cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lassies
Etymology: From lass + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lassie.
sublacustrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sublacustrine
form: most sublacustrine
Etymology: From sub- + lacustrine.
Senses: glosses: Below the surface (and especially near the bottom) of a lake
Synonyms: word: sublacune
word: sublacustric
permeabilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: … 4 mL transfection cocktail are added per dish for the adsorption phase, permeabilizations are carried out using 5 mL DMSO solution, and 5 mL growth medium are used …
ref: 1997, Rocky S. Tuan, Recombinant Gene Expression Protocols: .Recombinant gene expression protocols, page 331:
glosses: plural of permeabilization
perishablenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: … and perishablenesses of the outer world, hope will not chase a shadow, nor effort toil for very vanity. The psalmist sought to calm his hot heart by the …
ref: 1903, Marcus Dods, Robert Alexander Watson, Frederic William Farrar, An Exposition of the Bible: A Series of Expositions Covering All the Books ..., page 108:
glosses: plural of perishableness
gold diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold digger
extraordinary professor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraordinary professors
Senses: examples: text: He then taught Oriental languages at the Academy of Münster, and in 1871 was appointed extraordinary professor.
ref: 1913, “Gustav Bickell”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913):
glosses: In Germany, professor without chair, often in a side-area, or being subordinated to a professor with chair.
yottaseconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yottasecond
zymologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zymologist
extraordinary professors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraordinary professor
must-sees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] with its fairy-tale turets rising above acres of green meadows, is one of Romania's must-sees.
ref: 2004, Steve Kokker, Romania & Moldovia, page 109:
text: Blockbusters and primetime must-sees are not cornerstones of either business, nor are they chasing ticket sales or advertising dollars.
ref: 2018, Mark Sweney, “Battle rejoins between TV’s two biggest stars: Netflix and Amazon”, in Guardian:
glosses: plural of must-see
silent key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent keys
Etymology: Key refers to a Morse key.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A deceased ham radio operator.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see silent, key.
unfreedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfreedoms
Etymology: From un- + freedom.
Senses: examples: text: A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress.
ref: 1964, Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man […] , Boston: Beacon Press, page 1:
text: It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
ref: 2002, Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, →ISBN, page 2:
text: She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 528:
synonyms: illiberty
slavery
glosses: The condition of being unfree.
examples: text: Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society.
ref: 2003, Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom, →ISBN, page 340:
synonyms: restriction
glosses: A particular limitation of one's freedom.
teevee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teevees
form: teevy
Etymology: Respelling of the abbreviation TV.
Senses: examples: text: On teevee, everyone looked the same. People were just different shades of grey. If the sky was grey on teevee, I knew it meant blue.
ref: 2002, Buck Song Koh, Umej Bhatia, From Boys to Men:
glosses: television
ancilliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ancilliary
form: most ancilliary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ancillary.
spivias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amphetamine
appals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appal
point mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point masses
form: pointmass
Senses: qualifier: classical mechanics
glosses: A theoretical point with mass assigned to it.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution with unity probability mass at one specific outcome, and zero probability mass everywhere else.
Related terms: point particle
monitories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monitory
Appalachians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/
ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.tʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
homophone: appellations
ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃənz/
rhymes: -ætʃənz
Etymology: See Appalachian.
Senses: glosses: A range of mountains in eastern North America, running northeast from Alabama in the United States to Newfoundland in Canada, variously including or excluding the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York.
glosses: The portion of this area which lies in the southern United States, as a socioeconomic region.
Appalachians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/
ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.tʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
homophone: appellations
ipa: /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃənz/
rhymes: -ætʃənz
Etymology: See Appalachian.
Senses: glosses: plural of Appalachian
KPI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KPIs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of kingpin inclination.
topics: management
glosses: Initialism of key performance indicator.
Coordinate terms: sense: key performance indicator
english: key risk indicator
translation: key risk indicator
word: KRI
key performance indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key performance indicators
Senses: topics: management
glosses: A financial or non-financial metric used to help an organization define and measure progress towards its goals.
Synonyms: KPI
Derived terms: KPI
Related terms: english: CSF
translation: CSF
word: critical success factor
alt: KRI
word: key risk indicator
word: performance metric
wild goose chases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild goose chase
wild-goose chases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild-goose chase
unsounder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unsound: more unsound
unsoundest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unsound: most unsound
red herrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red herring
undoings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undoing
mesophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesophyte
absence seizures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absence seizure
unacceptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unacceptabilities
Etymology: From unacceptable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being unacceptable.
undercarriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercarriage
ungodlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ungodly: more ungodly
ungodliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of ungodly: most ungodly
webbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webbooks
form: web book
Etymology: From Web + book.
Senses: glosses: A book that may be read via the Internet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several portable computers (or similar) that have access to the Internet and are primarily used to read such books.
Related terms: e-book
modesty panels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modesty panel
irezumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese いれずみ.
Senses: glosses: traditional Japanese tattooing
underrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underrate
underrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underrate
understatements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understatement
upraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upraise
upraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upraise
upraising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upraisings
Senses: glosses: A raising upward.
modishest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]
ref: 1837, The Athenaeum, page 863:
glosses: superlative form of modish: most modish
uptakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uptake
rankles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rankle
rankling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rankle
rankling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranklings
Senses: examples: text: I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass:
glosses: A sensation that rankles.
rankled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rankle
reappropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.əˈpɹoʊpɹieɪt/
Forms: form: reappropriates
form: reappropriating
form: reappropriated
form: reappropriated
Etymology: From re- + appropriate.
Senses: coordinate_terms: expropriate
glosses: To seize and reassign.
examples: Near-synonym: reassign
glosses: To appropriate again.
examples: text: Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reappropriated as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.
text: The term 'People of the Book' has been reappropriated as a means of self-identification by Jews and by the members of certain Christian denominations.
ref: 2023 August 3, Wikipedia contributors, “People of the Book”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: take back
reclaim
coordinate_terms: appropriate
glosses: To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage the reclaimers' own social group.
Related terms: reappropriation
line art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: line drawing
glosses: Images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color).
topics: arts
graphic-design
media
printing
publishing
glosses: Artwork to be reproduced with one solid color, contrasted with artwork having tone or shading (halftones), or full color (color separations).
glosses: The outlines of a drawing as opposed to color, shading, and texture.
rentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rentable
form: most rentable
Etymology: From rent + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That apartment isn't rentable because it failed its building inspection.
antonyms: unrentable
glosses: suitable for, or capable of being, rented
unrentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrentable
form: most unrentable
Etymology: From un- + rentable.
Senses: examples: text: This apartment is unrentable. It failed its building inspection.
glosses: Not fit, suitable or appropriate to be rented.
rustbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rustbelts
form: rust belt
form: rust-belt
Etymology: From rust + belt.
Senses: examples: text: The rustbelt was hit hard by the recession because it no longer had the high-paying manufacturing jobs to keep the tax base up.
glosses: A region of dilapidated or former manufacturing concerns.
ab extra
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb ˈɛk.stɹə/
Etymology: First attested in the mid 17th century. Learned borrowing from Latin ab extra (literally “from outside”) From Late Latin ab (“from”) extra (“outside”).
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I wonder if this country is being controlled ab extra.
topics: law
glosses: From outside.
ab intra
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb ˈɪn.tɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ab intrā (“from within”).
Senses: examples: text: We need to get information ab intra to win this case.
topics: law
glosses: from inside; from within
qualitative research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
human-sciences
marketing
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A set of research techniques in which data is obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with statistical techniques.
Coordinate terms: quantitative research
quantitative research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantitative researches
Senses: glosses: The systematic scientific investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships, using statistical methods.
mouton enragé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmuːtɒn ˌɒnɹæˈʒeɪ/
ipa: /ˈmu.tɑ̃ ɑ̃.ɹɹɑˈʒeɪ/
Forms: form: moutons enragés
Etymology: First attested in 1826. Borrowed from French mouton enragé, a nickname given to French politician Nicolas de Condorcet by Turgot, from mouton (“sheep”) + enragé, past participle of enrager (“to enrage”).
Senses: examples: text: Remember not to enter the monastery; those monks can be real moutons enragés.
glosses: A normally peaceful person who has become suddenly and uncharacteristically angry.
wikipedia: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Nicolas de Condorcet
producent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: producents
Etymology: From Latin producens.
Senses: examples: text: Regularly , the doubtful and ambiguous Deposition of a Witness , ought to be construed and interpreted against the Party Producent
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who produces, or provides for inspection.
perceived temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceived temperatures
Senses: glosses: The apparent temperature of the environment; may be different from the actual temperature because of factors such as wind chill or humidity
basepair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basepairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of base pair.
Derived terms: kilobasepair
megabasepair
gigabasepair
basepair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: basepairs
form: basepairing
form: basepaired
form: basepaired
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To bind separate DNA or RNA sequences by base pairs.
basepairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basepair
basepairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of basepair
spam musubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spam musubi
form: spam musubis
Etymology: From spam + musubi, from Japanese 結び (musubi, “rice ball”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A food, common in Hawaii, made of cooked spam tied to a block of rice with nori, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared.
boneen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boneens
Etymology: -een (suffix forming diminutive nouns in Hiberno-English).
Senses: glosses: A piglet
waste not, want not
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Besides these, there were some little pleasures in the shape of helping her to vegetable she didn't want, and when it had nearly alighted on her plate, taking it across for his own use, on the plea of waste not, want not.
ref: 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VIII. They Dance More Wildly”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part I, page 114:
text: “They take the cocoa-nuts to the town kitchen,” said the captain, “to be made into cocoa-nut ice for the army breakfast; waste not want not, you know.”
ref: 1910, Edith Nesbit, chapter 2, in The Magic City:
text: I'm a believer in “waste not, want not”, and we roast our leftover bread, finely sliced and brushed with olive oil, in a low oven.
ref: 2006 July 9, Richard Corrigan, “Fish tales”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 05 Jul 2008:
glosses: If one is not wasteful then one will not be in need.
Coordinate terms: a penny saved is a penny earned
ocra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocras
Senses: examples: text: ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...
ref: 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pages 59–60:
text: Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.
ref: 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., volume I, page 222:
glosses: Alternative spelling of okra.
offuscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offuscates
form: offuscating
form: offuscated
form: offuscated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obfuscate.
Related terms: offuscation
face that would stop a clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faces that would stop a clock
form: faces that would stop clocks
form: face that could stop a clock
Senses: examples: text: He described the thug as a very ugly and wicked-looking man, with a face that "would stop a clock".
ref: 1891 March 20, “The Mystery Still Deep: Queer story told by a strange young Englishman”, in New York Times, page 5:
text: We realize that all women are fair only in theory and that if we arranged them in the order of fairness we should have at one end the face that launched a thousand ships and at the other end the face that would stop a clock.
ref: 1927, “Editorial Comment: Thinking Statistically”, in Educational Research Bulletin, volume 6, number 7, page 142:
text: Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, "the type girls go for like catnip." He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress. But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock.
ref: 2004 July 4, Barbara Hall, “Bookwise: Questions”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 05 Jul 2008:
glosses: A shockingly unattractive face.
examples: text: Hey darlin'
I can remember when you could stop a clock.
ref: 1983, John Cougar Mellencamp, Pink Houses:
glosses: A shockingly attractive face.
musubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musubi
form: musubis
Etymology: From Japanese 結び (musubi, “rice ball”).
Senses: examples: text: Unlike sushi, musubi is neither vinegared nor sweetened.
ref: 1996, Rachel Laudan, The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage, page 53:
text: Even the fact that it can be carved is endearing because it makes Spam easy to shape for sushi and musubi.
ref: 2006, Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
synonyms: onigiri
glosses: A ball of rice covered with nori (in Japanese cuisine, including in Hawaii), to which meat or salted or fermented vegetables are often added, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared.
Derived terms: spam musubi
upsadaisy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpsəˌdeɪzi/
Forms: form: ups-a-daisy
form: upsee-daisy
form: upsidaisy
form: upsy-daisy
Senses: glosses: An affectionate encouragement to a child who has fallen over or is being lifted up.
optate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɒpˈteɪt/
Forms: form: optates
form: optating
form: optated
form: optated
Etymology: From Latin optatus, past participle of optare.
Senses: examples: text: While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.
ref: 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:
glosses: To choose; to wish for; to desire.
Abzug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
leucocyanides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucocyanide
draggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæɡəb(ə)l/
Etymology: From drag + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Without a doubt, many programs would benefit if their listboxes and listviews supported dragging-and-dropping. Such listviews with draggable items are commonly used to gather items in a desired set for the user.
ref: 1995, Alan Cooper, About face: the essentials of user interface design:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being dragged.
Derived terms: nondraggable
undraggable
Related terms: drag and drop
draggable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæɡəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: draggables
Etymology: From drag + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An item that can be dragged by the user.
repressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repressible
form: most repressible
Etymology: From repress + -ible.
Senses: synonyms: unrepressible
antonyms: irrepressible
glosses: Capable of being repressed, controlled, suppressed or limited.
Derived terms: derepressible
irrepressible
repressibility
soddenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sodden + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His soddenness after being caught in the downpour argued against going out until he had dried out.
glosses: The property of being sodden.
glosses: The state of being completely drunk.
subsidizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsidizers
Etymology: From subsidize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who subsidizes.
subsidizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsidizer
arboreols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arboreol
not a pretty sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The navvy was certainly not a pretty sight. His muscular arms and legs were all a-sprawl and his head hung back at a strange angle to his body.
ref: 1890, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 44, in The Firm of Girdlestone:
text: Bud was not a pretty sight. Four days and nights of trying to see how much whisky he could drink, and how long he could play poker without going to sleep or going broke, had left their mark on his face.
ref: 1918, B. M. Bower, chapter 11, in Cabin Fever:
glosses: Something visually unappealing, ranging from mildly unattractive to utterly disgusting in appearance.
examples: text: Her lover, cheek by jowl with Maria, at the head of that army of Portuguese ragamuffins, was not a pretty sight.
ref: 1909, Jack London, chapter 35, in Martin Eden:
text: The Tariff Bill was rounded into shape for final passage by the House last week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists.
ref: 1929 June 23, “Impelled to Passage”, in Time:
text: They showed little remorse in using this power to its full extent, against each other, against smaller producers and against the laboring poor, including strong-arm tactics of no legality. The result was not a pretty sight.
ref: 2002, Simon Szreter, “The State of Social Capital”, in Theory and Society, volume 31, number 5, page 597:
glosses: Something disappointing, disquieting, disreputable, or otherwise unworthy of admiration.
reparational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reparation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His reparational acts were considered sufficient atonement.
glosses: Relating to, or serving as, reparation.
octane numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octane number
duplicitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more duplicitously
form: most duplicitously
Etymology: From duplicitous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a duplicitous, two-faced manner
Synonyms: hypocritically
smokies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokie
recombining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recombine
recombining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recombinings
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The exchanging of genetic material
recombining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recombining
form: most recombining
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That undergoes recombination
ravishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ravish
rabidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabidities
Etymology: From rabid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: rabidness
ragweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragweed
regressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regress
regressing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Undergoing regression
regresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regress
recuperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recuperate
recuperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recuperate
rhapsodizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhapsodize
rhapsodizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhapsodize
rhapsodizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhapsodizings
Senses: examples: text: For all his rhapsodizings about the education of the soul through contact with nature, W. H. Cobb expected his ballplaying son to master lots of printed pages.
ref: 1985, Charles C. Alexander, Ty Cobb:
glosses: The act of one who rhapsodizes; lyrical expression.
rhapsodized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhapsodize
refinishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refinish
refinishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refinish
refinished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refinish
roves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rove
gadders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadder
replayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replay
rustles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rustle
rustles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rustle
riverbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverbank
temporizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of temporize
Tagalogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tagalog
fast backward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fast backwards
form: fast backwarding
form: fast backwarded
form: fast backwarded
Senses: glosses: To cause the playout of (a video, audio, or other digital media file) to move very fast backwards in time, so that when the device is played, it will start at an earlier point.
glosses: Of a digital media file, to be so moved.
Related terms: fast forward
rewind
uvulopalatopharyngoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uvulopalatopharyngoplasties
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure used to remove tissue in the throat in order to widen the airway of the patient, typically carried out as treatment for sleep apnea.
uvulopalatopharyngoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty
leukapheresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluˈkʌfɜːriːsɪs/
Forms: form: leukaphereses
Etymology: From leuko- + apheresis.
Senses: glosses: A laboratory procedure where white blood cells are separated from a sample of blood.
lipotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipotomies
Etymology: From lipo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: A technique of human aesthetic medicine which aims at dissolving unwanted greasy clusters without any surgical acts.
morning-afters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning-after
morning afters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning after
boy crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boy crazier
form: boy craziest
form: boy-crazy
Senses: coordinate_terms: girl crazy
glosses: Having a great romantic or sexual attraction to boys of one’s age group.
cantala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantalas
Senses: glosses: Cebu maguey; a fiber from the leaves of Agave cantala.
boy crazier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of boy crazy: more boy crazy
boy craziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of boy crazy: most boy crazy
Camulodunum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Camulodūnum.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city in Britannia, Roman Empire; modern Colchester.
Related terms: Camelot
camelot
Camulos
Camulus
Stansted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the nearby village of Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex.
Senses: glosses: An airport to the north of London, in Essex, England.
Related terms: Stansted Mountfitchet
highpriest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highpriests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high priest.
Derived terms: highpriestly
renunciate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That renounces.
Synonyms: renunciant
renunciate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renunciates
Senses: glosses: One who has renounced.
Synonyms: sense: one who has renounced
word: renunciant
Related terms: renounce
renunciant
renunciation
woo hoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Woo hoo!" yelled Sue and David. "It's the weekend!"
glosses: Alternative spelling of woohoo.
existential crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: existential crises
Senses: examples: text: The existential crisis is, however, a crisis of our existence, our whole being. When we do find ourselves at that crossroad, everything we have and everything we are is on the scales.
ref: 1963, “The Existential Crisis In Intensive Psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy:
topics: existentialism
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A state of panic or feeling of intense psychological discomfort about questions of existence.
arval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arvals
form: arfal
form: arvel
form: arvil
form: arvill
form: arvall
form: arvel
form: arvell
form: averill
form: arvale
Etymology: From Middle English arvell, from Old Norse erfiǫl (“a funeral feast”), from arfr (“inheritance”) + öl (“ale”). Cognate with Danish arveøl (“a wake, funeral feast”). More at erf, ale.
Senses: examples: text: It was customary in the north to have an arval or funeral dinner after an interment.
ref: 1867, Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes, Late Merchant, page 65:
text: Only one better feast do I remember, and that was when we gave the arval for the old master when he died of the dropsy. That was a feast if you like. Such a one had never been heard of in the Valley.
ref: 2001, Christiaan Louis Leipoldt, Trevor Emslie, “Gallows Gecko”, in The Valley: a trilogy, page 204:
text: “Is there to be an arval dinner?” The arval was the traditional funeral feast celebrated throughout the Land Between the Lakes. It was customary to invite all who had known the deceased.
ref: 2008, Susan Wittig Albert, The Tale of Briar Bank, →ISBN:
glosses: A funeral feast or wake at which bread and ale was served, traditional in Scotland, the North of England, and among the Norse.
examples: text: […] Then quoth Hamtheow, etc.: 'We shall never come back to our mother [when we have slain the King of Goths]. Thou shalt drink the arval for us all together, for Swanhild and thy sons.'
ref: 1883, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell, Corpus Poeticum Boreale: Eddic poems, page 55:
text: Now for a sealing and making fast of this solemn covenant between you I see no likelier rede than that ye all join with me here this day in good friendship to forget your quarrels in drinking of the arvale of King Gorice XI., than whom hath reigned none mightier nor more worshipful in all this world, and thereafter depart in peace to your native lands.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: Hlod rode from the east, heir of Heidrek, he came to the court claiming his birthright, to Arheimar, the homes of the Goths; there drank Angantyrr arval for Heidrek. And so Hlod came to Arheimar […]
ref: 1960, Christopher Tolkien, The saga of King Heidrek the Wise, page 27:
text: And so we shall drink the arval for Ragnar, drink like heroes.
ref: 1994, Harry Harrison, The Hammer & The Cross, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: The ale served at such a wake, the drinking of which was a ritually significant act in Norse culture.
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: The money given to hunters, at the death of a fox, in order to buy ale.
Derived terms: arval-bread
arval-cake
arval-dinner
arval-supper
arvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arvels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of arval.
brachiovaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From brachio- + vaginal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a sexual practice (brachiovaginal insertion) wherein a hand or arm is inserted into a vagina.
Related terms: brachioproctic
fisting
brachioproctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brachio- + proctic.
Senses: examples: text: 1986, B Donovan, B Tindall, title, Genitourinary medicine
Brachioproctic eroticism and transmission of retrovirus associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
text: Further Indian men did not practice analingus, brachioproctic acts, or sex under the influence of drugs other than alcohol.
ref: 1991, B Kumar, “Sexual behaviour and HIV infection risks in Indian homosexual men: a cross-cultural comparison”, in International Journal of STDs and AIDS:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a sexual practice (brachioproctic insertion) wherein a hand or arm is inserted into the rectum.
Related terms: brachiovaginal
fisting
brachio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin bracchium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Arm.
Derived terms: brachiosaur
brachiosaurus
Related terms: brachial
MRDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MR/DD
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mental retardation and developmental delay/disabilities.
MRDD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: MR/DD
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mentally retarded and/or developmentally delayed/disabled.
MR/DD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MRDD.
MR/DD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MRDD.
Tokaj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Hungary.
benchmarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In both senses, blend of benchmark + marketing; but the two appear to have formed independently.
Senses: glosses: The misleading use of unrepresentative benchmark software results in marketing a computer system.
topics: business
glosses: The imitation of an aspect of another business where it is seen to excel, such as in supply-chain management or customer service.
Related terms: bullshot
limier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limiers
Senses: glosses: A limer; a bloodhound.
arval-bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bread made of pure wheat (as opposed to oats) and traditionally eaten at arvals.
bourguignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourguignons
Senses: examples: text: […] he brought it all up in one of those ice boxes, along with clams and scallops and bread, shortbread even. The guy would freeze his arm if he thought he could make a nice bourguignon with it.
ref: 2013, Lisa O'Donnell, The Death of Bees, page 126:
glosses: Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.
bonnetier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonnetiers
Etymology: From French bonnetier.
Senses: glosses: A hosier or maker of garments of similar material.
serious-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serious-minded
form: most serious-minded
Senses: glosses: solemn
candy man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candy men
form: candy-man
form: candyman
Senses: examples: text: “So your friend was into drugs, is that what you’re saying. He’s a Candy Man. That’s some friend to have, I don’t think.” She looked puzzled. “Candy Man,” she repeated. “I don’t understand.” A Candy Man is a slang term for a drug dealer,” I explained.
ref: 2015, John Holt, chapter 6, in The Candy Man, page 33:
glosses: A drug dealer.
examples: text: "There comes the candy-man!" exclaimed a little fellow, pressing up to the side of the lady. "Quick, ma! Here, candy-man!" calling after an old man with a tin cylinder under his arm.
ref: 1859, T. S. Arthur, chapter 18, in Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper:
glosses: A person who sells sweets, especially a sidewalk or street vendor.
candy-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candy-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of candy man.
nervosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nervosity
navarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navarin
offerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offerers
Etymology: From offer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The offerer must wait to learn if the offeree accepts the offer or rejects it.
text: The sacrifice also is a black lamb, which the offerer must present with averted head, and on Thursday evening.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 240:
text: The number or classes or potential offerers of satellite services should not be [limited] arbitrarily.
ref: 1970 January 24, “Administration's Recommended Policy on Satellite Communication”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who offers.
offerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offerer
nearsightednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nearsightedness
onagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onagri
Senses: glosses: plural of onager
needleworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlework
onagri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onagers
Senses: glosses: plural of onager
bigger picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigger pictures
Etymology: From a figurative sense of picture meaning "situation."
Senses: examples: text: look at the bigger picture
text: Highly anticipated as any meeting between these neighbouring nations might be, the bigger picture for Wales was always the Belgium match.
ref: 2025 September 9, Dafydd Pritchard, “England 3-0 Wales”, in BBC:
glosses: An understanding of a situation that includes more than what is immediately apparent.
Related terms: big picture
bigger pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigger picture
pointlessnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointlessness
pointlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointling
poisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poiser
poke salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poke salad
koulan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koulans
form: kulan
form: khulan
Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Russian кулан (kulan, “Asiatic wild ass”), ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قولان (kulan, “wild ass”), Kyrgyz кулан (kulan), Kazakh құлан (qūlan), Karakalpak qulan, Nogai кулан (kulan), Bashkir ҡолан (qolan), Tatar колан (qolan) and Mongolian хулан (xulan), a Turkic borrowing.
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
Synonyms: sense: Equus hemionus kulan
word: Transcaspian wild ass
sense: Equus hemionus kulan
word: Turkmenian kulan
sense: Equus hemionus kulan
word: Turkmenistani onager
businesspeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
ref: 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: plural of businessperson.
sound out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sounds out
form: sounding out
form: sounded out
form: sounded out
Senses: examples: text: You'll have to ask them—sound them out.
ref: 1918, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 24, in The Valley of the Giants:
glosses: To question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, intent, or preference, especially by using indirect conversational remarks.
glosses: To pronounce a word or phrase by articulating each of its letters or syllables slowly in sequence.
examples: text: Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
ref: c. 1855, Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, stanza 9:
glosses: To speak or sing loudly, to call out.
Synonyms: sense: to question and listen attentively
word: to feel out
sense: to question and listen attentively
word: to check out
nis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nisses
Etymology: From Danish nisse.
Senses: examples: text: No farm-house goes on well without there is a Nis in it, and well is it for the maids and the men when they are in favour with him.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth:
text: The people of the Feroes call the Nisses or Brownies Niagruisar, and describe them as little creatures with red caps on their beads, that bring luck to any place where they take up their abode.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 259:
glosses: A nix; a hobgoblin, especially one that resides in a farm house.
nis
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of ne is
koulans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koulan
terrazo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrazos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terrazzo.
Related terms: cultured stone
concrete
wireless adapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wireless adapters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several devices that allow connectivity from a PC or PDA to a wireless network.
bêtes noires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bête noire
virginal membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virginal membranes
Etymology: So called because the membrane is usually damaged by sexual intercourse.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hymen
joiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joiner
favoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favori
examples: text: God grant that the wreitter have no more socht the favoris of this present estait, no less the glorie of God, and the stable commoditie of his countrey, then did he quho enterprysed in that 'Blast' to utter his conscience.
ref: 1559, John Knox, Secound Letter to Mr. Cycill, for deliverance of ane uther to the Quein of England.:
glosses: plural of favor
political economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political economies
Senses: examples: text: Arguing for a limit on the power of money, [John Maynard Keynes] was faithful to a long tradition of political economy that was concerned with the balance of interests and the dangers of financial domination.
ref: 2012 July 8, Maurice Glasman, “We need to talk about Keynes – and his Viagra economics”, in The Guardian:
text: Ten years ago, David Simon’s iconic TV series The Wire portrayed contemporary Baltimore as wracked by illegal drug use, violent crime and failing institutions. But underneath the symptoms were the structures of political economy. As the show’s tagline had it, “everything is connected”.
ref: 2017 July 20, David Ritter, “Dirty coal to dirty politics: everything is connected through a malformed political economy”, in The Guardian:
text: Everywhere, international opposition to capitalism's global reach would have been fiercer; the Wall Street–City of London–Frankfurt axis that was to shape so much of global political economy in the 1990s and beyond would have been weaker.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system — capitalist, socialist, mixed, and so on — influence each other.
Synonyms: word: ergonomics
Derived terms: political-economic
political economics
political economist
toupet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toupets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of toupee.
provisorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provisoriums
Senses: examples: text: Our life is always a provisorium, a preparation for a better future.
ref: 1999, Stanislav Grof, The Consciousness Revolution, Boston: Element, page 7:
glosses: something provisional; a provisional solution or a preparation for a better future
destructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destructors
Etymology: From destruct + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who destructs.
glosses: A furnace or oven for the burning or carbonizing of refuse.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A function that runs when an object is no longer required, used to release any resources that it was using.
Related terms: finalizer
lande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landes
Etymology: From Middle English lande, londe (dative form), from Old English lande, dative singular of Old English land (“land”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of land.