cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sourpuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊə(ɹ)ˌpʊs/
Forms: form: sourpusses
form: sourpussing
form: sourpussed
form: sourpussed
Etymology: From sour (“bad-tempered”) + puss (“slang for mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, stop your sourpussing. We got what you needed.”
ref: 2006 August 6, Jackson Publick, “Twenty Years to Midnight” (11:16 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 2, episode 5, spoken by Pirate Captain (Christopher McCulloch):
glosses: To make a gloomy, sullen or miserable facial expression; to scowl.
mesothelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛsoʊˌθiliˈoʊmə/
/ˌmɛzoʊ-/
/ˌmɛsə-/
/ˌmɛzə-/
Forms: form: mesotheliomas
form: mesotheliomata
Etymology: From mesothelium + -oma.
Senses: examples: text: He died a few weeks later, his mesothelioma perhaps caused by the asbestos-lined ceiling he cracked open at 430 King's Road. [Malcom] McLaren had stood there regaling in the mess, while everybody else ran for safety.
ref: 2025 June 14, Paul Caruana Galizia, “Love, lies and punk”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: An uncommon malignant tumour of the mesothelium, usually of the lungs after exposure to asbestos.
Hypernyms: cancer
occupational disease
Coordinate terms: pneumoconiosis
asbestosis
teratoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɛɹəˈtəʊmə/
Forms: form: teratomas
form: teratomata
Etymology: From German Teratom; equivalent to terato- + -oma.
Senses: examples: text: ‘What is a teratoma?’ asked Jack, holding the object in his hand. ‘A kind of grenado?’ ‘It is an inward wen, a tumour: we find them, occasionally, in the abdominal cavity. Sometimes they contain long black hair, sometimes a set of teeth: this has both hair and teeth.’
ref: 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign or malignant tumour, especially of the gonads, that arises from germ cells and consists of different types of tissue such as skin, hair, or muscle.
Derived terms: growing teratoma syndrome
teratocellular
teratomatous
bet one's bottom dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets one's bottom dollar
form: betting one's bottom dollar
form: bet one's bottom dollar
form: bet one's bottom dollar
Senses: examples: text: He talks about it a lot, but I would bet my bottom dollar that he has never actually been there.
synonyms: bet a dollar to a doughnut
bet one's boots
bet one's life
bet the farm
stake one's life
glosses: To be absolutely sure of something; to be certain enough of something to wager everything.
court of last resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courts of last resort
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The final court of appeal in a jurisdiction; a supreme court.
Synonyms: english: the; usually prefaced with
translation: the; usually prefaced with
word: high court
behavioral force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavioral forces
Senses: glosses: Any type of influence, such as peer pressure, that compels people in a society to behave according to certain norms.
benefice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnɪfɪs/
Forms: form: benefices
Etymology: From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.
Senses: examples: text: If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: She saw how many, even of good men's children, profaned the ministry, […] that she was vehemently against addicting any to that office, that had not, besides good wits and parts, so great a love to God and souls, as to come to it with absolute self-denial, resolved to serve Christ at the dearest rates, and take his acceptance and the winning of souls for their benefice.
ref: 1681, Richard Baxter, “Her Desires to Do Good”, in Life of Mrs. Margaret Baxter. […] (Christian Biography), abridged edition, London: Religious Tract Society, […], published [1832], →OCLC, page 46:
text: There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 94:
glosses: Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
glosses: A favour or benefit.
qualifier: feudal law
glosses: An estate in lands; a fief.
Derived terms: beneficeless
Related terms: beneficence
beneficent
beneficial
curatage
curateship
curacy
glebe-house
parsonage
parsonship
rectorate
rectory
vicarage
vicarate
vicarship
benefice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnɪfɪs/
Forms: form: benefices
form: beneficing
form: beneficed
form: beneficed
Etymology: From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.
Senses: examples: text: There are two volumes, "The Open Door for Man's approach to God" (London, 1650) and "A Consideration of Infant Baptism" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn.
ref: 1917, George A. Stephen, Three Centuries of a City Library:
text: You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it?
ref: 1851, Horace Greeley, Glances at Europe:
glosses: To bestow a benefice upon
acculturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkʌl.t͡ʃəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: acculturations
Etymology: First attested in 1880; ad- (“toward”) + culture + -ation (“a process”); equivalent to acculturate + -ion
Senses: glosses: A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.
glosses: A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.
Derived terms: acculturate
acculturational
acculturationist
acculturation model
Related terms: acclimation
assimilation
autocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔːtə(ʊ)ˈsɛfələs/
Forms: form: more autocephalous
form: most autocephalous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοκέφαλος (autoképhalos), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). By surface analysis, auto- + -cephalous.
Senses: examples: text: The defenders of Anglican independence maintain that there were anciently Churches autocephalous, dependent on no patriarch, and refer to the Churches of Cyprus as thus constituted, and allege that the British Churches enjoyed the same right of self-government and ordained their own prelates.
ref: 1845, Francis Patrick Kenrick, The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated, Philadelphia, page 178:
text: Poroshenko's speech was viscerally anti-Russian, and his loudest applause line came when he vowed to establish an autocephalous (independent from Moscow) Ukrainian Orthodox Church patriarchate.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 447:
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: autonomous
glosses: Fully independent of the authority of any other church.
raw_tags: of a church
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: autonomous
glosses: Presiding over an autocephalous church.
raw_tags: of a bishop
examples: text: This is the Weberian continuum which stretches between the poles of “autocephalous” (self-organized and managing) and “heterocephalous” (organized and managed by others) occupations. […]In the more autocephalous occupations—the professions; the arts; independent accountants, draftsmen, and the like; independent small and medium businessmen in merchandising, manufacturing, artisanry, and the service trades—effective organization is less feasible.
ref: 1970, Ronald C. Newton, “On ‘Functional Groups,’ ‘Fragmentation,’ and ‘Pluralism’ in Spanish American Political Society”, in Hispanic American Historical Review, volume 50, number 1, →DOI, page 20:
synonyms: self-determined
self-directed
self-governing
antonyms: heterocephalous
coordinate_terms: autonomous
semiautonomous
sovereign
glosses: Independent; not governed by others.
Related terms: acephalous
acephaly
autocephalic
autocephality
autocephaly
disestablishmentarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disestablishmentarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In repeated instances, in fact, Priestman even goes so far as to suggest that disestablishmentarianism (in the arguments of Godwin, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Smith, and Robinson) is simply an early stop on the road toward a more politically radical, full-fledged atheism that is to be found at the endpoint of a conventional narrative of enlightenment.
ref: 2002 November 1, “Book Reviews”, in Modern Philology, volume 100, number 2, →ISSN, page 303:
glosses: The campaign to disestablish the Church of England.
Derived terms: antidisestablishmentarianism
disestablish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪˈstæblɪʃ/
Forms: form: disestablishes
form: disestablishing
form: disestablished
form: disestablished
Etymology: From dis- + establish.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, but the virtue of public education, it is said, is that it is secular and non-denominational. Don't count on it. Massachusetts, the last state to disestablish religion (1832), didn't until July of 1978 decide that it was unconstitutional for the public school system to subsidize religious schools through so-called textbook loans.
ref: 1978 December 9, Mitzel, “Post-Briggs Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 5:
text: Furthermore, disestablishing the Catholic church in February 1795 essentially instituted a free field in religious belief.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 556:
glosses: To deprive (an established church, military squadron, operations base, etc.) of its official status.
glosses: To abolish (an existing position of employment).
Synonyms: abolish
disempower
dissolve
unincorporate
Derived terms: antidisestablishmentarianism
disestablisher
disestablishment
disestablishmentarian
disestablishmentarianism
undisestablished
established church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: established churches
Senses: glosses: A church that is officially recognized as a national or state church by a government; in England it is the Church of England.
Synonyms: state church
Related terms: state religion
myeloma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelomas
form: myelomata
Etymology: From myelo- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: A malignant tumour arising from cells of the bone marrow, specifically plasma cells.
Derived terms: word: heteromyeloma
english: MM
translation: MM
word: multiple myeloma
word: myelomatoid
word: myelomatous
word: xanthomyeloma
theftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First recorded use in the plays of Webster circa 1580; especially apropos the virtue of a Lady: "her very soul and that other tenderness is there and theftable for any knave."
Senses: glosses: able to be stolen
Related terms: thief
thieve
fibroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪˈbɹoʊmə/
Forms: form: fibromas
form: fibromata
Etymology: From fibro- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: fibroid
glosses: A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue.
Derived terms: adenocarcinofibroma
adenofibroma
angiofibroma
chondrofibroma
cystofibroma
dermatofibroma
elastofibroma
fibromatogenesis
fibromatosis
fibromatous
fibromellar
gliofibroma
lipofibroma
myofibroma
myxofibroma
neurofibroma
neoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːoʊˌplæzəm/
Forms: form: neoplasms
Etymology: From neo- + plasm, after German Neoplasma.
Senses: examples: text: Other and less common causes for an oromaxillary fistula are infections, cysts and neoplasms of the maxilla which may destroy the intervening bone, resulting in a fistula between the maxillary sinus and the oral cavity.
ref: 1947, William Lincoln Ballenger, Howard Charles Ballenger, John Jacob Ballenger, Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, page 208:
text: While we cannot firmly attribute the cause of the benign neoplasm to the irregularity in your genetic makeup, we can confirm that the progressive damage renders you unable to conceive a child.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Miranda Lawson Dossier: Medical Correspondence:
text: Angiosarcoma is the most-common differentiated malignant neoplasm of the heart and accounts for 10–15% of primary cardiac malignancies.
ref: 2017, Gaballah AH, Jensen CT, “Angiosarcoma: clinical and imaging features from head to toe”, in The British journal of radiology, volume 90, number 1075, British Institute of Radiology, →DOI, →PMID:
topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal new growth of disorganized tissue in animals or plants.
Synonyms: tumour
Derived terms: antineoplasm
myeloproliferative neoplasm
neoplasia
neoplasmic
neoplastic
nonneoplasm
preneoplasm
atheroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheromas
form: atheromata
Etymology: From Latin athērōma (“tumor/mass full of gruel-like matter”), from Ancient Greek ἀθήρωμα (athḗrōma). By surface analysis, ather- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A kind of cyst on the scalp.
Synonyms: plaque
atherosis
Derived terms: atheromasia
atheromatic
atheromatosis
atheromatous
atheromic
fibroatheroma
microatheroma
preatheroma
proatheroma
Related terms: atherogenesis
atherosclerosis
ameloblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ameloblastomas
form: ameloblastomata
Etymology: From amelo- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rare benign tumour of the upper or lower jaw.
Derived terms: adenoameloblastoma
titanium white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanium whites
Senses: glosses: Titanium dioxide when used as a pigment.
phonoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonoscopes
Etymology: From phono- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device that shows images demonstrating the movement of a person's face as they speak.
glosses: An early kind of microphone.
Related terms: autophonoscope
photomicroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photomicroscopes
Etymology: From photo- + microscope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument (microscope plus camera) that is used for making photomicrographs.
Derived terms: photomicroscopic
stereophotomicroscope
polariscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polariscopes
Etymology: From polar + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A polarimeter.
Derived terms: polariscopic
polariscopist
polariscopy
spectropolariscope
telepolariscope
proctoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctoscopes
Etymology: From procto- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: a tube-like instrument, equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum; a rectoscope.
Related terms: proctoscopy
rectoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectoscopes
Etymology: From recto- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A proctoscope.
radarscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radarscopes
Etymology: From radar + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An oscilloscope used as the viewing screen of a radar system.
resectoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛktəskəʊp/
Forms: form: resectoscopes
Etymology: From resect + -o- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: If there is much fibrosis or sclerosis of the bladder neck, a resectoscope may be used to take a few “bites” of this tissue in much the same manner that a transurethral resection is done on the male prostate.
ref: 1951 January, Gordon W. Reynolds, “The Female Urethra and Chronic Urethritis”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 1, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 34:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A hollow and flexible surgical instrument typically inserted through the urethra or vagina, used for performing a biopsy or resection at the level of the prostate, uterus, or urinary bladder.
Related terms: resectoscopic
retinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinoscopes
Etymology: From retino- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for examining the refraction of light within the eye.
Synonyms: skiascope
Related terms: retinoscopic
retinoscopically
retinoscopist
retinoscopy
skiascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiascopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A retinoscope.
Related terms: skiascopy
riflescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riflescopes
Etymology: From rifle + scope.
Senses: glosses: A telescopic sight for a rifle.
roentgenoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roentgenoscopes
Etymology: From Röntgen + -o- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A fluoroscope.
seismoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismoscopes
Etymology: From seismo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that indicates the occurrence of an earthquake.
sigmoidoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigmoidoscopes
Etymology: From sigmoid + -o- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument used for examining the sigmoid colon.
spectrohelioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrohelioscopes
Etymology: From spectro- + helioscope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for observing solar radiation.
Related terms: spectroheliograph
slogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slogos
Etymology: Blend of slogan + logo
Senses: glosses: A corporate slogan used as a logo.
spectroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectroscopes
Etymology: From spectro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis .
Derived terms: spectroscopic
spectroscopical
spectroscopically
Related terms: spectrograph
spectrometer
spinthariscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinthariscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπινθαρίς (spintharís, “spark”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An early device for observing individual nuclear disintegrations.
statoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statoscopes
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for indicating or recording small changes in barometric pressure or in the altitude of an aircraft.
stereomicroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereomicroscopes
form: stereo microscope
Etymology: From stereo- + microscope.
Senses: examples: text: Taxon sampling will include ten specimens with multiple males and females per species, or as much as is available, and examined to acquire morphological character data with various stereomicroscopes, compound microscopes, scanning electron microscope, and/or a laser scanner.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, SYSTEMATICS OF HYPER-DIVERSE MOTH SUPERFAMILIES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON AGRICULTURAL PESTS, INVASIVE SPECIES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS, AND FOOD SECURITY:
synonyms: dissecting microscope
glosses: a microscope with two eyepieces, used for observing stereoscopic images
Related terms: stereomicroscopic
stereomicroscopy
stereophotomicroscope
stereoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕrēōskōp
ipa: /ˈstɛɹioʊ̯skoʊ̯p/
Forms: form: stereoscopes
Etymology: From stereo- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: The idea has been repeated under different aspects; sometimes, possibly, it has been repeated too often; but different aspects in such a case do help, as in a stereoscope, to give solidity to the thing seen.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 17:
glosses: An instrument used for viewing pairs of stereoscopic photographs.
tachistoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachistoscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάχιστος (tákhistos, “most fast”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device that displays a series of brief images; used by psychologists to investigate perception, memory and learning.
Related terms: tachistoscopic
tachistoscopically
tachistoscopy
telestereoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telestereoscopes
Etymology: From tele- + stereo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A binocular telescope used for producing a stereoscopic image of a distant object.
Related terms: telestereoscopic
telestereoscopy
telethermoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telethermoscopes
Etymology: From tele- + thermoscope.
Senses: glosses: A device used for measuring and recording the temperature of distant objects.
ultramicroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicroscopes
Etymology: From ultra- + microscope.
Senses: glosses: a microscope that uses bright illumination against a black background to view small particles
urethroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urethroscopes
Etymology: From urethro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for examining the interior of the urethra.
Related terms: urethroscopy
zymoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymoscopes
Etymology: From zymo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zymometer.
synonyms: word: zymometer
vituperous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vituperous
form: most vituperous
Etymology: From French vitupéreux, from Late Latin vituperosus, from Latin vituperare (“to blame, censure”), from vitium (“fault, defect”) + parare (“to furnish, provide, contrive”).
Senses: glosses: Vituperative.
glosses: Worthy of blame.
Synonyms: vituperative
Related terms: vituperable
vituperant
vituperate
vituperation
vituperative
vituperatively
vituperator
vituperatory
vituperously
sandspit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandspits
Etymology: From sand + spit.
Senses: glosses: A small sandy point of land or a narrow shoal projecting into a body of water from the shore
aborigine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Forms: form: aborigines
Etymology: Back-formation from aborigines.
Senses: glosses: A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.
glosses: The native flora and fauna of an area.
Derived terms: Aboriginal
nonaborigine
sark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑːk
Forms: form: sarks
Etymology: From Middle English serk, sark, serke, from Old English serċ, sierċ m; and serċe, sierċe f (“sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail”), from Proto-West Germanic *sarki, from Proto-Germanic *sarkiz (“shirt, armour, hauberk”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg-, *swerk- (“clothes worn outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to arrange, tack, tie, unite”).
Cognate with Scots sark, serk (“shirt, shift”), North Frisian serk (“shirt”), Danish særk (“gown, shirt”), Swedish särk (“shirt, chemise”), Icelandic serkur (“nightshirt”).
Senses: examples: text: The next thing the watchers saw was the laird struggling up the far bank and casting his coat from him, so that he rode in his sark.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mail sark and ripped downward. The whole front came away, and Iofur lurched sideways to look at the damage, leaving lorek to scramble upright again.
ref: 2007, Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, Bluefire, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: A shirt or smock.
Derived terms: sarkless
Related terms: battle-sark
berserk
sarkit
sark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑːk
Forms: form: sarks
form: sarking
form: sarked
form: sarked
Senses: glosses: To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
herm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːm/
ipa: /ˈhɜɹm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: herms
Etymology: From Hermes.
Senses: examples: herma
glosses: A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration.
herm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːm/
ipa: /ˈhɜɹm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Senses: glosses: Clipping of hermaphrodite.
herm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːm/
ipa: /ˈhɜɹm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: herms
Senses: glosses: Clipping of hermaphrodite.
Derived terms: hermie
merm
romans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roman
exhaustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔːs.t͡ʃən/
Forms: form: exhaustions
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustiō, from exhauriō. Surface analysis: exhaust + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
glosses: The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
examples: text: I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An exhaustive procedure
Derived terms: heat exhaustion
operational exhaustion
overexhaustion
proof by exhaustion
sexhaustion
Related terms: exhaust
exhaustedness
declassification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: declassifications
Etymology: From de- + classification.
Senses: glosses: The process of declassifying.
eka-actinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + actinium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: unbiunium (element 121)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: untriennium (dvi-lanthanum) (element 139)
blood clots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood clot
rice rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice rats
Senses: glosses: A New World rat of the genus Oryzomys, having an exceptionally long tail.
glosses: A rat of the species Oryzomys palustris, found in rice fields and grassy marshes of Mexico, Central America and the southern United States.
Synonyms: sense: Oryzomys palustris
word: marsh rice rat
Derived terms: big-headed rice rat
large-headed rice rat
marsh rice rat
OOTO
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of out of the office.
blood clot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood clots
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: thrombus
glosses: A clot formed from platelets and other elements; that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.
mud wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudwrestling
Senses: examples: text: "I don't like female mudwrestling, It's stupid, it's embarrassing"
ref: 1986, High fidelity, Volume 36, Issues 1-6; Volume 36, Issues 1-6
text: There is also the story of the brave young man who makes his living mudwrestling with anacondas.
ref: 1994, John Coborn, John Coborn, The mini-atlas of snakes of the world, Snippet:
text: They were like mudwrestling, a spectator sport that had sprouted up during the seventies and eighties
ref: 1995, Anne Taylor Fleming, Anne Taylor Fleming, Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey, Snippet:
text: a superbly researched and fascinating foray into the netherworld of the daytime television mudwrestling arena.
ref: 1998, Joshua Gamson, Freaks talk back: tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity, page 302:
text: There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual:
ref: 1998 Aug, Vibe, page 44:
text: and include everything from campouts to contests to select a leatherman or Ieatherboy to mudwrestling events.
ref: 2005, Scott Thumma, Edward R. Gray, Gay religion, page 343:
glosses: A form of entertainment in which people wrestle in mud.
examples: text: We know our school system is beset by mayhem and indifference. We know all about the petty, niece-nephew-and-cousin-hiring satraps who populate the local school boards. And we know about the political mud-wrestling matches over too many millions of dollars and thousands of bureaucrats to imagine.
ref: 1996 February 26, Michael Tomasky, “Kids Say the Darnedest Things”, in New York Magazine:
text: When will we stop the political mud wrestling and begin to wrestle with the most potentially destructive force ever to challenge this Nation?
ref: 2002 November 15–December 16, Congressional Record, volume 148, Part 17, page 23051:
text: Voting isn't seen as a civic duty when politicians aren't civil. Think about the country's love affair with the presidency during JFK's Camelot era, and contrast that to the mud wrestling of today. For many, either the love affair is over, or the spark never even sparked.
ref: 2004, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, The F-word: feminism in jeopardy: women, politics, and the future, page 237:
glosses: A dirty and disreputable dispute.
Related terms: mud wrestler
mudwrestler
rye bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rye breads
form: ryebread
Senses: glosses: A bread made partly or entirely with rye flour.
Derived terms: corn rye bread
Jewish rye bread
marble rye bread
Swedish rye bread
sweet rye bread
grapplehook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grapplehooks
Etymology: From grapple + hook.
Senses: glosses: a grappling hook
rhinoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinoplasties
Etymology: From rhino- + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Sundine specializes in facelifts, necklifts and browlifting, eyelid surgery, as well as rhinoplasty, which involves both technically exacting skill and a keen eye for aesthetic balance.
ref: 2008 January 24, Orange Coast, page 190:
text: Those can be signs of emotional immaturity, said Casas, a plastic surgeon in Chicago, Illinois. About 10 percent of her teenage rhinoplasty patients are boys.
ref: 2010 May 4, Madison Park, “Teen's daintier new nose carries bigger regret”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose.
examples: text: Gone is the era of the cookie-cutter, ski jump nose. Today’s cosmetic doctors are approaching rhinoplasties with a more artistic, individualized approach, using new surgical and nonsurgical techniques to refine rather than revamp one of the most prominent features of the face.
ref: 2020 December 8, Tatiana Boncompagni, “The New Nose: Is the Bump Back?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:
glosses: An instance of such surgery; one operation (procedure).
Synonyms: nasoplasty
nose job
noselift
Derived terms: rhinoplastic
Related terms: facelift
facioplasty
eudemonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eudaimonia.
hyporheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by Traian Orghidan in 1959 by combining two Greek words: hypo (below) and rheos (flow).
Senses: glosses: beneath or alongside the bed of a stream, where water percolates through interstices between the rocks leading to mixing of groundwater and surface water
yarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈjæɹoʊ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: yarrows
Etymology: From Middle English ȝarowe, yarowe, yarwe, from Old English ġearwe, from Proto-West Germanic *garwā (“yarrow, yarrow-like herbs”), perhaps derived from *garu (“prepared, ready (of food)”), as the plant was used medicinally for digestion.
Cognate with Dutch gerw (“yarrow”) and German (Schaf-)garbe.
Senses: examples: text: Yarrow is one of the aboriginal English plants, and from time immemorial it has been used in incantations and by witches. Country folk still regard it as one of our most valuable herbs, especially for rheumatism.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, Longmans, Green and Co.:
glosses: Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
examples: text: The Yarrow, where-with-all he stops the wound-made gore:
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 218:
text: “Oh, yarrow! This is it,” she said, extracting a single long stemmed ferny grass with clusters of small white flowers from the bouquet in her hand.
ref: 1979, Victor Kaplan, The Woman who Gathered Yarrow; The Box; Miss Vesey's Other Leg, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus.
Synonyms: sense: Achillea spp.
word: milfoil
sense: Achillea spp.
word: achillea
sense: Achillea millefolium
word: devil's nettle
sense: Achillea millefolium
word: sanguinary
sense: Achillea millefolium
word: soldier's woundwort
sense: Achillea millefolium
word: thousand-leaf
word: yarrow
word: bloodwort
word: nosebleed plant
word: old man's pepper
word: European green woodpecker
word: hewhole
word: hickwall
word: green woodpecker
word: whetile
word: whitwall
word: yaffingale
word: yaffle
word: yaffler
word: yockel
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Achillea distans
word: Alps yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea alpina
word: Chinese yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea aegyptiaca
word: Egyptian yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea filipendulina
word: fernleaf yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea ligustica
word: Ligurian yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea nobilis
word: noble yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea sibirica
word: Siberian yarrow
word: sneezewort yarrow
taxonomic: Achillea ageratum
word: sweet yarrow
word: common yarrow
word: maudlin
word: sweet maudlin
Derived terms: golden yarrow
yellow yarrow
yarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈjæɹoʊ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: yarrows
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps imitative of the bird's cry; compare yaffle, hewhole.
Senses: glosses: A green woodpecker, of species Picus viridis.
Synonyms: word: achillea
word: milfoil
word: yarrow
word: bloodwort
word: devil's nettle
word: nosebleed plant
word: old man's pepper
word: sanguinary
word: soldier's woundwort
word: thousand-leaf
word: European green woodpecker
word: hewhole
word: hickwall
word: green woodpecker
word: whetile
word: whitwall
word: yaffingale
word: yaffle
word: yaffler
word: yockel
Hyponyms: word: common yarrow
word: maudlin
word: sweet maudlin
word: sweet yarrow
Haidinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A crater on the Moon.
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
Etymology: From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).
Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną.
Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).
Senses: examples: text: Mike hit the bottom and picked up a little ding on his head.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
text: If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles.
ref: 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014
glosses: Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
examples: text: I just got my first ding letter.
glosses: A rejection.
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
form: dinging
form: dinged
form: dang
form: dinged
form: dang
form: dung
Etymology: From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).
Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną.
Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).
Senses: glosses: To hit or strike.
examples: text: to ding the book a coit's distance from him
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: The butcher's axe (like great Alcides' bat) / Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat.
ref: 1630, Taylor's Works:
glosses: To dash; to throw violently.
examples: text: If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.
ref: 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014
glosses: To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
examples: text: His top school dinged him last week.
glosses: To fire or reject.
examples: text: My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
text: […] [E]mployees don't feel like they're going to get dinged on performance reviews because they had the same goals as a guy who had been there all 12 months with no leave.
ref: 2015 August 7, Ron Lieber, “Bringing paternity leave into the mainstream [print version: Paid leave expands for fathers, but will there be any takers?, International New York Times, 10 August 2015, p. 14]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To mishit (a golf ball).
examples: text: The night turn'd dark an' dang on rain, […]
ref: 1821, William Liddle (of Edinburgh.), Poems on different occasions, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, page 226:
text: An awfu' show'r o' sna' and drift / As ever dang down frae the lift; / Right wild an' monstrous Boreas roar'd.
ref: 1832, John Burness, Thrummy Cap, a Tale [in Verse]; and The Brownie O' Fearnden, a Ballad, page 4:
text: It's dingin' on, isn't?
ref: 1876, Alec Forbes, MacDonald, page 193:
glosses: To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
raw_tags: of rain
Derived terms: ding up
Related terms: dingbat
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,
Senses: glosses: The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The act of levelling up.
Derived terms: dingless
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
form: dinging
form: dinged
form: dinged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,
Senses: examples: text: The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
text: These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
examples: text: If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.
ref: 1884, Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists:
glosses: To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To level up.
Derived terms: dinger
Related terms: bud-bud-ding-ding
ding-a-ling
ding ding
ding, ding, ding, we have a winner
ding dong
ding dong cart
ding-dong ditch
ding-dong theory
dingthrift
ring-a-ding
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
form: ding
form: ting
Etymology: Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
Etymology: From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).
Senses: glosses: An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
Derived terms: ding right
ding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: dings
Senses: glosses: an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
shaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪpə(ɹ)/
enpr: shāʹpər
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shapers
Etymology: From Middle English shapper, shapere, schapare, scaper, scheppere, schuppere, alteration (perhaps due to Old Norse skaperi, skapari) of Old English sċyppend, sċieppend (“shaper; maker; creator”), equivalent to shape + -er. Cognate with Dutch schepper, German Schöpfer, Danish skaber, Swedish skapare, Icelandic skapari.
Senses: examples: text: one's birth is a shaper of one's fortunes
text: Considered merely as works of art, these products of the Greek imagination [i.e., Greek tragedies] satisfy our highest conception of form. […] The secret of those old shapers died with them; their wand is broken, their book sunk deeper than ever plummet sounded.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Dante”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 98:
glosses: Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
A person who designs and builds surfboards.
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
Coordinate terms: slotter
others at machine tool § Hyponyms
Derived terms: body shaper
partial shaper
Related terms: glasser
shaping
postgrad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postgrads
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of postgraduate.
postgrad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of postgraduate.
Related terms: undergrad
glasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassers
form: glassy
Etymology: From glass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The glasser wraps the board in a thin, brittle layer of fiberglass and resin
ref: 1999 January 24, Surfer Magazine, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2005:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A person who applies fibreglass and resin to a surfboard during its manufacture.
glosses: A glass marble.
examples: text: One of the keys to glassing effectively is supporting your binoculars. Advanced glassers who scan lots of country for long periods of time, or who use binoculars of 10X power or more, often use a lightweight camera tripod […]
ref: 2000, Field & Stream, volume 105, number 6, page 87:
glosses: One who uses field glasses or binoculars.
Holy Week
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Eastertime < calendar
Meronyms: Palm Sunday; Holy Monday; Holy Tuesday; Holy Wednesday, Good Wednesday, Spy Wednesday; Holy Thursday, Maundy Thursday, Green Thursday, Sheer Thursday, White Thursday; Holy Friday, Good Friday, Black Friday, Golden Friday, Great Friday, Pasch of the Cross; Holy Saturday, Black Saturday
related: word: Easter Week[following on]] from Easter Sunday, inclusive of it>
glosses: The week preceding Easter; each of its days is a holy day.
roister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔɪstə/
ipa: /ˈɹɔɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: roisters
form: roistering
form: roistered
form: roistered
form: royster
Etymology: From Old French rustre, from Latin rusticus. Doublet of rustic.
Senses: examples: text: Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: He loved Rick and gave the best years of his life, now to roistering with him, now to hanging on to his coat-tails.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
synonyms: carouse
revel
riot
glosses: To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
synonyms: swagger
glosses: To walk with a swaying motion.
Derived terms: roisterer
roisterous
roisterously
roister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔɪstə/
ipa: /ˈɹɔɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: roisters
form: royster
Etymology: From Old French rustre, from Latin rusticus. Doublet of rustic.
Senses: examples: text: He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.
ref: 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: The youth who had joined the roisters, was apparently about eighteen[…]
ref: 1839, The New Monthly Magazine, page 411:
glosses: A roisterer.
examples: text: The servants went out on the roister after getting paid.
glosses: A session of noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
Synonyms: roister-doister
sutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sutors
Etymology: From Latin sūtor.
Senses: glosses: shoemaker; cobbler.
clots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clot
clots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clot