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth.
ref: 2008, J. P. Telotte, The essential science fiction television reader, page 234:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ongoing story arc that underpins all episodes of a television series.
wikipedia: The X-Files
mytharcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mytharc
mythering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of myther
mels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mel
glaziery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glazieries
Etymology: Equivalent to glass + -ery. Compare glazier.
Senses: glosses: The craft of a glazier; making and fitting windows.
glosses: A place where a glazier works.
divertor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divertors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diverter.
fruit bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit bowls
form: fruitbowl
Senses: glosses: A bowl used to keep fruit.
duplae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dupla
duplas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dupla
glazieries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaziery
fruit bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit bowl
expandor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expandors
Senses: glosses: Dated form of expander.
explanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of explane
centenars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centenar
axe-murderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axe-murderers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axe murderer.
generalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪliə/
Etymology: Neuter plural, from Latin generalis.
Senses: examples: text: there is need of a set of intermediate scientific truths , derived from the higher generalities of science , and destined to serve as the generalia or first principles of the various arts
ref: 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: generalities; general terms
nius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niu
gospeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gospellers
Etymology: From gospel + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gospeler.
Goncharovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goncharovian
form: most Goncharovian
Etymology: From Goncharov + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891), Russian author.
monosemous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having only one meaning or interpretation.
Synonyms: monosemic
unambiguous
univocal
explicit
autostereoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to autostereoscopy.
copper shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copper sharks
Etymology: From its coloration.
Senses: glosses: Carcharhinus brachyurus, a species of requiem shark characterized by its narrow, hook-shaped upper teeth, lack of a prominent ridge between the dorsal fins, and plain bronze coloration.
Synonyms: bronze whaler
narrowtooth shark
bronze whaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronze whalers
Senses: examples: text: Below you, two bronze whalers, tiny with distance, begin to wind their way up to you as if on submarine updraughts, and you register them, in your slow glide to the surface, as hardly bigger than the bubbles in your trail.
ref: 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 51:
glosses: The copper shark.
narrowtooth shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrowtooth sharks
Senses: glosses: The copper shark.
rephases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rephase
rephased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rephase
autostereoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + stereoscopy.
Senses: glosses: The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
Derived terms: autostereoscopic
pokie machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokie machines
Etymology: From pokie (“slang for poker machine”) + machine.
Senses: examples: text: During the contest, participants sit at pokie machines and accurately insert coin after coin into the smallest of holes, while all the time consuming more and more schooners. This grueling sport can go on for many hours, though the winner is always the pokie machine.
ref: 2000, Ken Ewell, No Worries, Mate: A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under, page 68:
text: Australian clubs allow instant membership to anyone, so keen are they to share the diverting pleasures of the pokie machine.
ref: 2001, Bill Bryson, In a sunburned country, page 19:
text: In 2005, New Zealanders lost $2.027 billion through all forms of gambling. Roughly half of that, $1.027 billion, was lost on non-casino pokie machines.
ref: 2008, Susan St. John, Donna Wynd, Left Behind: How Social & Income Inequalities Damage New Zealand Children, page 120:
text: A casino is one big pokie machine, programmed to pay out less than a dollar in a dollar.
ref: 2009, Marcus Padley, Stock Market Secrets, page 124:
glosses: Synonym of slot machine (“gambling machine”).
synonyms: word: slot machine
extra: gambling machine
rebaudioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound found in stevia leaves.
rebbetzins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebbetzin
Kiavah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A federally designated wilderness area located in the Mojave Desert, Scodie Mountains, and Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in Kern County, California, United States.
saucer passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saucer pass
penalty boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penalty box
Nile perch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nile perches
form: Nile perch
Etymology: From Nile + perch.
Senses: glosses: Lates niloticus, a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.
mhmm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mhm.
net minders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of net minder
quintuple doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintuple double
jump shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump shot
starting fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starting five
small forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small forward
rose fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose fishes
form: rose fish
Etymology: From rose + fish, since it is usually bright red when fully grown.
Senses: glosses: A large marine food fish, of species Sebastes norvegicus, that lives off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
Synonyms: sense: North Atlantic food fish
word: ocean perch
sense: North Atlantic food fish
word: Norway haddock
sense: North Atlantic food fish
word: red perch
sense: North Atlantic food fish
word: redfish
sense: North Atlantic food fish
word: hemdurgan
Möbius groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Möbius group
normal subgroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normal subgroup
yeasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yeast
honeybuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeybun
balsamroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balsamroots
Etymology: From balsam + root.
Senses: glosses: A perennial of the genus Balsamorhiza in the sunflower family, native to western North America.
balsamroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsamroot
fishmeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishmeal
ironmongeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironmongeresses
form: ironmongress
Etymology: From ironmonger + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female ironmonger.
glaciaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaciarium
saimin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saimins
Etymology: From Cantonese 細 /细 (sai³, “thin”) + 麵 /面 (min⁶, “noodle”).
Senses: glosses: A Hawaiian noodle soup garnished with green onions.
thirteenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thirteen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about thirteen years of age.
fourteenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fourteen + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His twelvish son is introduced as a pyromaniacal, foul-mouthed shifty operator. His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces.
ref: 2003, Elliot Gertel, Over the Top Judaism, page 62:
text: The kid, thirteen or fourteenish, worn green International Harvester cap turned backwards, seems to have the crowd on his side.
ref: 2006, E. Craig Coffin, Reflections of a Born-Again Pagan Radical:
glosses: Of about fourteen years of age.
fifteenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fifteen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about fifteen years of age.
sixteenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sixteen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about sixteen years of age.
seventeenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seventeen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about seventeen years of age.
eighteenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eighteen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about eighteen years of age.
nineteenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nineteen + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of about nineteen years of age.
born to the purple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: born in the purple
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek πορφυρογέννητος (porphurogénnētos); purple was a luxury color reserved for the Byzantine imperial family. In other kingdoms as well, purple has been traditionally associated with royalty; in some times and places this was because vibrant purple dyes were expensive.
Senses: examples: text: No one had had any experience of an emperor like Commodus, a Caesar born to the purple.
ref: 1999, Anthony Richard Birley, Septimius Severus: the African emperor, page 57:
glosses: Born and raised in a royal family.
examples: Near-synonyms: to the manor born, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
glosses: Of children, born of prominent or high-ranking parents.
Related terms: royal purple
regal purple
nepotism baby
roller derbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller derby
sloughy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaʊ.i/
ipa: /ˈslu.i/
Forms: form: more sloughy
form: most sloughy
Etymology: From slough (“marshy area”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Neither should that odious custom be allowed, of cutting scraws, (as they call them) which is flaying off the green surface of the ground, to cover their cabins; or make up their ditches; sometimes in shallow soils, where all is gravel within a few inches; and sometimes in low ground, with a thin greensward, and sloughy underneath; which last turns all into bog, by this mismanagement.
ref: 1724 March–October, M. B. [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], [Drapier’s Letters], Dublin: […] John Harding […]:
text: The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
ref: 1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part II (The Song of the Lark), page 162:
synonyms: word: boggy
word: miry
word: mucky
word: swampy
word: boggish
word: boggy
word: fennish
word: fenny
word: marish
word: marshy
word: miry
word: moorish
word: moory
word: morassy
word: paludal
word: paludine
word: paludinous
word: palustral
word: palustrine
word: palustrous
word: poachy
word: quaggy
word: queachy
word: sloughy
word: slumpy
word: spewy
word: swaly
word: swampish
word: swampy
word: syrtic
word: uliginous
word: wiery
glosses: Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
sloughy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaʊ.i/
ipa: /ˈslu.i/
ipa: /ˈslʌf.i/
ipa: /ˈslaʊ.i/
ipa: /ˈslu.i/
Forms: form: more sloughy
form: most sloughy
Etymology: From slough (“shed skin; dead skin”) + -y.
Senses: synonyms: word: scarious
word: scruffy
word: scurfy
word: sluffy
word: reef
word: roynish
word: scabby
word: scabrate
word: scabrid
word: scabrous
word: scald
word: scalled
word: scurvy
glosses: Resembling dead skin.
Daygo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, he rolled through Daygo with the first Lyricist Lounge tour, (anybody know about a second tour with De La headlinin'?).
ref: 1998 August 3, dj_skinnydip, “Re: Thurston Howell III”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: Current Residence: Daygo, KaLiFoRNiA
ref: 1999 October 12, Jade Burnes-Ferguson, “*TO EVERYBODY OUT THERE*”, in alt.music.nsync (Usenet):
text: I lived in Daygo for 6 years in the late 70's. There were some great trails but everyone rode motorcycles on them away^([sic]) back then. ;-)
ref: 2003 October 25, M Brundage, “Re: Intro & Querry About Front Shocks”, in alt.mountain-bike (Usenet):
glosses: San Diego, city in the state of California, in the United States of America
tenderpreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderpreneur
glebae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gleba
nongeospatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + geospatial.
Senses: glosses: Not geospatial.
trimphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimphones
Etymology: From trim + phone, originally a trademark, with trim explained as Tone Ring Illuminator Model.
Senses: examples: text: Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated[…]
ref: 1983 April 14, New Scientist, volume 98, number 1353:
text: While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones[…]
ref: 1986, Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile, page 54:
glosses: A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.
trimphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimphone
harpago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpagones
Etymology: From Latin harpagō.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corvus (“grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare”).
synonyms: word: corvus
extra: grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare
glosses: Synonym of harpax (“Ancient Roman catapult-shot grapnel”).
synonyms: word: harpax
extra: Ancient Roman catapult-shot grapnel
harpagones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpago
glosses: plural of harpagone
harpagone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpagones
Senses: examples: text: ...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...
ref: 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods
apparitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparitionists
Etymology: From apparition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in apparitions.
Related terms: apparitionism
apparitionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparitionist
Analgin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from analgesic.
Senses: glosses: A brand of metamizole.
preux chevalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preux chevaliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French preux chevalier.
Senses: examples: text: "I do not know any one who better realises my idea of a preux''' chevalier than Mr. Lorraine," replied Lady Mandeville. "He is so very handsome, to begin with; and there is a romantic tone about him, which, to its original merits of fine taste and elevated feelings, adds also that of being very uncommon."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: '[…]a piece of duty which, as a preux chevalier, you must immediately perform.'
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
text: Perhaps Saxon was secretly comforted by the conviction that only a preux chevalier would be worthy of Miss Colonna, and that the preux chevalier was certainly not forthcoming.
ref: 1865, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Half a million of money:
glosses: A valiant knight; any gallant gentleman.
vindicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪndɪkəbl̩/
Forms: form: more vindicable
form: most vindicable
Etymology: From Medieval Latin vindicābilis.
Senses: examples: text: The extreme pains taken to reconcile the unfortunate beings to their lot; the assiduity of the clergy to make up, by the assurance of divine mercy, the inexorable fate which awaited them; proved that these awful slaughters were onerous to the colonial conscience, and vindicable only as the last resort of the last necessity.
ref: 1852, John West, The History of Tasmania, Volume II (of 2):
text: The elimination of the indefensible, the setting aside of the legendary, the transference of the supposedly miraculous to the order of natural powers and processes so far as vindicable ground for such critical treatment is discovered, is the only way to answer the first of all questions concerning the Bible: How much of this is credible history?
ref: 1903, James Morris Whiton, Miracles and Supernatural Religion:
glosses: able to be vindicated; justifiable
acrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːl
Etymology: From a- + crawl.
Senses: examples: 1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849,
[…] an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me.
1865, William Michael Rossetti (translator), The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Part I—The Hell, London: Macmillan, Canto 29, p. 208,
This [spirit] on the belly, on the shoulders that, / Of one another lay, and this acrawl / Transferred himself along the mournful path.
glosses: Crawling.
examples: text: Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them.
ref: 1881, John Todhunter, The True Tragedy of Rienzi, Tribune of Rome, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, act IV, scene 2, page 99:
text: His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there.
ref: 1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 201:
text: Why, I’ll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows.
ref: 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, London: Picador, published 1976, Part 3, p. 164:
synonyms: crawling
teeming
glosses: Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).
Shamika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
rastras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rastra
videowall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videowalls
form: video wall
Senses: glosses: A bank of tiled videoscreens forming one large screen on a wall.
videowalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videowall
artboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artboards
Etymology: From art + board.
Senses: examples: text: In this section, you'll learn how to create multiple artboards, edit them, and print files that contain multiple artboards.
ref: 2009, Sue Jenkins, How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator, page 27:
text: The following sections describe how each of these transforms can be used to make changes to objects on the artboard.
ref: 2009, Jeff Paries, Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation, page 36:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An on-screen design surface in a drawing application.
artboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artboard
backspaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From backspace + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.
ref: 1992, Joseph M. Newcomer, “ASCII”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet):
text: Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.
ref: 2009, Richard Maine, “Error writing on unit 22”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Supporting a backspace function.
boosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bōs, Old English bōsig “cow stall”. See boose.
Senses: glosses: plural of boosy
boosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boosie
Etymology: Compare booby, bosom.
Senses: examples: text: I swallowed hard, and I felt my ears beginning to burn. You know why? It was because of her boosies.
ref: 1954, Oren Arnold, The Golden Chair, page 89:
text: Di wanted to weep because Miss G had never even touched her boosies. Then Fiamma pushed Miss G away from her, roughly.
ref: 1999, Sheila Kohler, Cracks, page 92:
text: Peri's face was pink from the beach and she had a blue shirt so you could see the tops of her boosies and Mum said, 'Just one more button, Peri,' so she pulled the edges together but she didn't do up the button.
ref: 2001, Penelope Todd, Peri, page 65:
glosses: A woman's breasts.
nonsevere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + severe.
Senses: examples: text: They treated patients with nonsevere injuries after the more severe cases.
glosses: Not severe.
westerliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From westerly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Westerly position.
Westernness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Western + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The rather philistine assertion of Eurocentrism and Westernness on the part of conservative educators […]
ref: 1993, Cameron McCarthy, Warren Crichlow, Race, identity, and representation in education, page 294:
glosses: The quality of being Western.
whalecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whale + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: The last significant innovation in whalecraft combined characteristics of the harpoon and the whaling gun.
ref: 1997, Lance Edwin Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Karin Gleiter, In pursuit of Leviathan, page 294:
glosses: The art and techniques of whaling.
flumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flume
Ket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kets
form: Ket
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ket кеʼт (kɛˀt, “man, human being”), via Russian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Central Siberia, Russia.
Ket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ket кеʼт (kɛˀt, “man, human being”), via Russian.
Senses: glosses: A river in Russia, a tributary of the Ob.
synonyms: Kettish
glosses: The Yeniseian language of the Ket people.
Ket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kets
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Ket, derived from Dutch ket, Middle Dutch *kitte, Proto-West Germanic *kitte.
Senses: synonyms: Brusseler
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Brussels.
Synonyms: Brusseler
Na-Dené
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Na-Dene.
Dene-Yeniseian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dene + Yeniseian.
Senses: glosses: A proposed language family linking the Na-Dene languages of North America and the Yeniseian languages of Siberia.
Dené-Yeniseian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dene-Yeniseian.
Kaiden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden or Kayden.
joint custody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An arrangement whereby parents or guardians (who are not a couple or cease to be one) share the physical and legal custody of a child.
Related terms: paternal custody
maternal custody
sole custody
give someone grief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone grief
form: giving someone grief
form: gave someone grief
form: given someone grief
Senses: examples: text: Her elbow has been giving her grief.
synonyms: word: hurt
word: trouble
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To cause pain to someone.
examples: text: Fred was giving me grief over the money I owed him.
text: Some of his colleagues have "given him a bit of grief" for leaving his house, but Haines is quick to counter that he's following Government guidelines while out and about.
ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 28:
synonyms: word: bother
word: harass
word: pester
word: trouble
word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
glosses: To hassle or abuse someone.
friendship bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendship benches
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A bench in a grade school's public area meant for a child on free time in need of someone to talk with, and whoever joins them there for that reason.
Synonyms: buddy bench
friendship benches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendship bench
cellphone lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellphone lots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cell phone lot.
cellphone lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellphone lot
cell phone lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell phone lots
form: cellphone lot
Senses: glosses: A parking lot for those waiting to retrieve people from, for example, an airport, in which they can wait in this lot instead of circling until they spot their respective targets.
antisymmetrisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisymmetrisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antisymmetrization.
cell phone lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cell phone lot
electrodiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodiffusions
Etymology: From electro- + diffusion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: diffusion of charged particles under the influence of an electric field
Related terms: electrophoresis
monography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: monographies
Etymology: From mono- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A monograph.
glosses: Representation by lines without colour; an outline drawing.
spinoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinoidal
form: most spinoidal
Senses: glosses: Resembling a spine; spinoid
spinoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinoidals
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An upper or lower limit of stability of a solution, beyond which it decomposes into multiple phases
Derived terms: spinodal decomposition
spinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinoid
form: most spinoid
Etymology: From spine + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a spine
reading stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reading stones
Senses: examples: text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: A hemisphere of glass used as a magnifier when placed with its flat side against a surface with text.
reading stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reading stone
wisly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wisly
form: most wisly
Etymology: From Middle English wisly (“certainly”), equivalent to wis + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Certainly; surely.
go over like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes over like a lead balloon
form: going over like a lead balloon
form: went over like a lead balloon
form: gone over like a lead balloon
form: go down like a lead balloon
Etymology: Presumably from go over (“to be received”), used as if literally (“to travel above”): a lead balloon would not travel well through the air.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To fail to gain acceptance: to be received poorly.
Synonyms: go down like a cup of cold sick
Related terms: fly with leaden wings
sink like a stone
like a fart in church
goes over like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go over like a lead balloon
going over like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go over like a lead balloon
went over like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go over like a lead balloon
gone over like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go over like a lead balloon
Indian Peacocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian Peacock
antidep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antideps
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: (I am taking an antidep. I think pain meds are starting to depress me .)
ref: 2002, ~~ Kim ~~, “How do you fill the day?”, in alt.support.arthritis (Usenet):
glosses: antidepressant
antideps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidep
fireworky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fireworky
form: most fireworky
Etymology: From firework + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The old man is severe; he's inclined to be fireworky. Don't like to be answered. I thought he was going to hit me the other day.
ref: 1863, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, Volume 8, page 95:
text: I know it is not so fireworky as the sudden evolving of life, somewhere, somewhen and somehow, out of force and matter, with a pop.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Sleep and Dreams”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a firework.
borachios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borachio
vyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vyingly
form: most vyingly
Etymology: From vying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vying or competitive manner.
Synonyms: competingly
micropublication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropublications
Etymology: From micro- + publication.
Senses: glosses: A microform publication.
micropublications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropublication
microcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcards
Etymology: From micro- + card.
Senses: glosses: A small card bearing a microreproduction of text, resembling the microfiche format but on cardboard rather than photographic film.
microcard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microcards
form: microcarding
form: microcarded
form: microcarded
Etymology: From micro- + card.
Senses: glosses: To transfer to microcard format.
microcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcard
microreproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microreproductions
Etymology: From micro- + reproduction.
Senses: glosses: Reproduction of text, drawings, etc. at a very small size, as on microcard, microfiche, etc.
microreproductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microreproduction
prefire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From pre- + fire.
Senses: examples: text: Francis Brannigan's great interest in prefire planning was forced by necessity. All of a sudden, as a naval officer, he had responsibilities for lives and property for which he was totally unprepared.
ref: 2007, Francis L. Brannigan, Glenn P. Corbett, Brannigan's Building Construction for the Fire Service, page 6:
glosses: Before the occurrence of a fire.
prefire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: prefires
form: prefiring
form: prefired
form: prefired
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pre-fire.
micropublisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropublishers
Etymology: From micro- + publisher.
Senses: examples: text: There is another distinction among micropublishers. Some produce editions; others produce only single filmed copies to meet a specific demand.
ref: 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A publisher of microform publications.
glosses: A publisher operating on a small scale, or for a niche audience.
micropublishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropublisher
fateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fate + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Coming out of the fateless, leading into the fateless, with hardly anything assigned to chance, the peasant's path runs on the very brink of destiny and on the brink of sleep.
ref: 1946, Hermann Broch, The death of Virgil, page 224:
glosses: Devoid of fate.
pencilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pencilly
form: most pencilly
Etymology: From pencil + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And a pencilly beam of light, wavering and striped among the branches as the detected pair switched on, and the thunder and protest of pursuit...
ref: 1994, Ellis Peters, Fallen Into the Pit, page 220:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pencil or of pencil drawings.
protocolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: protocolizes
form: protocolizing
form: protocolized
form: protocolized
Etymology: From protocol + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It is true that in resistance to a suit to protocolize the contract, he may show that for fraud or other cause the contract ought not to be enforced.
ref: 1929, Henry Wilbur Humble, Cases on conflict of laws:
glosses: To notarize.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To treat or handle according to a protocol.
Related terms: protocolization
protocolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protocolize
protocolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protocolize
protocolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protocolize
protocolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protocolization
westy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛsti/
rhymes: -ɛsti
Forms: form: more westy
form: most westy
Etymology: From Middle English westi, westig (“desolate, deserted, lonely”), from Old English wēstiġ (“waste, deserted”), from wēste (“waste, desert”) + -iġ (“-y”). See waste.
Senses: glosses: Waste; desert.
westy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛsti/
rhymes: -ɛsti
Forms: form: more westy
form: most westy
Etymology: Origin obscure. Probably from Middle English westi (“desolate, deserted, lonely”) (see above), or possibly related to Scots weest (“depressed, uneasy, anxious”).
Senses: examples: text: Whiles he lies wallowing, with a westy head
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: Dizzy, giddy, confused.
zappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zappable
form: most zappable
Etymology: From zap + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being zapped (in various senses).
zippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zip + -able.
Senses: examples: text: All you do is chuck all the stuff into a plastic bag and shake. I prefer the zippable, freezer bags because they're durable and can be reused.
ref: 1993, Nancy Ward, Fabric Painting Made Easy:
text: Because we would be away from the car for an hour or more and because the carrier, though zippable, was not lockable and, in any event, was slashable, we put all the suitcases, etc., in the car with us while we drove downtown from the motel.
ref: 2015, Paul Gabler, Slices of a Life:
glosses: Capable of being fastened with a zip.
unzippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unzip + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being unzipped.
unzippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + zippable.
Senses: examples: text: If you do have a dress cleaned it nearly always comes back unzippable.
ref: 1969, Frank Spencer, Peggy Spencer, Come dancing, page 108:
glosses: Impossible to fasten with a zip.
unzipper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unzippers
form: unzippering
form: unzippered
form: unzippered
Etymology: From un- + zipper.
Senses: examples: text: He unzippers his fly, but he does not ask Mae to come to him as Lloyd did in scene 1.
ref: 1998, Robert J. Andreach, Creating the self in the contemporary American theatre, page 30:
glosses: To unzip.
unzipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unzippers
Etymology: From unzip + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper.
ref: 1992 March 31, PC Mag, volume 11, number 6:
text: Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.
ref: 1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer, page 202:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that extracts files from compressed archives.
unzippering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unzipper
unzippered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unzipper
unzippers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unzipper
Zapotecans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zapotecan
kitchenalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kitchen + -alia (from paraphernalia).
Senses: examples: text: More modern designs included wild strawberries, marine fauna and hogweed, while papers intended for kitchens featured not only fruits and vegetables, but also kitchenalia, recipes and bottles of "foreign" wine […]
ref: 2003, Judith Miller, The Style Sourcebook:
glosses: Miscellaneous kitchen utensils, cooking equipment, and other items typically found in kitchens.
Related terms: gardenalia
upalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic mineral containing aluminium, uranium, oxygen, phosphorus, and hydrogen.
ziplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zipless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of complications and hindrances.
werewolfish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more werewolfish
form: most werewolfish
form: werewolvish
Etymology: From werewolf + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.
ref: 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 259:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a werewolf.
malars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malar
ramens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramen
suckens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sucken
flocken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From flock + -en (plural present ending).
Senses: examples: text: Yougthes folke now flocken in euery where, / To gather may buſ-kets and ſmelling bꝛere: […]
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 16, verso:
text: Ho, Lynceus! what’s yonder brisk neat youth / Bout whom yon troupe of gallants flocken so, / And now together to Brownes Common goe?
ref: 1598, John Marston, “The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres. Satyre II. Quedam sunt, et non videntur.”, in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. […] (Library of Old Authors), volume III, London: John Russell Smith, […] , published 1856, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: plural simple present of be.
nickar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nicker nut.
synonyms: word: nicker nut
Derived terms: nickar tree
nickars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickar
bestars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestar
maskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maskin
nots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of not
noters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noter
self-flattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + flattery.
Senses: examples: text: When self-flattery is turned up high it gets your adrenaline pumping, it rivets your attention.
ref: 2007, Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery:
text: Causing blindness to one's own faults, self-love ultimately generates self-flattery, according to Plutarch's discussion.
ref: 2010, Albrecht Classen, Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age:
text: Self-flattery is foolish.
ref: 2016, Boyd Bailey, Two Minutes in the Bible Through Psalms:
glosses: The holding of an unjustifiably high opinion of oneself or one's actions.
Related terms: narcissism
riskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risker