cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɜːd/
ipa: /spɜɹd/
ipa: /spʌɹd/
ipa: /spøːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /speːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /spɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: spared (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spur
spurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɜːd/
ipa: /spɜɹd/
ipa: /spʌɹd/
ipa: /spøːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /speːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /spɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: spared (fair–fur merger)
Senses: examples: a booted and spurred cowboy
glosses: Wearing spurs.
examples: a spurred corolla
glosses: Furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
examples: spurred rye
glosses: Affected with spur, or ergot.
Synonyms: sense: wearing or having spurs
word: bespurred
Derived terms: African spurred tortoise
be-spurred
long-spurred violet
HYPSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/Dartmouth.
Related terms: HYP
Hyp
Oxbridge
HYPS
HYPC
HYPSM
HYPSMC
volitionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volition + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking volition.
promptitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promptitudes
Etymology: From Middle French, from Late Latin promptitudo, from Latin promptus.
Senses: examples: text: The pleasure evinced by Sir Charles was only less than that of his lady, and, as he appeared every way worthy of her, and sensible of her value, Mr. Glentworth bade her adieu with the more cheerfulness, and, on their return to the hotel, Isabella had ceased to lament the transaction, and all agreed to praise that promptitude of action which had enabled him to perform his wishes so happily.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 58:
text: "I've been directed here to find Miss Susan Pike," the man outside explained, between fresh coughings. ¶ "Well, then, mog your boots out of this as quick as ever you can!" my Aunt replied, with great promptitude. "You won't find her here!"
ref: 1894, Harold Frederic, “My Aunt Susan”, in Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 200:
text: Small wonder then that the Indomitable's Captain, though in general a man of rapid decision, felt that circumspectness not less than promptitude was necessary.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: Also, much depended on an exceptional esprit de corps which permeated the whole staff, and achieved miracles of promptitude in such details as engine-changing and the marshalling of trains.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:
glosses: The quality of being prompt; alacrity.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being prompt
word: promptness
sense: quality of being prompt
word: expedition
sense: quality of being prompt
word: dispatch
untransmogrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transmogrified.
Senses: glosses: Not transmogrified; unchanged.
unstanchably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unstanchably
form: most unstanchably
Etymology: From unstanchable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unstanchable manner; unstoppably.
unstanchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstanchable
form: most unstanchable
form: unstaunchable
Etymology: From un- + stanch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being stopped or brought to a close; unstoppable.
glosses: Insatiable.
unanchored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unanchor
unanchored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not anchored; free or liberated.
glosses: Not having a firm basis or foundation
unanchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unanchors
form: unanchoring
form: unanchored
form: unanchored
Etymology: From un- + anchor.
Senses: glosses: To raise an anchor or to free a vessel from an anchor.
glosses: To liberate.
glosses: To become loose or physically unattached.
examples: text: To unanchor the cell cursor so that you can move it into position for selecting another range, press Shift+F8. This puts you in Add to Selection mode, in which you can move to the first cell of the next range without selecting any more cells.
ref: 2012, Greg Harvey, Excel 2010 For Dummies:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To release from a fixed position and allow to be moved.
enfold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enfolds
form: enfolding
form: enfolded
form: enfolded
Etymology: Alteration of earlier infold, from Middle English infolden, equivalent to en- + fold.
Senses: examples: text: In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
⁠Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
⁠But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To envelop and wrap up something.
examples: text: Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: To clasp with the arms; embrace.
Derived terms: enfoldedly
enfolder
enfoldingly
enfoldment
unenfolded
incurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incurious
form: most incurious
Etymology: From Latin incūriōsus (“careless”), from in- (“un-”) and cūriōsus (“careful”). Attested since the 1560s, originally meaning ‘heedless and negligent.’ The sense of ‘uninquisitive’ dates from the 1610s, and the sense of ‘unworthy of attention’ from 1747.
Senses: examples: text: A genuine Londoner is the most incurious animal in nature. Divide your acquaintance into two parts; the one set will never have seen Westminster Abbey—the other will be equally ignorant of St. Paul's.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233:
text: It takes an extraordinarily incurious mind to believe, in 2019, that the most vulnerable populations online are moderate Republicans like himself, given what women and people of color who dare to participate in public discourse routinely face.
ref: 2019 September 3, David Karpf, “Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.”, in Esquire:
synonyms: uncurious
noncurious
antonyms: curious
glosses: Lacking interest or curiosity; uninterested.
synonyms: uncurious
noncurious
antonyms: curious
glosses: Apathetic or indifferent.
Derived terms: incuriosity
incuriously
incuriousness
Teddy boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teddy boy
dead tree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dead-tree
Senses: examples: text: My question is basically do you need better on-line programs to search the docs ..., or actually different dead-tree style.
ref: 1986 April 15, Barry Shein, “Re: job control”, in net.unix-wizards (Usenet):
text: Dead tree technology doesn't saddle you with a $300 phone bill.
ref: 1996 December 12, Michael J. Gallagher, “Re: NASA HQ buyout??????”, in sci.space.policy (Usenet):
text: By the way, if you're annoyed by the bright green background (which shouldn't be a total shock to anyone who reads the dead-tree edition of Wired) ...
ref: 1998, Shirley Duglin. Kennedy, Best bet Internet: reference and research when you don't have time to mess around, page 55:
text: OK, an e-book needs a reader. A dead-tree book needs paper and bulky storage space.
ref: 2000, Justin Bacon, “Re: Science Fiction (and Fantasy) Writers Wanted”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: 2005, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, Dead tree?, alt.linux.suse, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/msg/0ad17bd29005f471?dmode=source
It used to be that SuSE Linux was available in personal and professional; editions, and that the Pro edition came with additional dead tree documentation.
glosses: Made of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative.
dead tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead trees
form: dead-tree
Senses: examples: text: You can't grep dead trees.
text: Mail on dead trees: Dept. of CS, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
ref: 1985 Jul 23: Thomas Johnsson, DECUS public domain C compiler: where can I get it? (signature), net.lang.c, http://groups.google.com/group/net.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/711ce5d3a4eb7019/860f62c7e3c5e117?q=dead-tree+OR+dead-trees#860f62c7e3c5e117
text: I wouldn't be surprised to hear of parents telling their children how we used to spend hundreds of watts to light a room, or how we drove 3000 kg vehicles to pick up a single newspaper printed on a dead tree, and so on.
ref: 1991 October 29, Daniel Mocsny, “Re: Ecological Dependency”, in sci.environment (Usenet):
text: As usual, when I checked the page, it points to a dead tree with ink available at a cost.
ref: 1995 September 15, Mountain Man, “Re: Many worlds speculation--a complete waste of time”, in sci.physics (Usenet):
text: 2003 May 16: yoodaw elder{:}child, Re: kjv #1? consider, alt.christnet, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.christnet.bible/msg/425b9a41581e51a9?dmode=source
come out of this wicked, evil world and her seductive, dogmatic, heretical religious systems, all of whom seek to prove their righteousness by manipulating colored marks written on a dead tree.
glosses: A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper.
glosses: A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: dead tree edition
tussocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tussock
pan-loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan-loaf
conscience vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conscience votes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A type of vote in a legislative body where legislators are allowed to vote according to their own personal conscience rather than according to an official line set down by their political party.
Synonyms: free vote
Hypernyms: vote
incuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incuriously
form: most incuriously
Etymology: From incurious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 280:
glosses: In an incurious manner.
incuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incurious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being incurious; indifference or apathy.
agast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aghast.
self-mastery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + mastery.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: willpower
text: Self-mastery matters for everyone.
synonyms: self-command
self-control
self-discipline
self-regulation
antonyms: undisciplinedness
coordinate_terms: self-awareness
self-criticism
glosses: The conscious control of one's behaviour.
sabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsæbjʊləs/
Forms: form: more sabulous
form: most sabulous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sabulosus, from sabulum (“sand”).
Senses: examples: text: This Lake is foure ſcore miles in length, and according to its interualling Circuite, ſometimes two, three, foure, or fiue miles in breadth: yet the body thereof, bending directly South-weſt; keepeth a glaſſie courſe, till it ſalute the auſtiere conſpicuoſity of the ſabulous and ſtony Deſarts: […]
ref: 1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Aduentures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauayles, from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell and Humphery Mosley […], page 254:
text: ...or fills up the tubular vessels there with sabulous matter.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 16:
text: The patient perspired frequently and freely, ceased to take nourishment, and was taken with vomiting; the urine became sabulous, the sleep was agitated, the dyspnœa and the palpitations augmented, and he died the 2d of January.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 166:
glosses: Sandy or gritty.
Related terms: arenaceous
arenaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɹəˈneɪʃəs/
ipa: /ɛɹəˈneɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more arenaceous
form: most arenaceous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin arēnāceus, from arēna (“sand”).
Senses: glosses: Sandy; characterised by sand.
raw_tags: of soil
glosses: Growing in sandy soil.
raw_tags: of a plant
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Arenitic (relating to arenite)
Related terms: sabulous
uncleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncleaned
form: most uncleaned
Etymology: From un- + cleaned.
Senses: glosses: That has not been cleaned; dirty or foul; uncleansed.
uncleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclean
smoke alarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke alarms
Senses: glosses: A smoke detector.
prosopagnosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prosopagnosic
form: most prosopagnosic
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, prosopagnosia.
prosopagnosic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosopagnosics
Senses: glosses: Somebody suffering from prosopagnosia.
hefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heft
hefts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heft
hefting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heft
hefted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heft
fusiform gyrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusiform gyri
form: fusiform gyruses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure within the temporal lobe of the human brain, believed to be involved in colour processing and the recognition of faces, bodies, and words.
Related terms: occipitotemporal gyrus
fusiform face area
gyrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaɪɹəs/
rhymes: -aɪɹəs
Forms: form: gyri
form: gyruses
Etymology: From Latin gȳrus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros). Doublet of gyro and gyre.
Senses: examples: text: The sulci and gyri are the grooves and ridges, respectively.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: gyre
coordinate_terms: sulcus
glosses: A fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain.
Derived terms: angular gyrus
cingulate gyrus
dentate gyrus
fornicate gyrus
frontal gyrus
fusiform gyrus
gyrification
gyriform
gyrus rectus
Heschl's gyrus
hippocampal gyrus
inferior frontal gyrus
infracalcarine gyrus
lingual gyrus
macrogyria
microgyria
microgyrus
middle frontal gyrus
occipital gyrus
occipitotemporal gyrus
orbital gyrus
parahippocampal gyrus
polygyria
polymicrogyria
postcentral gyrus
precentral gyrus
superior frontal gyrus
superior temporal gyrus
supramarginal gyrus
temporal gyrus
transverse temporal gyrus
Related terms: girus
hames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hame
hames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hames
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from the hame(s) (harness elements) put on a horse, which are difficult to put on right.
Senses: examples: text: You've made a right hames of it, you eejit!
glosses: A mess.
fornicate gyrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fornicate gyri
form: fornicate gyruses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A horseshoe-shaped section of the cerebral cortex, comprising the cingulate gyrus and the parahippocampal gyrus.
Synonyms: limbic lobe
gyrus fornicatus
hobbledehoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobbledehoy
tlatoani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tlatoanis
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl tlatoani (“ruler”).
Senses: glosses: An emperor of the Aztec kingdom.
auditionee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auditionees
Etymology: From audition + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: A person who participates in an audition.
fornix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪks/
Forms: form: fornices
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin fornix (“an arch, vault”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.
Derived terms: fornical
fornicate
forniceal
fornix vaginae
auditioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auditioners
Etymology: From audition + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who conducts an audition.
glosses: A person who undergoes an audition; an auditionee.
baba ganoush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑːbə ɡəˈnuːʃ/
ipa: /ˌbɑbə ɡəˈnuʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: baba ganouj
form: baba ghannouj
form: baba ghanouj
form: baba ghanoush
form: babba gannouge
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَابَا غَنُّوج (bābā ḡannūj, literally “father of coquetry”), because it was supposedly invented by a member of a royal harem, perhaps to pamper the master: from بَابَا (bābā, “daddy, father, papa”) + غَنُّوج (ḡannūj, “coquettish, coy”) (compare غنج (ḡanija, “to coquet, flirt”)).
Senses: glosses: A Middle Eastern dish made from a purée of roasted aubergine (eggplant), garlic, and tahini, often eaten as a dip with bread.
wikipedia: Tuttle Publishing
tahini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːˈhiː.ni/
Forms: form: tahinis
form: tahina
form: tahine
form: tehina
Etymology: From Arabic طَحِينَة (ṭaḥīna), from the root ط ح ن (ṭ-ḥ-n) related to grinding. Final -i most probably from Levantine dialects or from Greek ταχίνι (tachíni).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A paste made from ground sesame seeds, and used to make hummus, baba ghanoush etc.
Synonyms: ardeh
baba ghanoush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baba ganoush.
back channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back channels
Senses: glosses: The smaller of two channels in a river that diverge to form an island.
glosses: A secondary channel of activity, typically in parallel with primary channels and somewhat independent of them.
glosses: An unofficial communications channel used to make informal or subversive negotiations.
examples: text: TodaysMeet visualizes collaborative and parallel conversations in a backchannel through a digital classroom where every student has a voice.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1083:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A real-time online discussion that occurs simultaneously with a verbal presentation.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A gesture or short prompt by which a listener invites a speaker to continue.
Coordinate terms: side-channel
Related terms: backchannel
back-channel
backchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backchannels
form: back-channel
Etymology: From back + channel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back channel.
backchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backchannels
form: backchanneling
form: backchannelling
form: backchanneled
form: backchanneled
form: backchannelled
form: backchannelled
form: back-channel
Etymology: From back + channel.
Senses: glosses: To employ a back channel.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To employ a back channel.
To employ non-verbal (oral and visual) means to influence a speaker without interruption.
back-channel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-channels
form: back-channeling
form: back-channelling
form: back-channeled
form: back-channeled
form: back-channelled
form: back-channelled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backchannel.
bad eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad eyes
Senses: glosses: A stare that is superstitiously supposed to be harmful; the evil eye.
glosses: A threatening or disapproving glance.
bad mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bad mind and jealousy worse than obeah.
ref: 2004, The Caribbean Writer, volumes 18-19, page 90:
glosses: malicious intent; animosity
Derived terms: bad-minded
bad-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bad-minded
form: most bad-minded
Senses: glosses: Suspicious, malicious or cynical.
Related terms: bad mind
bad-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bad-talks
form: bad-talking
form: bad-talked
form: bad-talked
Senses: glosses: To disparage something, or to speak maliciously about someone.
bahu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bahus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बहू (bahū) / Urdu بَہُو (bahū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).
Senses: glosses: A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.
Coordinate terms: saas
Derived terms: saas-bahu
binge eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binge eaters
Senses: glosses: A person who suffers from binge eating
binge eating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The consumption of a large amount of food in a relatively short time; often as a symptom of bulimia
Derived terms: binge eating disorder
binge eating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of binge eat
binge eating disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BED
form: binge-eating disorder
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Recurrent binge eating, but without the purging associated with bulimia nervosa.
anaglypta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaglyptas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναγλύφω (anaglúphō, “to carve in relief”). It was originally a brand name, was invented in 1877.
Senses: examples: text: Oppressive anaglyptas, sickly floral designs or ugly woodchip paper made us long for smooth painted walls that would not detract attention from our furniture or paintings.
ref: 2002, Abigail Trow, Surface: Textures, Finishes and Materials for Stylish Interiors, page 61:
glosses: A thick, embossed wallpaper.
bioactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioactive
form: most bioactive
Etymology: From bio- + active.
Senses: examples: text: Although some cephalopod inks have been studied chemically, there’s still a lot unknown about the bioactive function of ink when released in the wild.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:
glosses: Biologically active; having a biological effect.
glosses: Describing a terrarium, vivarium, etc. that is self-sustaining and mimics a natural habitat.
Derived terms: bioactive glass
nonbioactive
bioactive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioactives
Etymology: From bio- + active.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
bioactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioactivities
Etymology: From bio- + activity.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Biologic activity, such as biochemical or immunologic reactivity: the biologic effect (function or dysfunction, benefit or toxicity) of a substance.
Related terms: bioactive
bioavailability
scudded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scud
Forsyte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔːsaɪt/
homophone: foresight (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: Forsytes
Etymology: Variant of Forsythe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
overheated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overheat
overheated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overheated
form: most overheated
Senses: examples: text: Been getting tired of my motor running / Feeling overheated 'cause my life keeps coming / My heart has been troubled by the speed of love
ref: 2010, Ghostland Observatory, “Sad Sad City”, in Paparazzi Lightning:
text: He was hooked immediately by the overheated imagery, the overblownness of it all. No writer he read had ever communicated that feeling of an incomprehensible madness.
ref: 2011, Jason Zinoman, Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
ref: 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy:
glosses: Excessively heated.
Derived terms: overheatedly
overheatedness
bisn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: Thee bisn't playin with I any more. (You are not playing with me any more.)
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: aren't
raw_tags: used with second-person singular
Synonyms: baint
Forsythe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹsaɪθ/
Forms: form: Forsythes
form: Forsyte
Etymology: Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic personal name Fearsithe, composed of the elements fear (“man”) + sìth (“peace”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
subtitles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtitle
sugarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sugar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Containing no refined sugar as an ingredient.
suggestively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suggestively
form: most suggestively
Etymology: From suggestive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She smiled suggestively and then walked towards the bedroom.
glosses: In a suggestive manner.
suggestiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suggestivenesses
Etymology: From suggestive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Those scholars regard the suggestiveness or leadingness of such questions as a matter of convention […]
ref: 1989, Yahya Aridi, A Discourse Analysis of Political Television Interviews, page 233:
glosses: The state or quality of being suggestive.
glosses: The result or product of being suggestive.
overheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhit/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: overheats
form: overheating
form: overheated
form: overheated
Etymology: From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.
Senses: examples: text: 'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 131:
glosses: To heat excessively.
glosses: To become excessively hot.
examples: text: Dalio said that the Chinese economy was in danger of overheating, and somebody asked how a Chinese slowdown would affect the price of oil and other commodities.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To grow too quickly in an uncontrolled way.
Derived terms: overheater
overheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhit/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: overheats
Etymology: From Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). By surface analysis, over- + heat.
Senses: examples: text: Continued operation with an overheat could lead to other serious problems, perhaps even a fire.
ref: 2002, Earl Rogers, Captain, page 245:
glosses: A condition of being overheated.
subversiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subversive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The subversiveness of his message was lost due to its commercialism.
glosses: The state or quality of being subversive.
binge eat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binge eats
form: binge eating
form: binge ate
form: binge eaten
form: binge-eat
Etymology: From binge + eat, after binge eating and binge eater.
Senses: glosses: To engage in binge eating.
subtotal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtotals
Etymology: From sub- + total.
Senses: glosses: The total for a part of a list of numbers being summed.
subtotal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subtotals
form: subtotaling
form: subtotalling
form: subtotaled
form: subtotaled
form: subtotalled
form: subtotalled
Etymology: From sub- + total.
Senses: glosses: To calculate a subtotal.
subtotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + total.
Senses: examples: text: A subtotal thyroidectomy usually prevents the recurrence of hyperthyroidism because only enough of the gland is left to maintain normal function.
ref: 2007, Caroline Bunker Rosdahl, Mary T. Kowalski, Textbook of Basic Nursing, page 1184:
glosses: Less than total; partial.
fractiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fractious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being fractious; trouble-making; unruliness.
glosses: A peevish or cranky nature.
Related terms: fractiously
gloweringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gloweringly
form: most gloweringly
Etymology: From glowering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a glowering manner.
sudsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌd.zi/
enpr: sŭdzē
rhymes: -ʌdzi
Forms: form: sudsier
form: sudsiest
Etymology: From suds + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A widespread belief in the AAF is that foam—a heavy soapy, sudsy substance—is the principal agent used in crash fire fighting .
ref: 1944 September, “Crash Fires: how to fight them”, in Air Force Magazine, volume 27, page 50:
text: Use a sudsy sponge or cloth to wash the doors, both inside and outside. If the door can be lifted off, wash it at the sink with hot sudsy water.
ref: 1965, Cleanliness Bureau of the Soap & Detergent Association, Public Housing Administration, Simplified Housekeeping Directions for Homemakers, page 7:
text: “Yes, daddy,” I moaned, lying big-time as his finger played in my sudsy pussy. “Say please,” he ordered, taking my hand to circle around his gherkin.
ref: 2010, Niobia Bryant, Live and Learn:
text: There's an unstable stack of upturned plates and bowls on the draining board and an assortment of sudsy cutlery.
ref: 2018, Julia Kelly, Matchstick Man: The Story of a Relationship:
glosses: Having suds; having froth or lather like soapy water.
examples: text: By the end of that season, four sudsy series ranked in the Top 10: Dynasty in first place, Dallas second, Knots Landing ninth, and Falcon Crest tied for tenth.
ref: 2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Soapy; resembling a soap opera.
Derived terms: sudsily
sudsiness
traffic signal box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic signal boxes
Senses: examples: text: A caravan installed at the intersection close to the existing traffic signal box contains all the processing devices[…].
ref: 1976, International Federation of Automatic Control, International Federation for Information Processing, Control in Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the IFAC/IFIP/IFORS Third International Symposium, August 9-13, 1976, Columbus, Ohio, volume 3, page 187:
text: Therefore, we asked the traffic department to install a vibrating traffic signal box for her to feel at each side of the street; this is being pursued at the time of this writing.
ref: 1993, Dona Sauerburger, Independence Without Sight Or Sound, page 140:
text: Officers use only hand signals and a whistle and have no access to the traffic signal box.
ref: 2008, Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, Managing Success in Center City: Reducing Congestion, Enhancing Public Spaces, page 20:
glosses: Any of the large metal boxes containing traffic signal controls, found at roadsides and intersections, and often made available by the local council for artistic work.
examples: text: At such times, it is hard to define the relative position of the light in the traffic signal box. As we know, in the United States, the red light is on the top and the green at the bottom.
ref: 2008, François W. Sauer, Relearn, Evolve, and Adapt, iUniverse, page 14:
glosses: A structure holding traffic lights.
sunbather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbathers
Etymology: From sunbathe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I went to the beach to look at the sunbathers, at least some of whom went there to be looked at while they worked on their tans.
glosses: A person who basks in the sun to get a tan.
Related terms: sunbathing
sun bunny
aprication
skinny dipping
sun worshipper
commercialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commercialisms
Etymology: From commercial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.
glosses: A tendency to value profit over everything else.
Derived terms: hypercommercialism
Related terms: consumerism
enfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enfold
sumptuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sumptuously
form: most sumptuously
Etymology: From sumptuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sumptuous manner.
enfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enfold
enfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfoldings
Senses: examples: text: This deficiency is less to be regretted, because the people at large are not now fitted to enjoy its display of fashionable manners, or to follow the delicate enfoldings of its graceful knot, which is made of frail, though glittering, materials.
ref: 1820, Atheneum, Or, Spirit of the English Magazines, volume 7, page 239:
glosses: A folding around something.
sumptuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumptuousnesses
Etymology: From sumptuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sumptuous.
glosses: The result or product of being sumptuous.
gunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gun
gunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunnings
Senses: examples: text: Philippe Bourgois […] witnessed shootings, muggings, bombings, machine-gunnings, fire bombings, and numerous fistfights, and he was manhandled by New York City police who mistook him for a drug dealer.
ref: 2011, Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, page 112:
glosses: The act of firing a gun.
hitchhikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hitchhike
hitchhikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitchhike
supersaturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supersaturates
form: supersaturating
form: supersaturated
form: supersaturated
Etymology: From super- + saturate.
Senses: examples: text: In science class the teacher prepared a supersaturated solution by cooling a saturated solution. He then added a small seed crystal and a large precipitate formed in just a second.
glosses: To cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain at current conditions.
zero gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-gravity
Etymology: Coined by Austro-Hungarian-American artist Jack Binder in his 1938 picture feature "If Science Reached the Earth's Core", printed in the October 1938 issue of the science-fiction pulp-magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories as part of a series of similar "If—" articles.
Senses: examples: text: Starting at the zero-gravity of earth's core, accumulative acceleration is easily built up in a four-thousand-mile tube.
ref: 1938 October, Jack Binder, “If Science Reached the Earth's Core”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 12, number 2, page 9:
text: A gravity-free world, or zero gravity, or weightlessness is ... a relative thing.
ref: 1968, William J. Masica, “Zero-Gravity Effects”, in Nasa Technical Memorandum, page 3:
text: The tricky part is dressing while floating in zero gravity!
ref: 2015, James Buckley Jr., Home Address, ISS:
glosses: The state of apparent weightlessness which occurs in a very low gravity field, or in free fall.
Synonyms: microgravity
weightlessness
zero g
zero-g
zero G
zero-G
zero gee
zero-gee
Jesum Crow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Jesum Crow, why's the statie so upset? We're only drinking tonics out here.
glosses: Synonym of Jesus Christ (“exclamation of anger, surprise, etc.”).
synonyms: word: Jesus Christ
extra: (“exclamation of anger, surprise, etc.”).
rispetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rispettos
form: rispetti
Senses: glosses: A kind of Tuscan poem of two quatrains in iambic tetrameter.
rispetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rispetto
ridder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridders
Etymology: From Middle English ridder, rydder, from Old English hridder (“sieve”) (also as Old English hriddel > English riddle (“sieve”)), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide; part; separate; sift”). Cognate with German Reiter (“sieve”).
Senses: glosses: a sieve
ridder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ridders
form: riddering
form: riddered
form: riddered
Etymology: From Middle English riddren, from Old English hridrian, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrōną (“to sieve; sift”), from the noun. See above.
Senses: glosses: to sieve; sift; riddle
ridder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridders
Etymology: From rid + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, rids.
bull session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull sessions
Etymology: From bull(shit) + session.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, if you were having a bull session in somebody’s room, and somebody wanted to come in, nobody’d let them in if they were some dopey, pimply guy.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 217:
text: "We had the usual bull sessions about solving the world's problems or what would be the result of something," recalls Breidbart.
ref: 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, →ISBN:
text: There's an old joke that I used to hear occasionally on British television shows: "It's not theft—it's socialism!" I couldn't help but think of it repeatedly as I read this paper on self-organizing institutional arrangements among pirates, which bears some disturbing similarities to an hours-long anarcho-capitalist bull session.
ref: 2008 February 15, Megan McArdle, “Piracy: a symphony of spontaneous order”, in The Atlantic:
text: NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine ordered reviews of SpaceX and Boeing. Apparently this was planned before the whiskey-and-weed bull session on The Joe Rogan Experience.
ref: 2018 November 30, Elizabeth Lopatto, “Why so many people think Elon Musk is a hero — or a villain”, in The Verge:
glosses: An informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.
bigshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigshots
Etymology: From big + shot.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of big shot.
X-chromosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-chromosome
schnitzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃnɪt.s(ə)l/
Forms: form: schnitzels
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Schnitzel (“cutlet”).
Senses: glosses: A dish consisting of fried veal cutlet.
glosses: A Germanic dish of breaded and deep-fried meat cutlet.
Coordinate terms: topics: meat
meats
food
lifestyle
english: The Japanese equivalent food
translation: The Japanese equivalent food
word: katsu
schnook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: schnooks
form: shnook
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שנוק (shnuk), a person easily imposed upon or cheated.
Senses: examples: text: He’s just a schnook. She’s obviously using him but he keeps coming back for more abuse.
text: The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder.
ref: 1960 July 4, “Time Listings”, in Time:
glosses: A person who is easily taken advantage of.
sectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkʃənəl/
Forms: form: more sectional
form: most sectional
Etymology: From section + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a section.
examples: text: Our new sectional couch divided into pieces, but the pieces still wouldn't fit through the door.
glosses: Separating into sections.
examples: text: The U.S. civil war can be considered a sectional dispute.
glosses: Relating to conflict between areas.
Related terms: bisectional
cross-sectional
infrasectional
intersectional
intrasectional
midsectional
multisectional
nonsectional
sectionalise
sectionalism
sectionalist
sectionality
sectionalization
sectionalize
sectionally
transectional
unsectional
sectional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkʃənəl/
Forms: form: sectionals
Etymology: From section + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of [...] admiring the sleek chrome and leather sectional, they had huddled in a corner.
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 18:
glosses: An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
Derived terms: band sectional
lysosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysosome
sectionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectionalisms
Etymology: From sectional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Promoting the good of one division, department or subgroup over that of the whole.
examples: text: Sectionalism is tearing the country apart. Everyone wants the other regions to do the work and pay the taxes while they reap the benefits.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Promoting the good of one region over that of the nation.
Related terms: nationalism
globalism
mai tai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ ˈtaɪ/
Forms: form: mai tais
form: Mai Tai
Etymology: Borrowed from Tahitian maitaʻi (“good”), supposedly exclaimed by the first person to taste the drink.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail typically containing rum, curacao, and lime.
Derived terms: Mai-Tini
Related terms: tiki bar
tiki culture
sweepingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sweepingly
form: most sweepingly
Etymology: From sweeping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an encompassing manner.
surrealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌɹiː.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /səˌɹi.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /səˌɹiː.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more surrealistic
form: most surrealistic
Etymology: From surreal + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: This is a photograph in the surrealistic spirit. Some will find it highly interesting and entertaining, others will condemn it as nonsense.
ref: 1939, Photographers' Association of California, Camera Craft, Fayette J. Clute, page 131:
text: Today the cave is 1,000 feet above the canyon floor. You'll need a sweater inside the cave, which has a constant temperature of 42°. An indirect lighting system effectively iluminates the limestone formations with surrealistic splashes of color from various mineral deposits.
ref: 1953, Southern Pacific Company Passenger Department, Sunset, Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, page 47:
text: UPON this shifting foundation, treacherous and uncertain as life itself, Cary succeeds in building a series of sublime affirmations. He does it by drawing upon seemingly infinite resources. The narrative techniques range from the Defoe-like quality of the first novel to the slapstick and surrealistic invention of the last.
ref: 1958, John Brooks, Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, Harper & Row, page 281:
text: Conversation had dropped to a low ebb, when, with surrealistic incoherence, someone poured a tin of turpentine on the floor in front, and there it lay in all its unhurried viscuous splendour.
ref: 1968, Sisirkumar Ghose, Mine Oyster, Harper & Row, page 174:
text: When the crash finally came, it came with a kind of surrealistic slowness—so gradually that, on the one hand, it was possible to live through a good part of it without realizing that it was happening, and, on the other hand, it was possible to believe that one had experienced and survived it when in fact it had no more than just begun.
ref: 1969, John Brooks, Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938, Harper & Row, page 109:
glosses: surreal.
surreptitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surreptitious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Weiwei sees one of the stewards bend his head, then place something on the shrine, a surreptitiousness to his movements.
ref: 2024, Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, page 18:
synonyms: surreptition
glosses: The state or quality of being surreptitious.