cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intervallum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈvæləm/
Forms: form: intervallums
form: intervalla
Etymology: From Latin intervallum.
Senses: examples: text: And a' shall laugh without intervallums.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: in one of these intervalla
ref: 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:
glosses: An interval.
topics: architecture
glosses: The gap between an outer rampart and the fortress it surrounds.
Derived terms: intervallic
abscisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abscision
hectopascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectopascals
Etymology: From hecto- + pascal.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of pressure equal to 10² pascals. Symbol: hPa
Synonyms: hPa
㍱
definite articles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of definite article
indefinite articles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indefinite article
addressabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addressability
ultramontane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultramontane
form: most ultramontane
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ultramontain, from Late Latin ultramontanus.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis no wonder that a Council which had declar'd itſelf ſuperior to the Popes, which had undertaken to try, and even to depoſe them, and had given ſuch great Blows to the Privileges, and to the Authority of the Cardinals, was not relith'd by the Court of Rome, nor approv'd of by the Popes or tlieir Divines, nor by the Ultramontane Canonists.
ref: 1730, [1728], Jacques L'enfant, translated by Stephen Whatley, The History of the Council of Constance, volume 1, page ix:
text: It was by becoming a Catholic that I pacified the Vendee, and a Mussulman that I established myself in Egypt; it was by becoming ultramontane that I won over public opinion in Italy.
ref: 1910 [August 13, 1800], Napoleon Bonaparte, The Corsican: a Diary of Napoleon's Life in his Own Words, trans. Robert Matteson Johnston, Houghton Mifflin, pg. 144-145
text: My friend, a Scottish newspaper chief, has spent half a lifetime gliding across some of Fleet Street's more ultramontane and unreasonable titles.
ref: 2010 September 12, Kevin McKenna, “Save Catholicism? The pope needs a miracle”, in The Guardian:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.
examples: text: He was slenderly provided with means for his ultramontane journey; and he resolved to save all he could in Italy, that he might not be restricted when among foreigners.
ref: 1835, Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men, volume 2, pages 263–264:
text: A march of about forty miles from Sohar up wadys, with intermittent water in their beds, brought his party to the frontier of the Batina, and by a low pass (i860 feet) it crossed the dividing ridge into the ultramontane province, Dahira.
ref: 1905, David George Hogarth, The Penetration of Arabia: a Record of the Development of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula, Alston Rivers, page 231:
text: Whatever their physics, the spectacular ultramontane sunsets are an important part of Seattle's claim to be "a flower of geography" — as Henry James called the city in 1907, placing it in the company of Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Naples, Sydney, and San Francisco.
ref: 2004 April 4, Jonathan Raban, “Deference to nature keeps Seattle from becoming world-class city”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.
Derived terms: ultramontanism
ultramontanist
ultramontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramontanes
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ultramontain, from Late Latin ultramontanus.
Senses: glosses: Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds
Related terms: Ultramontanism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
desiccative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desiccative
form: most desiccative
Etymology: From desiccate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: causing to desiccate; drying out
desiccative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiccatives
Etymology: From desiccate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that promotes drying.
ultramontanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramontane
full up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Filled to satiety.
cismontane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: transmontane
ultramontane
;
transalpine
glosses: From this side of the mountains (usually with reference to the Alps).
synonyms: cisalpine
antonyms: ultramontane
glosses: Favoring French control over local church matters in conflicts with the Pope.
flood fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flood fills
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: seed fill
glosses: A means of filling a discrete area with colour, based on colouring every pixel that can be recursively reached from a starting point.
flood fill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flood fills
form: flood filling
form: flood filled
form: flood filled
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fill (an area) in this manner.
flood fills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flood fill
seed fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed fills
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flood fill.
seed fills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed fill
adiponitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiponitriles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The nitrile derived from adipic acid
adiponitriles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adiponitrile
ditzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ditzy: more ditzy
ditziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ditzy: most ditzy
velophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velophiles
Senses: glosses: Someone who enjoys bicycles or cycling
good on someone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: good for someone
form: onya
Senses: examples: text: You got married? Good on you!
text: And he had a big smile like he really liked us and our wall. Black old teeth. Fat stomach. Well good on you. Good on all of you and your wall. Hee, hee, hee, hee.
ref: 1989, Patricia Grace, “Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers”, in Bill Manhire, editor, The Wall:
text: I have never forgotten his smile and the look in his eyes as he said, ‘Good on you, little brother.[…]’
ref: 2004, Willem Dijkstra, May You Live In Interesting Times, volume 1, page 301:
text: 2009 October 27, House of Lords European Union Committee, Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers: 3rd Report of Session 2009-10, Volume II: Evidence, page 88,
Lord Renton of Mount Harry: […] I do not wish to be rude in saying this, but it is very easy for you as BlackRock because you are already a global, very big company and you are obviously hugely successful — good on you — but what about the alternative investment fund manager in one of the EU countries who wants to grow, wants to become more established in other countries, et cetera, surely for them there has to be some other international means, not just standing on national status and national passports.
synonyms: word: bravissimo
word: bravo
word: bully
word: cock on
word: congrats
word: congratulations
word: encore
word: fair fucks
word: full marks
word: get you
word: good for someone
word: good for you
word: good going
word: good job
word: good on you
word: good show
word: good work
word: hats off
word: hon
word: hoorah
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: huzza
word: huzzah
word: jolly good show
word: keep it up
word: kudos
word: mazal tov
word: mazel tov
word: nice one
word: proper job
word: right on
word: shabash
word: there you go
word: way to go
word: well done
word: well said
glosses: An exclamation of encouragement or congratulation: well done.
examples: text: You brought coffee? Good on you mate!
glosses: Used to express thanks.
vaterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaterites
Etymology: Named after German mineralogist Heinrich Vater, + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A polymorph of calcium carbonate, chemical formula CaCO₃.
Synonyms: mu-calcium carbonate
vaterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaterite
tarmacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tarmac
criminalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: criminalises
form: criminalising
form: criminalised
form: criminalised
Etymology: From criminal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body.
ref: 2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian:
text: Thailand has dropped legislation to criminalise torture and disappearances after years of working on the bill, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, leaving state employees unaccountable for serious crimes.
ref: 2017 March 1, “UN slams Thai 'culture of torture'”, in Bangkok Post:
text: Section 377A, which was introduced under British colonial rule, criminalises “any act of gross indecency with another male person”. The law carries a sentence of up to two years in prison, though it is not believed to have been enforced for more than a decade.
ref: 2022 August 21, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Singapore to repeal law that criminalises sex between men”, in The Guardian:
text: The chilling effects of criminalising exploratory conversations between a therapist and a young person that could be perceived as denying their identity will only make the holistic therapy recognised as critical by the Cass review even harder to access.
ref: 2023 October 22, The Observer, “The Observer view on gender dysphoria: criminalising therapy poses risk to children’s welfare”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalize.
anthropomorphise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anthropomorphises
form: anthropomorphising
form: anthropomorphised
form: anthropomorphised
Etymology: By surface analysis, anthropo- + morph + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly we seem to readily anthropomorphise inanimate objects […]
ref: 2013 November 12, Nathalia Gjersoe, “How gullible are we when it comes to robots?”, in The Guardian:
text: It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this.
ref: 2018 June 15, Emma Brockes, “No, Facebook, I won’t be back. I’ve seen the dangers of habitual sharing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anthropomorphize.
criminalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of criminalise
criminalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of criminalise
criminalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of criminalise
anthropomorphises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anthropomorphise
anthropomorphising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anthropomorphise
anthropomorphised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anthropomorphise
sympathiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathisers
Etymology: From sympathise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] And I tell you that the slightest suspicion of my loyalty could be ruin for me, ruin! If it were ever breathed that I were even a sympathiser with this rebellion, there iss an end of me.’
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 13”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: The Ardent Spirit pupils now belong to him alone and through them he’ll set his plans in motion, moulding them to be warrior saints, brilliant in deceit against the West and its sympathisers here at home.
ref: 2013, Nadeem Aslam, chapter 4, in The Blind Man’s Garden, London: Faber & Faber:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.
proselytiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proselytisers
Etymology: From proselytise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of proselytizer.
tarmacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tarmac
Alida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
allosauroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allosauroids
Etymology: From the clade name Allosauroidea, first proposed by Currie & Zhao in 1993.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids.
Hypernyms: dinosaur
saurischian
theropod
carnosaur
allosauroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allosauroid
Dutch Low Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Dutch + Low Saxon
Senses: glosses: A non-standardized cluster of regional dialects of Low Saxon (Low German), influenced by Dutch, spoken in the northeastern provinces of the Netherlands, and recognized as a minority language by the European Union.
Coordinate terms: German Low Saxon
Meronyms: Drèents
Drents
Gelders-Overijssels
Grunnegs
Grönnegs
Grunnegers
Gronings
Stellingwarfs
Stellingwerfs
Tweants
Twents
Veluws
druglords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druglord
druglord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: druglords
form: drug lord
Etymology: From drug + -lord.
Senses: glosses: A person who controls a large network of people involved in the illegal drug trade.
Synonyms: drug baron
crime lord
kingpin
lettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letting
infantilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of infantilization.
infantilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantilizations
form: infantilisation
Etymology: From infantilize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.
text: In both cases, a key ingredient has been the drastic infantilization of the national culture: from the pious idea of ‘family reading’ that launched the Bowdlerization of Victorian literature, to the syrupy replica—the family, smiling at its TV—that has put American entertainment to sleep.
ref: 2013, Franco Moretti, “[Introduction: Concepts and Contradictions] ‘The bourgeois is lost . . .’”, in The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature, London; Brooklyn, N.Y.: Verso, published 2014, →ISBN, page 23:
text: In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.
ref: 2020 February 4, “Asexuality, Explained Through Cake”, in The Link, retrieved 06 Apr 2020:
antonyms: adultification
glosses: The act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.
horizontal mambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒ.ɹɪˈzɒn.təl ˈmæm.boʊ/
ipa: /ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈmɑm.boʊ/
Forms: form: horizontal mambos
Senses: examples: text: She says Peters continually harassed her, touching her breasts and buttocks, tried to push her onto a bed when he was naked, tried to kiss her breasts and offered her money for the horizontal mambo.
ref: 2007 December 29, “Producer hit with sex suits”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 19 Dec 2008:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: copulation
Related terms: horizontal dancing
horizontal tango
horizontal jogging
horizontal refreshments
PNL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PNLs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of P&L (“profit and loss”).
infantilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantilization
civilizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: civilisational
Etymology: From civilization + -al.
Senses: examples: text: There are various civilizational factors at work.
text: From the Baltics to Central Asia, former Soviet states are seen by President Vladimir Putin as part of “the Russian world,” with supposedly a distinct civilizational identity that justifies Moscow’s meddling.
ref: 2024 March 22, The [Christian Science] Monitor's Editorial Board, “Victories against Russia – outside Ukraine”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
ref: 2025 March 5, Zachary B. Wolf, “Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy”, in CNN:
glosses: Pertaining to or arising from civilization
Derived terms: anti-civilizational
anticivilizational
civilizationally
extracivilizational
intercivilizational
multicivilizational
erna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ernas
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of eRNA.
fogeyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fogeyish
form: most fogeyish
Etymology: From fogey + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: You're getting a bit fogeyish, you know.
glosses: Characteristic of or resembling an old fogey: outdated or out of touch
Synonyms: word: geezery
Derived terms: fogeyishly
fogeyishness
Related terms: fogeydom
fogeyism
pipedream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipedreams
Senses: examples: text: It's being done now. It's not a future pipedream. Finish it.
ref: 2025 October 1, Philip Haigh, “TRU has the credentials to improve rail in the North”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of pipe dream.
pipedreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipedream
bosques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏsks
ipa: /bɒsks/
rhymes: -ɒsks
Senses: glosses: plural of bosque (rare, 19th-century spelling of bosk)
bosques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏsks
ipa: /bɒsks/
rhymes: -ɒsks
ipa: /ˈbɒsˌkeɪz/
rhymes: -ɒskeɪz
enpr: bŏsks
ipa: /bɒsks/
rhymes: -ɒsks
Senses: glosses: plural of bosque (riverside woodland)
individual voluntary arrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individual voluntary arrangements
form: IVA
Senses: glosses: A formal alternative to bankruptcy, involving a flexible contract with creditors.
yenning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yen
ice-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ice-jacks
form: ice-jacking
form: ice-jacked
form: ice-jacked
form: icejack
form: ice jack
Etymology: From ice + jack.
Senses: examples: text: The support pylon for the ski gondola collapsed because of ice-jacking.
glosses: To freeze underneath an element or between two elements and jacking up the overlaying element, thereby separating it from its underlayment
raw_tags: of water
erf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːf/
ipa: /ɝf/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: erfs
Etymology: From Middle English erve, erfe, from Old English yrfe, ierfe (“heritage, bequest, inheritance, property, inherited property, property that passes to an heir, cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *arbī, from Proto-Germanic *arbiją (“heritage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”) (whence also *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”)).
Cognate with Dutch erf (“inheritance, patrimony, ground, courtyard”), German Erbe (“heritage, legacy, inheritance”), Danish arv (“heritage, inheritance”), Swedish arv (“heritage, inheritance”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌹 (arbi, “inheritance”), Latin orbus (“orphan”), Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “orphan”), Old English ierfa (“heir”). Related to orf and odal and athel.
Senses: examples: text: Son, you will have this farm to erf.
glosses: Inheritance; patrimony.
glosses: Stock; cattle.
Derived terms: erfkin
erf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːf/
ipa: /ɝf/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: erfs
form: erven
Etymology: Borrowed from obsolete Dutch erf (“hereditament, plot of land”). Doublet of erf above.
Senses: qualifier: Cape Colony
glosses: A small inherited house-and-garden lot in a village or settlement.
Derived terms: ervenholder
chiffons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiffon
weren
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wern
form: wurn
Etymology: From Middle English weren, from Old English wǣron, plural past indicative of bēon, and wǣren, plural past subjunctive of bēon, equivalent to were + -en.
Senses: examples: text: But sike fancies weren foolerie,
And broughten this Oake to this miserye.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: Therein an hundred raunges weren pight,
And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: For of the falsé Moabites
Forth with the strength of Amonites
Of that they weren first misget,
ref: 1889, John Gower, edited by Henry Morley, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins: Being the Confessio Amantis:
glosses: plural simple past of be
Wonderword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wonderwords
Etymology: From wonder + word. Originally a brand name.
Senses: glosses: A (particular type of) word search puzzle, in which the letters not forming part of any word to be found spell out an additional word.
zirp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zirps
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ZIRP (“zero interest rate policy”).
ZIRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIRPs
form: zirp
form: Zirp
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of zero interest rate policy.
Ehningen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Germany.
sandwichman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwichmen
form: sandwich-man
form: sandwich man
Etymology: From sandwich (board) + -man.
Senses: examples: text: "There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. […] Now I read what was on his boards. […]"
ref: 1899, Harold Frederic, The Marketplace:
text: INDORSE To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man.
ref: 1904, Gideon Wurdz, The Foolish Dictionary:
text: Certainly it amounted to a continual advertisement for him; an infinitely more effective advertisement than, for instance, a sandwichman at eighteen-pence a day, and costing no more, even with the licence and the shoeing.
ref: 1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card:
glosses: A man who wears a sandwich board.
naphthalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric forms of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid derived from naphthalene; analogous to phthalic acid
Derived terms: naphthalate
autogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autograms
Etymology: From auto- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A sentence that describes itself, in the sense of providing an inventory of its own characters.
puntos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punto
warplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warplane
millas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milla
watercolorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watercolorists
Etymology: From watercolor + -ist.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A painter who paints watercolors.
woodstove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodstoves
form: wood-stove
Etymology: From wood + stove.
Senses: examples: text: They gathered around the woodstove for warmth.
text: In my grandfather's log cabin, the woodstove is the heat source for the whole place as well as the cookstove.
synonyms: log-burner
hypernyms: stove
coordinate_terms: pellet stove
;
fireplace
;
oilstove
;
central heating
glosses: A stove designed to burn wood.
Related terms: cookstove
stovewood
wood burner
woodburning
woodfire
woodfired
woodsmoke
woodsmoked
zitherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zitherlike
form: most zitherlike
Etymology: From zither + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The psaltery is a zitherlike instrument.
glosses: Resembling a zither
watercolorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watercolorist
woodstoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodstove
drugstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drugstore
blockbustery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blockbustery
form: most blockbustery
Etymology: From blockbuster + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's a very blockbustery screenwriter.
text: You're never sure that what you'll see will be completely safe and blockbustery.
ref: 2003 June 24, Michael Atkinson, “Time to Get Ill”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2008:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Having one or more characteristics associated with a blockbuster, such as commercial success, a large budget, or glossy production values
blackwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From black + work.
Senses: examples: text: All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 334:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
examples: text: In Mary Barton (1848), the seamstress sewing black mourning clothes is referred to as being engaged in 'blackwork', while the manufacturing company, the Courtaulds, held a monopoly on crapes from the onset of funeral practices […]
ref: 2016, Haewon Hwang, London's Underground Spaces:
glosses: Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
glosses: A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.
Related terms: redwork
scarletwork
antimodern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimodern
form: most antimodern
Etymology: From anti- + modern.
Senses: examples: text: The third option is also nervous about modernity but in an antimodern rather than postmodern way, that is, it is alarmed rather than playful […]
ref: 2005, John Durham Peters, Courting the Abyss, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Opposed to modernity or modernization
Synonyms: reactionary
antimodern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimoderns
Etymology: From anti- + modern.
Senses: examples: text: The antimoderns firmly believe that the West has rationalized and disenchanted the world, that it has truly peopled the social with cold and rational monsters which saturate all of space, that it has definitively transformed the premodern cosmos into a mechanical interaction of pure matters.
ref: 2012, Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, page 123:
glosses: A person opposed to modernity or modernization
Related terms: antimodernist
antimodernism
unmodern
antigovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigovernment
form: most antigovernment
form: anti-government
Etymology: From anti- + government.
Senses: examples: text: Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.
text: And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.
ref: 2013 April 1, Timothy Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (Book collections on Project MUSE), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: Opposed to a government currently in power.
examples: text: They have an antigovernment philosophy.
text: This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.
ref: 2021 April 9, “Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community”, in Office of the Director of National Intelligence, page 24:
text: Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.
ref: 2021 April 13, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence community warns of devastating long-term impact of coronavirus pandemic”, in CNN:
text: It is tempting to see these vacancies through the feature-not-a-bug lens of the Republican Party’s antigovernment politics. If a party doesn’t care about governing, why would it care that the government isn’t functioning?
ref: 2023 October 31, Nicole Hemmer, “Opinion: Hard-right Republicans say they hate government, but they sure love the power”, in CNN:
glosses: Opposed to government in general.
Synonyms: sense: opposed to a government
word: opposition
sense: opposed to all government
word: anarchist
antigovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigovernments
form: anti-government
Etymology: From anti- + government.
Senses: examples: text: Insurrection and subversion are primarily the weapons of indigenous antigovernments. Foreign governments, of course, may encourage antigovernments.
ref: 2017, Richard K. Betts, Conflict After the Cold War:
glosses: A government set up to oppose another government.
antimoderns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimodern
anticoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticoal
form: most anticoal
Etymology: From anti- + coal.
Senses: examples: text: […] any meaningful climate policy is, by definition, one that is anticoal.
ref: 2005, Paul Roberts, The End of Oil, →ISBN, page 269:
glosses: Opposed to the burning of coal for energy
meatpackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatpacker
megadebts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadebt
midcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + court.
Senses: examples: text: Smith passes the ball to Jones at midcourt.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area near the center of a court, such as a basketball or tennis court
Derived terms: midcourter
midteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-teens
Etymology: From mid- + teens.
Senses: examples: text: Many children first experiment with drugs and alcohol in their midteens.
glosses: The period around the middle of the teenage years, such as ages 15 and 16
examples: text: Most of the midteens in the survey were interested in video games and films.
glosses: People whose age is in the middle of the teenage years.
meatpacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatpackers
Etymology: From meat + packer.
Senses: examples: text: After breaking up the big meatpackers in the early 1920s, the federal government prevented the industry from consolidating for more than half a century, part of a broader commitment to checking corporate power throughout the economy. […] When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
ref: 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
synonyms: word: packer
glosses: A person or company involved in the meatpacking industry, including slaughtering and meat processing
Related terms: meatpacking
packing
megadebt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadebts
Etymology: From mega- + debt.
Senses: examples: text: For a nation that values its children, folks are awfully complacent about saddling their kids with megadebt.
ref: 1995 December 27, Debra Saunders, “Clinton, not GOP, deserves public's scorn”, in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
glosses: An enormous debt
mid-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: midlevel
Etymology: From mid- + level.
Senses: examples: text: a mid-level official
synonyms: mid-tier
mid-range
coordinate_terms: high-level
low-level
glosses: At a medium level; neither high nor low in rank.
Related terms: middling
midlist
mid-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midlevel
Etymology: From mid- + level.
Senses: examples: text: The first of the two meticulously composed shots offers a medium-distance look at an individual man in the right foreground, the widescreen lens showing three industrial snow machines arranged at midlevel in the background.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 60:
glosses: A medium level.
moviegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From movie + going.
Senses: examples: the moviegoing public
glosses: Attending movies, especially habitually or regularly.
moviegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From movie + going.
Senses: examples: text: She understands my moviegoing but in her own antic fashion. There is a scene which shows the very neighborhood of the theater. Kate gives me a look—it is understood that we do not speak during the movie.
ref: 1961, Walker Percy, chapter 1, in The Moviegoer, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, published 1962, →OCLC, section 7, page 61:
text: I would say that roughly 30 percent of the film is invisible, and some 40 to 50 inaudible. I cannot remember when—in moviegoing or life—I so longed for an honest bit of daylight as I did while groping my way through Bird.
ref: 1988, John Simon, “Sweet Bird of Untruth: Bird”, in John Simon on Film: Criticism, 1982–2001, New York, N.Y.: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, published 2005, →ISBN, “Criticism from the 1980s” section, page 192:
text: Here are some little-known facts (and one lie) that will make your moviegoing even more fun. 1. The longest film ever produced and shown was 85 hours long and was aptly titled The Cure for Insomnia.
ref: 2017, Sandy Silverthorne, “Movie Fun, Part 1”, in Two Truths and a Tall Tale: A True or False Trivia Challenge for the Whole Family, Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: The act of attending movies.
Related terms: moviegoer
moviemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From movie + making.
Senses: examples: text: Moviemaking is a very different art from stage production.
glosses: The production of movies
Synonyms: filmmaking
multireedist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multireedists
Etymology: From multi- + reed + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Someone who can perform on multiple reed instruments
nondeviator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondeviators
Etymology: From non- + deviator.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps more than anything, Mr. Weyrich was a nondeviator in his unswerving faith in small government, free-market economics, the right to life and the sanctity of the family.
ref: 2008 December 19, Bruce Weber, “Paul Weyrich, 66, a Conservative Strategist, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who or that which does not deviate from a particular norm or idea
nondeviators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondeviator
chicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chicly
form: most chicly
Etymology: From chic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was chicly attired in a black dress.
text: To my great joy there were two smart casual dresses in pastels – pale pink and pale yellow – both brand new with little puffed sleeves and full, gathered skirts set into chicly dropped waists.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), pages 116–117:
glosses: In a chic or fashionable way.
cryptlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryptlike
form: most cryptlike
Etymology: From crypt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: We climbed down into the cryptlike cellar.
glosses: Resembling a crypt
deepwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deep + water.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deep-water.
fusioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusioneer
homesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homesite
fusioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusioneers
Etymology: From fusion + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: They like Sting as much as flamenco, and though the famous Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt is a strong influence, so is fusioneer Al DiMeola […]
ref: 1989, “Gipsy Kings Stay True to Musical Roots”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A performer or composer of fusion music
examples: text: It is virtually an article of faith among some fusioneers that creating miniature stars on Earth is a non-optional part of humanity’s future—a view that mirrors arguments put forth by a growing number of environmentalists who once decried nuclear power.
ref: 2014, Raffi Katchadourian, “A star in a bottle”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An adherent of controlled nuclear fusion as a useable source of energy.
homesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homesites
Etymology: From home + site.
Senses: examples: text: Sales of homesites fell sharply this quarter.
glosses: The plot of land on which a house is or can be built
arcopallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A region in the brains of birds that has functions in learning
Synonyms: archistriatum
Related terms: arcopallial
biostudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biostudy
biostudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An academic field of biological studies
intraepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Within the epithelium.
microadenoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microadenomas
form: microadenomata
Etymology: From micro- + adenoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A very small adenoma involved in hypersecretion
micrococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or caused by a micrococcus.
micrococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrococci
Etymology: From micro- + -coccus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless.
Derived terms: micrococcal
micrococcologist
Related terms: coccus
postreplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + replication.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Used, attributively, to describe the period following replication of nucleic acid
idiotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiota
for the present
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: For now.
meets up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meet up
meeting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meet up
met up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meet up
hacky sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacky sack
hazings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hazing
hospitalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hospitalisation
humourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
hypos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypo
oftest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Most often (superlative form of oft: most oft)
Synonyms: commonly
most of the time
usually
particularisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particularisations
Etymology: From particular + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of particularization.
particularisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particularisation
price lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of price list
reinitialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinitializations
Etymology: From re- + initialization.
Senses: glosses: A process of initializing again.
reinitializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinitialization
waterskiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water skiing.
verifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verification
typologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈpɑləd͡ʒiz/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒiz
Senses: glosses: plural of typology
rayons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rayon
intercities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercity
antiretrovirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiretroviral
copy shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy shops
Senses: examples: text: Now you are ready for the copy shop! Have your parents take you to the copy shop and ask the technician to reduce your art to fit the memo-pad size you want.
ref: 1994, Mark Kistler, Mark Kistler's Imagination Station:
text: […] leaves you with one of three options: a printing house specializing in small print runs for genealogists, a local offset printer, or a local copy shop.
ref: 1996, Patricia Law Hatcher, Producing a Quality Family History:
text: The copy shop had the most intoxicating smell — sweet and chemical.
ref: 2007, Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects:
synonyms: printshop
printing house
printery
glosses: A shop that offers photocopying and printing services.
copy shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copy shop
floatations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floatation
flotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flotation
fortuned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fortuned
form: most fortuned
Etymology: From fortune + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: When the broken-fortun'd Peer goes into the City to marry a rich Tradeſman's Daughter, be he Duke or Earl, does not his Consort immediately become ennobled by his Choice?
ref: 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Tuesday Morning, the Sixth of My Happiness”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, pages 283–284:
glosses: Having a (with a descriptive word, particular kind of) fortune (“destiny; wealth”).
Derived terms: full-fortuned
fortuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fortune + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fortune
fortuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fortune
pegasuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pegasus.
Rutland beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rutland beauties
Senses: hypernyms: bindweed
glosses: Synonym of hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
synonyms: word: hedge bindweed
extra: Calystegia sepium
larger bindweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larger bindweeds
Senses: glosses: hedge bindweed
hedge bindweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge bindweeds
Senses: synonyms: bearbind
bellbind
bindweed
granny-pop-out-of-bed
greater bindweed
wild morning-glory
larger bindweed
Rutland beauty
glosses: Calystegia sepium
bellbind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bell + bind.
Senses: glosses: hedge bindweed
bell-bind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bellbind.
jipijapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhi.piˈhɑ.pə/
Forms: form: jipijapas
form: jippa jappa
Etymology: From Spanish jipijapa.
Senses: glosses: A Panama hat.
glosses: The Panama hat palm.
comunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of communication.
doctrine of equivalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the claimed invention.
Related terms: doctrine of foreign equivalents
an unrelated doctrine of trademark law
S.D. Fla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, as used in case citations.
M.D. Fla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, as used in case citations.
N.D. Fla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, as used in case citations.
Related terms: M.D. Fla.
S.D. Fla.
Pinard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Pinard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French originating in France.
Derived terms: Pinard fetal stethoscope
Pinard horn
Pinard's maneuver
finite capacity planning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: infinite capacity planning
glosses: Planning for manufacturing facilities where the capacity of the machine or work centres is included in the planning of materials and labour.
uppercutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uppercut
unappetising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappetising
form: most unappetising
Etymology: From un- + appetising.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Michael turned out to be a ravenous, fast-fading woman in a slashed skirt and a low blouse over an unappetising chest. While her husband did things in his shed, where he appeared to live, Pym inexpertly mixed the Yorkshire pudding and fought off her embraces...
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unappetizing.
untidier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of untidy: more untidy
untidiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of untidy: most untidy