cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
retrofitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrofitters
Etymology: From retrofit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who retrofits.
retrofitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrofitter
curvative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: curvative force
glosses: Having slightly curved margins or sides.
curvatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curvative
revertability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revert + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being revertable.
reconvertibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reconvertible.
HSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hue, saturation, lightness.
glosses: Initialism of hue, saturation, level.
Synonyms: english: hue, saturation, value
translation: hue, saturation, value
word: HSV
TZD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TZDs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thiazolidinedione.
double open jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double open jaws
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A fare construction on a single return ticket where the origin and destination of the first flight are both different from the origin and destination on the return flight.
open jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open jaws
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A fare construction where the destination is not the same as the origin point for the return, or where the origin differs from the return destination.
Related terms: single open jaw
double open jaw
black mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black marks
Senses: examples: text: "It taints your CV as people look at it and see what's gone on and it does put a bit of a black mark against you," says the man who, in 2006, was head hunted by Preston only for his tenure to be brought to a halt 17 months later.
ref: 2011 April 6, Aimee Lewis, quoting Paul Simpson, “Management after the sack”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Something that negatively affects someone's reputation.
ciphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cipher + telephony
Senses: glosses: The process of encrypting telecommunication signals, as to prevent information from being intercepted by an enemy or competitor.
Premier League
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Premier League
Senses: examples: text: Robin van Persie scored a sensational volley to mark Arsenal's 125th birthday with a victory over Everton that puts them fourth in the Premier League.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The highest division of English football.
Synonyms: Prem
Premiership
stop-start
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stop-start
form: most stop-start
Senses: examples: text: It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
text: Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.
ref: 2008 March 21, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
text: Otherwise, we would not be talking about electrifying the main lines, as the work would have been long since done. Instead, we are now at the sixth stage of a stop (1960s) start (1990s East Coast) stop (1990s) start (2000s Great Western) stop (2010s) process that has gone on for more than half a century.
ref: 2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:
synonyms: word: stop-go
word: stop-and-go
word: ;
word: fitful
word: patchy
word: broken
word: fitful
word: catchy
word: discontinuous
word: intermissive
word: intermittent
word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: stop-start
glosses: Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
Champions League
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The result sees Arsenal leapfrog Chelsea - who face Manchester City on Monday - and occupy a Champions League spot for the first time this season.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The highest-level European club football (soccer) tournament, organised by UEFA.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: An annual African football (soccer) competition, formally known as CAF Champions League.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: An annual Asian football (soccer) competition, formally known as AFC Champions League Elite.
wing back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wingback.
hit the buffers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the buffers
form: hitting the buffers
form: hit the buffers
form: hit the buffers
Senses: examples: text: The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.
ref: 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To stop suddenly and unexpectedly.
patched-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by Simpson.
ref: 2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Fixed by patching.
elsen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elsens
form: elsin
Etymology: From Middle English elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.
Senses: examples: piercing with an elsen
glosses: An awl, a pointed tool.
white sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white sugars
Etymology: From Middle English white sugur.
Senses: glosses: Refined sugar.
glosses: cocaine.
glosses: A white woman as a sex partner.
Related terms: icing sugar
brown sugar
Radhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic رَاضِي (rāḍī).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Harlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A fanciful spelling variant of Harley.
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
doryline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɹɪlaɪn/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the ant subfamily Dorylinae.
doryline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɹɪlaɪn/
Forms: form: dorylines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the ant subfamily Dorylinae.
land snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land snails
form: land-snail
form: landsnail
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lond snayl (attested in the plural londe snayles), equivalent to land + snail. Compare water snail, sea snail, etc.
Senses: examples: text: The land-snail Achatinella evolved a thousand or more species.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 34:
glosses: Any species of snail that lives on land (Caenogastropoda spp. etc.).
Hypernyms: snail
Pulmonata
Hyponyms: sense: snail type
word: Oahu tree snail
land snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land snail
ohia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə(ʊ)ˈhiːə/
Forms: form: ohias
form: ohi'a
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōhiʻa.
Senses: examples: text: The dominant canopy plant is the Ohi‘a, a greyish tree of medium height, often gnarled and dressed with lichens, and carrying small, oval, dark green leaves that shine attractively in a certain light.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 36:
glosses: Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle family, especially
in Hawaii: the lehua, Metrosideros polymorpha (native to Hawaii)
glosses: Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle family, especially
A Malay apple tree (Syzygium malaccense), (native to Southeast Asia, introduced throughout the tropics).
hapu'u
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hapuʻu
Etymology: From Hawaiian hāpuʻu.
Senses: examples: text: The commonest species is the hapu‘u, Cibotium, a majestic and graceful fern with all the elegance of a green fountain.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 36:
glosses: Any of four species of tropical tree ferns of the genus Cibotium found in Hawai'i.
ohelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə(ʊ)ˈheɪləʊ/
Forms: form: ohelos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻōhelo.
Senses: examples: text: Ohelo Vaccinium reticulatum (and V. peleanum) and kukaenene Coprosma ernodeoides […] are the most important berries in the Nenes' diet, and it is probably from such juicy fruit that much of their water intake comes.
ref: 1980, Janet Kear, A. J. Berger, “The Hawaiian Goose or Nene”, in The Hawaiian Goose: An Experiment in Conservation, Calton, Staffordshire: T. & A. D. Poyser, →ISBN; reprinted London: T. & A. D. Poyser, 2010, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Growing on nearly bare lava flows, the flora includes small relatives of the familiar cranberry: the ohelo carries a bright red, succulent berry that was once a staple item in the diet of the nene, the Hawaiian goose.
ref: 2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; republished London: Folio Society, 2011, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: A small red or yellow berry growing on the shrub Vaccinium reticulatum of volcanic parts of the Hawaiian islands of Hawaii and Maui, or the shrub itself.
wikipedia: Haleakalā National Park
freke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frekes
form: freken
form: freak
Etymology: From Middle English freke (“a bold man, warrior, man, creature”), from Old English freca (“a bold man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eagre man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“to shrug, be quick, twitch, splash, blast”). Akin with Old Norse freki (“greedy or avaricious one, a wolf”), Old High German freh (“eager”), Old English frēcne (“dangerous, daring, courageous, bold”).
Senses: examples: text: Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght.
ref: 1540, Destruction of Troy:
text: There was never a freke one foot would flee, but still in stour did stand.
ref: 1891, Henry Morley, A Bundle of Ballads:
glosses: A brave man, a warrior, a man-at-arms.
examples: text: þes fifti, alle ferliche freken.
ref: 1225, St. Katherine of Alexandria:
text: Go not forthe as a dombe freke.
ref: 1475, Book of Courtesy:
glosses: A man; a human being; a person.
examples: text: Bringing my love, for Time’s a freke of jealous strain; […]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
glosses: A creature such as a giant, demon, angel.
freke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freak
Etymology: From Middle English freke (“a bold man, warrior, man, creature”), from Old English freca (“a bold man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eagre man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“to shrug, be quick, twitch, splash, blast”). Akin with Old Norse freki (“greedy or avaricious one, a wolf”), Old High German freh (“eager”), Old English frēcne (“dangerous, daring, courageous, bold”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of freak.
pillow lavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillow lava
voggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒɡi/
Forms: form: more voggy
form: most voggy
Etymology: From vog + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This is the battle that I had witnessed for myself, in the voggy dusk.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 45:
glosses: Characterised by the presence of vog.
hyaloclastite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaloclastites
Etymology: From hyalo- + clast + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Explosive cooling and the sedimentation of glassy fragments results in a rock with a characteristic speckly texture known as hyaloclastite.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 45:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of volcanic rock containing glassy clasts, that is, fragments.
Related terms: hyaloclast
hyalo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Senses: glosses: glass
root position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root positions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a position of a chord when the root is the lowest note
root positions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of root position
first inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first inversions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a position of a chord when the third of the chord is the lowest note
first inversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first inversion
second inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second inversions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The position of a chord when the fifth of the chord is the lowest note.
second inversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second inversion
third inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third inversions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a position of a seventh chord when the seventh of the chord is the lowest note
third inversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third inversion
mesoscapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: mesoscapular segment
text: mesoscapular spine
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
procreativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From procreative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The power of generating.
glosses: The state of being procreative
hornish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hornish
form: most hornish
Etymology: From horn + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat like horn or a horn.
cryptidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptidines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós) + -idine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C₁₁H₁₁N.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.
prefatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: prefatory
producement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From produce + -ment.
Senses: glosses: production
toyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyers
Etymology: From toy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She had a reputation as a toyer with men's hearts.
text: a toyer of nature
glosses: One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.
toyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toyer
desquamatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, desquamate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: And this shall be done with a scaling or Desquamatory Trepan, (as they term it) with which you may easily take up as much of the bone, as you shall think expedient: And I have here given you the figure thereof
ref: 1649, Ambroise Paré, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, page 269:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Pertaining to exfoliation
Relating to the removal of the laminae of exfoliated bones.
examples: text: It is only when the sediment is very abudant, pointing to an exaggerated desquamatory condition, that our attention is called to the condition.
ref: 1895, Robert Newton Tooker, The Diseases of Children and Their Homeopathic Treatment, page 432:
text: Very rarely seen are separate desquamatory distropically changed endothelial cells an in their place small defects are formed.
ref: 1988, Folia Medica - Volume 30, page 22:
glosses: Pertaining to exfoliation
Related to the shedding of endothelial cells.
examples: text: Ultimately, the alteration in stratum corneum lipid organization will affect the levels of free water available to both hydrate the desquamatory enzymes and to participate in their catalytic reactions .
ref: 2002, James J. Leyden, Anthony V. Rawlings, Skin Moisturization, page 366:
text: For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.
ref: 2015, Raja Sivamani, Jared R. Jagdeo, Peter Elsner, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics:
glosses: Pertaining to exfoliation
Pertaining to the shedding or peeling off of the outermost layer of skin cells.
Related terms: desquamate
desquamation
desquamative
puppetman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppetmen
Etymology: From puppet + man.
Senses: glosses: A puppeteer, especially a master of a puppet show.
puppetmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppetman
emphysematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emphysema + -ous. Compare French emphysémateux.
Senses: examples: text: The first contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CEST) performed on 06 August, 12 showed paraseptal and panacinar emphysematous changes in bilateral lung fields with flattening of the diaphragm.
ref: 2015 June 5, Geeta Shroff, “Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in the treatment of emphysematous COPD: a case report”, in Clinical Case Reports, volume 3, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
Derived terms: emphysematous cystitis
nonemphysematous
indebtment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indebtments
Etymology: Compare French endettement.
Senses: examples: text: Fear thou a worse prison, if thou wilt needs wilfully live and die in a just indebtment, when thou mayest be at once free and honest.
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:
glosses: indebtedness
indebtments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indebtment
gurgoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurgoyles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gargoyle.
gurgoyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurgoyle
galvanopuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From galvano- + puncture.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: electropuncture
mechanographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a mechanographic record of changes of temperature
text: mechanographic prints
glosses: Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography.
Mormonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mormonites
Etymology: From Mormon + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A Mormon.
Mormonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mormonite
blastemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastema
blastemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastema
intermigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermigrations
Etymology: From inter- + migration.
Senses: examples: text: point of Access and mutual Intercourſe and possibility of Intermigrations
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
text: […]the mountain ranges blocked intermigrations. The Himalayas blocked exchanges between north and south. Finally, with the advent of desert conditions in Arabia and Baluchistan, there was again almost no interchange between the oriental and Ethiopian regions.
ref: 1969, Wilma George, Animals and Maps:
glosses: reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration
intermigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermigration
Italicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italicisms
Etymology: From Italic + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Italianism
glosses: A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language.
Italicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italicism
rhythmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythmometers
Etymology: From rhythm + -o- + -meter.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrument for marking time in music, e.g. a metronome.
rhythmometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythmometer
disesteemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsɪsˈtiːmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: disesteemers
Etymology: From disesteem + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And I trouble me to see you a disesteemer of those divine things
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, Excellence of Theology compared with Natural Philosophy:
glosses: One who disesteems.
disesteemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disesteemer
bonneted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bonnetted
Etymology: From bonnet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Lamps may be either bonneted or unbonneted.[…]Ackroyd and Best or Hailwood lamp / This is one of the best of the oil lamps. It is a double gauze, bonneted lamp and is of very substantial construction and well suited for a working lamp.
ref: 1914, R[obert] Y[oung] Williams, H[arvey] E[dson] Smith, Mine Gases and Safety Lamps, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, pages 42 and 44:
text: Rubbing the glass of the long looking-glass and leering sideways at her swinging figure a sound issued from her lips—something that had been gay twenty years before on the stage perhaps, had been hummed and danced to, but now, coming from the toothless, bonneted, care-taking woman, was robbed of meaning […]
ref: 1927, Virginia Woolf, “Time Passes”, in To the Lighthouse, section 5:
text: To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
text: In 2005, less than 2 percent of Scania’s trucks sold worldwide had a bonneted cab. Although the modular system made it possible to develop a bonneted cab with relatively little additional effort, there were costs associated with development and production.
ref: 2007, Olof Brunninge, “Scania’s bonneted trucks”, in Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, Guillaume Soenen, editors, Organizational Identity in Practice, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Wearing or having a bonnet.
Synonyms: bebonneted
Derived terms: long-bonneted
sun-bonneted
sunbonneted
unbonneted
bonneted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bonnetted
Etymology: From bonnet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bonnet
hypohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: examples: text: hypohyal joint
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoid arch of fishes, between the ceratohyal and urohyal.
hypohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypohyals
Etymology: From hypo- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: examples: text: ventral hypohyal
text: dorsal hypohyal
glosses: One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.
hypohyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypohyal
athletism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
Related terms: athleticism
pipal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peepul.
pipals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipal
gameful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪmfʊl/
/ˈɡeɪmfəl/
Forms: form: gamefuls
Etymology: From game + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I LOVE MY ANTEATER WITH AN A and everything else absurd, bewitching, exotic, and zoo-phile-ic from A to Z in a gameful of laughter.
ref: 1964, Top of the News - Volumes 21-22, page 15:
text: Bengston doing a roomful of painting is like Joe Willie Namath doing a gameful of curl patterns, Jason Robards doing an eveningful of O'Neill, Tina Turner doing a concertful of. . . . and so on.
ref: 1974, Artforum - Volume 13, Issues 4-10, page 35:
text: Suddenly there are new gamefuls of moves that can be duplicated and perhaps even improved on as things in themselves.
ref: 1988, The Nebula Awards - Volume 22, page 3:
glosses: A quantity found in a game.
multitubular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitubular
form: most multitubular
Etymology: From multi- + tubular.
Senses: examples: text: multitubular boiler
text: multitubular reactor
glosses: Having many tubes.
glowlamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glowlamps
Etymology: From glow + lamp.
Senses: glosses: A glowing lamp.
glowlamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glowlamp
countenancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countenancers
Etymology: From countenance + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who countenances, favours, or supports.
countenancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countenancer
imbitterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbitterers
Etymology: From imbitter + -er.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of embitterer.
imbitterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbitterer
ommateal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɒməˈtiːəl/
Etymology: From ommateum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: ommateal column
text: ommateal capsule
text: ommateal sac
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to an ommateum (compound eye).
IFSMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of International Federation of Shipmasters' Associations.
dehortative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈhɔːtətɪv/
Forms: form: more dehortative
form: most dehortative
Senses: examples: text: But the words of the Apostle (it will be said) are exhortative and dehortative.
ref: 1853, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on English Divines, page 252:
text: He was plainly oblivious of the dehortative mandate, ' Let us not do evil that good may come,' and appeared to have no dread of the 'just damnation' of those who do it.
ref: 1864, John Tyndal, Review of Speeches on Union in the Free Church General Assembly of 1863, page 52:
text: This text, which underscored the communal and dehortative dimensions of Puritan elegy, was immediately followed by the miracle of the feeding, a biblical analogy to the elegiac swerve from death to renewed life.
ref: 2000, Jeffrey A. Hammond, The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study, page 99:
text: Many elegies contain stylized accounts of peaceful deaths that offered a dehortative contrast to the grief-stricken panic of the living.
ref: 2004, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination, page 45:
glosses: Dissuasive.
examples: text: The dehortative verb typically occurs preceding a subordinate verb, as Samoan ? aua ne ?i galo, Maori kaua e wareware 'don't forget!'.
ref: 1970, R. C.. Green, Marion Kelly, Studies in Oceanic Culture History, page 124:
text: The few adjectives that can be marked for dehortative or apprehensive mood are all physical property or human propensity adjectives.
ref: 2004, R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, page 273:
text: For the sake of simplicity, the dehortative subject markers are treated as unanalyzed wholes;
ref: 2008, Frantisek Lichtenberk, A Grammar of Toqabaqita, page 854:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating a negative imperative or cautionary sense.
stipulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.
basisolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basi- + solute.
Senses: examples: text: basisolute bracts
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Prolonged at the base, like certain leaves.
precursorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precursorships
Etymology: From precursor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: the treatment of the masses of mountain in the Daphne and Leucippus , Golden Bough , and Modern Italy , is wholly without precursorship
ref: 1843–1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: The position or condition of a precursor.
precursorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precursorship
hydrozoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Hydrozoa + -al
Senses: examples: text: hydrozoal structure
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hydrozoa.
meridionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meridional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being in the meridian.
glosses: Position in the south
glosses: The state of being south-facing.
subjicible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈd͡ʒɪsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more subjicible
form: most subjicible
Etymology: From Latin sub(i)icibilis, from sub(i)iciō (“subject”).
Senses: examples: text: He was not a person subjicible to a command.
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: subjectable, capable of being subjected.
rejuvenescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rejuvenation
Doricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doricisms
Etymology: From Doric + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Doric Greek phrase or style.
glosses: The Doric style of architecture.
Doricisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doricism
draperied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drapery + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And then her dress -- what beautiful simplicity
Draperied her form with curious felicity!
ref: 1824 March 26, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XV. and XVI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XVI, stanza 102:
glosses: Covered or supplied with drapery.
Derived terms: undraperied
diurnalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diurnalists
Etymology: From diurnal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: some odiously incestuous marriages, which, even by the relation of our diurnalists, have, by this means, found a damnable passage, to the great dishonour of God and shame of the Church.
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: A journalist who writes in a diurnal
diurnalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diurnalist
experimentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more experimentative
form: most experimentative
Senses: glosses: experimental; of the nature of experiment
infantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infantly
form: most infantly
Etymology: From infant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
ref: 1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
glosses: Like an infant; childlike.
annotationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annotationists
Etymology: From annotation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An annotator.
annotationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annotationist
scrobicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin scrobicula /scrobiculus + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: scrobicular ring
text: scrobicular spine
text: scrobicular tubercles
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae.
anemoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemoscopes
Etymology: From anemo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane or weathercock. Formerly, it used to apply to a device consisting of a vane above, connected to the inside of a building with a dial or index to show the wind direction, but today there are many varieties.
anemoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemoscope
papulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papulous
form: most papulous
Etymology: From papule + -ous.
Senses: glosses: papillose
enantiopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enantiopathic
form: most enantiopathic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to palliate; palliative, alleviative.
hematothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haematothermal
Etymology: From hemato- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: warm-blooded
stolidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stolid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She got so she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 88:
glosses: The quality of being stolid.
phlogogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phlogogenous
form: most phlogogenous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “fire”) + -genous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: phlogogenetic
glosses: Causing inflammation.
seismic zoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic zonings
Senses: glosses: maps prepared for the purpose of earthquake engineering and based on frequency and intensity of expected earthquakes in different areas
marquisship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marquisships
Etymology: From marquis + -ship.
Senses: glosses: A marquisate.
terebinthine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin terebinthinus, equivalent to terebinth + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the terebinth tree.
glosses: Of or pertaining to turpentine.
Synonyms: terebinthian
terebinthinous
bass trombone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass trombones
Senses: glosses: A trombone with the same fundamental pitch as the tenor, typically has two valves, a wider bore, and larger bell. These help to produce a fuller, weightier, sound, and help play better in the lower register.
rudish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːdɪʃ/
Forms: form: more rudish
form: most rudish
Etymology: From Middle English rudish, rewdissh, equivalent to rude + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: for man and wife to quarrel before folks is rather rudish
ref: 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:
glosses: Somewhat rude.
parostotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: parostotic bone
text: parostotic ossifications
glosses: Pertaining to parostosis.
slabbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slabby + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183,
The Way also was here very wearysom thorow Dirt and Slabbiness.
text: […] we took our courage in both hands and started at the first break in the downpour. The valley was choked with mist, and the road in a state of unutterable slabbiness: yet our enterprise was soon rewarded, for the weather had done its worst in the darkness, and the sunshine brought the vapours steaming up out of the meadows and banished them with the clouds across the summits of the hills.
ref: 1906, Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, chapter 6, in Northern Spain, London: Adam & Charles Black, page 127:
glosses: The quality of being slabby; sliminess, muddiness.
examples: 1895, W. P. Haskett Smith, “Wales” in Climbing in the British Isles, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., “The Arans,”
Looking up from the lake the crag, which is a high dependence of Aran Benllyn, shows on the right an almost unrelieved slabbiness at an easy angle, which gives good practice in small footholds.
glosses: The quality of being composed of or resembling slabs.
immutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immutations
Etymology: From Latin immutatio, from immutare, immutatum (“to change”). See immute.
Senses: examples: text: But there is yet another interpretation, which we will propound in the second place, as free from the fear of any Purgatory as the former, and requires no immutation at all in our foregoing Paraphrase
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: change (alteration, mutation, modification)
immutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immutation
hypophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + -phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Being or growing on the lower side of a leaf.
siphilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of syphilis.
mountebankish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mountebankish
form: most mountebankish
Etymology: From mountebank + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a mountebank; using or suggesting quackery.
Binks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪŋks/
ipa: /bɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
infravision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infra- + vision.
Senses: topics: fantasy
games
gaming
glosses: A superhuman ability to see in the dark.
Synonyms: darkvision
ultravision
wallcrawling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wall + crawling.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Having the ability to crawl upon vertical surfaces.
wallcrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wallcrawls
form: wallcrawling
form: wallcrawled
form: wallcrawled
Etymology: From wall + crawl.
Senses: glosses: To adhere to and crawl upon a solid surface, as a spider does.
Derived terms: wallcrawler
wallcrawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallcrawlers
form: wall-crawler
form: wall crawler
Etymology: From wall + crawler.
Senses: examples: text: This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance.
ref: 1998, Reptiles, volume 6:
text: When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became "the Fearless Tarantula" in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the "Legion of Superheroes" serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed wallcrawler.
ref: 2004 September 1, Jordan Raphael with Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Sandman looked up and saw the masked face of Spider-Man staring down at him. The wallcrawler was leaning against the rear doors of the armored car, apparently having dropped through the hole that Sandman had created.
ref: 2007 March 7, Peter David, Spider-Man 3, New York: Pocket Books, pages 171–172:
glosses: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
seaswine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaswines
form: seaswine
form: sea-swine
form: sea swine
Etymology: From sea + swine. Compare sea hog. Compare also Middle English brunswyne (“porpoise”).
Senses: examples: text: The seaswine are almost always seen in troops, especially in their sexual season, which is in the month of August.
ref: 1828, John Davidson Godman, American natural history:
glosses: A porpoise.
glosses: A ballan wrasse.
betow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊ
Forms: form: betows
form: betowing
form: betowed
form: betowed
Etymology: From be- + tow, or as a back-formation from Middle English betowen (“bestowed, applied”), past participle of bitēn (“to tug, pull, cover, apply, devote, employ, bring about, perform”), from Old English betēon (“to cover, surround, enclose”).
Senses: glosses: To tow about; pull; draw; lead about; conduct.
glosses: To educate; influence; steer; direct.
examples: text: For Henry, as lord Bacon observes, loved to employ and advance prelates; because, having rich bishoprics to betow, it was easy for him to reward their services: […]
ref: 1821, David Hume, The history of England from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the accession of Henry VII:
glosses: To bestow; apply.
unknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + knowledge.
Senses: examples: text: It is imagination out of which choice arises, and the nature of choice is inevitably closely linked with the uncertainty, or - to use Shacklean terminology - the unknowledge of the outcome of decision-making.
ref: 1990, Stephen F. Frowen, George Lennox Sharman Shackle, Unknowledge and choice in economics:
glosses: The lack or absence of knowledge.
metallokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallo- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals
Synonyms: ferrokinesis
Related terms: metallokinetic
tegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teggs
Senses: glosses: A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.
examples: text: It would prove much to the advantage of those who keep long woolled sheep if they suffered the lambs of their flock to retain their fleeces until the next year's shearing, as they would then produce a class of wool known by the name of tegg or hogget wool
ref: 1839, The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal:
glosses: The wool from such a sheep.
technopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: In a shocking turn of events, the President's aid, Valerie Cooper, discovers that Reverend Stryker is actually a mutant himself with the power of technopathy – the ability to mentally manipulate machinery.
ref: 2012, Nick Spencer, Ultimate Comics X-Men by Nick Spencer Vol. 1, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:
text: Now that he was able to think, he reached out with his technopathy, searching the fishing hut. To his relief, he sensed a battery-operated light inside. He turned it on.
ref: 2019, Pittacus Lore, Into the Fire: The Legacy Chronicles, Penguin Books, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A psychic ability to control electronic machinery and/or read electronic signals, especially hardware.
Synonyms: technokinesis
Related terms: cyberpath
technopath
technopathic
technomancy
chrysopoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪsəˈpiːə/
Forms: form: chrysopœia
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek χρυσοποιία (khrusopoiía).
Senses: examples: text: Actually, in the beginning, Toledo himself was as bent on reperforming the chrysopoeia as anyone. He was driven by greed, more than the hunger for discovery and glory, which is what drove our father.
ref: Cassanda Ryan, The Kingdom of Sagely - Legacy of a Dragoness (page 262)
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
coordinate_terms: argyropoeia
glosses: Transmutation into gold.
Hypernyms: transmutation
Derived terms: chrysopoeian
bodyswap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyswaps
form: body swap
form: body-swap
Etymology: From body + swap.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The act or event of two people or other thinking creatures exchanging minds (by magic, technology, or other means), so that each one ends up in the physical body of the other.
Synonyms: word: mindswap
seismic zonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismic zoning
montero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈtɛəɹoʊ/
Forms: form: monteros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish montero (“huntsman”).
Senses: glosses: A round Spanish cap, with flaps at the back or sides, once used by hunters.
intersecant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin intersecans, present participle of intersecare. See intersect.
Senses: glosses: Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.
tracepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracepoints
Etymology: From trace + point.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to standard interactive debugging capabilities (display and modification of program variables, setting tracepoints and breakpoints for subprograms, displaying subprogram call stack, and so on), a number of new features were added for VAX Ada.
ref: 1987, A. Nico Habermann, Ugo Montanari, System Development and Ada, page 42:
text: The first thing to notice is that tracepoints have no equivalent to the Trace commands, that is, there is no way to output information in a Release build using tracepoints.
ref: 2005, Karli Watson, Christian Nagel, Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Beginning Visual C# 2005, page 161:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A kind of breakpoint that performs a custom action.
tracepoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracepoint
periotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Etymology: From peri- + otic.
Senses: examples: text: periotic bone
text: periotic capsule
text: periotic scalae
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located in, or pertaining to, the inner ear.
Derived terms: tympanoperiotic
tympano-periotic complex
periotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Forms: form: periotics
Etymology: From peri- + otic.
Senses: glosses: A bone in the inner ear, the periotic bone.
periotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periotic
lactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæktəɹi/
homophone: lactary
Senses: examples: text: lactory or milky plants
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lactiferous.
interpilaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: interpilasters
Etymology: From inter- + pilaster.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The interval or space between two pilasters
interpilasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpilaster
rheumatismoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rheumatism + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or resembling rheumatism.
columbate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columbates
Etymology: From columbic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of columbic acid; a niobate.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: columbite
columbates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of columbate