cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Cappadocian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpəˈdəʊʃi.ən/
ipa: /kæpəˈdəʊʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Etymology: From Cappadocia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Cappadocian Greek.
Cappadocians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cappadocian
runer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: runers
Etymology: From rune + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Those Runers who could not raise Admiration by the Spirit of their Poetry
ref: 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, section, page 319:
glosses: A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.
synonyms: runemaster
runesmith
glosses: Someone who writes runes
mascarades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mascarade
core curriculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core curricula
form: core curriculums
Senses: examples: text: The senior high school, if free to concentrate on intensive specialized courses and a core curriculum of constants, will consummate the socially integrating influences of the elementary school.
ref: 1923, James M. Glass, “The Reorganization of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades—Program of Studies”, in The School Review, volume 31, number 7, pages 523–524:
text: Thus, the undergraduate core curriculum is a college's foundational education, a developing lens that effectively focuses issues of whatever sort and projects them, so focused, onto a community screen as conventional wisdom.
ref: 1991, David M. Bossman, “Cross-Cultural Values for a Pluralistic Core Curriculum”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 62, number 6, page 662:
text: Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum.
ref: 2007, Anne C. Lewis, “Language Learning and National Security”, in Phi Delta Kappan, volume 89, number 2, page 84:
topics: education
glosses: The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.
Related terms: core course
precludable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preclude + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be precluded.
mulcible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mulcible
form: most mulcible
Senses: glosses: able to be appeased
HTPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HTPCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of home theater PC.
umbeset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbesets
form: umbesetting
form: umbeset
form: umbeset
form: umbesetten
Etymology: From Middle English umbesetten (“to surround”), from Old English ymbsettan (“to set around, surround, beset, encompass”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”) + *satjaną (“to set”); equivalent to um- + beset or umbe- + set. Compare also Old English ymbsittan (“to sit around, surround”), Dutch omzetten (“to convert, transpose”), German umsetzen (“to move to another place, convert, transform, transplant, adjust, rearrange”). More at set.
Senses: examples: text: The Lord Gordon ships with some friends. Monro umbesets his way; yet he escapes, ignorant of Monro's devyse.
ref: 1828, John Spalding, The history of the troubles and memorable transactions in Scotland:
text: […] to underly the law at the lext Justice-aire of Renfrew, for umbesetting the high-way, by way of Murder;
ref: 1891, William Robertson, Historic Ayrshire, volume 1, page 9:
text: […] , and pressing to have bereft them of their lives by umbesetting of the high gates to that effect at divers times of before, […]
ref: 1922, J. Maitland Thomson, The Public Records of Scotland, Maclehose, Jackson and co., page 48
text: […] that king on one occasion, April 1535, having to grant a letter of protection in favour of him ‘and his wife and bairns’ against Sir Patrick Hepburn of Wauchtonne and thirty-four others for ‘umbesetting the highway for his slaughter.’
ref: 1972 (originally 1901), William Baird, General Wauchope, Books for Libraries Press, page 16
glosses: To block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.
examples: text: The Opponents Umbeset with Trickery.
ref: 1885, John Humberger, The Conquest and Triumph of Divine Wisdom and Love in Predestination, J. L. Traiger, unmarked page
text: But soothly, of sithes the more I am umbeset with anguish of heart, and destitute of all men’s comfort, the more favourable and godly I find her to me.
ref: 1952, Walter Milton, The Goad of Love, Faber & Faber, page 201:
text: Certainly a good soul umbeset with many diseases, and noyed with the heat of temptation, can not feel the sweetness of God’s love as it is in itself;
ref: 1971, Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love, CCEL, page 164:
glosses: To overwhelm; cover completely.
Derived terms: umbesetting
Related terms: beset
cousins-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cousin-in-law
cousin-in-laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cousin-in-law
SEZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SEZs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of special economic zone.
Coordinate terms: FTZ
SAR
TFZ
Cornhusker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornhuskers
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Nebraska.
examples: text: Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]
ref: 2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67:
glosses: Any of a number of sports teams in Nebraska.
Derived terms: Cornhusker State
cornhusker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornhuskers
Etymology: From corn + husker.
Senses: synonyms: cornshucker
glosses: A person or device that removes husks from corn.
glosses: A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.
synonyms: word: corncob
word: hayseed
word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A yokel.
Related terms: cornfield
cornflour
cornhusk
cornhusking
cornmeal
corn oil
cornshucking
cornstalk
husking bee
Cornhusker State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cornhusker State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Nebraska: a state of the United States.
correctional facility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctional facilities
Senses: examples: text: For inmates in the state's correctional facilities, a typical breakfast menu consists of cereal, toast, jam, jelly, doughnuts, coffee and fruit.
ref: 1982 December 19, Donovan Wilson, “Prison Food: Not Fancy, But—”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2020:
text: On Oct. 19, the Standish city council voted to allow federal prisoners, including detainees from Gitmo, to be housed at the local correctional facility.
ref: 2009 October 22, Steven Gray, “Michigan: Send Us Your Prison Inmates”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2019:
synonyms: correctional institution
corrective facility
glosses: A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.
Saskabusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæskəbʊʃɚ/
Forms: form: Saskabushers
Etymology: From Saskabush + -er.
Senses: synonyms: Saskatonian
Saskatooner
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
costume party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costume parties
Senses: examples: text: Virginia Democratic Congressional candidate Krystal Ball went to a costume party when she was 22 dressed as a sexy Santa.
ref: 2010 October 7, Nate Jones, “Candidate's Sexy Santa Photos Leaked”, in Time:
glosses: A social gathering of people wearing disguises or costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
Synonyms: costume ball
Related terms: masquerade
costume parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costume party
purpuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named by Dr W. H. Wollaston "from its remarkable property of forming compounds with most bases of a red or purple colour" (as reported by William Prout in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 108 in 1818, pages 420-428).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: C₈H₅N₅O₆, a nitrogenous acid that yields alloxan and uramil when hydrolysed, known for its purple salts.
Related terms: murexide
its ammonium salt
purpuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purpuric
form: most purpuric
Etymology: From Latin purpura (“purple”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). The medical sense is from the English purpura (“the appearance of purple discolorations on the skin”). By surface analysis, purpura + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: After 1–14 days, skin eruption occurs abruptly, consisting of symmetrical purpuric macules which progress to blisters and areas of epidermal necrosis...
ref: 2003, Christine Léauté-Labrèze and Alain Taïeb, Diagnosis and management of Stevens Johnson syndrome, in Recent Advances in Pediatrics, Volume 20 (edited by Tim J David), Royal Society of Medicine Press, page 140
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or affected with purpura (skin discoloration from blood inside it).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Purple or purplish (of spots which appear on the skin; regardless of their cause); Synonym of purpureal.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; especially
examples: text: purpuric acid
text: a purpuric salt
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; especially:
Derived from or forming purpuric acid.
Synonyms: word: purpurous
word: purpural
Derived terms: papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome
purpuric acid
claims adjuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claims adjusters
Senses: glosses: A person who investigates insurance claims in order to determine the liability of the insurance company
Synonyms: claim adjuster
claimsman
loss adjuster
petechial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɪˈtiːki.əl/
Forms: form: more petechial
form: most petechial
Etymology: From New Latin petechialis. By surface analysis, petechia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Of putrid, malignant, petechial Fevers.
ref: 1750, John Huxham, chapter 8, in An Essay on Fevers:
text: Petechial haemorrhages may appear in the conjunctivae and ecchymotic haemorrhages on the ventral surface of the tongue.
ref: 2001, M. W. Service, editor, Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by, pertaining to, or resembling petechiae (small, nonraised haemorrhages on the skin).
Derived terms: bovine infectious petechial fever
bovine petechial fever
nonpetechial
petechial fever
gender reassignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ ˌɹi.əˈsaɪn.mənt/
Forms: form: gender reassignments
Senses: glosses: The process of changing one's sex, usually by a combination of medicinal and surgical means; sex change.
Related terms: gender confirmation surgery
effers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effer
effer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effers
Etymology: A euphemism for fucker.
Senses: glosses: Fucker.
proteomicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteomicist
common ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common ash
essedum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essedums
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ancient Briton, finding that his neighbor’s essedum—chariot, or rather cart—had worn the ruts too deep[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 38, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson:
glosses: A chariot, especially a Roman one.
JSDK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JSDKs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of JavaServer Web Development Kit.
Related terms: JSWDK
JSWDK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JSWDKs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of JavaServer Web Development Kit.
Related terms: JSDK
antialigning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + aligning.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: aligning in an opposite direction
Related terms: antialigned
countermodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermodels
Etymology: From counter- + model.
Senses: glosses: A conceptual model that describes an alternative possibility to that suggested by an existing model.
macrodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrodomains
Etymology: From macro- + domain.
Senses: glosses: A macroscopic domain
multiconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiconnected
form: most multiconnected
Etymology: From multi- + connected.
Senses: glosses: connected via multiple (types of) connections
nanobubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobubble
nanotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotoxicities
Etymology: From nano- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: toxicity of nanomaterials
prealigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + aligned.
Senses: glosses: aligned prior to another operation
seismocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seismo- + cardiography.
Senses: glosses: The non-invasive measurement of accelerations in the chest wall produced by myocardial movement
triexciton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triexcitons
Etymology: From tri- + exciton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum combination of three excitons
buys up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy up
buying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buy up
bought up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy up
buy-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buy-in
buy-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buy-out
teaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teak
examinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæmɪnət/
Forms: form: examinates
Etymology: From Latin examinatus, past participle of examinare. See examine.
Senses: examples: text: To this the tormentors[…]fastened the armes and feet of the poor examinate or condemned person to be tortured.
ref: 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:
glosses: One who is subjected to examination.
examinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examinators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin examinator. Compare French examinateur.
Senses: examples: text: perswade a serious examinator
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An examiner.
demin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɪn/
/diˈmɪn/
Etymology: Clipping of demineralized.
Senses: examples: text: It's usually safe to drink demin.
text: There are many applications, for example it would be useful to fit it in series with ion exchange cartridges used in the laboratory or on 'demin' plants in industry.
ref: 1973 March, “Miniature conductivity meter”, in Control & Instrumentation, volume 5, number 3 (advertisement), London: Morgan-Grampian Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63:
text: For this reason, a demin line normally consists of a cation and an anion filter. If the water quality is not according to specifications after leaving these two filters, a mixed bed (anion and cation resins in one tank) is used.
ref: 2015, L. Daal, F. de Vos, J. Soons, T. de Vries, “Membrane technologies for water treatment and reuse in the power industries”, in Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano, Navin K. Rastog, editors, Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy; 75), Sawston, Cambridgeshire: Woodhead Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 610:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: Demineralized water.
PFCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PFCAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of perfluorinated carboxylic acid.
PFCAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PFCA
PAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PAP
claykicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claykickers
Etymology: From clay + kicker.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of a tunnelling engineering squad in World War I.
correctional officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctional officers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corrections officer.
binarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binarity
nonserological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serological.
Senses: glosses: Not serological.
mauvest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mauve: most mauve
binariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binaryness
Etymology: From binary + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: non-binariness
non-binarity
glosses: The quality of being binary.
Related terms: binarity
binbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binbag
binbashis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binbashi
binaurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From binaural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a binaural fashion; using or pertaining to both ears.
microdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + dust.
Senses: glosses: Dust made up of microscopic particles.
binaryness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of binariness.
blowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blowes
form: blowing
form: blewe
form: blowne
Etymology: See blow (etymology 1)
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of blow.
blowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See blow (etymology 3)
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow (to flower, blossom)
transfinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Then I think about Georg Cantor, burnt out at forty, and persecuted to the point of madness by people opposed to his ideas about transfinity.
ref: 2005, Scarlett Thomas, PopCo, page 301:
glosses: The quality of being transfinite.
narrowboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrowboat
refarming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + farming, as in farm out.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The abolition of existing band allocations in the radio spectrum and the more efficient reallocation of the spectrum into smaller bands.
nonearner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonearners
Etymology: From non- + earner.
Senses: glosses: One who is not earning money.
nonearners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonearner
regraze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrazes
form: regrazing
form: regrazed
form: regrazed
Etymology: From re- + graze.
Senses: examples: text: Both herds and individuals distribute themselves over all of an area, and bison come back to regraze areas at varying time intervals.
ref: 2000, Ernest Callenbach, Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains, page 28:
glosses: To graze (feed on) again.
regrazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regraze
regrazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regraze
regrazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regraze
regrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regreases
form: regreasing
form: regreased
form: regreased
Etymology: From re- + grease.
Senses: examples: text: The parts should be regreased regularly.
glosses: To grease again.
Synonyms: relubricate
regreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regrease
regreased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regrease
regreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regrease
relubricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relubricates
form: relubricating
form: relubricated
form: relubricated
Etymology: From re- + lubricate.
Senses: glosses: To lubricate again.
Synonyms: regrease
Related terms: relubrication
relubricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relubricate
relubricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relubricate
relubricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relubricate
relubrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relubrications
Etymology: From re- + lubrication.
Senses: glosses: The act of relubricating.
relubrications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relubrication
ringspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringspots
form: ring spot
Etymology: From ring + spot.
Senses: examples: text: Disease name: Tobacco rattle Causal virus: Tobacco rattle virus Symptoms: Necrotic local lesions, necrotic or chlorotic ringspots, systemic necrosis, ringspots, line patterns, mottling are the various symptoms induced in tobacco depending on the environment and cultivars.
ref: 2008, M. V. Nayudu, Plant Viruses:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A symptom of various viral infections in plants, taking the form of rings or spots of damaged tissue.
amirite
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From am + I + rite (“right”).
Senses: examples: text: It's not like you wouldn't want to jump over those lava fountains, amirite?
ref: 2009, Tim Lindquist, New Super Mario Bros Wii Coin Collector's Guide, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of am I right.
nonseizure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonseizures
Etymology: From non- + seizure.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An event or symptom that is not a seizure.
glosses: Failure to seize (goods, assets, etc.).
nonseizures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonseizure
caverned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caverned
form: most caverned
Etymology: From cavern + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The wolves yelled on the caverned hill
Where echo tolled in thunder still;
ref: 1815, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth, XXXIII, lines 1022-1023:
glosses: Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
examples: text: No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride, / No cavern'd Hermit, reſt ſelf-ſatisfy'd; / Who moſt to ſhun or hate mankind pretend, / Seek an Admirer, or wou'd fix a Friend.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 63, lines 39–42:
text: […] he will heed as little the lofty generous enterprises that kindle upon the moral world, as a caverned bear the luminous expanse of the glittering heaven.
ref: 1828, Walter Colton, Remarks on Duelling, New York: Leavitt, page 40:
glosses: Living in a cavern.
excruciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excruciators
Senses: glosses: One who excruciates.
telefaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of telefax
telefaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of telefax
excubant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excubant
form: most excubant
Senses: examples: text: The enemy may be still excubant: and we had better not disperse till daylight.
ref: 1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle:
glosses: Watchful; keeping watch or guarding.
correction officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correction officers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corrections officer.
noncamping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + camping.
Senses: examples: text: Yellowstone itself remains the biggest headache, with noncamping accommodations limited to a handful of pricey lodges or cookie-cutter cabins...
ref: 2008, Bradley Mayhew, Carolyn McCarthy, Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, page 258:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to camping.
umbraids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbraid.
umbraids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of umbraid
Chindia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪn.diːə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪn.di.ə/
rhymes: -ɪndiə
Etymology: Blend of China + India
Senses: examples: text: The idea of Chindia- China and India together as a massive economic and geographic entity with one-third of the world's population- is acknowledged by many government leaders, especially within these two countries.
ref: 2007, James M. Popkin, Partha Iyengar, IT and the East: how China and India are altering the future of technology, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: China and India, especially in the context of business and economics.
Related terms: Chindian
defensive back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensive backs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Collective term for the defensive players who are in position farthest from the ball at the start of a play and whose principal responsibility is to defend against passes. Includes cornerbacks and safeties in both codes, and defensive halfbacks in the Canadian game.
defensive halfback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensive halfbacks
Senses: topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
noobz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noob
menchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manchild.
men children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man child
supermoderator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermoderators
form: super moderator
Etymology: From super- + moderator.
Senses: examples: text: In becoming TSR moderators (of varying hierarchical status such as supermoderators, global moderators and minimods, further also forum assistants), users are supposed to set a good example for appropriate online behavior as a by-product of their ongoing conversations.
ref: 2013, Jenny Arendholz, (In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations, page 46:
glosses: A moderator who has permission to moderate every forum on a web site.
supermoderators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermoderator
fyrdman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fyrdmen
form: fierdman
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English fyrdmann, fierdmann (“warrior”), from fierd (“army”) + mann (“man”). More at fyrd, man.
Senses: glosses: An English militiaman of the Saxon period; often a land worker called to arms in support of the king or a local lord, and usually armed with a spear and shield.
Related terms: fyrd
joined at the hip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: joined-at-the-hip
Senses: examples: text: We're very close. In fact, we're joined at the hip.
ref: 1987 June, “The Jeffrey Show”, in Texas Monthly, volume 15, number 6, page 159:
text: When people suggest to me that it would be best if politics were left out of the railways, I always point out that the two are joined at the hip. Throughout the near 200-year existence of the railways, there has never been a time when they have been free of political interference.
ref: 2021 May 19, Christian Wolmar, “Resolving the Eurostar problem will benefit Britain...”, in RAIL, number 931, page 46:
glosses: Closely connected, as in an intimate friendship.
Related terms: live in each other's pockets
conjoined twin
fyrdmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fyrdman
fylfots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fylfot
sweat it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweats it out
form: sweating it out
form: sweated it out
form: sweated it out
form: sweat it out
form: sweat it out
Senses: examples: text: In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines
ref: 1975, Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run:
glosses: To do hard physical exercise or work, and sweat as a result.
glosses: To wait or endure anxiously.
greater bamboo lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater bamboo lemurs
Senses: glosses: A large, greyish brown lemur with white ear tufts, Prolemur simus.
greater bamboo lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater bamboo lemur
eastern gorillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern gorilla
mountain gorillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain gorilla
folker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folkers
Etymology: From folk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (Monday) This 1960s protest folker and longtime champion of American Indian rights will surely sing “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone” and “Until It’s Time for You to Go,” and maybe even “Cod’ine,” which became a garage-rock standard.
ref: 2007 June 15, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
text: ...Scotland's finest modern folkers King Creosote and James Yorkston...
ref: 2007, David Else, Great Britain, page 701:
glosses: A performer of folk music.
folkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folker
codeinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more codeinelike
form: most codeinelike
Etymology: From codeine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of codeine.
Chukchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chukchi
scoutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scouting
hairy-eared dwarf lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairy-eared dwarf lemur
protopunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-punk
Etymology: From proto- + punk.
Senses: examples: text: Garage bands popularize protopunk rebellion.
ref: 2006, Katherine Charlton, Rock music styles: a history, page 69:
text: Susan wasn't in the mood to talk about glass, or bees, or even protopunk feminist singer-songwriter poets of the 1970s, and she was almost always in the mood to talk about them.
ref: 2009, Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart, page 216:
text: Sky Saxon, the mop-haired bass player and front man for the psychedelic protopunk band the Seeds, whose 1965 song “Pushin’ Too Hard” put a Los Angeles garage-band spin on the bad-boy rocker image personified by the Rolling Stones, died Thursday in Austin, Tex.
ref: 2009 June 27, Bruce Weber, “Sky Saxon, Lead Singer for the Seeds, Dies at 71”, in New York Times:
glosses: Collectively, the music (of various genres and backgrounds) that influenced the later punk movement in the 1970s.
Chattanoogan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chattanoogan
form: most Chattanoogan
Etymology: From Chattanooga + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Chattanooga.
Chattanoogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chattanoogans
Etymology: From Chattanooga + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Chattanooga.
Chattanoogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chattanoogan
chef salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chef salads
form: chef's salad
Senses: glosses: A salad of hard-boiled eggs, meat, tomatoes, cucumbers, cheese (often shredded or crumbled), and sometimes anchovies, all placed on a bed of tossed lettuce or other leaf vegetables.
chef salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chef salad
polypotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polypotent
form: most polypotent
Etymology: From poly- + potent.
Senses: glosses: pluripotent
peaceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peace + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Those words did but awaken within me when I was peaceless in the night.
ref: 1919, Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman:
glosses: Without peace; not peaceful.
Derived terms: peacelessly
peacelessness
Kubrickian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kubrickian
form: most Kubrickian
Etymology: From Kubrick + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), influential American film director, writer, producer, and photographer, noted for his technical perfectionism.
examples: text: There are some nice gags and sprightly Kubrickian touches, and one genuinely shocking scene when Evelyn fat-shames her daughter – an authentically upsetting moment of family dysfunction that seems to come from another film, one in a parallel universe.
ref: 2022 May 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Everything Everywhere All at Once review – nothing nowhere over a long period of time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Even directors with more formal aesthetics—the Kubrickian perfectionist David Fincher and the interpersonal realist Noah Baumbach—did not make rote, familiar-feeling movies.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterized by meticulous perfectionism, mastery of the technical aspects of film-making, and atmospheric visual style in films across a range of genres.
Corbusierian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Corbusierian
form: most Corbusierian
Etymology: From Corbusier + -ian. From French Corbusier, from Old French corbusier.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Corbusian.
blote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blotes
form: bloting
form: bloted
form: bloted
Senses: glosses: To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
log flume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: log flumes
Senses: glosses: A flume specifically constructed to transport lumber and logs down mountainous terrain to a sawmill by using flowing water.
synonyms: log ride
glosses: An amusement park ride where passengers sit in a hollow log and travel along a track or circuit powered mostly by the flow of water.
bottlo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlos
form: bottle-o
Etymology: From bottle + -o.
Senses: glosses: A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
examples: text: My local bottlo tells me that the sales of ready-to-drinks have slightly decreased but there has been a sharp increase in the sale of 750-millilitre bottles of straight spirits.
ref: 2008, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates Australia: House of Representatives, volume 13, page 3169:
glosses: A shop that sells alcoholic beverages.
Synonyms: sense: shop that sells liquor
word: bottle shop
sense: shop that sells liquor
word: liquor store
sense: shop that sells liquor
word: off-licence
amusedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amused + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Angus listened, too, with pleased amusedness on his pale, emaciated face, pursing his shrunken jaw.
ref: 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod, page 204:
glosses: The quality of being amused; amusement.
white power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modelled on black power, a slogan used by Black American activists to call for autonomy and freedom from social discrimination. In the 1960s, white-power advocates began using "white power" as a rally cry for militant actions to overthrow the US government, which was making moves towards desegregation.
Senses: glosses: White supremacy.
Derived terms: white power music
white power skinhead
Keynesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Keynesian
lameo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmoʊ/
rhymes: -eɪməʊ
Forms: form: lameos
form: lame-o
form: lamo
Etymology: From lame + -o.
Senses: examples: text: I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o. Someone really should just put him out of his misery.
ref: 1999, Alan Ball, American Beauty (motion picture), spoken by Jane Burnham (Thora Birch):
glosses: A lame person; someone who is worthless or a loser.
lameo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmoʊ/
rhymes: -eɪməʊ
Forms: form: more lameo
form: most lameo
form: lame-o
form: lamo
Etymology: From lame + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Television reruns are often lameo.
glosses: Lame; of poor quality.
brewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brewable
form: most brewable
Etymology: From brew + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Pohótela is widely viewed as brewable into a tea effective for lowering blood pressure.
ref: 2002, David Yetman, Thomas R. Van Devender, Mayo Ethnobotany, page 270:
glosses: Capable of being brewed.
Derived terms: unbrewable
brevities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brevity
finnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finnocks
form: finnac
form: finnack
form: finnoc
form: phinnock
Etymology: A possible anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic fionnag (“young salmon”). Compare fionnag (“whiting”), a calque of English whiting, from fionn (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions.
ref: 1866, Thomas Tod Stoddart, An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs, page 46:
text: Have you ever had a day's finnock-fishing? If you have not, and you happen to be a keen disciple of Izaak Walton, take my advice and seize the first opportunity of doing so.
ref: 1893, J Moray Brown, Stray Sport:
text: Emigrating smolts were captured by fyke net in 1998 and early 1999. […] The returns to date suggest that the sea survival of stocked fish returning as finnock is consistently lower than that of wild smolts and that the survival of both groups to mature sea trout is almost non-existent at present.
ref: 2006, Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, editors, Sea Trout:
synonyms: herling
school peal
school peel
harvester
glosses: A young sea trout, in the year after they return to fresh water after their smolt migration stage.
carfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: car-free
Etymology: From car + -free.
Senses: glosses: Without cars; reserved for pedestrians and cyclists
Kashin-Beck disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kashin-Bek disease
Etymology: Named after Russian military physicians Evgeny Vladimirovich Bek (1865–1915) and Nicolai Ivanowich Kashin (1825–1872).
Senses: glosses: An osteoarticular disease that occurs mainly in China and causes pain and restriction of movement in the joints.
Synonyms: KBD
KBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kashin-Beck disease.
Kashmiris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kashmiri
Kashin-Bek disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kashin-Beck disease.
klinki pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klinki pines
form: klinkii pine
Senses: glosses: Araucaria hunsteinii, a very large fast-growing evergreen tree native to Papua New Guinea.
klinki pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klinki pine
nonallodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + allodial.
Senses: glosses: Not allodial.
Juventas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin iuventas (“Youth”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of youth, and a daughter of Jupiter and Juno. Juventas was the cupbearer of the gods until she married her paternal halfbrother, Hercules, with whom she had twin sons, Alexiares and Anicetus. She is the Roman counterpart of Hebe.
Derived terms: juvenile
juvenile detention facility
divisioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divisioners
Etymology: From division + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a third-divisioner
glosses: A member of a specified division.
expeditioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expeditioners
Etymology: From expedition + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who goes on an expedition.
motioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motioners
Etymology: From motion + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a motion; a mover.
legioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legioners
Etymology: From legion + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of a legion.
resolutioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolutioners
Etymology: From resolution + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.
examples: text: These two crossgrained epithets of malignant and resolutioner cost poor Sir Allan one half of the family estate
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A member of a 17th-century party in the Church of Scotland who approved of the resolutions of the Commission of General Assembly (1650) allowing all persons, except those excommunicate and hostile to the Covenant, to take part in the struggle against Cromwell.
repetitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repetitioners
Etymology: From repetition + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Here are spellers, readers, translators of Gospels, translators of Bibles, and lastly repetitioners, or those who can repeat passages, as the expressive Irish idiom has it, by heart.
ref: 1855, The Church of England Quarterly Review, page 360:
glosses: One who repeats.
propositioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propositioners
Etymology: From proposition + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In one-third of these incidents, targets responded with threats of their own before propositioners made violent or threatening moves. These threats ended half of these incidents, while the others escalated to higher levels of force.
ref: 1986, Kenneth C. Haas, Geoffrey P. Alpert, The Dilemmas of Punishment: Readings in contemporary corrections:
glosses: One who propositions.
optioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optioners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of optionor.
processioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processioners
Etymology: From procession + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in a procession.
examples: text: For a processioner, and a manual, twenty pence
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: A manual of processions; a processional.
qualifier: North Carolina; Tennessee; North Carolina; Tennessee
glosses: An officer appointed to procession lands
generationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generationer
religioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religioner
ocularcentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ocular + -centrism.
Senses: examples: text: For despite Ellul's apparent isolation, his diatribe against vision is itself merely an instance, perhaps more blatant and apocalyptic than some others, of a now widespread excoriation of what can be called the sins of ocularcentrism.
ref: 1988, Martin Jay, “The Rise of Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism”, in Poetics Today, volume 9, number 2, →ISSN Invalid ISSN, page 308:
text: In phenomenology, for instance, the rejection of Cartesian ocularcentrism and the centrality of the body, are in themselves critical components for understanding the nature of social existence.
ref: 1995, Suren Lalvani, Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Within a discursive frame that everywhere betokens the dominance of visuality, cinema is a special case wherein this ocularcentrism can be expressed, as well as negated.
ref: 2010, Keya Ganguly, Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 226:
synonyms: visuocentrism
glosses: The privileging of vision over the other senses.
Related terms: ocularcentric
audiocentrism
banana plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana plugs
Senses: glosses: A single-wire male component of a banana connector.
fyke net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fyke nets
form: fyke-net
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fyke.
fyke nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fyke net
expecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expecters
Etymology: From expect + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who expects.
explicanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explicandum
expugner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expugners
Etymology: From expugn + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who expugns.
aikidoka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aikidokas
form: aikidoka
form: aikidōka
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 合気道家 (aikidōka).
Senses: glosses: One who practices aikido, the martial art.
spotfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spotface
spotfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spotface
extrudite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrudites
Etymology: From extrude + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A piece of shaped catalytic material used in refinery operations.
exul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exuls
Senses: glosses: An exile; a person who is exiled.
ayde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aid.