cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
high roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ ˈɹəʊlə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ ˈɹoʊlɚ/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: high rollers
form: high-roller
Etymology: A reference to a gambler rolling dice.
Senses: examples: text: They were all "high rollers" against faro, had plenty of money, and, if the cards came favorably, would "chaw up" a bank in double-quick time.
ref: 1873, [John O’Connor], “Inventors”, in John Morris, editor, Wanderings of a Vagabond. An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Published by the author, →OCLC, page 178:
text: Before long, Zarin developed a reputation as an extravagant "high roller" who routinely bet the house maximum while playing craps, his game of choice. Considered a "valued gaming patron" by Resorts, Zarin had his credit limit increased at regular intervals without any further credit checks, and was provided a number of complimentary services and privileges.
ref: 1990 October 10, Robert Cowen (Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit), Zarin v. Commissioner, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2017, 916 F. 2d 110:
text: He was a bigger net yield than any two or three girls because a satisfied woman was far more generous than a depleted john. And frequently, Rocco owed a high-roller a favor and the girl came back with nothing.
ref: 2005, Joseph Levy, High Roller: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Chief among the dire presentiments was the suggestion that the ascension of Labour to power would result in Radiohead ceasing touring and instead taking up a residency at a Las Vegas resort. The image of Thom Yorke serenading Sin City's high rollers with a rousing chorus of Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors was mind-boggling, but you could see why some press went on the offensive.
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2017:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A gambler who wagers large amounts of money, usually in a casino.
examples: text: The "Baron" bowed. This was a new complication, but it was all in the day's work. Of course, the whole thing was plain enough. Fatty Welch was "working" some swell guys who thought he was a real high-roller. Maybe he was going to pull off some kind of a job that very evening. Perhaps this big chap in the swagger flannels was one of the gang. Barney was thinking hard. Well, he'd take the tip and play the hand out.
ref: 1905 September, Arthur [Cheney] Train, “The Extraordinary Adventure of the Baron de Ville”, in McAllister and His Double, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 59:
synonyms: two week millionaire
glosses: One who has a lot of money and lives luxuriously.
Related terms: whale
high-roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-rollers
Senses: examples: text: The "Baron" bowed. This was a new complication, but it was all in the day's work. Of course, the whole thing was plain enough. Fatty Welch was "working" some swell guys who thought he was a real high-roller. Maybe he was going to pull off some kind of a job that very evening. Perhaps this big chap in the swagger flannels was one of the gang. Barney was thinking hard. Well, he'd take the tip and play the hand out.
ref: 1905 September, Arthur [Cheney] Train, “The Extraordinary Adventure of the Baron de Ville”, in McAllister and His Double, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 59:
text: He was a bigger net yield than any two or three girls because a satisfied woman was far more generous than a depleted john. And frequently, Rocco owed a high-roller a favor and the girl came back with nothing.
ref: 2005, Joseph Levy, High Roller: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of high roller.
polyphase circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphase circuits
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of alternating current circuits having two or more interrelated voltages, usually of equal amplitudes, phase differences, and periods, etc; if a neutral conductor exists, the voltages referenced to the neutral are equal in amplitude and phase; the most common version is that of 3-phase, equal in amplitude with phases 120 degrees apart.
showoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from show off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show-off.
showoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showoff
shot-putting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of competing in the track and field event of putting the shot, attempting to throw a heavy metal ball for maximum distance using a pushing motion (rather than a bent arm throw) due to the balls great weight.
shriveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shriveled
form: most shriveled
form: shrivelled
Senses: examples: text: A prune is a shriveled plum.
glosses: Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
examples: text: Her lips looked too shriveled to close over her teeth.
glosses: Collapsed in size.
Related terms: word: dried up
shriveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrivelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrivel
Related terms: word: shrivel up
word: dry up
juggernauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juggernaut
frate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian frate. Doublet of friar.
Senses: glosses: A friar.
univalve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Originated 1655–65 from uni- (“one”) + valve.
Senses: glosses: having one valve; typically used to refer to mollusks, notably slugs and snails.
glosses: consisting of a single valve or piece, used to refer to a shell.
univalve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: univalves
Etymology: Originated 1655–65 from uni- (“one”) + valve.
Senses: glosses: A univalve mollusk or its shell.
Synonyms: gastropod
Coordinate terms: bivalve
Related terms: bivalve
univalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of univalve
dexter chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dexter chiefs
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The upper left corner of the shield (from the viewer's perspective).
dionysia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dionysias
Senses: glosses: The orgiastic Ancient Greek festivals seasonally held in honor of Dionysus, which evolved into Greek comedy and tragedy.
Related terms: bacchanalia
saturnalia
Dionysus
Bacchus
calligrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calligram
rigamarole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigamaroles
Senses: examples: text: Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole.
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, The Monster:
text: A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.
ref: 1914, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Crime and Punishment, part II, ch 4:
text: Then I figured he'd missed my point, and I went through the whole blamed rigamarole again, and it ended the same way, with Tweel on his nose in the middle of my picture!
ref: 1934, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey:
text: They don't know the meaning of water nor soap
I don't have time for the rigamarole
ref: 2025, “Type Dangerous”, performed by Mariah Carey:
glosses: Alternative form of rigmarole.
gaumless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔːm.ləs/
rhymes: -ɔːmləs
Senses: examples: text: "What could put secna gaumless notion as that into yer heed?" "A gaumless notion!" iterated Spour, putting on a look of sincerity offended.
ref: 1835, “Derwentwater”, in The new British Novelist:
text: […] an' shoo held up a bonny little lad abaat two days old, 'at stared at him as gaumless as gaumless could be, […]
ref: 1872, John Hartley, Yorkshire ditties, series 1 (reprint), page 126
text: Oh, he'll call; does ta think 'at he's as gaumless as thee?
ref: 1902, Arthur Smith, The Doin's O' Jim O' Doads: Sketches of Lancashire Life, page 60:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gormless.
Derived terms: gaumlessness
gawmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Jenny, bring him a cheer, lass. Thae stons theer as gawmless as a boother-stone!"
ref: 1881, Edwin Waugh, Tufts of Heather, volume 1, page 201:
text: Ye see I wor as gawmless as our 'Arriet when I wor a lass, but I mended faster.
ref: 1916, William Riley, Netherleigh, page 132:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gormless.
acquiesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acquiesce
scenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scenically
form: most scenically
Etymology: From scenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a scenic manner.
glosses: Concerning scenes.
re-surveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + surveillance.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A follow-up sub rosa investigation after an unsuccessful or unfruitful covert investigation.
schismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /skɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ʃɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /skɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /sɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [sɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ʃɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /skɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [skɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: schismatick
Etymology: From Middle English scismatik with etymological respelling, from Middle French scismatique, from Latin schismaticus, from Ancient Greek σχισματικός (skhismatikós), from σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”). The music sense is based on schisma, from the same ultimate Greek source; compare schism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to a schism.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to a schisma.
examples: text: schismatic opinions or proposals
glosses: Divisive.
Derived terms: schismatic temperament
schismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /skɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ʃɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /skɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /sɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [sɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ʃɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /skɪzˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [skɪzˈmæɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: schismatics
form: schismatick
Etymology: From Middle English scismatik with etymological respelling, from Middle French scismatique, from Latin schismaticus, from Ancient Greek σχισματικός (skhismatikós), from σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”). The music sense is based on schisma, from the same ultimate Greek source; compare schism.
Senses: examples: text: He semeth a sysmatyke
Or els an heretike,
For fayth in hym is faynte.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 17–19:
text: Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person involved in a schism.
schisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schismas
form: skhisma
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin schisma, from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”), whence the orthographic borrowing skhisma. Doublet of schism.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A very small interval equal to half a comma.
Derived terms: schismatic temperament
schizoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtsɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈskɪdzɔɪd/
Forms: form: more schizoid
form: most schizoid
Etymology: From schiz(ophrenia)- + -oid, from German, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) and εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: examples: text: Abstract symbol systems, such as mathematics, are especially valuable for object-seeking for schizoid personalities. By means of such symbolizations, object contact may be sought and obtained, while at the same time a psychological distance may be maintained between self and other; it is virtually impossible to have a personal relationship and at the same time to maintain such distance.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Characterized by social withdrawal and emotional coldness or flattened affectivity.
glosses: Schizophrenic.
examples: text: Babits himself never fully lived up to this program; indeed, the declaration itself shows his schizoid attitude toward poetry: he wants to say out loud that he does not want to be heard.
ref: 1972, Roy Temple House, Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad, volume 46, page 32:
text: I continued to live a schizoid existence—working as a schoolteacher, molding myself into what I imagined was a traditional male image […] — but I couldn't fool myself. I was a queer in lumberjack drag.
ref: 1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 10:
glosses: Behaving as if one has more than one personality; wildly changeable or unpredictable.
Derived terms: schizoidism
schizoid psychopathy
schizoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtsɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈskɪdzɔɪd/
Forms: form: schizoids
Etymology: From schiz(ophrenia)- + -oid, from German, from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) and εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Someone with schizoid personality disorder.
glosses: Someone with schizophrenia.
Sta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sta.
Senses: glosses: station
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Santa (“saint”).
Sta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sta.
Senses: glosses: Santa
schizoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizoid
schismas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schisma
schismatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schismatic
schmaltzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃmɒltsi/
Forms: form: schmaltzier
form: schmaltziest
form: schmalzy
form: shmaltzy
Etymology: From schmaltz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: During a series of interviews, Franzen expressed ambivalence about Oprah’s endorsement—[…] that he had found a few of her choices in the past “schmaltzy” and “one-dimensional.”
ref: 2018 June 26, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “In France, it has the reputation of being a typically American mixture of clichés and of schmaltz,” he wrote in an email. “Clichés about us don’t interest us, and the French are not very schmaltzy.”
ref: 2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, quoting Gérard Araud, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
Derived terms: schmaltzily
schmaltziness
schussboomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schussboomers
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A fast downhill skier.
Related terms: schuss
paramania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Senses: examples: text: Diagnoses were listed primarily as variant forms of mania, e.g., acute, sub-acute, chronic, recurrent, and pure paramania
ref: 1982, The Nebraska Medical Journal, page 133:
text: He likes protests, all kinds. I think there's a scientific term for that: paramania.
ref: 1998, Debra Monroe, Newfangled: A Novel, →ISBN, page 204:
text: Among the basic symptoms that he considered to be rather specific and permanent, he included four groups. The first was derived from dissociation of thinking (incoherence, condensation of ideas, tendency to stereotypic thinking, poverty of ideas and other thinking disorders); the second group was derived from inappropriate affect (absence of or blunted affect, paraphrenia and paramania); the third was derived from ambivalence (in sentiments, volition, and cognition); the fourth group comprised all the descriptive features of autism.
ref: 2012, Anthony Kales, Costas N. Stefanis, John A. Talbott, Recent Advances in Schizophrenia, →ISBN, pages 28–29:
glosses: An uncontrollable urge to complain.
Related terms: paramaniac
scorbutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scorbutic
form: most scorbutic
form: scorbutical
Etymology: From early New Latin scorbūticus (“pertaining to scurvy”), from scorbūtus (“scurvy”), from French scorbut, of Germanic origin.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from scurvy.
Derived terms: scorbic
scorbutically
screenwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenwritings
Etymology: From screen + writing.
Senses: glosses: The art of writing screenplays.
examples: text: Devine's script, while able, had betrayed an amateur's disregard for montage — a trait it shared with the screenwritings of John Elder; […]
ref: 2009, Denis Meikle, A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, page 142:
glosses: A screenplay.
Related terms: screenwriter
paramaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: paramaniacs
Senses: examples: text: Again, he that has studied the delusions of the paramaniac or the general progressive paretic, must acknowledge how great is the resemblance as regards the double consciousness with its resulting delusions observable in those types of insanity and a certain stage of hypnotism.
ref: 1890, The Epitome of Medicine:
text: J. W., age 24, paramaniac was a patient in 1892, when I was a physician at the Insane hospital.
ref: 1895, The Kansas City Medical Index-lancet - Volume 16, page 35:
text: She is always confessing to some terrible thing, like being an addict of some sort, a drug addict, a sex addict, a food addict, a chocaholic, an alcoholic, a kleptoholic, a paramaniac obsessive or whatever.
ref: 2003, Dotun Adebayo, West Side Stories, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: a person suffering from paramania.
examples: text: Strife today is also created. It generates because it is wished, giving expressions to paramaniac and suicidal tendencies in us.
ref: 1977, Oh Calcutta - Volume 6, page 31:
text: Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.
ref: 2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: a person who is obsessed with complaining; one who complains.
paramaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramaniac
scroungy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scroungier
form: scroungiest
Etymology: From scrounge + -y.
Senses: glosses: dirty or shabby
schussboomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schussboomer
logistical nightmare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logistical nightmares
Senses: glosses: A military situation for which it is difficult to plan or organize the logistics.
glosses: Any situation or event that requires considerable coordination of many people or resources, beyond the original organizer's expectations.
word of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: words of honor
form: word of honour
Senses: glosses: A promise; a pledge of one's good faith, veracity, and reliability.
Related terms: take someone at their word
take someone's word for it
word is bond
sample market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sample markets
Senses: glosses: A market at which only samples of goods were available for sale.
Related terms: pitched market
pitched market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitched markets
Senses: glosses: A market at which bulk supplies of goods (rather than just samples) were available for sale.
Related terms: sample market
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
form: SSRI
Senses: examples: text: The literature on the dug treatment of Separation Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents contains several controlled trials of tricyclic antidepressants, a few open trials of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and several studies of benzodiazepines including one controlled trial. Based on the review, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors emerge as the most promising treatment.
ref: 1999, Selby Jacobs, Traumatic Grief, Taylor & Francis (Brunner/Mazel), page 62:
text: 2006, Campion Quinn, 100 Questions & Answers about Autism, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 109,
Common types of treatment for depression include the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and the tricyclic antidepressants.
text: 2016, Medical Therapies, entry in Harold L. Miller, Jr. (editor), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology, SAGE Publications, page 537,
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors exert their initial antidepressant effects by inhibiting the transport of serotonin into the presynaptic neuron and thereby increasing synaptic concentrations of serotonin.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of drugs, such as fluoxetine or sertraline, that inhibit the uptake of serotonin in the central nervous system and are often used to treat certain mental illnesses, such as depression.
Synonyms: serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
SSRI
Related terms: SNRI
serving suggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serving suggestions
Senses: glosses: A suggestion as to how a particular food could be served; used especially on the packaging of ready meals where the illustration is markedly different from the contents.
shrink-wrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We thought the toy was still in its original packaging because it was shrink-wrapped.
glosses: Contained in, for protection or shipping, a conforming plastic film that reduces in size during application to tightly hold the item.
ready meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ready meals
form: ready-meal
Senses: hyponyms: box meal
glosses: A prepackaged, fresh or frozen meal that only requires heating (often in a microwave) before being served, sometimes in its own packaging.
Related terms: frozen dinner
heat-and-eat
microwave meal
oven-ready
shake and bake
TV dinner
shrink-wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrink-wraps
Senses: examples: text: Please order another five rolls of shrink-wrap from the supply house.
glosses: A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
examples: text: Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment.
glosses: The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
Derived terms: shrinkwrap license
Related terms: word: heat shrink
word: shrinkage
word: shrink rate
sense: wraps
word: cling film
sense: wraps
word: cling wrap
sense: wraps
word: food wrap
sense: wraps
word: glad wrap
sense: wraps
word: Saran Wrap
sense: wraps
word: saran wrap
sense: wraps
word: Saran wrap
sense: wraps
word: saran-wrap
shrink-wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrink-wraps
form: shrink-wrapping
form: shrink-wrapped
form: shrink-wrapped
Senses: examples: text: We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.
coordinate_terms: bubble-wrap#Verb
saran-wrap#Verb
glosses: To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
examples: text: Such shrink-wrapped models gave generations of schoolchildren mental images of dinosaurs that are probably much uglier and scrawnier than the creatures were in reality.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.
shiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shyest, superlative form of shy: most shy.
shiftlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiftlessnesses
Etymology: From shiftless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being shiftless.
shoulder surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoulder surfs
form: shoulder surfing
form: shoulder surfed
form: shoulder surfed
form: shoulder-surf
Senses: glosses: To engage in shoulder surfing.
shiftless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shiftless
form: most shiftless
Etymology: From shift + -less.
Senses: examples: text: To expand, without bothering about it—without shiftless timidity on one side, or loquacious eagerness on the other—to the full compass of what he would have called a "pleasant" experience, was Newman's most definite programme of life.
ref: 1876 July, Henry James, Jr., chapter V, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 87:
text: Decades ago, before credit scores, loan officers could make decisions almost whimsically and your fate could hinge on whether you reminded them of someone, or they had slept poorly the night before, or they harbored stereotypes of "shiftless blacks" and "flighty women."
ref: 2015, Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction:
glosses: Lazy, unmotivated.
glosses: Untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job.
glosses: Destitute of shifts or expedients; lacking proper means.
shoulder surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder surfers
Senses: glosses: Someone who engages in shoulder surfing.
unmotivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmotivated
form: most unmotivated
Etymology: From un- + motivated.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: demotivated
text: an unmotivated student
text: When a typically chatty employee who often participates in meetings and is engaged and enthusiastic suddenly becomes unmotivated and quieter, that person could be at risk for burnout.
ref: 2019 September 9, Kathryn Vasel, “Burnout is a big deal. Here’s how managers can spot it”, in CNN Business:
antonyms: motivated
remotivated
glosses: Lacking motivation, without impetus to strive or excel.
raw_tags: of a person or persons
examples: text: Near-synonym: unprovoked
text: an unmotivated murder
text: An inherited etymology should not involve too many unmotivated irrregular sound changes aor ^([sic]) non-trivial semantic shifts.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 41:
coordinate_terms: random
senseless
pointless
glosses: For which there is no motive, or no apparent rational motive.
raw_tags: of an act or behavior
Related terms: disinterested
uninterested
shiftlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shiftlessly
form: most shiftlessly
Etymology: From shiftless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shiftless manner.
springform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springforms
Etymology: From spring + form.
Senses: glosses: A round baking tin with a rim that can be detached from the base, making it easy to remove the contents after baking.
shier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shyer, comparative form of shy: more shy.
shier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shyer, a horse that shies.
sample markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sample market
pitched markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitched market
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
sharkskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharkskins
Etymology: From shark + skin.
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut not long after sundown we heard the booming of great sharkskin drums and, with our work done, we hurried in the direction of the music.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 18:
glosses: The skin of a shark; shagreen.
glosses: A shiny fabric made from synthetic fibers.
Hyponyms: skin
serving suggestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serving suggestion
shrink-wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrink-wrap
shrink-wrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrink-wrap
sharkskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharkskin
springforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springform
shoulder surfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder surfer
shriven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shrive
glosses: past participle of shrieve
shrinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrinkable
form: most shrinkable
Etymology: From shrink + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful washing that new shirt. It's shrinkable.
glosses: Capable of being made to shrink.
silver-plated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silver-plate
silver-plated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The spoon looked like sterling, but actually it was cheap silver-plated steel.
glosses: Having a thin coating of the metal silver applied to it.
silkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkinesses
Etymology: From silky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being silky.
novellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin novellae.
Senses: examples: text: They should publicize all my novellae in order to bring merit to the many, and if, indeed, I have erred, it is my fault, and I apologize.
ref: Quoted in 2021, Lawrence Fine, Judaism in Practice (page 166)
glosses: Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries (see Chiddush); any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
Christmas trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas tree
frusemide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Former BAN name of the drug furosemide.
Lasix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A brand of the drug furosemide.
black holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black hole
mega-volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mega-volt
Related terms: megavolt
kilo-volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilo-volt
giga-volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giga-volt
BAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Approved Name.
tera-volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tera-volt
pico-watts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pico-watt
nano-watts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano-watt
micro-watts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-watt
tree frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree frog
sisterliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sisterly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sisterly.
sisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəli/
homophone: systole (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more sisterly
form: most sisterly
Etymology: From sister + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.
ref: 2011 May 4, Jane Martinson, The Guardian:
glosses: Of or characteristic of sisters.
Derived terms: sisterly love
sisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəli/
homophone: systole (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more sisterly
form: most sisterly
Etymology: From sister + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
Related terms: big-sisterly
sisters-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister-in-law
Related terms: word: sister-in-laws
sitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitarists
Etymology: From sitar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a sitar.
Derived terms: electric sitarist
sitarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitarist
simpleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.pəl.nəs/
Forms: form: simplenesses
Etymology: From Middle English symplenesse; equivalent to simple + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: simplicity
glosses: The property of being simple.
skateboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skateboarders
Etymology: From skateboard + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The streets of Ukraine are scarred by war, but that isn’t stopping many young skateboarders from doing what they love to do. […] “It’s a way of feeling alive, even when everything around you is falling apart,” Vasilkan, a skateboarder from Odesa, told French photojournalist Robin Tutenges.
ref: 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who rides a skateboard.
Synonyms: boarder
rider
skater
Hyponyms: skaterboy
skatergirl
skateboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skateboarder
sketchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sketchily
form: most sketchily
Etymology: From sketchy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But, bowing with sketchily joined hands, they smiled their way clumsily out, down to the darkness.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:
text: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
The Hunger Games has its share of standalone payoffs, though some are too sketchily developed to have much of an impact, like Katniss’ motherly connection to Rue.
glosses: In a sketchy manner.
sketcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sketchers
Etymology: From sketch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sketches.
six-guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of six-gun
six-packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of six-pack
singer-songwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singer-songwriter
shattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shatter
shattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatterings
Senses: examples: text: It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]
ref: 1997, J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority, page 226:
glosses: The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.
shattering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shattering
form: most shattering
Senses: glosses: Very tiring; exhausting
skycaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skycap
skywriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skywriter
skulkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skulker
shufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuffler
servomotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servomotor
étage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɑːʒ/
ipa: /əˈtaːʒ/
Forms: form: étages
Etymology: Borrowed from French étage. Doublet of stage.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the distinctive forms that a cloud takes relating to the altitude of its base, either "low", "middle", or "high", and designated by the respective prefixes strato-, alto-, and cirro-.
dessus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French dessus.
Senses: qualifier: baroque music jargon
glosses: The highest voice or part, often a violin or soprano vocal line.
Ten Commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ten Commandments
form: ten commandments
Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים ('aséret had'varím, “the ten items”), from Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4.
Senses: examples: text: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.
ref: 2024 November 12, Lauren Mascarenhas and Isabel Rosales, “Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments”, in CNN:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible, were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets.
examples: text: She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.
ref: 1876, Evening Hours, page 629:
text: […] once or twice, when he cut up bad, she appeared to him, and scratched his face with her ten commandments […]
ref: 1881, William Henry Thomes, Running the Blockade: Or, U. S. Secret Service Adventures, page 148:
glosses: The ten fingernails, used by women when fighting.
Synonyms: Decalogue
Coordinate terms: Five Pillars
Derived terms: 11th commandment
ethical Ten Commandments
ritual Ten Commandments
Related terms: english: Ennealogue
translation: Ennealogue
word: Nine Commandments
word: mortal sin
yesternight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛstə(ɹ)naɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English yesternyght, yisternight, from Old English ġiestranniht (“yesternight”), equivalent to yester- + night.
Senses: examples: text: What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
 Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?
ref: c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act IV, scene 1:
text: It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
ref: 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 31:29:
text: […] when the Templar crossed the hall yesternight, he spoke to his Mussulman slaves in the Saracen language, which I well understand, and charged them this morning to watch the journey of the Jew […]
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in Ivanhoe:
text: […] she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years—incessantly—remorselessly—till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 29, in Wuthering Heights:
text: I came here yesternight for a call of nature and to do what none can do for me[.]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 228:
glosses: Last night.
Synonyms: list in yestereve
Related terms: yesterday
yesteryear
yesternight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛstə(ɹ)naɪt/
Forms: form: yesternights
Etymology: From Middle English yesternyght, yisternight, from Old English ġiestranniht (“yesternight”), equivalent to yester- + night.
Senses: glosses: A preceding night.
sleeping pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping pills
Senses: examples: text: You are my favorite sleeping pill
The secret bending of my waking will.
You bring me peace, you bring me rest.
Your gentle presence leaves me blest.
ref: 1979 April 28, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 22:
text: It was a little past ten that night when his nurse, Sylvia of the Bedpans, came tiptoeing in with sleeping pills on a little tray and told him that his friend, Detective Leary, had just been delivered to the emergency room in a meat wagon.
ref: 2012, Thomas Gifford, Kiss Me Once, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: sleeping tablet
hypernyms: sleep aid#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#loosely|loosely]] synonymous>
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glosses: A pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
axisymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axisymmetric
form: most axisymmetric
form: axi-symmetric
Etymology: From axi- + symmetric.
Senses: examples: text: The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.
ref: 2002, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors), Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes, page 36:
glosses: Exhibiting symmetry around an axis; exhibiting cylindrical symmetry; axially symmetric
Derived terms: axisymmetrically
nonaxisymmetric
lenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛnˈtɪk.jʊ.lə/
ipa: /lɛnˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more lenticular
form: most lenticular
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lenticular, lenticuler, borrowed from Medieval Latin lenticulāris (“lentil-shaped”), ultimately from Latin lēns (“lentil”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a lens.
examples: text: The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The [Royal Albert] bridge itself has approach viaducts on each side, before two 455ft lenticular trusses span the main part of the river, which is 80ft below.
ref: 2023 May 3, Philip Haigh, “The art and science of building bridges”, in RAIL, number 982, page 41:
synonyms: lentiform
glosses: Shaped like a biconvex lens.
examples: text: lenticular photography
text: But establishment on the fringes of everyday practice doesn't mean lenticular photography is a failure. On the contrary, the process manifests resounding cultural success through its longevity.
ref: 2015, Kim Timby, 3D and Animated Lenticular Photography: Between Utopia and Entertainment, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: Relating to a lenticular image.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered in lenticels.
Derived terms: bilenticular
capsulolenticular
circumlenticular
corneolenticular
extralenticular
hepatolenticular
iridolenticular
lenticular bracket
lenticular cloud
lenticular galaxy
lenticular image
lenticularly
lenticular nucleus
lenticular printing
nonlenticular
perilenticular
retrolenticular
semilenticular
sublenticular
thalamolenticular
Related terms: lens
lensoidal
lenticel
lenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛnˈtɪk.jʊ.lə/
ipa: /lɛnˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lenticulars
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lenticular, lenticuler, borrowed from Medieval Latin lenticulāris (“lentil-shaped”), ultimately from Latin lēns (“lentil”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of lenticular image.
glosses: Ellipsis of lenticular galaxy.
supraspinatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraspinati
Senses: glosses: A small muscle at the top of the shoulder blade.
Related terms: supraspinatous fascia
supraspinatous fossa
lentiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lentiform
form: most lentiform
Etymology: From lent-, stem of Latin lens + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a biconvex lens.
Synonyms: lenticular
Derived terms: lentiform fork
lentiform nucleus
sleeping pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping pill
retentate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retentates
Etymology: From retent + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: That which is retained, especially by a filter or porous membrane.
spinoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinoffs
Senses: examples: text: Joining the long list of returning shows, CBS also revives “CSI” as “CSI: Vegas” with several familiar faces and a few new ones, joining spinoffs “FBI: International” and “NCIS: Hawaii,” in a lineup that again looks as if it gets a discount on abbreviated titles.
ref: 2021 September 2, Brian Lowry, “Fall TV preview: Get ready for reboots, revivals and spinoffs – and a few farewells”, in CNN:
text: After fighting “The Good Fight” for streaming, the producers of “The Good Wife” indulge in a more CBS-friendly spinoff with “Elsbeth,” which breezily takes Carrie Preston’s quirky title character and turns her into a modern version of “Columbo.”
ref: 2024 February 29, Brian Lowry, “‘Elsbeth’ turns Carrie Preston’s ‘The Good Wife’ role into a breezy good time”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spin-off.
lettuces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lettuce
pastries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪstɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pastry
apopemptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποπεμπτικός (apopemptikós, “pertaining to sending away”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, away”) + πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to departing; farewell, valedictory.
apopemptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apopemptics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποπεμπτικός (apopemptikós, “pertaining to sending away”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, away”) + πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”).
Senses: glosses: A farewell or parting address.
anguinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anguine + -ous?
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or like a snake.
coachwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachworks
Etymology: From coach + work.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: chassis
synonyms: carrosserie
glosses: The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
Benedict Arnolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Benedict Arnold
motor vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor vehicle
coachworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachwork
scrams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scram
scramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scram
scrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scram
alogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alogical
form: most alogical
Etymology: From a- + logical.
Senses: glosses: Not based upon logic or reasoned argument.
glosses: Opposed to logic.
Derived terms: alogicality
alogically
alogicalness
Related terms: illogical