cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bestializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestialize
bestializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bestialize
bestialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bestialize
acts of independent significance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of act of independent significance
Hanns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hann
fullfledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of full-fledged.
Uta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A trade name.
Senses: glosses: A round winter pear cultivar with golden-brown skin.
Related terms: Uta Hick's bearded saki
anapodota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Commentators on this psychoanalysis of grammar have adduced it as the uncanny reflex of certain poetic scenes or images built upon the anapodota of sexual loss, romantic frustration, and the end of amatory exchange.⁶⁹
ref: 2001, Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, William Langland’s Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays, Routledge, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: plural of anapodoton
stomato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”)
Senses: qualifier: international scientific vocabulary
glosses: mouth
Synonyms: oral
oro-
Related terms: stoma
ostomy
strato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Strata; especially, stratus clouds.
stratocumuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratocumulus
autodigestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + digestion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
hexosyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexosyltransferase
hexosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexosyltransferases
Etymology: From hexosyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycosyltransferase that catalyzes the transfer of a hexose
Related terms: fucosyltransferase
galactosyltransferase
glucosyltransferase
glucuronosyltransferase
immunoserology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + serology.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of serology that involves studies of the immune response
Related terms: immunoserological
immunoserum
isopycnal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopycnals
Etymology: From iso- + pycno- + -al.
Senses: topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A line connecting points of constant density in the ocean or in the atmosphere.
isopycnals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isopycnal
lemniscatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌlɛmnɪˈskætɪk/
Etymology: From lemniscate + -ic.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a figure-of-eight
glosses: of or pertaining to a lemniscate
noncatalyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + catalyzed.
Senses: glosses: Not subject to catalysis
oxocarbenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxocarbeniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any canonical form of a carbocation having the positive charge on an oxygen atom
phosphohydrolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphohydrolases
Etymology: From phospho- + hydrolase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyzes an organic phosphate group
Derived terms: diphosphohydrolase
metallophosphohydrolase
Related terms: phosphohydrolysis
sclerophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerophylls
Etymology: From sclero- + -phyll.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes.
Derived terms: sclerophyllous
sclerophylly
trinitroresorcinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trinitro + resorcinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: styphnic acid
diplotene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪplətiːn/
ipa: /ˈdɪpləˌtin/
Forms: form: diplotenes
Etymology: From French diplotène, corresponding to diplo- + -tene.
Coined by Hans von De Winiwarter in 1900 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fourth stage of prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosome pairs begin to separate and chiasmata become visible
Synonyms: diplonema
high-resolution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-resolution
form: highest-resolution
form: hi-res
form: high-res
Senses: examples: text: Costing more than the helicopter it is attached to, this impressive £1 million multi-spectral camera and sensor array picks up a huge range of data above and beyond the high-resolution aerial photography that Sean Leahy and the Network Rail Air Operations team have become known for.
ref: 2021 July 14, Gareth Dennis, “#RailNatter... all about Rail Live matters”, in RAIL, number 935, page 35, photo caption:
glosses: Having a high resolution; for example, having a large number of pixels per unit area.
Derived terms: high-res
hi-res
very-high-resolution
Related terms: high-definition
high definition
Rahul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit राहुल (rāhula)
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
atonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atonia
dassn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæsənt/
rhymes: -æsənt
Forms: form: dasn't
Etymology: From dast + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: They dursn't go theer nomoor seein as they wor copp'd steylin last time.
glosses: Dare not.
Eids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eid
dasn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dassn't.
hiemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hiemal
form: most hiemal
form: hyemal
Etymology: From Latin hiemālis (“pertaining to winter”), from hiems (“winter”). More at hibernate.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to winter, wintry.
Synonyms: hibernal
ONF.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 1989: Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition), January, etymology
In early form a. ONF. Jenever, Genever, = mod.F. Janvier: — L. Jānuārium, nom. Jānuārius (mensis), i.e. the month of Janus, as presiding over the entrance into the year. Whence also It. Gennajo, Gennaro, Pr. Genovier, Januer, Sp. †Jenero, Enero, Pg. Janeiro. The later forms show gradual conformation to the L.; which was sometimes used unchanged in OE.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Old Northern French
Scotti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scottis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mod.F.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: mod. F.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Modern French.
Pr.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Provençal (the language).
confrères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such a classification gave these men priority as over against their previous ‘capitalist’ confrères in matters of taxes, credits, and raw materials allocations.
ref: 1972, Dorothy W. Douglas with Lynn Turgeon, chapter XV, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, section 1, page 328:
glosses: plural of confrère
Pg.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formed from the initial letters of the two stressed syllables of Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Portuguese (the language).
horsetrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsetraders
form: horse trader
form: horse-trader
Etymology: From horse + trader.
Senses: glosses: A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
examples: text: The three subordinates on whom President Roosevelt depends to win his Senate victories are Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the bull-voiced, heavy-fisted field commander; Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the shrewd committee and cloakroom horsetrader; and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina.
ref: 1937 February 22, “Judiciary: Visibility Poor”, in Time:
glosses: One who is skillful in transacting or negotiating of any kind.
Related terms: horsedealer
horsedealing
horsetrading
Old Northern French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Old Norman (the language)
Synonyms: word: ONF.
horse trader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse traders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horsetrader.
horse-trader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-traders
Senses: examples: text: Kim, fending the lama between excited men and excited beasts, sidled along the cloisters to the far end, nearest the railway station, where Mahbub Ali, the horse-trader, lived when he came in from that mysterious land beyond the Passes of the North.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of horsetrader.
auricular muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auricular muscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of auricularis.
Hyponyms: anterior auricular muscle
posterior auricular muscle
superior auricular muscle
anterior auricular muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anterior auricular muscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of auricularis anterior.
auricular muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auricular muscle
superior auricular muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superior auricular muscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of auricularis superior.
posterior auricular muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posterior auricular muscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of auricularis posterior.
temporoparietalis muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporoparietalis muscles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of temporoparietalis.
synonyms: word: temporoparietalis
stapedius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈpi.di.əs/
rhymes: -iːdiəs
Forms: form: stapedii
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin stapedius, clipping of mūsculus stapedius (“stapedial muscle”). Doublet of stapedial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small muscle of the middle ear that arises from the wall of the tympanum and is inserted into the neck of the stapes by a tendon that sometimes contains a slender spine of bone; it is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body, serving to stabilize the stapes to check and dampen its vibration.
Related terms: stapedial
tensor tympani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛn.sɚ ˈtɪm.pəˌnaɪ/
Forms: form: tensores tympanorum
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tensor tympanī (“tensor of the tympanum”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: tensor
coordinate_terms: tensor fasciae latae
tensor veli palatini
glosses: A small muscle of the middle ear that is located in the bony canal just above the bony part of the Eustachian tube, that arises from the canal containing it, from the cartilaginous portion of the Eustachian tube, and from the adjacent greater wing of the sphenoid bone, that is inserted by a long tendon into the manubrium of the malleus near its base, and that serves to adjust the tension of the tympanic membrane.
vodyanoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vodyanoys
form: vodyanoi
Etymology: From Russian водяно́й (vodjanój).
Senses: qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: A type of water sprite from Slavic mythology
Related terms: domovoy
vodyanoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vodyanois
Senses: qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: Alternative spelling of vodyanoy.
shote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotes
Etymology: From Old English sceota (“trout”).
Senses: examples: text: Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats[…]
ref: 1914, Vachel Lindsay, The Congo:
glosses: Alternative form of shoat.
examples: text: The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
wind-borne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windborne.
prelection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: prelections
form: prælection
Etymology: From the stem of Latin praelēctiō (“the act of reading aloud to others”), from the perfect participle stem of praelegō (“read something to others”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I'd like ter put ye in thar,’ replied Cheever, who had stolidly eyed him during this prelection.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 80:
glosses: A public lecture or reading, especially delivered at a college or university.
prelections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelection
wi-fi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wi-Fi.
rule the roost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rules the roost
form: ruling the roost
form: ruled the roost
form: ruled the roost
Senses: examples: text: His was biding his time, and patiently looking forward to the days when he himself would sit authoritative at some board, and talk and direct, and rule the roost, while lesser stars sat round and obeyed.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, chapter 3, in Barchester Towers:
text: Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.
ref: 1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 16, in The Freelands:
text: At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.
ref: 2004 February 16, Kate Betts, “9 Rei Kawakubo”, in Time:
text: Finn Russell and Owen Farrell kicked two penalties apiece but it was the Scotland stand-off who ruled the roost - despite a ten-minute sin-binning for an attempted trip on England scrum-half Ben Youngs.
ref: 2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group.
Synonyms: wear the trousers
Related terms: alpha
call the shots
yeepsen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English yespon, ȝespon, ȝespen, ȝispon (“a measure of volume equivalent to that contained in a person’s hands cupped together”). See yepsen for more.
Senses: glosses: Anything that can be held in two hands; a double handful.
teenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teenhoods
Etymology: From teen + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a teen or teenager, adolescence.
Synonyms: teendom
teenagerhood
Derived terms: preteenhood
nasalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪˈzeɪ.lɪs/
ipa: /neɪˈseɪ.lɪs/
rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Forms: form: nasales
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin nāsālis, ellipsis of mūsculus nāsālis (“nasal muscle”). Doublet of nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small muscle on each side of the nose that constricts the nasal aperture by the action of a triangular transverse portion which draws the lateral part of the aperture upward and a quadrangular alar portion which draws it downward.
depressor septi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depressores septi
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of depressor septi nasi.
levator labii superioris alaeque nasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈveɪ.tɚ ˌleɪ.biˌaɪ sʊˌpɪɹ.iˈɔɹ.ɪs əˌliˌkwi ˈneɪˌzaɪ/
Forms: form: levatores labii superioris alarumque nasi
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin levātor labiī superiōris ālaeque nāsī (“lifter of the upper lip and of the wing of the nose”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: levator
coordinate_terms: levator anguli oris
levator ani
levator costae
levator labii superioris
levator palpebrae superioris
levator prostatae
levator scapulae
levator veli palatini
glosses: A muscle of the face that arises from the nasal process of the maxilla, that passes downward and laterally, that divides into a part inserting into the alar cartilage and one inserting into the upper lip and that dilates the nostril and elevates the upper lip.
harnt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harnts
Senses: examples: text: ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
lettuce-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettuce-birds
form: lettuce bird
Senses: examples: text: ‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 112:
glosses: A goldfinch.
umbrageous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
Forms: form: more umbrageous
form: most umbrageous
Etymology: From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: […] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]
ref: 1766 June 5, “An Exercise, containing a Dialogue, and two Odes, performed at the public Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 20, 1766”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette, page 2:
text: Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]
ref: 1838 June 9, “The City Improvement Candidate”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 2:
text: ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
ref: 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
text: Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 130:
text: Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees.
ref: 1898, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edison’s Conquest of Mars:
text: A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 52:
synonyms: umbrose
glosses: Having or providing shade; shady.
glosses: Irritable, easily upset.
Derived terms: umbrageously
umbrageousness
world-war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world-wars
Senses: examples: text: In this world-war nations fell to the lowest level of savagery.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: Alternative form of world war.
world-war
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a period of time immediately during a world war
world-wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world-war
Korybant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korybantes
form: Corybant
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of crested male dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing.
Korybantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Korybant
Corybant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Corybants
form: Corybantes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Korybant.
Derived terms: corybantic
Corybants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Corybant
salto mortale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salti mortali
Etymology: From Italian salto (“leap”) + mortale (“deadly”).
Senses: glosses: A dangerous and daring jump with possibly lethal outcome.
examples: text: I take shame to myself…for having been more taken by the salti mortali* of a waiter who summed up my account at a Paduan restaurant, than by all the strategies with which the city has been many times captured and recaptured.
* Salti mortali are those prodigious efforts of mental arithmetic by which Italian waiters, in verbally presenting your account, arrive at six as the product of two and two.
ref: 1867 July, William Dean Howells, “At Padua”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XX, № CXVII, chapter i, page 25/1:
text: The frenzied, suggestible, gregarious, subconscious self, freed from all rational restraints, celebrated its delirious orgies, its corybantic bacchanalia, held its mad salto mortale over the grave of crucified humanity.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: A risky, dangerous or crucial step or undertaking.
Pandoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pænˈdɔːrən/
Forms: form: more Pandoran
form: most Pandoran
Etymology: From Pandora + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Pandora in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Saturnian moon named for Pandora.
examples: text: Instead of embracing on a ship's prow, Sully and Neyfiri ride their banshee steeds in ecstatic communion across the Pandoran sky.
ref: 2009 December 14, Richard Corliss, “Corliss Appraises Avatar: A World of Wonder”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2009:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or relating to the fictional moon Pandora in the 2009 science fiction film Avatar.
Hottentots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hottentot
plounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plounces
form: plouncing
form: plounced
form: plounced
Etymology: A variant of plunge, perhaps influenced by flounce.
Senses: glosses: to plunge
plounces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plounce
plouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plounce
plounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plounce
lacunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lacuna + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a lacuna, like a lacuna.
turns loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn loose
turning loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn loose
turned loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn loose
let loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets loose
form: letting loose
form: let loose
form: let loose
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: loose (verb), unleash, set loose; let rip
text: I can imagine the man . . . prepared to oppress rival firms, overthrow inconvenient monarchs, and let loose the dogs of war.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in A Footnote to History:
text: May God's curse rest upon the arrogant men and the unholy ambitions which let loose this horror upon humanity!
ref: 1916, Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Glimpse of the French Line”, in A Visit to Three Fronts:
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Mardy Fish walloped the final shot of the match for a winner, and he let loose a jubilant roar of his own.
ref: 2010 March 27, “Tennis: Venus wins”, in USA Today, retrieved 22 Jul 2011:
text: After an initial two weeks on the Hampton Court line, they were let loose on peak and off-peak services to Shepperton and Chessington for a month, and then on Charing Cross/Cannon Street services to Bromley North, Sevenoaks via Orpington, and to Dartford via Bexleyheath and Sidcup.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 41:
glosses: To free; to release from restraint.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: explode, go ape, holler, vociferate, let rip
text: He set his teeth, and let loose with a fury before which nothing could stand; and Maurice was forced back step by step until he was almost up with the wall.
ref: 1901, Harold MacGrath, chapter 17, in The Puppet Crown:
text: Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull.
ref: 1965 November 12, “Jazz: The Newest Sound”, in Time:
text: As if a giant ape weren't enough to get Jack Black going in King Kong, the actor says he let loose one time while making the film.
ref: 2005 December 27, “Report: Jack Black recalls 'lost weekend'”, in USA Today, retrieved 22 Jul 2011:
glosses: To shout, make a loud sound, or perform a sudden, vehement action; to behave in a raucous, frenzied manner.
raw_tags: followed by with or on
examples: text: Near-synonyms: let rip; see also Thesaurus:flatulate
text: Sorry for letting loose.
glosses: To break wind.
lets loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let loose
letting loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let loose
breaks loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break loose
breaking loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break loose
broke loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break loose
broken loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break loose
Junkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Junker
younker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: younkers
form: yonker
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong (“young”) + here (“lord”). Compare junker.
Senses: examples: text: “Jim,” says he, “I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles. I’d have had you but for that there lurch, but I don’t have no luck, not I; and I reckon I’ll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim.”
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: A young man; a lad, youngster.
examples: text: So foorth they went, and both together giusted;
But that same younker soone was overthrowne
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A young gentleman or knight.
examples: text: Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
glosses: junker
younkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of younker
yonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yonkers
Etymology: From Adriaen van der Donck, the first lawyer in North America. Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker (etymologically, "young gentleman," derivation of old Dutch jong (young) and heer ("lord"); in effect, "esquire"), a word from which the name "Yonkers" is directly derived.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of younker.
yonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yonker
youngs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of young
youngs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of young.
younged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of young
rigider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rigid: more rigid
Armenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Armeno- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Armenian studies
Derived terms: Armenological
Armenologist
like the clappers
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Partridge says: "Possibly rhyming slang for 'clappers of a bell', 'hell'."
Senses: examples: text: After hurling their insults, they ran like the clappers to get away.
text: And when it started off they first studied them, and of course they went like the clappers to prove what they could do, which was the thing they shouldn't be doing because it was a study, and of course, they've got to work like the clappers all the time once it came into operation.
ref: 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997:
text: We've gone through regional and rural Australia like the clappers, and everywhere we went, irate voters shouted at us and we stuck our heads out the windows and shouted: "What?" and the electorate respected us for it.
ref: 2001, The Bulletin, volumes 6264-6271:
text: In fact she made quite a nice little rider — a bit rough, like these Australians always were, but quite secure in her seat and going like the clappers.
ref: 2006, Kerry Greenwood, Murder in the Dark:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very hard or very rapidly.
Synonyms: like the clappers of fuck
like the clappers of hell
Armenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Armenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Armenology.
Armeno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Armen-
Etymology: Combining form of Armenia, Armenian.
Senses: glosses: Armenia, Armenian
seizes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seize up
seizing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seize up
seized up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seize up
lawine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lauwine.
lawines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawine
lays bare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay bare
laying bare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay bare
laid bare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay bare
missionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃənʌɪz/
Forms: form: missionizes
form: missionizing
form: missionized
form: missionized
form: missionise
Etymology: From mission + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To work as a missionary; to do missionary work.
glosses: To do missionary work among (a people) or in (a particular place).
glosses: To teach and to bring under the control of European religion and culture through the mission system, as the Spanish did with Native Americans in their colonies.
examples: text: The program will not design a new aircraft but will missionize an existing airframe, most likely a foreign design that is in service around the world.
ref: 1994, United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, S. 1587, Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1993: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, on S. 1587 ... February 24, March 10 and 16, 1994, page 450:
text: The Coast Guard will leverage Navy and Air Force relationships to missionize the aircraft and procure spares[…]
ref: 2011, United States House Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2012: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, page 342:
glosses: To make suitable for a military (or intelligence gathering, etc) mission.
Derived terms: sense: do missionary work
word: missionizer
word: missionization
word: unmissionized
jewel-weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel-weeds
Etymology: From jewel + weed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jewelweed.
jewel-weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewel-weed
missionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missionize
missionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missionize
missionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missionize
missionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missionises
form: missionising
form: missionised
form: missionised
Etymology: From mission + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of missionize.
missionises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missionise
missionising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missionise
missionised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missionise
vestiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestiments
Etymology: A variant of vestment influenced by its etymon Latin vestīmentum (from vestiō (“to clothe”)).
Senses: examples: text: As well by view of that his vestiment, / As by his modest semblant that no evill ment.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Clothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
vestiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestiment
togging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tog
northern pikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern pike
viviparous eelpouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viviparous eelpout
father lashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of father lasher
carp breams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carp bream
rummy noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rummy nose
faïences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faïence
fayence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fayences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of faience.
fayences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fayence
paremiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˌɹiːmiˈɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: paroemiology
form: parœmiology
Etymology: From paremia (“proverb”) + -ology, from Latin paroemia, from Ancient Greek παροιμία (paroimía).
Senses: examples: text: In this respect, paremiology can immensely contribute to the more general study of culture from a semiotic point of view, or in a semiotic perspective. But culture is a process, a synchronous snapshot, at best, being subject to constant changes.
ref: 2015, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Melita Aleksa Varga, editors, Introduction to Paremiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: The study of proverbs.
Derived terms: paremiological
paremiologist
Related terms: paremiography
paremiologically
paroemia
paremiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paremiological
form: most paremiological
Etymology: From paremiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the study of proverbs.
Derived terms: paremiologically
sheepcote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepcotes
form: sheepcot
Etymology: From sheep + cote.
Senses: examples: text: If thou wilt come and dwell with me at home, My sheepcote shall be strowed with new greene rushes: Weele haunt the trembling prickets as they rome About the fields, along the hauthorne bushes; I have a pie-bald curre to hunt the hare, So we will live with daintie forrest fare.
ref: 1594, Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepherd:
text: Each officer was at his post, nor could they much complain whilst their General sat on straw, in a sheepcote, at the foot of the hill, called Sherriff Muir, which overlooks Dumblane, on the right of his army.
ref: 1845, Mrs. Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.:
text: Besides this, he acquired in the sheepcote lessons which he practised on the throne, that rule means service, and that the shepherd of men holds his office in order that he may protect and guide.
ref: 1903, Alexander Maclaren, The Life of David:
glosses: A small building for sheltering sheep.
Related terms: sheepfold
deseed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deseeds
form: deseeding
form: deseeded
form: deseeded
Etymology: From de- + seed.
Senses: examples: text: A small part of the straw is deseeded as it is delivered; the rest is deseeded by January.
ref: 1894, Yearbook of Agriculture, page 485:
text: For example, one grower in Georgia has reported that he not only markets his muscadines on the fresh market, but also deseeds and extracts the juice from the pulp and skins, freezes it, and sells it to a commercial winery.
ref: 2004, Soils of Arkansas County, Arkansas, page 39:
text: Slice and deseed the capsicum into 5mm (1⁄4in) strips to make roughly 1⁄4 of a cup
ref: 2008, Lambert Rowst, A Blokes Guide to Cooking: the Ultimate Bluffers Guide:
glosses: To remove seed or seeds from.
Derived terms: deseeder
deseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deseed
deseeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deseed
deseeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deseed
gillyflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪl.ɪˌflaʊə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪl.iˌflaʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɪl.iˌflaʊɚ/
Forms: form: gillyflowers
form: gilliflower
form: gilli-flower
form: gilly-flower
form: July-flower
form: gilliver
form: gilloflower
Etymology: By folk etymology (with influence from flower) from French girofle, gilofre, from Late Latin caryophyllum, from Ancient Greek καρυόφυλλον (karuóphullon, “dried flower buds of the clove tree”).
Senses: examples: text: A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink. Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon or fowl broth, preceded and followed by eater. The result, according to Arab tradition, is an effective aphrodisiac.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102:
glosses: Clove pink.
glosses: Any clove-scented flower.
glosses: Any of several species of wallflower.
glosses: A variety of purplish-red apple with a roundish conical shape and a large core.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A stylized representation of a carnation blossom, usually red, and shown with or without a slip and leaves.
Synonyms: carnation
pink
Derived terms: clove gillyflower
marsh gillyflower
Queen's gillyflower
sea gillyflower
stock-gillyflower
wall gillyflower
water gillyflower
winter gillyflower
gillyflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gillyflower
gilly-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilly-flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gillyflower.
gilly-flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilly-flower
gilli-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilli-flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gillyflower.
gilli-flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilli-flower
July-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: July-flowers
Etymology: Corruption of gillyflower.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gillyflower.
July-flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of July-flower
inverse image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverse images
Senses: examples: text: Under the function given by f(x)#61;x², the inverse image of 4 is #92;#123;-2,2#92;#125;, as is the inverse image of #92;#123;4#92;#125;.
glosses: The set of points that map to a given point (or set of points) under a specified function.
Synonyms: preimage
inverse images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverse image
pencilwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pencil + work.
Senses: examples: text: Amateur astronomers needn't do a lot of mathematical pencilwork with this clear, all-plastic celestial globe.
ref: 1948 November, “Globe Aids Star Study”, in Popular Science, page 243:
text: To assess only one-third of the cost of a new administrative headquarters against a fund designed for administration and operations, while assessing two-thirds against another fund designed to buy and open new parks, takes some fancy pencilwork.
ref: 1975 November, Griffin Smith, jr., “The Strange Case of the Missing Parks”, in Texas Monthly, page 136:
text: Engineers rely mostly on computer simulations and pencilwork for such forecasts.
ref: 2007 December 3, Colin Nickerson, “The science of how buildings fall down”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: A task involving lots of writing.
examples: text: Mr. Prideaux Selby delights and excels in the glowing and splendid pencilwork of nature.
ref: 1839 August/November, “Essays on Natural History, chiefly Ornithology [book review]”, in The Dublin Review, vol VII, page 184:
text: Chief Windigo's map of Lake Nipigon, Ontario. […] ca. 1869, probably original Indian pencilwork on paper, enhanced in ink and blue wash, and with the addition of many names.
ref: 1998, G. Malcolm Lewis, Maps, Mapmaking, and Map Use by Native North Americans [in:] The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 154:
text: […] contemporary artist Peggy Preheim, whose pencilwork, sculpture and photography reflect each other in engaging ways.
ref: 2009 November 3, Laura Miller, “Glimpsing a Life Through a Few Objects”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2010:
glosses: Drawings done with a pencil.
brow-beat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brow-beats
form: brow-beating
form: brow-beat
form: brow-beaten
Senses: examples: text: Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: Alternative spelling of browbeat.
brow-beats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brow-beat
brow-beating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brow-beat
brow-beaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of brow-beat
subatlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + Atlantic.
Senses: glosses: Subsidiary or secondary to the Atlantic Ocean.
reutilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reutilises
form: reutilising
form: reutilised
form: reutilised
Etymology: From re- + utilise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reutilize.
reutilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reutilise
reutilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reutilise
reutilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reutilise
subepithelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subepithelium
subepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the subepithelium
glosses: Beneath the epithelium
nonmenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + menial.
Senses: examples: a nonmenial job
glosses: Not menial.
meseemeth
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: me + seemeth
Senses: examples: text: "Meseemeth a whetstone shrills at my tongue!"
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 129:
glosses: meseems
unheatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + heatable.
Senses: glosses: Not heatable; that cannot be heated.
mappen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of may + happen
Senses: examples: text: Dunnet gowl, Aggy. Mappen I'll be maister man mysel' soon.
ref: 1887, Hall Caine, chapter VII, in A Son of Hagar: A Romance of Our Time […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Retro Me, Sathana), page 128:
glosses: It may happen that; maybe, perhaps.
unmeetable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + meetable.
Senses: examples: an unmeetable target
glosses: Not meetable; that cannot be met; unattainable.
nonreactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonreactors
Etymology: From non- + reactor.
Senses: glosses: Someone who cannot react; one who does not react.
nonreactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonreactor
nonreactionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reactionary.
Senses: glosses: Not reactionary.
nonrationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rationalistic.
Senses: glosses: Not rationalistic.
green plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green plover
turns out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn out
turning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn out
caninus muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caninus muscles
Senses: glosses: A facial muscle of the mouth.
Synonyms: caninus
levator anguli oris
levator anguli oris muscle