cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
backbores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backbore
troposcatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: tropospheric scatter
zigzaggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zigzaggingly
form: most zigzaggingly
Etymology: From zigzagging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The curtain dropped zigzaggingly upon the first scene. There was a tense silence out front, then a burst of applause[…]
ref: 1921, Octavus Roy Cohen, Highly Colored, page 260:
text: In their zigzaggingly argumentative way, the New Yorkers were taking their stand on what modern art was about.
ref: 2009, Jed Perl, New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century, page 155:
glosses: In a zigzagging way.
Related terms: zigzag
cannonproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cannon + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: It had not helped the duke to build himself a cannonproof stone chamber to sleep in for dread of vengeance after the assassination of Orleans.
ref: 1948, Frances Winwar, The Saint and the Devil, page 33:
text: A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks.
ref: 1983, Richard J. Hargrove, General John Burgoyne, page 26:
glosses: Impenetrable by cannonballs.
franknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frankness
sticklac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stick + lac.
Senses: examples: text: Sarkies' family firm traded in indigo, betel-nit and stick-lac.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasandaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 207:
glosses: Lac in its natural state, as secreted by an insect and encrusting small twigs.
seedlac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seed + lac.
Senses: glosses: The granular residuum of lac when it has been broken off the original twigs (i.e. the sticklac) and had the colouring matter partly removed, but before it is processed into shellac.
H-piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: H-pieces
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The part of a plunger pump that contains the valve.
Titchmarsh convolution theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Edward Charles Titchmarsh, a British mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem that describes the properties of the support of the convolution of two functions.
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrixes
form: Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrices
Etymology: Named after Nicola Cabibbo, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In the Standard Model, a unitary matrix that specifies the mismatch of quantum states of quarks when they propagate freely and when they take part in the weak interactions. It is important in the understanding of CP violation.
wikipedia: Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)
Nicola Cabibbo
Toshihide Maskawa
Synonyms: CKM matrix
CKM matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CKM matrices
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix.
gum stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gum sticks
Senses: synonyms: stick of gum
glosses: A stick of chewing gum.
examples: text: It is customary to give the child a gum stick, to rub on the itchy gum
ref: 1836, James Ewell, The Medical Companion […] :
text: If a piece of crust be given as a gum-stick, he must, while biting it, be well watched, or by accident he might loosen a large piece of it, which might choke him.
ref: 1868, Pye Henry Chavasse, Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children:
glosses: Any smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.
gum sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gum stick
Hunter-Russell syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after D. Hunter and D. S. Russell, who wrote about it in 1940.
Senses: glosses: A condition caused by methylmercury(organic Hg) poisoning, characterised by paresthesia, ataxia, and impaired speech and vision.
empress cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empress cloths
Senses: glosses: A cloth for women's dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.
duck's-bill limpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck's-bill limpets
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: synonyms: shield shell
glosses: A limpet of the genus Scutus, Scutus breviculus.
duck's-bill limpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck's-bill limpet
empress cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empress cloth
sphinxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sphinx
sphinxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Adorned or decorated with sphinxes.
sphinxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sphinx
cedille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedilles
Senses: examples: text: The cedille is a small c thus (ç) placed under the c, when by reason of etymology the c is preserved before a, o, u[…]
ref: 1844, Barbara O'Sullivan Addicks, Pocket manual: treating of the science of the French language, page 47:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cédille.
cedilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedille
Hungary water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hungary waters
form: Hungary-water
form: Hungry-water
form: Hungry water
Etymology: Ellipsis of Queen of Hungary's water, possibly a calque of French Eau de la Reine de Hongrie, after its supposed origin.
Senses: examples: text: ...Your Bottle of Hungry Water to your Lady...
ref: 1697, John Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife, act V, line 77:
text: Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 7:
glosses: One of various early modern perfumes and elixirs made of rosemary, camomile or later lavender infused in various alcohols.
antiregime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiregime
form: most antiregime
Etymology: From anti- + regime.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing a regime.
lunchline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunchlines
Etymology: From lunch + line.
Senses: glosses: A line or queue where people wait to be served lunch.
lunchlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunchline
liftline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liftlines
Etymology: From lift + line.
Senses: glosses: A line or queue where people wait for a ski lift.
liftlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liftline
Hungary waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hungary water
give someone the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the bag
form: giving someone the bag
form: gave someone the bag
form: given someone the bag
Senses: examples: text: I have felt of the power and terrors of what is yet unseen , he would not thus have lightly given us the bag
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
glosses: To disappoint (someone).
fit rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fit rods
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of bolt required.
fit rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fit rod
fly a kite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies a kite
form: flying a kite
form: flew a kite
form: flown a kite
form: fly the kite
Senses: glosses: To raise money on commercial notes; to obtain money as by accommodation bills, the endorser having no actual money.
glosses: Synonym of go fly a kite.
synonyms: word: go fly a kite
examples: text: The children flew a kite in the park.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fly, kite.
canarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canary
canaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canary
read oneself in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads oneself in
form: reading oneself in
form: read oneself in
form: read oneself in
Senses: examples: text: Parson Tyll was a curate of one parish across the Strood and of the two on the island. The rector was non-resident, on the plea of the unsalubrity of the spot. He had held the rectory of one parish and the vicarage of the other thirty years, and during that period had visited his cures twice, once to read himself in, and on the other occasion to exact some tithes denied him.
ref: 1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter 11:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: To read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.
gift rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift ropes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A tow rope.
rosemaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊzməɹid/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊzˌmɛəɹid/
Etymology: From rosemary + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a rosemaried leg of lamb
glosses: Seasoned or flavoured with rosemary.
double-geared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: double-geared drill press
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed.
raw_tags: of a machine
blazing star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blazing stars
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blazing, star.
glosses: A comet.
glosses: Any of various plants including:
Any plant of genus Liatris, of North America.
glosses: Any of various plants including:
Chamaelirium luteum of the lily family.
glosses: Any of various plants including:
Aletris farinosa (white colicroot), a monocot.
glosses: Any of various plants including:
Mentzelia laevicaulis (giant blazing star).
glosses: Any of various plants including:
Tritonia crocata, native to southern Africa.
Synonyms: sense: Chamaelirium luteum
word: devil's bit
sense: Chamaelirium luteum
word: fairy wand
sense: Chamaelirium luteum
word: rattlesnake root
sense: Aletris farinosa
word: colicroot
sense: Aletris farinosa
word: star grass
Derived terms: taxonomic: Liatris squarrulosa
word: Appalachian blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris bracteata
word: bracted blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris cymosa
word: branched blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris chapmanii
word: Chapman's blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris spicata
word: dense blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris densispicata
word: densespike blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris punctata
word: dotted blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris pauciflora
word: fewflower blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris ohlingerae
word: Florida blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris garberi
word: Garber's blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris gholsonii
word: Gholson's blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris glandulosa
word: glandular blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris provincialis
word: Godfrey's blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris tenuis
word: Gulf blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris helleri
word: Heller's blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris lancifolia
word: lanceleaf blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris scariosa
word: New England blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris cylindracea
word: Ontario blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris elegans
word: pinkscale blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris pycnostachya
word: prairie blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris ligulistylis
word: Rocky Mountain blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris cokeri
word: Sandhill's blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris savannensis
word: savanna blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris squarrosa
word: scaly blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris elegantula
word: shaggy blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris pilosa
word: shaggy blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris acidota
word: sharp blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris tenuifolia
word: shortleaf blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris gracilis
word: slender blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris microcephala
word: smallhead blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris spheroidea
word: spherical blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris patens
word: spreading blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris aspera
word: tall blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris turgida
word: turgid blazing star
taxonomic: Liatris virgata
word: wand blazing star
Related terms: blazingstar
blazing stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blazing star
zabiha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhabihah.
zabeeha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhabihah.
'swounds
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /zwundz/
Etymology: Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.
Senses: examples: text: 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Synonym of zounds.
synonyms: word: zounds
Synonyms: zounds
'dswounds
woo't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: woul't
Senses: examples: text: Come show me what thou'lt doe. / Woo’t weepe? Woo’t fight? Woo’t teare thy selfe? / Woo’t drinke up Esile, eate a Crocodile?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 2:
glosses: Contraction of wouldst thou.
WJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of West Jerusalem.
WJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WJs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: WR
OR
CR
NR
SB
PB
glosses: Abbreviation of world junior record.
anaptyctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəpˈtɪktək/
Etymology: From anaptyxis + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to anaptyxis; of a vowel having been inserted into a word.
Derived terms: anaptyctical
anaptyctically
claw sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: footrot
nonmonogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + monogamy.
Senses: examples: text: Though nonmonogamy seems to be on the rise — or at least society is more open about it than ever before — families consisting of three or more parents can face challenges that are in some ways different from, and similar to, those faced by divorced parents, single parents and L.G.B.T.Q. parents.
ref: 2020 August 4, Cynthia McKelvey, “The Challenges of Polyamorous Parenting”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state of not being monogamous.
sneck up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snecks up
form: snecking up
form: snecked up
form: snecked up
Senses: examples: text: We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Be silent; shut up.
calico bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calico bass
form: calico basses
Senses: glosses: A fish, the crappie.
papermouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papermouths
Etymology: From paper + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: It is called bachelor in the Ohio Valley, campbellite, croppie, and new-light in Illinois, Indiana, and Кentucky; tin-mouth or paper-mouth in northern Indiana and Illinois, and sac-à-lait, and chinduapin perch in the lower Mississippi and Texas.
ref: 1905, “Crappie”, in The Nature Library, volume 5, page 334:
text: When Earhart and Jarvis found out that the Crappiethon Classic would be held at Lake Harris in Hot Springs, Arkansas, one year, they knew they had to develop new strategies for taking papermouths, because the lake was deep and clear -- unlike most of the lakes in their native state of Tennessee.
ref: 1997, John E. Phillips, Masters' Secrets of Crappie Fishing, page 135:
glosses: A fish, the crappie.
papermouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papermouth
harp on one string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harps on one string
form: harping on one string
form: harped on one string
form: harped on one string
form: harp on the same string
Senses: glosses: To dwell on a single subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence.
epistopic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistopics
Etymology: Coined by Robert Holmes in 1986, in Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet.
Senses: glosses: A recurrent topic of epistemological discussion and debate.
epistopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistopic
Hakadosh Baruch Hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /həkəˈdoʊʃ bəɹʊˈhuː/
/həˈkʌdəʃ ˈbʌɹʊhuː/
/hɑːkɑːˈdoʊʃ ˈbɑːɹʊx ˈhuː/
/-bəˈɹʊx-/
Forms: form: HaKadosh Baruch Hu
form: Kadosh Baruch Hu
form: Hakodesh Boruch Hu
form: HaKodesh Boruch Hu
form: Kodesh Boruch Hu
form: Hakodesh Baruch Hu
form: HaKodesh Baruch Hu
form: Kodesh Baruch Hu
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא (haqqāḏôš bārûḵ hû).
Senses: glosses: God, literally "the Holy One, blessed be He".
Abigails
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abigail
Abners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abner
Adeles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adele
Adolfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adolf
Adolphs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adolph
fight shy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights shy
form: fighting shy
form: fought shy
form: fought shy
Senses: glosses: To avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach (of).
Normandy pippin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Normandy pippins
Senses: examples: text: She had never been handsome; she was little, thin, and dry, but there was in her a suggestion of past pleasantness of face and figure such as resides in a Normandy pippin.
ref: 1893, James Maclaren Cobban, The Burden of Isabel, page 189:
glosses: A sun-dried apple for winter use.
Normandy pippins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Normandy pippin
whole snipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole snipes
Senses: glosses: The common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe.
whole snipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whole snipe
good-bys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good-by
pitcher plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitcher plant
sarracenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarracenia
Gerasene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛɹəsiːn/
Forms: form: Gerasenes
form: Gergesene
Etymology: From the Late Latin Gerasēnus, Gergesēnus, from the Ancient Greek Γερασηνός (Gerasēnós), Γεργεσηνός (Gergesēnós), from Γέρασα (Gérasa), Γέργεσα (Gérgesa).
Senses: examples: text: And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:28:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Gerasa.
Related terms: Gerasena
unapprehended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + apprehended.
Senses: examples: text: Police are still seeking the unapprehended felon.
glosses: Not apprehended.
glosses: Not understood.
Gergesene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛəɡəsiːn/
Forms: form: Gergesenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gerasene.
petition of right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petitions of right
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
piece goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: textiles sold by pieces or fixed sizes, such as cloth from clothes-making, calicos, sheetings, etc.
Related terms: piece of goods
piece broker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piece brokers
Senses: glosses: A trader of pieces of cloth, or rags.
unpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpiece
nonenriched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enriched.
Senses: glosses: Not enriched.
toyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toylines
form: toy line
Etymology: From toy + line.
Senses: examples: text: Early Japanese anime superstar artists like mecha designer Shoji Kawamori and Kazutaka Miyatake participated in this toyline, creating some futuristic vehicles and robots.
ref: 2007 July, GameAxis Unwired, number 46, page 100:
glosses: A series of related toys produced by the same company.
toylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toyline
Gerasenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerasene
xylostein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylosteum + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Honeysuckle fruits contain valerianic acid and xylostein, which are irritant.
ref: 2008, Alexander Campbell, Michael Chapman, Handbook of Poisoning in Dogs and Cats:
glosses: A bitter principle obtained from the berries of the fly honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum) and formerly used in medicine.
Hippocrates' sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hippocrates' sleeves
form: Hippocrates sleeve
Senses: glosses: A conical strainer of fine cloth used in the preparation of hippocras. It can be made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth.
Synonyms: Hippocratic sleeve
run upon sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs upon sorts
form: running upon sorts
form: ran upon sorts
form: run upon sorts
Senses: examples: text: The writer remembers once printing a large index of map titles, which ran upon sorts so peculiarly that a two hundred-pound font of body letter had to be provided with two hundred pounds of sorts before the job was completed.
ref: American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327)
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.
flattishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flattish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being flattish.
expungings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expunging
suppressings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppressing
pantropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”, literally “turning”), coined by American science-fiction writer James Blish and first attested in 1952.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The process of adapting humans through genetic and/or cybernetic means to thrive in environments otherwise inhospitable to them, such as outer space, the deep sea or other planets.
Coordinate terms: terraforming
quadrate bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrate bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: os quadratum
quadrate
quadratum
glosses: A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals its equivalent is the incus.
quadrate bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrate bone
owl trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owl train
split on a rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits on a rock
form: splitting on a rock
form: split on a rock
form: split on a rock
Senses: glosses: To completely fail in one's attempt
galley slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galley slices
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A sliding false bottom to a large galley.
clary water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A composition of clary flowers with brandy and other ingredients, formerly used as a cardiac.
Hagars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hagar
bat tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat ticks
Senses: glosses: Any of various wingless dipterous insects that are parasitic to bats, such as some in genus Argas
ungoodness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ungood + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1870-1871, Henry Ward Beecher, "Man's Will and God's Love", in Plymouth Pulpit
Goodness owes allegiance of love to ungoodness. Power is the natural protector of weakness.
text: in this long list I find goodness the rule & ungoodness the exception
ref: 1899, Mark Twain, letter to his wife:
glosses: The quality of being ungood, or bad; badness.
fight it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights it out
form: fighting it out
form: fought it out
form: fought it out
Senses: synonyms: battle it out
glosses: To fight until there is decisively and conclusively a winner
Related terms: fight out
Haileys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hailey
Haleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haley
cerebric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cerebrin
second girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second girls
Senses: glosses: A female house-servant responsible for relatively light work, such as chamber-work or waiting at table.
Flowery Kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Flowery Kingdom
Senses: glosses: Nickname for China: a country in East Asia.
pinkoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinko
uncomforting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomforting
form: most uncomforting
Etymology: From un- + comforting.
Senses: glosses: Not comforting.
keeping room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keeping rooms
form: keeping-room
Etymology: From keep, meaning abide.
Senses: examples: text: The keeping room became less utilitarian as kitchens, storage area, and bedrooms were added onto homes.
ref: 1998, Lisa Skolnik, ADL: American Country, page 31:
text: The keeping room, with its large, open-hearth fireplace, served as her kitchen and main living area.
ref: 2004, Carla Neggers, Night Scents, page 10:
text: The keeping room, where most of the cooking and living was once done, has five doors: one on either side of the fireplace, opening into each of the front parlors, one to a borning room on the west, one to a weaving room on the east, and one to a summer kitchen in back.
ref: 2006, Blue Balliett, Nantucket Ghosts, page 17:
text: Taking to her bed is Baby Suggs's act of surrender; the keeping room becomes her final enclosure—she only leaves it after her death.
ref: 2011, Annette R. Federico, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years:
glosses: The main room of a house.
keepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keeping
protowriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + writing.
Senses: glosses: Any of the early systems of symbols that developed into writing.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Meaningless writing-like patterns drawn by children who cannot yet write.
nsibidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nsibiri
Senses: glosses: A system of apparently ideographic symbols indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria, found on excavated pottery etc.
nsibiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nsibidi.
firehose cursor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firehose cursors
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cursor that permits fast enumeration of rows but can only move forward.
Verneuil process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Verneuil process
Etymology: Developed in 1902 by the French chemist Auguste Verneuil.
Senses: glosses: The first commercially successful method of manufacturing synthetic gemstones, involving the melting of a finely powdered substance using an oxyhydrogen flame and crystallising the melted droplets into a boule.
Synonyms: flame fusion
night green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The dyestuff iodine green.
Hannas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanna
Hannahs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hannah
Hannibals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hannibal
iodine green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodine greens
Senses: glosses: An artificial green dyestuff, an iodine derivative of rosaniline.
Synonyms: night green
Rochelle powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rochelle powders
Senses: glosses: seidlitz powder
Harriets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harriet
defleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deflesh
defleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deflesh
defleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defleshings
Senses: examples: text: In extreme circumstances they would, however, eat a little plant matter and fungus, as well as each other: twelve skeletons from El Sidrón Cave in Spain, bearing marks of death blows and defleshing, offering clear evidence of cannibalism.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 171:
glosses: The act of removing the flesh.
defleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deflesh
Heathers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heather
Helens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Helen
Hopes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hope
Horaces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Horace
tympanic bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanic bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: tympanal
tympanic
glosses: A bone of the skull which encloses part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane. In humans it is part of the temporal bone, whereas in other animals it is separate.
Jasons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jason
Ryans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ryan
Rebeccas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rebecca
hilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hill
hilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hilled
form: most hilled
Senses: examples: text: The Coastal Scene Rugged headlands, small sandy coves, and broad plains that may be partially hilled with sand dunes or covered by dense forest blend to produce unmatched beauty and scenic variety.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth L. Horn, Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs from British Columbia to Northern California, page 3:
glosses: Having hills.
examples: Rome, being built on seven hills, was thence called the seven-hilled city.
glosses: Having particular kind or number of hills.
enquirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enquirer
Jet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jets
Senses: glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A female given name.
gooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gooder
Related terms: do-gooder
exhusband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhusbands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ex-husband.
exhusbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhusband
happinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding the temptation to use familiar mathematical or sociopolitical models to explain Mill's elusive notion, the general happiness of a population is neither the sum total or arithmetic average of the several happinesses of individual persons in the population...
ref: 1994, Necip Fikri Alican, Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof, page 110:
glosses: plural of happiness
exboyfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exboyfriends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
exboyfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exboyfriend
pinkens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinken
pinkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pinken
pinkened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pinken
reenforced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenforce
reenforces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenforce
piedfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piedforts
form: piefort
Etymology: From French, meaning "heavy weight" (literally "heavy foot").
Senses: glosses: An unusually thick coin, often exactly twice the normal weight and thickness of other coins.
selfconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self + consciousness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-consciousness.
Zain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic زَيْن (zayn, “beauty”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zayn.
tin pest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An autocatalytic transformation of tin into a different allotrope that causes tin objects to become brittle and flaky. The phase transition conversion of β-tin (white tin) into α-tin (gray tin/grey tin).
savouries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savoury
Latics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latic
pieboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pieboy
war hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war hawks
Etymology: Late 18th c., often attributed to Virginian Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke, but no written evidence exists. Popularized in debates concerning the War of 1812. Sense "eagle" probably a calque of Old English guþhafoc
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, John R. Bolton, the conservative war hawk and favorite villain of the left, is the toast of Senate Democrats, the last, best hope to prove their abuse-of-power case against President Trump.
ref: 2020 January 28, Peter Baker, “For John Bolton, an ‘Upside-Down World’ After Trump Revelation”, in The New York Times:
text: But critics of Washington’s hyper-aggressive foreign policy need to understand that the flight of many of the worst war hawks from the Republican Party does not mean the GOP has returned to its non-interventionist roots.
ref: 2024 October 17, Connor Okeeffe, “Beware of war hawks in ‘America First’ clothing”, in The Orange County Register:
synonyms: hawk
warmonger
glosses: A proponent of war or military intrusiveness.
glosses: An eagle.
war hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war hawk
Ragaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Alexander Janneus, having now subdued his enemies, was attacked by a quartan fever occasioned by excessive drinking, and of this disease he died, three years after, while engaged in the siege of Ragaba in Gerasena.
ref: 1828, Johann Jahn, translated by Calvin Ellis Stowe, History of the Hebrew Commonwealth, chapter xi, § 106, page 325:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fortress in the ancient Middle East that was besieged by Alexander Jannaeus and Salome Alexandra, probably a walled city on the Argob of Bashan (modern-day Lajat).
Gerasena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛɹəˈsiːnə/
Etymology: From the Latin (Regiō or Terra) Gerasēna (“Gerasene [Region or Land]”).
Senses: examples: text: Alexander Janneus, having now subdued his enemies, was attacked by a quartan fever occasioned by excessive drinking, and of this disease he died, three years after, while engaged in the siege of Ragaba in Gerasena.
ref: 1828, Johann Jahn, translated by Calvin Ellis Stowe, History of the Hebrew Commonwealth, chapter xi, § 106, page 325:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The country of the Gerasenes.
per diems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of per diem
toxophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fond of archery.
toxophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxophiliacs
Senses: glosses: A lover of archery.
Related terms: toxophily
toxophilous
gh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of good half.
gx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of grex.
MCFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Manchester City Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Melbourne City Football Club.
Citeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Respelling of a local pronunciation of (Manchester) city.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Manchester City Football Club
line-height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line-heights
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, you could give an inline nonreplaced element a line-height of 1em and still have its background overlap the content of other lines.
ref: 2006, Eric Meyer, CSS: The Definitive Guide, page 194:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The height of a line of text.
FCUM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of F.C. United of Manchester.
outprice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outprices
form: outpricing
form: outpriced
form: outpriced
Etymology: From out- + price.
Senses: glosses: To sell at a lower price than (another seller)
outpricing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outprice
pomeranian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomeranians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pomeranian (dog)
samoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samoyeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Samoyed (dog)
swimlaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From swimlane + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Divided into swimlanes
raw_tags: of a chart etc
timelapse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time-lapse.
timelapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timelapses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time-lapse.
tranquillised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tranquillise Alternative spelling of tranquilized See: tranquilize.
barbequed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barbequed
form: most barbequed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barbecued.
barbequed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barbecued simple past and past participle of barbeque
muzzily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more muzzily
form: most muzzily
Etymology: From muzzy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a muzzy manner.
irritatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irritatedly
form: most irritatedly
Etymology: From irritated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irritated manner.
Synonyms: aggravatedly
irately
irritably
fallal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallals
form: fal-lal
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of falbala (“furbelow”), from French.
Senses: glosses: A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer.
examples: text: Wherever she went she had, if not the finest, at any rate the most showy gown in the room; her ornaments were the biggest; her hats, toques, berets, marabouts, and other fallals, always the most conspicuous.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men's Wives, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 122:
glosses: Any trifling ornament.
Derived terms: fallalery
well-orderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-ordering
nuraghes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuraghe
aforelinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + linked.
Senses: examples: text: If you'd read the aforelinked article, you wouldn't need to ask that question.
text: I don't think you noticed that the aforelinked page isn't at CNN.com. The real page (with the correct photo) is at: ¶ http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/obit.mccambridge.ap/index.html
ref: 2004 March 19, jayembee, “Actress that played "Harmony" on Buffy & Angel passes away”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
text: According to the aforelinked Reuters news story: […]
ref: 2006 July 24, David Berlind, “In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next?”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 14 May 2021:
text: Fortunately, a brief adventure using .Mac sync chat support (found at the bottom of that aforelinked page) cleared up a repeating "merge/overwrite" sync dialog problem for me, and we felt the procedure was worth sharing.
ref: 2008 February 25, David Chartier, “How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023:
glosses: Linked previously (in the current text).
comprehendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comprehendingly
form: most comprehendingly
Etymology: From comprehending + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 111:
synonyms: comprehendedly
glosses: In a comprehending manner; knowingly.
Related terms: comprehensively
quelle surprise
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛl sə(ɹ)ˈpɹiːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from French quelle surprise (“what a surprise”).
Senses: examples: text: My brother made the same mistake I did, but he didn't get punished: quelle surprise.
glosses: What a surprise.
unforgiveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforgiveable
form: most unforgiveable
Etymology: From un- + forgiveable.
Senses: examples: text: In working out Aristotle’s view, it may help to keep in mind some of its rivals. We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst. There is the pursuer of disvalue as such, like Hannibal Lecter or Milton’s Satan; the wanton or brutish slave to low desires; the Dostoevskeian outlaw, committer of some unforgiveable crime; and the amoral egoist or sociopath who greets all moral considerations with a shrug.
ref: 2019, Rachel Barney, “Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation”, in Victor Caston, editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume LVII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unforgivable.
sinkful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinkfuls
form: sinksful
Etymology: From sink + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a sink will hold.
sinkfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinkful
sightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sighted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bill said that he learned to be tactful — if Art asked where something was, a telephone for example, Bill would feign not knowing himself, so as not to emphasize his sightedness, then appear to find out and tell him.
ref: 1995, James Lester, Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum, page 65:
glosses: The quality of being sighted, or having the ability to see.
Derived terms: clear-sightedness
far-sightedness
near-sightedness
sharp-sightedness
short-sightedness
poohed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pooh
poohing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pooh
poohs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pooh
musn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌsnt/
rhymes: -ʌsnt
Senses: examples: Thomas Dibdin, Guilty or Not Guilty
Nay, Sir, you musn't mind it — it's quite a common thing in our parish […]
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
So I said it wouldn’t be no use to try to play it any longer, and I would just make a clean breast and tell her everything, but she musn't go back on her promise.
glosses: Dated form of mustn't.
may'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mayst.
sighings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sighing
Romanistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Roman + -istics.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The study of Roman law.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of Romance languages.
menfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From men + folks.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Deyʼs grabbinʼ all de menfolks dey kin git dey hands on and makinʼ ʼem help bury de dead.’
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 193:
glosses: menfolk; male members of a group.
goddamit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goddammit.
secrecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secrecy
fulfillments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulfillment
nonfulfilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfulfilments
Etymology: From non- + fulfilment.
Senses: examples: text: We apologise for the nonfulfilment of your order. We will have the goods in stock next week.
glosses: Failure to fulfil something.
seabag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seabags
Etymology: From sea + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Even though it was still short of lights-out by two hours, the enlisted men's quarters was abuzz and asnort with the sounds of sleeping men when I dragged my seabag through the hatchway.
ref: 2001, Wesley Hall, The Hooligan Navy: A True Story about the Old Coast Guard, page 163:
glosses: A duffel bag used by sailors or marines.
seabags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seabag
willna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of willnae.