cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumpies
Etymology: From plump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The most famous of all the animals of Mauritius is a large, gentle dove. A remarkably large dove, in fact: its weight is closest to that of a well-fed turkey. Its wings long ago gave up the idea of lifting such a plumpy off the ground, and withered away into decorative little stumps.
ref: 1990, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine, Last Chance To See:
text: It was ladies' league night at the bowling alley, and when he stood in the bar looking out at the lanes he picked out her trim figure on lane 7 in a gaggle of plumpies.
ref: 2007, Jim Harrison, Julip, page 112:
glosses: A fat person or thing.
plumpness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌmpnəs/
Forms: form: plumpnesses
Etymology: From plump + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
text: For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being plump.
Synonyms: plumptitude
plumply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plumply
form: most plumply
Etymology: From plump + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Quite plumply, forgot the appointment.
text: He was plumply pleased by salutes on the street from unknown small boys; his ears were tickled to ruddy ecstasy by hearing himself called "Colonel;" and if he did not attend Sunday School merely to be thus exalted, certainly he thought about it all the way there.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XVII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section PART III, page 219:
text: Now Billy […] had some of the weaknesses inseparable from essential good-nature; and among these was a reluctance, almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt proposition not obviously absurd, on the face of it, nor obviously unfriendly, nor iniquitous.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
synonyms: roundly
plainly
glosses: unreservedly; fully
examples: text: She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.
ref: 1986, William Trevor, “Kathleen's Field”, in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, published 1992, page 1254:
glosses: With plumpness, in a plump way.
plumper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈplʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Etymology: From plump + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of plump: more plump
plumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈplʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plumpers
Etymology: From plump + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who plumps or swells out something else.
glosses: That which plumps or swells out something else.
examples: text: I'll open my mouth with as much care as Mrs Bridget Button, who wears cork plumpers in each cheek and never hazards more than six words for fear of showing them.
ref: 1780, Hannah Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem, I.4:
glosses: A small ball or pad carried in the mouth to fill out the cheeks.
topics: government
politics
antonyms: split ticket
glosses: In elections, a vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving the candidate an advantage over the others.
glosses: A voter who plumps their vote.
glosses: A downright, unqualified lie.
glosses: An obese woman, especially in pornography.
Synonyms: sense: downright, unqualified lie
word: pork pie
sense: downright, unqualified lie
word: porky
sense: downright, unqualified lie
word: tall story
sense: downright, unqualified lie
word: whopper
Chester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕsʹtər
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛ.stɚ/
enpr: chĕsʹtər
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛ.stə/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Chesters
Etymology: Blend of child + molester
Senses: synonyms: Chester the molester
glosses: A child molester.
secondary school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary schools
Senses: examples: text: One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77:
topics: education
glosses: A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
topics: education
glosses: The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.
topics: education
glosses: Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).
Synonyms: english: equivalent in the US
translation: equivalent in the US
word: high school
Coordinate terms: primary school
tertiary education
tertiary-level education
Related terms: national secondary school
postsecondary school
secondary education
secondary modern
comprehensive
grammar school
junior school
middle school
pollenarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlənˈnɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌpɑlənˈnɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more pollenarious
form: most pollenarious
Senses: glosses: Consisting of meal or pollen.
pollened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pollen + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pollen
pollened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollened
form: most pollened
Etymology: From pollen + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with pollen.
polleniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polleniferous
form: most polleniferous
Etymology: From pollen + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of polliniferous (“producing pollen”).
synonyms: word: polliniferous
extra: producing pollen
pollenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pollen + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
pollenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pollenizes
form: pollenizing
form: pollenized
form: pollenized
Etymology: From pollen + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To pollinate
Derived terms: pollenization
pollenizer
pollicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollicitations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pollicitātiō.
Senses: glosses: A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise.
topics: law
glosses: A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made.
pollinctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollinctors
Etymology: From Latin pollinctor.
Senses: glosses: undertaker
polliniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From pollen + -i- + -ferous, or directly from New Latin pollinifer, polliniferus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: polleniferous
hypernyms: melliferous
coordinate_terms: nectariferous
glosses: Producing pollen
pollinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollinia
Etymology: From pollen + -ium (“mass”).
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids, which is dispersed as a single unit during pollination.
Synonyms: english: any group of more than four pollen grains
translation: any group of more than four pollen grains
word: polyad
Derived terms: pollinial
polliniate
Related terms: pollinarium
pollinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollinose
form: most pollinose
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.
videlicet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /vɪˈdɛlɪsɛt/
Forms: form: viz.
form: vizt.
form: vid.
form: videl.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vidēlicet, which itself is a contraction of vidēre licet, meaning "it is permitted to see".
Senses: examples: text: Videlicet,a Brothell, or ſo forth.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: —[…]My father did speak much of the day he was not speedily to forget, videlicet May Day of 1517, when there was great apprentice rioting against insolent foreigners.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, →ISBN:
glosses: Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
Synonyms: namely
polliwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polliwigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polliwog.
polluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polluted
form: most polluted
Senses: synonyms: foul
antonyms: uncontaminated
unpolluted
glosses: Made unclean or impure.
examples: text: "[He was] Absolutely polluted. He was SO drunk that he had to be helped into the cab!" "White, you are crazy! Jack Fielding was never drunk in his life!"
ref: 1903, The Argosy, page 295:
text: In a very 'ugly' mood, I got absolutely polluted and drunk the next night in San Diego for the very first time in my life. I got into a bar fight at the 'China Doll Bar,' hit a cop who had questioned my legal drinking age and pushed me when I felt that he[…]
ref: 2014 January 16, Bill Aken, Carry Your Own Guitar: From Abandoned Child to Legendary Musician - the True Story of Bill Aken, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: "God, Adam. You're absolutely polluted. What have you been drinking?" "Whiskey," Hagen responded. "Beer, too, I'm afraid. I'm actually on the verge of sobriety , a condition I intend on rectifying as soon as both of you leave the premises[…]"
ref: 2020 August 25, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Bury the Hatchet, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Drunk.
Derived terms: half polluted
light-polluted
nonpolluted
overpolluted
pollutedly
pollutedness
semipolluted
underpolluted
polluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of pollute
pollutedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polluted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being polluted.
pollutedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pollutedly
form: most pollutedly
Etymology: From polluted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a polluted manner.
polluter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polluters
Etymology: From pollute + -er.
Senses: examples: text: During the last session of Parliament a Rivers' Pollution Prevention Act was passed, after it had been carefully divested of most of the provisions which could make it objectionable to polluters.
ref: 1877, E. W. H. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, London: Edward Stanford, page 235:
text: The Environmental Protection Agency said it gets stuck with the bills because it often can't locate polluters or they are out of business or bankrupt.
ref: 1993 June 21, “EPA getting stuck paying millions”, in The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan:
text: Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.
ref: 2008 July 9, Robert Winnett, Urmee Khan, quoting George W. Bush, “President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
Derived terms: antipolluter
nonpolluter
polluter pays principle
self-polluter
polluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pollute
polluting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polluting
form: most polluting
Senses: examples: text: De-icing a plane is expensive, polluting, and time-consuming, so when sudden weather changes mean it has to be done twice, that has an impact on the bottom line, the environment and on-time departures.
ref: 2023 May 5, Julie Weed, “AI Is Helping Airlines Prevent Delays and Turbulence”, in The New York Times:
text: But because rare earths are polluting to mine and process, it can take nearly three decades to get permission to open and operate a rare-earth mine in America, so finding substitutes won’t be easy.
ref: 2025 April 19, Nicholas Kristof, “What Trump Isn’t Telling You About His Trade War With China”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Causing pollution; having a tendency to pollute.
Derived terms: antipolluting
nonpolluting
pollutingly
unpolluting
pollywog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollywogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polliwog (“tadpole”).
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator.
pollywog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollywogs
Etymology: Blend of Polynesian + wog
Senses: glosses: A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent.
Polonaise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Polonese
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland.
Polonaise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Polonese
Senses: glosses: The Polish language.
Polonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French polonais. By surface analysis, Polono- + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Polish language.
Polonese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French polonais. By surface analysis, Polono- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Warſaw, March 26. An expreſs is arrived with advice, that the reconfederates of Podolia had formed a ſcheme to carry off the commander of the troops belonging to the Republick; but the latter having been informed of it, had retired into the fortreſs of Kaminieck, which he was obliged to do with ſo much precipitation, that all the Poloneſe companies, conſiſting of two thouſand men, were made priſoners.
ref: 1768 April, “Foreign Affairs”, in The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, London: […] R. Baldwin, […], page 231, column 2:
text: To keep up appearances, however, he succeeded in obtaining declaration at the diet held at Warsaw, that such of the Polonese nobility alone as were born of catholic parents could pretend to the crown; […]
ref: 1805, William [Fordyce] Mavor, Universal History, Ancient and Modern; from the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, volume XXIII, New York, N.Y.: […] Isaac Collins and Son, for Samuel Stansbury and Co., page 263:
text: You have seen announced in several of our papers an intention of the Polonese nation to erect a monument near Cracow to the memory of General Kosciusko, and their wish that England and the United States, by joining in contributions, might give a proof of the interest they take in his character; […]
ref: 1821 August 13, Thomas Jefferson, “To James Monroe”, in Andrew A[dgate] Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, editors, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition […], volume XIX, Washington, D.C.: Issued under the Auspices of The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, published 1903, page 274:
glosses: Polish.
Polonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polonese
Etymology: From French Polonais. By surface analysis, Polono- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: He immediately began to aſſure the Poliſh gentleman, that whatever he could do to amend his ſituation ſhould inſtantly be done. The voice of pity, ſo ſooting to the ſick heart, ſeemed to have an almoſt immediate effect on the unfortunate Poloneſe.
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter II, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 40:
text: The emperor intends to go to Warsaw as soon as the troops have taken the positions assigned to them. The army supports itself on the Vistula, and the confederate Polonese are encamped at Czeskok, so as to make part of the right wing of the army.
ref: 1807, “Foreign News”, in The Lady’s Magazine, or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex; Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume XXXVIII, London: […] G[eorge] Robinson, page 49, column 2:
text: There is a Polonese on board, who, with his wife, (an English woman,) is come out to train Greek cavalry.
ref: 1826, Charles Swan, Journal of a Voyage up the Mediterranean; Principally among the Islands of the Archipelago, and in Asia Minor: […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], page 114:
glosses: A Pole.
pape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪp
Forms: form: papes
Senses: glosses: A painted bunting.
glosses: A Roman Catholic.
polony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈloʊni/
Forms: form: polonies
Etymology: A corruption of bologna.
Senses: examples: text: A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: There was a touch of quiet humour in Rachel, and with a demure smile, she internally wondered why it was precisely her polony that had been selected by puss, but aloud she merely declared that she could make an excellent supper on bread and beer.
ref: 1873, Julia Kavanagh, Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on Fact, page 42:
text: A survey of 25 polony samples of different brands available to the consumer in Bloemfontein showed that significant numbers of various micro-organisms were present.
ref: 1978, Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, page 115:
text: Shlomo threw the polony and bread ceremoniously into the lorry and heaved himself up to see who it was who recognised him.
ref: 1984, Jewish Affairs, volume 39, number 4, page 35:
glosses: A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
polony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈloʊni/
Forms: form: polonies
Etymology: Variant form of Polari palone.
Senses: examples: text: “What about that polony he was with?” ¶ “She doesn't matter”, the Boy said, “She's just a buer—he gave her a half. I saw him hand it out.”
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann (1947), page 28:
text: “I don't need a razor with a polony. If you don't know what it is, it's a bottle.”
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann (1947), page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of palone.
polony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈloʊni/
Etymology: Blend of polymerase + colony
Senses: examples: text: Fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) or beadbased polony sequencing FISSEQ involves localized amplification of single DNA molecules, using an acrylarnide gel, thus creating colonies of PCR product that are called polonies.
ref: 2008, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, India, page 97:
text: The development of polony technology is an extreme example of spatial compression; a polony array essentially consists of millions of distinguishable, immobilized, and femtoliter-scale "test tubes" filled with clonal DNA arising from individual DNA or RNA molecules via a single polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
ref: 2008, Michal Janitz, Next-Generation Genome Sequencing: Towards Personalized Medicine, page 58:
text: This cycle is repeated several dozen times to generate DNA sequence information for each polony.
ref: 2008, John Mendelsohn, The Molecular Basis of Cancer:
topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cluster of polymers produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
paperhanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪpəhæŋə/
ipa: /ˈpeɪpɚhæŋɚ/
Forms: form: paperhangers
Etymology: From paper + hanger.
Senses: examples: text: No one in the street was aware than an Austrian paperhanger named Shickelgruber, and calling himself Hitler, had been arrested in Munich and thrown into jail.
ref: 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 61:
glosses: Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.
synonyms: snide pitcher
glosses: A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist.
Related terms: hang paper
polt-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polt-foot
form: most polt-foot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poltfoot.
polt-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polt-footed
form: most polt-footed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polt-foot.
poltroonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poltrooneries
Etymology: From poltroon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Genius, Poet: do we know what these words mean? […] Nature’s own sacred voice heard once more athwart the dreary boundless element of hearsaying and canting, of twaddle and poltroonery, in which the bewildered Earth, nigh perishing, has lost its way.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IX, Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: “Your Majesty, your Majesty,” he said, “are you going to tolerate this mutiny, this poltroonery? This is a panic, this is a rout.”
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 12, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Cowardice; lack of spirit; pusillanimity.
poltroonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poltroonish
form: most poltroonish
Etymology: From poltroon + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.
Derived terms: poltroonishly
polverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polverines
Etymology: From Italian polverino, from Latin pulvis (“dust”).
Senses: glosses: Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, used in the manufacture of fine glass.
examples: text: Mosquitoes and polverines, little midges so small as to be scarcely visible, rose in a cloud from the water and settled on our hands and faces.
ref: 1946, Kenneth Walker, I talk of dreams: an experiment in autobiography, page 145:
text: The polverines, however, were so small and numerous that even though we massacred fifty with a slap it seemed to make no difference to the hazy black cloud which hung around our heads.
ref: 1980, David Attenborough, The Zoo Quest Expeditions: Travels in Guyana, Indonesia, and Paraguay, →ISBN:
text: But all were more tolerable than those polverines.
ref: 1991, MS Aufdemberge, The Mission Efforts of the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the Chaco Province of Argentina:
glosses: A tiny biting insect found in South America.
polwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polwigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polliwog.
polyacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æsɪd
Forms: form: polyacids
Etymology: From poly- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polybasic acid
polyacid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æsɪd
Etymology: From poly- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polybasic
raw_tags: of a base
polyacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyacoustic
form: most polyacoustic
Etymology: From poly- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: Multiplying or magnifying sound.
polyacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyacoustics
Etymology: From poly- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: A polyacoustic instrument.
Related terms: polyacoustics
peri-lingual deafness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Deafness contracted while acquiring a first language.
Related terms: post-lingual deafness
polyacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.
Related terms: polyacoustic
perikarya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perikaryon
polyacron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyacrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολῠ- (polŭ-) and ᾰ̓́κρον (ắkron).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron.
acquisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin acquisītus (“gained, acquired”), from Latin acquirere.
Senses: glosses: acquired
Derived terms: acquisitive
acquisitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: əkwĭz'ətĭv
ipa: /əˈkwɪzətɪv/
Forms: form: more acquisitive
form: most acquisitive
Etymology: From an alteration of Latin acquisītus (“acquired, gained”), or possibly from acquisite + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Acquired.
examples: text: He is an acquisitive person.
text: She has an acquisitive nature.
glosses: Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.
synonyms: inquisitive
glosses: Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.
Derived terms: acquisitively
acquisitiveness
acquisitive prize
acquisitivism
nonacquisitive
unacquisitive
acquisitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acquisitively
form: most acquisitively
Etymology: From acquisitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an acquisitive manner; for the purpose of acquisition.
acquisitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquisitivenesses
Etymology: From acquisitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate, by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest of beauty, and the aspirations that were [its] guide.
ref: 1915, Arthur Davison Ficke, chapter 8, in Chats on Japanese Prints, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 409:
text: If we win this war and have the Cotton Kingdom of our dreams, we still have lost, for we will become a different people and the old quiet ways will go. The world will be at our doors clamoring for cotton and we can command our own price. Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 11, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
text: Rud did not even attempt to fish. Chiffan caught nothing, and for the most part they paddled about the lake, pulled yellow and white water lilies out of sheer acquisitiveness, or sprawled in the punt and meditated under a great yellowing horse-chestnut that overhung the water, and occasionally plopped a conker through its glassy surface.
ref: 1939, H. G. Wells, The Holy Terror, Book I, Chapter III, §VI:
text: 1952, Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan), The Price of Salt, New York: Norton, 2004, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,
I think he picked me out like a rug for his living room, and he made a bad mistake. I doubt if he’s capable of loving anyone, really. What he has is a kind of acquisitiveness, which isn’t much separate from his ambition.
glosses: The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
examples: text: Had she a little more of the organ of Acquisitiveness in her head—a little more of the love of property in her nature, she would take a good-sized sheet of paper and write plainly out, in her own queer but clear and legible hand, the story that has been narrated, the song that has been sung to her, and thus possess what she was enabled to create.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Two Lives”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 266:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
Derived terms: nonacquisitiveness
philotimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φιλοτιμία (philotimía) from φιλο- (philo-, “love”) + τιμή (timḗ, “honour”); see philo-.
Senses: glosses: The urge to be thought superior; excessive ambition.
acquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquists
Senses: examples: text: His servants he with new acquist
Of true experience from this great event
With peace and consolation hath dismist.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
glosses: Acquisition; gain.
acquist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acquists
form: acquisting
form: acquisted
form: acquisted
Senses: glosses: To acquire.
acquitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquitments
Etymology: From acquit + -ment.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Obsolete form of acquittal.
paddywagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddywagons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paddy wagon.
acquittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwɪtəns/
Forms: form: acquittances
form: acquittaunce
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman acquitance, Middle French aquitance, from acquiter (“to acquit”). Compare later acquittal.
Senses: examples: text: You can produce acquittances / For such a sum, from special officers.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
glosses: Payment of debt; settlement.
glosses: The release from a debt, or from some obligation or duty; exemption.
examples: text: This was a task more difficult than that of self acquittance.
ref: 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Oxford, published 1999, page 82:
glosses: The dismissal of a legal charge against someone; acquittal.
glosses: The acquittal of one's duties; the carrying out of fulfilment of a job or role.
acquittance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwɪtəns/
Forms: form: acquittances
form: acquittancing
form: acquittanced
form: acquittanced
form: acquittaunce
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman acquitance, Middle French aquitance, from acquiter (“to acquit”). Compare later acquittal.
Senses: glosses: To acquit.
phyllomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From phyllo- + -mania.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The over-production of leaves by a plant (usually a tree), at the expense of flowers, seeds, etc.
acquitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquitters
Etymology: From acquit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who acquits or releases.
acrania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)eɪˈkreɪ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From New Latin acrania, from a- + crānium + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Partial or total absence of the skull.
Synonyms: acephalia
Related terms: cranium
pipe down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pipes down
form: piping down
form: piped down
form: piped down
Etymology: The sex sense is related to lay the pipe.
Senses: examples: text: Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work.
synonyms: word: belt up
word: button it
word: button one's lip
word: back that train up
word: can it
word: clam up
word: cork it
word: dummy up
word: hush down
word: hush one's mouth
word: pipe down
word: put a lid on it
word: put a sock in it
word: shaddap
word: shut it
word: shut one's big bazoo
word: shut one's cake hole
word: shut one's face
word: shut one's gob
word: shut one's head
word: shut one's mouth
word: shut one's pie hole
word: shut one's trap
word: shut one's yap
word: shut the front door
word: shut up
word: STFU
word: stick a sock in it
word: stuff a sock in it
word: wind one's neck in
word: zip it
word: zip one's lip
antonyms: pipe up#Verb
glosses: To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.
glosses: To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company.
examples: text: G-money aggressively pulled Coco's hair, as he delivered powerful strokes to her love tunnel. He then slid his fingers in her mouth, as he continued to pipe her down. Coco sucked and licked G-money's fingers as she took the back shots like a soldier.
ref: 2019 December 23, Damont L. Diggs, Wait, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: Michael hurry up bro me and my girl wanna go home so I can pipe her down.
ref: 2020 November 10, Ladell Parks, Heaven Empire, Ladell Parks:
glosses: Of a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman.
acranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + cranial.
Senses: glosses: Without a skull.
parochialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parochialisms
Etymology: From parochial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being parochial; especially: selfish pettiness or narrowness (as of interests, opinions, or views).
pathogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patho- + genomics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: genomic research on pathogenic microorganisms
Related terms: pathogenomic
plantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantlets
Etymology: From plant + -let.
Senses: glosses: A young or small plant used as a propagule.
pneudraulics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pneumatics + hydraulics
Senses: glosses: The system on military aircraft that use either or some combination of both hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
glosses: The science of fluids made of both gas and liquid.
guesthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛsthaʊs/
Forms: form: guesthouses
form: guest house
form: guest-house
Etymology: From Middle English gest hous, gistenehus, gystehuse, gesthus, partly from Old English gæsthūs, ġesthūs (“guesthouse, hostel; guest-chamber”), from Proto-West Germanic *gastihūs; and partly from Old Norse gesthús (“guesthouse; guest-chamber”); both from Proto-Germanic *gastihūsą, corresponding to guest + house.
Senses: examples: text: The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 32:
glosses: A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
examples: text: Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.
ref: 2004, Mary Fitzpatrick et al., South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 199:
text: For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.
ref: 2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in The New York Times:
text: And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.
ref: 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.
Hypernyms: house
Hyponyms: sense: client accommodations
word: paying guest house
sense: client accommodations
word: PG house
polar bear dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar bear dips
form: polar-bear dip
Etymology: From polar bear + dip.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polar bear plunge.
synonyms: word: polar bear plunge
poliorcetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊlɪɔːˈsɛtɪks/
ipa: /ˌpɒ-/
ipa: /ˌpoʊliˌɔɹˈsɛtɪks/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ-/
ipa: [-ɾɪks]
rhymes: -ɛtɪks
Etymology: Partly:
* borrowed from Late Latin poliorcetica (“siege engines”) + English -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum) (poliorcetica is derived from Koine Greek πολιορκητικά (poliorkētiká, “things related to sieges”), the neuter plural of πολιορκητικός (poliorkētikós, “relating to poliorcetics, poliorcetic”), from Ancient Greek πολῐορκέω (polĭorkéō, “to besiege, blockade”) (from πόλις (pólis, “city”) + ἕρκος (hérkos, “enclosure; fence”)) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or relating to’)); and
* from poliorcetic (“relating to poliorcetics”) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Senses: examples: text: The grand battles of the Archaic and early Classical periods were replaced by the new art of poliorcetics.
ref: 1992, Lars Karlsson, Fortification Towers and Masonry Techniques in the Hegemony of Syracuse, 405–211 B.C. (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom [Publications of the Swedish Institute in Rome]; 49), Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Rom [Swedish Institute in Rome], →ISBN, →ISSN, page 11, column 1:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The art of siege warfare, namely, that of conducting or resisting a siege; siegecraft.
Related terms: poliorcetic
polyclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: polyclinics
Etymology: From poly- + clinic.
Senses: glosses: A usually private clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated.
polyextremophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyextremophiles
Etymology: From poly- + extremophile.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, their ability to survive many different types of extreme qualify them as 'polyextremophiles'.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 95:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism which can tolerate two or more extreme environmental factors.
Related terms: extremophile
remotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈməʊʃən/
Forms: form: remotions
Etymology: From Old French or directly from Latin remōtiō.
Senses: examples: text: By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.
ref: 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, →ISBN, page 63:
text: In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]
ref: 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, →ISBN, page 3326:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: promotion
glosses: Backward motion.
examples: text: This act persuades me / That this remotion of the Duke and her / Is practice only.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: A syllogism disjunctive from the enumeration of the parts is that, in which from the remotion of all the parts the remotion of the whole is concluded.
ref: 1847, Murray's Compendium of logic, with a corrected Latin text, page 155:
text: We may proceed from the remotion of the consequent to the remotion of the antecedent.
ref: 1857, John Daniel Morell, Handbook of logic, page 51:
text: The remotion of Cr3+ from the wastewater prevents its possible oxidation.
ref: 2003, 2001. a Clay Odyssey, →ISBN, page 619:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: Removal.
trains command
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A specific unit assigned to a division that is the headquarters for one or more trains.
Cro-Magnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kroʊˈmænjən/
ipa: /kroʊˈmænjən/
ipa: /-ˈmæɡnən/
Etymology: From French Cro-Magnon, from Occitan Cròs-Manhon.
Named after Abri de Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France, where the first skeletons were found in 1868.
Senses: glosses: The rock shelter in Les Eyzies, France, where the first Cro-Magnon Man specimens were found.
Cro-Magnon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kroʊˈmænjən/
ipa: /kroʊˈmænjən/
ipa: /-ˈmæɡnən/
Forms: form: Cro-Magnons
form: Cro-Magnon
Etymology: From French Cro-Magnon, from Occitan Cròs-Manhon.
Named after Abri de Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France, where the first skeletons were found in 1868.
Senses: examples: text: The Cro-Magnons may have been one important step beyond the Neanderthals in social organization.[…]That the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals encountered each other is probable. There seems to be no more than a five-thousand-year interval between the general occupation of home sites by the Neanderthals and their replacement by Cro-Magnon tools and fossils.
ref: 1994, Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), page 14:
text: The Cro Magnon came to live in Europe around forty thousand years ago and most educated people have heard of them. The Cro Magnon are the ones who created the remarkable cave paintings found in southern France and Spain at Lascaux and Altamira.
ref: 2006, Lyndall Baker Landauer, The Learning Pool: Basic Science Everyone Needs to Know, Xlibris, page 85:
text: In addition, the latest evidence suggests that the "agricultural revolution" occurred sometime during the second half of the Cro-Magnon era. Anatomically, the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon brains were approximately the same overall size.
ref: 2009, Anthony Scioli, Henry B. Biller, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Oxford University Press, page 44:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.
glosses: A backward and stupid person, a knuckle-dragger or troglodyte.
Synonyms: Cro-Magnon Man
European early modern human
Related terms: Cro-Magnid
Cro-Magnoid
sumpter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmptə/
Forms: form: sumpters
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French sommetier (“pack-horse driver”), from Late Latin *sagmatarius, from Latin sagma, from Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma, “pack-saddle”).
Senses: examples: text: Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter / To this detested groom.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: The driver of a packhorse.
examples: text: the ancient vse of somers and sumpter horsses is in maner vtterlie relinquished
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
text: The Bishop of Orange was watching carefully as men stored his papers in a cart, the King's steward and Despenser's bottler were stalking about among the wagons and sumpter horses ensuring that all was packed, while clerks of the various departments of state were hurrying about, squeaking at men who looked as though they might drop a chest or misstore a box in the wrong wagon, and generally getting in the way of everyone else while making themselves thoroughly miserable at the same time.
ref: 2008, Michael Jecks, The Prophecy of Death:
glosses: A packhorse; a beast of burden.
examples: text: You should have had a Sumpter , tho' 'thad cost me
The laying on myself
ref: 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
glosses: A pack; a burden.
Related terms: Sumpter in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
germen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɜː.mən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝ.mən/
homophone: German
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: germens
form: germina
Etymology: From Latin germen (“germ, seed”). Doublet of germ.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The basic form of an organism; the seed or germ.
airside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From air + -side.
Senses: examples: text: When I was airside, I browsed the duty-free shops.
text: You can relax, or catch up with work, safe in the knowledge that it’s just a few yards to the gate, assuming the lounge is “airside” (not “landside”).
ref: 2006 October 15, Roger Collis, “Airport Lounge Programs: How to Get In (and How Much They Cost)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2024:
text: The airside terminal building will be extended into the landside building, making one large structure, getting rid of the people mover and remodeling the gate areas. It should be completed in 2023.
ref: 2018 December 6, Matt Falcus, “16 new airports and terminals we can’t wait to fly into”, in CNN:
glosses: In the passenger-only area of an airport, beyond security, passport and immigration, and customs controls.
airside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From air + -side.
Senses: examples: text: You have to go through security to go airside.
text: All went well for the first twenty minutes – women stepped through the metal detector and she and Alison rubbed down passengers who set it off to make sure they were not carrying items of threat airside and onto aircraft.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Something Inside So Strong”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 106:
text: Philadelphia International Airport will soon be allowing non-flyers to go airside.
ref: 2023 October 21, Lilit Marcus, “The US airports where non-travelers can hang out”, in CNN:
glosses: Into the passenger-only area of an airport, beyond security, passport and immigration, and customs controls.
airside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airsides
Etymology: From air + -side.
Senses: glosses: A passenger-only area of an airport, beyond security, passport and immigration, and customs controls.
landside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From land + -side.
Senses: glosses: Inland; away from the sea.
examples: text: I had to remain landside because I did not have a boarding card.
text: You can relax, or catch up with work, safe in the knowledge that it’s just a few yards to the gate, assuming the lounge is “airside” (not “landside”).
ref: 2006 October 15, Roger Collis, “Airport Lounge Programs: How to Get In (and How Much They Cost)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2024:
text: The airside terminal building will be extended into the landside building, making one large structure, getting rid of the people mover and remodeling the gate areas. It should be completed in 2023.
ref: 2018 December 6, Matt Falcus, “16 new airports and terminals we can’t wait to fly into”, in CNN:
glosses: In the freely accessible area of an airport, outside of security, passport/immigration, and customs control.
Derived terms: landsider