cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: bewards
form: bewarding
form: bewarded
form: bewarded
Etymology: From Middle English *bewarden, from Old English beweardian (“to ward, protect, keep”), equivalent to be- + ward.
Senses: examples: text: Hrothgar's Thane, and full strongly then set he a-quaking The stark wood in his hands, and in council-speech speer'd he: What men be ye then of them that have war-gear, With byrnies bewarded, who the keel high up-builded Over the Lake-street thus have come leading.
ref: 1895, William Morris, A.J. Wyatt, Beowulf:
glosses: To guard about or completely; protect.
bewatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewatches
form: bewatching
form: bewatched
form: bewatched
Etymology: From be- (“about, over”) + watch. Compare bewake.
Senses: examples: text: Discoursing how they pretended to bewatch and drowne his Maiestie in the Sea comming from Den- marke, with such other wouderfull matters as the like hath not been heard of at any time.
ref: 1867, William Carew Hazlitt, Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain:
text: In hope's corner, on her eyebrow, Lo! the eye of quest (like those Who bewatch the new moon's coming In the Fasting-tide) we've laid.
ref: 2011, The Collected Poems of Hafiz - Page 337
glosses: To keep watch over; guard; observe.
Republic of Tajikistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Tajikistan
Senses: glosses: Official name of Tajikistan: a country in Central Asia.
tweendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweendoms
form: 'tweendom
Etymology: From tween + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Tweendom starts with the first wave of physical and hormonal changes that bring up emotional changes, Geller explains — […]
ref: 2001, Cable Vision - Volume 25, Issues 11-22 - Page 234
text: Mariah, veering wildly in the bipolar state that was 'tweendom, might be apologizing and complaining at one and the same time.
ref: 2006, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit:
glosses: The stage, state, or world of tweens; tweens collectively.
betrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betrenches
form: betrenching
form: betrenched
form: betrenched
Etymology: From be- + trench.
Senses: glosses: To cut up; carve; slash.
betravel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betravels
form: betraveling
form: betravelling
form: betraveled
form: betraveled
form: betravelled
form: betravelled
Etymology: From be- + travel. Compare betravail.
Senses: glosses: To travel over; overrun with travellers.
bevomit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bevomits
form: bevomiting
form: bevomited
form: bevomited
Etymology: From be- + vomit.
Senses: glosses: To vomit upon; vomit all over.
pregames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregame
pregames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pregame
cruzeiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruzeiro
silicon hydrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicon hydride
sileni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their parents wanted them to be, their wives, even after fourteen years of marriage and two fine children produced and raised, are still on the search for love - which can come to them only from the centaurs, sileni, satyrs, and other concupiscent incubi of the rout of Pan, either as in the second of the above-recited dreams, or as in our popular, vanilla-frosted temples of the venereal goddess, under the make-up of the latest heroes of the screen.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A group of minor deities or demigods similar to fauns or satyrs.
oikonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪkənɪm/
Forms: form: oikonyms
form: econym
form: oeconym
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house, household”) (whence also eco-) + -onym.
Senses: glosses: A type of toponym denoting a settlement or its part.
sit-upon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-upons
Senses: glosses: Buttocks, bottom.
glosses: Small, portable cushion for sitting on.
sit upon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit upons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sit-upon
sit upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits upon
form: sitting upon
form: sat upon
form: sat upon
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sit on (“block, suppress, hold back”).
synonyms: word: sit on
extra: block, suppress, hold back
Related terms: english: trousers
translation: trousers
word: sit-upons
reedits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reedit
reedited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reedit
rejones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejon
Trentin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trentins
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Trentin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
rock stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock star
confirmed bachelors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confirmed bachelor
granodioritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granodioritic
form: most granodioritic
Etymology: From granodiorite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or related to granodiorite
animal tester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal testers
Senses: examples: ref: 2010, Terrorism: An Investigator's Handbook, William E. Dyson, page 453:
glosses: One who engages in animal testing
Chicksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Chickasaw.
Chicksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicksaws
form: Chickasaw
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Chickasaw.
Chicksaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicksaw
Chickasaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chickasaw
albuminoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albuminoid
snash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæʃ/
ipa: [snaʃ]
ipa: /snæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Senses: examples: text: Don't take any snash from anybody.
ref: 1969, Clifford Hanley, The Red-Haired Bitch, page 91:
glosses: Verbal abuse; insolence; guff.
snash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæʃ/
ipa: [snaʃ]
ipa: /snæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: snashes
form: snashing
form: snashed
form: snashed
Senses: glosses: To talk impudently.
thurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thurse
Eve teasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eve teasings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Eve-teasing.
eve teasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eve teasings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eve-teasing.
eve-teasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eve-teasings
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eve-teasing.
eve teasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eve teasing
eve-teasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eve-teasing
Eve-teasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eve-teasing
suffer by comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suffers by comparison
form: suffering by comparison
form: suffered by comparison
form: suffered by comparison
Senses: examples: text: Without discussing this question, the editor has only to observe that diligent enquiry, extensive reading, and unwearyed assiduity, added to the strictest integrity, and most disinterested views, have possibly tended to lessen the disadvantages of an English birth; and that he is persuaded the present collection, such as it is, will not suffer by comparison with any thing of the kind hitherto published in either country.
ref: 1714, Joseph Ritson, Scotish Song, volume 1, page viii:
text: In art, as in politics, the reign of Philip III (1598-1621) seems to suffer by comparison with those that came before and after.
ref: 1998, Jonathan Brown, Painting in Spain: 1500-1700, page 79:
text: Rigoletto tells himself that he keeps Gilda hidden away so that evil men like the courtiers will not be able to seduce her, but his primary motivation for keeping her isolated and ignorant is that he fears that if Gilda meets other people, especially other men, he will suffer by comparison and she will cease to love him wholeheartedly.
ref: 2010, Iris J. Arnesen, Nine Famous Operas: What's Really Going On!, page 89:
glosses: To appear lesser in quality once compared to another.
Athanasian wenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Athanasian wench
blue walls of silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue wall of silence
blue walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue wall
blue codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue code
blue codes of silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue code of silence
walls of silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall of silence
red flags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red flag
barber's itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barber itch
Senses: examples: text: A rather curious case was a gentleman who had been afflicted for many years with a very sore upper lip. . . . So sore had it become, that it was one great scab. In vain had he counseled the most eminent physicians, all of whom pronounced it "Barber's Itch".
ref: 1863 November 10, “The Lower-Canada Gold Mines”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2013:
text: "You can shave as close as you want an' no more close than you want. Barbers can't do that. Every once an' awhile they get my face sore. . . . We've ben boobs all these years, Bert, runnin' the chances of barber's itch."
ref: 1913, Jack London, chapter 5, in The Valley of the Moon:
text: Among the minor ills that bring discomforts to man, few are so persistent or so hard to treat as fungus infections—the cause of ringworm (including the stubborn ringworm of the nails), barber's itch, athlete's foot, and jockstrap itch.
ref: 1960 January 25, “Medicine: Man & His Itches”, in Time:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of sorts of rashes or skin eruptions in the area of the mustache or beard, caused by fungal or staphylococcal infections or by irritation from shaving.
Related terms: dermatophytosis
razor bump
ringworm
sycosis
tinea
barber itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barber's itch.
razor bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razor bumps
Senses: examples: text: For millions of men . . . shaving is painful because they develop razor bumps on the face and neck from the closely cut ends of hairs that imbed themselves to irritate and scar the skin.
ref: 1990 July 19, Lawrence K. Altman, “Health: For Some, 'No Beards' Is Painful Job Rule”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Aug 2013:
qualifier: usually pluralized
glosses: A skin eruption in the area of the mustache or beard, caused by irritation from shaving.
Related terms: barber's itch
shaving bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaving bumps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of razor bump.
synonyms: word: razor bump
sandwicheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwichery
eutectic mixtures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutectic mixture
let there be light
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Subjunctive use from Genesis 1:3 in the King James Bible: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
Senses: glosses: Used as a metaphor for the spread of wisdom.
center of symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of symmetry
Senses: glosses: US spelling of centre of symmetry.
arkeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes archaeology becomes “arkeology” and the search for physical remains of Noah's actual ark is the principal focus of interest.
ref: 1988, edited by Alan Dundes, The Flood Myth, page 90:
text: These things tend to happen in arkeology. … Nevertheless, the period between the end of World War II and 1974 was the great age of arkeology. … Such breakthroughs have now become regular events in arkeology, each new discovery upstaging the last.
ref: 2000, Bob Rickard, John Michell, chapter 7, in Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition, page 182:
text: First, let us start with what the Bible says and delve into the world of arkeology. McGowan (1984, chapter 5) and Moore (1983) discuss the logistical details of the Noah's ark story at length, so I will not repeat their entire analysis here.
ref: 2007, Donald R. Prothero, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, chapter 3 The Fossil Record, page 73
glosses: The study of the story of Noah's Ark, particularly the search for physical evidence which would corroborate it.
Derived terms: arkeologist
arkeological
arkeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arkeologists
Etymology: Blend of Ark + archaeologist
Senses: examples: text: The most successful arkeologist of his time was Fernand Navarra, whose record was published in French in 1956 and in English in 1974 under the title Noah's Ark: I Touched It!
ref: 2000, Bob Rickard, John Michell, chapter 7, in Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition, page 182:
text: Those who search—often obsessively—for it are known as ‘Arkeologists’. … Geologists are bored and irritated by the Arkeologists for Ararat has a remarkable history of its own. … An eminent Arkeologist, a Dr Allen Roberts, armed with a degree in Christian Education from Florida's Freedom University, once sought funds in Australia to excavate the possible remains of Noah's lifeboat.
ref: 2013, Steve Jones, The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science:
text: Unfortunately, the inflated pronouncements of “arkeologists,” as they are called, have proven to be neither accurate nor trustworthy.
ref: 2013, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, 3rd edition:
glosses: Someone who studies the story of Noah's ark, particularly by searching for physical evidence which would corroborate it.
center of buoyancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of buoyancy
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of centre of buoyancy.
arkeologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arkeologist
center of effort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of effort
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of centre of effort.
bowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bower
arkeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arkeological
form: most arkeological
Etymology: From arkeology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Has the last year provided any additional data? Is “arkeological” work continuing?
ref: 1972, John Warwick Montgomery, The Quest for Noah's Ark, page 292:
text: The Armenian, who died in America in 1920, told people that in 1856, when he was a young man living near Ararat, “three foreign atheists” had hired him and his father to guide them up the mountain on an anti-arkeological expedition to disprove the Ark's existence.
ref: 2000, Bob Rickard, John Michell, chapter 7, in Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition, page 182:
text: Critics have no trouble pointing out the many flaws in arkeological thought.
ref: 2013, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, 3rd edition:
glosses: Relating to arkeology.
drive in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives in
form: driving in
form: drove in
form: driven in
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, in.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball or reach base in such a way that a run scores.
raw_tags: of a hitter
petrol tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrol tank
anatomically correct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anatomically correct
form: most anatomically correct
Senses: examples: text: Banked bone can also influence the contour of a facial restoration, according to Dr. Sachs, because it is more anatomically correct than a metal prosthesis.
ref: 1987 January 11, Cheryl P. Weinstock, “New Bone Bank Aids Hip Surgery”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Aug 2013:
glosses: Accurately depicting or replicating the body, or a body part, of a human being or animal.
examples: text: Prosecutors in the Glen Ridge sex assault trial asked today for special courtroom arrangements . . . to allow her to use five anatomically correct dolls when she describes the episode to the jury.
ref: 1992 December 2, Robert Hanley, “Special Steps Asked for Figure Central to Sex Assault Trial”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Aug 2013:
text: Aldrich goes on for five pages about the December day in 1994 when he helped decorate the White House Christmas tree with an anatomically correct gingerbread man.
ref: 2001 June 24, Margaret Carlson, “New Lows for the News”, in Time:
glosses: Possessing a physiologically accurate representation of sex organs.
raw_tags: of a doll
materials science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: materials sciences
form: material science
Senses: examples: Meronym: crystallography
synonyms: mat sci
matsci
hypernyms: science#Noun
glosses: The study of materials, their internal structures, properties and modes of failure.
material science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: material sciences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of materials science.
plastic deformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastic deformation
applied sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applied science
material sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of material science
materials sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of materials science
postyield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + yield.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: materials science
glosses: Occurring after material yielding.
out-Byzantine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-Byzantines
form: out-Byzantining
form: out-Byzantined
form: out-Byzantined
Etymology: From out- + Byzantine.
Senses: examples: text: Although Ambassador Korry had admonished the president that “trying to out-Byzantine” the emperor “would be futile and counterproductive” and that Kennedy therefore should “spell out details of the U.S. program and justification from the start,” Washington tried to outsmart HIM […]
ref: 2011, Theodore Vestal, The Lion of Judah in the New World, page 127:
glosses: To appear to be a more subtle negotiator than; to outsmart.
shetlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shetland
snack-bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snack-bar
cossettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cossette
betravail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betravails
form: betravailing
form: betravailed
form: betravailed
Etymology: From Middle English betravailen, equivalent to be- + travail.
Senses: glosses: To work at; compose (a book, etc.).
glosses: To work for; earn by labour.
glosses: To do violence to; violate.
Related terms: betravel
56k
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Internet connection nominally capable of download speeds up to 56 kbit/s (56,000 bits per second).
U.S.S.R.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌju.ɛs.ɛsˈɑ(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: A Tass message from Moscow July 27 stated that on July 23 a frontier guard patrol of the U.S.S.R. discovered, that in the region of Turiy Rog, a frontier post denoting the Soviet-Manchurian frontier had been removed and carried away into Manchurian territory.
ref: 1936 August 1, “Soviet-Manchukuo Waterways Negotiations Break Down”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 77, number 9, →OCLC, page 324, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of USSR.
ls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Initialism of letterspacing.
ls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of l
betrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betracks
form: betracking
form: betracked
form: betracked
Etymology: From be- + track.
Senses: glosses: To trace or track carefully.
Derived terms: betracker
betrump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betrumps
form: betrumping
form: betrumped
form: betrumped
Etymology: From be- + trump.
Senses: glosses: To deceive; cheat.
glosses: To elude; slip from.
betoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betoils
form: betoiling
form: betoiled
form: betoiled
Etymology: From be- + toil. Compare Middle Low German betēlen (“to till fields, cultivate”).
Senses: glosses: To worry or exercise with toil.
Derived terms: betoiled
teju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tejus
Senses: examples: text: As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.
ref: 1965 March, Boys' Life, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of tegu (“South American lizard”).
chorus girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorus girls
form: chorus-girl
form: chorusgirl
Senses: glosses: A female chorus line dancer.
Synonyms: chorine
chorus-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorus-girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chorus girl.
chorusgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorusgirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chorus girl.
p-value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p-values
Etymology: Short for probability value.
Senses: examples: text: The larger the p-value the smaller the chance of a difference. A p-value of 1.00 means 0 % chance of a difference, while a p-value of 0.95 means a chance of difference close to 0. A p-value of > 0.95 literally means that we have > 95 per cent chance of finding a result less close to expectation, which means a chance of < (1-0.95) , i.e., < 0.05 of finding a result this close or closer. Using the traditional 5 per cent decision level, this would mean, that we have a strong argument that such […]
ref: 2008, Ton J. Cleophas, A.H. Zwinderman, Toine F. Cleophas, Eugene P. Cleophas, Statistics Applied to Clinical Trials, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
synonyms: asymptotic significance
probability value
glosses: In statistical significance testing, the probability of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.
Derived terms: p-hacking
bargain basement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargain basements
Senses: examples: text: "Where will I find an aluminum cooking pot?" growled the elder Beagle unexpectedly.
"In the Bargain Basement," said Gissing promptly.
ref: 1922, Christopher Morley, chapter 6, in Where the Blue Begins:
text: To proper Bostonians […] it was not quite a riot: it was merely the first big postwar men's-wear sale at Filene's bargain basement.
ref: 1949 April 11, “Business & Finance: Basement Bedlam”, in Time, retrieved 05 Aug 2013:
text: But it’s also a sign of the ascendant state of clowning, which, not long ago, resided in the bargain basement of artistic respect, alongside ventriloquists, mimes and jugglers. No longer.
ref: 2025 October 7, Jason Zinoman, “What Clowns! (That’s a Compliment)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: An area within a retail store, especially an area located below ground level, where the least costly merchandise can be found.
examples: text: The Soviet Union is offering to send commercial satellites into orbit at bargain-basement prices.
ref: 1987 June 18, “Soviets to offer bargain-basement satellite launches”, in The Courier, Arizona, USA, retrieved 05 Aug 2013, page 3A:
text: An ebullient woman aswirl in colorful layers of bargain-basement clothes and zany hats, Barbara Siegel also happens to be chairwoman of the Drama Desk nominating committee.
ref: 2007 January 19, Stephen Holden, “A Producer for All Seasons (Also Juggles)”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Aug 2013:
glosses: Inexpensive.
examples: text: "This nation can't afford bargain-basement cops any more," says Oregon's Multnomah County (Portland) Sheriff Donald Clark […]. Almost everyone agrees that U.S. police sorely need more education.
ref: 1965 July 30, “The Law: Police: Deputy Doe, B.A.”, in Time, retrieved 05 Aug 2013:
text: "We are not going to ask the brave young men and women who defend this country to put their lives on the line using obsolete weapons and bargain-basement equipment."
ref: 1984 March 27, “Democrats Stall Anti-crime Bill, Reagan Hints”, in Schenectady Gazette, retrieved 05 Aug 2013, page 12:
glosses: Of poor quality; of little or no value; low-end, shoddy.
bargain-basement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargain-basements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bargain basement.
disingenuine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disingenuine
form: most disingenuine
Senses: examples: text: I think there's a huge segment of the scientific population who in their hearts know that this is disingenuine.
ref: 2005, Rosalyn W. Berne, Nanotalk: Conversations With Scientists and Engineers About Ethics, Meaning, and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology:
text: In response to this, first of all I do not believe you can throw a psychological switch to turn person-centredness on and off. Either the relational values and principles of the approach are internalised into your being as a functioning person, or they are not. And if they are not, then to portray them in the therapeutic encounter as if they are is at best disingenuine and at worst a deception.
ref: 2008, Richard Bryant-Jefferies, The Jigsaw of Life:
text: Modern government use of “counter”-terrorism is emphatically disingenuine. As declared governmental policy during the French revolution, “terrorism” had at least the advantage of avoiding hypocrisy.
ref: 2015, Chibli Mallat, Philosophy of Nonviolence:
glosses: Disingenuous.
film director
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film directors
Senses: synonyms: word: megger
glosses: A person who directs and supervises the production of a movie, especially as profession.
mesilect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛsɪlɛkt/
Forms: form: mesilects
Etymology: From mesi- + -lect. An etymologically inconsistent concatenation, occurring perhaps due to the influence of basilect.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mesolect.
meth mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meth mouths
form: methmouth
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Extreme tooth decay resulting from the long-term use of methamphetamine.
fatberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfætbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈfætbɝɡ/
Forms: form: fatbergs
Etymology: From fat + berg, modelled on iceberg. By surface analysis, fat + -berg.
Senses: examples: text: Months ago a tunnel was clogged with a fatberg. It took a team of workers a month to move it.
ref: 2009, Carlos J. Cortes, “The Prisoner”, in The Prisoner, New York, N.Y.: Spectra; Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Bleeding big fatberg up there. About half a ton's worth. [...] Gorman feels an involuntary shudder travel down his spine and agitate his stomach. He's seen those fatbergs on the training videos; huge accumulated walls of solidified grease and food and tissue and excrement, the churned result of everyday debris tipped down the domestic sinks and bathtubs and toilets of London.
ref: 2013, Russ Litten, Swear Down, London: Tindal Street Press, →ISBN:
text: Then I worked in the sewers of Manchester – a six month stint of that, jabbing pressure-water-poles at fatbergs, tonnes of used kebab grease and congealed sump oil, woven together with thousands of used wet wipes.
ref: 2014, Adam Roberts, “Anne”, in Bête, London: Gollancz, →ISBN:
text: A 250-metre long fatberg weighing 130 tonnes which was blocking an east London sewer has been cleared after a nine-week "battle". The solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms was found in the Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel in September. Thames Water said it had taken longer to clear than expected because of the damage it caused to the sewer.
ref: 2017 November 3, “‘Victory declared’ over 130 tonne Whitechapel fatberg”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2018:
text: Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A large accumulation of fat and discarded toiletries which clogs sewers.
wikipedia: Museum of London
shalionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shalionaires
Senses: examples: text: Aubrey McClendon, interview with Leslie Stahl, Shalionaires (CBS “60 Minutes,” November 14, 2010), FLV video, 13:25, youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6b-WzIcyo.
ref: 2013, Bill Powers, Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth, New Society Publishers, notes on chapter 5, page 237, endnote 9
glosses: Alternative spelling of shaleionaire.
Tuber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tubers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
reëvoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːɪˈvəʊk/
[ɹiːʔiˈvəʊk]
Forms: form: reëvokes
form: reëvoking
form: reëvoked
form: reëvoked
form: re-evoke
form: reevoke
Etymology: From re- + evoke.
Senses: examples: text: A young Hungarian writer, widely travelled on the Continent, seeks to reëvoke the essential spirit of that inter-war Europe, now blown to bits.
ref: 1943 January, Robert Gale Woolbert, “A Wreath for Europa, by Paul Tabori” (capsule review) in Foreign Affairs
text: In this account of his “stewardship,” our wartime Ambassador to Britain reëvokes the dark, heroic days of 1941.
ref: 1948 April, Robert Gale Woolbert, “Letter from Grosvenor Square, by John Gilbert Winant” (capsule review) in Foreign Affairs
glosses: To evoke again.
capsule review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsule reviews
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A short critique, ranging anywhere from a single sentence to a few hundred words in length, of an artistic work.
Related terms: blurb
semiopen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + open.
Senses: glosses: Partly open.
Related terms: Semi-Open Game
zombyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Terence Kilburn and Dolores Mann made the rebellious youngsters credible and winsome, struggling valiantly against the stuffy moralities and intellectual zombyism of their tiresome parents, expertly depicted by Jerome Cowan and Judith Elder as the Knoxes and Nydia Westman and Neil Fitzgerald as the Gibleys.
ref: 1951, The Shaw Bulletin, volumes 1-2, Pennsylvania State University Press, page 79:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zombiism.
distfix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Short for distributed fix.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: mixfix
mixfix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mix + fix.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a kind of operator that can combine any of the infix, prefix, postfix, and closed notations.
Synonyms: distfix
zombieism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zombiism.
thundercrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundercracks
Etymology: From thunder + crack.
Senses: examples: G. K. Chesterton
His monologue stopped abruptly with a sharp noise like a thundercrack that rolled in dreary echoes round the dismal mere.
glosses: A peal of thunder; thunderclap.
thundercracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thundercrack
unconversational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconversational
form: most unconversational
Etymology: From un- + conversational.
Senses: examples: G. K. Chesterton
March and Fisher both had motor bicycles; and the first half of their day's journey consisted in coasting eastward amid the unconversational noise of those uncomfortable engines.
glosses: Not conversational.
conversationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversationalities
Etymology: From conversational + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being conversational.
conversionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conversion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without conversion.
brickfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickfield
clayfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clayfields
Etymology: From clay + field.
Senses: glosses: A field from which clay is dug up.
clayfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clayfield
sawable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sawable
form: most sawable
Etymology: From saw + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sawn, or cut with a saw.
sawable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawables
Etymology: From saw + -able.
Senses: coordinate_terms: makeable
glosses: A relatively large uncut diamond, suitable for the diamond saw.
unsawable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsawable
form: most unsawable
Etymology: From un- + sawable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being sawn, or cut with a saw.
ghosthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ghost + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a ghost.
ghostland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostlands
Etymology: From ghost + land.
Senses: examples: text: […] a ghostland beyond the mountains, or of an Underworld — a dark realm of polluted souls.
ref: 1997, Japan in a Nutshell, page 74:
glosses: A land inhabited by ghosts.
examples: text: […] a ghostland of wrecked totems and abandoned canneries.
ref: 2013 (quote orig. publ. 1972?), Frank Zelko, Make It a Green Peace!, page 90
glosses: A land that has become deserted, like a ghost town.
ghostlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostland
excavatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excavatrices
Etymology: Probably from the scientific Latin specific epithet excavatrix. By surface analysis, excavate + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Later, the excavatrix becomes a baker: she kneads the cakes for the children into cylinders; the father is then the baker’s boy.
ref: 1911, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134:
glosses: A female that excavates; a female excavator.
pale rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the pale rider
Etymology: A reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is Death.
Senses: glosses: Death, the Grim Reaper or angel of death; and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Synonyms: sense: personification of death
word: rider
sense: personification of death
word: Azrael
sense: personification of death
word: death
sense: personification of death
word: Death
sense: personification of death
word: the Grim Reaper
sense: personification of death
word: reaper
sense: personification of death
word: the angel of death
sense: personification of death
word: the Shinigami
sense: personification of death
word: psychopomp
Coordinate terms: english: Pestilence/Conquest
translation: Pestilence/Conquest
word: white rider
english: War
translation: War
word: red rider
english: Famine
translation: Famine
word: black rider
price floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of price floor
hydraulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hydraulus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water organ.
synonyms: word: water organ
water organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of pipe organ in which the air is generated by moving water.
Synonyms: hydraulus
hydraulos
hydraulis
hydraulic organ
Derived terms: water organist
consul-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consuls-general
form: consul-generals
form: consul general
Senses: glosses: A consular officer who heads a consulate general, and is a consul of the highest rank serving at a particular location.
Related terms: consulate general
consul generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consul general
go against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes against
form: going against
form: went against
form: gone against
Senses: examples: text: What he did goes against the rules.
text: This sentence goes against English grammar.
glosses: To violate; to breach; to break.
examples: text: What she said in court today went against them.
text: The court's decision went against them.
glosses: To be unfavourable to someone.
examples: text: This goes against my instincts.
glosses: To be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle.
examples: text: He dared not go against the King.
text: We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of God.
ref: 1984, 2:11:25 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Paul Atreides, →OCLC:
glosses: To oppose; to resist
film directors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film director
piñon pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piñon pines
Etymology: From Spanish piñón.
Senses: examples: text: The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to piñon pine growing out of rocky soil.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Love said he liked this place because he could see so much from it, and had stopped here many times across the decades, to lean against a piñon pine and sort through the country, like an astronomer with the whole sky above him sorting through the stars.
ref: 1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 383:
text: He inhaled deeply, smelling piñon pines and sage.
ref: 2001, Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine.
Synonyms: sense: North American pines
word: piñon
sense: North American pines
word: pinon
sense: North American pines
word: pinyon
piñon pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piñon pine
piñons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piñon
law firm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law firms
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A business formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law.
lemongrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemongrass
citronella grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citronella grasses
Senses: glosses: Either of two types of grass related to lemongrass, Cymbopogon nardus and Cymbopogon winterianus.
emanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radon (“chemical element”).
synonyms: word: radon
extra: chemical element
stevvons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stevvon
stevvons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stevvon
stevvoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stevvon
stevvoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stevvon
bog myrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog myrtles
form: bog-myrtle
Etymology: From bog + myrtle; plants with small evergreen leaves are often named after the myrtle.
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing of that luxuriance of blossom which had hitherto clothed the wood, for there were no hawthorns; but the bog-myrtle imparted its tender fragrance, and the caressing honeysuckle wound round many an ancient trunk, odours exhaling from every fairy-like tube—fit trumpets for the heralds of Titania.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: An herbal shrub with a strong, sweet resinous smell, Myrica gale, that grows in bogs, moors, fens and other wet, acidic environments.
Synonyms: gale
sweet gale
sweet gale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌswiːt ˈɡeɪl/
Senses: glosses: An herbal shrub with a sweet resinous scent, Myrica gale, growing on moors and fens.
Synonyms: gale
bog myrtle
gonochoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gonochoristic.
semiclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + closed.
Senses: glosses: Partly closed.
qango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qangos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quango.
qangos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qango
undersecretaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersecretaryships
Etymology: From undersecretary + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: subsecretaryship
glosses: The office or position of undersecretary.
secretaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretaryship
undersecretaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersecretaryship
Carbonari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɑːɹɪ/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹbəˈnɑɹi/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: Carbonaro
Etymology: From Italian carbonari, plural of carbonaro (dialectal, literally “charcoal burner”), from carbone (“coal”). Cognate with carbonara.
Senses: glosses: Members of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy, often with a patriotic and liberal focus.
Derived terms: Carbonarism
pathocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patho- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Government by people with personality disorders.
polymetamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + metamorphic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, polymetamorphism.
polymetamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymetamorphisms
Etymology: From poly- + metamorphism.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The presence of more than one phase of metamorphism.
Related terms: polymetamorphic
polymetamorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymetamorphism
buffy coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffy coat
pitch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pitches up
form: pitching up
form: pitched up
form: pitched up
Senses: examples: text: David Cameron pitched up in New York at lunchtime on Wednesday for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly less than a week after an ecstatic reception on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.
ref: 2011, "David Cameron outlines foreign policy philosophy – but don't call it a doctrine", Wintour and Watt Blog, The Guardian
text: It has realised the hard way that it is not enough just to pitch up at a by-election with a loud hailer and some media-friendly stunts, it requires months, even years, of groundwork in the local area.
ref: 2013, “How UKIP became a British political force”, in BBC:
glosses: To arrive; to turn up.
glosses: To raise the pitch of (a sound).
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bowl (a delivery) on a fuller length.
Yiddishkeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yiddishkayt
form: yidishkayt
form: yidishkeyt
Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדישקייט (yidishkeyt).
Senses: examples: text: Wait! my Ezekiel will be Bar-mitzvah in a few years; then you shall see what I will do for that Shool. You shall see what an example of Yiddishkeit I will give to a link generation.
ref: 1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 12, in The Grandchildren of the Ghetto, London: J.M. Dent, page 175:
text: 1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Anchor Books, 2005, Chapter Six,
“In America, everything is called Yiddishkeit,” Rav Kalman said. “A Jew travels to synagogue on Shabbos in his car, that is called Yiddishkeit. A Jew eats ham but gives money to philanthropy, that is called Yiddishkeit. A Jew prays three times a year but is a member of a synagogue, that is called Yiddishkeit. Judaism”—he pronounced the word in English, contemptuously: Joo-dah-eeism—“everything in America calls itself Judaism.”
text: 2000, Curt Leviant (translator), “The Shochet’s Wife” in More Stories from My Father’s Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1956), New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 17,
He wants a loose girl, a bareheaded piece who doesn’t keep Yiddishkeit.
glosses: Jewishness; the Jewish way of life, particularly Ashkenazi and Yiddish culture.
yidishkeyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yiddishkeit.
yidishkayt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yiddishkeit.
postspinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From post- + spinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the spine
postvertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From post- + vertebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the vertebrae
landspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From land + spreading.
Senses: glosses: The spreading of waste across land in order to reintroduce it into the environment.
anechoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anechoically
form: most anechoically
Etymology: From anechoic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anechoic manner.
echoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more echoically
form: most echoically
Etymology: From echoic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an echoic manner.
white rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the white rider
Etymology: A reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a white horse is Conquest/Pestilence.
Senses: glosses: Conquest or Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
wikipedia: Victor Vasnetsov
Coordinate terms: english: War
translation: War
word: red rider
english: Famine
translation: Famine
word: black rider
english: Death
translation: Death
word: pale rider