cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweatbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweatboxes
Etymology: From sweat + box.
Senses: examples: text: Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money.
ref: 2009 January 31, Karen Collier, “Posties buckle in scorching heat”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
glosses: A jail cell.
examples: text: They shoved me in the back of a police van and started driving to the cop shop. I was sitting in the sweatbox, wondering how the Dibble had got onto me so quickly, when I heard a voice from another section of the van say, 'Are you P from Macclesfield?'
ref: 2013, Colin Blaney, Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil:
text: […] she was finally hustled into a sweatbox, as prisoners and prison staff called it, and was off to meet her new home for the foreseeable future.
ref: 2018, Kerry Barnes, Deceit:
glosses: A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
examples: text: In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 143:
text: Don't step in the wrong spot
You will gеt caught
When you step in the swеatbox
They'll make you talk
ref: 2023, “A Drone Opting Out of the Hive”, performed by Code Orange:
glosses: A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
glosses: A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
qualifier: animation
glosses: The room where a scene is reviewed.
qualifier: animation
glosses: The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
sweatbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweatboxes
form: sweatboxing
form: sweatboxed
form: sweatboxed
Etymology: From sweat + box.
Senses: glosses: To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment.
qualifier: animation
glosses: To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews.
jumpout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpouts
Etymology: From jump + out.
Senses: examples: text: Encroachment into potential flood avenues resulted in jumpouts, flooding, and extensive siltation.
ref: 1995, John E. Costa, Natural and Anthropogenic Influences in Fluvial Geomorphology: The Wolman volume, page 210:
glosses: A separation from a groove, track, etc., that otherwise constrains motion.
glosses: A ramp or other construction that allows wildlife to exit safely from a freeway, highway, etc.
examples: text: The few who attended Tuesday's important Lightning Stakes jumpouts at Flemington on Tuesday may have been put off by Swick's lethargic display.
ref: 2009 January 31, Matt Stewart, “Bart Cummings ready to derail Lightning match race”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2009:
text: I did get to ride in a couple of barrier jumpouts, but even that was sprung on me. I was riding a horse towards the track when Murty said it was going for a jumpout, a sprint about 400 metres from the barriers down the home straight.
ref: 2011, David Brasch, Peter Cook, Jockeying To The Top, unnumbered page:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: An unofficial trial race.
examples: text: “Well, I figured if the jumpouts came they wouldn′t search her,” says Rosa Lee. “They′d search me but they wouldn′t find nothing.”
ref: 1997, Leon Dash, Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America, page 33:
glosses: A plainclothes narcotics officer.
Related terms: jump out
jumpouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpout
Sartrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sartrean
form: most Sartrean
Etymology: From Sartre + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Jean-Paul Sartre or his works.
Sartrean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sartreans
Etymology: From Sartre + -an.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Sartre
Emajõgi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Estonian Emajõgi < ema (“mother”) + jõgi (“river”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Estonia which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km. It has a length of 101 km.
dress rehearsals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dress rehearsal
wimp out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wimps out
form: wimping out
form: wimped out
form: wimped out
Etymology: From wimp (“one who is weak and unconfident”).
Senses: examples: text: Your son has been a holy terror! He kept getting into trouble and refusing to mind me! After repeatedly trying to get him to behave, I finally gave up. I wimped out. I have the womb to be a parent, but not the backbone.
ref: 2006 January 29, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
text: Meanwhile, the West Bank Palestinian leaders are busy publicly collecting food and blankets to help all those Palestinian civilians brutalized by the Israeli incursion into Gaza, while privately demanding to know from senior Israeli officials why they wimped out and didn’t wipe Hamas in Gaza off the face of earth — casualties be damned.
ref: 2009 February 4, Thomas L. Friedman, “Don’t Try This at Home”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
text: I could have taken a big chunk out of the show that day by wimping out.
ref: 2009 March 1, Dave Itzkoff, “Offering Terror of an Everyday Variety”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2020:
glosses: To back out of something because of cowardice.
Synonyms: sense: behave like a wimp
word: chicken out
Related terms: wimpy
wimped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wimp out
swordfight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɹdfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɔːdfaɪt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈso(ː)ɹdfaɪt/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈsoədfaɪt/
Forms: form: swordfights
Etymology: From sword + fight.
Senses: examples: text: THREE Sydney brothers have pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a man fatally stabbed during a brawl that included a brief swordfight.
ref: 2009 January 30, “Brothers admit swordfight killing of Sione Matavesi in Heckenberg”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A fight or duel using swords
Related terms: swordfighting
swordfighter
swordfights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordfight
ferrochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹəˌkɹəʊm/
Forms: form: ferrochromes
Etymology: From ferro- + chrome.
Senses: examples: text: The capital raising has been forced by plummeting ferrochrome prices which slumped after Chinese mills cut 55 per cent from the price of the alloy used to make stainless steel.
ref: 2009 January 30, Liliana Molina, “Big-debt miners turn to markets”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2009:
glosses: A corrosion-resistant alloy of chrome and iron containing between 50% and 65% chrome.
chamber orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber orchestras
Senses: glosses: An orchestra of modest size, to play chamber music, yet larger than the various chamber ensembles named after their number of instruments (from duo to nonet).
guts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gutses out
form: gutsing out
form: gutsed out
form: gutsed out
Senses: examples: text: Again, name one. Every one of them is playing as hard as they can -- unless you can cite any hard evidence to the contrary. Or perhaps you haven't noticed that Tim Salmon is playing with a badly injured foot. Or how about Jim Edmonds playing with two bad knees last year. Or Jack McDowell gutsing out five innings last week with a bad elbow.
ref: 1998 May 26, S Smith1701, “Next Year? Why wait.”, in alt.sports.baseball.calif-angels (Usenet):
text: 2007, John David, Morituri: Sixth and Final Episode of Enemies of Society, AuthorHouse UK, page 100,
Latty blinked. Another odd question from her odd roommate. Latty sort of liked Rowan, and the girl had gutsed out her initiation, but that Shanghai valley must have been utterly freako.
text: "It was a bit like yesterday, we really gutsed it out and put ourselves well and truly back into a game where we can create a six-point scenario," he said.
ref: 2009 January 31, Michael Horan, “Andrew McDonald strikes early for Victoria”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2009:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To persevere through; to complete in spite of pain, etc.
guts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gut out
gutsed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guts out
gutsing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guts out
gutses out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guts out
dobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dob
dobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dob
dobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dob
capt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capts
form: capt.
Senses: examples: text: WA: Marcus North (capt), Craig Simmons, Marcus Stoinis, Luke Pomersbach, Adam Voges, Wes Robinson, Luke Ronchi, Drew Porter, Steve Magoffin, Brett Dorey, Ben Edmondson, Josh Mangan (12th man).
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Andrew Symonds injury test in Sheffield Shield”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Abbreviation of captain.
capt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: a mountain capt with snow
glosses: simple past and past participle of cap
Derived terms: cloudcapt
loud-capt
snowcapt
backrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backrowers
Etymology: From backrow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Test backrower Crocker, 28, had hinted that he would consider retiring if the three-year English deal fell through.
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Crocker's English visa rejected”, in Herald Sun:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A reserve player on a team; a member of the back row or back bench
backrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backrower
dangerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dangermen
form: danger man
Etymology: From danger + man.
Senses: examples: text: Only James Hopes could halt the pair's dominance, the all-rounder snaring both dangermen to finish with figures of 3-44.
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Proteas snatch No. 1 ranking”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2009:
text: Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, the dangerman midfielder, was given greater license to get closer to the strikers.
ref: 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player on an opposing side who poses a significant threat
dangermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dangerman
klan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the klan
Senses: examples: text: "It's serious, serious enough that the FBI ... and other law enforcement agencies are trying to get on top of it because the klan has made direct threats to Obama," pastor Clary, who now fights against the group as a born-again Christian, said.
ref: 2009 January 30, “Obama presidency 'ignites Ku Klux Klan'”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Klan.
fixturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fixture
fixturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixturings
Senses: examples: text: For our example, suppose that the parts will require three fixturings, the first of which will carry the parts to operations 10 and 20 […]
ref: 2020, Joseph Talavage, Flexible Manufacturing Systems in Practice, page 248:
glosses: Synonym of fixture (“work-holding or support device”).
synonyms: word: fixture
extra: work-holding or support device
trackwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track-work
Etymology: From track + work.
Senses: examples: text: The train is going to be delayed by ten minutes due to trackwork.
text: A small number of weekday and weekend possessions will also be required on June 20-21, September 5-6, and between December 19-March 2021, but will coincide with when there will already be a limited (or no) service into London King's Cross in conjunction with the extensive trackwork taking place at the terminus.
ref: 2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, pages 44–45:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Construction or maintenance of railroad tracks
examples: text: The advantages of this policy were twofold - the operation of m.u. trains only, with their lighter axle load, would allow the trackwork and underbridges to be simpler and lighter in construction; and speeds up to 150 m.p.h. could more easily be achieved than with conventional locomotive-hauled trains.
ref: 1963 October, G. Freeman Allen, R. K. Evans, “The Japanese National Railways and the New Tokaido Line”, in Modern Railways, page 240:
text: At present the principal exercise in resignalling and new trackwork involves the Pickering area.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The tracks and associated equipment of a railway line.
examples: text: McDonald described Weekend Hussler's trackwork this preparation as "frightening".
ref: 2009 January 30, Tim Habel, “Short journey to suit Hussler”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Practice in racing around a track
fixtured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fixture
steeplechaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steeplechasers
Etymology: From steeplechase + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Tasmanian steeplechaser Donna MacFarlane opens her 2009 campaign over 1500m in a tough clash with Beijing Games teammate Corrigan.
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Two years left in Patrick Johnson's legs”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A horse or human athlete who participates in steeplechase racing
steeplechasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeplechaser
standardbred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standardbreds
Etymology: From standard + bred. In this context, the word "standard" refers to the fact that in the early decades of the breed's development, all breeding stock had to meet a specific performance standard, namely ability to trot or pace a mile in no more than 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Senses: examples: text: "Jockeys waste and drivers don't and maybe the breed (standardbred) might be a bit more conducive to the conditions."
ref: 2009 January 30, Tim Habel, Matt Stewart, “Heat on VRC to delay Flemington meeting”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A breed of horse bred specifically for harness racing
standardbreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standardbred
sendee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sendees
Etymology: From send + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Williams' press conference topics have been so wide and varied this week, her preferred "sendee" could be any one of Osama Bin Laden, the lead singer of Green Day, her sister Venus's dress designer or the head of her local Jehovah's Witness chapter.
ref: 2009 January 30, Mark Stevens, “Serena Williams' success written”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2009:
glosses: A person to whom something is sent
Synonyms: recipient
Coordinate terms: sender
ex nihilo
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕks nē′ə-lō′
enpr: -nī′-
enpr: -nĭ′-
ipa: /ɛks ˈniː.əˌləʊ̯/
ipa: /-ˈnaɪ̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnɪ-/
ipa: /ɛks ˈniː.əˌləʊ̯/
ipa: /-ˈnaɪ̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈnʌɪ̯-/
ipa: /eks ˈniː.əˌləʉ̯/
ipa: /-ˈnɑe̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnɪ-/
ipa: /eks ˈniː.əˌlɐʉ̯/
ipa: /-ˈnaɪ̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnə-/
ipa: /ɛks ˈni.əˌlo/
ipa: /-ˈnaɪ̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnʌi̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnəi̯-/
ipa: /-ˈnɪ-/
ipa: /ɛks ˈniː.iˌloː/
ipa: /-ˈnaj-/
ipa: /-ˈnɪ-/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin (creātiō) ex nihilō (“(creation) out of nothing”).
Senses: examples: text: This creation ex nihilo came into being in a manner completely opposed to the ordinary course of natural law.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 320:
glosses: Out of nothing.
Related terms: exnihilation
exnihilator
Exnihilator
exnihilator-annihilator
nihilogony
reputational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reputation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The financial planning profession as a whole now faces an uphill battle to overcome the reputational damage caused by one large bad apple.
ref: 2009 January 30, John Beveridge, “Bluster from Storm”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2009:
glosses: Of or pertaining to reputation
Related terms: reputation
reputationally
onsell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onsells
form: onselling
form: onsold
form: onsold
Etymology: From on + sell.
Senses: examples: text: "That property is then taken in by a receiver who then onsells it, we'll be alleging to markets or other retail stores."
ref: 2009 January 30, “Shoplifting haul worth 'several millions'”, in Herald Sun:
topics: business
glosses: To sell (a purchased item) to a second buyer.
imprimis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: imprimus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin imprimis (“firstly”).
Senses: examples: text: Hold; while Prometheus is about it, I’ll order a complete man after a desirable pattern. Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to ’em, to stay in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all, brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let me see—shall I order eyes to see outwards? No, but put a sky-light on top of his head to illuminate inwards. There, take the order, and away.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: In the first place (used to introduce a list of items or considerations).
activatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From activatable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being activatable.
mollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molly
glosses: plural of mollie
mollies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of molly
dihydrochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydrochlorides
Etymology: From di- + hydrochloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydrochloride formed by reaction with two molecules of hydrochloric acid
Derived terms: octenidine dihydrochloride
dihydroxylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxylations
Etymology: From di- + hydroxylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The introduction of two hydroxyl groups into a molecule.
Related terms: hydroxylation
dikinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dikinases
Etymology: From di- + kinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any kinase that transfers two phosphate groups
dimethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylations
Etymology: From di- + methylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of two methyl groups to a molecule
Related terms: methylation
dimethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + methylated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by the addition of two methyl groups.
Related terms: dimethylation
methylated
forensic biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The application of biological techniques in forensic science.
dimethylurea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylureas
Etymology: From dimethyl + urea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of urea in which two hydrogen atoms have been replaced by methyl groups, but especially 1,3-dimethylurea that acts as a radical scavenger, and is used in the manufacture of caffeine and other compounds
nyctinastism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nyct- + -i- + -nasty + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of nyctinasty.
synonyms: word: nyctinasty
nyctitropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nyct- + -i- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of nyctinasty.
synonyms: word: nyctinasty
no end
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Oh! so that's why Mary called you back, and you didn't come to supper. You lost something—that beef and pickles was no end good.
ref: 1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School-days, page 9:
text: I spoke like that because I—even I, who had been no end kind to him—even I remembered—remembered—against him—what—what had happened.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXIII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 252:
text: There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
ref: 1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End:
glosses: Exceedingly; endlessly.
no end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've had no end of trouble getting her to agree.
text: He has no end of supplies, no end of cooks and waiters, no end of table furniture and decorations, no end of handsome dining rooms, yet he frequently lives on the crumbs that fall from the table.
ref: 1898 January-June, “MEAT AND DRINK IN GOTHAM”, in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MONTHLY JOURNAL, volume XXVI, translation of New York Herald, page 177:
text: In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.
ref: 2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 46:
glosses: A great amount.
Derived terms: to no end
weathercast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weathercasts
Etymology: Blend of weather + forecast. Alternatively from weather + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: The official weathercast called for variable cloudiness.
ref: 1965 July 29, “It'll Be Scorcher Again”, in Deseret News, Utah, USA, retrieved 04 Feb 2009, page B1:
text: Jocular TV weatherman Dave Devall […] announced on last night's 6 o'clock news that he is easing into retirement. […] His last regular weathercast will be April 3.
ref: 2009 February 3, “Hot Box: TV worth talking about”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 04 Feb 2009:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A weather forecast, especially one broadcast by radio or television.
Related terms: newscast
weathercaster
politick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politick
form: most politick
Etymology: See politic.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of politic.
politick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: politicks
form: politicking
form: politicked
form: politicked
form: politic
Etymology: Back-formation from politicking.
Senses: examples: text: Every important figure in communist China, ranging from city mayors to the chief executives of state-owned enterprises, will gather and politick for the next five days—and then choose a President of China to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012.
ref: 2007 October 13, Will Hutton, “Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: Now, explicit politicking is banned by the academy, though writing to your friends is not. There is a way to politick subtly, though, and Summit, Hurt Locker’s distributor had been doing it just right, with its perfect publicists getting word out about the movie and “friends of the filmmakers” hosting a series of private parties.
ref: 2010 March 8, Lynda Obst, “What This Year's Oscars Mean for Hollywood”, in The Atlantic:
text: Individuals can oppose one another full-force on subjects like Obamacare, or a border wall, or the best person to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, in concert with this project. They can politick and debate, protest and lobby, write Washington and picket Main Street.
ref: 2017 January 20, Conor Friedersdorf, “The American People's Burden on Inauguration Day”, in The Atlantic:
text: Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.”
ref: 2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: The Queen doesn’t moan. Her son does. The Queen doesn’t politick. He can’t help himself.
ref: 2022 June 4, Nick Cohen, “Unlike the Queen, King Charles will have no sense of caution, only of entitlement”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: The next three years, including municipal elections in 2026, will be dominated, therefore, by politicking over the place of the far right.
ref: 2024 June 7, Angelique Chrisafis, “‘You can feel a shift’: will the French be lured by Le Pen?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To engage in political activity.
Derived terms: outpolitick
politicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of politic
glosses: simple past and past participle of politick
politickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politicking
shlub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schlub.
shlubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shlub; alternative spelling of schlubs.
Aleman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
pedogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paedogamy.
arthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of art house.
fudge the issue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fudges the issue
form: fudging the issue
form: fudged the issue
form: fudged the issue
Senses: glosses: Adopt a solution to a specific problem which does not address the larger, more general problem of which the specific problem is an instance.
pothos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pʰoʊ.θoʊs/
Forms: form: pothos
form: pothoses
Etymology: From translingual Pothos, the genus name. The similarity to Ancient Greek Πόθος (Póthos), the name of one of Aphrodite's erotes who was said to carry a vine (from πόθος (póthos, “yearning, desire”)) is noted; however, other references give the origin as Sinhalese පෝටා වැල් (pōṭā wæl).
Senses: examples: text: Vines of golden pothos climb the steel support beams.
ref: 2009 February 2, Kenyon Wallace, “A factory fitted for a green future”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Any vine of species Epipremnum aureum, widely cultivated as a houseplant, once classified in the genus Pothos.
glosses: Any plant in the genus Pothos; a genus of plants consisting of subtropical and tropical, climbing, flowering vines, indigenous to the environs of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
Derived terms: golden pothos
onia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onium
ineludible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ineludible
form: most ineludible
Etymology: From in- + eludible.
Senses: examples: text: most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations
ref: 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:
glosses: Incapable of being eluded or evaded.
Synonyms: inescapable
Samara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Сама́ра (Samára).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
synonyms: Kuybyshev
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Samara Oblast, Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.
glosses: A tributary of the Volga in Russia, which meets the Volga at the city of the same name.
glosses: A female given name.
Samara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Сама́ра (Samára).
Senses: glosses: A tributary of the Dnieper in Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
robiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robiolas
Senses: examples: text: An alluring Italian newcomer, a goat-milk robiola made by La Casera, is wrapped in verdant leaves of savoy cabbage and tied with strands of straw.
ref: 2009 February 4, Florence Fabricant, “Cheese and Cabbage, Canoodling”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Italian soft-ripened cheese, similar to stracchino.
edemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edema
vizir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vizirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vizier.
painted bunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted buntings
Senses: glosses: A brightly-colored finch (Passerina ciris) of the southern United States
glosses: Smith's longspur (Calcarius pictus).
Synonyms: alt: P. ciris
word: painted finch
word: pope
Caucasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caucasian
supermetaphors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermetaphor
rorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rort
holofoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holofoil
rorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rort
slingshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋʃuːt/
Forms: form: slingshoots
form: slingshooting
form: slingshot
form: slingshotten
Etymology: From sling + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: I did not like him and at times had the urge to yank back on his armbands and slingshoot him out past Otto and the lions into the street.
ref: 1959, Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin, page 35:
text: I was always worried about Jesus’ harebrained schemes; something always seemed to go awry with them. Like the time he suggested we slingshoot a beehive off of a tree in his backyard.
ref: 1994, Jose Maria Lacambra, Rising Sun Blinking: A Young Boy’s Memoirs of the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines, Sinag-tala Publishers, →ISBN, page 11, →ISBN:
glosses: Propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.
slingshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋʃuːtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slingshoot
slingshoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋʃuːts/
Senses: examples: text: In another well-known paper on the correspondence theory of truth, Davidson slingshoots in this way.¹⁷ Suppose ‘s’ is some true sentence. On any correspondence theory, the statement that s corresponds to the fact that s.
ref: 1990, David-Hillel Ruben, Explaining Explanation, page 166:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slingshoot
as regards
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: As regards too our Indian possessions, the idea of any thing being feared from Russia in that quarter, at however distant a period, is treated by the politicians of the day as an idle mockery...
ref: 1833, James Conolly, Remarks on the Foreign Policy in England, as regards Portugal and Greece, section 35:
glosses: regarding, concerning
Synonyms: with respect to
slingshotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋʃɒtən/
Senses: examples: text: Rock goes for the belt but HHH barely gets there in time. Back out on the floor, and HHH gets slingshotten into the ladder.
ref: 1998 August 31: “Scott Keith”, rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Google group): The Netcop Rant for Summerslam 1998
glosses: past participle of slingshoot
offspinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offspinners
Senses: examples: text: He brought up his half-century with a powerful drive past offspinner Dan Cullen, whose seven overs cost 0-52.
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Vics make great start despite Rogers loss”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative form of off spinner.
inswinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inswingers
Senses: examples: text: Boon couldn't handle my inswingers, Waugh had no idea with my off-cutters and my leggies were making Taylor dizzy.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 7:
text: However just as both batsmen started looking settled on what appears to be a good batting deck, veteran Tasmanian paceman Gerard Denton produced an inswinger that crashed through Jaques' defences, knocking back his off stump.
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Hughes tops Jaques in selection war”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative form of in-swinger.
clergypeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clergyperson
collimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collimate
scrims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrim
deagglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːæˈɡlɒməɹeɪt/
Forms: form: deagglomerates
form: deagglomerating
form: deagglomerated
form: deagglomerated
Etymology: From de- + agglomerate.
Senses: glosses: To break down an agglomerate into smaller sized particles
Related terms: deagglomeration
thawb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thawbs
Senses: examples: text: Outside the church, across the square, a woman stood hunched. Hijab, thawb, grocery bags.
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 65:
glosses: Alternative spelling of thobe.
Lady Justice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In a mythological personification, justice symbolized as a blindfolded young lady, similar to Lady Luck.
glosses: A female judge, as in "Her Lady Justice."
Related terms: Lady Liberty
Lady Luck
dishdasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishdashas
form: dishdash
form: dishdashi
Etymology: From Arabic دِشْدَاشَة (dišdāša).
Senses: examples: text: Sheik Mohammed switched from a gold dishdasha to a black one, gave out one trophy after another, and indicated that the Dubai World Cup, the world’s richest race, was going to get richer because he intended to plump its $6 million purse to $10 million.
ref: 2007 May 1, Joe Drape, “Bloodlines Worth Their Weight in Gold”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ankle-length robe with long sleeves worn by some Arab men.
Synonyms: kandura
khameez
suriyah
thobe
circumlocutious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumlocutious
form: most circumlocutious
Senses: examples: text: I do not shy from the essentially materialistic, often hypocritical aspects of the executive-headhunting profession, but I want to make clear that as much as we corporate consultants initiate circumlocutious arcanities and the simulacra of expertise rather than its substance, we are forced into so doing by a business ethic that often can swallow nothing less familiar: the truth, for instance.
ref: 1973, Allan J. Cox, Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
glosses: circumlocutional
colligates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colligate
colligating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colligate
colourability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colour + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colorability.
Derived terms: uncolourability
congaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conga
congaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conga
counterspies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterspy
counterspies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterspy
counterstrategies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterstrategy
craisins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craisin
sceptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sceptically
form: most sceptically
Etymology: From sceptic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Aitkenhead surmises sceptically that her friend's son, enrolled on a photography degree, "will almost certainly not" get the job he wants.
ref: 2009 February 5, Rick Trainor, “Universities are not guilty of deluding students and employers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of skeptically.
SFW
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: work-safe
antonyms: NSFW
glosses: Initialism of safe for work; i.e., content containing neither graphic nor adult imagery, and thus suitable for public, formal or controlled environments, such as at work.
weather report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather reports
Senses: examples: text: I remember a holiday of mine being completely ruined one late autumn by our paying attention to the weather report of the local newspaper.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 5, in Three Men in a Boat […] :
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A description, especially one prepared by a governmental or other authority, of past, present or forecasted meteorological conditions for a particular geographical area.
onsells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of onsell
onselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of onsell
onsold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of onsell
cajun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Great country, cajun, and swing music to listen to and dance to.
ref: 2009 January 29, “Other music”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2008:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cajun.
neckyoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neckyokes
Etymology: From neck + yoke.
Senses: glosses: A yoke which touches or surrounds the carrier's neck, rather than just resting on the shoulders.
dinosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/
Forms: form: more dinosaurian
form: most dinosaurian
Etymology: From dinosaur + -ian, or Dinosauria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: From time to time another vehicle would pass us in the other direction, or a tractor would appear in front of us, scattering scales of mud from its dinosaurian rear wheels as it grumbled along the road at fifteen miles an hour.
ref: 2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia:
glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to a dinosaur.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dinosaurian.
dinosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/
Forms: form: dinosaurians
Etymology: From dinosaur + -ian, or Dinosauria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.
ref: 1922 April, Cuthbert Christy, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194:
glosses: A dinosaur.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dinosaurian.
Derived terms: nondinosaurian
diribonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diribonucleotides
Etymology: From di- + ribonucleotide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small segment of RNA consisting of two ribonucleotide monomers
disapprovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disapprovements
Etymology: From disapprove + -ment.
Senses: glosses: disapproval
discriminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discriminable
form: most discriminable
Senses: glosses: That can be discriminated or distinguished from others
Derived terms: discriminably
hyperdiscriminable
indiscriminable
dispensability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispensabilities
Etymology: From dispense + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being dispensable
glosses: The extent to which something is dispensable
menudos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menudo
dispersity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispersities
Etymology: From disperse + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being dispersed, of being a dispersion.
glosses: The extent to which something is dispersed.
Derived terms: bidispersity
heterodispersity
monodispersity
Related terms: dispersal
dispersedness
dispersing
dispersion
dispersivity
interspersion
disruptants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disruptant
disruptant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disruptants
Senses: glosses: That which disrupts
Related terms: disruptive
dissimilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissimilatory
form: most dissimilatory
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing dissimilation
dissipative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissipative
form: most dissipative
Senses: glosses: That dissipates, or causes dissipation
Derived terms: dissipatively
dissipativity
nondissipative
dissipatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissipatively
form: most dissipatively
Etymology: From dissipative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissipative manner
glosses: Whilst undergoing dissipation
dissociatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissociatively
form: most dissociatively
Etymology: From dissociative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissociative manner
glosses: Whilst undergoing dissociation
distractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distractors
Etymology: From distract + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of distracter.
distracter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distracters
form: distractor
Etymology: From distract + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: distractee
glosses: That which distracts, or serves as a distraction.
glosses: Any of the incorrect answers in a multiple-choice question, serving to distract from the correct answer.
docosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docosanes
Etymology: From docosa- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkane having 22 carbon atoms, but especially n-docosane CH₃(CH₂)₂₀CH₃.
Derived terms: docosanoic
docosanol
dolomitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolomitizations
Etymology: From dolomite + -ization.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The conversion of a limestone rock into dolomite by replacement of calcium by magnesium.
Related terms: dolomitize
domoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ドウモイ (“a red alga”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to domoic acid or its derivatives
domoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tokunoshima ドウモイ (dōmoi), a type of red algae.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A neurotoxin associated with some algal blooms
algal bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algal blooms
Senses: hyponyms: red tide
glosses: A dense spread of algae on the surface of water.
Derived terms: FHAB
HAB
dorsocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dorsocaudal
form: most dorsocaudal
Etymology: From dorso- + caudal.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or situated at the back and tail of something
Derived terms: dorsocaudally
dorsoventral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dorsoventral
form: most dorsoventral
Etymology: From dorso- + ventral.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or situated at the back and front of something.
glosses: Along an axis from back to front.
Derived terms: dorsoventrally
dorsoventrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dorsoventral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While most fish are laterally compressed, humans are dorsoventrally compressed.
glosses: In a dorsoventral manner; (in humans): from the front of the body to the back.
downconverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downconvert
downdip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downdip
form: most downdip
Etymology: From down + dip.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: downward along a dip
downdip
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downdip
form: most downdip
Etymology: From down + dip.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: downwards along a dip
downlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downlist
downlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downlisted
form: most downlisted
Senses: glosses: moved further down a list, or given the status of something further down a list
doxycyclin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doxycycline.
drillship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drillships
Etymology: From drill + ship.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any vessel fitted with drilling equipment
durotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of a cell along a rigidity gradient
Synonyms: mechanotaxis
mechanotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mechano- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of a cell along a rigidity gradient
Synonyms: durotaxis
eclogitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eclogitic
form: most eclogitic
Etymology: From eclogite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of eclogite
eclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ecloses
form: eclosing
form: eclosed
form: eclosed
Senses: examples: text: In a 17 h light : 7 h dark regimen, H. cecropa eclose in the morning and A. pemyi, in the evening.
ref: 2003, Handbook of Zoology, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 249:
coordinate_terms: pupate
glosses: To give rise to, or to undergo, eclosion.
eclosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclosions
form: eclosure
Etymology: From French éclosion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The emergence of an insect from the pupa case, or of a larva from the egg.
Related terms: eclose
posteclosion
ecomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecomorphological
form: most ecomorphological
Etymology: From eco- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ecomorphology
ecomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomorphologies
Etymology: From eco- + morphology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the effect of environment on the morphology of organisms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The morphology of an organism that has been affected by its environment.
Related terms: ecomorphological
efference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efferences
Senses: glosses: The state of being efferent.
glosses: An efferent process.
Derived terms: efference copy
efficacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of efficacy