cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scalper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskælpɚ/
Forms: form: scalpers
Etymology: From scalp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers […]
ref: 2013, M. Elise Marubbio, Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory:
glosses: One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
examples: text: We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”
text: Although 4.1 million tickets were sold for the 2023 shows—including over 2 million on the first day, a new record—scalpers jacked up prices on the secondary market to more than $22,000.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:
synonyms: word: ticket tout
glosses: One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices.
glosses: One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
examples: text: The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.
ref: 1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A gambler who scalps.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
glosses: A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
synonyms: scalping-iron
glosses: A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.
scarify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæ.ɹɪˌfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈskɑː.ɹɪˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: scarifies
form: scarifying
form: scarified
form: scarified
Etymology: From French scarifier, from Late Latin scarificāre, from Latin scarifāre (“to scarify”), from Ancient Greek σκαριφᾶσθαι (skariphâsthai, “scratch”), from σκάριφος (skáriphos, “writing, drawing, sketching”).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
examples: text: A combing tool is used to scarify, cross-scratch, or score the surface of a scratch coat or undercoat of plaster.
glosses: To make scratches or cuts on.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To make scratches or cuts on.
To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
glosses: To make scratches or cuts on.
To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
examples: text: Stan tried to scarify his neck with a rope
His plan kinda failed, but it would've been dope
ref: 2008, Neil Cicierega, “Modify”, in View-Monster, performed by Lemon Demon:
glosses: To make scratches or cuts on.
To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
glosses: To harrow the feelings.
glosses: To scar.
glosses: Denude, or lay waste to.
scarify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæ.ɹɪˌfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈskɑː.ɹɪˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: scarifies
form: scarifying
form: scarified
form: scarified
Etymology: scare + -ify
Senses: glosses: To frighten; to scare, to terrify.
scarified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scarify + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The scarified wasteland looked like a battle had been fought there — which, in fact, it had.
text: Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.
glosses: damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted
scarified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scarify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scarify
scorekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorekeepers
Etymology: From score + keeper.
Senses: glosses: Someone who keeps track of the score at a sporting event or other contest.
Related terms: keep score
stratify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstratɪfʌɪ/
Forms: form: stratifies
form: stratifying
form: stratified
form: stratified
Etymology: From French stratifier.
Senses: examples: text: Even without a pronounced social class system, people in a large society tend to stratify.
glosses: To become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
examples: text: In this cut you can see how the sedimentary rock layers have been clearly stratified.
glosses: To separate out into distinct layers or strata.
Related terms: stratum
stratification
stratosphere
stovepipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stovepipes
form: stove-pipe
Etymology: From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
Senses: examples: text: On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
ref: 1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
text: Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.
ref: 1994, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
glosses: A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
examples: text: I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A stovepipe hat.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
Derived terms: stovepipe trousers
stovepipe hat
stovepipe tornado
stovepipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stovepipes
form: stovepiping
form: stovepiped
form: stovepiped
form: stove-pipe
Etymology: From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
Senses: glosses: To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
suburbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbɝ.bə.naɪt/
Forms: form: suburbanites
Etymology: From suburban + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Don't call me a suburbanite just because I live in Oak Grove!
text: I would suggest that we give the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company a chance to correct the existing faults before condemning the scheme. A SUBURBANITE.
ref: 1899 November 10, “Would Give Plan a Chance.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The line was doubled in the nineties and Hillfoot station added for suburbanites in 1900.
ref: 1959 October, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification prospect”, in Trains Illustated, page 541:
text: Today’s affluent suburbanites might resent the suggestion that they’re guilty of racial animus, but they’re entirely comfortable with being accused of colorblind class prejudice.
ref: 2023 July 15, Reihan Salam, “Why YIMBY Righteousness Backfires”, in The Atlantic:
text: Then there’s the problem of charging EVs. Suburbanites with home garages can install chargers, but the lack of public chargers on city streets hasn’t become a major issue yet only because so few people own EVs.
ref: 2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times:
synonyms: suburbian
coordinate_terms: exurbanite
ex-urbanite
urbanite
glosses: Someone who lives in the suburbs.
biological weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biological weapons
Senses: glosses: A biological pathogen or toxin designed or used for warfare.
Related terms: weapon of mass destruction
radiological weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiological weapons
Senses: glosses: A weapon, often a bomb, designed to achieve injury or contamination of a target by dispersing harmful radioisotopes.
Related terms: weapon of mass destruction
switchblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbleɪd/
Forms: form: switchblades
form: switch blade
form: switch-blade
Etymology: From switch + blade.
Senses: glosses: A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.
Related terms: flick knife
switchblade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbleɪd/
Forms: form: switchblades
form: switchblading
form: switchbladed
form: switchbladed
form: switch blade
form: switch-blade
Etymology: From switch + blade.
Senses: examples: text: I got terrible hangovers from the cheap booze; and, one night, I almost got switchbladed when I put my arm around the wrong "lady of the night.
ref: 1987, Ron Rearick, Doug Murren, Iceman, →ISBN, page 53:
text: They are the American dream torn asunder, like clean fresh laundry left drying on the clothesline, switchbladed by bored boys of summer.
ref: 2015, Paul Maher Jr., Caitlin Stuart, Love That Loves Us: Reflections on the Films of Terrence Malick, →ISBN:
text: Finally there was Jackie, the gold-toothed gang member (as she liked to remind us) who'd switchbladed thirty or forty or fifty people
ref: 2016, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed, →ISBN:
glosses: To attack or cut with a switchblade.
examples: text: Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”
ref: 2007, Richard Canning, Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction, →ISBN, page 253:
text: Steering and stabilization fins switchblading out, followed by the wings.
ref: 2007, David Poyer, The Command: A Novel, →ISBN, page 190:
text: I stood there waiting for the three remaining Rottweilers to come barreling toward the fence, fangs switchbladed open.
ref: 2009, Erik Raschke, The Book of Samuel: A Novel, →ISBN, page 200:
text: He ticked off the facts, switchblading out a finger for each one.
ref: 2015, Jeffrey Bartsch, Two Across, →ISBN:
glosses: To spring open or up.
examples: text: He briefly rocked medical school, switchbladed to accounting and finally joked his first radio script in 1938.
ref: 1963, Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell, Celebrity Register:
text: The play's principal comic manoeuvre is to have concern switchblading into callousness.
ref: 2002, Plays International - Volume 18, page 15:
text: Daniel's smile is fixed, but his eyes are switchblading from side to side, looking at Paula, looking for an exit.
ref: 2007, Lynn Hoffman, Bang Bang, →ISBN, page 76:
text: The lantern began swinging to its own rhythm, switchblading light all over the tent.
ref: 2014, Carol Muske-Dukes, Dear Digby: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.
substation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substations
form: sub-station
Etymology: From sub- + station.
Senses: examples: text: The utility now wants the network to be undergrounded in the urban areas, which would mean substations with 33 kV distribution swtichgear.
ref: 2006, Janes Northcote-Green, Robert Wilson, “Design, Construction and Operation of Distribution Systems, MV Networks”, in Control and Automation of Electrical Power Distribution Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 110:
text: Meanwhile, an upgraded power supply at Sundon substation, between Leagrave and Harlington, will be commissioned concurrent with the overhead line connection and will be sufficient to power the initial electrified Corby services.
ref: 2019 October 24, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
text: The Project also includes construction of a new MVEC substation (the Laketown Substation). […] Great River Energy owns and operates more than 5,100 miles of transmission line (69-kV or higher) and owns more than 100 substations in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 15:
glosses: A site where electricity supplied by long-distance (high-voltage) transmission lines is transformed or regulated for local (low-voltage) distribution.
glosses: A satellite police station serving one neighborhood or part of a larger jurisdiction.
glosses: A branch post office.
glosses: Any subordinate station.
hematopoietic cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematopoietic cells
Senses: glosses: Any of the cells within bone marrow whose function is to produce blood cells
drug of choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drugs of choice
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: narcotics
glosses: The particular substance, usually illicit, to which a person is addicted.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The best-choice medication designed to treat a particular medical problem.
urinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of urinate
midterm election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midterm elections
form: midterms
Etymology: Except in the rare case that a president leaves office early, the midterm election occurs roughly halfway through their term of office.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the rational world . . . foresaw a smooth ride to victory for Democrats. They had, after all, the wind at their backs from the 2006 midterm elections.
ref: 2008 April 23, Amy Sullivan, “A Primary with No End”, in Time, retrieved 03 Jul 2015:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An election held every four years to elect members of Congress in years the president is not also elected.
old guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old guards
Etymology: Calque of French vieille garde.
Senses: glosses: A (comparatively) conservative, reactionary faction that is more unwilling to accept new ideas than their peers are.
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: Collectively, the members of a team who have been a long time in a place.
Derived terms: old guardism
old guardist
Related terms: old school
Cuban heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban heels
Senses: glosses: A relatively low-style of high heel shoe, characterised by a slightly tapered back and a straight front
examples: text: He wore a short leather jerkin, elasticated at waist and cuffs, tight Wranglers that flared out over calfskin boots with Cuban heels.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 415:
glosses: A type of heel used for men's boots similar to the heel on cowboy boots
coordinate_terms: Havana heel
glosses: In women's sheer stockings or pantyhose, a prominent thin rectangle heel reinforcement at the base of the back seam.
lug nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lug nuts
Senses: glosses: A strong nut used to attach a wheel to an axle of a motorcar.
hornless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːn.lɪs/
note: UK, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhɔːn.ləs/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹn.lɪs/
note: US, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈhɔɹn.ləs/
Etymology: From Middle English hornles, equivalent to horn + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without horns.
Derived terms: hornlessness
gazump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzʌmp/
enpr: gə-zŭmpʹ
ipa: /ɡəˈzʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: gazumps
form: gazoomph
form: gazumph
Etymology: Possibly from Yiddish גזלן (gazlen, “thief, bandit”).
Senses: topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The act of gazumping.
Related terms: gazunder
gazump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzʌmp/
enpr: gə-zŭmpʹ
ipa: /ɡəˈzʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: gazumps
Senses: examples: text: "Phoney" Thorpe, '06, and "Shorty" Winchester, '01, have been driving their "90 HP Gazumps" through the wilds of New Jersey, but otherwise keeping on the job.
ref: 1884, Theta Delta Chi, “The Shield: official publication of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 27, page 335:
text: Go out and hire the finest gazump that ever burned benzine.
ref: 1915, Francis Joseph Reynolds, Master tales of mystery, volume 1, page 373:
glosses: An automobile.
examples: text: This year's crop of "nite bloomin' wood-be mayors" includes such famous gazumps as Mac Hoyne, Tom Carey, Barney Mullaney, possibly Carter H., Wilhelm Thompson, and the devil knows who else.
ref: 1918, The National provisioner, volume 59, page 36:
text: Go fifty-fifty. / If they nail you call in a mouthpiece. / Fix it, you gazump, you slant-head, fix it. / Feed 'em. …
ref: 1920, Carl Sandburg, “Cahoots”, in Smoke and Steel, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: A politician who takes bribes.
gazunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzʌn.də/
ipa: /ɡəˈzʌn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gazunders
form: gazundering
form: gazundered
form: gazundered
Etymology: Blend of gazump + under
Senses: glosses: To reduce the offer price of a property after agreeing to a higher one (normally just before contracts are exchanged)
Related terms: gazump
gazunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzʌn.də/
ipa: /ɡəˈzʌn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gazunders
form: guzunder
Etymology: Because it "goes under" the bed. Correct - particularly colloquial in north of England - refers to pot for night soil which was kept under the bed, as toilets were outside (or even down the street).
Senses: examples: text: While Frank and Walt and Lou and Tommy had looked on, their mam had filled the guzunder up to its rim with a grotesque and undiscriminating mix of spirits […].
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 318:
glosses: A chamber pot.
inducted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of induct
stare decisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stârʹē dĭ.sīʹsĭs
ipa: /ˈstɛəɹi dɪˈsaɪsɪs/
ipa: /ˈstɛəɹi dɪˈsaɪsɪs/
Etymology: From the Latin stāre (“to stand; to stay, to remain”) + dēcīsīs (ablative plural of dēcīsus, from dēcīdō (“I sever, I decide”); literally "to stand by decided matters".
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, Walter F. Murphy, a student of judicial politics, noted that stare decisis provides the “harried judges who face difficult choices with a welcome decision-making crutch.”
ref: 2006, Saul Brenner, Harold J. Spaeth, Stare Indecisis: The Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946–1992, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: The doctrine of stare decisis is the second stage of the analysis, because if a decision is wrong, then you have to decide whether you should keep it, for many of the reasons you say — stability, reliance interests, etc.
ref: 2025 October 16, Ross Douthat, quoting Amy Coney Barrett, “Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: The principle of following judicial precedent.
Related terms: status quo
brassica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæs.ɪ.kə/
Forms: form: brassicas
form: brassicae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin brassica.
Senses: examples: text: The destruction of the roots of brassicae by the Cabbage Root Fly and the tunnels in carrots and onions caused by the larvae of the Carrot and Onion Flies respectively, usually followed by rotting of the affected plants, are very frequently observed, whereas in the past, measures for the control of these pests have been very inadequate. […] When visited on June 13 over 50 per cent. of the brassicae were attacked by cabbage root maggot and many had already been transplanted.
ref: 1930, Welsh Journal of Agriculture, pages 296 and 340:
text: Some brassicae, particularly cauliflower, kale and swedes, may show symptoms similar to boron deficiency which are due to other causes. […] It has been found that seed dressings of molybdate are effective in overcoming molybdenum deficiency in peas and beans and it was suggested that a similar technique should also be tried with brassicae.
ref: 1957, Technical Bulletin, pages 145 and 213:
text: Selective weed control in onions, leeks, and some brassicae. Time of Application: Brassicae—two to four true leaves. Onions—after the crook stage. Leeks—after the crook stage, but before four leaves have developed.
ref: 1959, Commercial Grower Handbook and Diary, page 93:
synonyms: crucifer
glosses: Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes
Derived terms: glucobrassicin
Related terms: Brassica
day sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day signs
Senses: glosses: Any of 20 glyphs used, along with a number from 1 to 13, in traditional Mesoamerican calendars to identify their 260 days.
unbelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnbɪˈliːf/
Forms: form: unbeliefs
Etymology: From Middle English unbilefe, unbileve, equivalent to un- + belief.
Senses: examples: text: And he coulde there ſhewe no myracles butt leyd his hondꝭ apon a feawe ſicke foolke ãd healed thẽ. And he merveyled at their vnbelefe.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark vj:[5–6], folio lj, recto:
text: On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 35:
text: Soon Spinoza was regarded as the standard-bearer for unbelief, even though pervading his carefully-worded writings there is a clear notion of a divine spirit inhabiting the world, and a profound sense of wonder and reverence for mystery.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 781:
glosses: An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief.
Related terms: word: disbelief
word: doubt
offenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offender
wrestled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrestle
correspondents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correspondent
stirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stir
stirs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stir
gusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: plural of gust
gusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gust
disaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disaccharide
injunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of injunction
saccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharide
monosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosaccharide
horrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horrified
form: most horrified
Senses: examples: text: No one was more horrified than Chauncey Goodrich, scion of an old, elite family in Hartford
ref: 2003, John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, page 358:
glosses: Struck with horror.
Derived terms: horrifiedly
unhorrified
horrified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of horrify
blunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blunder
blunders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blunder
bitterest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bitter: most bitter.
marvels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marvel
marvels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marvel
throbbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of throb
conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conference
conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conference
risked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of risk
relet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relets
form: reletting
form: relet
form: relet
Etymology: From re- + let.
Senses: glosses: To let a property again
relet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relets
Etymology: From re- + let.
Senses: glosses: A property that has been let again
desugared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desugar
desugared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desugared
form: most desugared
Senses: glosses: Having some or all the sugar removed
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having had the syntactic sugar removed
chromalveolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromalveolates
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A grouping of eukaryotes, of the taxon Chromalveolata, comprising the Chromista and the alveolates.
alveolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alveolatus, from alveolus (“cavity”). For the protists, a borrowing of translingual Alveolata.
Senses: glosses: Having a structure containing honeycomb-like cavities.
Derived terms: alveolated
alveolation
alveolisation
 alveolization
alveolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveolates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alveolatus, from alveolus (“cavity”). For the protists, a borrowing of translingual Alveolata.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of a grouping of protists comprising the ciliates, sporozoa and dinoflagellates.
unikont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unikonts
Etymology: From uni- (“one”) + -kont (“flagellate”) from Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”).
Senses: examples: text: Today, it is thought based on DNA sequence data that the Fungi form a clade in the eukaryotic supergroup Unikonta (“unikonts”), which also includes animals and several protist lineages.
ref: 2017, David A. Baum, The Princeton Guide to Evolution, page 153:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A eukaryotic cell with a single flagellum; thought to be the ancestor of all animals and fungi.
Related terms: bikont
bikont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikonts
Etymology: From bi- (“twice”) + -kont (“flagellate”) from Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A eukaryotic cell with two flagella; thought to be the ancestor of all plants.
Related terms: unikont
streptophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptophytes
Etymology: From strepto- (“twisted”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a very large group of organisms, of the division Streptophytina, which includes the green algae and most other plants.
scramblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrambler
green algae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green alga
scrapheaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrapheap
green alga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green algae
Senses: examples: text: Green algae cells have nuclei; pigments in distinct bodies.
ref: 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Any of very many plant organisms, of the phyla Chlorophyta and Charophyta, that grow in damp places; a chlorophyte.
chlorophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorophytes
Etymology: From chloro- (“green”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Also consistent with the notion that chlorophytes require high light was the unprecedented appearance of the desmid Hyalotheca dissiliens that occurred when gypsy moth larvae defoliated the tree canopy overhanging a Rhode Island stream (Sheath et al., 1986).
ref: 1996, Walter Hill, “5: Effects of Light”, in R. Jan Stevenson, Max L. Bothwell, Rex L. Lowe, editors, Algal Ecology: Freshwater Benthic Ecosystems, page 139:
text: Haploid flagellated spores dominate the life cycle of Chlamydomonas, a single-celled, freshwater chlorophyte (Figure 20.13).
ref: 2008, Cecie Starr, Christine A. Evers, Lisa Starr, Biology: Concepts & Applications, page 326:
text: Although there are as many ways to classify the chlorophytes as there are texts and publications discussing it, especially as new research becomes available, this chapter will focus on the scheme described in Graham and Wilcox (2000) and Wehr and Sheath (2003).
ref: 2010, American Water Works Association, chapter L, in Algae: Source to Treatment, page 154:
glosses: Any of the green algae that make up the division Chlorophyta
Synonyms: green alga
Derived terms: microchlorophyte
prochlorophyte
Related terms: chlorophytal
chlorophytic
beatify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈætɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: beatifies
form: beatifying
form: beatified
form: beatified
Etymology: From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).
Senses: synonyms: word: blissen
word: elate
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To make blissful.
examples: text: [T]hat assertion of the wise man: 'Labor not for riches; wilt thou set thy heart on that which is not?' it, well applied, will pluck down the high places reared to this great idol of clay in men's hearts: will confute the common conceits and phrases which so beatify wealth; […]
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “Sermon XLVI. The Consideration of our Latter End.”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume III, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1831, →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
Related terms: beatification
Blessed
scaliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scaly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being scaly, the state of having scales.
Synonyms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: leprosity
scabbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scabby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being scabby, of having or being covered with scabs.
scaredy-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaredy-cats
form: scaredy cat
Etymology: From scared + -y + cat.
Senses: examples: text: I don't care — I wouldn't be such a scaredy-cat for anything.
ref: 1918, Florence Kiper Frank, “The Child and the Little Sister”, in The Midland, volume 4, page 61:
text: Oh, yes, do let's dance together—it's so nice to meet a man who isn't a scaredy-cat about catching my beri-beri.
ref: 1933, Dorothy Parker, The Waltz:
synonyms: word: fraidy cat
word: scaredy pants
word: bottler
word: caitiff
word: candy-ass
word: candy-arse
word: coistril
word: coward
word: chicken
word: chicken liver
word: chickenshit
word: cocktail
word: cowardy custard
word: craven
word: dog
word: fraidy cat
word: funker
word: gutless wonder
word: invertebrate
word: jessie
word: lizard
word: milquetoast
word: nancy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: nidget
word: niding
word: nithing
word: piece of crap
word: piece of shit
word: pisspants
word: pullet
word: punk
word: pussy
word: pussyhole
word: quiche-eater
word: quakebreech
word: quakebuttock
word: recreant
word: scaredy cat
word: scaredy pants
word: shithouse
word: sissy
word: slag
word: sluggard
word: snool
word: sook
word: weak sister
word: wheyface
word: yellow belly
word: yellow back
glosses: A coward; a person who is easily frightened or high-strung and easily scared.
scariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The video is part of a growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains called “creepypasta” — bite-sized bits of scariness that have joined the unending list of things-to-do-when-you’re-bored-at-work.
ref: 2010 November 14, “Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares”, in The New York Times, Austin Considine:
glosses: The property of being scary.
schematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From schematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a schematic. Drawn or described rather than an example.
schlepp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: schlepps
form: schlepping
form: schlepped
form: schlepped
Etymology: From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan.
Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
Senses: examples: text: “You schlepp all the way down here, I’m going to deal with you straight.”
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of schlep.
schlepp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: schlepps
Etymology: From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan.
Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlep.
schlocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɑki/
ipa: /ˈʃlɒkiː/
note: older
ipa: /ˈʃlɒkɪ/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: schlockier
form: schlockiest
form: shlocky
Etymology: From schlock + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of inferior quality, cheap.
examples: text: But España's schlockier, more commercial fare has been unapologetically added this time around—including Day of the Beast (above), about a priest who hooks up with a heavy-metal-head in order to prevent the imminent arrival of the Antichrist.
ref: 1996 December 9, “Festival Spanish Fly”, in New York, page 98:
text: Moreover, Drive Angry offers evidence that Cage hasn't recently been one-note in his performances so much as in his choice of schlocky material.
ref: 2011 June 3, Benjamin Mercer, “On ‘Drive Angry,’ the Schlocky Role Nicolas Cage Was Born to Play”, in The Atlantic:
text: The psychological twists are much more effective than the schlocky and obvious jump scares, with Rodgers’ dexterous, multifaceted performance a particular highlight.
ref: 2022 October 3, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, “Ghost Stories review – more schlocky than scary but there’s fun to be had”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Tacky, of tasteless appearance.
iter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: iters
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iter (“passage”).
Senses: examples: text: This fluid passes through the main iters which connect the various ventricles and filters through the thin membranes of the brain and cord, equalizing the pressure at all points.
ref: 1916, Mayo Clinic, Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation, page 869:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A passage, especially the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the cerebral aqueduct.
Derived terms: iteral
scrawniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrawny + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We threw the fish back because of its scrawniness; there was no meat on it.
glosses: The property of being scrawny.
screenwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenwriters
Etymology: From screen + writer.
Senses: glosses: One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.
Synonyms: scriptwriter
Derived terms: co-screenwriter
screenwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screenwriter
scrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɑd/
ipa: /skɹɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: scrods
form: schrod
form: escrod
form: scrode
Etymology: One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced.
Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).
Senses: glosses: Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.
scrod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɑd/
ipa: /skɹɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: schrod
form: escrod
form: scrode
Etymology: One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced.
Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).
Senses: glosses: To shred.
scrod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɑd/
ipa: /skɹɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: schrod
form: escrod
form: scrode
Etymology: One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced.
Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screw (“have sex”)
mucro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucros
form: mucrones
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mucro. From 17th century.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola.
Derived terms: mucronate
mucronule
sculptress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculptresses
Etymology: From sculptor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Nor may vve here omit to celebrate for the glory of the Sex, Propertia de Roſſi, a Florentine Sculptreſs; vvho having cut ſtupendious things in Marble, put forth alſo ſome rare things in Stampi to be encountred amongſt the Collections of the Curious.
ref: 1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of the Invention and Progresse of Chalcography in Particular; together with an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters, and Their Workes”, in Sculptura: Or The History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. […], London: […] J[ames] C[ottrel] for G. Beedle [i.e., Gabriel Bedell], and T[homas] Collins, […], and J[ohn] Crook […], →OCLC, book I, pages 52–53:
text: The opening of GALAS in Boston signifies the first organized presentation of lesbian-created art in this city. Over 60 photographers, painters, craftswomen, sculptresses, and performing artists are participating in this month-long celebration.
ref: 1980 August 2, C. T. McKee, Marcia Geier, “The Great American Lesbian Art Show Comes To Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
synonyms: sculptrix
glosses: A female sculptor.
scathingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scathingly
form: most scathingly
Etymology: From scathing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.
ref: 2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: In a scathing manner.
opisthokont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈpɪsθəʊ̆kɒnt/
Forms: form: opisthokonts
Etymology: From opistho- + -kont (“flagellate”) from Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”).
Senses: examples: text: Based on a single posterior flagellum (opisthokont), flattened, nondiscoid mitochondrial cristae, a chitinous exoskeleton, storage of glycogen instead of starch, lack of chloroplasts, and the code UGA for tryptophan, not chain termination, in their mitochondria, Cavalier-Smith [54] suggests a common origin of the true fungi with animalia and choanoflagellate protozoa (fig. 1).
ref: 2002, Michael Breitenbach, Reto Crameri, Samuel B. Lehrer, Fungal Allergy and Pathogenicity, Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, →ISBN, page 211, →ISBN:
text: However, these characters are only sporadically found among the various opisthokont allies (described above).
ref: 2004, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue, Assembling the Tree of Life, Oxford University Press (USA), →ISBN, page 68, →ISBN:
text: Although the group embraces taxa that are diverse in morphology and life history, cells of undisputed opisthokonts have a single emergent flagellum which projects behind the cells while they swim. This is treated as defining the opisthokont ancestry.
ref: 2006, Laura Katz Olson, Debashish Bhattacharya, Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 13, →ISBN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of very many eukaryotes, including animals and fungi, whose flagellate cells (if any) propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
Hypernyms: unikont
Related terms: opistho-
Opisthokonta
adult movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adult movies
Senses: synonyms: adult film
glosses: A pornographic film.
direful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more direful
form: most direful
Etymology: From dire + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
ref: 1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:
text: read what destiny / Or other dyrefull hap from heaven or hell / Hath wrought this wicked deed […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: "As whence the sun gins his reflection, shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break."
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Fearful, terrible.
Synonyms: dire
terrible
Derived terms: direfully
direfulness
scaredy-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaredy-cat
prescind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prescinds
form: prescinding
form: prescinded
form: prescinded
Etymology: From Latin praescindo (“I cut off in front”), from prae- (“before”) + scindō (“split, divide”).
Senses: examples: text: In making real-world contracts with someone else, for whatever purpose, we expressly prescind from the other party's personal, private motivation. I may agree to mow your lawn for ten dollars because I like mowing lawns, because it is the only skill I possess, because it is the only skill that anyone else is willing to purchase from me, and so endlessly on. But all you can demand from me is a mown lawn
ref: 1998 Fall, Alan Ryan, “In a Conversational Idiom.”, in Social Research, volume 65, number 3, pages 473–489:
text: But one cannot prescind from humanity. There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.
ref: 2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home:
glosses: To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
raw_tags: with from
examples: text: The result of Attention, by concentrating the mind upon certain qualities, is thus to withdraw or abstract it from all else. In technical language, we are said to prescind the phenomena which we exclusively consider. To prescind, to attend, and to abstract, are merely different but correlative names for the same process; and the first two are nearly convertible. When we are said to prescind a quality, we are merely supposed to attend to that quality exclusively.
ref: c. 1838, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, edited by Henry Longueville Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Logic (Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic; volume 3), Blackwood, published 1860:
glosses: To pay exclusive attention to.
Related terms: prescindent
prescission
syntenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: located on the same chromosome
raw_tags: of multiple genes
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: showing identical gene order in multiple species
raw_tags: of a genomic region
Derived terms: bisyntenic
unisyntenic
syntenic group
Related terms: synteny