cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
act out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækt ˈaʊ̯t/
Forms: form: acts out
form: acting out
form: acted out
form: acted out
Senses: examples: text: What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.
ref: 1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:
glosses: To perform something specific.
examples: Despite already being aware, he will be acting out the pretence of a surprise.
glosses: To perform something specific.
To perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise.
examples: text: I've wanted to do this for so long, but I never thought I could act it out.
glosses: To perform something specific.
To perform a fantasy in reality.
examples: I know you're angry, but you can't act out and break dishes like that.
glosses: To express internal feelings or thoughts.
To express one's feelings through disruptive actions.
examples: When her jaw was wired shut, she had acted out what she needed.
glosses: To express internal feelings or thoughts.
To express ideas or desires through actions rather than words.
examples: text: She's a street performer, so she acts out on Ninth Street.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, out.
acts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of act out
acted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Despite already being aware, he acted out the pretence of a surprise.
glosses: simple past and past participle of act out
acted out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of acted-out.
acting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Despite already being aware, he is acting out the pretence of a surprise.
glosses: present participle and gerund of act out
air-freight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: air-freights
form: air-freighting
form: air-freighted
form: air-freighted
form: airfreight
Senses: examples: text: Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.
text: It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and shipped to restaurants and supermarkets half a world away.
ref: 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To ship cargo by the use of aircraft.
air-freights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of their urgency, the agent air-freights the parts.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air-freight
air-freighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of their urgency, the agent air-freighted the parts.
glosses: simple past and past participle of air-freight
air-freighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of their urgency, the agent is air-freighting the parts.
glosses: present participle and gerund of air-freight
International Auxiliary Language Association
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An association founded in 1924 to study the establishment of an international auxiliary language. In 1951, IALA presented Interlingua to the public by publishing the Interlingua-English Dictionary and Interlingua Grammar. Abbreviated IALA.
IALA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Auxiliary Language Association.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of International Association of Lighthouse Authorities.
Latino Sine Flexione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Latino sine Flexione.
anaesthetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anaesthetises
form: anaesthetising
form: anaesthetised
form: anaesthetised
form: anaesthetize
Senses: examples: text: The retching may be overcome by painting or spraying the pharynx with a 2- or 4-per-cent solution of cocain, or, as Stewart recommends, by allowing the patient to swallow a few drops of the solution, to anaesthetise the oesophagus.
ref: 1905, William Gilman Thompson, Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Diseases, page 524:
text: But now she was freed of the daily slavery of the office, and she no longer needed to drink to accompany Roddy, or to anaesthetise herself to his friends.
ref: 2007, Linda Davies, Into the Fire, Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd, page 84:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anesthetize.
Derived terms: overanaesthetise
preanaesthetised
reanaesthetised
unanaesthetised
anaesthetises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetises the area before treatment.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anaesthetise
anaesthetised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of the seriousness of the injury, the doctor anaesthetised the area before treatment.
glosses: simple past and past participle of anaesthetise
anaesthetising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of the seriousness of the injury the doctor is anaesthetising the area before treatment.
glosses: present participle and gerund of anaesthetise
interlinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + linguistics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of international communication, focused especially on planned international auxiliary languages and having e.g. Esperanto and Interlingua as a chief applied product.
Related terms: Esperanto
Interlingua
allegorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allegorises
form: allegorising
form: allegorised
form: allegorised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British spelling of allegorize.
Derived terms: word: allegorisation
word: allegoriser
word: allegorising
word: reallegorise
allegorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For his explanation he allegorises the problem.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allegorise
allegorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For his explanation he allegorised the problem.
glosses: simple past and past participle of allegorise
allegorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For his explanation he is allegorising the problem.
glosses: present participle and gerund of allegorise
allegorising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegorisings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making an allegory.
bodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒdʒ/
ipa: /bɑdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: bodges
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German bōzan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from Old English bōtettan (“to improve, repair”), Old English bōtian (“to get better”). Compare botch. More at boot.
Perhaps from boggle.
Perhaps from botch (“patch, or a measurement of capacity equivalent to half a peck”). There is a hypothesis that bodges, defined as rough sacks of corn, closely resembled packages of finished goods the bodgers carried when they left the forest or workshop. Another hypothesis (dating from 1879) is that bodger was a corruption of badger, as similarly to the behaviour of a badger, the bodger dwelt in the woods and seldom emerged until evenings.
Other hypotheses include German Böttcher (“cooper (profession)”), a trade that uses similar tools), and similar Scandinavian words, such the Danish bødker. These words have similar origins to butt, as in water butt (“rain barrel”). Or possibly it may have been a derogatory term used by workers in furniture factories, referring to the men who worked in the woods that produced the “incomplete” chair parts. The factory workers would then take the output of that "bodged job" and turn it into a finished product.
The Oxford English Dictionary Supplement of 1972 has two definitions for bodger. One is a local dialect word from Buckinghamshire, for a chair leg turner. The other is Australian slang for bad workmanship. The etymology of the bodger and botcher (poor workmanship) are well recorded from Shakespeare onwards, and now the two terms are synonymous.
Senses: examples: text: The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake.
ref: 2011 February 22, Cory Doctorow, “Google App to help locate people in Christchurch quake”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 05 Feb 2012:
synonyms: word: band-aid
word: band-aid solution
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: fiddle
word: hack
word: hack job
word: jugaad
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: lash-up
word: make-do
word: makeshift
word: patch
word: patch-up
word: put-together
word: quick-and-dirty
word: quick fix
word: stopgap
word: workaround
glosses: A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
Derived terms: bodge job
Related terms: bodger
botch
bodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒdʒ/
ipa: /bɑdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: bodges
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
glosses: A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
bodge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒdʒ/
ipa: /bɑdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: more bodge
form: most bodge
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: Insane, off the rails.
bodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of the lack of proper tools, he always bodges the repair work.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bodge
bodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɒdʒd/
Senses: examples: text: Lacking proper tools, he bodged the repair.
glosses: simple past and past participle of bodge
bodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because of the lack of proper tools he is bodging the repair.
glosses: present participle and gerund of bodge
bodging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Traditional craft of turning wood for chair legs, braces, etc.
co-educate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-educates
form: co-educating
form: co-educated
form: co-educated
Etymology: From co- + educate.
Senses: examples: text: Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians.
ref: 2005, Chris Gaine, Rosalyn George, Gender, 'Race' and Class in Schooling: A New Introduction, page 132:
glosses: To educate children of both sexes together.
co-educates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-educate
co-educated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-educate
co-educating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-educate
look-alike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: look-alikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lookalike.
coarsen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)sən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən
Forms: form: coarsens
form: coarsening
form: coarsened
form: coarsened
Etymology: From coarse + -en.
Senses: examples: text: 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6 "D'Sonoqua," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html
She appeared to be neither wooden nor stationary, but a singing spirit, young and fresh, passing through the jungle. No violence coarsened her; no power domineered to wither her. She was graciously feminine.
text: […] as the years went by, democracy and its wide audiences tended to broaden and coarsen humor.
ref: , R. Z. Sheppard, “She-Wits and Funny Persons”, in Time:
text: Because the wool is of poor quality, it will coarsen the fabric.
glosses: To make (more) coarse.
examples: text: He was intolerable now except under the influence of liquor, and as he seemed to decay and coarsen under her eyes, Gloria's soul and body shrank away from him […]
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):
text: […] though her skin had coarsened in the last ten years, the dark red of her cheeks and lips was as vivid as ever.
ref: 1925, Ellen Glasgow, chapter 14, in Barren Ground:
glosses: To become (more) coarse.
Derived terms: coarsener
coarsened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because the wool was of poor quality, it coarsened the fabric.
glosses: simple past and past participle of coarsen
Derived terms: uncoarsened
coarsening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because the wool is poor quality it is coarsening the fabric.
glosses: present participle and gerund of coarsen
coarsening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coarsenings
Senses: glosses: The process or the result of becoming coarse
coarsens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Because the wool is of poor quality, it coarsens the fabric.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coarsen
synaesthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synaesthetes
form: synæsthete
form: synesthete
Etymology: From syn- + aesthete.
Senses: glosses: A person who experiences synaesthesia.
came across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In the meadow he came across a rare flower.
glosses: simple past of come across
coming across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come across
commentate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commentates
form: commentating
form: commentated
form: commentated
Etymology: Back-formation from commentator. Equivalent to comment + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: For the radio audience he will commentate on the match.
glosses: To provide a commentary; to act as a commentator; to maintain a stream of comments about some event.
commentates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For the radio audience he commentates on the match.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commentate
commentated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For the radio audience he commentated on the match.
glosses: simple past and past participle of commentate
commentating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For the radio audience he is commentating on the match.
glosses: present participle and gerund of commentate
concuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkʌs/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.kʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: concusses
form: concussing
form: concussed
form: concussed
Etymology: From Latin concussus, the perfect passive participle of concutiō (“shake violently”), from con- + quatiō (“shake, hit”).
Senses: examples: text: The blow will concuss him.
glosses: To injure the brain of, usually temporarily, by violent impact.
examples: text: The opposite principle , or rather the opposite practice of intrusion , is the reverse of this : it consists in concussing the Presbytery to ordain , and in concussing the people to receive.
ref: 1840, James Buchanan, The Scriptural Argument for Non-Intrusion Considered:
topics: law
glosses: To force to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce.
Derived terms: concussion
concussive
deconcuss
subconcuss
concusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The blow concusses him.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concuss
concussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The blow concussed him.
glosses: simple past and past participle of concuss
concussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concussed
form: most concussed
Senses: examples: text: But, for whatever combination of reasons - and, to be fair, he'd been blasted in the face by shrapnel, was probably badly concussed, and, indeed, would actually remember nothing from the battle after he'd been hit when he was later debriefed - aside from two destroyers left behind to help Hiei, the rest of the Japanese forces withdrew north just before 0300 in the morning.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 24:41 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2022:
glosses: Knocked out; temporarily confused or unconscious due to a blow to the head.
Derived terms: nonconcussed
concussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The effects of the blow are concussing him.
glosses: present participle and gerund of concuss
helminthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helminth + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to worms; used especially of parasitic worms.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: anthelmintic#Adjective
anthelminthic#Adjective
antihelminthic#Adjective
antihelmintic#Adjective
glosses: Causing the expulsion of intestinal worms.
Derived terms: geohelminthic
Related terms: helminthiasis
helminthic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helminthics
Etymology: From helminth + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: anthelmintic#Noun
anthelminthic#Noun
antihelminthic#Noun
antihelmintic#Noun
glosses: Any medicine that expels intestinal worms.
synesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synesthesias
Etymology: From syn- + -esthesia.
Senses: examples: text: […] R. H. Gault's case of synesthesia in a deaf and blind girl, who could distinguish colors by the sense of smell, […]
ref: 1926 July, Paul Campbell Young, “An Experimental Study of Mental and Physical Functions in the Normal and Hypnotic States: Additional Results”, in Margaret F[loy] Washburn, Karl M. Dallenbach, [Isaac] Madison Bentley, Edward G. Boring, editors, The American Journal of Psychology, volume XXXVII, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →ISSN, →OCLC, footnote 6, page 346:
text: Because of this, SSDs are one of the first technologies to meaningfully demonstrate just what synesthesia – or at least one kind of it – might feel like to those who have never had it.
ref: 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN:
text: [S]ynesthetes themselves can provide the indispensable cues to design a structured qualitative questionnaire: color synesthesias and their variations during sexual arousal, direct physical stimulation, and orgasm […] can help scientists differentiate the specific triggers and their characteristics.
ref: 2018 April, Helena Melero, “From Pain to Pleasure: A Neuroscientific Approach to Pain-color and Orgasm-color Synesthesias”, in M[ari]a José de Córdoba Serrano, Julia López de la Torre Lucha, Timothy B. Leiden, editors, Actas del ‘VI Congreso Internacional de Sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte + Actividades Paralelas 2018’: Alcalá la Real, Jaén (España), Granada, Spain: Fundació Internacional Artecittà, →ISBN, page 4, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of synaesthesia.
bug-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having bulging or protruding eyes.
Derived terms: bug-eyed monster
like riding a bike
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪk ˈɹaɪdɪŋ ə baɪk/
Forms: form: like riding a bicycle
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Said of skill that, once learned, is never forgotten.
Related terms: muscle memory
freezing level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freezing levels
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The altitude at which the temperature of the atmosphere is 0°C at a specific location
snow level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow levels
Senses: examples: text: An avalanche sloughing off a Utah mountainside killed a state Department of Transportation avalanche forecaster while he was surveying snow levels near a popular winter recreation area, authorities reported.
ref: 2013 April 13, Michael Mello, “Avalanche forecaster killed in Utah avalanche”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: The depth of snow accumulated on the ground.
examples: text: The snow level, or altitude in the atmosphere where snow melts to rain, is an important variable for hydrometeorological prediction in mountainous watersheds; yet, there is no operational performance measure associated with snow-level forecasts in the United States.
ref: 2009, Allen B. White et al., “Developing a Performance Measure for Snow-Level Forecasts”, in Journal of Hydrometeorology, volume 11, number 3, →DOI:
text: Snow levels Sunday and Monday are expected to hover about 6,000 feet before dropping to 5,000 feet midweek.
ref: 2019 December 20, Hannah Fry, “Rain and snow return to Southern California this weekend. How long will it last?”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: A surge of moisture moving will produce a wintry mix over the Big Island summits through today. Snow levels are expected to be around 13,000 feet during this time.
ref: 2020 December 18, National Weather Service, 335 AM HST Winter Weather Advisory
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The altitude, in a mountainous region, above which precipitation falls as snow.
Synonyms: sense: altitude
word: snow line
unit operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit operations
Senses: glosses: Any simple step in a multi-step chemical engineering process; examples include distillation, evaporation, mixing, filtration, crystallization etc.
wettability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wettabilities
Etymology: From wet + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability of a solid surface to reduce the surface tension of a liquid in contact with it such that it spreads over the surface and wets it.
harebell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛəˌbɛl/
ipa: /ˈhɛɚˌbɛl/
Forms: form: harebells
form: hairbell
Etymology: From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare + bell.
Senses: examples: text: How Snow-drops cold, and blue-eyed Harebells blend / Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend […].
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 2:
text: Her most striking feature, then as now, was her eyes: both large and expressive, but while one was the brown of a fresh hazelnut, the other was pale bluey-violet, the colour of harebells.
ref: 2020, Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit, page 7:
glosses: A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
examples: text: I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
glosses: foxglove
Synonyms: bluebell
blawort
lady's thimble
witch's bells
witch's thimbles
humidor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjumɪdɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈhjumədɔɹ/
Forms: form: humidors
Etymology: From humid, modeled after cuspidor (“spittoon”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't just toss them in the humidor; you need to progressively re-humidify them. You're definitely going to want a thermometer to put inside your humidor, as well as a hygrometer […]
ref: 2016, The Cuban Cigar Handbook: The Discerning Aficionado's Guide to the Best Cuban Cigars in the World, Cider Mill Press, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars.
MOTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mail order / telephone order, used in reference to types of credit card purchases.
scratchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scratchy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The scratchiness of this wool sweater is supposed to wear off, but I don't think it ever will.
text: N’Golo Kanté embodies both sides of this, a player whose early scratchiness was soothed with glorious results in the new 3-4-3 formation, allowed simply to be his best, most wonderfully mobile, diligent, destructive self.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The property of feeling scratchy.
scourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaʊɹə/
ipa: /ˈskaʊɹəɹ/
Forms: form: scourers
Etymology: From Middle English scourer, skourer, scowrrere, equivalent to scour + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A scourer may be in the form of a mesh (ball) of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side.
coordinate_terms: wire wool
glosses: A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.
glosses: Agent noun of scour; a person who scours.
examples: text: in those days of highwaymen and scourers
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
Derived terms: gong scourer
scourer pad
scrabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrabblers
Etymology: From scrabble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In Hammett's writings, the social is constructed as a vast Hobbesian landscape of grim functionaries and desperate scrabblers[…]
ref: 1995, Fred Pfeil, White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference, page 150:
glosses: One who scrabbles.
scriptwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scriptwriters
Etymology: From script + writer.
Senses: glosses: A person who writes scripts.
Synonyms: screenwriter
scurvily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scurvily
form: most scurvily
Etymology: From scurvy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If the crops turned out ill next year, the people laid the failure at the door of the ghosts, who fancied themselves scurvily treated and had taken their revenge by trampling down the corn.
ref: 1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 75:
synonyms: contemptibly
despicably
glosses: In a scurvy manner; in a low, disgusting and mean way.
scrupulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrupulousnesses
Etymology: From scrupulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being scrupulous.
glosses: The result or product of being scrupulous.
Synonyms: scrupulosity
scrounger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroungers
Etymology: From scrounge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: You get out of me kitchen, you low-down scrounger! I ain't going to have you in here, giving me cheek to me face and drinkin' beer I got to pay for.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 151:
text: For a mad two hours, artists, critics, hangers-on, insiders, befuddled outsiders and outright scroungers mingle, collide, preen, dish, fawn, toady, snub and, as a last resort, take a fleeting glance at the art on the wall.
ref: 1995 February 10, William Grimes, “When Art Puts on a Party Hat: A Guide to Gallery Openings”, in The New York Times:
text: Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.
ref: 1993, The Bulletin - Volume 115, page 87:
text: Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal.
ref: 2003, G Holcomb, No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: One who scrounges.
Synonyms: word: bloodsucker
word: bummer
word: freeloader
word: free rider
word: gadfly
word: leech
word: mooch
word: moocher
word: parasite
word: scrounge
word: scrounger
word: scunge
word: smell-feast
word: sponge
word: sponger
word: sucker
word: trencher mate
Hypernyms: word: borrower
word: hanger-on
Hyponyms: word: bludger
word: deadhead
word: stowaway
word: tripulant
Related terms: word: beggar
word: idler
scurrilously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scurrilously
form: most scurrilously
Etymology: From scurrilous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a scurrilous manner.
scurrilousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scurrilous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being scurrilous.
illo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illos
Etymology: Diminutive of illustration with -o.
Senses: examples: text: We will also begin paying for art work: about $20 to $35 for a full-page illo, and others in proportion.
ref: 1981, George H. Scithers, Amra, volume 2, number 69, page 9:
text: 2008, Vibe (November 2008): "Idol Worship" by Keith Murphy
[…] this 188-page photo/illo tome is a gorgeously provocative companion piece for music heads consumed with the classic and the current.
glosses: An illustration.
theming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of theme
theming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: themings
Senses: glosses: The application of a theme.
farse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
homophone: farce
Forms: form: farses
Etymology: From Medieval Latin farsa. Doublet of farce.
Senses: glosses: A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
farse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
homophone: farce
Forms: form: farses
form: farsing
form: farsed
form: farsed
form: farce
Etymology: From Old French farsir. Doublet of farce.
Senses: examples: text: There is also evidence of glossing (or farsing) the texts of the Epistles read in the masses of the Christmas Octave.
ref: 2010, Frank C. Senn, The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy, page 138:
glosses: To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).
Related terms: farsing
tumescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuˈmɛsənt/
ipa: /tjuˈmɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more tumescent
form: most tumescent
Etymology: From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).
Senses: glosses: Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
examples: text: I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.
ref: 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the Dance, page 395:
glosses: Inflated or overblown.
Synonyms: tumid
turgescent
turgid
Related terms: contumely
tumor
tumult
tumescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuːˈmɛsəns/
Forms: form: tumescences
Etymology: First attested 1725, from French tumescence, from Latin tumescēns (“swelling”), present participle of tumēscō (“I begin to swell”), from tumeō (“I swell”) + -ēscō (“I become”) (English -esce, in this form -escence), stem from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).
Senses: examples: text: It is still more remarkable that the reeves also, even in the presence of the males, will court each other and have intercourse. We may associate this with the high erotic development of birds, the difficulty with which tumescence seems to occur in them, and their long courtships.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
glosses: A swelling due to the presence of fluid.
glosses: A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue.
Synonyms: tumidity
turgescence
turgidity
turgor
Derived terms: detumescence
nocturnal penile tumescence
ephemeris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfɛməɹɪs/
ipa: /ɪˈfɛməɹəs/
Forms: form: ephemerides
form: ephemerises
Etymology: From New Latin ephēmeris, from Ancient Greek ἐφημερίς (ephēmerís, “diary, calendar”), from ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros, “daily”).
Senses: examples: text: Wee heard the King was solacing at the Caspian Sea, whither now wee are travelling. Till then let us keepe an Ephemerides or day-journey.
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:
glosses: A journal or diary.
examples: text: […]Mr. Samuel got 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass; but he was forbidden on pain of death to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant, timekeeper, or any of my surveys or drawings.
ref: 1792, William Bligh, chapter 13, in A Voyage to the South Sea:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
synonyms: almanac
glosses: A table giving the apparent position of celestial bodies throughout the year; normally given as right ascension and declination.
glosses: Computer software that calculates the apparent position of celestial bodies.
Derived terms: ephemeris time
Related terms: ephemerid
ephemeride
footprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footprint
ephemeride
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɛməɹaɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Intervals of ephemeride time can be measured by means of observations of any celestial bodies whose orbital movements can be assumed to be governed by gravitational forces […]
ref: 1991, Konrad Rudnicki, The Cosmologist's Second:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or used in an ephemeris.
money market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money markets
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A market for trading short-term debt instruments, such as treasury bills, commercial paper, bankers' acceptances, and certificates of deposit.
Coordinate terms: capital market
autotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɒtəmi/
Forms: form: autotomies
Etymology: From auto- + -tomy, after German Autotomie or French autotomie.
Senses: examples: text: She has dropped it by autotomy, like the tail or claw of a fleeing lizard, lobster, or starfish.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism.
Hyponyms: tail-shedding
Derived terms: autotomic
autotomize
autotomous
immunostimulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunostimulants
Etymology: From immuno- + stimulant.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any substance that stimulates an immune response.
immunostimulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunostimulant
form: most immunostimulant
Etymology: From immuno- + stimulant.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That stimulates an immune response.
telpochcalli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telpochcallis
form: telpochcalli
form: telpochcaltin
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl telpochcalli (“house of youth”).
Senses: glosses: A school for the children of Aztec commoners.
topile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topiles
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of topil.
sent to Coventry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Now were these indecencies perpetrated by an American critic, that critic would be sent to Coventry by the whole press of the country [...]
ref: 1844, E. A. Poe, Marginalia:
text: Julie, the staff, carrying on like that. … Not speaking to you. They've sent you to Coventry.
ref: 1992, That Creeping Feeling, episode 3x02 of The Brittas Empire
glosses: simple past and past participle of send to Coventry
blue devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally apparitions supposed to be seen by sufferers of delirium tremens.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] the disease is either extinct, or exists in such a mild form that a short course of aperient medicine carries it off. It is sometimes called the Blue-devils now or the Mulleygrubs. Queer names, ain't they?"
ref: 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
glosses: Low spirits; depression.
glosses: Depressants, especially the barbiturate amobarbital.
Synonyms: sense: depression
word: mulligrubs
ostracised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ostracise
ostracised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ostracized.
Byzantium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈzæn.ti.əm/
ipa: /bɪˈzæn.ʃəm/
Etymology: From Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzắntĭon), named after its legendary founder, Byzas.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul.
glosses: An ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia, with its capital at Constantinople; in full, Byzantine Empire.
Related terms: bezant
Bezant
Byzant
Byzantine
Byzantium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈzæn.ti.əm/
ipa: /bɪˈzæn.ʃəm/
Etymology: From Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzắntĭon), named after its legendary founder, Byzas.
Senses: glosses: A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple.
kerfluffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerfluffles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kerfuffle.
simuland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simulands
Etymology: From the supine of Latin simulare. (The construction is parallel to dividend, operand, subtrahend, etc.)
Senses: glosses: A thing to be simulated.
futurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futurists
Etymology: From future + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The distinction, however, seems to be that the warriors of the past went in for tournaments, which were at least dangerous for themselves, while the Futurists go in for motor-cars, which are mainly alarming for other people.
ref: 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:
text: ‘A passion for destruction is also a creative passion.’ This statement by the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin in 1842 could have been the rallying cry of the Italian Futurists around 1910.
ref: 2005, Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
examples: text: Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.
ref: 2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237:
synonyms: futurologist
glosses: One who studies and predicts possible futures.
Derived terms: Afrofuturist
cubo-futurist
retrofuturist
futurist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more futurist
form: most futurist
Etymology: From future + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.
ref: 2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 126:
synonyms: futuristic
glosses: In the style of futurism.
Related terms: futurism
futuristic
techno-futurist
medial collateral ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medial collateral ligaments
Senses: examples: text: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
ref: 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the four main ligaments of the knee.
Related terms: anterior cruciate ligament
lateral collateral ligament
posterior cruciate ligament
Malesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Archipelago.
Senses: glosses: A biogeographical region straddling the boundaries of the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones.
glosses: A phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom.
macrame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrames
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macramé.
macrame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: macrames
form: macrameing
form: macrameed
form: macrameed
form: macramed
form: macramed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macramé.
macramé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækɹəˌmeɪ/
ipa: /məˈkɹɑːmi/
ipa: /məˈkɹɑːmeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ
Forms: form: macramés
Etymology: 1865, borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Ottoman Turkish مقرمه (makrame), from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.
Senses: examples: text: Robby is contemplating macramé.
ref: 2020 October 19, Thunderbox Entertainment, Tsuro - The Game of The Path:
glosses: A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.
macramé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækɹəˌmeɪ/
ipa: /məˈkɹɑːmi/
ipa: /məˈkɹɑːmeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ
Forms: form: macramés
form: macraméing
form: macraméed
form: macraméed
form: macraméd
form: macraméd
Etymology: 1865, borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Ottoman Turkish مقرمه (makrame), from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.
Senses: glosses: To create textiles using the macramé technique.
maidenhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪdənhɛː/
ipa: /ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ/
Forms: form: maidenhairs
form: maiden-hair
Etymology: From maiden + hair.
Senses: examples: text: He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: His fingers tore at her maidenhair. Gasping, she recoiled for long enough to allow him entry.
ref: 1979, Georgianna Bell, Passionate Jade, page 326:
text: Some said they'd seen her over by Death's-Door, with bloodstains on her dress, which was so white and transparent they were seized with shame and fear at the faint beauty of her breasts and the eternal modesty of her maidenhair.
ref: 1987, Pierre Clitandre, Cathedral of the August Heat, page 152:
text: She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.
ref: 1989, Robert Solotaroff, Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 116:
text: She turns and her small breasts are firm in the fading light, the flower of her navel, the darkening delta of her maidenhair and her thighs rising out of the water, the water tiny golden gifts against her skin;
ref: 2013, John F. Deane, Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems:
glosses: A woman's pubic hair.
examples: text: Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 178:
text: Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 115:
glosses: Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.
glosses: Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry.
Synonyms: sense: fern
word: maidenhair fern
Derived terms: climbing maidenhair fern
maidenhair moss
maidenhair spleenwort
maidenhair tree
maidenhair vine
northern maidenhair
maidenhair fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidenhair ferns
Senses: examples: text: Hissao looked at the bottle with the polite attention another son might bestow on his mother's favourite maidenhair fern, or on a pear tree […].
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 533:
glosses: Maidenhair (Adiantum spp.).
meadowlark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadowlarks
Etymology: From meadow + lark.
Senses: glosses: The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
examples: text: Your voice is like a meadowlark / But your heart is like an ocean / Mysterious and dark
ref: 1976, Bob Dylan, “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)”, in Desire:
glosses: Any of several songbirds of the genera Sturnella and Leistes, native to the Americas.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sturnella magna
word: eastern meadowlark
word: long-tailed meadowlark
word: Western meadowlark
taxonomic: Sturnella neglecta
word: western meadowlark
megabit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/
Forms: form: megabits
Etymology: From mega- + bit.
Senses: examples: text: When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.
ref: 1965, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, IBM, pages 3–27:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a mebibit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Mbps
glosses: one megabit per second
Synonyms: Mbit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: kilobit
sense: Next
word: gigabit
Derived terms: multimegabit
submegabit
Related terms: mebibyte
megabyte
megacycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacycles
Etymology: From mega- + cycle.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of megahertz.
synonyms: word: megahertz
Derived terms: kilomegacycle
multimegacycle
megalithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛɡəˈlɪθɪk/
rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after monolithic; according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word is first attested earlier than megalith. It is analysable as megalith + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
wikipedia: Oxford English Dictionary
Derived terms: premegalithic
Platon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Platons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Platon, Greek Πλάτων (Pláton) or Russian and Ukrainian Платон (Platon).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
CJKV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CKJV
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese: East Asian languages heavily influenced by the Chinese writing system and vocabulary.
Related terms: CJK
CJKV character
hanja
hanzi
kanji
Hán tự
Sino-Japanese
Sino-Korean
Sino-Vietnamese
Sino-Xenic
CKJV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of Chinese King James Version (of the Bible).
glosses: Synonym of CJKV.
synonyms: word: CJKV
occurence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of occurrence.