cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punk-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punk-ass
form: most punk-ass
Etymology: From punk + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: I hate when guys address women as bitches, I be wanting to give his punk-ass stitches.
ref: 2014, Kim Prout, “Punkass”, in A Black Man's Inner Thoughts: 4:
text: Snitches get stitches for being punk-ass bitches,
ref: 2015, Scott Hildreth, Making the Cut (Selected Sinners MC, #1):
glosses: Obnoxious, stupid or otherwise unworthy of respect.
pale in comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pales in comparison
form: paling in comparison
form: paled in comparison
form: paled in comparison
form: pale by comparison
Senses: glosses: To appear small or unimportant in relation to something else.
pale in comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pale in comparison
form: most pale in comparison
Senses: examples: text: This is pale in comparison to that.
glosses: Synonym of pale in comparison.
synonyms: word: pale in comparison
Related terms: pale into insignificance
hold a candle
pumpkin head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin heads
Senses: glosses: A severe head injury resulting from a beating.
glosses: An Asian, from being reputed to have large round heads.
glosses: A New Englander.
parole board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parole boards
Senses: glosses: A panel of people who decide whether a prisoner should be released on parole.
marching bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marching band
wheel dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel dogs
Senses: glosses: One of the dogs positioned directly in front of the sled that absorbs most of the force during the sled's movement.
swing dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing dogs
Senses: glosses: One of the dogs directly behind the lead dogs, who help set the pace.
lead dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead dogs
Senses: glosses: one of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace.
Stateside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of stateside.
Stateside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of stateside.
bell out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bells out
form: belling out
form: belled out
form: belled out
Senses: examples: text: Her dress belled out at the bottom.
glosses: To open out into a bell shape.
bend down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bends down
form: bending down
form: bent down
form: bent down
Senses: examples: 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue.
glosses: To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.
Related terms: bend over
bet up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets up
form: betting up
form: bet up
form: bet up
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: To make one's bet
ouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouche
bind up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binds up
form: binding up
form: bound up
form: bound up
Senses: glosses: To wrap, as with bandages.
glosses: To tie together.
glosses: To wear a chest binder or begin chestbinding.
Related terms: bound up
blast away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blasts away
form: blasting away
form: blasted away
form: blasted away
Senses: glosses: To destroy by blasting with explosives.
examples: text: They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.
text: Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: To continue shooting rapidly.
raw_tags: with at
reascent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reascents
Etymology: From re- + ascent.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent ascent; the act or process of reascending.
blaze up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blazes up
form: blazing up
form: blazed up
form: blazed up
Senses: glosses: To burn more brightly
raw_tags: of a fire
glosses: to burst into flames from a seemingly non-burning state
raw_tags: of a fire
glosses: To begin smoking cannabis; to light up cannabis; to get high.
glaze up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glazes up
form: glazing up
form: glazed up
form: glazed up
Senses: synonyms: glaze over
glosses: To become glazed
glosses: to light up, to become more open, as if in expectation.
raw_tags: of eyes
bloody up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bloodies up
form: bloodying up
form: bloodied up
form: bloodied up
Senses: glosses: To make bloody; to cover in blood
blow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows down
form: blowing down
form: blew down
form: blown down
Senses: examples: text: I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down.
text: Part of the shed was recently blown down in a gale and has been removed, leaving rather inadequate accommodation.
ref: 1951 June, “Notes and News: Eskdale Railway Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 424:
text: A tree had been blown down on the track east of Chippenham. Bath Spa station became a scene of milling confusion. One minute we were told that trains were running. Then they weren't. Then they were again. Not a sound basis on which to try rejigging a business trip.
ref: 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in RAIL, page 58:
glosses: To knock over with an air current, most often wind.
examples: text: Blow down this enclosure and do some chip handling before you run this machine any further.
topics: business
manufacturing
coordinate_terms: rinse down#Verb
wash down#Verb
glosses: To clean off from top to bottom with an air current from a compressed air hose.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Synonym of dirty down.
synonyms: word: dirty down
glosses: To kill (someone) with a gun.
glosses: To signal to someone by blowing into a whistle.
Derived terms: word: blowdown
word: blow me down
Related terms: blow away
blow off
blow over
blow up
bottom out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottoms out
form: bottoming out
form: bottomed out
form: bottomed out
Senses: glosses: To reach the bottom; to reach the nadir or lowest point.
examples: text: Going over that speed bump, my car bottomed out.
glosses: To touch or drag along the ground or other surface.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
glosses: Of a vessel, to touch the bottom of a water body.
examples: text: The hard landing caused the oleos to bottom out and the gear struts collapsed.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To strike the lower mechanical stop and lose the ability to buffer further downward motion.
raw_tags: of a suspension or similar device
box up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boxes up
form: boxing up
form: boxed up
form: boxed up
Senses: glosses: To pack into boxes.
examples: text: to be boxed up in narrow quarters
text: “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: To confine.
examples: text: The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.
ref: 1948, Thomas Louis Stix, "Say it Ain't So, Joe.", page 243:
text: He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]
ref: 1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them.
Synonyms: sense: pack into boxes
word: box
bunch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bunches up
form: bunching up
form: bunched up
form: bunched up
Senses: glosses: To come or gather together.
-ergy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -εργία (-ergía), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Senses: examples: synergy
glosses: work
walking carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/
ipa: /ˈwɔkɪŋ ˈkɑɹpɪt/
Forms: form: walking carpets
Etymology: From a scene in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977), in which Princess Leia insults Chewbacca, a member of a race of hairy bipeds called Wookiees, by referring to him as a “walking carpet”.
Senses: examples: text: “Really.” Mac arched a thick eyebrow. “You didn't say anything about my body hair when we were going out together.” / Peter kept his eyes on the espresso and away from Mac's hairy wrist. “You're not like...that guy. You're not a walking carpet. And my God, you've got muscle definition.”
ref: 2003, Jonathan Cohen, chapter 2, in Bear Like Me: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN; republished Maple Shade, N.J.: Bare Bones Books, Lethe Press, 2011, →ISBN, page 18:
text: But then my true hair problems began. […] It was all the other hairs rearing their ugly heads—between my eyebrows, above my upper lip, around my jawline, down my neck, around my new breasts, down my front to my navel, over my arms and knuckles, right down my legs to my toes. I didn't recall ever seeing a woman shaving her face and "taking it all off' on that Noxema commercial. None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.
ref: 2003, Bhargavi C. Mandava, “To Apu, with Love”, in Ophira Edut, editor, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, 2nd expanded and updated edition, Emeryville, Calif.: Seal Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2018, page 72:
text: I had *some* chest hairs, but it wasn't nearly as much as some guys I've seen (there were a couple of guys I saw in the locker room at school, both seniors, who were practically walking carpets).
ref: 2011 August 7, Rightardia [username], “Transgender Stories – Troy! – Chapter 1”, in alt.politics (Usenet), message-ID <j1ksqd$fjv$1@speranza.aioe.org>:
glosses: An exceptionally hairy person.
wikipedia: Ballantine Books
Chewbacca
Princess Leia
threap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: threaps
form: threep
form: threip
form: threpe
form: threeap
form: thrape
form: threp
form: traep
form: traip
form: trep
form: trape
Etymology: From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below).
Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.
Senses: glosses: An altercation, quarrel, argument.
examples: text: And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise.
ref: 1738, James Fraser, Memoirs of the Life of the Very Reverend Mr. James Fraser, page 181:
glosses: An accusation or serious charge.
glosses: Stubborn insistence.
examples: text: Then, (since my soul disowns the impious threap, That death is only an eternal sleep;) Then with an aching heart, I long to know, How we, my Henry, in the shades below, Shall bear the sceptre and the iron rod Of the grim Tyrant of the dark abode.
ref: 1796, Thomas Muir, The Telegraph; a Consolatory Epistle:
glosses: A superstition or freet.
algidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algidities
Etymology: From algid + -ity.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The state of being algid.
Paddy's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Saint Patrick's Day
Old Father Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A personification of the river Thames
capsuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capsuliferous
form: most capsuliferous
Etymology: From capsule + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Bearing capsules
capsuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capsuliform
form: most capsuliform
Etymology: From capsule + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a capsule
capsuligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capsuligenous
form: most capsuligenous
Etymology: From capsule + -genous.
Senses: glosses: That gives rise to capsules
capsulotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsulotomies
Etymology: From capsule + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
Derived terms: postcapsulotomy
precapsulotomy
carbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbos
Etymology: Clipping of carbohydrate.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.
ref: 2002, Jennifer Hanson, The Real Freshman Handbook:
glosses: carbohydrate
Derived terms: carbo-load
khachapuris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hachapuris
form: hatchapuris
Senses: glosses: plural of khachapuri.
carbonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbon + -ification.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: coalification
glosses: The conversion of organic plant matter into coal over time in the absence of air.
Related terms: carbonization
carburization
carbon cycle
charcoalization
criminal records
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal record
watchlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of watchlist
beheaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beheader
vasopressor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin as a classical compound: vaso- + press + -or; the word is attested in its adjectival sense in a 1913 article of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1913;60[1]:47-48). The cognate word vasopressin seems to have arisen circa 1927; it is clearly inspired by its earlier cognate (surface analysis, vaso- + press + -in), and there are indications that it was coined in a certain pharmaceutical company's research laboratory, possibly with the plan to use it as the trade name for a preparation, but it became the common noun for the endogenous hormone (that is, antidiuretic hormone) immediately in the medical literature, and that company then used another name as its trade name. Compare also the morphologic parallels of angiotensin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the constriction of blood vessels, which usually causes a rise in blood pressure.
vasopressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasopressors
Etymology: To international scientific vocabulary from New Latin as a classical compound: vaso- + press + -or; the word is attested in its adjectival sense in a 1913 article of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1913;60[1]:47-48). The cognate word vasopressin seems to have arisen circa 1927; it is clearly inspired by its earlier cognate (surface analysis, vaso- + press + -in), and there are indications that it was coined in a certain pharmaceutical company's research laboratory, possibly with the plan to use it as the trade name for a preparation, but it became the common noun for the endogenous hormone (that is, antidiuretic hormone) immediately in the medical literature, and that company then used another name as its trade name. Compare also the morphologic parallels of angiotensin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pressor
presser
;
vasoconstrictor
antonyms: vasodepressor
vasodilator
glosses: An agent that causes such constriction; especially, a medication that tends to increase blood pressure.
Related terms: vasopressin
vasoactive § Related terms
watchlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I just watchlisted the "Word of the day" page.
text: I have the "Word of the day" page watchlisted.
glosses: simple past and past participle of watchlist
vasopressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasopressor
dialytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dialytically
form: most dialytically
Etymology: From dialytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Done in a dialytic manner or way.
Derived terms: electrodialytically
MSS.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1848: Taliesin Williams, Iolo Morganwg, Thomas Price, and Owen Jones [eds.], Iolo Manuscripts, preface, pages v⁽¹⁾ and vi⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ The Collection from which the MSS. contained in this Volume were selected, was made about the beginning of the present century, by Edward Williams the Bard, better known as Iolo Morganwg, with the intention of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian Archaiology, and subsequently proposed as materials for a History of Wales.
⁽²⁾ The Fac Similes (at pp. 90, 288,) shew the character of the hand-writing of two of the oldest MSS. contained in this Volume.
text: [...] if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling;
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of MS.
MS.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSS.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of manuscript.
threpe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: threpes
form: threping
form: threped
form: threped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of threap.
marginal seas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginal sea
do the rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the rounds
form: doing the rounds
form: did the rounds
form: done the rounds
Senses: examples: text: One bit of political speculation doing the rounds just before Christmas was that having lost the battle last year to kill off HS2 in its entirety, frustrated No. 10 advisers are now determined to settle the score by lopping off the eastern arm.
ref: 2020 December 30, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “All eyes are on HS2's eastern leg”, in Rail, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of make the rounds.
make the rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the rounds
form: making the rounds
form: made the rounds
form: made the rounds
form: do the rounds
Senses: examples: text: The naked photos of that celebrity have been making the rounds in the tabloids.
glosses: To circulate from one place to another.
examples: text: The doctors at the hospital check on the patients when they make the rounds at nine o'clock.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To go from one place to another for a particular reason.
Casablanca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæsəˈblæŋkə/
Etymology: From Spanish Casablanca, a calque of Portuguese Casa Branca, itself calqued from Arabic الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء (ad-dār al-bayḍāʔ, “the white home”).
Senses: examples: text: My dear Mademoiselle, perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca, human life is cheap. Good night, Mademoiselle.
ref: 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Major Strasser:
glosses: The capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco.
wikipedia: Casablanca
Derived terms: Casablancan
hastely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hastely
form: most hastely
form: hastly
Etymology: From haste + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But this good knight soone as he them can spie, / For the coole shade him thither hastly got […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Hastily.
embar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɑː/
Forms: form: embars
form: embarring
form: embarred
form: embarred
Etymology: From Middle French embarrer, from barre (“bar”).
Senses: glosses: To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
glosses: To prohibit, debar (someone from doing something).
wasteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪstnəs/
Forms: form: wastenesses
Etymology: From Middle English wastnesse; equivalent to waste + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian woestens (“wildness, savagery, fierceness”), Dutch woestenis (“wasteland”), German Wüstnis (“desert, wasteland”).
Senses: examples: text: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Zephaniah 1:15:
glosses: The state of being laid waste; desolation.
examples: text: Under her rays, the ground over which we passed assumed a more interesting appearance than during the broad day-light, which discovered the extent of its wasteness.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 3:
text: […] I cannot find words to express the intense pleasure I have always in first finding myself, after some prolonged stay in England, at the foot of the old tower of Calais church. The large neglect, the noble unsightliness of it; the record of its years written so visibly, yet without sign of weakness or decay; its stern wasteness and gloom, eaten away by the Channel winds, and overgrown with the bitter sea grasses […]
ref: 1856, John Ruskin, “Of Mountain Beauty”, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, , § 2:
glosses: The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren.
examples: text: She of nought affrayd, / Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A wilderness.
wastenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasteness
system pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Literally meaning “pulled from an already assembled system”.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A new computer part that has been removed from an unused, previously assembled system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A new computer part that has not been unpacked, but is excess inventory from an end-of-lifed system configuration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A used computer part.
Coordinate terms: OEM
off lease
open box
recertified
refurbished
white label
Related terms: NOS
new old stock
exhaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhalers
Etymology: From exhale + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who exhales.
carburization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carburizations
Etymology: From carburize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture or heat treatment of steel.
Derived terms: decarburization
Related terms: word: carbonization
word: carburation
word: carburetion
word: carburize
caricaturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caricaturable
form: most caricaturable
Etymology: From caricature + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Yet as with the American South, there is a distinctly caricaturable quality to rural Afrikanerdom, and the sophisticated Afrikaners of Johannesburg and Cape Town enjoy making fun of them.
ref: 2009, John Simpson, Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales, page 197:
glosses: Suitable for being caricatured.
Derived terms: uncaricaturable
carination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carinations
Etymology: From carina + -ation or carinate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A ridge, or similar formation, in the form of a keel.
Related terms: carinate
caroche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹəʊtʃ/
Forms: form: caroches
form: caroach
form: caroch
form: carroch
form: carroche
Etymology: From French caroche, from Italian carroccio.
Senses: glosses: A form of stately carriage or chariot
castellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkastələt/
Forms: form: more castellate
form: most castellate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix). Equivalent to Latin castellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)
Senses: examples: text: ...The living porphyry, in towers around
Grotesquely castellate...
ref: 1830, William Phillips, Mt. Sinai, i.212:
glosses: castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
examples: text: ...Heights castellate...
ref: 1864, Benjamin Disraeli, Revolutionary Epick, ii.xix.103:
glosses: Castled: having or furnished with castles.
synonyms: castle
incastellated
glosses: Housed or kept in a castle.
Synonyms: sense: made into a castle
word: fortified
sense: furnished with castles
word: fortified
castellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkastələt/
/ˈkastəleɪt/
/ˈkastələt/
Forms: form: castellates
form: castellating
form: castellated
form: castellated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin castellō (“fortify”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond...
ref: 1840, Henry Taylor, chapter XX, in Autobiography, volume I, page 321:
glosses: To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
examples: text: ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm...
ref: 1831, Unimore, John Wilson, i.77:
glosses: To take the form of a castle.
Synonyms: castle
incastle
encastle
incastellate
encastellate
fortify
Derived terms: decastellate
Related terms: castellation
castellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkastələt/
/ˈkastəleɪt/
Forms: form: castellates
Etymology: From Latin castellum + -ate (forms noun denoting a rank or office, here the concrete charge of this office).
Senses: examples: text: In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou...
ref: 1809, William Bawdwen translating the Domesday Book, p. 230
synonyms: castellany
glosses: The district of a castle.
up with the lark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: up with the larks
Senses: examples: text: "Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow," said Mrs Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
ref: 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, part 1 "The Window", chapter 1:
glosses: Awake and out of bed early in the morning.
Related terms: rise with the lark
early bird
castrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaˈstɹeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more castrative
form: most castrative
Etymology: From castrate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Causing (the effects of) castration.
Derived terms: castratively
castrativeness
catchpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchpennies
Etymology: From catch + penny.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: loss leader
glosses: A cheap item designed to attract purchasers of other goods.
glosses: A publication, etc. intended to make money, with no particular merit otherwise.
catenulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In the form of a chain of linked parts
catenulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catenulates
form: catenulating
form: catenulated
form: catenulated
Senses: glosses: To form into a chain
Related terms: concatenate
get up with the chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets up with the chickens
form: getting up with the chickens
form: got up with the chickens
form: got up with the chickens
form: gotten up with the chickens
Senses: glosses: to wake up early
Related terms: up with the lark
the early bird gets the worm
caudiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caudiform
form: most caudiform
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a tail.
Related terms: caudate
caulicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caulicles
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cauliculus (“little stalk”). Doublet of cauliculus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A small stalk or stem, especially the rudimentary stalk of a seed embryo
caulicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows parasitically on the stems of other plants
topics: architecture
glosses: Relating to a caulicole
cauliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From caulis + -ferous, or directly from New Latin caulifer, cauliferus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Giving rise to a stalk or stem
cauliflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having flowers on the stem.
Related terms: cauliflory
cauliflower
caulocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caulocarpous
form: most caulocarpous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing flowers and fruit on the stem or branches from year to year (as ordinary shrubs and trees)
causable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more causable
form: most causable
Etymology: From cause + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be caused
Related terms: causability
causably
cavicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cavicorn
form: most cavicorn
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having hollow horns
cavicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavicorns
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any animal having hollow horns
glosses: A hollow-horned ruminant, one of a group formerly treated taxonomically as Cavicornia.
cavillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavillations
Etymology: From Middle English cavillacioun, equivalent to cavil + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector.
ref: a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: The act of cavilling.
celestialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: celestializes
form: celestializing
form: celestialized
form: celestialized
Etymology: From celestial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make celestial or divine.
cellarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cellar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no cellar (especially no wine cellar)
celliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more celliform
form: most celliform
Etymology: From cell + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a cell; cellular
cellifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɛˈlɪfjʊɡəl/
/ˌsɛlɪˈfjuːɡəl/
Forms: form: more cellifugal
form: most cellifugal
Senses: glosses: cellulifugal
cellulifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cellule + -i- + -fugal.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: That carries nerve impulses away from a neuron.
Derived terms: cellulifugally
cellulipetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cellule + -i- + -petal.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: That carries nerve impulses towards a neuron.
Derived terms: cellulipetally
cellulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cellulate
form: most cellulate
Etymology: From cellule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Divided into chambers or cells; cellular, cellulated.
cellulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cellulates
form: cellulating
form: cellulated
form: cellulated
Etymology: From cellule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And then again, when we put what appears to be unorganised matter under the microscope, we frequently find it to consist of decayed organic or cellulated matter.
ref: 1896, William Caldwell, Schopenhauer's System in Its Philosophical Significance, page 97:
glosses: To make, or to become cellular.
biclustering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biclusterings
Etymology: From bi- + clustering.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The simultaneous clustering of the rows and columns of a matrix
Related terms: bicluster
triclustering
biclusterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biclustering
bicluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biclusters
Etymology: From bi- + cluster.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subset of rows or columns of a matrix produced by biclustering
biclusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicluster
planetocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From planeto- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: a planetocentric coordinate system
text: a planetocentric orbit
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a planet at the center.
Related terms: english: the Sun
translation: the Sun
word: heliocentric
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeocentric
english: Venus
translation: Venus
word: cytherocentric
english: the Earth
translation: the Earth
word: geocentric
english: the Moon
translation: the Moon
word: selenocentric
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areocentric
english: Jupiter
translation: Jupiter
word: zenocentric
english: Saturn
translation: Saturn
word: cronocentric
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: uranocentric
english: a star
translation: a star
word: astrocentric
english: a galaxy
translation: a galaxy
word: galactocentric
quasiblack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasi-black
Etymology: From quasi- + black.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a form of black hole that has a quasihorizon.
reacceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaccelerations
Etymology: From re- + acceleration.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent acceleration.
Iraqis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iraqi
stepsize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepsizes
form: step size
Etymology: From step + size.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The size of a step.
thermalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermalisations
Etymology: From thermal + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thermalization.
unrenormalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + renormalized.
Senses: glosses: Not renormalized
virialised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virialised
form: most virialised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of virialized.
virialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of virialise
centesimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centesimates
form: centesimating
form: centesimated
form: centesimated
Etymology: First attested in 1753; borrowed from Latin centēsimātus, perfect passive participle of the Latin centēsimō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from centēsimus (“hundredth”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); compare tertiate, quintate, sextate, septimate, decimate, and duodecimate.
Senses: glosses: To select one person in every hundred for a punishment.
Coordinate terms: sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅓
word: tertiate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅕
word: quintate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅙
word: sextate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅐
word: septimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅒
word: decimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₂
word: duodecimate
Related terms: centesimation
ceraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ceraceous
form: most ceraceous
Etymology: From Latin cēra (“wax”).
Senses: glosses: Waxy.
cerebriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the outer surface of the brain
Derived terms: cerebriformly
extatique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extatique
form: most extatique
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of ecstatic.
extirper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extirpers
Etymology: From extirp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: extirpers of tyrants
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An extirpator.
unpark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈpɑɹk/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈpɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: unparks
form: unparking
form: unparked
form: unparked
Etymology: From un- + park.
Senses: examples: text: Tuesday Mrs. Jennie Anderson, 366 North Ninth West St., received the ten-day-old letter asking her to go to Seattle and unpark the car.
ref: 1950, The Deseret News, vol. 332, no. 33, "Mother Recovers Car Outbound Son Parked
glosses: to remove (a car or other vehicle) from a parked position
examples: text: A small portion of that area near the sentry booth was left open for vehicular movements essential to parking and unparking.
ref: 1969, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 409 F.2d 1130
glosses: to remove a car or other vehicle from a parked position
examples: to unpark the head of a disk drive
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To release from the fixed position adopted when not in use.
extravasates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extravasate
extravasating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extravasate
extravasating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That undergoes extravasation
Derived terms: nonextravasating
extravasate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹævəˌseɪt/
Forms: form: more extravasate
form: most extravasate
Etymology: From Latin extra (“out-”) + Latin vas (“vessel”) + -ate (adjective forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Outside of a vessel.
extravasate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹævəˌseɪt/
Forms: form: extravasates
Etymology: From Latin extra (“out-”) + Latin vas (“vessel”) + -ate (noun-forming suffix)
Senses: glosses: That which is outside a vessel (especially blood or other bodily fluids).
extravasate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹævəˌseɪt/
Forms: form: extravasates
form: extravasating
form: extravasated
form: extravasated
Etymology: From Latin extra (“out-”) + Latin vas (“vessel”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix)
Senses: glosses: To flow (or be forced) from a vessel.
Related terms: extravasation
intravasate
ethnicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛθnɪkɒn/
Forms: form: ethnica
form: ethnikon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐθνικόν (ethnikón), neuter gender of ἐθνικός (ethnikós, “national”).
Senses: glosses: The name of a tribe; ethnonym.
ethnikon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnika
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ethnicon.
ethnika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnikon
ethn-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethno-.
ethnica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnicon
porteous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːtɪəs/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹtɪəs/
Forms: form: porteouses
form: portesse
form: porthors
form: porthos
form: portous
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman porteose, portehos, Old French portehors, from porte + hors (“outside”).
Senses: examples: text: And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, / That much was worne, but therein little red, / For of deuotion he had little care [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A portable breviary.
Synonyms: word: portuary
portesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of porteous.
mission impossible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missions impossible
form: mission impossibles
Etymology: From the television series Mission: Impossible, first broadcast in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Mission impossibles occur continuously.
ref: 1995, Jack W. Hunger, Engineering the system solution: a practical guide to developing systems, page xvi:
text: 2001, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Globalization and American trade policy: hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 107th Congress, first session, February 27, 2001, Volume 4, page 23,
Go out and educate and sell in the course of negotiating basic trade issues the mission impossibles.
text: Ten years ago, Julia Littlebury and I put together a booklet for parents who were doing their best to raise difficult children.[…]This would include children in foster care, adoptive homes and many children with one or both biological parents. We called the booklet Mission Impossible — Or Is It? (Ziegler & Littlebury, 1994).
ref: 2005, Dave Ziegler, Achieving Success with Impossible Children: How to Win the Battle of Wills, page 3:
text: The resulting differences in the demands on scientific versus journalistic information lead to the central question of this paper: Is journalistic work based on scientific findings a mission impossible or is there a way of combining complexity and simplicity in one text?
ref: 2007, Steffen Kolb, Steffen Nurkhardt, “Mission Impossible? Media Coverage of Scientific Findings”, in Hans von Storch, Richard S. J. Tol, Götz Flöser, editors, Environmental Crises, page 65:
text: Is the sound short, long or nasal? Sounds like mission impossible!
ref: 2011, Lorna Wright, Marie-Jo Morelle, 50 Ways to Improve your French: Teach Yourself, unnumbered page:
text: With exceptional capabilities and expertise unmatched by his peers—such as flexible thinking and tactful negotiation skills—Takasaki succeeded in accomplishing many missions impossible that nobody else could.
ref: 2012, Mayumi Itoh, Pioneers of Sino-Japanese Relations: Liao and Takasaki, page 204:
text: 2013, Marshall Fine, Stand by Me, Engage Me, Gary Cameron, Marshall Fine, Sarah Maiter, Karen Frensch, Nancy Freymond (editors, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents, page 73,
The impediments to equitable service are: missions impossible, lack of preventive services, need for follow-up, and provider inconsistency.
glosses: An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
wikipedia: Mission: Impossible
eloign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɔɪn/
Forms: form: eloigns
form: eloigning
form: eloigned
form: eloigned
form: eloin
form: esloin
form: esloyne
Etymology: From Middle English eloynen, from Anglo-Norman esloignier, Old French esloignier, from Vulgar Latin *exlongō, from Latin longe. Doublet of elongate.
Senses: examples: text: Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.
ref: 1860, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union:
glosses: To remove (something) to a distance.
examples: text: From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne, / And greatly shunned manly exercise [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).
esloyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of eloign.
yuie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ivy.
misdiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdaɪət/
Forms: form: misdiets
Etymology: From mis- + diet.
Senses: examples: text: Full of diseases was his carcas blew, / And a dry dropsie through his flesh did flow: / Which by misdiet daily greater grew […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Bad diet.
misdiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdaɪət/
Forms: form: misdiets
form: misdieting
form: misdieted
form: misdieted
Etymology: From mis- + diet.
Senses: glosses: To diet improperly.
up against it
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "But we are up against it, so what's the decision?" "It seems a most questionable step," said Summerlee, argumentative to the last, "but if you are all going, I hardly see how I can remain behind." "Then it is settled," said Lord John, and turning to the chief he nodded and slapped his rifle.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Yet as intelligently as Rafferty, back at left-back following her recovery from a third ruptured cruciate ligament, was defending against the dangerous Élodie Thomis her side were up against it.
ref: 2015 June 9, “Women’s World Cup 2015: England beaten by France in Group F opener”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: up against the wall
glosses: In a very difficult position.
Illyria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiə
Etymology: From Latin Illyria, from Ancient Greek Ἰλλυρία (Illuría), which may be from Illyrian *Hullurio (“(place or tribe) of the serpent”), from Proto-Indo-European *udlós. This is supported by the attestation of Hílurios by Plautus in Menaechmi (200s BC).
Senses: glosses: A vaguely-defined geographic region in Southeast Europe in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, approximately coincident with modern Albania.
glosses: A much larger former province of the Roman Empire, covering the whole of Dalmatia and Pannonia, existing from 27 BC to c. 70 AD and reconstituted in 293 AD by Diocletian.
Derived terms: Illyrian
Illyricum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former province of the Roman Empire, covering the whole of Dalmatia and Pannonia, existing from 27 BC to c. 70 AD and reconstituted in 293 AD by Diocletian.