cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
replacee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replacees
Etymology: From replace + -ee.
Senses: glosses: That which is replaced.
replacees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replacee
aloelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aloelike
form: most aloelike
Etymology: From aloe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of aloe.
microstamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + stamped.
Senses: glosses: Marked by means of microstamping.
microsporophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsporophyll
rechill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechills
form: rechilling
form: rechilled
form: rechilled
Etymology: From re- + chill.
Senses: glosses: To chill again.
rechills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rechill
rechilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechill
rechilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rechill
downstater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: downstaters
Etymology: From downstate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: People from New York City, Hudson Valley, and Long Island are downstaters.
glosses: A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
Related terms: upstater
downstaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downstater
fastbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastbreaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fast break.
fastbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fastbreak
fastballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastballers
Etymology: From fastball + -er.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who pitches fastballs.
fastballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fastballer
froofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more froofy
form: most froofy
Etymology: Diminutive of frou-frou + -y.
Senses: glosses: Frilly; heavily ornamental; fancy; overly elaborate.
Derived terms: froofiness
minijoystick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minijoysticks
Etymology: From mini- + joystick.
Senses: examples: text: IBM's ThinkPad nixed the trackball entirely, opting for a minijoystick in the middle of its keyboard.
ref: 1993, U.S. News and World Report, volume 115, numbers 1-9:
glosses: A small joystick.
minijoysticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minijoystick
nongrocery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + grocery.
Senses: examples: text: Grocery stores increasingly stock a range of nongrocery items.
glosses: Not grocery.
replow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: replows
form: replowing
form: replowed
form: replowed
Etymology: From re- + plow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of replough.
replough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reploughs
form: reploughing
form: reploughed
form: reploughed
form: replow
Etymology: From re- + plough.
Senses: glosses: To plough again.
replowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replow
reploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replough
reploughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replough
reploughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replough
replowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replow
replows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replow
supersuccessful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersuccessful
form: most supersuccessful
Etymology: From super- + successful.
Senses: glosses: Very highly successful.
likelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of likely
relieflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relieflike
form: most relieflike
Etymology: From relief + -like.
Senses: examples: text: When two beams reconverge with the assistance of prisms, the phase difference between the two beams provides relieflike, high-contrast images of the specimen.
ref: 1998, Daniel V. Lim, Microbiology:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of relief (the difference of elevations on a surface).
reconverge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconverges
form: reconverging
form: reconverged
form: reconverged
Etymology: From re- + converge.
Senses: glosses: To converge again.
Related terms: reconvergence
reconverging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconverge
reconverges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconverge
reconverged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconverge
reconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconvergences
Etymology: From re- + convergence.
Senses: glosses: The process or point of reconverging.
reconvergences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconvergence
lacrosselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacrosselike
form: most lacrosselike
Etymology: From lacrosse + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The endless hours of lacrosselike ball games[…]
ref: 1991, William R. Trotter, Bushwhackers!: the mountains, page 65:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the game of lacrosse.
lacrosstitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacrosstitute
nonauthorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + authorized.
Senses: glosses: Not authorized.
seminationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + nationalized.
Senses: glosses: Partly nationalized.
Related terms: word: denationalize
word: renationalize
word: seminationalization
word: semiprivate
english: sometimes coinstantiated
translation: sometimes coinstantiated
word: semiprivatized
word: semipublic
treadwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tread + wear.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A numerical measure of how long the tread of a tire can be expected to last.
underpower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpowers
form: underpowering
form: underpowered
form: underpowered
Etymology: From under- + power.
Senses: glosses: To supply with insufficient power.
underpowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpower
underpowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpower
falsisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsism
rhetorical devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhetorical device
Dardanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dardanians
Etymology: From Dardania + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Dardania.
Dardanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dardanian
filagrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filagree
womenservants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanservant
womanservant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanservants
form: womenservants
form: woman servant
form: woman-servant
Etymology: From Middle English womman servaunt; equivalent to woman + servant.
Senses: examples: text: This is what people say happen [...] That at the great table right before the throne, womanservants and manservants bring out all sort of meat.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 377:
glosses: A woman who is a servant; the female counterpart to a manservant.
Synonyms: maidservant
servingmaid
servingwoman
Coordinate terms: manservant
servingman
rerestitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerestitutions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of re-restitution.
tiger bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the pattern's resemblance to the coat of a tiger.
Senses: synonyms: Dutch crunch
giraffe bread
glosses: A bread made with sesame oil and with a pattern baked into the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking.
funeralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: funeralizes
form: funeralizing
form: funeralized
form: funeralized
Etymology: From funeral + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation.
ref: 1851, David S. Doggett, Sermon XXII: A New Year's Admonition, in A Collection of Original Sermons (Thomas P. Akers, editor), page 468
text: A gentleman who knew him, speaking of him to an American traveller a few years since, said — "Sir he funeralized every congregation he took charge of."
ref: 1853 October, Jas. II. Carlisle, “John Foster”, in Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, volume 7, page 516:
text: "Old Uncle Sambo make a powerful prayer when they funeralized the body."
ref: 1891, Elizabeth Hyde Botume, “The Colored Women of the South”, in Papers read before the Association for the Advancement of Women, page 32:
text: With Weaver gone this way he could not even be funeralized like a regular somebody. Big Young had been funeralized the properest that Eenie had ever seen, with a fine motor hearse of light purple color, and coffin-bearers with pure.
ref: 1936, Minnie Hite Moody, Death is a little man, page 202:
text: [...] the preacher-man was weepy- eyed when he funeralized the corpse; [...]
ref: 1964, Horton Cooper, History of Avery County, North Carolina, page 41:
text: "Two of them were funeralized down there in Robbins, Georgia. I reckon they got them all." "Funeralized?" "That's right," he said in his soft voice. "They never should have fooled around with that crowd."
ref: 1993, George Plimpton, Shadow Box, page 169:
glosses: To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.
funeralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of funeralize
funeralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of funeralize
funeralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of funeralize
postboomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postboomer
form: most postboomer
Etymology: From post- + boomer.
Senses: examples: text: “Boomer” has gotten such a bum rap that even our new president, who is a clear-cut boomer demographically (the boom years ran through 1964), has sought to link himself to a younger generation with a postboomer mentality, one that types with its thumbs to communicate and is not tainted by the cultural wars of the 1960s.
ref: 2009 January 25, Michael Winerip, “They Warned You About Us”, in New York Times:
glosses: After the baby boomers.
postboomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postboomers
Etymology: From post- + boomer.
Senses: glosses: One born after the baby boomers.
slopewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slopewash
loesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loess
unspirantized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spirantized.
Senses: glosses: Not spirantized.
spirantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spirantizes
form: spirantizing
form: spirantized
form: spirantized
Etymology: From spirant + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To change (a consonant) to a spirant sound.
Related terms: spirantization
unspirantized
spirantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spirantize
spirantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spirantize
spirantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spirantize
begadkefat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɡɑd.kəˌfɑt/
Forms: form: begadkephat
form: begedkefet
form: beghadhkephath
Etymology: Constructed from the consonants involved: ב (b), ג (g), ד (d), כ (k), פ (p (f)), and ת (t). Compare Hebrew בֶּגֶ״ד כֶּפֶ״ת (béged kéfet), the Hebrew mnemonic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phenomenon of spirantization affecting most plosive consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated; also any similar case of spirantization of postvocalic plosives in other languages, such as Berber.
begadkephat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of begadkefat.
begedkefet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of begadkefat.
littleleaf disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of shortleaf pine caused by the mould Phytophthora cinnamomi.
Synonyms: sense: disease of shortleaf pine
word: Phytophthora root rot
embattlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embattlement
embattlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embattlements
Etymology: From embattle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: Embattlements and towers may have formed part of the original structure[…]
ref: 1970, Anthony Langham, Myrtle Ternstrom, Lundy:
glosses: A battlement.
examples: text: While that seems unlikely any time soon, such experiences of terror and embattlement have shaped the way Mr. Maliki governs.
ref: 2009 January 26, Alissa J. Rubin, “Iraq’s Leader Pushes for Election Gains, but Some Fear Iron Hand”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being embattled.
nerderati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of nerd + literati
Senses: examples: text: At the offices of Pseudo at 600 Broadway in SoHo, his legendary parties brought together the nerderati and the downtown art set.
ref: 2009 January 26, David Carr, “Sundance Toasts an Early Online Life”, in New York Times:
text: It's likely that if you don't already have one or more social media nerderati in residence, you're going to need one soon.
ref: 2011, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution, page 37:
glosses: An elite community of nerds.
Synonyms: geekerati
Wolofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wolof
Wollof
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wolof.
Wollofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wollof
Wollemi pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wollemi pine
xanthodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xanthodermic
form: most xanthodermic
Etymology: From xantho- + dermic.
Senses: glosses: Having yellowish skin.
Related terms: xanthoderma
quadbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadbit
quantroniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantronium
Xenaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xenaphiles
Etymology: From Xena + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: […] but devout Xenaphiles end up squinting at blurry, freeze-framed images on their TV screens in hopes of finding out which mythological entity was not injured or otherwise inconvenienced this week.
ref: 1998, Greg Cox, Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look at Xena: Warrior Princess, page 8:
text: In light of this inexplicit story line — what gay and straight Xenaphiles refer to casually as "the subtext" — the opening voice-over's weekly refrain, "In a time of ancient gods, warlords, and kings," begins to sound gendered.
ref: 1998 April, Heather Findlay, “Xena-philia!”, in Girlfriends, volume 5, number 4, San Francisco: HAF Enterprises, →ISSN, page 29, column 1:
text: New York correspondent and Xenaphile Dan Scapperotti provides this issue's look behind-the-scenes at the making of the show, including an exclusive interview with New Zealand star Lucy Lawless.
ref: 1999 May, Frederick S. Clarke, Cinefantastique, volume 31, number 5, Forest Park, IL: Frederick S. Clarke, →ISSN, page 3:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
Synonyms: Xenite
Xenaphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xenaphile
artics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artic
Zetlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zetlanders
Etymology: From Zetland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Zetland.
Zetlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zetlander
joygasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joygasm
hCG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Keep in mind, too, that the further along on your pregnancy you are, the higher your levels of hCG.
ref: 2008, Heidi Murkoff, What to Expect When You're Expecting, page 17:
glosses: Initialism of human chorionic gonadotropin.
worshipability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worship + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: I commend the modern Unitarians for their candour in giving up the possible worshipability of Christ, if not very God.
ref: 1836, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 1, page 378:
text: A God who is totally and completely Other lacks relatability and no doubt, at least to many, he will lack worshipability.
ref: 1988, Norman L. Geisler, Christian Apologetics, →ISBN, page 186:
text: Critics of the openness model are quick to contend that any qualification of the notion of God's complete knowledge of the future diminishes his power and worshipability.
ref: 2007, David Lamont Paulsen, Donald W. Musser, Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies, →ISBN, page 530:
glosses: Capability of being worshiped; worthiness of veneration.
Related terms: worshipable
dog-and-pony show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-and-pony shows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog and pony show.
domesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domesdays
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of doomsday.
Doomsday Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of Domesday Book.
drag strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag strips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dragstrip.
befight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befights
form: befighting
form: befought
form: befought
Etymology: From Middle English *befighten, *befeghten, from Old English befeohtan (“to take by fighting”), equivalent to be- + fight. Cognate with Dutch bevechten (“to fight, combat”), Middle High German bevehten.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of by fighting.
glosses: To fight against; contend; do battle with.
befoam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befoams
form: befoaming
form: befoamed
form: befoamed
Etymology: From be- + foam.
Senses: glosses: To spatter or cover with foam.
befly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beflies
form: beflying
form: beflew
form: beflown
Etymology: From Middle English biflien, from Old English beflēogan (“to fly upon”), equivalent be- + fly. Cognate with Dutch bevliegen, German befliegen (“to fly on”), Danish beflyve (“to operate”).
Senses: glosses: To fly about; fly from; shun; escape.
Derived terms: beflying
Related terms: beflee
beflee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beflees
form: befleeing
form: befled
form: befled
Etymology: From Middle English biflen, bifleon, from Old English beflēon (“to flee from, flee, escape, avoid”), equivalent to be- + flee.
Senses: glosses: To flee from; flee; avoid; shun.
Related terms: befly
trench plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trench plates
Senses: glosses: A large heavy gauge metal plate used to span holes in streets to allow vehicular traffic across the gap.
OPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OPVs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: RPV
UAV
UAS
UCAV
drone#Noun
;
AUV
ROV
glosses: Initialism of optionally piloted vehicle.
topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of organic photovoltaic.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of oral poliovirus vaccine.
OPVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OPV
optionally piloted vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optionally piloted vehicles
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: An aircraft that may be manned or unmanned, able to function in either mode without modification.
Synonyms: word: OPV
tideover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from tide over.
Senses: examples: a tideover allowance
glosses: Designed to support someone through a brief but often difficult period, especially financially.
Related terms: holdover
stopgap
AUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AUVs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
transport
glosses: Initialism of autonomous underwater vehicle.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of Asian utility vehicle.
Coordinate terms: ROV
UAV
AUVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AUV
VSOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VSOPs
Senses: coordinate_terms: VS
VVSOP
XO
glosses: Initialism of very special/superior old pale (“a grade of premium cognac that has been aged in barrels for 4.5–6.5 years”).
XO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: X.O.
form: X.O
form: X. O.
form: X.O.
form: X. O.
Senses: coordinate_terms: VS
VSOP
VVSOP
glosses: Initialism of extra old; a grade of premium cognac that has been aged in barrels for more than 6.5 years.
Derived terms: XO sauce
XO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XOs
form: X.O.
form: X.O
form: X. O.
form: X.O.
form: X. O.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of executive officer.
Coordinate terms: english: commanding officer
translation: commanding officer
word: CO
english: first officer
translation: first officer
word: 1O
english: second officer
translation: second officer
word: 2O
english: third officer
translation: third officer
word: 3O
english: fourth officer
translation: fourth officer
word: 4O
XO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XOs
form: X.O.
form: X.O
form: X. O.
form: X.O.
form: X. O.
Senses: examples: text: Looking out on the substitute scene / Still going strong / XO, Mom
ref: 1998, Elliott Smith, “Waltz #2 (XO)”, in XO:
synonyms: xoxo
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of xo (“hugs and kisses”).
beflay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beflays
form: beflaying
form: beflayed
form: beflayed
form: beflain
Etymology: From Middle English biflean, from Old English beflēan (“to peel, skin, flay”), equivalent to be- + flay.
Senses: glosses: To flay; strip; peel.
dope-sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope-sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dope sheet.
befeathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befeather
beflake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beflakes
form: beflaking
form: beflaked
form: beflaked
Etymology: From be- + flake.
Senses: glosses: To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
examples: text: For already close at hand the Argive host in full array marches and scours along, and the whitening foam beflakes the plain with drops from the deep breath of the steeds.
ref: 1908, Aeschylus, Thomas George Tucker, The Seven against Thebes:
text: She moved to crouch motionless beside a chimney, while the couple she had just detected materialized in a slow descent out of the beflaked air to another roof only half a block away.
ref: 2009, Fred Saberhagen, An Old Friend of the Family:
glosses: To deck or cover with or as with flakes.
beflatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beflatters
form: beflattering
form: beflattered
form: beflattered
Etymology: From be- + flatter.
Senses: glosses: To flatter greatly or excessively.
befie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befies
form: befying
form: befied
form: befied
Etymology: From be- + fie.
Senses: examples: text: And ile befie em, ile befie em that will say so of me.
ref: 1845, Martin Marprelate (pseud.), John Petheram, Hay any worke for Cooper
glosses: To say "fie" to; defy.
Marciano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marcianos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Marciano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
PJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PJ
form: pj's
form: PJ's
Senses: glosses: pajamas; pyjamas
examples: text: We lived in the PJs, that's what we called the projects. It was integrated. The people next door were white, and there weren't that many blacks […]
ref: 1996, Murray Dubin, South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner, page 64:
text: He had to win over the children in the PJs. Come rain or shine, he continued to walk his parish.
ref: 2008, Eric Gutierrez, Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip Hop Church, page 62:
glosses: Initialism of projects (“urban housing developments for people with low incomes”).
lay down the marker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays down the marker
form: laying down the marker
form: laid down the marker
form: laid down the marker
form: lay down a marker
Senses: examples: text: City held firm and even threatened to retake the lead when Adam Johnson tested De Gea, but it was United who laid down the marker for the forthcoming Premier League campaign, beginning the defence of their title by collecting more silverware.
ref: 2011 August 7, Chris Bevan, “Man City 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To set the standard.
Related terms: set the pace
Marconi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mär-kō′nē
ipa: /mɑːˈkəʊ.niː/
ipa: /mɑɹˈkoʊ.ni/
ipa: /mɐːˈkəʉ.niː/
ipa: /mɐːˈkɐʉ.niː/
ipa: /maɹˈko.ni/
ipa: /maːʳˈkoː.niː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Marcóni.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Derived terms: Marconi rig
Maremma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Maremma
Senses: glosses: A geographical region in Lazio and Tuscany, Italy.
Related terms: Maremmese
marena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marenas
Etymology: Borrowed from German Maräne (“whitefish”).
Senses: glosses: A European whitefish Coregonus maraena.
gradely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪdlɪ/
Forms: form: gradelier
form: gradeliest
form: grathely
form: graadly
form: greadly
form: greadley
form: graidly
form: graidely
form: graideley
form: graithly
form: grathly
form: graithlie
form: graithlye
form: grathlie
form: graythlie
form: graithly
form: grathly
form: graythely
Etymology: From earlier graithly, from Middle English graythely, greiþli, greiðlic, from Old Norse greiðligr, equivalent to graith + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My work has meant travelling the world over, to great places and small, but home to me always means Rochdale and its gradely folk.
ref: 1956, Gracie Fields, Lancashire Life:
glosses: decent, well-meaning, respectable
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Yo're well off to ha' Betsy Ogden comin' in; she's a gradely worker.
ref: 1881, Elizabeth Sophia Watson, Crabtree Fold: A Tale of the Lancashire Moors, page 53:
glosses: excellent
examples: text: This is a hard road for a gradely foot like that. Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, page 13:
glosses: handsome, fair
glosses: real, proper
gradely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪdlɪ/
Forms: form: more gradely
form: most gradely
form: grathely
form: graadly
form: greadly
form: greadley
form: graidly
form: graidely
form: graideley
form: graithly
form: grathly
form: graithlie
form: graithlye
form: grathlie
form: graythlie
form: graithly
form: grathly
form: graythely
Etymology: From earlier graithly, from Middle English graythely, graydly, graitheli, graithlich, grathliche, graythelyche, from Old Norse greiðliga, equivalent to graith + -ly.
Senses: glosses: properly, really
glosses: readily, speedily
ordinary seamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinary seaman
able-bodied seamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of able-bodied seaman
orange tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange tips
Senses: examples: text: Most of us have a favourite first that signifies the true beginning of spring. For me, it’s the first orange tip.
ref: 2018 April 27, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies having orange tips to the upper forewings, especially Anthocharis cardamines, of Eurasia.
orange tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange tip
corregidor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈrɛɡəˌdɔr/
ipa: /kɔˌrɛhiˈdɔr/
Forms: form: corregidors
Etymology: From Spanish corregidor (literally “corrector”).
Senses: glosses: The chief magistrate of a Spanish town or one in the Spanish Empire.
Related terms: Corregidor Day
corregimiento
peacock butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacock butterfly
skenning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskɛnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sken
skenned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sken
gradelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gradely: more gradely
gradeliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gradely: most gradely
trimesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trīmĕʹsĭk
ipa: /tɹaɪˈmɛsɪk/
Etymology: tri- (“three”, so called because trimesic acid is tribasic) + mes(itylene) (so called because it was first obtained from mesitylenic acid) + -ic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to trimesic acid or its derivatives.
tottery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tŏʹtərĭ
ipa: /ˈtɒtəɹɪ/
Forms: form: totterier
form: more tottery
form: totteriest
form: most tottery
Etymology: From totter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The other two […] hobbled along bent double and supporting their tottery steps on staves to mark the weight of years; for they played the part of two medicine-men of venerable age and great magical power.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 236:
glosses: Tending to totter.
semiregular tessellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiregular tessellation
separable affixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separable affix
separable verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separable verb
reverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverers
Etymology: From revere + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reveres.
made of money
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Do you think I'm made of money?!
glosses: Very rich.
oxbow lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxbow lake
lady of light virtue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies of light virtue
Senses: glosses: A female prostitute.
glosses: A woman with lax sexual morals; a slut.
Synonyms: prostitute
octile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octiles
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the quantiles that divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A subset thus obtained.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An octant.
Synonyms: octant
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: word: median (2-quantile)
sense: An octant.
word: tercile
sense: An octant.
word: tertile
word: quartile
word: quintile
word: sextile
word: septile
word: decile
word: hexadecile
word: ventile
word: vigintile
word: centile
word: percentile (100)
word: millile (1000)
Derived terms: trioctile
octiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octile
denticule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denticules
Etymology: From French denticule, from Latin denticulus. Doublet of denticle.
Senses: synonyms: toothlet
glosses: A small tooth or toothlike structure.
Related terms: dentate
denticulate
dentist
denticules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denticule
bell-gable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-gables
form: bell gable
Etymology: From bell + gable.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An element crowning the upper end of the wall of a church and in which a bell is hung, usually in lieu of a campanile or bell tower.
Rēzekne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rezekne
Senses: glosses: A city in Latvia.
Rezekne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rēzekne
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rēzekne.
Ventspils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Latvia.
begay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begays
form: begaying
form: begayed
form: begayed
Etymology: From be- + gay.
Senses: examples: text: For Lu was the girl she seemed, and Wang was a boy — a boy, dressed in girl's clothes, even to the crimson ribbons of maidenhood begaying his hair: [...]
ref: 1925, Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday:
text: When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed.
ref: 2007, Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass:
text: I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.
ref: 1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness:
glosses: To make cheerful or merry.
diamond plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond plates
Senses: topics: arts
design
glosses: A type of lightweight metal stock with a regular pattern of raised diamonds or lines (anti-slip surfacing).
qualifier: flooring
glosses: A plate of such material.
basket house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket houses
form: basket-house
form: baskethouse
Senses: examples: text: Like a union is what some bearded beatniks and long-tressed girls are trying to form at Greenwich Village "Basket Houses." "Basket Houses" are coffee houses where they pass the basket to collect tips for the entertainers, who are not on the payroll.
ref: 1964 August 12, “Beatniks After More Bread”, in Eugene Register-Guard, retrieved 08 Aug 2011:
text: Next month the Four Winds, an old cafe and the last basket house in the Village, will close to make way for a dress shop.
ref: 1969 January 9, “The Scene That Ended”, in Village Voice, retrieved 08 Aug 2011, page 55:
text: Vince Martin showed up, Bob Gibson was expected, and all of a sudden the rogue's gallery of remember whens from the basket house days were all there.
ref: 1969 April 10, “Riffs”, in Village Voice, retrieved 08 Aug 2011, page 42:
text: Unlike many of the other clubs, it was not a so-called basket house, where walk-on performers of widely ranging competence earned only what they managed to collect in a basket they passed around the audience.
ref: 2010 September 9, Sean Wilentz, “Excerpt: ‘Bob Dylan in America’”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Aug 2011:
glosses: A cafe or similar establishment where musical performances are given and the performers are then paid with money placed in a basket by members of the audience.
Hypernyms: house
basket-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basket house.
baskethouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baskethouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basket house.
paw off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paws off
form: pawing off
form: pawed off
form: pawed off
Etymology: See paw and off, and compare jack off and jerk off.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To masturbate.
foreway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreways
Etymology: From fore- + way.
Senses: glosses: A highroad.
examples: text: I got a whisper of this; so by my song, I was determined to cut them all out in that, as well as I did in getting herself; but you know, I couldn't be angry, even if they had got the foreway of me in it, bekase it's an ould custom.
ref: 1852, William Carleton, Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry:
text: Provided that old Gilligan had not more horse sense than yourself and got the foreway of you," says I, [...]
ref: 1902, Pearson's magazine, volume 13:
glosses: An advantage; foredeal.
glosses: The part of a cart or vehicle intended to ensure that the end-thrust is taken against the shoulder collar rather than the linch-pin.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
foreread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forereads
form: forereading
form: foreread
form: foreread
form: fore-read
Etymology: From fore- + read.
Senses: examples: text: She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
ref: 1904, Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34:
text: He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
ref: 1907, Harper's magazine, volume 114:
glosses: To signify beforehand; predict.
examples: text: I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
ref: 1989, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel:
glosses: To read beforehand or ahead of time.
examples: text: He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.
ref: 1922, James Branch Cabell, Gallantry:
glosses: To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
foreread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forereads
form: fore-read
Etymology: From fore- + read.
Senses: glosses: A foreword; preface.
foreset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foresets
form: foresetting
form: foreset
form: foreset
form: fore-set
Etymology: From Middle English foresetten, from Old English fōresettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- + set. Cognate with Dutch voorzetten (“to put in front”), German vorsetzen (“to put in front, offer, serve up”), Swedish föresätta (“to put before”).
Senses: glosses: To set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.
glosses: To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
glosses: To propose, suggest.
Derived terms: foresetting
foreset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresets
form: fore-set
Etymology: From Middle English foresetten, from Old English fōresettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- + set. Cognate with Dutch voorzetten (“to put in front”), German vorsetzen (“to put in front, offer, serve up”), Swedish föresätta (“to put before”).
Senses: glosses: An obstacle; hindrance.
glosses: That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
examples: Most deltas contain three different types of deposits: foreset, topset and bottomset beds. — Fluvial Landforms
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.
Derived terms: topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: foreset bed
foreset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foreset
form: most foreset
form: fore-set
Etymology: From Middle English foresetten, from Old English fōresettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- + set. Cognate with Dutch voorzetten (“to put in front”), German vorsetzen (“to put in front, offer, serve up”), Swedish föresätta (“to put before”).
Senses: glosses: Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.
hazlenut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hazelnut.
logodædalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logodædalists
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of logodaedalist.
freaks of nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freak of nature
charge-hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge-hands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of charge hand.
charge-hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charge-hand
Carrara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carraras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Carrara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
glosses: A town in Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, famous for its marble quarries
Derived terms: Carrara marble
port-o-johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of port-o-john
subungulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subungulate
modified bitumens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modified bitumen
petrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petrean
form: most petrean
form: petræan
Etymology: See petro-.
Senses: glosses: Composed of rock or stone; rocky, stony.
levorotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levorotations
form: laevorotation
form: lævorotation
Etymology: From levo- + rotation.
Senses: glosses: Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
Synonyms: levogyration
Related terms: levorotatory
ranchería
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rancherías
Senses: examples: text: In one of the rancherías was met a native of Cíbola, who gave mucli information about its seven towns, Ahacus being the largest—exaggerated though in a sense tolerably accurate descriptions of the since well-known Pueblo towns.
ref: 1889, Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Niza and Coronado in Arizona. 1539–1540.”, in The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, San Francisco, Calif.: The History Company, Publishers, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Houses were scattered as much as a half mile apart, and the group occupying the scattered houses often shifted from one ranchería location to another in the course of the year. The ranchería peoples were all agriculturalists and for them farming was a major activity.
ref: 1962, Edward H[olland] Spicer, “The Ranchería Peoples”, in Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, published 1967 (2nd printing), →LCCN, →OCLC, introduction (Cultural Frontiers), page 12:
text: La Pérouse [i.e., Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse] thought warfare so dominant that it constrained Indian movement, stating of one ranchería “as their people are at war with their neighbors, they can never travel further than twenty or thirty leagues.”
ref: 2015, John Ryan Fischer, “Landscapes”, in Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawaiʻi, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: The Wayúu live spread out, their rancherías passed down matrilineally.
ref: 2023 June 5, Ruaridh Nicoll, “A wild ride to South America’s northern tip”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023:
text: Tijuana is the city of my true heritage: Both my parents are from here, and my grandparents emigrated from other regions of Baja and northern Mexico to help populate the ranchería that was barely even a stop on the road when it was founded about 150 years ago.
ref: 2024 January 30, Daniel Hernandez, “The original Caesar salad has been made this way for 100 years in Tijuana”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of rancheria.
pearl-bordered fritillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl-bordered fritillaries
Senses: glosses: A medium size, orange and brown butterfly with pearl markings on the underwing (Boloria euphrosyne), of the family Nymphalidae.
pearl-bordered fritillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl-bordered fritillary
purple emperor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple emperors
Senses: examples: text: A simple method will often bring them down even in their most rapid flight, and has been successfully employed in taking the Purple Emperor butterfly, (Apatura Iris,) namely, to throw up a stonr or piece of tile before them, which they will often fly down with, and alight on the ground, and are then easily captured.
ref: 1827, Abel Ingpen, Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British Insects, page 36:
text: Deep in the southern oakwoods in July the great Purple Emperors hold court round the airy crests of the boughs, amid a silence so songless and solemn that the rustle of their own high, flashing wings may sometimes be heard in the sunshine above the murmur of omnipresent insect life that is the warp and woof of the stillness.
ref: 1907, Edward Thomas, British Country Life in Spring and Summer: The Book of the Open Air, page 26:
text: Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.
ref: 2016, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 120:
glosses: A large, dark brown and white (female), or purple and white (male) butterfly, Apatura iris, of the family Nymphalidae.
purple emperors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple emperor
purple hairstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple hairstreaks
Senses: glosses: A small, brown (female) or purple (male) butterfly, of species Quercusia quercus (syn. Neozephyrus quercus), of the family Lycaenidae
purple hairstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple hairstreak
red admirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red admiral
presuntos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presunto
fluid drachms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluid drachm
poltfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poltfoot
polyphthalocyanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyphthalocyanine
RFID chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RFID chip
NAPLPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax, a graphics language for use with videotex services.