cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unmelodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmelodically
form: most unmelodically
Etymology: From unmelodic + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unmelodic way.
Synonyms: unmelodiously
unmelodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmelodic
form: most unmelodic
Etymology: From un- + melodic.
Senses: glosses: Not melodic.
Synonyms: cacophonous
inharmonious
unmusical
nenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nēnēs
Senses: glosses: plural of nene.
witchfinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchfinders
form: witch-finder
Etymology: From witch + finder.
Senses: examples: text: From the 1970s direct and public accusations of witchcraft increased in Zambia, and with them the use of expert witch-finders, who were ubiquitous in rural areas by the 1980s.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, page 30:
glosses: A person employed to carry out witch-hunts and identify witches.
Derived terms: witchfinder general
witchfinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchfinder
hunkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hunkily
form: most hunkily
Etymology: From hunky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hunky way.
curvily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more curvily
form: most curvily
Etymology: From curvy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a curvy way.
curviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From curvy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being curvy.
choicer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of choice: more choice
hunkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hunky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being hunky.
pityingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pityingly
form: most pityingly
Etymology: From pitying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ursula knew that Palmer had been astir at dawn, but not to attend to his usual duties, for she pityingly had freed the thirsty, uncared for sheep; many of these were now bogged in the various water-holes along the river.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 273:
text: The lady in the mirror gazed at the lady in the room, reproachfully at first, then — for were they not sisters? — relentingly, then pityingly.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: In a pitying manner.
rhetorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhetoric
April fools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of April fool
April fools
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: April Fools
Senses: glosses: Expressed when the speaker has pranked someone successfully on April Fools' Day.
succulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more succulently
form: most succulently
Etymology: From succulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a succulent way.
eu-stress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eustress.
eastern hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern hemispheres
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eastern Hemisphere.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eastern, hemisphere.
western hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western hemispheres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Western Hemisphere.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see western, hemisphere.
antisphexish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisphexish
form: most antisphexish
Etymology: From anti- + sphexish; coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1982.
Senses: glosses: Not sphexish; capable, as the higher animals are, of monitoring one's own thought processes and avoiding pitfalls such as infinite loops.
Derived terms: antisphexishness
infinite recursions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinite recursion
antisphexishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antisphexish + -ness, coined by Douglas Hofstadter.
Senses: examples: text: I propose to call the quality here portrayed sphexishness, and its opposite antisphexishness (a vexish word to pronounce!), and then I propose that consciousness is simply the possession of antisphexishness to the highest possible degree. The point is that sphexishness and antisphexishness are two extremes along a continuum.
ref: 1985, Douglas Hofstadter, “On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity”, in Metamagical Themas, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 529:
text: Do you have to yank out your own antisphexishness routines in order not to be bored by eternal life? (I.e., modify yourself so that you have "fun" in spending a thousand years carving table legs, a la "Permutation City".)
ref: 2002 January 25, Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Singularity Fun Theory (was: Ethical basics)”, in SL4 mailing list, message-ID <3C520756.75D27ADC@pobox.com>:
glosses: The state or condition of being antisphexish.
sphexishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sphexish + -ness, coined by American philosopher Daniel Dennett in 1984.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being sphexish.
smash the stack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smashes the stack
form: smashing the stack
form: smashed the stack
form: smashed the stack
Senses: examples: text: There's something interesting about this approach — we haven't smashed the stack, so some mechanisms that might guard the stack won't notice...
ref: 2003, Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, Writing Secure Code:
text: We first wrote a vulnerable DLL and our own exploit code, and checked that the exploit smashes the stack.
ref: 2004, Yves Deswarte, Frederic Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia, Lingyu Wang, Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems:
text: […] which in turn smashed the stack with a new return address that the author hoped would point into the buffer and eventually hit the shellcode within it.
ref: 2005, Peter Szor, The art of computer virus research and defense:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
Related terms: stack smashing
subvent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subvents
form: subventing
form: subvented
form: subvented
Etymology: See subvention.
Senses: examples: text: The Duty Lawyer Service is subvented by the HKSAR government, but independently administered by the legal profession of Hong Kong.
ref: 2008, “Department of Justice - Legal System of Hong Kong.”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 13 Sep 2008:
glosses: To subsidize.
Related terms: subvention
merry dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merry dance
subvents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subvent
subventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subvent
subvented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subvent
gamma rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamma ray
cosmic rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmic ray
amplitude modulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amplitude modulation
carrier waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrier wave
wastes of time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waste of time
Appenzellers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Appenzeller
cuntier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cunty: more cunty
cuntiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cunty: most cunty
ologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑləd͡ʒiz/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒiz
Senses: glosses: plural of ology
catercorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkatəˌkɔːnə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪtəˌkɔːnə/
ipa: /ˈkætəˌkɔɹnɚ/
Senses: examples: text: From my living room, I trained my binoculars on the redbrick monstrosity catercorner from me.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, chapter 20, in 11/22/63, page 531:
glosses: Alternative form of cater-corner.
catercorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkatəˌkɔːnə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪtəˌkɔːnə/
ipa: /ˈkætəˌkɔɹnɚ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cater-corner.
systems sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systems science
regulatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From regulatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a regulatory way.
asymmetric centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asymmetric centre
Soxhlet extractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soxhlet extractor
aune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aunes
Etymology: From French. See alnage.
Senses: glosses: An old French cloth measure, varying around the country, but at Paris equivalent to 0.95 of an English ell.
bicoque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicoques
form: biquoque
form: bicoquet
Senses: glosses: A style of 15th-century helmet (or helmet visor).
bicoques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicoque
aunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aune
cyberneticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberneticist
savate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈvɑːt/
Etymology: Borrowed from French savate.
Senses: glosses: a form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves
socca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French socca.
Senses: examples: text: Socca, a soft chickpea pancake, is as popular in Nice as pizza is in New York City. In fact, socca is so popular in Nice that you're as likely to be knocked down by a socca delivery man on his specially built […]
ref: 1999, Daniel Boulud, Dorie Greenspan, Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 80:
text: But the best approach to a meal at Nizza is snacking: a plate of salumi; an order or two of excellent socca, the savory pancake made from chickpea flour that’s a regional staple, flavored at Nizza with sage and onions; […] Nizza in Clinton serves socca, a pancake made from chickpea flour.
ref: 2008 March 26, The New York Times, “New Places: Nizza and Sookk”, in New York Times:
text: His brief menu, which changes completely every three weeks, often involves modern twists on traditional Niçois dishes such as socca (a chickpea-flour pancake) wrapped around stir-fried spring vegetables.
ref: 2011, Fodor's, Fodor's Provence & the French Riviera: with Paris, Fodor's Travel
synonyms: word: farinata
english: Italian
translation: Italian
hypernyms: pancake
glosses: A French dish popular in Nice; a kind of chickpea pancake seasoned and eaten hot.
SOWPODS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.pɒdz/
Etymology: Anagram of OSPD (Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary) and OSW (Official Scrabble Words), the two lists on which it was originally based.
Senses: glosses: The list of playable words formerly used in tournament Scrabble in most countries, now replaced by CSW.
wenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛnɡeɪ/
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Faraday rattled off the options: Atlantic Luxe (white Carrara marble, African wenge floors, white Pedini cabinets); Harbor Chic (silver cabinets, white-oak flooring and “Portuguese limestone,” Mr. Faraday whispered, running his hand over the counter surface); and Hudson Mod (“the most traditional, with eggshell quartz counters, exotic wood cabinets and American chestnut flooring.”)
ref: 2008 March 30, Suzanne Slesin, “Taking in the River View From Both Banks”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very dark and hard tropical timber, from the tree species Millettia laurentii.
glosses: A reddish shade of brown associated with this wood.
Synonyms: Congolese rosewood
faux ebony
electros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electro
Lipetsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ли́пецк (Lípeck).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.
tambura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæmˈbʊəɹə/
ipa: /tɑmˈbʊəɹə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: tamburas
form: tamboura
form: tanpura
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian تنبور.
Senses: examples: text: He was among the singers in the celebratory chorus of “Yellow Submarine,” and he played tambura (an Indian drone instrument) on “Within You Without You,” harmonica on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” and percussion on “Magical Mystery Tour.”
ref: 2008 March 25, Allan Kozinn, “Neil Aspinall, Beatles’ Aide, Dies at 66”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world.
tamburas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tambura
ganté
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ganté
form: most ganté
Etymology: Borrowed from French ganté.
Senses: examples: text: Sr. Fop. I was always eminent for being bien ganté.
ref: 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter, London: Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, published 1684, act III, scene II, page 37:
text: What if all the pains bestowed upon her well-starched petticoat, her satin slip, and aërophane tunic, her transparent stocking, close-fitting shoe, and still closer-fitting glove (for to be bien ganté is beginning to be an article of ball-room religion in London, as it has always been in Paris) ... should end in her being fated to sit still all the evening, and write herself down “a bencher of the inner temple” of Terpsichore!
ref: 1846, Catherine Gore, Sketches of English Character, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 79:
text: Close by the Louis-Quinze pouff stood a man. A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.
ref: 1873, Grace Ramsay, A Salon in the Last Days of the Empire, and Other Sketches, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 4:
text: To be properly chaussé and ganté are difficulties at fancy balls. As a rule, with short dresses the prettiest and most fashionable shoes are worn, either black with coloured heels and bows, or coloured shoes to match the dress, and embroidered, the stockings being of plain colour or stripes.
ref: 1882, Ardern Holt, Fancy Dresses Described, or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls, 3rd edition, London: Debenham & Freebody; Edward Arnold, page 4:
glosses: Gloved; wearing gloves.
Related terms: botté
chaussé
Tomsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Томск (Tomsk).
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast, Russia.
glosses: An oblast of Russia.
battlespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battlespaces
Etymology: From battle + space.
Senses: examples: text: The battlespace labs will determine the best ways for armored and infantry forces to take advantage of time, distance, and space on battlefields.
ref: 1993, Armor, page 51:
text: In the physical sense, battlespace is that volume determined by the maximum capabilities of a unit to acquire and engage the enemy–capabilities which will be greatly expanded by future technology.
ref: 1994, Military Review, volume 74, number 11, Command and General Staff School, page 22:
text: These elements are now called battlespaces to incorporate the fourth element of information warfare. In essence, cyberspace is formally recognized as permeating all DoD battlespaces.
ref: 2002, Paul M. Maniscalco, Understanding Terrorism and Managing the Consequences, page 188:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The conditions and dimensions of battle, including terrain, weather, infrastructure, airspace, seaspace, cyberspace, near space, and outer space, considered in a unified military strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations.
Related terms: battleground
battlefield
hyperactive battlefield
burpee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəɹpi/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: burpy
Forms: form: burpees
Etymology: Named after American physiologist Royal Huddleston Burpee.
Senses: glosses: A physical exercise performed by bending over, performing a squat thrust, returning to a standing position, and jumping once.
burpees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burpee
nigger toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger toes
Senses: glosses: A brazil nut.
nigger toes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger toe
reffoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reffo
gloopily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gloopily
form: most gloopily
Etymology: From gloopy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gloopy way.
unstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stricken.
Senses: glosses: Not stricken.
squat thrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /skwɒt θɹʌst/
Forms: form: squat thrusts
Senses: glosses: A physical exercise performed by thrusting the legs fully backwards from a squatting position with hands on the floor.
squat thrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squat thrust
retem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raetam
form: rethem
Etymology: Ultimately from a Semitic language. Compare Arabic رَتَم (ratam), Biblical Hebrew רותם
Senses: glosses: A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.
line weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line weights
Senses: topics: arts
visual-art
visual-arts
glosses: The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke.
line weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line weight
garbagy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garbagy
form: most garbagy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of garbagey.
garbagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garbagey
form: most garbagey
Etymology: From garbage + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
battlespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlespace
pantiliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantiliner
radialia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiale
U.S. Inc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The United States commercial community considered as a single organization; or the commercial interests of the United States considered as a whole.
raphidophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphidophytes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of unicellular algae of the class Raphidophyceae
raphidophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raphidophyte
cladal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clade + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a clade or clades
Derived terms: cladality
intercladal
intracladal
GB plc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of UK plc.
synonyms: word: UK plc
Kirov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Киров (Kirov).
Kirov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ки́ров (Kírov). Renamed in 1934, after Sergey Kirov (1886–1934), a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet communist assassinated in 1934.
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
english: before 1934
translation: before 1934
word: Vyatka
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Khlynov
trichophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichophiles
Etymology: From tricho- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who has trichophilia.
trichophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichophile
ectases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectasis
curling irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curling iron
kathakalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kathakali
black-bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: black-bottoms
form: black-bottoming
form: black-bottomed
form: black-bottomed
Senses: glosses: To dance the Black Bottom.
labiovelars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labiovelar
demised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demise
winzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winze
demising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When calculating allowances for needed square footage, each tenant is responsible for one-half of the thickness of all demising walls.
ref: 2012, Christine M. Piotrowski, Designing Commercial Interiors:
glosses: Serving to separate tenants from one another or from common areas.
raw_tags: of a wall or partition
demising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demise
nullisomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nullisomic
beaker people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: People of a late Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture of northern and western Europe who made distinctive earthenware vessels.
dependableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependablenesses
Etymology: From dependable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Dependability.
dha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).
kilometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From kilometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a kilometric way; on a scale of kilometers.
diplomatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Forms: form: diplomatics
Etymology: Probably from Italian or Ecclesiastical Latin diplomatica.
Senses: examples: text: Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.
ref: 1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press:
glosses: The science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
Synonyms: diplomatic
forensic paleography
Hypernyms: paleography
Related terms: diploma
diplomatist
District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the District
Senses: glosses: The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
raw_tags: with determiner
qualifier: mostly local usage
glosses: Any of numerous governmental districts.
raw_tags: with determiner
examples: text: The District seems complacently salubrious. It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour. It has not one but two bridge crossings of the Thames, which seems greedy when you think that no other [underground] line has even one.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 60:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.
thanatologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thanatology
lymphotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphotoxin
immunotoxicologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotoxicologist
germanyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germanyl
cytoarchitectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytoarchitecture
deoxycholates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxycholate
monoalkoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoalkoxide
millielectronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millielectronvolt
methanethiosulfonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methanethiosulfonate
metallacyclobutanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallacyclobutane
methanesulphonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methanesulphonate
luminometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luminometer
latrophilins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latrophilin
lymphomageneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphomagenesis
hanatoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanatoxin
guanidiniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guanidinium
degradosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degradosome
depalmitoylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depalmitoylation
chlorophyllides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorophyllide
butyldimethylsilyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyldimethylsilyl
bisalkoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisalkoxide
biphenoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biphenoxide
biotinylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotinylation
binaphtholates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binaphtholate
binaphthols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binaphthol
cyanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanol
deglaciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deglaciate
deglaciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deglaciate
deglaciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deglaciate
dyskeratoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyskeratosis
etioplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etioplast
hydroxytamoxifens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxytamoxifen
intersectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intersectin
isochrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isochron
microfluidizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfluidizer
oligoribonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligoribonucleotide
palmitotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmitotransferase
protochlorophyllides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protochlorophyllide
procollagens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procollagen
linearizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linearization
cryocoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryocooler
cochaperonins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochaperonin
chaperonins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaperonin
allophycocyanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allophycocyanine
brown jolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A Hobson-Jobson for brinjal.
Senses: glosses: Aubergine, eggplant.
cryocooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + cooling.
Senses: glosses: Cooling in a cryocooler.
cryocooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + cooled.
Senses: glosses: Cooled in a cryocooler.
pinetums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinetum
native support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My plug-in allows the media player to use the existing native support to play videos.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a feature that already exists in the environment in which an application is run.
examples: text: My web-browser has native support for displaying SVG images.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a feature that works out of the box, without the need to install extensions, rely on external modules, or program extensive specific code.
on-slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on-slips
Senses: examples: text: This situation is most acute at the eastbound on-slip of Junction 16 (Figure 1).
ref: 1974, by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record, page 101:
glosses: A slip road by which traffic joins a major road such as a motorway.
Synonyms: on-ramp
Related terms: slip road
off-slip
off-slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-slips
Senses: examples: text: There are five all-purpose road entries in addition to the northbound Motorway off-slip road, which, because of extreme congestion,[…]
ref: 1973, Institution of Highway Engineers, The Highway Engineer, page 6:
synonyms: word: off-ramp
glosses: A slip road by which traffic leaves a major road such as a motorway.
Related terms: slip road
on-slip
okayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əʊˈkeɪ.ɪʃ/
Etymology: From okay + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat okay; tolerable.
Synonyms: mediocre
so-so
off-slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of off-slip
cryptogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crypto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of uncertain origin, either introduced or native to its area.
raw_tags: of an organism
glosses: Presumed but not proven to be caused by an abnormality in a particular part of the brain (contrasts with symptomatic and idiopathic).
raw_tags: of epilepsy
synonyms: idiopathic
glosses: Of uncertain cause.
raw_tags: of a disease
offslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offslip
on-slips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on-slip
onslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onslips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-slip.
offslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offslips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off-slip.
debags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debag
debagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debag
purple nurple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: purple nurples
Etymology: Rhyming derivation of purple and nipple.
Senses: glosses: A school prank, the act of taking a person's nipple between the thumb and forefinger and then twisting it around roughly.
Synonyms: nipple cripple
titty twister
purple nurples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple nurple
userspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: userspaces
Etymology: From user + space.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The area of memory used for a user's applications, etc., as opposed to that reserved for the operating system kernel.
Synonyms: userland
userspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: userspaces
Etymology: Blend of user + namespace.
Senses: glosses: A namespace on a wiki used by individual users for personal details and discussions.
Related terms: mainspace
screamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: screamier
form: screamiest
Etymology: From scream + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.
ref: 2008 March 21, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Loud and high-pitched; sounding like a scream.
glosses: Prone to screaming.
raw_tags: of a person
screamier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of screamy: more screamy
screamiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of screamy: most screamy
apple-pie beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-pie bed
cheaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cheatier
form: cheatiest
Etymology: From cheat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Now, to recap ... ach, you don't need a recap: winning team disqualified; cheaty accountant spoiled play; runner-up team promoted to winning team.
ref: 2009 March 4, Zoe Williams, “Paxo, you're a pint of mild”, in The Guardian:
glosses: prone to cheating.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: a cheaty technique
glosses: Involving cheating; fraudulent.
cheatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cheaty: more cheaty
cheatiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cheaty: most cheaty
fabulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabulators
Senses: glosses: One who writes, studies or recites fables frequently; often professionally
Synonyms: author
storyteller
fabulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabulator
disappropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɹəʊpɹɪeɪt/
Forms: form: disappropriates
form: disappropriating
form: disappropriated
form: disappropriated
Etymology: From dis- + appropriate.
Senses: glosses: To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
disappropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɹəʊpɹɪeɪt/
Etymology: From dis- + appropriate.
Senses: examples: text: The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
euclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euclases
Etymology: From eu- + -clase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic beryllium aluminium hydroxide silicate mineral, a product of the decomposition of beryl in pegmatites.
euclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euclase
disappropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disappropriate
disappropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disappropriate
disappropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disappropriate
connellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connellites
Etymology: From Connell + -ite, as it was first examined chemically by Prof Arthur Connell FRSE in 1847.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare hexagonal hydrous copper chlorosulfate mineral with the chemical formula Cu₁₉(SO₄)(OH)₃₂Cl₄ · 3H₂O.
connellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connellite
disappropriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɹəʊpɹɪeɪʃən/
Forms: form: disappropriations
Etymology: From dis- + appropriation.
Senses: glosses: The act of disappropriating; of taking something away from someone.
disappropriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disappropriation
barytocalcite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barytocalcites
Etymology: From baryto- + calcite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic barium calcium carbonate mineral.
barytocalcites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barytocalcite
nitromagnesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitromagnesites
Etymology: From nitro- + magnesite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Magnesium nitrate.
nitromagnesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitromagnesite
Chekhovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chekhovian
form: most Chekhovian
Etymology: From Chekhov + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The structure of society in which the wealthy intelligentsia are sustained by armies of serfs and pontificate over the politics of Tsarist Russia only serves to reinforce the Chekhovian imagery.
ref: 2016, Nigel Purse, Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony, BRILL, →ISBN, page 537:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) or his writings.
kadyrelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kadyrelites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with the chemical formula Hg₄(Br,Cl)₂O.
kadyrelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kadyrelite
polytype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytypes
Etymology: From poly- + type.
Senses: examples: text: Orthochrysotile is a polytype of chrysotile.
glosses: Any of the types involved in polytypism.
examples: text: Towards the end of the eighteenth century , Professor Wilson of Glasgow , being engaged in a series of experiments for making etchings upon glass with fluoric acid for the purposes of art , thought it possible to make polytypes of glass from engraved copperplates
ref: 1825, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing:
glosses: A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: monotype
glosses: In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ∀ (for-all) quantifiers.
polytype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polytypes
form: polytyping
form: polytyped
form: polytyped
Etymology: From poly- + type.
Senses: examples: to polytype an engraving
glosses: To produce a polytype of.
polytypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytype
orthochrysotile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthochrysotiles
Etymology: From ortho- + chrysotile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic polytype of chrysotile.
orthochrysotiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthochrysotile
parachrysotile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parachrysotiles
Etymology: From para- + chrysotile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic polytype of chrysotile.
parachrysotiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parachrysotile
rapturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rapture
rapturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapturings
Senses: glosses: A feeling or expression of rapture; great joy.
raptured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rapture
amillennialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + millennial + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A view in Christian eschatology that rejects the claimed future thousand-year physical reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, in opposition to premillennial and some postmillennial views of the Book of Revelation, chapter 20, claiming instead that the number of years in Revelation 20 is a symbolic number and that Christ's eventual physical reign will be permanent.
Related terms: amillennialist
postmillennialism
premillennialism
amillennialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + millennial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to amillennialism.
amillennialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amillennialists
Etymology: From a- + millennial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in amillennialism.
amillennialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amillennialist
Ivanovo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ива́ново (Ivánovo).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.
millennialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millennialists
Etymology: From millennial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in millennialism.
millennialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millennialist
sophomorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sophomorically
form: most sophomorically
Etymology: From sophomoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a sophomoric way.
shattuckite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shattuckites
Etymology: Shattuck Mine, Arizona, where it was first discovered, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A copper silicate hydroxide mineral.
shattuckites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shattuckite
rhomboclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhomboclases
Etymology: From rhombo- + -clase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acidic orthorhombic iron sulfate mineral.
rhomboclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhomboclase
archiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archivers
Etymology: From archive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, archives.
archivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archiver
Vizslas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vizsla
pugil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːd͡ʒɪl/
Forms: form: pugils
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pugillus, pugillum (“a fistful”), akin to pugnus (“the fist”).
Senses: examples: text: Take violets , and infuse a good pugil of them in a quart of vinegar
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Cinnamon, an ounce and a half; Rosemary flowers, six pugils […]
ref: 1778, William Lewis, The new dispensatory:
text: Note, That by Parts is to be understood a Pugil; which is no more than one does usually take up between the Thumb and the two next Fingers.
ref: 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:
text: This kind of success was all luck, and if a man had only a given amount for his own share, it was a shame to fritter away so much as a pugil.
ref: 1989, Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute:
glosses: As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.
Related terms: pugil stick
swung dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swung dashes
Senses: glosses: The symbol ⁓, resembling a tilde or curvy hyphen, used to indicate the repetition of a previous item.
swung dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swung dash
siskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siskin
horning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English hornynge; equivalent to horn + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of horn
horning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornings
Etymology: From Middle English hornynge; equivalent to horn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: As of this past summer, residents on the Woodside, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens line have been subjected to the same kind of horning, even though our line has no grade crossings and therefore Federal Railroad Administration horn-sounding regulations do not apply.
ref: 2007 October 21, “A Great New Yark, if They Get It Done; Flying Everyone Home for the Holidays; Those L.I.R.R. Horns: We’ve Had Enough!; Exxon Mobil and Newtown Creek (4 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The activity of blowing the horn of a train.
examples: text: the Horning, which is the cauſe why they ſet up in their Steeples a Creſcent
ref: 1646, John Gregory, Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture:
glosses: The appearance of the Moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.
glosses: A mock serenade with tin horns and other discordant instruments by way of showing public disapproval.
topics: law
glosses: The issuing of letters of horning.
Derived terms: letters of horning
greenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From green + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Environmentalism.
globe trotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globe trotter
geeksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekster
handblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hand-blown
Etymology: From hand + blown.
Senses: examples: text: But of all the extravagances that reflected the country’s new wealth and glory, Mr. Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.
ref: 2007 June 3, David Colman, “When in the Netherlands...”, in New York Times:
topics: business
glassmaking
manufacturing
glosses: Blown by hand, without the use of machinery
hatefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatefests
Etymology: From hate + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: And according to reports in British tabloids, the Goop hatefest even extends to Martin, who thinks his wife reveals too much on the site.
ref: 2009 January 29, Sunny Freeman, “Paltrow turns guru with online Goop”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Plentiful expressions of hate for something, or an event typified by such expressions.
Related terms: lovefest
healthwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From health + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Our deal was that I take care of him healthwise, after his hospital stay, but I went out instead, and we talked only occasionally.
ref: 2009 March 2, Ellie, “Use, and you will be used”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: With regard to health
hatefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatefest
impatiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impatiens
Etymology: From translingual Impatiens, from Latin impatiēns.
Senses: examples: text: A pot of impatiens blooms by the back door; mulch is visible around the bushes by the modest, well-kept house.
ref: 2008 January 14, Susan Stewart, “Cartoon Creatures Leave Home and Find ... Home”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2012:
synonyms: jewelweed
noli me tangere
touch-me-not
glosses: Any of various ornamental plants of the genus Impatiens.
Derived terms: blue diamond impatiens