cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tablewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From table + -wards.
Senses: glosses: toward a table
noncollapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + collapsed.
Senses: glosses: Not collapsed.
clothespeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothespegs
Etymology: From clothes + peg.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clothes peg.
clothespegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothespeg
clothmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothmakers
Etymology: From cloth + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes cloth.
clothmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothmaker
clothmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloth + making.
Senses: glosses: The art or trade of a clothmaker.
clothesmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clothes + making.
Senses: glosses: The art or trade of a clothesmaker.
flealike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flealike
form: most flealike
Etymology: From flea + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The toy moved across the floor with flealike hops.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flea.
nonequality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonequalities
Etymology: From non- + equality.
Senses: glosses: inequality
nonequalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonequality
asparagus-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asparagus-like
form: most asparagus-like
form: asparaguslike
Etymology: From asparagus + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of asparagus.
stormtides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stormtide
hydro-ecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hydroecology.
billy cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billy carts
form: billy-cart
Etymology: From billy (“male goat”) + cart, referring to the former practice of hitching a cart behind a large goat.
Senses: examples: text: 1954 December, Rotary Reporter: Brief Items on Club Activities around the World, The Rotarian, page 38,
Whether you call them billy carts or soap-box racers, they're one and the same: homemade, four-wheeled, motorless racers that depend on a downhill course for their speed. […] In Coffs Harbour, Australia, for example, the Rotary Club recently held its third annual Billy Cart Derby for cars in two divisions: homemade racers and special championship cars.
text: It was in the billy cart, I suppose, that I had my first-ever races.
ref: 2004, Jack Brabham, Doug Nye, The Jack Brabham Story, page 19:
text: A few wheels and a crate to make a billy cart would probably be acceptable, or the odd old alarm clock, but nothing more.
ref: 2006, Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss, page 20:
text: The kids wanted a hole put in a piece of piping to make an axle for a billy-cart, but we had no drill, so Mac stood the steel pipe up against a gum tree, up with the rifle and shot a hole clean through it. The kids were delighted - they put a bolt through and screwed the nut in place and they had a billy-cart.
ref: 2007, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don't Take Your Love to Town, page 98:
glosses: A rudimentary child's cart; a soapbox car.
Related terms: go-cart
North Levantine Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of Eastern Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Syria, Lebanon, the north of Palestine, and Cyprus.
Related terms: alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/apc
word: apc
word: apc ⁠
word: South Levantine Arabic
South Levantine Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of Eastern Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Palestine, Jordan and Israel.
Related terms: alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ajp
word: ajp
word: ajp ⁠
word: North Levantine Arabic
hydroecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydro-ecology
Etymology: From hydro- + ecology.
Senses: examples: text: Ecological Studies in the Vegetation of the Near Eastern Deserts V. The Zygophylletum dumosi and Its Hydroecology in the Negev of Israel
ref: 1954, M. Zohary, G. Orshan, “Ecological Studies in the Vegetation of the Near Eastern Deserts V. The Zygophylletum dumosi and Its Hydroecology in the Negev of Israel”, in Vegetatio, volume 5/6, number 1, title, page 340:
text: Hydroecology of the grass-associations found at the dams along the Upper-Tisza
ref: 1984, Gy. Bodrogközy, “Hydroecology of the grass-associations found at the dams along the Upper-Tisza”, in Tiscia, volume XIX, title, page 89:
text: These capabilities are illustrated by examples from an application enabling the interpretation of data in hydroecology.
ref: 1991 December 24, François Guerrin, “Qualitative reasoning about an ecological process: interpretation in hydroecology”, in Ecological Modelling, volume 59, numbers 3-4, page 165:
glosses: The study of support systems in wetlands such as the interactions between water and wildlife habitats.
Related terms: hydroecological
Eastern Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Arabic dialect continuum spoken throughout the Levant.
Synonyms: Levantine Arabic
Levantine Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Arabic dialect continuum spoken throughout the Levant.
Synonyms: Eastern Arabic
Derived terms: North Levantine Arabic
South Levantine Arabic
efforting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effort
pair of stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of stairs
form: pair of stairs
Senses: examples: text: The lines snaked around the block and down a pair of stairs, into a large exhibition hall.
ref: 1995, Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis), 16 Oct. 20
glosses: A flight of stairs
Y10K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of year 10000.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Y10K bug
the world and his wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all the world and his wife
Senses: examples: text: The world and his wife were at the opening – we could barely move.
text: 1957 July 4, General Secretary, The Textile Institute, A Guide to Careers: No. 32: Textile Technology, New Scientist, page 42,
The world and his wife are the customers for whom the textile industry supplies the greatest necessity next to food, and some of the greatest luxuries.
text: The punk explosion of 1977 prompted the world and his wife to pick up guitars, just as they had grabbed washboards in the skiffle era 20 years before.
ref: 1986 April, Jessica Berens, “Scots on the Rocks”, in Spin, page 29:
text: 1972 (1905), Natsume Sōseki, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson (translators), I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である), Volume 2, 2002, combined edition, page 187,
“ […] But they have to consider what the world and his wife will say, and when dealing with the world one simply cannot be too careful.”
text: “Why not just hire a crier to go around the city, telling all the world and his wife — all the world and our wives — we had our turns riding Connie to hounds?”
ref: 1998, Kasey Michaels, Indiscreet, published 2000, page 229:
text: 2001, advertisement, quoted in 2001, Guy Cook, The Discourse of Advertising, page 112,
Gripping stuff, Subaru four-wheel drive. The world and his wife′s favourite in fact.
synonyms: all the world and Little Billing
glosses: Everyone; a great crowd; a jumbled assortment of people.
cremosin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cremosin
form: most cremosin
Senses: examples: text: Early before the Morne with cremosin ray, / The windowes of bright heauen opened had […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of crimson.
designment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designments
Etymology: From design + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The second Bulwarke was the Hearing sence, / Gainst which the second troupe dessignment makes [...]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 21:
glosses: One's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking.
designments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of designment
grisy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grisy
form: most grisy
Etymology: From grise + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast, / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Grim, grisly.
grisy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grisy
form: most grisy
Etymology: From gris + -y.
Senses: examples: text: So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Grey; grizzled.
vermuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermuths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vermouth.
vermuths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermuth
Enlil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀭𒂗𒆤 (ᴰEN.LIL)
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: A chief deity listed and written about in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets; the god of breath, wind, loft, and breadth.
An
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anu.
Nippur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Sumer, modern Nuffar in Afak Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq.
Sargon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew סַרְגוֹן (Sargón) (Isaiah 20:1), from Akkadian Šarrum-kīn.
Senses: glosses: An Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE.
glosses: Either of two Assyrian kings.
Sargonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sargon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Sargon of Akkad or Assyria
Enûma Eliš
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Enûma Elish
form: Enuma Elish
Etymology: Transliteration of Akkadian 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺 (Enūma Eliš, literally “when on high”); named after its opening words.
Senses: glosses: The ancient Babylonian creation myth.
wikipedia: Enûma Eliš
Enûma Elish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Enûma Eliš.
Enuma Elish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Enûma Eliš.
cyclopentadienone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopentadienones
Etymology: From cyclopentadiene + -one.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
The availability of diazaphencyclone (DAPC) has allowed the cyclopentadienone methodology to be used for attaching the 1,10-phenanthroline ligand onto molracs.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Am unsaturated alicyclic ketone derived from cyclopentadiene; any derivative of this compound
Anshar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anshur
Senses: qualifier: Akkadian mythology
glosses: A sky god.
Anshur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anshar.
decacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛkəˈsaɪklɪk/
Etymology: From deca- + cyclic.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Further reaction of quadricyclane with the cyclobutene-1,2-diester system of 9 produces the decacyclic system 7, in which each terminus contains a 3,4-dihydro variant of Smith’s diene.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any molecule having ten rings
Kishar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In Akkadian mythology, the daughter of Lahmu and Lahamu, the first children of Tiamat and Apsu.
Apsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abzu
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀊𒍪
Senses: qualifier: Sumerian mythology; Akkadian mythology; Sumerian mythology; Akkadian mythology
glosses: Fresh water from underground aquifers that was given a religious quality.
Abzu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Apsu.
Lahmu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laḫmu
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Akkadian mythology, a protective and beneficent deity, the first-born son of Apsu and Tiamat.
Laḫmu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lahmu.
Lahamu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laḫamu
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Akkadian mythology, a protective and beneficent deity, the first-born daughter of Apsu and Tiamat.
Laḫamu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lahamu.
Enki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnki/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀭𒂗𒆠 (ᵈen-ki /⁠Enki⁠/, literally “lord of the earth”), though this translation is disputed. More at Enki.
Senses: examples: text: Enki was an en who just happened to be especially good at his job.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 372:
qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
wikipedia: Enki
Related terms: Enkidu
Eridu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You got it. He created an archaeology department whose sole function was to dig up the city of Eridu, locate the temple where Enki stored all of his me, and take it all home.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 380:
glosses: An ancient Sumerian city in modern Iraq; modern Tell Abu Shahrain.
Kur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sumerian 𒆳 (kur, “mountain; netherworld”).
Senses: glosses: A mountain or mountains, usually identified as the Zagros mountains to the east of Sumer.
synonyms: Arali
Irkalla
Kigal
Kukku
glosses: In Sumerian mythology, a dark shadowy underworld, located deep below the surface of the earth.
Kur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kur
Senses: examples: text: In the mountains near Suram is a watering-place called Burjan, to which the Imperial Lieutenant of the Caucasus retires in summer. The river Kur, the ancient Cyrus, takes its rise in that district.
ref: 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 321:
glosses: Alternative form of the Kur: a river in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Kur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kur terms
Anunnaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ananaki
form: Anukki
form: Anunna
form: Anunnaku
form: Enukki
form: Annunaki
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: A group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities in no known particular order including but not limited to Enki, Enlil, Ninlil and 'known as the fourth' Enbilulu.
qualifier: conspiracy theories
glosses: An extraterrestrial reptilian race supposed to originate from a hidden planet called "Niburu", thought to be the overlords of a secret world government and equated with the Nephilim by conspiracy theorists.
Anunna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anunnaki.
Anunnaku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anunnaki.
Ananaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Anunnaki.
Hammourabi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hammurabi.
Nabopolassar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Akkadian 𒀭𒀝𒌉𒍑𒋀 (Nabû-apla-uṣur, “O Nabu, protect the heir”).
Senses: glosses: The first king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who lived c.658 – 605 B.C.E.
Ninhursag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ninḫarsag
form: Ninḫursaĝ
form: Ninḫursaĝa
Etymology: Borrowed from Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀭𒎏𒄯𒊕 (Ninḫursaĝ).
Senses: examples: text: 1963 [Penguin Books], S. H. Hooke, Middle Eastern Mythology, 2004, Dover Publications, page 33,
The protagonists are the god Enki, the water-god, and the goddess Ninhursag, the earth-mother. […] The Myth goes on to relate that from the union of Enki and Ninhursag is born Ninsar, or Ninmu, the goddess of plants. Ninhursag′s period of gestation is described as lasting nine days, a day for each month of human gestation.
text: In six texts of this corpus the goddess Ninḫursag appears, and of these six texts, only one records an issue exclusively for the goddess,¹⁷¹ the other issues are for Ninḫursag with other goddesses or with Dagan, the only male god to accompany her in any of the documents.
ref: 2003, Lluís Feliu, translated by Wilfred G. E. Watson, The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria, BRILL, page 91:
text: 2019, Steve Tinney, Enki and Ninhursag, Steve Tinney, Karen Sonik (editors), Journey to the City: A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum, Penn Museum, page 85,
As the text continues, Enki copulates with Ninhursag and she gives birth to a vegetation goddess named Ninnisig. Enki, seeing Ninnisig and desiring her, copulates with her as well, and she gives birth to another goddess, whom Enki also impregnates. The pattern continues until Ninhursag intervenes;
synonyms: Damgalnuna
Ninmah
qualifier: Sumerian mythology
glosses: The Sumerian earth and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer.
Kish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient city of Sumer, located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad.
Related terms: Aga
Ashur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Assur
form: Aššur
Senses: glosses: the head of the Assyrian pantheon, later identified with Anshar
glosses: the city of Assur
glosses: A male given name of Assyrian usage.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a grandson of Noah in Genesis
Aššur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ashur.
Assur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aššur
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”).
Senses: glosses: One of the ancient capitals of Assyria, in modern Iraq.
glosses: The chief deity of that city (see Ashur).
Ninlil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: In Sumerian mythology, the consort goddess of Enlil.
cat piss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + piss. The marijuana sense is from the perceived resemblance of the smell.
Senses: glosses: Any beverage of low quality.
glosses: Marijuana.
suck donkey cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks donkey cock
form: sucking donkey cock
form: sucked donkey cock
form: sucked donkey cock
Senses: glosses: To be terrible, to be of extremely poor quality.
Synonyms: suck
suck donkey balls
suck ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks ass
form: sucking ass
form: sucked ass
form: sucked ass
form: suck arse
Senses: glosses: To be terrible; be of extremely poor quality.
Synonyms: suck
suck donkey balls
suck cock
suck balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks balls
form: sucking balls
form: sucked balls
form: sucked balls
Senses: examples: text: "This paper sucks balls," Francesca interjected when she did her math homework.
glosses: to be terrible; be of extremely poor quality.
Synonyms: suck
suck a big one
suck cock
suck donkey balls
suck tits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks tits
form: sucking tits
form: sucked tits
form: sucked tits
Senses: glosses: To be terrible, to be of extremely poor quality.
Synonyms: suck
suck balls
Shamash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Šamaš
Etymology: From Akkadian Šamaš, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *śamš-. Compare shin.
Senses: glosses: The sun god and god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.
Šamaš
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Shamash.
knob-gobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob-gobblers
Etymology: From knob + gobbler.
Senses: synonyms: word: knob polisher
word: cock gobbler
glosses: Synonym of cock gobbler.
Harran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a district of Şanlıurfa Province in the southeast of Turkey
glosses: an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, which was a major Assyrian commercial, cultural, and religious center
Derived terms: Harranian
Harran fringe-toed lizard
knob-gobblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knob-gobbler
Sippar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, some 60 km north of Babylon, in what is now Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq.
Aya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aja
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: In Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.
glosses: 55565 Aya, a trans-Neptunian object and likely dwarf planet; named after said goddess.
Aya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aja
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あや (Aya).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Aja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aya (“Akkadian mother goddess”).
Aja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Adja
glosses: A people living in parts of Benin and Togo.
Aja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Adja
glosses: The language of these people, part of the Gbe dialect continuum.
Aja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of South Sudan.
Aja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Adja
Ajja
glosses: A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Sudan.
mimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology: From Arabic مِيم (mīm) (the Arabic letter corresponding to M) + -ation, after nunation.
Senses: glosses: The addition of an -m suffix to the vocalic case markers (/a/, /i/ and /u/) in Semitic languages, especially Akkadian.
Related terms: mimated
non-mimated
nunation
rip the piss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rips the piss
form: ripping the piss
form: ripped the piss
form: ripped the piss
Etymology: From take the piss.
Senses: glosses: To ridicule or mock severely.
coalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coalises
form: coalising
form: coalised
form: coalised
form: coalize
Senses: glosses: to form into a coalition; to coalesce.
coalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coalise
coalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coalizes
form: coalizing
form: coalized
form: coalized
form: coalise
Senses: glosses: To form into a coalition; to coalesce.
coalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coalize
coalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coalize
coalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coalize
cloner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloners
Etymology: From clone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We set up a meeting with the factor VIII gene cloners at the Genetics Institute, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ref: 2012, Haig H. Kazazian, Moyra Smith, Nicholas Wright Gillham, Genetic Breakthroughs:
glosses: Someone who clones something.
examples: text: Higher-end hard disk cloners have the ability to create multiple copies simultaneously.
ref: 2014, Darren R. Hayes, A Practical Guide to Computer Forensics Investigations:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software program that duplicates media.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device capable of duplicating physical objects.
coalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coalise
coalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coalise
cloqué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloqués
form: cloque
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloque.
cloque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒ.keɪ/
ipa: /kloʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkloʊˌkeɪ/
Forms: form: cloques
form: cloqué
form: cloky
Etymology: From French cloqué (“blistered”).
Senses: glosses: A fabric with an embossed design
cloques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloque
zome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊm/
ipa: /zoʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: zomes
Etymology: Blend of zonohedron + dome, coined by Steve Durkee in 1968.
Senses: glosses: A building with unusual geometry.
cloners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloner
colleter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colleters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colletor.
flipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And ever as he read the tale
 Of love—rare smile and bended knee—
The wind came by and flipt the page,
 And whispered something of the sea.
ref: 1905, Theodore Roberts, The Independent, volume LIX, page 38:
glosses: simple past and past participle of flip
territorial pissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: territorial pissings
Senses: glosses: In animals, the habit of urinating on an area to mark territory.
glosses: Any territorial behaviour exhibited by humans.
azopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azopolymers
Etymology: From azo- + polymer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer of an azo compound, especially those used in thin films that have specialized optical properties
finisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: finish + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finish
Derived terms: unfinisht
azopolymers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azopolymer
happend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of happened.
dequantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dequantizes
form: dequantizing
form: dequantized
form: dequantized
Etymology: From de- + quantize.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: To convert a digital signal to an analog one.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To treat a quantum mechanical system in terms of classical mechanics.
duadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duad + -ic.
Senses: glosses: dyadic
fluidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluidifications
Etymology: From fluid + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result, of fluidifying.
Derived terms: rheofluidification
leptonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lepton + -less.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That does not involve leptons
photoperturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoperturbations
form: photo-perturbation
Etymology: From photo- + perturbation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The disruption to the activity of a physical or chemical system by light
trap in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traps in
form: trapped in
form: trapping in
form: trapping in
Senses: examples: text: When Corker trapped in Monte put her ring in the hatch of the pigeon clock[.]
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 120:
glosses: Of a pigeon, to enter the loft after returning from a race or training flight.
intrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intraps
form: intrapping
form: intrapped
form: intrapped
Senses: examples: text: many wilde beasts liggen in waite , For to intrap in thy tender state
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: Oh, 'twas an idle lying one, Pisaro, And came but to intrap me.
ref: 1915, Aphra Behn, The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:
text: The robbers had probably taken out one hundred dollars for present use, and fifty for the snare which was to intrap the captain of the yacht.
ref: 1868, Oliver Optic, Freaks of Fortune:
text: As Mocenas in the latter end of his dayes was seuen yeres without sleepe, so these seuen weekes haue I took no slumber, my eyes haue kept continuall watch against the diuell my enemie: death I deemed my frend (frends flie from vs in aduersitie), death, the diuell & al the ministring spirits of temptation are watching about thee to intrap thy soule by my abuse to eternall damnation.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
glosses: Archaic spelling of entrap.
semiheuristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + heuristic.
Senses: glosses: Partially heuristic
sterinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sterino
sterino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sterinos
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: sterile Dirac fermion
Derived terms: antisterino
steron
antisterino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisterinos
Etymology: From anti- + sterino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a sterino
kapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kape
photoperturbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoperturbation
klets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klet
Dirac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dɪˈræk/
Etymology: From the French surname Dirac, probably from the French town by that name in Charente, from Medieval Latin Adiraco, Dyracum, from a Gallo-Roman name, Latin Atirius (a derivative of Atilius), or alternatively a Frankish/Germanic name [Term?], in either case with the common Gallo-Roman nominal suffix -acum.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
wikipedia: Dirac, Charente
Derived terms: Dirac comb
Dirac delta function
Dirac equation
Dirac fermion
Dirac field
Dirac Hamiltonian
Dirac monopole
Dirac notation
Dirac particle
Dirac point
Dirac wave function
Fermi-Dirac distribution
Fermi-Dirac statistics
Kapitza-Dirac effect
Related terms: Paul Dirac
British physicist
Dirac fermion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dirac fermions
Etymology: Named after English physicist Paul Dirac.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any fermion that is not its own antiparticle
Dirac fermions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dirac fermion
catch one's breath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches one's breath
form: catching one's breath
form: caught one's breath
form: caught one's breath
Senses: examples: text: They stood for a moment at the end of the set to catch their breath before resuming play.
glosses: to take a break, or rest while doing a strenuous activity, so that one's breathing becomes easier
examples: text: John caught his breath when he saw the bottle rolling unstoppably towards the opposite edge of the table.
glosses: to take in a breath sharply and hold it, usually in reaction to a sudden shock, or surprise
cryptologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryptology.
Synonyms: cryptological
cryptological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryptology.
Synonyms: cryptologic
lapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lap
mistend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistends
form: mistending
form: mistended
form: mistended
Etymology: From mis- + tend.
Senses: examples: text: All over asia, one sees disease and bodily injury so untended, or what is worse, mistended, that the resultant condition is as dreadfu as it is intolerable.·
ref: 1907, Arthur Judson Brown, The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World Movement, page 365:
text: In the R. G. Winslow the vessel was being loaded with grain from an elevator, the grain flowing into the ship by its own gravity through a pipe which was mistended on board the vessel by the mate, as a result of which mistending some of the grain was lost.
ref: 1939, Gustavus Hill Robinson, Handbook of Admiralty Law in the United States, page 492:
text: They freely employed the techniques of the carnival and the stage, with accomplices planted in the crowd, prearranged mistending of the fire to darken the scene at the crucial moment, and so on.
ref: 1997, Philip Morrison, Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True, page 55:
text: The long view of the place as tended and mistended by generations of precursors allows him to inhabit it with awareness and care.
ref: 2014, Nigel Wood, David Lodge, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: To tend poorly
stinkest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stink + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stink
overtrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtrades
form: overtrading
form: overtraded
form: overtraded
Etymology: From over- + trade.
Senses: glosses: To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them
glosses: to overstock the market.
Derived terms: overtrader
overtrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtrades
Etymology: From over- + trade.
Bruceploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bruce (“Bruce Lee”) + -sploitation.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
media
military
politics
sports
television
war
glosses: A genre of exploitation film that exploits the legacy of Bruce Lee through copycats.
Related terms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: chopsocky
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: wire fu
nake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: nakes
form: naking
form: naked
form: naked
Etymology: From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷ- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse nǫkkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.
Senses: examples: text: Come, be ready, nake your swords.
ref: 1606, Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, act 4, scene 4:
glosses: To make naked; to bare.
Synonyms: expose
reveal
nipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: nip + -t
Senses: examples: text: […] the young shoots of the still hardier ivy, nipt and destroyed by an accidental night's frost in the early summer.
ref: 1852, James Rennie, George Glenny, The flower garden, its arrangement, cultivation and general management, page 61:
glosses: simple past and past participle of nip
oppas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppa
take someone's breath away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes someone's breath away
form: taking someone's breath away
form: took someone's breath away
form: taken someone's breath away
Senses: examples: text: The view from the top, over the sea to the islands, simply takes your breath away.
text: When he asked me to marry him, it took my breath away.
glosses: To make a person feel emotionally moved in a pleasant way.
Related terms: breathtaking
overmake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmakes
form: overmaking
form: overmade
form: overmade
Etymology: From over- + make.
Senses: glosses: To make over or anew; recreate; remake.
glosses: To make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo.
overmake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmakes
Etymology: From over- + make.
Senses: glosses: That which is overmade; make-over.
glosses: An oversupply; surplus.
perst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perse
popt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop
puft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pufts
form: pufting
form: pufted
form: pufted
Etymology: From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.
Senses: glosses: To puff.
puft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pufts
Etymology: From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.
Senses: glosses: A puff.
rekt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕkt
ipa: /ɹɛkt/
homophone: wrecked
rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology: Phonetic respelling.
Senses: examples: text: Get rekt!
text: M8, u just got rekt bru, lol
text: Although investors who entered the market in 2018 got “rekt,” those who invested a year earlier experienced astounding gains.
ref: 2019, Mark Grabowski, Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money, Routledge, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: video-games
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of wrecked.
Derived terms: get rekt
texases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of texas
snapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When the orders to embark for Sicily arrived, and the soldier was to exchange the luxurious ease of Campania for a third campaign certainly not inferior to those of Spain and Thessaly in point of hardship, the reins, which had been too long relaxed and were too suddenly tightened, snapt asunder.
ref: 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V:
text: The magnetism of this marvellous interpreter had caught up himself, and me with him, into Dreamland, from which we gently descended at the end of Part VI., and "the spell was snapt."
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861:
text: The king was in his counting-house Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlour Eating bread and honey; The maid was in the garden Hanging out the clothes, There came a little blackbird, And snapt off her nose.
ref: 1897, Unknown, The Nursery Rhyme Book:
glosses: simple past and past participle of snap
snikt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: [Wolverine:] It seems you didn't get my meaning, friend.
[Wolverine:] This is still a free country, isn't it?
[sound effect:] SNIKT!
ref: 1975 May, Len Wein (writer), Dave Cockrum (illustrator), John Costanza (letterer), “Second Genesis!”, in Giant-Size X-Men, number 1, page 8:
text: Hasbro kicks off the convention with a snikt!
ref: 2009 February 15, Scott Collura, “Toy Fair 09: Wolverine, Iron Man, and Spectacular Spidey”, in IGN:
text: However, there’s a lot more to this grisly Canuck’s story than just the “snikt” sound effect.
ref: 2018 July 25, Peyton Hinckle, “Snikt To The Man: All Of Wolverine’s Abilities, Officially Ranked”, in CBR.com:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The sound of Wolverine's claws emerging.
stampt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His unsettled affections, wavering with his vanity, Maria’s decided attachment—and no sufficient principle on either side, gave it possibility—Miss Crawford’s letter stampt it a fact.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 285:
glosses: simple past and past participle of stamp
hindre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hindres
form: hindring
form: hindred
form: hindred
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hinder.
hinderest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hinder + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hinder
scheiße
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With all due respect for your opinion, your comment above is chock full of scheiße, which is, by the way, not the German word for cheese.
ref: 2001 February 5, Rocky Frisco, “Re: Front of Rear Wheel Drive?”, in alt.autos.mini (Usenet):
text: You mean I spent a couple hours reading about this piece-of-scheiße campus and then writing about it, and NOBODY has anything to say?
ref: 2002 February 14, rktectcdm, “Re: Soka in Architecture magazine”, in alt.architecture (Usenet):
text: Well, you just made this same argument you Zionist piece of scheiße!!
ref: 2004 July 6, Rodger, “Re: Islamofascists: "Krag 'em and bag 'em."”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of scheisse.
liefest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lief: most lief
rief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riefs
Etymology: See reaf and reave.
Senses: examples: text: [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
ref: 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10
text: here the record is quite defaced and worn out, insomuch that only the words of the charge, viz. extortions, insolvencies, riefs, and oppressions, can be discovered
ref: 1822, Alexander Peterkin, Notes on Orkney and Zetland, page 61:
text: Murders, riefs, and spoliations became more common on the Borders after this raid than they had ever been before.
ref: 1884, James Taylor, The Pictorial History of Scotland, volume 2, page 133:
glosses: Alternative form of reif (“robbery”).
tennist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennists
Etymology: From tennis + -ist.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A tennis player
tipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tip
springest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: spring + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of spring
tuite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
verneuk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verneuks
form: verneuking
form: verneuked
form: verneuked
Senses: examples: text: Ja, he had been fooled and it was not pleasant for a man to go home and tell his wife that he been verneuked.
ref: 1940, Penguin Parade (issue 7, page 25)
glosses: To cheat or deceive.
Savo-Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Savo-Finnish
form: most Savo-Finnish
Senses: examples: The Savo-Finnish name Vaananen was, at an early period in New Sweden, written Vaenam and later Vanneman which name is frequently found now in Pennsylvania … (Genealogia.fi, "The Finns in America. The First Settlers")
glosses: Alternative form of Savo Finnish.
gip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gips
form: gipping
form: gipped
form: gipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyp.
gip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gips
Senses: examples: text: The girls seldom passed her without her saying, “Move faster, you black gip!” at the same time giving them a blow with the cowskin over the head or shoulders, often drawing the blood.
ref: 1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, page 35:
glosses: A servant; a gyp.
gip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gips
form: gipping
form: gipped
form: gipped
Senses: glosses: To take out the entrails of (herrings).
examples: text: Bi Gow, it stinks enuff to mek thee gip does that!
glosses: to retch
Derived terms: gipper
werke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: werkes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of work.
wisse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: wisses
form: wissing
form: wissed
form: wissed
Etymology: From Middle English wissen (“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”), from Old English wisian (“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”). Related to wise and more remotely to wit. See Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).
Senses: glosses: To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
Related terms: to wisse
schmelze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Schmelz, Schmelzglas.
Senses: synonyms: Schmelz glass
glosses: A kind of ruby-red glass made in Bohemia.
neoterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɒtəˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /niˈɑtəˌɹaɪz/
Forms: form: neoterizes
form: neoterizing
form: neoterized
form: neoterized
form: neoterise
Etymology: Since the 1870s; from Ancient Greek νεωτερίζω (neōterízō, “to (forcibly) innovate; to revolutionize”) (from νεώτερος (neṓteros, “newer”)). By surface analysis, neoteric + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To neologize, to coin as a new word.
glosses: To modernize.
Related terms: neoterically
neoterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neoterises
form: neoterising
form: neoterised
form: neoterised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English spelling of neoterize.
Merope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μερόπη (Merópē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A queen of Messenia and daughter of Cypselus, king of Arcadia.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus known as the Pleiades.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A subregion of Thrace in modern Northern Greece and southern Bulgaria, in the 14th-century Balkans.
konk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: konks
form: konking
form: konked
form: konked
Senses: examples: text: Back in the day, guys came here to be a part of a dynamic scene — they moshed, smoked, maybe got konked on the head with a beer can.
ref: 2008 May 8, Mike Albo, “Backstage All-Access Passwear”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of conk.
konk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: konks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conk (“hairstyle”).
land grant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land grants
form: land-grant
Etymology: Circa 1860.
Senses: glosses: A grant of land by the US government to encourage the development of western states, especially land transportation and practical higher education.
Derived terms: land-grant college