cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fesswise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: fessewise
Etymology: From fess + -wise.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In the manner of a fess; as a broad horizontal stripe.
Synonyms: fessways
common marmoset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common marmosets
Senses: glosses: Marmoset, a New World monkey, Callithrix jacchus
flatwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: flatways
Etymology: From flat + -wise.
Senses: glosses: With a flat side down or otherwise in contact with a flat surface.
gatewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gate + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: [...] they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.
ref: 1876, William Long, Esq., Stonehenge and its Barrows. From the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, etc. [With maps and wood-engravings.], →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: Arranged to resemble a gate.
pie menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie menus
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu.
Synonyms: radial menu
Related terms: marking menu
pozzolanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pozzolana
longwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more longwise
form: most longwise
Etymology: From long + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Lengthwise; longways; lengthways.
spongily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spongily
form: most spongily
Etymology: From spongy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a tract [of land] too spongily saturated to be bent to human use
ref: 1863, John Hanning Speke, “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, in Living Age, volume 80, page 218:
glosses: In a spongy manner.
loverwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lover + -wise.
Senses: glosses: As lovers do.
glyco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”).
Senses: glosses: Sugars.
glosses: Monosaccharides.
glosses: Glucose.
glosses: Glycogen.
palewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pale + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: An oblong figure fesswise divided palewise, from one end a thick projection, and in chief a crescent.
ref: 2007, Colin Stewart Sinclair Lyon, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Oxford University Press, USA:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Divided by perpendicular vertical lines like pales.
examples: text: Erm. three longbows palewise in fess gu.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 348:
text: Three roundels in chief and two horse-shoes palewise in base, probably intended for the arms of Daubeney and Ferrers.
ref: 1904, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 511:
text: Anchor: Placed palewise, unless otherwise blazoned
ref: 1965, Heather Child, Heraldic Design: A Handbook for Students, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 82:
text: In place of the rainbow there was, palewise on a field of gules, on either side of the shield, the broken lance which had caused the death of Henri II—Lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor was the motto. And to this symbolism of mourning was also[…]
ref: 2019 July 2, Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: In one shield the lis are positioned vertically or palewise, […] and the Poutrel lis were shown bend-wise in the glass at Prestwold church and pale-wise in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary.
ref: 2020 January 9, Paul A. Fox, Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 540:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In the direction of or positioned like a pale: vertically.
Synonyms: paleways
palewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pale + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: It is essentially the upper portion (or triangle) of the saltire met slightly above the fess point by a palewise line originating from the middle base. No varied field Bendy seems to have been adopted from this division.
ref: 1972, Marvin H. Pakula, Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages:
text: Party - in ancient heraldry, the word party, used alone, implied a palewise division of the field.
ref: 1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Pale-like, vertical.
pie menus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie menu
cholate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholates
Etymology: From cholic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of cholic acid
Derived terms: glycocholate
cholates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholate
caravansarai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caravansarais
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caravanserai.
caravansarais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caravansarai
way-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more way-wise
form: most way-wise
form: waywise
Etymology: From way + wise. Compare also waywitty, waywiser.
Senses: glosses: Expert or knowledgeable in finding or keeping the way; knowing the way or route.
Related terms: waywiser
truffle hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truffle hogs
Etymology: From truffle + hog from being swine used to hunt for buried truffles.
Senses: glosses: A domestic pig used for extraction of truffles.
Synonyms: truffle pig
weather-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weather-wise
form: most weather-wise
form: weatherwise
Etymology: From weather + wise (“having wisdom”).
Senses: examples: text: He glanced with a weatherwise eye at the sky now falling into evening tones - placid and still. "Drought's breaking, but this weather ought to hold for a bit."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:
glosses: Skilled in predicting changes in the weather.
glosses: Skilled in predicting changes in conditions, such as of public opinion.
weather-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: weatherwise
Etymology: From weather + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk
ref: 1988, Richard Condon, Prizzi's glory, page 1:
text: Newfoundland is at the end of the line weather-wise, the last stop for storms that come across the continent or up the Atlantic seaboard
ref: 2000, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir:
glosses: With respect to weather.
wedgewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From wedge + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a wedge.
gopherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gopherlike
form: most gopherlike
Etymology: From gopher + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I was sharing with Mike and despite ours being slightly larger than some of the other cabins, the only way I could stand up was to leave the entrance hatch open, so that my head poked out, gopher-like, onto the deck.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 204:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gopher; in the manner of a gopher.
calamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamite
prepositional phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepositional phrase
love letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love letter
GAP-43
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a protein found in neurons, a component of the exocyst involved in regulating actin polymerization
Synonyms: B-50
F1
neuromodulin
P-57
pp46
artificial horizons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial horizon
pineapple guava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple guavas
Senses: glosses: feijoa (Acca sellowiana)
pineapple guavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineapple guava
purinergic receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purinergic receptors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of purinoceptor
synonyms: word: purinoceptor
purinergic receptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purinergic receptor
exocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocysts
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a eukaryotic protein complex with functions related to vesicle trafficking, leading to a role in exocytosis
deduced amino acid sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deduced amino acid sequences
Senses: examples: text: Thus, when Asn-X-Ser/Thr sequons are present in a deduced amino acid sequence encoded by a cDNA, they are not identified categorically as N-glycan sites, but are referred to as potential N-glycan sites.
ref: 2009, Pamela Stanley with Schachter, Harry and Taniguchi, Naoyuki, “N-Glycans”, in Essentials of Glycobiology, →ISBN, →OCLC, page Ch.8/Sec.3:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a sequence of amino acids predicted from a sequence of nucleotides using information about codons used in a particular organism
deduced amino acid sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deduced amino acid sequence
chromosomal localization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromosomal localizations
Senses: examples: text: Early genetic studies focused on the identification and chromosomal localization of genes that control readily observable characteristics, such as the eye color of Drosophila.
ref: 2000, Geoffrey M. Cooper, “Heredity, Genes, and DNA”, in The Cell: A Molecular Approach, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page ch.3/sec.2:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: specified location on a chromosome in the context of a karyotype
chromosomal localizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromosomal localization, referring to multiple localizations in the same karyotype
organa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organum
pro-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro-form
silicic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicic acid
ear tuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear tufts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: plumicorn
glosses: In birds, a skin projection covered in feathers appearing on the sides of the head, near the ears.
ear tufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear tuft
panel discussion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel discussions
Senses: glosses: A conversation about a specific topic conducted by a group of experts, usually either in the presence of an audience or in a broadcast (or both).
panel discussions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel discussion
biosolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosolids
Etymology: From bio- + solid.
Senses: glosses: A byproduct of domestic and commercial sewage and wastewater treatment.
biosolids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosolid
hypochondriases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypochondriasis
empirics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empiric
examples: text: The notion of retaining empirics may seem paradoxical when the tenets of holism and the requirements of empirics are scrutinized.
ref: 1990, Norma L. Chaska, The Nursing Profession: Turning Points, page 249:
text: At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of empirics in the field or its weak theoretical foundations.
ref: 2001, Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, What Role for Empirics in International Trade?:
text: This does not suggest that these determinants are not important in the growth empirics, but that they have a less important role than the ones we identify as "strongly" robust.
ref: 2005, Charalambos G. Tsangarides, Growth Empirics Under Model Uncertainty: Is Africa Different?, page 16:
glosses: Empirical evidence.
Derived terms: metempirics
melancholize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: melancholizes
form: melancholizing
form: melancholized
form: melancholized
form: melancholise
Etymology: From melancholy + -ize, probably after French méancoliser.
Senses: glosses: To make melancholy.
examples: text: Many men […] are ſo deiected many times for ſome publike iniury, […] that they dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholiſe in corners, and keepe in holes.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 88:
text: if we be not otherwise well employed, we shall be apt, in our thoughts, to melancholize, and dote upon our mischances.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Contentment”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
make away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes away
form: making away
form: made away
form: made away
Senses: glosses: To depart, leave; to make off.
glosses: To destroy.
examples: text: By him that dide for me, I wil not dine,
Till I haue ſeene thee hangd or made away.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:
text: If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: To kill.
examples: text: ‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’
ref: 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, volume II:
glosses: To get rid of, dispose of.
examples: text: the people impatient of so many changes of fortune, tooke such a resolution unto death, that I have heard my father say, he kept accompt of five and twentie chiefe housholders, that in one weeke made them-selves away[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Hostratus the friar took that book which Reuchlin had written against him, under the name of Epist. obscurorum vivorum, so to heart, that for shame and grief he made away himself.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263
glosses: To kill oneself, commit suicide.
Derived terms: make away with
outbrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈbɹeɪv/
Forms: form: outbraves
form: outbraving
form: outbraved
form: outbraved
Etymology: From out- + brave.
Senses: glosses: To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
examples: text: to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves.
ref: , New York Review Books, 2001, p.263
glosses: To surpass or outrival.
examples: text: There, like one possessed,
Outraving and outbraving all the rest,
One Lycabas, from Tuscan city sent
To purge a deed of blood by banishment,
As I withstood him, struck a breakneck blow,
And would have dashed me to the waves below […]
ref: 1954, A. E. Watts, Metamorphoses, page 67:
glosses: To be more brave than.
melodion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈləʊdɪən/
ipa: /məˈloʊdi.ən/
rhymes: -əʊdiən
Forms: form: melodions
Etymology: From Latin melodia (“melody”).
Senses: glosses: An accordion.
glosses: Misspelling of melodeon.
glycophosphatidylinositols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycophosphatidylinositol
contrabandistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrabandista
affixions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affixion
puddening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puddenings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Fibres of old rope packed between spars, or used as a fender.
Romanichal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmɪnɪtʃæl/
ipa: /ˈɹɑmɪniˌt͡ʃæl/
Forms: form: Romanichals
form: Romanichal
form: Romnichal
form: Rumnichal
Etymology: Borrowed from Angloromani Romanichal.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Romani people found in the United Kingdom.
culmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culmens
form: culmina
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).
Senses: examples: text: the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty
ref: 1681, Balm from Gilead:
synonyms: word: top
word: summit
word: acme
word: apex
word: apogee
word: crest
word: crown
word: culmen
word: fastigium
word: height
word: peak
word: pinnacle
word: ridge
word: roof
word: summit
word: top
word: vertex
word: zenith
glosses: Top; summit.
examples: text: The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares.
ref: 1997 June 20, “A Role for Ecotones in Generating Rainforest Biodiversity”, in Science, volume 276, number 5320, →DOI, pages 1855–1857:
text: A very simple form was found in the carving shown in Pl. 17, fig. 13, where a long projecting knob is seen at the base of the culmen.
ref: 1910, Alfred M. Tozzer, Glover M. Allen, Animal Figures in the Maya Codices:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
Derived terms: culminal
culminicorn
knuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knuckle
conceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptɪv
Senses: glosses: relating to conception (in all senses)
Derived terms: anticonceptive
conceptively
conceptiveness
contraceptive
nonconceptive
postconceptive
unchinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchinked
form: most unchinked
Etymology: From un- + chinked.
Senses: examples: text: In the untamed Rockies, as she tumbled from rearing horses and shivered in unchinked cabins, wolves howling outside, her complaints miraculously vanished.
ref: 2009 July 26, Liesl Schillinger, “River Run”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking any filling or caulking in the cracks and chinks; particularly of log cabins and similar constructions.
conceptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conceptively
form: most conceptively
Etymology: From conceptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in concept
Coordinate terms: perceptively
knock boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knock box
cursi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cursus
Turkish coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkish coffee
splash screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash screen
conceptuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptualities
Etymology: From conceptual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being conceptual
Bailey bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bailey bridges
Etymology: Invented by Donald Bailey, British civil servant.
Senses: examples: text: ■ More than 1,200 Bailey Bridges, a system developed by the British but also used by the Americans, were constructed, principally for use by the railways.
ref: 2023 June 28, Christian Wolmar, “The railway's crucial role in the Normandy invasion”, in RAIL, number 986, page 45:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A portable, prefabricated truss bridge, designed for use by military engineering units.
Related terms: Mabey bridge
Bailey bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bailey bridge
Mabey bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mabey bridges
Etymology: From the name of the manufacturer, from its founder Bevil Mabey.
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A portable, prefabricated truss bridge, designed for use by military engineering units. A recent development from the older Bailey bridge.
Mabey bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mabey bridge
meinie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪni/
Forms: form: meinies
form: mayne
form: mayné
form: meiny
form: meynee
form: meynie
Etymology: From Middle English meine, meyne, from Anglo-Norman maigne and Old French mesnie (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō, mānsiōnem (“house”). Compare menial.
Senses: examples: text: And whanne they in the caſtel wyſte hou ſire Palomydes had ſped there was a Ioyeful meyny / and ſoo ſir Palomydes departed / and came to the caſtell of Lonaȝep
"And when they in the castle wist how Sir Palomides had sped, there was a joyful meiny; and so Sir Palomides departed, and came to the castle of Lonazep."
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum lxiv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book X, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 525:
glosses: A household, or family.
examples: text: His speech thus spake the Moor, and took his leave,
he and his meiny where the bátels lay:
formal farewells to chief and crews he gave,
exchanging congees with due courtesy.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
text: And in the evening they went with their simple captain to his lodging; but a certain of his simple and rude meinie abode there all the night [...].
ref: 1965, Jack Robert Lander, The Wars of the Roses:
glosses: A retinue.
examples: text: For the mutable ranke-ſented Meynie, / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themſelues.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A crowd of people; a rabble.
patchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patchable
form: most patchable
Etymology: From patch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: "She told she court Mr Jane later told her in emails there was no hope of a reconciliation but she thought the rift was “very patchable … just one of Bob’s hissy fits”.
ref: 2009 January 20, Elissa Hunt, “Bob Jane's ex-wife Laree had hopes of saving marriage”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2009:
glosses: Able to be repaired; mendable.
glosses: Able to be patched into an electrical circuit or system.
summer sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer sausages
Senses: examples: text: Now these bodies hanging from that overhead pipe. The cocked heads. The dangling shoes. The tongues protruding like summer sausages.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.
summer sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summer sausage
hate crimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hate crime
Anacreon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈnækɹiən/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek lyric poet (570 BCE – 488 BCE), notable for his drinking songs and hymns.
take a load off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a load off
form: taking a load off
form: took a load off
form: taken a load off
Etymology: Likely an ellipsis of take a load off one's feet.
Senses: synonyms: sit
sit down
glosses: To go from a standing position to a sitting one.
Archilochus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Archilochos
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀρχίλοχος (Arkhílokhos).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th century Archaic or a Classical Greek poet.
man of the cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of the cloth
Senses: examples: text: The other virtue is that it pitches a man of the cloth into one of the most prominent roles in this year's autumn schedules.
ref: 2014 September 19, Olly Grant, “From sanctity to sleuthing”, in Church Times:
text: Judge Tom Hughes told Haram: "It appears that [what happened] was truly awful - incidents of violence, aggression, all sorts of difficulties and the sexual offending which took place. During that period, you appeared to be living a life whereby you were acting in an official capacity as a man of the cloth."
ref: 2025 August 15, “Church pastor guilty of rape and beating children”, in BBC News:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: clergyman
coordinate_terms: woman of the cloth
glosses: A male member of the clergy.
Archilochos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Archilochus.
men of the cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of the cloth
Alcaeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alkaios
form: Alcæus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Alcaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaîos).
Senses: glosses: A name of Greek origin, particularly borne by an Ancient Greek lyric poet of Mytilene (c. 620–6th century BCE).
Related terms: Alcaic
Alkaios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Alcaeus.
air carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air carriers
Senses: glosses: A company in the business of providing air transport to the public.
Synonyms: airline
Related terms: aircraft carrier
air carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air carrier
Bacchylides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βακχυλίδης (Bakkhulídēs).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 5th century Ancient Greek lyric poet.
Theognis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θέογνις (Théognis).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 6th century Ancient Greek poet from Megara.
Ibycus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἴβυκος (Íbukos).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 6th-century Ancient Greek lyric poet from Rhegium in Italy.
Callinus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kallinus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καλλῖνος (Kallînos).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 7th-century Ancient Greek poet from Ephesus,
Kallinus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Callinus.
Mimnermus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μίμνερμος (Mímnermos).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek elegiac poet from Colophon, who flourished about 630-600 BC.
pulicene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulicene
form: most pulicene
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fleas; pulicose.
muscid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscid
form: most muscid
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or related to the Muscidae family of insects.
muscid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscids
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects.
muscids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscid
Stesichorus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Στησίχορος (Stēsíkhoros).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek lyric poet from Himera in Sicily (640-555 BC).
lionish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lionish
form: most lionish
Etymology: From lion + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Typical or similar to lions.
Terpander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τέρπανδρος (Térpandros).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek poet and citharede of Antissa in Lesbos who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC.
Tyrtaeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τυρταῖος (Turtaîos).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek elegiac poet who lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century BC.
poor man's lattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poor man's latte
portafilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portafilter
keraton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kraton
muh
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌ/
rhymes: -ʌ
Etymology: Evidently popularized circa early 2010s by memes on 4chan, but usage online is first attested in c. 2003.
Senses: examples: text: muh free software
text: muh constitution
text: muh freedom
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of my.
wikipedia: 4chan
Derived terms: muh freedoms
muh soggy knees
prævious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Whereupon, at their requeſt, having read over the other Goſpels, he confirmed in general the truth of them, yet obſerved, that many things of conſequence were either wholly omitted or too ſlightly touched in them; eſpecially the actions of Jeſus, which preceded the death of John the Baptiſt, and almoſt all thoſe miracles, which deſerved the moſt to be recorded, and were the propereſt for inſtruction; and above all, the declaration of his divinity and exiſtence, prævious to his birth at Bethlehem.
ref: 1752, Conyers Middleton, “Reflections on the Variations, or Inconſiſtencies, which are found among the four Evangeliſts, in their different Accounts of the ſame Facts”, in The Miscellaneous Works of the late Reverend and Learned Conyers Middleton, D.D., page 55:
glosses: Archaic spelling of previous.
wheek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: wheeks
Etymology: onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: The squeaking sound made by a guinea pig or other cavy.
wheek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: wheeks
form: wheeking
form: wheeked
form: wheeked
Etymology: onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: To make a squeaking sound.
raw_tags: of a guinea pig or other cavy
wheeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wheek
wheeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wheek
wheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheek
wheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wheek
octyl gallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ester of octanol and gallic acid, used as a food additive.
gehlenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gehlenites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: velardenite
glosses: A sorosilicate with chemical formula Ca₂Al[AlSiO₇].
grainlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grainlike
form: most grainlike
Etymology: From grain + -like.
Senses: glosses: Shaped or resembling a grain or an aspect of a grain.
gramicidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gramicidins
Senses: glosses: A heterogeneous combination of six antibiotic peptides; the individual peptides themselves
Derived terms: hemigramicidin
collateral estoppel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The estoppel forbidding again litigating an issue decided in a previous case with the same parties, or even with the same party being estopped.
dhimmitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: c. 1985, from French (c. 1982), from dhimmi + -tude.
Senses: examples: text: The most likely scenario for Europe isn't dhimmitude; it's a long period of tension, punctuated by spasms of violence, that makes the Continent a more unpleasant place without fundamentally transforming it.
ref: 2009 December 7, Ross Douthat, “Europe's Minaret Moment”, in New York Times:
glosses: Appeasement towards Islamic demands.
Related terms: dhimma
dhimmi
alkyl phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkyl phosphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ester derived from an aliphatic alcohol and phosphoric acid
alkyl phosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkyl phosphate
magnesium sulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, crystalline powder (when pure), usually found in an impure, brown, non-crystalline form.
baiocco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baioccos
form: baiocchi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bajocco.
skaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skaiters
Senses: examples: text: “Seasonable for Christmas time. You are not a skaiter, I suppose?”
ref: 1858, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Bradbury & Evans, page 66:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of skater, usually referring to an ice skater.
sodium ferulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sodium ferulate is conducive to improving the oxygen supply and demand imbalance in the myocardium [4].
ref: 2018, Guan-Hua Du, Natural Small Molecule Drugs from Plants, Springer, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A particular kind of drug that is used to treat cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases.
comma splices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comma splice
egg tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg teeth
form: eggtooth
form: egg-tooth
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small, sharp, cranial protuberance used by offspring to break or tear through the egg's surface during hatching.
egg teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg tooth
caffeic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenolic carboxylic acid 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl 2-propenoic acid that is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of lignin
Derived terms: caftaric acid
vasotocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasotocins
Senses: examples: text: In mammals, vasopressin and oxytocin play important roles in social behaviors, and reptiles have structurally similar hormones called vasotocin and mesotocin. […] Dr. Campos’s research indicates that vasotocin may alter chemical communication between green anole lizards, and other researchers found that mesotocin may be related to courtship behaviors in brown anoles.
ref: 2022 October 24, Hannah Thomasy, “They May Have Love on Their Lizard Brains”, in The New York Times:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligopeptide found in nonmammalian vertebrates with properties similar to oxytocin and vasopressin.
Derived terms: vasotocinergic
Related terms: mesotocin
methyl jasmonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A volatile organic compound derived from jasmonic acid, used in plant defense and other developmental pathways.
on and off
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: on-and-off
form: off and on
Senses: examples: text: With so much worry, I only slept on and off last night.
glosses: Intermittently.
gene product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gene products
Senses: examples: text: Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.
ref: 1988 April 1, “Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system”, in Neuron, volume 1, number 2, page 141:
text: Certain gene functions, however, are inherently dosage-sensitive (Fisher and Scambler, 1994). These include:
* gene products that are part of a quantitative signaling system whose function depends on partial or variable occupancy of a receptor, DNA-binding site, etc.;
* gene products that compete with each other to determine a developmental or metabolic switch;
* gene products that co-operate with each other in interactions with fixed stoichiometry (such as the α and β globins or many structural proteins).
In each case the gene product is titrated against something else in the cell.
ref: 1999, Strachan, Tom and Read, Andrew, “Molecular Pathology”, in Human Molecular Genetics 2, →ISBN:
text: In this case, we find that the majority of the predicted protein matches the FMR1 gene product but that we have introduced some novel peptide sequence at the amino-terminal end as well as some near the carboxy terminus.
ref: 2009, The National Library of Medicine, “Exercises: Using Map Viewer”, in The NCBI Handbook, →OCLC:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: RNA or protein product of a gene
gene products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gene product, referring to the products of different genes
double jump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double jumps
form: double jumping
form: double jumped
form: double jumped
Senses: examples: text: The rocket pack upgrade lets you double jump.
topics: video-games
glosses: To execute a second jump while still in midair from the first jump.
double jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double jumps
Senses: examples: text: A well-timed double jump will let you skip this obstacle entirely.
topics: video-games
glosses: A second jump executed while still in midair from the first jump.
qualifier: figure skating
glosses: A jump that involves two or two-and-a-half rotations in the air.
double jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double jump
double jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double jump
double jumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double jump
player vs player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of player versus player.
player vs. player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of player versus player.
Play Station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of PlayStation.
ion channels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion channel May refer to either multiple ion channel classes or to multiple members of a single class.
sad to say
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Sad to say, I can’t remember anything else about him. Only that voice, whispering in my ear.
text: However, some of us did make quite reasonable patterns and had the satisfaction of seeing castings produced from them but, sad to say, many of these efforts were used as firewood after they had left the shop.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
glosses: Sadly; unfortunately.
Related terms: strange to say
mirabile dictu
godded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of god
godding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of god
rivel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvəl/
Forms: form: rivels
form: riveling
form: rivelling
form: riveled
form: riveled
form: rivelled
form: rivelled
Etymology: From Middle English rivelen, from Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”), from a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *ribjōną (“to wrap; wind; roll; twist; coil”), equivalent to rive + -el (frequentative suffix). Related to Old Norse rifja (“to rake (hay) into rows or furrows”).
Senses: glosses: To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
examples: text: they crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies […]
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.279
glosses: To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
rivel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvəl/
Forms: form: rivels
Etymology: From Middle English rivelen, from Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”), from a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *ribjōną (“to wrap; wind; roll; twist; coil”), equivalent to rive + -el (frequentative suffix). Related to Old Norse rifja (“to rake (hay) into rows or furrows”).
Senses: examples: text: It wanteth the due parching and ripening against the sunne: and by that meanes commeth short of the rivels and blacknesse that the outlandish pepper hath.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XII.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A wrinkle; a rimple.
rivel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvəl/
Forms: form: rivels
Etymology: Probably from (Pennsylvania German, from) Palatine Rhine Franconian Riwwel, Ribbel, Riebel (compare Volga German Rievel, Ribel, Riebel).
Senses: glosses: A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.
penal colony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penal colonies
Senses: examples: text: Australia was used as a penal colony by the United Kingdom in the 18th to 19th century.
glosses: A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
sordidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːˈdɪdɪti/
Forms: form: sordidities
Etymology: From sordid + -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.
Senses: examples: text: …are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: Review Books, published 2001, page 283:
text: She was not simply beautiful, but beautiful in a way that was so vastly improbable […] that to Richard, silly fool, she redeemed him, her, all of the sordidity and sopor, the tragic bathos that he felt sloshing about the Sealink.
ref: 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 14:
glosses: Sordidness.
tetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtɹɪk/
Forms: form: more tetric
form: most tetric
Etymology: From Latin tetricus (“stern, severe, gloomy”).
Senses: examples: text: They are commonly sad and tetric by nature, as Ahab's spirit was because he could not get Naboth's vineyard […]
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.284
synonyms: tetrical
glosses: Morose, bitter.
tetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtɹɪk/
Forms: form: more tetric
form: most tetric
Etymology: From tetr- + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Denoting a kind of acid.
Derived terms: tetric acid
poofta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooftas
Senses: examples: text: What he said was that he thought it would be a shame to ruin looks like hers, and allowed she might continue working, if it was for him, ‘And your little poofta friend and all. Not that I like that sort of thing. But if he′s working then it has to go through me. I don′t want to hear nothing else.’
ref: 2005, Steven Lang, An Accidental Terrorist, University of Queensland Press, page 101:
text: /he stared hard at me and for the first time noticed my hair. We both remained staring at one another for a few seconds. Then clasping both his ham-sized hands to his face, the man wheeled round and staggered back into the cell. “They′ve sent ma a bloody poofta!” he howled. “A bloody poofta!”
My companions stared at me in wonderment at the reaction my few words had produced.
ref: 2010, Chris Wright, The Spanish Cheese ‘Sanwish’ Without Bread, page 358:
text: 2010, Mohamed Khadra, Terminal Decline, 2011, Read How You Want, page 253,
‘ […] I got into a lot of trouble when I called the physicians “the pooftas of the profession”.’ He smiled again, as if to say I shouldn′t have done it, but God it felt good.
glosses: Alternative spelling of poofter.
pooftas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poofta
baiocchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baiocco
stroke order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stroke orders
Senses: glosses: The standard sequence in which a Chinese character is written in Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing.
Related terms: calligraphy
hanja
hanzi
kanji
determinans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dētermināns, present active participle of dēterminō (“fix the limits of something”), from dē + terminō (“bound, limit”).
Senses: examples: text: In the noun phrase “noun phrase”, “noun” is the determinans and “phrase” is the determinatum.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A modifier; a word that modifies another word.
Related terms: determinatum
composition
compound word
compound
solidary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solidary
form: most solidary
Etymology: From French solidaire.
Senses: glosses: Having community of interests and responsibilities; showing solidarity.
Related terms: solid
solidus
solidarity
antitakeover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + takeover.
Senses: examples: text: Taking on large debts was an antitakeover strategy.
topics: business
glosses: Countering a corporate takeover.