cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dourest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dour: most dour
belonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belonoid
form: most belonoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βελόνη (belónē, “a needle”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: A tendency for elongation of the lower or both jaws occurs in all belonoid groups, expressed as a garlike prey capture structure in piscivorous needlefishes and as unequal jaw lengths in sauries and particularly in halfbeaks.
ref: 2009, Gene Helfman, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology:
glosses: Shaped like a needle.
CFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFSs
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.
ref: 2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputer:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic fatigue syndrome.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cramp fasciculation syndrome.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Canada Flight Supplement (a pilot's guide to aerodromes, air control zones, and airways in Canadian airspace and Canadian air traffic control zones).
Coordinate terms: sense: Canada Flight Supplement
word: AIP
Derived terms: sense: chronic fatigue syndrome
word: ME/CFS
madnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madness
clashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clash
clashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clash
clashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clash
trenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trench
trenching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenchings
Senses: glosses: The excavation of a trench.
Derived terms: micro trenching
trenching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trenching
form: most trenching
Senses: glosses: trenchant
trenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trench
consecrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consecrate
unenforceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenforceable
form: most unenforceable
form: unenforcible
Etymology: From un- + enforceable.
Senses: examples: text: A California law that ensures many gig workers are considered independent contractors, while affording them some limited benefits, is unconstitutional and unenforceable, a California Superior Court judge ruled Friday evening.
ref: 2021 August 20, Kate Conger, “California’s Gig Worker Law Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: enforceable
glosses: Unable to be enforced.
Related terms: unenforceability
enforceability
condensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In Russia, where experiments on a considerable scale have been made with condensing, the railways have the considerable advantage of a loading gauge 17 ft. high (the biggest in the world), as compared with the British 13 ft. or slightly over.
ref: 1946 January and February, “The Why and The Wherefore: Condensing Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:
glosses: present participle and gerund of condense
Derived terms: non-condensing
noncondensing
uncondensing
take issue with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes issue with
form: taking issue with
form: took issue with
form: taken issue with
Senses: glosses: To disagree with something, and to raise objections to it
Synonyms: take issue to
call into question
Related terms: take exception to
irresolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɹɪˈzɒlvəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more irresolvable
form: most irresolvable
Etymology: From ir- + resolvable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to resolve; insoluble.
glosses: Impossible to separate into its component parts.
Derived terms: irresolvability
irresolvableness
irresolvably
irresolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɹɪˈzɒlvəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: irresolvables
Etymology: From ir- + resolvable.
Senses: glosses: A problem that cannot be resolved.
Related terms: irresoluble
Quasimodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯/
Forms: form: Quasimodos
Etymology: From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”).
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Easter Week < Eastertide < Octave of Easter < Eastertime < calendar
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Quasimodo Sunday
Quasimodogeniti
Second Sunday of Easter
Octave Day of Easter
Octave of Easter
Divine Mercy Sunday
Feast of the Divine Mercy
White Sunday
Alb Sunday
Dominica in albis
Low Sunday
Renewal Sunday
St. Thomas Sunday
Thomas Sunday
Antipascha
related: word: Easter Sunday
word: Easter Day
word: Easter
word: Easter Monday
word: Easter Tuesday
word: Easter Wednesday
word: Easter Thursday
word: Easter Friday
word: Easter Saturday
glosses: The first Sunday after Easter Sunday.
Quasimodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯/
Forms: form: Quasimodos
Etymology: From the hunchback character Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The name of the character is derived from the first etymology.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.
ref: 2008 August 21, “The old school survives at the Olympics, amid new events”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surfing trick performed while crouching.
sperge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: sperges
Senses: qualifier: distilling
glosses: A charge of wash for the still.
sperse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: sperses
form: spersing
form: spersed
form: spersed
Etymology: Aphetic form of asperse, from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere.
Senses: examples: text: On all which did against his course oppose,
Into a cloud of dust spers'd in the air
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Visions of Bellay”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To disperse.
disperge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disperges
form: disperging
form: disperged
form: disperged
Etymology: From Latin dispergere. See disperse.
Senses: examples: text: In several engagements he disperged the remains of the Chouans, and on the 6th of June, 1800, prevented the English sh from landing at Quiberon .
ref: 1813, J. W. Robertson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, page 518:
text: Theories abounded as to the best configuration of this linkage--screen early, screen late; disperge early, disperge late; bleach early, bleach late.
ref: 1997, Proceedings, International Recovered Paper VIII, page 76:
text: Fig 14.12. shows cross sections of laser remelted steel samples, wheras Fig. 14.13. shows a cross section of TiC disperged in aluminum.
ref: 1999, Dieter Schuocker, High Power Lasers In Production Engineering, page 402:
text: At higher temperatures (T > 60◦C) the PB-phase transforms into spheres, disperged within a disordered phase of the PEO/DBSA matrix.
ref: 2007, Wolfgang Binder, Hydrogen Bonded Polymers, page 59:
text: Used in comparatively large quantities in mineral foundation recipes, it can be disperged in water as well as in oil.
ref: 2015, Jinaika Jakuszeit, Make Your Own Soaps, Lotions, & Moisturizers, page 51:
glosses: To sprinkle, scatter, or disperse.
multilateralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilateralisms
Etymology: From multilateral + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Unbiased trade between nations, in contrast to bilateralism.
glosses: A system by which nations consult others in matters of foreign policy, by way of organisations such as the United Nations.
Derived terms: minilateralism
smalto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smalti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian smalto. Doublet of schmaltz, email, and smalt.
Senses: examples: text: This is done by striking the smalto with a sharp-edged hammer, directly over a similar edge, placed vertically beneath.
ref: 1848, The Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art, Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, page 86:
text: The smalto is thus broken as far as possible into the form desired, and it is afterwards ground with emery powder upon a lead wheel until the precise size and form are obtained.
ref: 1857, “The applications of improved machinery and materials to art-manufacture”, in The Art Journal, page 112:
text: Press the smalti into the adhesive in a rainbow pattern along the frame, with as small a gap as possible between the pieces.
ref: 2005, Reham Aarti Jacobsen, Mosaics for the First Time, page 38:
glosses: A piece of coloured glass used in mosaic.
subnitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnitrates
Etymology: From sub- + nitrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed hydroxide and nitrate
Derived terms: bismuth subnitrate
Masa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Massa (“Chadic ethnic group”).
Masa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Massa (“Chadic language”).
Masa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masas
Etymology: From Japanese まさ (Masa).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Related terms: Massa
malleoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malleolus
smalti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smalto
Yuli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹlēʹ
Forms: form: Yü-li
Etymology: From Mandarin 玉里 (Yùlǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Sunday's quakes damaged the east coast railroad at seven places in the 75-mile stretch between Hualien and Taitung.
Hualien, hard hit by quakes that killed about 100 persons Oct. 22 and 23, suffered no casualties Sunday.
The rail towns of Yuli and Fuli 50 and 60 miles south, bore the bunt of the Sunday tremors.
ref: 1951 November 26, “15 Killed, Over 200 Hurt In Latest Formosa Quakes”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 118, number 279, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, columns 6, 7:
text: Construction will begin in July 1978 from Hsinyi in Nantou county on the west side and in 1979 from Yuli in Hualien county on the east side.
ref: 1976 August 22, “New highway across island to be built in '78”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: During the 14-year period, the clinic treated 140,000 patients. They extended the clinics to two nearby towns, Yuli and Taitung.
ref: 2010, Mark O'Neill, “Beginnings”, in Tzu Chi: Serving with Compassion, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan killed at least one person and collapsed at least one building in the town of Yuli in Hualien County.[…]
A worker at a cement factory in the town of Yuli died after equipment collapsed on him during the earthquake, Taiwan’s state-run Central News Agency said. Emergency crews were able to rescue four people who had been trapped in a building that collapsed in Yuli.
ref: 2022 September 18, Austin Ramzy, “Powerful Earthquake Strikes Taiwan, Killing at Least 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2022:
glosses: An urban township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
Yuli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹlēʹ
Forms: form: Yü-li
Etymology: From Mandarin 尉犁 (Yùlí).
Senses: examples: text: For example, during the reign of Han Cho Ti (86-74 B.C.) there were more than 500,000 mows of irrigated farmlands around Luntai (Lun-dai) and Yuli (Werli) cities in the lower reaches of the Tarim River.[...]Thus, the ancient extensive farmlands around Luntai and Yuli have now been all turned into shifting sands, and the famous ancient Loulan Kingdom, located at the western side of Lop Nur, has been utterly devastated into a wild landscape of yardang and barchan dunes.
ref: 1984, Farouk El-Baz, editor, Deserts and Arid Lands, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:
text: A 1987 study listed 25,000 speakers of the Lop Nur Uygur language in the eastern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.¹ They live near Lop Nur Lake, in a widespread area which includes Yuli County and Miran Township of Ruogiang County.
ref: 2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 529:
text: In the current wave of relocations, more than 700 families on land reclaimed from the Tarim River are being moved to farmland near Yuli county, about an hour south of Korla, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
ref: 2006 April 3, Guljekre, Luisetta Mudie, “China Moves Farmers as Tarim River Waters Dwindle”, in Sarah Jackson-Han, editor, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2008:
text: During the 24 years from 1959 to 1983, the desert area increased from 66.23% to 81.23%, especially in the lower reach of the Tarim River. Stormy weather increases over time. For example, in the Yuli County (located in the lower reach of the Tarim River) the days of sandstorms were 108 days in the 1970s, which was about two times of that in the 1960s. At present, the number of days of sandstorms are 130 days and the days of dust are 180 days.
ref: 2007, Chen Yaning et al., “Ecological impacts of water resources utilization in the Tarim River Basin of China”, in Changes in Water Resources Systems: Methodologies to Maintain Water Security and Ensure Integrated Management, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Yuli, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: Wei-li
Kele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Bantu ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Synonyms: Lokele
Kele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
arsenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenites
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxyanion of trivalent arsenic, especially the AsO₃³⁻ anion (or protonated derivatives); any salt containing this anion, or any ester of arsenious acid
Derived terms: acetoarsenite
arsenitian
diarsenite
thioarsenite
Related terms: arsenate
biarsenite
metaarsenite
orthoarsenite
polyarsenite
banya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːnjə/
Forms: form: banyas
Etymology: From Russian ба́ня f (bánja). Doublet of bagnio, bain, and balaneion.
Senses: examples: text: The Russian public steam bath (banya) is a cultural hybrid which borrows freely from the Finnish sauna and the Turkish political detention centre.
ref: 1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and in some parts of Alaska as well).
carry the message to Garcia
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: carries the message to Garcia
form: carrying the message to Garcia
form: carried the message to Garcia
form: carried the message to Garcia
Etymology: A paraphrase of a quotation from an essay in 1899, "A Message to Garcia", concerning Calixto García.
Senses: examples: text: 1922, David Starr Jordan, The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy, World Book Co., page 148,
... its demand being for men who could face difficult decisions and achieve results, who could "carry the message to Garcia" without delay or dallying.
text: ...determined to always carry the message to Garcia, irrespective of adverse conditions and circumstances.
ref: 1954, National Association of Training Schools, The Proceedings, page 15:
synonyms: deliver the message to Garcia
glosses: To perform a requisite task despite obstacles.
examples: 1932, William Carl Ruediger, Teaching Procedures, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 410,
...do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the Message to Garcia!
2005, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The Mad Cook of Pymatuning: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 30,
"And leaders will emerge. Men who can take the initiative, carry the message to Garcia. That's what I want." [The character in the novel said these words in 1952.]
glosses: To perform a requisite task without having been informed specifically by what method to do so.
machine-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: machine-guns
form: machine-gunning
form: machine-gunned
form: machine-gunned
Senses: glosses: To fire a machine gun
examples: text: During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out.
ref: 1980 December 6, “Thank You”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 4:
glosses: To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun
examples: text: The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the period.
ref: 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16:
glosses: To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.
made-to-measure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Designed and made to individual specifications. (usually of men's clothing)
made-to-order
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare bespoke, as similar derivation of “made to request” from “speech, command”.
Senses: glosses: Made for a specific individual, but not always to individual specifications.
Synonyms: also: Thesaurus:custom-made
Related terms: custom-built
made-to-measure
mailbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/
Forms: form: mailbags
form: mail bag
Etymology: From mail + bag.
Senses: examples: text: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
ref: 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581:
synonyms: mailsack
glosses: A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail.
synonyms: postbag
hypernyms: bag
sack
poke
glosses: A smaller bag, slung from the shoulder, used by a mail carrier during the delivery of mail.
examples: text: In our mailbag this month, we've got no less than 12 letters from those of you who think that Jones should not have been benched.
coordinate_terms: mailbox
postbox
letter box
;
postbox
post office box
glosses: The correspondence received by a publishing entity such as a magazine or website.
Related terms: mail carrier
mailman
mailwoman
mail-order
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mail-orders
form: mail-ordering
form: mail-ordered
form: mail-ordered
Senses: examples: text: If you want to buy one of the albums reviewed in my article, or any women's music recording, it's not necessary to mail order them unless you can't get to a store. Thanks to Merle and other local distributors around the country, many stores carry women's music.
ref: 1984 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Paise For Local Distributors”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:
glosses: To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.
Related terms: mailorder
mail order
mailorder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Ordered to be delivered to one's home
Derived terms: mail-order bride
Related terms: mail-order
mail order
maintop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintops
Etymology: From main + top.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.
Related terms: maintopman
make-do
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more make-do
form: most make-do
Etymology: Deverbal from make do.
Senses: glosses: improvised, makeshift
make-do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: make-dos
Etymology: Deverbal from make do.
Senses: examples: text: Even the play-acting of destructive power is only a run-through, or make-do, for the real thing, a way of familiarizing the participants to these roles when the real thing comes along.
ref: 1980 April 12, Audre Lorde, “On The Erotic”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
synonyms: word: band-aid
word: band-aid solution
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: fiddle
word: hack
word: hack job
word: jugaad
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: lash-up
word: make-do
word: makeshift
word: patch
word: patch-up
word: put-together
word: quick-and-dirty
word: quick fix
word: stopgap
word: workaround
glosses: A temporary or makeshift expedient.
Related terms: make do
make do and mend
makings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of making
makings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have bread, mayonnaise, mustard, turkey, and lettuce: all the makings of a sandwich as far as I'm concerned.
text: The project has the makings of success: a strong leader, a committed workforce, and a workable plan.
text: He has the makings of a fine leader, and we, the nominating committee, are pleased to present him to the membership as our candidate.
text: Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and / A great, big expression of happiness / […] / The joy of children laughing around you / These are the makings of you / It is true, the makings of you
ref: 1970, “The Makings of You”, in Curtis, performed by Curtis Mayfield:
glosses: That which is needed for something: necessary ingredients.
appendectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendectomy
colonoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonoscopy
curated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curate
curated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: examples: text: Literature-based knowledge vendors often claim to lease various products, including algorithmically extracted facts, and human-curated literature references.
glosses: Produced by curatorial process; reviewed by a curator.
Derived terms: noncurated
uncurated
crappier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crappy: more crappy
crappiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crappy: most crappy
equiaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌiː.kwiˈæk.si.əl/
/ˌɛk.wi-/
Etymology: From equi- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Having equal-length axes.
Derived terms: equiaxially
inequiaxial
lunacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunacy
correctnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correctness
rightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rightnesses
Etymology: From Middle English rightnesse, riȝtnesse, rihtnesse, from Old English rihtnes, rehtnis, from Proto-West Germanic *rehtanassī (“rightness, justice”), equivalent to right + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian rjochtens (“rightness”), Middle Dutch rechtenesse (“rightness, justification”), Old High German rehtnissa (“justice”).
Senses: antonyms: error
wrongness
glosses: The characteristic of being right; correctness.
glosses: The result or product of being right; something correct.
examples: text: I think we are inclined to think the leftness and rightness can be represented because there is a word in our language that means left, and another that means right, and we understand those words.
ref: 1996, Robert Cummins, Representations, Targets, and Attitudes, page 105:
antonyms: leftness
glosses: The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.
rightnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rightness
erethism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹɪθɪzəm/
Forms: form: erethisms
Etymology: From French éréthisme, from Ancient Greek ἐρεθισμός (erethismós), from ἐρεθίζειν (erethízein, “to irritate”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abnormal excitement of a bodily organ or tissue.
examples: text: Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.
ref: 1978, Robert Hurley, translated by Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume I, Penguin, page 32:
glosses: Any unusual or morbid overexcitement.
synonyms: erethism mercurialis
mad hatter disease
mad hatter syndrome
glosses: A neurological disorder arising from mercury poisoning, leading to irritability, depression, etc.
Derived terms: erethismic
Related terms: erethistic
erethic
clown shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clown shoes
Etymology: Typically worn by clowns.
Senses: glosses: A comedically oversized shoe, usually brightly colored and with a bulbous front.
examples: text: Sorry, clown shoe. I'm not going to click any tinyurl link that you provide […]
ref: 2006 February 15, Jason Bell, “The Muhammed Cartoons”, in rec.sport.basketball.college (Usenet), message-ID <8AOIf.13460$915.7816@southeast.rr.com>:
text: What a fucking clown shoe you are, Billy. Ya got nothing.
ref: 2007 April 23, “Gonzo goes down in flames”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), message-ID <1177345606.310210.218960@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>:
text: You have no "professional reputation," you fucking clown shoe.
ref: 2015 March 15, “Rand Paul’s claim — twice in one day — that he has a biology degree..”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), message-ID <8adac9fe-43e7-458e-8de6-e48eb8218c9c@googlegroups.com>:
glosses: An incompetent or foolish person.
clown shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clown shoe
pfennige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pfennig
put the wind up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the wind up
form: putting the wind up
form: put the wind up
form: put the wind up
Senses: examples: P. G. Wodehouse
I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.
glosses: To frighten or disturb.
Related terms: get the wind up
have the wind up
in all likelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 2, in Jane Eyre:
text: [I]f your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence . . . do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Very probably; almost certainly; in all probability.
get to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets to
form: getting to
form: got to
form: got to
form: gotten to
Senses: examples: text: I’ll call you when I get to the railway station.
text: Will you please stop waffling and get to the point!
text: Eventually we got to talking about my pay rise.
text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To reach or arrive at (a physical or abstract destination, or state of doing a certain activity).
examples: text: Where has Jane got to? She was here just a moment ago.
text: So that's where my keys got to! I've been looking all over for them.
glosses: To go to or be located at (a particular place).
raw_tags: of someone or something that is or has been missing
examples: text: You won't get to have any dessert until you finish your vegetables.
text: The winner of a confrontation gets to mate
ref: 1999, Saul Stahl, American Mathematical Society, A Gentle Introduction to Game Theory, page 144:
text: Tolzmann argues that it is not necessarily the most perceived 'global' city that actually gets to host the Games.
ref: 2016, David Hassan, Shakya Mitra, editors, The Olympic Games: Meeting New Global Challenges:
glosses: To be allowed to.
examples: text: This job’s really getting to me. I don’t know how much longer I’ll last.
glosses: To affect adversely; to upset or annoy.
examples: text: He’s refusing to testify. I think the Mob got to him.
glosses: To attack, intimidate or kill; to corrupt or bribe.
examples: text: He got to his chores in the afternoon.
glosses: To begin (something); to get around to doing (something).
Related terms: word: get at
english: have got to
translation: have got to
word: gotta
raw_tags: of have to
Miranda rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: plural of Miranda right: constitutional rights outlined in the Miranda warning.
Miranda right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miranda rights
Etymology: From Miranda v. Arizona, the usual name for a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of certain rights.
Senses: examples: text: The suspect quickly invoked his Miranda rights.
topics: law
glosses: A constitutional right outlined in the Miranda warning.
Related terms: Miranda rule
Miranda warning
Mirandize
Miranda warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miranda warnings
Etymology: From Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the usual name for a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of certain rights, after Ernesto Miranda.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A warning given by a law enforcement officer to criminal suspects in his custody advising them of certain constitutional rights, called their Miranda rights.
wikipedia: Ernesto Miranda
Related terms: Miranda card
Miranda right
Miranda rule
Mirandize
undoubting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + doubting.
Senses: examples: text: And we shall have an undoubting assurance that that this Kingdom is in such a measure within us, as will ripen to perfection in due time.
ref: 1665, George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, London, page 75:
text: And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.
ref: 1787, Jonathan Edwards, Treatise concerning the religious affections, New York, N.Y.: Robert Hodge, page 196:
text: With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 88:
text: It was the part of a gentleman to preserve a bearing that was, as far as he could make it, the bearing of an undoubting lover.
ref: 1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter XXIV, in Night and Day:
text: This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.
ref: 2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B:
topics: location
region
states
qualifier: beliefs
glosses: Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
raw_tags: of mind
of persons
Derived terms: undoubtingly
organ of state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organs of state
Senses: glosses: Any of the three primary divisions of a state’s sovereignty (namely, the executive, the legislature, or the judiciary); the powers of each having been divided and balanced in accordance with the political principle of the separation of powers.
Related terms: branch of government
organs of state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ of state
dinkum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋkəm/
Forms: form: more dinkum
form: most dinkum
Etymology: Unknown. Earliest recorded use in the phrase fair dinkum in 1879, from Australia. Also recorded (slightly later) from Derbyshire and Lincolnshire dialect. Perhaps related to Gloucestershire dialect ding (“to work hard”).
Senses: examples: text: Hon. Sir Ross McLarty: We were always dinkum.
Mr. MAY: The ultimate result showed how dinkum the hon. member was.
ref: 1956, parliamentary debates (Western Australian Parliament), page 2194:
text: The dinkum Aussie everyone talks about, almost always with a certain unreal sentimentality, is clearly a worker.
ref: 1966, Craig McGregor, Profile of Australia, page 21:
text: Larry's jeep was behind mine, and as I went past an intersection, I saw a lot of their chaps around a dinkum super Mark VI tank — p'raps a Mark VII or VIII. I didn't have a chance for a proper dinkum look-see, what?
ref: 2004, A. J. Liebling, Direction: Paris: Mollie and Other War Pieces, page 242:
text: He explained that he was due to have a game of hazards that night with a couple of Italian prospectors and that he was doctoring the dice so that they would do just what he wanted them to do.
‘Tim, is this game dinkum?’ asked Ted.
Highly indignant that such a suspicion should arise, he replied angrily:
‘Of course it's dinkum. They'll have loaded dice too!’
ref: 2006, Ron Fitch, Australian Railwayman: From Cadet Engineer to Railways Commissioner, page 65:
glosses: Genuine, true, honest, on the level.
Synonyms: dinky-die
Derived terms: dinkum oil
fair dinkum
straight dinkum
dinkum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋkəm/
Etymology: Unknown. Earliest recorded use in the phrase fair dinkum in 1879, from Australia. Also recorded (slightly later) from Derbyshire and Lincolnshire dialect. Perhaps related to Gloucestershire dialect ding (“to work hard”).
Senses: glosses: Hard work.
examples: text: You look real jockey — thats' the dinkum.
ref: 1917, Ralph Albert Parlette, The Lyceum magazine, volume 27, page 20:
glosses: Truth.
culch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculch
form: scultch
form: kulch
form: cultch
Senses: glosses: The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
glosses: An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
glosses: Junk or debris.
culch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sculch
form: scultch
form: kulch
form: cultch
Senses: glosses: Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
culch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: culches
form: culching
form: culched
form: culched
form: sculch
form: scultch
form: kulch
form: cultch
Senses: glosses: To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.
head shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head shops
form: headshop
Etymology: From head + shop. First use appears c. 1966 in the defunct periodical East Village Other.
Senses: glosses: A retail outlet specializing in sale of paraphernalia related to consumption of cannabis, other recreational drugs, and New Age herbs, as well as generally selling counterculture art, magazines, music, clothing, and home decor.
wikipedia: East Village Other
head shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head shop
number line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number lines
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line that graphically represents the real numbers as a series of points whose distance from an origin is proportional to their value
Synonyms: number ray
number lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number line
separation of powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separations of powers
Senses: glosses: A theoretical model for governance, common in democratic states, which features the division of sovereign power into at least three (but sometimes up to six) organs of state in order to forestall tyranny, by preventing the acquisition of a monopoly of power by a monarch or oligarchy; also, such an arrangement.
Related terms: separation of duties
separations of powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separation of powers
decagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈkæɡənəl/
rhymes: -æɡənəl
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a decagon.
Derived terms: decagonally
decagonal number
separations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separation
any and all
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: any-and-all
Etymology: Used in legal documents for emphasis and exactness. For further etymology, see any and all.
Senses: examples: text: 1847 December 22, Abraham Lincoln, "Spot Resolutions" on Mexican War (resolutions offered in the United States House of Representatives), reproduced in 1907, Marion Mills Miller (editor), Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3,
Resolved, By the House of Representatives, that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House—
[…] Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east.
text: I, Howard P. Lovecraft of the city of Providence in the State of Rhode Island, being of sound mind and memory, make, execute and declare this instrument as my last will, hereby revoking any and all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.
ref: 1912 August 12, H. P. Lovecraft, Last Will and Testament of H.P. Lovecraft:
text: 2009 February 24, Ron Paul, bill # H.R.1146, American Sovereignty Restoration Act,
As of the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States will end any and all participation in any and all conventions and/or agreements with the United Nations and any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations. Any remaining functions of such conventions and/or agreements shall not be carried out.
topics: law
glosses: All without exception.
Synonyms: any and every
each and every
Related terms: bar none
world record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world records
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The world's best score or time for a certain event.
glosses: Any characteristic or accomplishment that exceeds all other instances of that characteristic or accomplishment.
Synonyms: world's record
WR
stenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stench
muses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: myo͞ozĭz
ipa: /mjuːzɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of muse
muses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: myo͞ozĭz
ipa: /mjuːzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muse
none of your bee's wax
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of none of your beeswax.
badgering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more badgering
form: most badgering
Senses: glosses: annoying; upsetting
Derived terms: badgeringly
badgering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of badger
badgering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badgerings
Senses: examples: text: Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.
ref: 1844, The Quarterly Review, volume 74, page 104:
glosses: The act of one who badgers, pesters, or annoys.
fractionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæk.ʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: fractionates
form: fractionating
form: fractionated
form: fractionated
Etymology: From fraction + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To separate (a mixture) into its individual constituents by exploiting differences in some chemical or physical property, such as boiling point, particle size, solubility etc.
qualifier: radiotherapy
glosses: To divide a total dose of radiation into fractions.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.
glosses: To use the technique of fractionation in hypnosis.
Derived terms: cofractionate
cofractionated
fractionator
oligofractionate
refractionate
subfractionate
Related terms: fractional distillation
fractionation
parquetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹkɪtɹi/
Forms: form: parquetries
Etymology: From parquet + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The new ballroom floor is a marvellous example of parquetry.
glosses: The technique of applying wooden tiles or veneers to create a decorative geometrical pattern on floors, furniture etc.
nonperishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perishable.
Senses: examples: text: Even among the skeptical and conservative, we're told, many withdrew a wad of extra cash and laid in some daysworth of nonperishable food and jugged water, as their government's Y2K advisors recommended.
ref: 2012, John Barth, Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995-, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 154:
synonyms: unperishable
glosses: Not perishable; not liable to spoil.
raw_tags: of food
nonperishable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonperishables
Etymology: From non- + perishable.
Senses: examples: text: If you are stocking up on groceries in case of being asked to self-quarantine, take the opportunity to talk to your kids about the challenges faced by people in need and consider donating nonperishables to a local food bank.
ref: 2020 November 3, Lisa Damour, “5 Ways to Help Teens Manage Anxiety About the Coronavirus”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: unperishable
glosses: That which does not perish, especially a foodstuff.
Midwest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Midwest
form: midwest
Etymology: From mid- + West.
Senses: synonyms: Middle West
glosses: The area of the contiguous United States contained in the central third of the country, especially the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, sometimes inclusive of Missouri and Kentucky.
glosses: A town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.
raw_tags: without 'the'
Derived terms: Midwest City
Midwest emo
Upper Midwest
DAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: dag
Forms: form: DAGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of deputy attorney general.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Acronym of directed acyclic graph.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of defense acquisition guide.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of diacylglycerol.
Derived terms: DAG lipase
fish hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish hooks
Etymology: (IPA character): Named because of its superficial resemblance to the hooks used in fishing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fishhook (a hook used in fishing)
glosses: The International Phonetic Alphabet /ɾ/ character LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK, used to represent an alveolar tap.
fish hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish hook
klansman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klansmen
Senses: examples: text: Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name
ref: 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:
text: The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.
ref: 1900, Albert Bushnell Hart with John Gould Curtis, American History Told by Contemporaries, page 851:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Klansman.
Related terms: clansman
Rolle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.
klansmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klansman
have the wind up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the wind up
form: having the wind up
form: had the wind up
form: had the wind up
Senses: glosses: To be frightened or disturbed.
Related terms: get the wind up
put the wind up
cereals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cereal
from cover to cover
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: cover to cover
Senses: examples: She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours.
glosses: From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.
quæstors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quæstor
scours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection.
glosses: A place where wool was washed and cleaned.
scours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scour
peavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peavies
form: peavee
form: peavey
form: peevee
Etymology: After Joseph Peavey, a blacksmith from Maine in the United States of America.
Senses: synonyms: dog hook
cant-dog
cant hook
peavey hook
glosses: A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.
Related terms: cant hook