cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unsaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsaddles
form: unsaddling
form: unsaddled
form: unsaddled
Etymology: From un- + saddle.
Senses: examples: text: […] sette him vppe, and tye him in his bridle to the bare Racke, and all to rubbe and chafe him, insomuch that if hee be eyther wette with sweate or any other thing, you leaue hym not till he be as dry as may be, then vnsaddle him, rub hys backe thorowly […]
ref: 1593, Gervase Markham, chapter 3, in A Discource of Horsmanshippe, London: Richard Smith:
text: She’s gone, by the Lord! fairly stole away, with that poaching, concy-catching rascal! However, I won’t follow her; no, damme; take my whip, and my cap, and my coat, and order the groom to unsaddle the horses; I won’t follow her the length of a spur-leather.
ref: 1773, Isaac Bickerstaffe, A School for Fathers, London: W. Griffin, act III, scene 6, page 60:
text: It was nigh noon, and we had stopped at the cabin to unsaddle and bait.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 25, in The Confidence-Man, New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, page 220:
text: Because this was the normal way of going to school the schoolhouse was provided with a paddock; the children rode in and unsaddled, hung their saddles and bridles on the fence, and went in to their lessons.
ref: 1952, Neville Shute, chapter 1, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:
glosses: To remove a saddle.
glosses: To throw (a rider) from the saddle.
unplumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplumbed
form: most unplumbed
Etymology: From un- + plumbed.
Senses: examples: text: The unplumbed depths of the sea will remain a mystery to land-bound humans.
glosses: Not measured for depth, with or as if with a plumb.
examples: text: There he was suddenly checked, facing the unplumbed complexity of child or woman in her.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 207:
glosses: Not assayed or measured in any way.
plumb bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumb bob
levered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lever
levered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Equipped with a lever or levers.
Derived terms: levered firm
multilevered
levering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lever
level-headedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From level-headed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being level-headed.
harpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein produced by certain plant pathogens
leucotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucotomies
form: leukotomy
Etymology: From leuco- + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: It was the invention of the frontal lobotomy (though it was then often called a leucotomy, particularly in Britain).
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 76:
glosses: lobotomy.
leucotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucotomy
mediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medium
Hos.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Hosea.
Decalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəlɒɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Décalogue, from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος (dekálogos, from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + λόγος (lógos, “statement”)). Equivalent to deca- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: The Ten Commandments.
Derived terms: Ethical Decalogue
Ritual Decalogue
Related terms: pentalogue
hexalogue
septalogue
octalogue
nonalogue
duodecalogue
Decalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəlɒɡ/
Forms: form: Decalogues
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Décalogue, from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος (dekálogos, from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + λόγος (lógos, “statement”)). Equivalent to deca- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: Any set of rules that have the weight of authority
Related terms: english: the Nine Commandments
translation: the Nine Commandments
word: Ennealogue
-nik
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -niks
form: -niki
form: -nikim
Etymology: From the Slavic suffix represented by Russian -ник (-nik). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the Soviet launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957. Its usage in English is heavily influenced by Yiddish usage of ־ניק (-nik) and similar borrowed words (nogoodnik, nudnik, kibbutznik).
Senses: glosses: Creates a nickname for a person who exemplifies, endorses, or is associated with the thing or quality specified (by the base form), often a particular ideology or preference.
antinomianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntiˈnoʊmi.ənɪzəm/
Forms: form: antinomianisms
Etymology: From antinomian + -ism, coined by Martin Luther, notably used in his Against the Antinomians (1539).
Senses: examples: text: Always containing seeds of antinomianism, mysticism inevitably undermined that authority, but because the church's hegemony rested on mystery, mysticism could not altogether be prohibited. The common will to reach God was too strong, and the church was political before it was anything else.
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Assault on Notre-Dame”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
text: In the 1970s, [Daniel] Bell saw antinomianism all around him, and his thesis struck a chord with many. Well, antinomianism never hit many places in America, like the evangelical Christian communities.
ref: 1997 September 15, David Brooks, “The Rise of the Latte Town”, in Washington Examiner:
topics: Christianity
antonyms: legalism
glosses: The belief or teaching that because only the spiritual "law of faith" (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation, obedience to any practical or moral law has no role to play, even as a guide to conduct or as a test of the genuineness of faith.
glosses: Opposition to the Torah.
Related terms: antinomian
lentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentors
form: lentour
Senses: examples: text: I find there was no wrong Presentation, only a Lentor in the pains perhaps […].
ref: 1797 September 1, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
examples: text: [S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […].
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
glosses: Slowness, sluggishness.
choruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorus
choruses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chorus
missend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈsɛnd/
Forms: form: missends
form: missending
form: missent
form: missent
Etymology: From mis- + send.
Senses: glosses: To send incorrectly or to the wrong destination.
missent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missend
siphonophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈfɑ.nəˌfo˞/
Forms: form: siphonophores
Etymology: From siphono- + -phore, likely from translingual Siphonophorae.
Senses: examples: text: Is an individual hydra polyp analogous to an entire siphonophore colony – or is it more like a member of that colony?
ref: 2017 October 24, Derek J Skillings, “Life is not easily bounded”, in Aeon:
text: However, two beaches in Tarragona in southern Catalonia were closed in July after Portuguese man o’war (Physalia physalis) were spotted in the water. The sting of this siphonophore (it is not technically a jellyfish, but they are closely related) is especially painful.
ref: 2024 August 24, Stephen Burgen, “Resorts on Spain’s Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: siphonophoran
glosses: Any transparent marine hydrozoans, of the order Siphonophorae, that float or swim as colonies of polyps.
Derived terms: giant siphonophore
hydrozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrozoa
form: hydrozoans
Etymology: From translingual Hydrozoa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of many colonial coelenterates, of the class Hydrozoa, including the hydras, hydroids, hydrocorals, and siphonophores.
pizzica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pizzica.
Senses: examples: text: With strings, accordion, flute and lots of tambourine, it pays particular attention to the pizzica, a galloping six-beat dance related to the tarantella and long used as a faith-healing cure for spider bites.
ref: 2007 January 19, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.
Related terms: pizzicata
-ica
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -ica, neuter plural of -icus.
Note that etymologically this is not -ic + -a (“(plural ending)”), as -ic is the English form, having dropped the -um, though adding an -a to an English word ending in -ic does produce a superficial etymologically.
Senses: synonyms: -ana
-iana
-ia
glosses: a collection of things that relate to a specific place, person, theme, etc.
Derived terms: erotica
Hebraica
-ce
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: Her stomach being extremely delicate, he scarcely ordered any medicines for her all this time, except a cordial julep, with spir. volat. oleos. tinct. of rhubarb as a laxative, and a julep of aqu. rosar. acet. [illegible] alb. and syr. bals. of which last she took 2 table spoonfuls 2ce or 3ce a day in ¼ of a pint of lintseed tea.
ref: 1809, abridgement of, 1758, Rob. Whytt, "On the Remarkable Effects of Blisters in Lessening the Quickness of the Pulse in Coughs, attended with Infarction of the Lungs and Fever" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume fifty, page 569), in, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, and Richard Pearson, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Abridged, volume eleven, page 222 http://books.google.com/books?id=DD5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA222&dq=3ce
text: Whenever a user tries to login […] , a second login box comes up and they have to log in twice, apparently once for Novell, and once for the NT domain.
ref: 1998 January 21, "LT" <elstazeelandnet.nl>, "Novell 32bit client for NT - have to log in 2ce???", message-ID <34C5C8D6.7927D6B@zeelandnet.nl>, comp.os.netware.connectivity, Usenet
text: What you need is a "synthetic" corks which are about 2ce or 3ce the price of cork "corks" and any good home brew shop will be able to supply.
ref: 2003 August 23, "Pinky" [Trevor A Panther] <tapan@SPAMLESSblueyonder.co.uk>, "Re: Plastic corks - UK", message-ID <Ziy1b.2042$O62.16624775@news-text.cableinet.net>, rec.crafts.winemaking, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.winemaking/msg/9c4aa0393305da76
qualifier: or 3
glosses: Times: used to form a multiplicative numeral from a cardinal numeral.
raw_tags: after 1
tiin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiins
form: tiin
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tiyn.
grepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grep
off one's rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: A mishearing or reinventing of the expression off one's rocker.
Senses: qualifier: malapropism
glosses: Barmy; crazy; insane.
what's good
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What's good here? I'm way too indecisive to choose from a menu.
glosses: What is good, especially in reference to food.
glosses: What's up? a casual greeting
Related terms: if one knows what's good for one
what's good for the goose is good for the gander
due course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: due courses
Senses: examples: text: Let us be cleared / Of being tyrannous, since we so openly / Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, / Even to the guilt or the purgation.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, 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):
text: This is all according to the due Course of Things: […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):
text: […] but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that “it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man,” grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; […]
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: The Reform Bill, although the Duke of Wellington described it as " a revolution by due course of law," set up in fact but a very limited suffrage, […]
ref: 1898, Justin McCarthy, The Story of Gladstone's Life, page 27:
text: You all know that in the due course of time / If you continue scratching on a stone, / Little by little some image thereon / Will he engraven.
ref: 1985 [1387–1400], Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by David Wright, The Canterbury Tales, The Franklin's Tale:
glosses: Regular or appropriate passage or occurrence
Derived terms: in due course
bailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bailers
Etymology: From bail + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bails or lades.
examples: text: […] he had them help him fashion a mast from the sweep and attach wire stays to it and tear the jib to the shape he desired and make a bailer from canvas and wire and bent wood.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IV, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 50:
text: Two bits was the top price that old Jenny knew. She asked two bits for everything she had to sell, were it canoe-bailer, eagle's wing, cedar-bark basket or woven mat.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of bailor.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.
Derived terms: gill bailer
rules of the road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The laws that govern driving, especially of motorists and cyclists.
examples: text: A regional security framework with a relatively broad mandate could also establish badly needed "rules of the road" for regional states in a post-Saddam environment, which would be highly valued by the Saudis.
ref: 2005, Flynt Leverett, The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term, page 105:
text: That clinical instructor will begin the course by giving you an “orientation day.” Pay attention! You need to know the rules of the road for each instructor and each clinical facility.
ref: 2012, Susan Stabler-Haas, Fast Facts for the Student Nurse:
text: As it's evolved, the for-profit organizational form rewards short-term thinking and a profits-first, social-and-environmental-damage-be-damned attitude. While this is especially true at the global corporate level, the rules of the road for small businesses aren't much better.
ref: 2013, Carl Frankel, Allen Bromberger, The Art of Social Enterprise: Business as if People Mattered, page 8:
glosses: A set of standard procedures or regulations governing the way something is done.
Synonyms: sense: the laws that govern driving
word: Highway Code
Related terms: rule of the road
fuddle-duddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuddle-duddle
fuddle-duddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuddle-duddle
on one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: The given time to open fire.
Related terms: mark
on the mark
miss the mark
mark ten
skyhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skīˈ-ho͝okˌ
ipa: /ˈskaɪˌhʊk/
rhymes: -aɪhʊk
Forms: form: skyhooks
Etymology: From sky + hook.
Senses: examples: text: Those who yearn for skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes "reductionists", and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.
ref: 1995, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, →ISBN, page 80:
text: It wasn't a miraculous skyhook—no god was needed.
ref: 2012 June 19, Jonnie Hughes, On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves), New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
examples: text: To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the skyhook, which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.
ref: 2009 January, Mike Brown, “The Art of Dismantling Your Restoration Project”, in Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 109:
text: Jeta stood with her knobbly fists on her hips watching the two of them Goo the cylinders to the skyhooks. Those were the invaluable little workhorses of the construction forces everywhere. A simple but powerful grav unit with a winch and a hook.
ref: 2013, Mike Ginns, Jared's Song: Elrek's Rise, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, page 394:
glosses: An overhead winch.
glosses: A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
examples: text: It was during those battles that ORBITAL-class armor was deployed to secure and defend the skyhooks and tethers above Earth, Luna, and Mars.
ref: 2013 September 16, Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, New York: DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
examples: text: […] despite the absence of the proverbial home-grown 75-foot high steel "sky hook."
ref: 1982, Amateur Radio, volume 38, numbers 7-12, page 34:
glosses: A CB radio antenna.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: bathook
glosses: A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
examples: text: Tom bought the rights to a plastic board that had a skateboard deck and skyhooks.
ref: 2003, Caroline Unger, Surfing Long Beach Island, page 101:
qualifier: board sports
glosses: A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
limu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lē′mo͞o
ipa: /ˈliː.muː/
ipa: /ˈli.mu/
ipa: /ˈliː.mʉː/
ipa: /ˈli.mʉ/
Forms: form: limus
form: rimu
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian limu (“moss”).
Senses: examples: text: The menu included chicken, roast pig, raw fish, seaweed, which Hawaiians called limu, roasted kukui nuts, and baked dog […]
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 158:
glosses: Any of various kinds of edible algae, which form an important part of the traditional Hawaiian diet.
wikipedia: + (algae)
Related terms: limu kohu
puit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: puits
form: puits
Etymology: From French puits (“well”).
Senses: examples: text: Further on is a puit or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.
ref: 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:
text: And then a quarter of an hour later she would say, whilst explaining to a French party: “ There were 800 English and 200 French found at the bottom of the puit at the finish of that terrible day, mesdames et messieurs."
ref: 1911, Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home, page 211:
text: Cross the ravine, and a further 10 mins. across the plain see trees on the R. These trees mark the site of the puit ( well ) at El Mersse.
ref: 1998, Karl Smith, The Atlas Mountains, page 105:
glosses: A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
puit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: puits
Senses: examples: text: But these pirates are always successful, as are the rats, who steal at dead of night upon the eggs, devouring them; for your rat is a deadly enemy to the puit, and many another bird besides.
ref: 1895, Peter Henry Emerson, Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, page 308:
glosses: An insectivorous shore bird, the brown-headed gull.
larmoyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more larmoyant
form: most larmoyant
Etymology: From French larmoyant.
Senses: glosses: teary, tearful
tire barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tire barriers
form: tyre barrier
form: British English
Senses: examples: text: The driver lost control and the car struck the tire barrier.
glosses: A safety feature of auto racing venues, consisting of stacked tires secured together, that provides a cushion in the event of an impact.
snowploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowplough
tailpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailpipe
outraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outrage
outraging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outragings
Senses: examples: text: Many were the outragings and insultings of the Indians upon the English while Sir Edmund Andros was Governor.
ref: 1689, Thomas Smith, diary:
glosses: The committing of an outrage.
Josh.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Abbreviation of Joshua.
Judg.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Abbreviation of Judges.
Synonyms: sense: abbreviation of Judges
word: Jud.
Kgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Kings.
Kgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kgs
form: kg's
form: Kg's
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of kilograms plural of Kg (“kilogramme”) Nonstandard form of kg (“kilogram”).
summer boarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer boarders
Senses: glosses: A person who spends the summer in a country boarding house.
Derived terms: summer-board
summer-boarding
summer cottage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer cottages
Senses: glosses: A cottage rented out in the summer to vacationers.
Derived terms: summer cottager
1 Samuel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 1 Kings
word: 1 Sam.
glosses: The ninth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.
Related terms: 2 Samuel
2 Samuel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 2 Kings
word: 2 Sam.
glosses: The tenth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
Related terms: 1 Samuel
gagaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 雅楽 (gagaku), from Middle Chinese 雅樂 (MC ngaeX ngaewk, “ancient ceremonial music”). Doublet of aak and yayue.
Senses: glosses: the ancient court ritual classical music of Japan, of Chinese and Korean origin
summer fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer fallows
form: summer-fallow
Senses: antonyms: winter fallow
hypernyms: layland
glosses: Land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.
Derived terms: word: summer-fallow
summer house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer houses
Senses: examples: text: One [old passenger coach], still used as a summer house, has been stripped of its wheels and repainted fairly recently in bright green, while the other, still in begrimed olive-green, has descended to the level of a chicken house.
ref: 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
glosses: Alternative spelling of summerhouse.
summer-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of summerhouse.
1 Kings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 1 Samuel
word: 3 Kings
word: 1 Kgs
glosses: The eleventh book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
Related terms: Kings
2 Kings
3 Kings
summer-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more summer-like
form: most summer-like
Etymology: From summer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of summerlike.
summerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more summerlike
form: most summerlike
form: summer-like
Etymology: From summer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Summerlike heat in the dead of winter – even if much of the continent is still below freezing – is an alarming development for a place more capable than any other of generating catastrophic sea level rise as fossil fuel pollution continues to drive global temperatures upward.
ref: 2024 March 8, Mary Gilbert, “‘Astonishing’ Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal”, in CNN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of summer.
Synonyms: summerish
summerly
summery
2 Kings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 2 Samuel
word: 4 Kings
word: 2 Kgs
glosses: The twelfth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
3 Kings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 1 Kings
word: 3 Kgs
glosses: A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
summerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more summerly
form: most summerly
Etymology: From Middle English sumerlich, sumerlic, from Old English sumorlīc, sumerlīċ (“summerly”), equivalent to summer + -ly. Cognate with Dutch zomerlijk (“summerly”), German sommerlich (“summerly”), Danish sommerlig (“summerly”), Swedish sommarlik (“summerly”).
Senses: examples: text: "A summerly day for you," said my host; "You ought to be here in winter. It is impossible then to get out of the doors for the snow and wind. Ugh! dreadful weather!"
ref: 1867, Frederick Metcalfe, The Oxonian in Iceland, page 202:
glosses: Characteristic of summer; summer-like; warm and sunny.
Synonyms: summerish
summerlike
summery
Derived terms: summerliness
4 Kings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 2 Kings
word: 4 Kgs
glosses: A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
summerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more summerish
form: most summerish
Etymology: From summer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: summer-like
Synonyms: summer-like
summerly
summery
1 Kgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 1 KG
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 Kings.
Related terms: 2 Kgs
3 Kgs
4 Kgs
3 Kgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 3 Kings.
Related terms: 1 Kgs
2 Kgs
4 Kgs
2 Kgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 2 Kings.
Related terms: 1 Kgs
3 Kgs
4 Kgs
4 Kgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 4 Kings.
Related terms: 1 Kgs
2 Kgs
3 Kgs
2 Sam.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 2 Samuel.
Related terms: 1 Sam.
1 Sam.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 Samuel.
Related terms: 2 Sam.
ho there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A call for attention.
shinobue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinobues
Senses: glosses: A type of transverse flute from Japan that makes a high-pitched sound.
Summer of Love
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The summer of 1967, noted for its love-ins and the flourishing of the hippie movement.
Derived terms: Second Summer of Love
Related terms: Summer of Hate
Lament.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lam.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Lamentations.
summer pruning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of pruning plants during the growing season.
Derived terms: summer-prune
summer-pruned
summer resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer resorts
Senses: examples: text: Hangchow is built around large lakes and gardens. In the days when the emperors used it as a summer resort, it was known as the most beautiful city in China. I know that Mao enjoyed taking vacations there and staying in an exquisite old palace that had been turned into a government guesthouse.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1969–1972”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 573:
glosses: A resort visited for holidays/vacations during the summer.
Derived terms: summer resorter
summer's day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer's days
Senses: glosses: A day in summer.
Derived terms: some summer's day
summer stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plays put on at theaters during the summer, especially outdoors and during the summer vacation.
Derived terms: summer stock theater
summer stock theatre
summer-stirring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: summer fallow
Derived terms: summer-stir
summerstir
summer-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of summertime.
Sporades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σποράδες (Sporádes), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered”).
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of the Aegean Sea.
Related terms: sporadic
Cyclades
Dodekanesos
summer-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: summer fallow
summer-work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: summer-works
form: summer-working
form: summer-worked
form: summer-worked
Senses: glosses: to summer-fallow
Derived terms: summer-working
termbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termbases
Etymology: Blend of term + database
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
translation-studies
glosses: A database of terminology, usually in a multilingual format.
counter-productive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-productive
form: most counter-productive
Etymology: From counter- + productive.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterproductive.
in the reign of Queen Dick
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Since Dick is a man's name, it would never be borne by a queen.
Senses: glosses: when pigs fly; never
quail-pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quail-pipes
Senses: glosses: A woman's tongue
glosses: Alternative spelling of quail pipe.
quail pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quail pipes
Senses: glosses: A device used to imitate the sound of quails.
Related terms: quail-pipe
Maccabees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Macc.
glosses: One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.
Derived terms: 1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Knight of the Maccabees
Maccabees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maccabee
1 Maccabees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: 1 Macc.
glosses: A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
2 Maccabees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: 2 Macc.
glosses: A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
Macc.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Maccabees.
1 Macc.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 Maccabees.
2 Macc.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 2 Maccabees.
metalliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more metalliferous
form: most metalliferous
Etymology: From metal + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: Cassiterite is a metalliferous ore containing tin.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing a metallic element. Often used to describe ores that are mined commercially.
Hyponyms: aluminiferous
antimoniferous
argentiferous
arseniferous
auriferous
chromiferous
cobaltiferous
cupriferous
ferriferous
germaniferous
magnesiferous
manganiferous
molybdeniferous
nickeliferous
niobiferous
palladiferous
platiniferous
plumbiferous
stanniferous
tantaliferous
telluriferous
titaniferous
tungsteniferous
uraniferous
vanadiferous
yttriferous
zinciferous
zirconiferous
Derived terms: nonmetalliferous
Related terms: metallic
macedoine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæsəˈdwɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: macedoines
Etymology: From French Macédoine (“Macedonia”). Doublet of Macedonia.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.
examples: 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, pp 112-113.
It was as if a shell had burst in my immediate neighbourhood... A gaping chasm opened in the hillside. The air became full of a sort of macedoine of grass, dirt, flowers and beetles.
glosses: A medley or mixture.
Synonyms: fruit salad
Related terms: macedonia
machairodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machairodonts
Senses: glosses: Any sabre-toothed animal of the subfamily Machairodontinae
sabre-toothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: One such was Eusmilus, a sabre-toothed killer known as a nimravid.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87:
glosses: Having massive curved upper canine teeth.
Hypernyms: toothed
Related terms: sabre-toothed cat
sabre-toothed tiger
sabre-toothed tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabre-toothed tigers
form: saber-toothed tiger
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of extinct cat-like mammals, of the †Machairodontinae subfamily of the Felidae, characterized by massive, but short, legs and two large canine teeth, each about seven inches long and shaped like a sabre.
Synonyms: sabrecat
sabercat
sabre-tooth
sabretooth
sabre-toothed cat
saber-toothed cat
machinule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinules
Senses: glosses: An instrument used by surveyors to find right angles.
machinules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machinule
mackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mackles
Etymology: From the earlier form macle, from macule, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of macule.
mackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mackles
form: mackling
form: mackled
form: mackled
Etymology: From the earlier form macle, from macule, which see for more.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of macule.
mackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mackles
form: mackling
form: mackled
form: mackled
Senses: examples: text: It's dry and warm and if Jacob and I were to put our heads together I'm sure we could find something in the tack-room, some harness, or a nose band or two that could be mackled together to make a carrying contraption.
ref: 1998, Audrey Howard, When Morning Comes:
glosses: To assemble in a makeshift manner; to cobble together.
mackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mackle
mackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mackle
mackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mackle
Maconochie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɒnəki/
ipa: /məˈkɒnəxi/
Etymology: After the Maconochie company in Aberdeen that produced it.
Senses: examples: text: Dottrell said the toasted cheese wasn't too bad, and ‘There's worse things in the world than half-warmed Maconochie,’ he remarked.
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 262:
text: The troops seemed to like the Maconochie best, but the Germans favored the British corned beef, seldom returning from a raid on the British lines without taking back as much as they could carry.
ref: 1975, Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, OUP, published 2013, page 53:
glosses: A tinned stew of sliced turnips, carrots, and potatoes in a thin broth, a widely-used food ration for British soldiers in front-line trenches during World War I.
macradenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + adenous.
Senses: glosses: Having large glands.
macrobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrobian
form: most macrobian
Senses: glosses: Having an exceptionally long life span.
macrocephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Benedikt called attention to the frequency of leptocephalus and macrocephalus in hemiplegia and paraplegia spastica infantilis, and to the frequency of asymmetry in the first-mentioned disease.
ref: 1889 April 6, Frederick Peterson, “Cranial measurements in twenty cases of infantile cerebral hemiplegia”, in The New York Medical Journal:
text: He had collected thirty-three cases of craniotomy for idiocy and macrocephalus, and found that the results were always negative.
ref: 1894 April 7, Medical Record, page 435:
text: A radionuclide salivagram of a 4-year-old girl with recurrent lung infections, macrocephalus, psychomotor retardation, and seizure disorder was obtained due to suspected aspiration.
ref: 2007, G.A. Taylor, S.T. Treves, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having an abnormally large head.
Synonyms: macrocephaly
macrophallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /makɹə(ʊ)ˈfalɪk/
Forms: form: more macrophallic
form: most macrophallic
Etymology: From macro- + phallic.
Senses: examples: text: A cure was found only after those men begged Priapus to return, named him god of gardens and herds, and made macrophallic statues of him, which they placed in their yards.
ref: 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 20:
glosses: Having a large penis.
Synonyms: word: black where it counts
word: horse-hung
word: hung like a bull
word: hung like a horse
word: hung like a donkey
word: meat for days
word: meat for the poor
word: macrophallic
word: megalophallic
word: three-legged
word: tons of basket
word: well-endowed
word: well-hung
Derived terms: macrophallically
Related terms: word: macropenis
macropsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmækɹɒpsi/
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: macropsia
macropsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropsias
Etymology: From macro- + -opsia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder in which objects appear much larger than normal, most often the result of a neurological dysfunction.
Synonyms: Brobdingnagian vision
macropsy
madarosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαδάρωσις (madárōsis, “baldness, especially of the eyelids”).
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The loss of eyebrows or eyelashes.
Synonyms: milphosis
Hyponyms: alopecia adnata
Related terms: madarotic
madarotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæd.əˈɹɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌmæd.əˈɹɑt.ɪk/
Etymology: From madarosis, from Ancient Greek μαδάρωσις (madárōsis, “baldness, especially of the eyelids”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the loss of eyebrows or eyelashes.
Related terms: madarosis
madefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of madefy
madefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of madefy
madefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of madefy
New Wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French Nouvelle Vague.
Senses: synonyms: new wave
glosses: Any of several movements in music and film which are or were considered cutting edge.
spondees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondee
new-wave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the New Wave
glosses: Innovative and ground-breaking
subcapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + capsular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the capsule (of a joint, kidney etc)
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a subcapsule
first-passage time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-passage times
form: first passage time
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: word: FPT
glosses: The time taken for a random walker to reach a specified target.
random walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random walkers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An object taking a random walk.
random walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random walks
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A stochastic path consisting of a series of sequential movements, the direction (and sometime length) of which is chosen at random.
Synonyms: drunkard's walk
tribosphenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tribosphenic
form: most tribosphenic
Etymology: Combining form from Ancient Greek τριβεo (tribeo, “rub, grind or pound”) and Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the original placental molars that have a talonid in the lower molar teeth, where the protocone of the upper teeth hits. Definied by George Gaylord Simpson in 1936.
Derived terms: pseudotribosphenic
oomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oomycetes
form: oömycete
Etymology: From oo- + -mycete.
Senses: examples: text: Chromistas are oomycetes whereas fungi includes chytridiomycetes, zygomycetes, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and mitosporic fungi.
ref: 2001, Michael J Carlile, The Fungi, 2nd edition, publisher summary, page 11:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of filamentous unicellular protists of the class Oomycetes; the water molds.
Derived terms: oomyceticidal
oomycetous
oomycide
bollworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bollworms
Etymology: From boll + worm.
Senses: examples: text: […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]
ref: 1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176)
glosses: The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Helicoverpa spp.
alt: Pectinophora spp., et al.
word: cotton bollworm
alt: Pectinophora gossypiella
word: pink bollworm
alt: Pectinophora scutigera
word: pinkspotted bollworm
alt: Diparopsis castanea
word: red bollworm
taxonomic: Earias perhuegeli
word: rough bollworm
word: South American bollworm moth
taxonomic: Earias insulana
word: spiny bollworm
taxonomic: Earias vittella
word: spotted bollworm
alt: Diparopsis castanea
word: Sudan bollworm
preprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preprints
Etymology: From pre- + print.
Senses: glosses: A preliminary form of an academic paper that has not yet been published in a journal.
preprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preprints
form: preprinting
form: preprinted
form: preprinted
form: pre-print
Etymology: From pre- + print.
Senses: glosses: To print in advance.
Derived terms: preprint server
vacinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vicinity.
unitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unitizes
form: unitizing
form: unitized
form: unitized
form: unitise
Etymology: From unit + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This notion is illustrated empirically by the desire among oil producing firms to unitize oil fields early to avoid the potentially large losses of common-pool extraction.
ref: 2002, Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant, The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications, page 146:
glosses: To manage as a unit.
examples: text: At any rate the general exterior is the same. And though we may attach shades of difference to them, and they may work themselves out in the final result, there are enough points of agreement to make men cohere; to unitize them.
ref: a. 1893, Henry Ward Beecher, The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth, page 303
text: The container era 1966-95: The solution was to unitize general cargo. Standardizing the cargo unit allowed liner companies to invest in mechanized systems […].
ref: 1997, Martin Stopford, Maritime Economics, page 340:
text: Pass-through stretch wrappers are used to unitize loads at high speeds.
ref: 1998, James A. Tompkins, Jerry D. Smith, The Warehouse Management Handbook, page 771:
text: In contrast, in social interactions it is often not obvious how to unitize events or how to score them. What, for example, constitutes a unit of friendliness?
ref: 1999, Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition: Making Sense of People, page 80:
glosses: To convert, package, or organize into one or more units.
Related terms: unitary
SELSIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Space Environment Laboratory Solar Imaging System.
pupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: pupes
Etymology: From French pupe.
Senses: glosses: A pupa.
slam-bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slam-bang
rough-and-tumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rough-and-tumble
rough-and-tumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rough-and-tumble
cyclostylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cyclostyle (a circular group of columns without a core).
rough and tumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rough and tumble
rough and tumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rough and tumble
aulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aulos and -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an aulos (annular wall) between one's axial and periaxial regions.
raw_tags: of a coral