cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
step back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛp ˈbæk/
ipa: /step ˈbæk/
ipa: /step ˈbɛk/
Forms: form: steps back
form: stepping back
form: stepped back
form: stepped back
Senses: examples: text: Entering Avebury from any direction is like stepping back into the past. Before the centre of the village is reached, the road passes through an immense circle of brooding stones which stand like petrified ghosts of an age about which little is known.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 40:
text: Engineers from the Tyne & Wear Metro stepped back in time in December, to conduct a safety-critical inspection of the tramway at the open-air Beamish Museum in County Durham.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Nexus inspects Beamish lines”, in RAIL, number 948, page 14:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, back.
examples: text: Perhaps we should step back for a second and think about solving this problem a different way.
text: Making the announcement at 1600 on Friday November 4, the RDG [...] said in a statement: "It is positive that the RMT leadership has stepped back from the brink and called off their strike action.
ref: 2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, page 8:
glosses: To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
examples: text: As a therapist sometimes you have to step back from your clients' lives.
glosses: To prevent oneself from becoming emotionally involved in a certain situation.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: to depart driving the train following the train they arrived into the station driving, so as to decrease service turnaround time.
raw_tags: of a driver at a terminal station
examples: text: He's stepping back from the role to let you start in it.
glosses: To retreat from one's duties in a job; to reduce one's duties, often as a prelude to leaving a position; to take a back seat.
examples: text: You need to step back from the threat you made.
glosses: To quietly abandon a belief.
step back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛp ˈbæk/
ipa: /step ˈbæk/
ipa: /step ˈbɛk/
Forms: form: steps back
Senses: examples: text: Switching to more frequent meetings was a step back for that team, which had too many meetings already.
antonyms: leg up#Noun
glosses: A setback, downgrade, or deterioration.
glosses: A reversion to a former state or situation.
Related terms: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: double-end
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: double-ending
sporules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporule
scoutcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoutcrafts
form: Scoutcraft
Etymology: From scout + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Healthcraft is a further and most important branch of scoutcraft. To secure endurance, physical power, physical courage and skill, it is necessary to have the body in the best possible condition for doing its work […]
ref: 1932, The Irish Monthly, volume 60, page 72:
qualifier: scouting
glosses: A set of mostly outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering.
scoutcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoutcrafts
form: scoutcraft
Etymology: From scout + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.
ref: 1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd:
text: In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.
ref: 1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:
text: He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?
ref: 2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:
text: In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.
ref: 2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:
text: The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.
ref: 2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
ufology
glosses: A spacecraft used for scouting.
nonexample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexamples
Etymology: From non- + example.
Senses: examples: text: Definition: An event is a kind of information in discourse that actually occurs, is overt, and occurs at the now point on the time line. …
Nonexamples: Negatives (Nothing is described as having occurred.), Questions (Nothing is described as having occurred.), …
ref: SIL, What is an event?, 2004
text: The next step is having the students offer their own examples and nonexamples and also list them in the proper columns. At this time, the students should be able to explain or justify why their offerings are examples or not.
ref: 2011, Marie Menna Pagliaro, Differentiating Instruction: Matching Strategies with Objectives, page 22:
glosses: Something that is not an example.
Ajaccio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒæksɪəʊ/
ipa: /aɪˌætʃəʊ/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒæksɪoʊ/
ipa: /aɪət͡ʃoʊ/
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Corsica, France.
Derived terms: Ajaccian
sports final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports finals
form: sport final
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: the edition of a newspaper that includes the last version of the sports results to be published for the day (or time block); frequently this is the last edition for the newspaper for the day (or time block)
Synonyms: sport final
sport final edition
sports final edition
Related terms: editorial final
early edition
first edition
late edition
last edition
final edition
regional edition
morning edition
evening edition
weekday edition
weekend edition
Friday edition
Saturday edition
Sunday edition
Monday edition
Rameau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Rameau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French. Widely known as the surname of the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).
Sybaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪbəɹɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Sybaris, from Ancient Greek Σύβαρις (Súbaris).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek colony in south Italy, notable for the luxury of its inhabitants.
Related terms: sybarite
Paki shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paki shops
Senses: glosses: A corner shop run by a Pakistani or any other person of South-West Asian and South-Asian descent. Hence also any corner shop.
cosmoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏzʹmoi
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑzmɔɪ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόσμοι (kósmoi), the nominative plural of κόσμος (kósmos) (whence cosmos).
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmos
anticorrelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anticorrelates
form: anticorrelating
form: anticorrelated
form: anticorrelated
Etymology: From anti- + correlate.
Senses: glosses: To be anticorrelated; to show anticorrelation
coadjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊˌæd͡ʒ.ɔɪnt/
Etymology: From co- + adjoint.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing the dual of an adjoint representation
cograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cographs
Etymology: From co- + graph.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph formed from another by complementation and disjoin union.
examples: text: Given a function whose graph is #92;#123;(1,7),(2,5),(3,3),(4,3),(5,2),(6,4),(7,6),(8,5),(9,7),(10,6),(11,6)#92;#125;, append an apostrophe to the abscissas so that they will not be confused with ordinates when obtaining their disjoint union, which is: #92;#123;2,3,4,5,6,7,1',2',3',4',5',6',7',8',9',10',11'#92;#125;. The cograph then is #92;#123;#92;#123;7,1',9'#92;#125;,#92;#123;6,7',10',11'#92;#125;,#92;#123;5,2',8'#92;#125;,#92;#123;4,6'#92;#125;,#92;#123;3,3',4'#92;#125;,#92;#123;2,5'#92;#125;#92;#125;.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of the graph of a function. It is an ordinate-indexed partition of the disjoint union of the set of abscissas and ordinates of the function.
Derived terms: cographic
dendrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɛndɹəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəɫ]
Etymology: From dendrology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to dendrology
exozodiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: exzodiacal
Etymology: From exo- + zodiacal.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the extrasolar ecliptic plane of star systems beyond the Solar System
Derived terms: exozodiacal dust
exozodiacal light
Related terms: zodiacal
zodiac
Zodiac
ferroelectricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferroelectricity
fluorographene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorographenes
Etymology: From fluoro- + graphene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorinated derivative of graphene produced by exposing both sides of a sheet of graphene to atomic fluorine
magnetoassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + association.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The association of atoms into molecules (or other entities) under the influence of a magnetic field.
metamagnetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + magnetization.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation of a metamagnet by making a material metamagnetic
multileptonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + leptonic.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple leptons
nondecomposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + decomposable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be decomposed.
photodope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photodopes
form: photodoping
form: photodoped
form: photodoped
Etymology: From photo- + dope.
Senses: glosses: To dope (a semiconductor etc) by means of (laser) light.
resimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resimulation
meronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meronym + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: meronymous
antonyms: holonymic
holonymous
glosses: Being a meronym; relating to a meronym or meronyms.
Derived terms: comeronymic
meronymically
Related terms: english: being a type of something, versus being a part of it
translation: being a type of something, versus being a part of it
word: hyponymic
meronymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meronym + -ous.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of meronymic.
synonyms: word: meronymic
Derived terms: comeronymous
Related terms: meronymically
meronymously
sinfonietta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnfōnyĕʹtə
ipa: /sɪnfəʊˈnjɛtə/
Forms: form: sinfoniettas
form: sinfoniette
Etymology: Either:
* from the Italian sinfonietta;
* formed on the Italian roots sinfonia (“symphony”) + -etta (feminine diminutive suffix), either in English or in German (as Sinfonietta) and adopted thence; or,
* an alteration of the French symphoniette to resemble an Italian construction of the form sinfonia + -etta.
Compare the French–Italian hybrid symphonietta.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small-scale symphony (either in length or size of orchestra needed).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small orchestra.
verbascose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Verbascum + -ose. Originally derived from Verbascum thapsus (common mullein).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentasaccharide (galactose-galactose-galactose-glucose-fructose), found in many legumes, that is metabolized by intestinal flora
vesuvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Vesuvin, from Vesuv (“Vesuvius”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The pigment Bismark brown when used as a biological stain.
violine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An emetocathartic alkaloid, of uncertain composition, obtained from violets
emetocathartic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emetocathartic
form: most emetocathartic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That is both emetic and cathartic
viridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From virid- + -ine.
Senses: glosses: jervine
jervine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jervines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroidal alkaloid, obtained from plants of the genus Veratrum, that is teratogenic
Derived terms: pseudojervine
Related terms: deoxyjervine
jervanine
viscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A material extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe and used to make birdlime.
Related terms: viscid
viscous
vitriolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitriolated
form: most vitriolated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfated
voltaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Volta + -ism, after Alessandro Volta.
Senses: glosses: galvanism
wikipedia: Alessandro Volta
ulexine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ulex + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alkaloid cytisine when extracted from gorse (of genus Ulex).
univalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈveɪləns/
ipa: /juːˈnɪvələns/
Etymology: From uni- + valence.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being univalent
uramil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: murexan
murexan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A poorly-characterized nitrogenous material formed from several ureids
Synonyms: dialuramide
purpuric acid
uramil
ureid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ureids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several classes of (mostly heterocyclic) compounds derived from urea
microcosmoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: micro- + cosmoi
Senses: glosses: plural of microcosmos
are you religious
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A request for information about the listener's (or listeners') religious beliefs.
autocollimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocollimations
Etymology: From auto- + collimation.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The collimation of a telescope by means of a plane mirror
Related terms: autocollimator
autocollimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocollimators
Etymology: From auto- + collimator.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that uses a plane mirror to align or collimate optical devices
Related terms: autocollimation
autorotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autorotations
Etymology: From auto- + rotation.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rotation of the blades of a helicopter driven solely by the action of ascending air
Derived terms: autorotational
Related terms: autorotative
certificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of certificate
certificated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Over and over again my husband induced the captain to allow him to take the necessary observations and give the proper course to the mate, who, though he was no certificated mariner, was sailor enough to manage the ship when he knew the course he ought to follow.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 172:
glosses: That has been subject to certification; certified.
Derived terms: noncertificated
uncertificated
sys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of system.
conductively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conductively
form: most conductively
Etymology: From conductive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conductive manner
glosses: By means of conduction
etaloning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From etalon + -ing.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fault that develops in thin charge-coupled devices when they behave as etalons
ferrofluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ferrofluid + -ic or ferro- + fluidic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid
drama queens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drama queen
Tamasheq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtæməʃɛk/
Forms: form: Tamachek
form: Tamashek
Etymology: From Tuareg tamasheq.
Senses: glosses: A southern Tuareg (Berber) language spoken primarily in Mali.
Uigur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After eight days of marching, we reached the delta area of the Keria River. There was no water. Before our eyes stretched the bone-dry river bed, nearly one thousand meters wide. In the evening we saw before us a vast stretch of greenish and black hills. We ran toward them but the hills disappeared; instead we found an enormous forestation. In the depth of the forest we found a small village with a dozen or so families. An old man of the Uigur tribe welcomed us. It was then we found out that we had already arrived at the heart of this great desert, the T'ung-ku-pa-ssu-t'ai [sic].
ref: 1961, Hsiao Ying, Sung Cheng-hou, and others, SELECTIONS FROM JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, PEIPING, ON GEOLOGY, EXPLORATION, WEATHER FORECASTING, AND CARTOGRAPHY, United States Joint Publications Research Office, page 10:
text: The southwestern section of Sinkiang, corresponding to the western half of the Tarim basin, contains the great oases of Aksu, Kashgar, Yarkand, and Khotan, as well as the bulk of the region's Uigur population.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, Praeger Publishers, page 317:
glosses: Alternative form of Uyghur.
debens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deben
telepresent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + present.
Senses: examples: text: The volus of Talis Fia have explored the planet thoroughly with space probes and telepresent robo-mining machines, and discovered they are not the first to exploit the planet.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Zada Ban:
glosses: Virtually present in another physical location by means of telecommunication technology.
Related terms: telepresence
nonbilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bilateral.
Senses: glosses: Not bilateral.
Cyberia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiə
Etymology: From cyber-, influenced by Siberia.
Senses: examples: text: Developments in 'cyberia', the Internet and so on have both inspired and been interpreted by theories of postmodernity.
ref: 1996, Peter Dickens, Reconstructing nature: alienation, emancipation and the division of labour:
text: If cyberia is a threat to real governments, in the near future they may begin to use computerized monitoring as a way to better understand, control, and probably tax the behavior of netizens.
ref: 1999, Thomas A. Peters, Computerized monitoring and online privacy:
text: We may lament the risks endemic to an embodied world where we are embedded with objects and others in local situations, but the idea of living in boundless Cyberia, where everyone is telepresent to everyone and everything, makes no sense.
ref: 2001, Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet:
text: The article presents an idea of cyberia as a civil society & uses four categories to present challenges that this type of society brings to the idea of the public sphere: interactivity, subjectivity, media, & site.
ref: 2002, Leo P. Chall, Sociological abstracts, Volume 50, Issue 1:
glosses: The connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.
manginas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangina
lambkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lamb + kill.
Senses: synonyms: sheep laurel
wicky
glosses: Any of species Kalmia angustifolia of toxic plants with small, deep pink flowers.
kotwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotwals
form: catwal
form: cotwal
form: cutwal
form: cutwaul
form: kutwal
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कोतवाल (kotvāl); see there for more.
Senses: glosses: The leader of a kot or fort in medieval India.
examples: text: Why do people pay taxes, offer their wrists for manacling when the kotwal or even an ordinary policeman shows up at the door to arrest a man who is accused of committing a theft or murder?
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 437:
glosses: The local police chief or magistrate of a town or city in India or the East Indies.
Related terms: kotwali
kotwals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kotwal
zaildar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaildars
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ज़ैलदार (zaildār).
Senses: glosses: A native officer in charge of a zail.
zaildars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zaildar
zail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zails
Etymology: From Hindi ज़ैल (zail).
Senses: glosses: An administrative unit of two to forty villages during the British Raj in India.
Related terms: zaildar
zails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zail
kiladar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiladars
form: kellidar
form: killadar
form: killedar
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu قلعہ دار (qilādār).
Senses: glosses: The governor of a fort or large town in medieval India.
kiladars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiladar
faujdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faujdars
form: foujdar
form: phousdar
Etymology: From Hindi फ़ौजदार (faujdār)/Urdu فوجدار, from Persian فوجدار (fowj-dâr), compound of فوج (fowj, “troop”) (from Arabic فَوْج (fawj, “group”)) and ـدار (-dâr).
Senses: glosses: An officer tasked with the administration of a sarkar.
faujdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faujdar
bowdlerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowdlerization
lumpenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lumpenly
form: most lumpenly
Etymology: From lumpen + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lumpen manner.
lumpishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lumpishly
form: most lumpishly
Etymology: From lumpish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1640, Richard Brome, The English Moor, in Five New Playes, London: A. Crook, 1659, Act I, Scene 3, p. 12,
Millicent. Construe more charitably, I beseech you,
My Virgin blushes.
Testy. ’Tis your sullenness;
Would you have brided it so lumpishly
With your spruce younker, that fine silken beggar,
Whose Land lies in your Husbands counting house,
Or the most part.
text: 1797, Robert Heron, A New General History of Scotland, Edinburgh: R. Morison & Son et al., Volume III, Book IV, Section II, p. 246,
The men at arms or heavy-armed soldiery of the modern European armies, were so completely clad in massy steel; that it seemed as if the warriour thus armed, and then mounted on horseback, or placed in the field of fight, would scarcely be able either to advance or retire, or to do any thing else but bear the brunt of his adversary’s blow, to wield, himself, some awkward strokes, and to stand or fall lumpishly on the spot on which he was fixed.
text: Three or four ladies of distinction and liveliness used to say to one another, ‘Let us dine at our dear Merdle’s next Thursday. Whom shall we have?’ Our dear Merdle would then receive his instructions; and would sit heavily among the company at table and wander lumpishly about his drawing-rooms afterwards, only remarkable for appearing to have nothing to do with the entertainment beyond being in its way.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 12”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:
text: He stood there almost voiceless, lumpishly ugly with his face yellow and creased after the sleepless night, and his birthmark like a smear of dirt.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 19”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: […] he is, as he affirms, a “people person”—his impulses are unfailingly awkward, his attempts at humor are lumpishly uncool, he’s accident-prone and fretful, but he’s also effusively sympathetic, optimistic, encouraging, and insistently pursuing sentimentally warm companionships based on little but a bottomless fund of sheer enthusiasm.
ref: 2016 October 21, Richard Brody, “‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ and the marketing of cinematic charisma”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: In a lumpish manner.
bumpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bumpily
form: most bumpily
Etymology: From bumpy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bumpy manner.
humpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more humpily
form: most humpily
Etymology: From humpy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Potentilla and Ivory Daphne sat humpily about on the unfolded lawns, and ahead, there towered out enormous cliffs and fantastic pinnacles of what looked like Dolomite.
ref: 1921, Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, in The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co., page 181:
glosses: In a humpy manner.
lumpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lumpily
form: most lumpily
Etymology: From lumpy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I had no idea that anything in the shape of a horse could be so limp as that, either living or dead. His wild mane hung down lumpily, a mere mass of inanimate horsehair; his aggressive ears had collapsed, but as he went swaying slowly across the front of the bridge I noticed an astute gleam in his dreamy, half-closed eye.
ref: 1912, Joseph Conrad, chapter 4, in A Personal Record:
text: An hour later, he had paid about $3.25, been talked through the workings of a small bank of stainless-steel machines, and was leaving with a bag of fluffy if lumpily folded clothes.
ref: 2011 February 1, Stephanie Nolen, “India makes a clean start with first laundromat”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: In a lumpy manner, with lumps.
examples: text: He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair.
ref: 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 4”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: “You’ll feel better when you’ve drunk this’m,” said the parlourmaid lumpily, pouring out some tea.
ref: 1922, Arnold Bennett, Lilian, Part IV, Chapter 1:
text: What ever became of the chaos in Laos? Last year at this time the pro-Communist Pathet Lao were strutting lumpily across the Plain of Jars in their dun-colored uniforms, proudly triumphant over the “neutralist” forces of General Kong Le and threatening to overrun the entire country.
ref: 1965 June 11, “The Silent Sideshow”, in Time:
text: This extraordinary life probably needed a solidly presented non-fiction film; what we have here is an odd and lumpily constructed drama-doc with daytime-telly production values, featuring some very hammy acting and direction.
ref: 2015 December 3, Peter Bradshaw, “The Honourable Rebel review – lustrous life of an aristo adventuress”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Like a lump; awkwardly, heavily, ponderously.
lumpinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumpiness
lumpishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lumpish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1638, Francis Bacon, The History of Life and Death, 94, in Sylva Sylvarum, or A Naturall History In ten Centuries, London: W. Lee, 1662, p. 34,
It is to be observed touching the spirits […] That when men perceive their spirits to be in good, placid, and healthful state, (that which will be seen by the tranquility of their Mind, and chearful disposition) that they cherish them, and not change them: but when, in a turbulent and untoward state, (which will also appear by their sadness, lumpishness, and other indisposition of their mind) that then they straight overwhelm them, and alter them.
text: 1753, William Duncan, The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English, Glasgow University Press, 1815, Volume II, Of the Civil War, Book I, LII, p. 146,
Our men […] were incommoded too by the weight and lumpishness of their vessels, which being built in haste, of unseasoned timber, were not so ready at tacking about.
text: If marked beauty be absent from the French face, how much more is marked dulness, marked brutality, the lumpishness of the clumsily made and the unfinished! As a mere piece of workmanship, of finish, the French provincial face—the peasant’s face, even—often has the same kind of interest as a work of art.
ref: 1908, Edith Wharton, A Motor-Flight Through France, Part II, Chapter I, p. 77:
glosses: The property of being lumpish.
tannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɪʃ/
Forms: form: more tannish
form: most tannish
Etymology: From tan + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The mushrooms were creamy white with tannish caps.
glosses: Somewhat tan in colour.
Derived terms: tannishness
Related terms: brownish
tanner
tannest
tanness
Technicolor yawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Technicolor yawn
ignimbrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɡnɪmbɹʌɪt/
Forms: form: ignimbrites
Etymology: By surface analysis, igni- (“fire”) + Latin imbris (“shower; stormcloud”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The walls of the houses and shops and temples were often constructed of alternating courses of large blocks of ignimbrite and small, sienna-coloured Roman bricks.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 13:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A deposit left by a pyroclastic flow from a volcano, consisting of ash, pumice lapilli, and lithic fragments.
Derived terms: ignimbritic
Related terms: igneous rock
ignimbrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignimbrite
dacitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈsɪtɪk/
Forms: form: more dacitic
form: most dacitic
Etymology: From dacite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or composed of, dacite.
statelily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more statelily
form: most statelily
Etymology: From stately + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stately manner.
shrewdish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrewdish
form: most shrewdish
Etymology: From shrewd + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat shrewd.
shrewishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shrewish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The weather had broken, and the sharp wind was almost autumnal in its shrewishness. Mary shivered a little, and buttoned her black sports coat closer. The wind through the trees made a mournful noise, like some great giant sighing.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 148:
glosses: The quality of being shrewish.
reillumine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reillumines
form: reillumining
form: reillumined
form: reillumined
Etymology: From re- + illumine.
Senses: glosses: To illumine again or anew.
Synonyms: reilluminate
relight
reillumines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reillumine
reillumining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reillumine
reillumined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reillumine
unfossiliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fossiliferous.
Senses: glosses: Not fossiliferous, nonfossiliferous.
unworthwhile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + worthwhile.
Senses: glosses: Not worthwhile.
exterritoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: extraterritoriality
Related terms: exterritorial
repugnantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repugnantly
form: most repugnantly
Etymology: From repugnant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a repugnant manner.
anthracitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthracitic
form: most anthracitic
Etymology: From anthracite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or composed of, anthracite.
Mazandarani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mazandarani
form: most Mazandarani
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mazanderani.
Mazandarani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazandaranis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mazanderani.
Mazandarani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mazanderani.
Mazandaranis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazandarani
workwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workwoman
pourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourers
Etymology: From pour + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Simply screw off a bottle lid and then push the pourer into the bottle. If your bottle has a wide mouth, then you'll have to buy a wide pourer.
ref: 2010, Cheryl Charming, Just Shots: A Little Book of Liquid Fun, page 1:
text: The visitor then passes the cup to others who are present. Each person takes a sip, handing the cup back to the pourer.
ref: 2013, Claudio Delang, Living at the Edge of Thai Society, page 104:
glosses: One who, or that which, pours.
pourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourer
walnutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more walnutty
form: most walnutty
form: walnuty
Etymology: From walnut + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of walnut.
Synonyms: juglandaceous
Inupiatun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Nouns in Inupiatun may be singular, dual, or plural.
ref: 2006, Ernest S. Burch, Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Iñupiaq Eskimo Nations:
glosses: The Inupiak language.
flesh-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flesh-colored
form: most flesh-colored
form: flesh-coloured
form: fleshcoloured
form: fleshcolored
Etymology: From flesh + colored.
Senses: examples: text: a flesh-colored crayon
glosses: Of the color of flesh, especially a white person's skin.
Related terms: topics: color
word: nude
fleshcoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleshcoloured
form: most fleshcoloured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flesh-colored.
fleshfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshflies
Etymology: From flesh + fly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flesh fly.
fleshflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleshfly
tonoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonoplasts
Etymology: From tono- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The cytoplasmic membrane surrounding a vacuole, separating the vacuolar contents from the cell's cytoplasm
Related terms: tonoplastic
tonoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonoplast
nonvacuolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vacuolar.
Senses: glosses: Not vacuolar.
cuckoldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoldoms
Etymology: From cuckold + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: And sport in Cuckoldoms and Rapes.
ref: 1720, Nicholas Amhurst, “Jupiter and Cloe”, in Poems on Several Occasions, page 45:
glosses: cuckoldry
cuckoldoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckoldom
lamprophyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamprophyres
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λαμπρός (lamprós, “bright”) + φύρω (phúrō, “to mix”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rock primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks and small intrusions.
Derived terms: lamprophyric
lamprophyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamprophyre
nondeltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deltaic.
Senses: glosses: Not deltaic.
deltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From delta + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a river delta.
glosses: Shaped like the letter delta (Δ), or like an equiangular or equilateral triangle.
Synonyms: deltic
Derived terms: interdeltaic
nondeltaic
prodeltaic
semideltaic
nonagrarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + agrarian.
Senses: glosses: Not agrarian.
nonagrarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonagrarians
Etymology: From non- + agrarian.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not an agrarian.
I'm gay
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: I'm homosexual
coordinate_terms: I'm aromantic
I'm asexual
I'm bisexual
I'm lesbian
I'm straight
glosses: Indicates that the speaker is gay.
Related terms: coming out
nonxenon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + xenon.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to xenon.
flatulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatulencies
Senses: glosses: flatulence
flatulencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatulency
titanosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanosaurs
Senses: examples: text: But 70 million years ago, near modern-day Asturias in northern Spain, there existed a lagoon, and as the land sank, the sea flooded it at high tide, and the bones of alligators, pterosaurs and dwarf titanosaurs (long-necked sauropod dinosaurs) were buried in the sediment.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 30:
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic groups Titanosauria or Titanosauroidea of diverse sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.
titanosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titanosaur
swoln
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swoʊln/
rhymes: -oʊln
Forms: form: swoll'n
form: swolne
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of swollen.
rakuware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Raku + -ware.
Senses: glosses: A form of Japanese pottery traditionally used in the tea ceremony, characterized by hand-moulding of the clay (as opposed to turning it on a potter's wheel), low firing temperatures, and the removal of pieces from the kiln while still glowing hot.
nonprestigious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prestigious.
Senses: glosses: Not prestigious.
nonprestige
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prestige.
Senses: examples: text: Many nonprestige brands like Windex and Jell-O actually outperformed these venerable names.
ref: 1993, David A. Aaker, Alexander L. Biel, Brand equity & advertising: advertising's role in building strong brands:
glosses: Not having or conveying high prestige; of unremarkable reputation.
funking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of funk
funking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I earned my funking reward!
glosses: Bowdlerization of fucking.
funking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: This is funking awful!
text: I funking love this show!
glosses: bowdlerization of fucking
mediaevalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediaevalisms
Etymology: From mediaeval + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The three, however, continue to maintain together the unvulgarized mediaevalism of the place, and in the town hall, at any rate, there takes place every year a ceremony hallowed by a fantastic and antique tradition […]
ref: 1926, Charles Pasco Hawkes, Mauresques: With Some Basque and Spanish Cameos, page 220:
glosses: Dated spelling of medievalism.
mediaevalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediaevalism
workbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workboxes
Etymology: From work + box.
Senses: examples: text: The sewing workbox held fabric, needles, notions, patterns, and other supplies.
glosses: A toolbox; a container for the items needed to carry out a task.
examples: text: As with an understanding of the basic elements, knowing something of how sub-elements work gives insight into how stories generally are put together, thus adding another analytical tool to the pupils's ^([sic]) mental workbox.
ref: 2009, Stephen Bowkett, Countdown to Creative Writing:
glosses: A set of skills and approaches.
Hypernyms: sense: container for tools
word: box
workboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workbox
lightsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lightsomely
form: most lightsomely
Etymology: From lightsome (any sense) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Senses: glosses: In a lightsome manner.
mestiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mestizas
Senses: glosses: A female mestizo.
Derived terms: Chinese mestiza
Spanish mestiza
mestizas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mestiza
contributorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contributorships
Etymology: From contributor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of contributor.
contributorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contributorship
locke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockes
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of lock.
Callistonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkælɪˈstoʊniən/
Etymology: From Callisto + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Callistoan.
Mimantian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪˈmænti.ən/
Forms: form: more Mimantian
form: most Mimantian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mimantean.
Mimantian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈmænti.ən/
Forms: form: Mimantians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mimantean.
Mimanteans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mimantean
read me
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: read mes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of readme.
wood oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood oils
Senses: glosses: An oil extracted from the gurjun tree.
glosses: Any sort of oil made from wood.
master's thesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master's theses
Senses: glosses: A thesis submitted for a master's degree.
Related terms: master's degree
bachelor's thesis
gyno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪnoʊ/
Forms: form: gynos
Senses: glosses: Clipping of gynecologist.
examples: text: Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of anabolic-androgenic - that is, muscle-building and masculinising - steroids: it can also be caused by other hormonal disruptors such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, obesity, puberty (usually temporarily) and old age. But [Tom] Powell says his gyno was "99 percent" likely due to steroids.
ref: 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
text: These days online, there's Reddit groups like r/gynecomastia where people commiserate over their experiences, offer advice, and sometimes speculate about which celebs have had gyno surgery themselves.
ref: 2022 October 31, “Men Get Real About Their Insecurities Over Their 'Man Boobs'”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 01 May 2023:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of gynecomastia.
dulcitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dulcitūdō.
Senses: glosses: Sweetness
Related terms: dulcet
readmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readme
nursest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: nurse + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of nurse
dulcitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dulcitude
condescender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condescenders
Etymology: From condescend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It was almost a surprise to remember that he could be proud—that he was proud—of all that he had seen and done abroad, and to feel himself distinguished by the habituated worldliness that since his homecoming had seemed to mark him only as a deserter, a tiresome condescender, and an apostate — not just of his religion, but of his family, of his country, and even, in some impenetrable way, of himself.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 34:
glosses: One who condescends.
condescenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condescender
lightswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightswitch
lightsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lightsomnesse, equivalent to lightsome (“bright, radiant”) + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being lightsome (luminous); luminosity; illumination, brightness.
lightsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lightsomnesse, equivalent to lightsome (“light in weight, light-hearted, easy”) + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being lightsome (easy, light in weight, cheerful); levity; cheerfulness.
nondetailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + detailed.
Senses: examples: text: If this creepy stone-box-with-holes were to be designated as a landmark, the next would be Ralph Walker's near-senile last-gasp bland boring box of a similarly nondetailed stone-wall-punched-through-with-square-holes office building at 530 Fifth Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets.
ref: 2009 August 23, “The Donnell Library, My Place or Yours, and Battling Boards”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not detailed.
undetailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + detailed.
Senses: glosses: Not detailed.
undetached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + detached.
Senses: glosses: Not detached.
nonpalpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + palpable.
Senses: glosses: Not palpable.
nonwhole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + whole.
Senses: glosses: Not whole.
I'm straight
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: I'm aromantic
I'm asexual
I'm bisexual
I'm gay
I'm lesbian
glosses: Indicates that the speaker is a heterosexual.
calvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calva
awaitest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: await + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of await