cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
silicon chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicon chip
signature tunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signature tune
crossfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cross- + field.
Senses: examples: text: He was in the mood and he decorated the first half with some wonderful moments. How about the side-on volleyed crossfield pass with the outside of his right boot? Or the shoulder drop, the surge upfield, the riding of a challenge and then another thrilling run.
ref: 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Passed from one side of the pitch to the other.
sigma-delta converters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigma-delta converter
shorthorn sculpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shorthorn sculpin
sex acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex act
grind down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grinds down
form: grinding down
form: ground down
form: ground down
Senses: examples: text: The old dog's teeth had been ground down by constant use.
glosses: To make something hard smaller and smoother by gradually rubbing off tiny bits; to wear down by grinding action.
examples: text: Djokovic broke twice in each of the opening two sets, dismantling 6ft 8in Anderson's service game and grinding him down in the rallies.
ref: 2018 July 15, Jonathan Jurejko, “Novak Djokovic wins fourth Wimbledon by beating Kevin Anderson”, in BBC Sport:
text: I'm living in a world where I don't really fit
Every day walking through the same old shit
I'm gonna get my gun, gonna get prepared
I'm not impressed and I'm not scared
Don't let the bastards grind you down!
Don't let them grind you down!
Don't let the bastards grind you down!
Don't let them grind you down!
ref: 1997, The Toasters, Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down:
glosses: To weaken someone's morale over a long period.
Related terms: noli illegitimi carborundum
semiaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiaxis
self-destructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-destruct
self-destructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-destruct
self-destructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-destruct
grow into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grows into
form: growing into
form: grew into
form: grown into
Senses: examples: text: His new jumper was a bit big for him, but he'll grow into it in a couple of years.
glosses: To grow in size, so as to be able to fit (something, especially an item of clothing).
examples: text: At first, the new job as managing director was way over my head, but I grew into it.
text: Hey there Mr. Interview / I don’t have to answer you / This is what I grew into / Don’t judge me and my soul stew
ref: 1987, Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Funky Crime”, in The Uplift Mofo Party Plan:
text: Bourdain grew into his looks; his was the kind of face that inspired Talmudic levels of study among women. He grew into his shows. They got better, moodier, more complicated.
ref: 2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To become accustomed to (something) by maturing.
group therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹupˈθɛɹəpi/
Forms: form: group therapies
Senses: glosses: A form of psychotherapy where patients are treated as a group, using group dynamics.
Related terms: group therapist
gun for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guns for
form: gunning for
form: gunned for
form: gunned for
Senses: examples: text: He has been gunning for her since the day he arrived, he wants her job.
glosses: To strive for the downfall or diminution of another.
examples: text: In the early 1990s Starbucks was gunning for two thousand stores by 2000.
ref: 2008, Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks: Living with a Grande Passion, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The largest section at the top has five sections that you're going to grade individual components of your marketing on; on a scale of L-0 to L-5. “L” simply stands for level. And what we're gunning for is L-5 materials.
ref: 2008, John Uhrig, The Little Book with Big Impact For Day Spas - How To Create Instant Client Promotions and Sales Letters, →ISBN, page 105:
text: And once you pick your direction, you'll need to decide the route: are you gunning for the best time; do you want the most scenic route; is it important to stop for lunch with Aunt Julia?
ref: 1997, Susan Abel Lieberman, The Real High School Handbook: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prepare for What's Next, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: To pursue as a goal; to work hard to achieve.
gutter out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gutters out
form: guttering out
form: guttered out
form: guttered out
Senses: glosses: To become extinguished.
raw_tags: of a light source
glosses: To dwindle down to nothing.
hácek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are the German system (Jelzin, Tschaikowsky), the Serbocroat(?) system (Jelcin, C<hácek>ernomirdin), and there used to be […] a common Scandinavian system that wasn’t always followed.
ref: 1997 June 17th, Marius Svenkerud, sci.lang, “Re: Russian transliteration (was: Peking versus Beijing (was: Re: Chinese/Japanese ‘l’/‘r’))”, (see the original message)
text: Lugazi (the “z” is with caron/hácek), or Lugazhi in transliterated Cyrillic.
ref: 2003 February 7th, Emil Jelstrup, misc.transport.rail.europe, “Re: Train Riga or Vilnius to Tallinn?”, (see the original message)
text: There’s no “hácek” (inversed ^) either, which is a problem when writing about eastern European wines.
ref: 2006 October 25th, Michael Pronay, alt.food.wine, “Re: Just back from Piedmont”, (see the original message)
glosses: Rare spelling of háček.
TRS connector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRS connectors
Etymology: See TRS (“tip, ring, sleeve”).
Senses: glosses: A common analog audio connector.
TRS connectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRS connector
Page Ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Page Up
Page Downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Page Down
homeless shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeless shelter
seconds of arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second of arc
secondary alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary alcohol
screennames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screenname
scaly anteaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaly anteater
saturation vapor pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saturation vapor pressure
sand sedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand sedge
salified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salify
salifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salify
sakkoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sakkos
sacrednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacredness
sacral vertebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacral vertebra
chemical energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical energy
chemical reactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical reactor
chemical sensitivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical sensitivity
chemical toilets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemical toilet
chicken scratches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken scratch
chorionic villus samplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorionic villus sampling
chromotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromotherapy
chronotaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronotaxis
cloud bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud base
cloud points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud point
cobalt therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobalt therapy
common sedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common sedge
constant functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constant function
continuously variable transmissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuously variable transmission
copresences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copresence
cosubstrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosubstrate
countertendencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countertendency
cradle caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradle cap
crank angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crank angle
credit default swaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit default swap
criminal negligences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal negligence
cue marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cue mark
cup-bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup-bearer
curb bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curb bit
butterfly knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly knife
circadian rhythms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circadian rhythm
proof positive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proofs positive
Senses: glosses: Overwhelming or definitive proof.
fallen angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallen angel
debilitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debilitators
Senses: glosses: That which debilitates.
FTIRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FTIR
orthopoxvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopoxviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Orthopoxvirus of poxviruses, including smallpox and many species isolated from mammals.
Derived terms: antiorthopoxvirus
orthopox
orthopoxviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthopoxvirus
backseater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌsitɚ/
Forms: form: backseaters
Etymology: From back seat + -er.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A navigator or other crewman who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of back-seat gamer.
synonyms: word: back-seat gamer
glosses: Someone who occupies a seat near the back of something.
Coordinate terms: frontseater
Related terms: backseat driver
backseaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌsitɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of backseater
mikva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mikvas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mikveh.
mikvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mikva
remerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: Rye Brook ended its privatization agreement this fall and remerged with Port Chester but retained a small separate company of four paid firefighters who work Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
ref: 1998 December 13, Elsa Brenner, “Failures Found in Firefighting System”, in The New York Times:
text: Subsequently, Applied Biosystems remerged with its sister division Celera to form the current corporation, Applera.
ref: 2005, Geoffrey A. Moore, Dealing with Darwin: how great companies innovate at every phase, page 179:
text: In other words, appositives are merged within the core, but remerged to a peripheral position [...]
ref: 2007, Nicole Dehé, Yordanka Kavalova, Parentheticals, page 187:
glosses: simple past and past participle of remerge (“to merge again”)
remerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: Fears of speculative attack on the Hong Kong dollar and Chinese Yuan also remerged.
ref: 1998 June 11, “Plunging Japanese yen pulls down world markets”, in The Indian Express:
text: As a consequence the Taliban has remerged more powerful and Iraq has been exposed to civil war.
ref: 2009 January 20, “Letters: Obama's historic inauguration lifts the fog over America”, in The Guardian:
text: The countries of Central and Eastern Europe once again found their independence, Russia remerged from its long hybernation^([sic]), and the Republics of Central Asia found themselves as newly independent states.
ref: 2004, Abdumalik Nysanbayev, Kazakhstan: cultural inheritance and social transformation, page v:
text: Inwardly, Seven smiled, glad that the predictably irritable and impatient engineer had remerged from her cocoon.
ref: 2006, Heather Jarman, Evolution, page 83:
text: [...] and a garden had remerged from the weeds.
ref: 2009, Allan Lowson, Tinker Tales Untold, page 49:
glosses: simple past and past participle of remerge (“alternative form of reemerge”)
sexual abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual abuses
Senses: examples: text: Statutory-rape laws concerning voluntary intercourse would probably be taken off the books, though both young boys and young girls could still be protected against any sexual abuse by older persons.
ref: 1971 October 4, ‘Facing Equality for Women’, Time:
text: 1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I believe that I was the victim of sexual abuse in my relationship with T. It was always the way HE wanted it & I wasn't to do anything I wanted. So I just "submitted" to him & was glad that he would have anything to do with me.
text: Argentine priest Julio Grassi begins 15-year sentence over sexual abuse.
ref: 2013, The Guardian, (headline), 29 Sep 2013
synonyms: sex abuse
molestation
hypernyms: abuse
qualifier: crime
glosses: Any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault.
wikipedia: sexual abuse
Derived terms: child sexual abuse
skinne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinnes
Senses: examples: text: Can the Ethiopian change his ſkinne? or the leopard his ſpots?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 13:23, column 1:
text: Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
ref: 1624, Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 6); reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC:
text: VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
ref: 1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of skin.
eye bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye bolt
even functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of even function
estate taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estate tax
epidotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epidote
epicalyces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicalyx
epicalyxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicalyx
insurges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insurge
insurge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insurges
form: insurging
form: insurged
form: insurged
Senses: examples: text: Thus before July, 1855, Spain was again convulsed, and Catalonia insurged under Cabecilla Marsal, the Carlist chief.
ref: 1856, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 295:
text: Well then, the insurgents who insurged against the other insurgents of 4th September said very wisely, that they were just as good as the other side; and certainly they had equal right with them.
ref: 1866, Belgravia, Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, page 334:
text: They have been trying to do enough insurging to satisfy the insurgents in their district, but they will not do any more. They have done just enough to show their political interest in the question with which they are confronted[…]
ref: 1910, The Tariff Review ..., page 216:
text: Will the Insurgents, who did the work of the big importers in undermining our Tariff dam, now find as much to flatter them in the importing press as they did when insurging for a general smashing of schedule K and […]
Senator Cummins of Iowa was the original Insurgent and an early and ardent advocate of fake reciprocity. […] Naturally that Iowa idea became marvelously popular in Iowa, and the sons of the soil rose up and insurged mightily.
ref: 1911, American Economist, pages 199, 225:
text: The Old Guard was on Taft's side, not other way around, as the insurgents complained. […] In opposing the President, there was no political downside for the Senate insurgents. […] Instead, the insurgents insurged.
ref: 2007 January 9, Michael L. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909_1913, McFarland, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Shocking as this may sound, I had recognized Insurgents before. They were our brothers, after all. They had rebelled and insurged, then gone out to the mucky marshes to plan our complete destruction and the devastation of our Regent.
ref: 2018 December 9, Katherine Hurlin, The Insurgents: Plotting to Overthrow the Regent, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: To rise up as an insurgent or in an insurgency.
nutbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutbar
unwatch'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unwatched.
watch lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watch list
errours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of errour
errour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of error.
empty sums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty sum
elfin woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elfin wood
mitras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitra
egg donations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg donation
eco-incentives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-incentive
shiproom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ship + room.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the boats ran out of drinking water and food on the journey, and for most emigrants a coffin-shaped space between other bunks or a small square on deck was all the shiproom they had for themselves and the bundle of luggage they took with them to their new lives.
ref: 1961, Lois Mitchison, The overseas Chinese:
glosses: Storage space on a ship.
solitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solitudinous
form: most solitudinous
Etymology: From solitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house.
glosses: Characterised by solitude
Derived terms: solitudinously
Related terms: solitude
powersets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerset
subobject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subobjects
Etymology: From sub- + object.
Senses: glosses: An object that is part of another object.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object and a monomorphism from it to another object, which monomorphism is interpreted as an inclusion. Actually it is an equivalence class of monomorphisms to the same object, where the equivalence relation is the ability of a pair of monomorphisms to factor through each other.
Derived terms: subobject classifier
subobjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subobject
nonoceanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oceanic.
Senses: glosses: Not oceanic.
nonlithospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lithospheric.
Senses: glosses: Not lithospheric.
centesimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centesimo
quadragenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadragene
fat hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathen
Senses: glosses: Hen and chicks, a group of small succulent flowering plants native to Europe and northern Africa
glosses: Thin-leaf orach (Atriplex prostrata).
glosses: White goosefoot (Chenopodium album), a fast-growing weedy annual plant cultivated in some places and a weed elsewhere.
glosses: Other species, such as Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)
Kyleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee or Kylie.
brandlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brandlike
form: most brandlike
Etymology: From brand + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The skin burns, it hurts horribly, and it leaves a brandlike scar.
ref: 2001, Hugh Beach, A year in Lapland: guest of the reindeer herders, page 112:
text: Here we're able to do that brandlike advertising without paying for all the exposure you'd get on TV. It's a lot more indirect.
ref: 2009, Brad Schepp, Debra Schepp, How to Make Money with YouTube, page 141:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a brand (in various senses).
handpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handpieces
Etymology: From hand + piece.
Senses: glosses: The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
handpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handpiece
downtube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downtubes
Etymology: From down + tube.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of down tube.
downtubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downtube
down tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down tubes
form: downtube
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tube in the bicycle frame that connects the bottom bracket shell to the head tube.
down tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down tube
retrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrudes
form: retruding
form: retruded
form: retruded
Etymology: From Latin retrudere; re- + trudere (“to thrust”).
Senses: examples: text: our Tincture of Philosophers is both included, and retruded
ref: 1670, The Golden Calf, translation of original by Johann Friedrich Schweitzer:
glosses: To thrust back.
face powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face powder
false chanterelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false chanterelle
fess points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fess point
few-flowered sedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of few-flowered sedge
cannot but
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cannot but
form: could not but
form: cannot help but
form: can't help but
form: can't but
Senses: examples: text: I cannot but applaud your zeal for preserving the purity of our language, both in its expressions and pronunciation, and in correcting the popular errors several of our States are continually falling into with respect to both.
ref: 1789, Benjamin Franklin, “Letter to Noah Webster, December 26, 1789”, in E. Sargent, editor, The select works of Benjamin Franklin, published 1855, page 498:
glosses: To have to; to cannot help; to be unable to do otherwise than.
film speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film speed
filter lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filter lane
finishing touches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finishing touch
fire blights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire blight
fishing grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishing ground
flower heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower head
foot faults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot fault
split off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits off
form: splitting off
form: split off
form: split off
Senses: synonyms: offsplit#Verb
coordinate_terms: spin off#Verb
spin out#Verb
glosses: To break away from a group or mass.
Related terms: word: offsplit
leptolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptolithic
form: most leptolithic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Leptolithic.
Leptolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leptolithic
form: most Leptolithic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin, slender”) + the Greek for "rock" + -ικος (-ikos, “-ic: forming adjectives”).
Senses: glosses: Upper Paleolithic.
Leptolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Leptolithic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin, slender”) + the Greek for "rock" + -ικος (-ikos, “-ic: forming adjectives”).
Senses: glosses: The Upper Paleolithic.
foul winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foul wind
four-accelerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-acceleration
four-momenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-momentum
fourth officials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth official
four-vectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-vector
game bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game bag
general classifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general classification
general strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general strike
genu valgums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genu valgum
giant armadillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant armadillo
giant pangolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant pangolin
giant slaloms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant slalom
goose wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goose wing
ground pangolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground pangolin
harmonic numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonic number
hawksbill turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawksbill turtle
hazel grouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hazel grouse
heads of hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head of hair
heeled over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heel over
heels over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heel over
heeling over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heel over
herrenvolker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herrenvolk
hi-hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hi-hat
hose clamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hose clamp
hyoid bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyoid bone
slot in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slots in
form: slotting in
form: slotted in
form: slotted in
Senses: glosses: To put something into a slot.
examples: text: Darren Bent slotted in a Stewart Downing cross to give Villa hope but that was ended when defender Nemanja Vidic thumped in United's third.
ref: 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC:
glosses: To put something into its desired place
examples: I'll slot you in between my 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock appointment.
glosses: To schedule something for a particular time.
left-footer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left-footers
Etymology: (Roman Catholic): Said to allude to the practice of Irish farm labourers of digging with their left foot on one-eared spades such as loys and slanes that were designed to be operated in that way.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is left-footed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who predominantly kicks with the left foot.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A goal kicked with the left foot.
examples: text: Jones shook his head knowingly. "I forgot you're a left-footer. Catholic by name, catholic by nature."
ref: 2011, Elena Forbes, Die with Me, →ISBN, page 382:
synonyms: left hooker
glosses: A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish descent.
dig out of a hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs out of a hole
form: digging out of a hole
form: dug out of a hole
form: dug out of a hole
Senses: examples: text: The Blues, without new big-money signings Fernando Torres and David Luiz, relied on their old guard to dig them out of an early hole.
ref: 2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: To save someone or something from trouble.
goalmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goalmouth
sending-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sending-offs
form: sendings-off
Senses: examples: text: Worse was to follow for the home side. Ryan Jack had started the match in midfield in favour of Derek Young but had moved into defence with Considine's sending-off.
ref: 2011 February 1, Keir Murray, “Aberdeen 0 - 3 Celtic”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: dismissal; red card
split screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split screens
form: splitscreen
Senses: glosses: A display technique that consists of subdividing graphics that appear on a screen into adjacent areas or subwindows.
glosses: An instance of using this technique on a screen display.
split screen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more split screen
form: most split screen
form: splitscreen
Senses: examples: text: But the split-screen nature of this moment in his presidency was underscored when Mr. Trump devoted the first nine minutes of his speech to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests and riots unfolding in cities across the country.
ref: 2020 May 30, Peter Baker, “Trump Hopes for His Own Booster Shot From SpaceX Rocket Launch”, in The New York Times, retrieved 30 May 2020:
glosses: Dividing one's attention between two events unfolding simultaneously.
split screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split screen
Mountweazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mountweazels
form: mountweazel
Etymology: Coined by Henry Alford in the The New Yorker from an entry for a fictitious Lillian Virginia Mountweazel in the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia.
Senses: examples: text: […]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.
ref: 2005 August 21, Henry Alford, “Not a Word”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2017:
text: Tweedy-Holmes is now a professional photographer, and portions of her website bio read a bit like a mountweazel: “Her images of the male nude were exhibited extensively to critical acclaim in the 1970s and are among the first art photographs of this subject by an American woman.”
Before we got to the big questions, I asked if she knew what fake encyclopedia entries are sometimes called now, and she said she didn’t. “They’re called mountweazels,” I said.
ref: 2018 December 31, Nick Norlen, “‘Glitch of the Pentagon’: There’s a reason you might not have heard of this monster”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2018:
text: “I need to talk to you about mountweazels.”
“Mountweazels,” I repeated.
“There are mistakes. In the dictionary,” David said. […] He assumed a defensive tone. “Well. Not mistakes. Not-quite mistakes. They're words that are meant to be there but not meant to be there.”
ref: 2020, Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary, Anchor, →ISBN:
text: Lest you think that lexicographers are humorless […], let's consider the issues of mountweazels mentioned briefly above. As Henry Alford reveals in the August 29, 2005 issue of The New Yorker, the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary (2001) planted the non-existent word esquivalience […] among the entries for the letter “e” to catch potential dictionary pirates.
ref: 2021, Rochelle Lieber, Introducing Morphology, third edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: A nihilartikel.
wikipedia: New Columbia Encyclopedia
The New Yorker
Hypernyms: copyright trap
incense boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incense boat
infructescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infructescence
inheritance taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inheritance tax
initiation ceremonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of initiation ceremony
Italiotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italiote
check boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check box
Posh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Peterbough United have been playing at Lincoln, in something of a local derby. EMR has put on a six-car Class 158 as an additional train, to take 'Posh' fans home (Posh is the team's nickname, by the way).
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Peterborough United F.C., a football club from Peterborough, England.
palatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palata
tarsorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsorrhaphies
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure in which the eyelids are partially sewn together to narrow the opening.
tarsorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsorrhaphy
nonconsolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + consolute.
Senses: glosses: Not consolute.
Junegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Junegrasses
form: junegrass
Etymology: From June + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the grass genus Koeleria.
Junegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Junegrass
junegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junegrasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Junegrass.
junegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junegrass
shuttleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shuttle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a shuttle.
raw_tags: of a loom
autoloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autolooms
Etymology: From auto- + loom.
Senses: glosses: A type of power loom.
autolooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoloom
prybar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prybars
form: pry bar
Etymology: From pry + bar.
Senses: glosses: A tool for prying (prising); usually made of steel.
prybars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prybar
Torygraph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.
Senses: examples: text: I thought, I'm not going to do my spring boxes and give a picture to the bloody Torygraph.
ref: 1993, David Hare, Lyn Haill, Asking around, page 169:
glosses: The Telegraph newspaper.
wikipedia: Private Eye
Russian dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian dressings
Etymology: Named by Americans for marketing purposes, portraying a fanciful notion of the dressing being made in a Russian style; more at Wikipedia. Compare also French dressing.
Senses: glosses: An American salad dressing, a spiced blend of mayonnaise and ketchup.
Pitcairners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pitcairner
liquid rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid rocket
liquid mirror telescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid mirror telescope
liquid mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid mirror
Colonel Blimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colonel Blimp
classpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classpath
defecator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfɪˌkeɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɛfəˌkeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: defecators
Etymology: From defecate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place.
text: Number two in the news: In January police in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, were investigating a suspected serial defecator who had soiled three locations around town during the holiday season, including the floor of a recreation center.
ref: 1999 February 12, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: One who defecates.
examples: text: After the preliminary filtering or settling of the juice, it is taken into the defecator, and there receives the treatment with lime.
ref: 1884, Peter Collier, Sorghum, page 293:
glosses: That which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing impurities from juices and syrups.
deficience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deficiences
Etymology: From Late Latin dēficientia.
Senses: examples: text: Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no deficience found: Not so is Man, But in degree; the cause of his desire By conversation with his like to help Or solace his defects.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended.
ref: 1719, Isaac Watts, The Psalms of David:
text: [H]is faults seem to be very many; some of natural deficience, and some of laborious affectation.
ref: 1760, Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 253
glosses: Deficiency.
delation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈleɪʃn̩/
ipa: /diˈleɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: delations
Etymology: From Latin dēlātiō.
Senses: glosses: Conveyance.
examples: text: Some curious circumstances respecting delation, prison life, and autos da fe are here minutely recorded.
ref: 1858, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2:
text: Such public defiance might become Valentinian; but it could leave no room for the unworthy delation of the philosopher Maximus, which supposes some more private offence, (Zosimus, l. iv. p. 200, 201.)
ref: 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
text: A wise woman who was popular with her neighbours might escape delation; whereas one who had fallen out with them might find herself accused not just of charming, but even of black witchcraft.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 253:
text: 2012, Bradford E. Hinze, Chapter 1: A Decade of Disciplining Theologians, Richard R. Gaillardetz (editor), When the Magisterium Intervenes, Liturgical Press (Michael Glazier), page 9,
Delations frequently come from a local bishop, but there have been cases where vigilante groups (e.g., Catholics United for the Faith) and individuals have complained about a theologian's writings or lectures.
topics: law
glosses: An accusation or charge brought against someone, especially by an informer; the act of accusing someone.
Synonyms: sense: accusation
word: accusation
sense: accusation
word: denunciation
stands for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stand for
stood for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stand for
standing for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stand for
diddest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪdɛst/
Etymology: did + -est
Senses: examples: text: Couldest not thou (that so often in his life time diddest spurne and kicke him) defend him now at the point of death by the like meane?
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
text: Poliphilus, be of good comfort, and pluck vp a good heart, and tell me how thou commest hither, and by what meanes, and how thou diddest escape that mortall and horrible Dragon? and how thou diddest finde away out of that odious and blinde darkenes, I haue beene tould of it: But I maruell me not a little, because few or none dare aduenture that waye.
ref: 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia:
glosses: Obsolete form of didst.
distributer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributers
Etymology: From distribute + -er.
Senses: examples: text: However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many, more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho' I did indeed receive and send papers by the post, yet the publick opinion was otherwise, for what I did send was by bribing the riders, who took them privately, Bradford being unkind enough to forbid it, which occasion'd some resentment on my part; and I thought so meanly of him for it, that, when I afterward came into his situation, I took care never to imitate it.
ref: c. 1788, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
text: Nothing remains, but that, with humble confidence we resign ourselves to almighty goodness, and fall down, without irreverent murmurs, before the sovereign distributer of good and evil, with hope, that though sorrow endureth for a night, yet joy may come in the morning.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson's Works= Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1:
text: The first of these maintains that Fichte's standpoint and that of his opponents are related as duty and advantage, sensible and suprasensible, and that the substantial God of his accusers, to be derived from the sensibility, is, as personified fate, as the distributer of all happiness and unhappiness to finite beings, a miserable fetich.
ref: 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:
text: The irrigating ditch is an impartial distributer.
ref: 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:
text: [I]n 2001 a federal judge forced Napster to close its doors (it has since relaunched under different ownership as a legitimate distributer of copyrighted music).
ref: 2005 March 28, David McGuire, “At a Glance: MGM v. Grokster”, in Washington Post, retrieved 01 Feb 2017:
glosses: Alternative form of distributor.
dooly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːli
Forms: form: doolies
form: dhooley
form: dhooly
form: dhouly
form: dhuli
form: dohleh
form: doolae
form: doli
form: doolee
form: dooley
form: doolie
form: dowle
form: dowlee
form: dholie
Etymology: From Hindi डोली (ḍolī), from डोला (ḍolā, “litter”) + -ई (-ī, “forming diminutives”), from Sanskrit दोल (dōlā, “dangling cradle; litter”), from दुल् (dul, “to swing”). Compare andor from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola) via Portuguese.
Senses: examples: text: The dhulí is a slight bamboo framework covered with coarse cloth, about two and a half feet square, with a bedding made of string woven across, on which the passenger sits. It is slung on a stout bamboo pole, and carried by two or four men.
ref: 1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, pages 81-82:
text: He said I should not be able to ride much farther, as the pass beyond Sultanpoor was utterly impracticable for horses; coolies, however, awaited me with a dooly, one of those low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel swiftly and without effort, but to the destruction of the digestive organs.
ref: 1882, F. Marion Crawford, Mr. Isaacs:
text: “Not going out this journey,” gasped Bobby, as he was lifted from the doolie. “Not going out this journey.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153:
glosses: A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.
examples: text: He also, in conjunction with Private John Ryan, rushed into the street under a heavy fire, and took Captain Arnold, 1st Madras Fusiliers, out of a dooly, and brought him into the house, that officer being again hit while they were so doing.
ref: 1863, W.H.G. Kingston, Our Soldiers:
text: I thought at first I was as good as done for; however, on regaining a little strength, I looked around, and seeing none of our men in the place, and thinking it more than probable, from what I knew of their character, that the very men whom I had been endeavouring to save might take it into their heads to give me the "coup de grace" now I was left alone, I made a desperate effort, got on my legs, and managed to hobble out, when I soon found some of our men, who supported me until a dooly could be brought, into which I was placed, and was soon on my way to the doctor.
ref: 1840, T.W.E. Holdsworth, Campaign of the Indus:
glosses: Synonym of stretcher, a basic litter used for transport of the ill and injured.
synonyms: word: stretcher
extra: a basic litter used for transport of the ill and injured
glosses: Synonym of litter of whatever type.
synonyms: word: litter of whatever type
Derived terms: dooly-bearer
Related terms: hooly dooly
coley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleys
Senses: glosses: coalfish, Pollachius virens