cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pinching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinching
form: most pinching
Senses: examples: text: It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: That pinches, or causes such a sensation
Derived terms: pinchingly
pinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pinch
pinching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchings
Senses: examples: text: Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
ref: 2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River:
glosses: The act of one who or that which pinches.
examples: text: Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.
ref: 1926, Bimonthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, page 139:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The act of pinching off new growth.
examples: text: As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle").
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: theft
Derived terms: penny-pinching
chubb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chubbs
Senses: examples: text: Would you girls be offended if I got a chubb?
ref: 2001 October 11, Wavy G, “My son, your friends funeral.”, in alt.tv.real-world (Usenet):
text: Howard, great question and one that I often ponder while masturbating....as I use the soles of my feet to get a chubb going on my anaconda-like flesh taxi, I have considerable time to ponder deep, thought-provoking issues of precisely this nature.
ref: 2004 June 9, Marc Mulay, “Fuck France, Liberal Weenies”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):
text: Hey, I got a chubb for some Liederhosen clips!
ref: 2004 November 18, Willy Dougenfart, “Grid leak bias?”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):
glosses: An erection of the penis.
poisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poison
poisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poison
poisonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poisoning
mousery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouseries
Etymology: From mouse + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.
ref: 1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview)
glosses: A place where mice are kept and bred.
cattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəɹi/
rhymes: -ætəɹi
Forms: form: catteries
Etymology: From cat + -ery.
Senses: synonyms: cat hotel
coordinate_terms: kennel
glosses: A place where cats board when their owners are on holiday.
coordinate_terms: cat farm
cat mill
cat factory
kitten farm
kitten mill
kitten factory
glosses: A place where cats are bred.
Related terms: pet hotel
rattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹætəɹi/
rhymes: -ætəɹi
Forms: form: ratteries
Etymology: From rat + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where rats are housed in large numbers, usually for the purpose of breeding
examples: June 22, 1822, Sydney Smith, letter to Francis Jeffrey, Esq.
the rattery and scoundrelism of public life
glosses: apostasy; traitorousness
kunya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kunyas
Etymology: From Arabic كُنْيَة (kunya).
Senses: glosses: An epithet in Arabic names, typically deriving from the name of the bearer's first-born son.
Hypernyms: teknonym
SCAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of supreme commander of the Allied powers.
wikipedia: SCAP
sprucing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spruce up
Coulomb gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coulomb gauges
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical construct used in the theory of electromagnetic radiation.
appaloosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæ.pəˈlu.sə/
Forms: form: appaloosas
form: Appaloosa
Etymology: From a + Palouse + -a.
From the phrase "a Palouse horse", referring to the Palouse River near which they were first encountered by non-Native Americans. The river is named for the Palouse region; whether the region's name is (an anglicisation of) a francisation of the Sahaptin name of the Palus people or the people's name derives from a French designation of the region as pelouse is unclear.
Senses: glosses: A breed of horse having a spotted rump.
glosses: A horse of the breed
Related terms: Palouse
Palus
appaloosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæ.pəˈlu.sə/
Forms: form: appaloosas
form: Appaloosa
Etymology: Ellipsis of Appaloosa cat, Apaloosa catfish.
Shortening of "Appaloosa cat" (itself a shortening of "Apaloosa catfish"), after the Appaloosa (Opelousa) tribe which resided in Louisiana. The tribe's name is Choctaw, the second element of it being losa (“black”); the first element is variously supposed to be a term for "head" or "skull", "leggings", "moccasins", or "body".
Senses: examples: text: A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.
ref: 2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141:
text: On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa, blue and channel catfish.
ref: 2008, Harry Noble, Me and Burnice: A Simpler Time, page 167:
glosses: A catfish.
Related terms: Appalousa
Palouse
Palus
applier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appliers
Etymology: From apply + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or device that applies something.
appointive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From appoint + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The constitution adopted at Oakmulgee provides for […] the machinery of government in which the governor and legislature are elective by the people. The judges are appointive by the governor […]
ref: 1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., page 8:
text: It will be kind of nice, a year before your time, to be standing in the way of any appointive plums that may happen to fall; […]
ref: 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter XII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 164:
text: ‘It was an appointive job at one time but may not be now. […] Well, whatever the method is, appointive or elective, I have my dough on Gerald. He’s the logical choice.’
ref: 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 109:
antonyms: elective
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
apportionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apportionments
Etymology: From apportion + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
glosses: The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
glosses: The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
Derived terms: malapportionment
appositely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appositely
form: most appositely
Etymology: From apposite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an apposite manner.
Synonyms: apropos
apprehensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apprehensively
form: most apprehensively
Etymology: From apprehensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an apprehensive manner; with apprehension
archaeologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From archaeological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an archaeological manner.
glosses: Regarding archaeology.
Derived terms: bioarchaeologically
geoarchaeologically
osteoarchaeologically
architecturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more architecturally
form: most architecturally
Etymology: From architectural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
glosses: In an architectural manner.
examples: text: an architecturally important work
text: Architecturally the stations of the Tonbridge-Hastings line are of great interest. Wadhurst, Robertsbridge and Stonegate are of simple Italinate^([sic]) style, unspoiled by that necessary evil of a platform awning.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:
text: Our next train is the 0945 Largs service, which we'll take as far as Paisley Gilmour Street - an architecturally magnificent station.
ref: 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 43:
glosses: Regarding architecture.
argumentatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more argumentatively
form: most argumentatively
Etymology: From argumentative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an argumentative manner.
aristocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aristocratically
form: most aristocratically
Etymology: From aristocratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in an aristocratic manner
glosses: regarding aristocracy
appositeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appositenesses
Etymology: From apposite + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is a want of appositeness and accuracy in the first sentence of this extract, which renders it somewhat difficult to determine whether the author designed it as a single proposition, or as a series of independent propositions.
ref: 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 62:
text: For two years more he lingered, sinking slowly into unconsciousness and imbecility. Sometimes, propped up in his chair, he would be heard to murmur, with unexpected appositeness, the words of Samson [...]
ref: 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
text: And though in this instance the king [Louis XVI of France] promised to the extent that he feared, and broke his promises to the extent that he hoped, one cannot but marvel at the precise appositeness of La Rochefoucauld’s aphorism […] [that] promises were made 'to the extent that (men) hoped and kept to the extent that they feared' […]
ref: 1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution:
glosses: the state of being apposite
apprehensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apprehensive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being apprehensive
arbitrariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbitrarinesses
form: arbitraryness
Etymology: From arbitrary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: arbitrarity
Derived terms: nonarbitrariness
archness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archnesses
Etymology: From arch (“principal; primary; mischievous”, adjective) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Marianne was surprised and confused, yet she could not help smiling at the quiet archness of his manner
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 18, in Sense and Sensibility:
text: Meanwhile the farce was going on very successfully, and Mrs. Leary, in a hussar jacket and braided pantaloons, was enchanting the audience with her archness, her lovely figure, and her delightful ballads.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: There was something artless in Toby's delivery; he was working in the family tradition of teasing, but he was too relenting and couldn't yet match Gerald's heavy archness.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being arch.
arduousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːdjuːəsnəs/
Forms: form: arduousnesses
Etymology: From arduous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As it happens, the duo that made Triple Frontier boasts an impressive pedigree in cinematic arduousness.)
ref: 2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
glosses: The state of being arduous.
Synonyms: sense: state of being arduous
word: arduity
argumentativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argumentative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being argumentative
artlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artlessnesses
Etymology: From artless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being artless
glosses: the state or quality of being innocent; naïveté
appropriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appropriators
Etymology: From appropriate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: […] God is Love, and Christ is the Saviour of the World, and the Pharisaical Appropriators of Mercy and Salvation, do seldom know what spirit they are of.
ref: 1691, chapter 16, in An End of Doctrinal Controversies, London: John Salusbury, page 202:
text: He knew very well that he was the proprietor or appropriator of the money, which, according to all proper calculation, ought to have fallen to his younger brother, and he had, we may be sure, some secret pangs of remorse within him, which warned him that he ought to perform some act of justice, or, let us say, compensation, towards these disappointed relations.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 396:
text: It is a remarkable victory for the data appropriators that acquiescence has become the standard model for obtaining “consent”.
ref: 2016 August 31, Jathan Sadowski, “Companies are making money from our personal data–but at what cost?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person who appropriates something.
examples: text: And as for those Churches where all the Tythes both great & small are taken by the Appropriator, Wee ordaine that the Bishop of the Diocesse according to the Lawes of the Church shall allot out of the said appropriation, such maintenance to a sufficient Curate, as in equitie in his discretion shall seeme meete and competent.
ref: 1635, Church of Ireland, Constitutions, and Canons Ecclesiasticall, Dublin: XXXVII, page 52:
glosses: The religious organization that owns the income of a benefice.
Derived terms: cultural appropriator
appurtenant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɜːtɪnənt/
Forms: form: more appurtenant
form: most appurtenant
form: appurtenaunt
Etymology: From Middle English appurtenaunt, from Old French apurtenant.
Senses: examples: a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings
glosses: Of or pertaining to an appurtenance.
glosses: Ancillary or subsidiary.
appurtenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɜːtɪnənt/
Forms: form: appurtenants
form: appurtenaunt
Etymology: From Middle English appurtenaunt, from Old French apurtenant.
Senses: glosses: An appendage or attachment.
topics: law
glosses: An appurtenance.
arbitrament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈbɪtɹəmənt/
Forms: form: arbitraments
form: arbitrement
Etymology: From Middle English arbitrament, from Old French arbitrement. By surface analysis, arbiter + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […] thus a joint submission to arbitrament may be taken severally in respect of the severalty of the causes.
ref: 1846, George Spence, The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery (page 545)
text: They assert that the right may be given by the Fourteenth Amendment but the remedy can be refused by the public, and as we understand Hall and DeCuir, the courts of civil jurisdiction have only the office of affirming their discretionary arbitrament, as the Supreme Court did in that celebrated cause.
ref: 1889, Brotherhood of Liberty, Justice and Jurisprudence:
glosses: The judgement of an arbiter or arbitrator; an arbitration.
arborvitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑɹbɚˈvaɪti/
ipa: [ˌɑɹbɚˈvaɪɾi]
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [ˌɑɹbɚˈvəɪɾi]
ipa: /ˌɑɹbɚˈvaɪtə/
Forms: form: arborvitaes
form: arbor vitae
form: arborvitæ
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”) + vitae (“of life”), literally “tree of life”, probably referring to the evergreen leaves. The anatomical sense from the branched, tree-like appearance of the tissue.
Senses: examples: text: She was at that moment just outside the door, and from the position of the Colonel, framed between the pillars at the other end of the piazza and against the dark green foliage of an arborvitae standing beyond.
ref: 1862, Henry Morford, Shoulder-Straps […] , Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros.:
synonyms: tree of life
glosses: Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure.
archaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaists
Etymology: Either archaic + -ist or archaism + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies archaic things; an antiquary
glosses: A person who uses archaisms in language
Derived terms: archaistic
pseudoarchaist
archly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ärch′-lē
ipa: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃ.li/
Forms: form: more archly
form: most archly
Etymology: From arch + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him?
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: Though he intends it destructively, Rothbard is right that there are relations between the millennial hope for justice he archly calls KGE—Kingdom of God on Earth—and communism.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: In an arch manner; slyly.
archly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ärch′-lē
ipa: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃ.li/
Senses: examples: text: My eyebrows recently plucked archly.
ref: 1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: In the form of an arch.
argyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.ɡaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.ɡaɪl/
Forms: form: argyles
Etymology: From the Argyll branch of the Scottish Campbell clan, named after their tartan.
Senses: glosses: a pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background; used especially of knitwear
glosses: a sock having this pattern
glosses: A type of gravy warmer.
phenacetins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenacetin
school-age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school-ages
Senses: examples: text: One of the gloomy features of village-life is the absence of young men and young women from the scene. So soon as children have passed school-age, they are drafted off in large numbers into the towns for service or other employment.
ref: 1879, William Ogle, “XXII. Observations on Outbreaks of Diphtheria in Rural Districts”, in William Howship Dickinson, Thomas Pickering Pick, editors, St. George's Hospital Reports, volume 9, London: J. & A. Churchil, page 716:
glosses: Alternative form of school age.
Argyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Argyll.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A rural locality in the City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A rural municipality in Manitoba, named after Governor-General of Canada John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845 - 1914).
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A district municipality and community therein, in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Walton County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Clinch County, Georgia, named after Fort Argyle.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Boone County and Winnebago County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lee County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unorganized territory in Penobscot County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sanilac County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Marshall County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Maries County and Osage County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Washington County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Denton County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Rich County, Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in San Juan County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.
Argyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Senses: examples: text: This foot was covered with a blue and gray Argyle sock, and Mrs. Whatsit sat there, wriggling her toes, contentedly finishing her sandwich before scrambling to her feet.
ref: 1962, Madeleine L’Engle, “Mrs. Whatsit”, in A Wrinkle in Time, New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, 1973 printing, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of argyle.
Argyll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: Argyle
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Earra-Ghàidheal (“land of the Gaels”).
Senses: glosses: A former county of Scotland, now incorporated into Argyll and Bute.
glosses: A Scottish dukedom.
Synonyms: Argyllshire
Derived terms: Argyll and Bute
argyle
arraignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪnmənt/
Forms: form: arraignments
Etymology: From arraign + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This process, Mr. Rothfeld said, could be interrupted at any moment if prosecutors in Los Angeles successfully extradite him for an arraignment on the sexual assault charges there.
ref: 2020 March 11, Jan Ransom, “Harvey Weinstein’s Stunning Downfall: 23 Years in Prison”, in New York Times:
text: […]— the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.
ref: 2023 March 30, William K. Rashbaum, “This is what will happen when Trump is arrested in the coming days.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: The formal charging of a defendant with an offense; in many jurisdictions it includes their response in the form of a plea, typically as guilty, not guilty, or no contest.
Derived terms: nonarraignment
rearraignment
Related terms: indictment
arpeggiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arpeggiates
form: arpeggiating
form: arpeggiated
form: arpeggiated
Etymology: From arpeggio + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Keezer arpeggiated chords a little flashily, but justifiably so; […].
ref: 2007 January 12, Ben Ratliff, “High-Toned Scats and Purrs by a Low-Profile Jazz Singer”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play (a chord) as an arpeggio.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To represent separately on a score.
raw_tags: of the notes of a chord
Derived terms: arpeggiation
unarpeggiated
barbiturates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbiturate
amphetamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphetamine
sense of humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senses of humor
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of sense of humour.
sense of humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senses of humour
form: sense of humor
Senses: examples: text: I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:
text: The man’s right leg had been completely crushed in the crash, and he was losing a lot of blood.
“Mr Goodie,” began the doctor as soon as Dad had been rushed into the Accident and Emergency department at the hospital. “I have some very bad news. We have to amputate your leg.”
“Which one?” replied Dad, not losing his sense of humour at this dark time.
“The right one, of course. If we don’t operate straight away, there is a very real chance you will die.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Crushed in the Crash”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
humorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humorists
form: humourist
Etymology: From humor + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.
examples: text: She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist.
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 175
glosses: Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.
examples: text: Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: Art Buchwald, who satirized the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington.
ref: 2007 January 18, Richard Severo, “Art Buchwald, 81, Columnist and Humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd”, in The New York Times:
text: But when it comes to conveying what made these people funny, what impact they had in their day and, especially, what debt they are owed by present-day humorists, Johnson doesn’t put much meat on the old bones.
ref: 2010 December 24, Neil Genzlinger, “What’s So Funny?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
glosses: One who studies or portrays the humours of people.
Coordinate terms: comedian
comedienne
comic
clown
jester
Derived terms: humoristic
dirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirk
dirks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dirk
private limited liability company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private limited liability companies
Senses: glosses: A limited liability company that is not a public corporation
piece of eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of eight
Senses: examples: text: It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes — doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
synonyms: dollar
peso
piastre
glosses: The peso, a silver coin that was minted in Spain and its colonies from the end of 15th century, equal to eight reales (hence the name).
Brooklynite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʊklənʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɹʊkləˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: Brooklynites
Etymology: From Brooklyn + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: They have learned that if the Brooklynite is not as well treated at home as he is in New York he will spend a few cents for car fare and take his amusement across the river.
ref: 1891 May 2, Brooklyn Life, volume 3, number 61, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Brooklyn Life, →OCLC, page 16, column 1:
text: One Brooklynite sought to mail an umbrella and was told that it could not be sent with a tag, but must be wrapped up in a parcel, which would have made a London postoffice man laugh. Another Brooklynite seeking to mail a wooden box of cigars was told that he must find some place where he could buy corrugated paper, and wrap the cedar box with that before it could be sent through the mails.
ref: 1914 March 23, Greater New York: Bulletin of the Merchants’ Association of New York, New York, N.Y.: Merchants' Association of New York, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:
text: His collaborator was Robert Singer, a professor of English and film studies at Kingsborough Community College, who lamented this week that he and his fellow Brooklynites "have been archetyped to death."
ref: 2003 October 31, Clyde Haberman, “NYC; Not poifect, dem movies of Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2016:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Brooklyn, New York.
wikipedia: Brooklyn Bridge
bullectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: bullectomies
Etymology: From bulla + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure whereby small portions of the lung, called bulla, are removed. Bulla are large areas (> 1 cm in diameter) in the lung filled with oxygen-depleted air
Related terms: bullostomy
ægis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ægides
Senses: examples: text: Herodotus, as proof of this origin of Minerva, says, that the Greeks had taken from the Libyan women, the dress and the ægis with which her statues were represented: this dress was of leather: the ægis, as its name implies, was simply a goatskin died red and worn over the shoulders like a mantle: the extremity of it was cut into shreds or tassels, which the lively fancy of the Grecian artists converted into serpents.
ref: 1822, James Millingen, Painted Greek Vases, from Collections in Various Countries: […] (Ancient Unedited Monuments; series 1), London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 3:
text: [T]hree ex-Secretaries of State for War had learnt their military theory under the ægis of Regular soldiers. Now it is an admitted fact that, broad-minded and enterprising as soldiers have frequently proved themselves in matters unconnected with the actual corporate body to which they belong, they are, nevertheless, perhaps the most obstinate and optimistic advocates of a laissez-faire policy, which the interests of their own profession are at issue, that it is at all possible to conceive.
ref: 1913 March, “National Safety (II): The Real Obstacle to Military Reform”, in The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review Founded by James Knowles, volume LXXIII, number CCCCXXXIII, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., printers, →OCLC, page 490:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aegis.
egis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egises
Senses: examples: text: In her right hand Minerva bore a beaming lance, and in her left a buckler, called the Egis. The Egis of Minerva had embossed upon it the head of Medusa.
ref: 1849, [Eliza Robbins], “Minerva”, in Elements of Mythology; or, Classical Fables of the Greeks and Romans: […], 11th improved edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and for sale by Hogan & Thompson […], →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aegis.
smokist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokists
Etymology: From smoke + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who argues the case for smoking and promotes the rights of smokers.
dune buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dune buggies
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A recreational vehicle with large tires, designed for use on beaches and sand dunes.
Synonyms: beach buggy
sand rail
sandrail
sand buggy
Derived terms: Moon buggy
gallows humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gallows humor.
sand dune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand dunes
Senses: examples: text: So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 86:
text: An anemometer constructed by the Soil Mechanics Laboratory of the Western Region, British Railways, has been installed at Dawlish Warren, near Exeter, to obtain a record of the velocity (speed and direction) of the wind. This information is used for the study of the effects of wind erosion on the sand dunes which protect the railway from the sea at that point.
ref: 1952 August, “Wind Velocity Records at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 545:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large, semipermanent mound of windblown sand, held together by specialized plants, common along seashores and in deserts.
Synonyms: word: dune
word: towan
dentition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛnˈtɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: dentitions
Etymology: From Latin dentītiō (“teething, dentition”).
Senses: glosses: The set of natural teeth of an individual
examples: text: Can a medical man say just exactly from the necessarily hurried examination he must give of the mouth, and without a special dental knowledge, what constitutes a good dentition?
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 42:
glosses: The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual
examples: text: As mentioned dentition of bivalves, i.e. teeth and sockets, occur on the vertical portion of the hinge plates of the two valves, which are in contact with each other when the shell is closed.
ref: 2008, Anis Kumar Ray, Fossils in Earth Sciences, page 165:
glosses: An arrangement in an organism or object of projections that resemble teeth
glosses: The process of growing teeth; teething
Derived terms: dedentition
dentitional
milk dentition
misdentition
pseudodentition
dentures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denture
false teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dentures.
desiccator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiccators
Senses: examples: text: Shirley walks past laboratories filled with petri dishes and desiccators, microscopes and pipettes
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 219:
glosses: A closed glass vessel containing a desiccant (such as silica gel) used in laboratories for drying materials or for keeping them dry.
glosses: A machine for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.
Derived terms: cryodesiccator
vacuum desiccator
vacuum desiccator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuum desiccators
Senses: glosses: A desiccator fitted with a stopcock whereby it can be evacuated
deshabille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛzəbɪəl/
Forms: form: deshabilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French déshabillé (“undressed”), past participle of déshabiller (“to undress”).
Senses: examples: text: We have witnessed the deshabille of Major Pendennis: will any man wish to be valet-de-chambre to our other hero, Costigan?
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 49, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: the state of being partially clothed
glosses: a garment worn when one is in a state of undress; a négligée
deterrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛɹənt/
other: /dɪˈtɜːɹənt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝənt/
other: /dɪˈtɛɹənt/
Forms: form: more deterrent
form: most deterrent
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dēterrēns, dēterrentem.
Senses: glosses: Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.
Derived terms: deterrence
deterrently
nondeterrent
overdeterrent
phagodeterrent
underdeterrent
Related terms: deter
deterrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛɹənt/
other: /dɪˈtɜːɹənt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝənt/
other: /dɪˈtɛɹənt/
Forms: form: deterrents
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dēterrēns, dēterrentem.
Senses: examples: text: An extension of the system to serve new housing estates on the outskirts of the city, at an estimated cost of about £4,000,000 a mile, is being considered, but the narrow gauge, small clearances, and short platforms are deterrents.
ref: 1955 January, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
text: The salarians believed the genophage would be used as a deterrent, a position the turians viewed as naive. Once the project was complete, the turians mass produced and deployed it. The krogan homeworld, their colonies, and all occupied worlds were infected.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Genophage Codex entry:
text: One argument made by proponents of the death penalty is that it is a strong deterrent to murder and other violent crimes, but evidence shows just the opposite. Whereas the last execution in Canada took place in 1962, in 2011 there were 598 murders in Canada and 14,610 in the United States.
ref: 2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:
text: All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:
glosses: Something that deters.
Derived terms: Eurodeterrent
nuclear deterrent
transpierce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transpierces
form: transpiercing
form: transpierced
form: transpierced
Etymology: From trans- + pierce.
Senses: examples: text: Now, while the angry trumpet sounds alarms, / And dying groans transpierce the wounded air […]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: [F]oorthvvith her eyes bred her eye-ſore, the firſt vvhite vvhereon their tranſpiercing arrovves ſtuck, being the breathleſſe corps of Leander: vvith the ſodaine contemplation of this piteous ſpectacle of her loue, ſodden to haddocks meate, her ſorrovve could not chooſe but be indefinite, […]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 45:
text: Giue her th' Eoan brightnesse, / Wing'd with that subtill lightnesse, / That doth trans-pierce the Ayre; […]
ref: 1619, Michael Drayton, “[Odes.] To the New Yeere.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 59, lines 19–21:
text: The upblaze of reflected heat burns my cheeks and eyes. Her body swims before me, spangled and transpierced by shafts of light caught in my tears. I croak that I am sorry for having invaded her hut.
ref: 2010, John Howard Griffin, Nuni:
synonyms: penetrate
permeate
glosses: To pierce through; to pass through.
nuclear deterrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear deterrents
Senses: glosses: The arsenal of nuclear weapons of a nation viewed as a deterrent to an enemy from attacking.
Coordinate terms: mutual assured destruction
mutual assured destruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutually assured destruction
Etymology: A pun on "assured destruction" ("a highly reliable ability to inflict unacceptable damage ... even after absorbing a surprise first strike"), a term used in discussions of American nuclear strategy in the 1960s. Perhaps coined by Donald Brennan, conservative defense analyst and a public critic of the policy.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: public policy
glosses: The threat of massive retaliation using nuclear weapons should a potential enemy use them first, both sides being annihilated in the event of war.
Synonyms: MAD
Derived terms: assured destruction
Related terms: eye for an eye
internecine
Kilkenny cat
deviled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Did you tell cook to put by the leg of the turkey, to be deviled for my supper?"
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: simple past and past participle of devil
deviled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of devilled.
devilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devil
devilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: grilled with a piquant sauce.
examples: text: "Vexed with a devil;" she is devilled, that is, fully possessed.
ref: a. 1661, Samuel Rutherford, “Sermon V”, in Thomas Napier Thomson, editor, The Trial and Triumph of Faith, published 1845, page 58:
text: But the vials of his wrath were not only poured out on the Papacy, to which repeatedly, even the night before his death he swore undying hatred, but on all who rejected his dogmatic utterances or opposed his imperious will. "Zwingli has become a pagan, Oecolampadius, Carlstadt and the remaining heretics have in-devilled, through-devilled, over-devilled blasphemous hearts and lying mouths, and no one should pray for them. […]"
ref: 1905 October 24, “The Reformers and the Persecution of Heretics”, in The Messenger, volume XLIV, number 4, pages 11–12:
glosses: Possessed by the Devil.
Derived terms: devilled egg
devilled ham
devilled kidneys
devilled sausages
place on a pedestal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: places on a pedestal
form: placing on a pedestal
form: placed on a pedestal
form: placed on a pedestal
Senses: examples: text: […]Nestlé has long been placed on a pedestal on its home turf.
ref: 2025 September 20, Madeleine Speed, Mercedes Ruehl, “The meltdown at Nestlé”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of put on a pedestal.
dextrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkstɹəʊz/
Forms: form: dextroses
Etymology: From dextro- + -ose (“right-handed sugar”).
Senses: examples: text: The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.
ref: 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds, London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
Synonyms: D-glucose
D-Glucose
dextroglucose
Hypernyms: glucose
aldohexose
hexose
monosaccharide
Derived terms: nondextrose
phenose
polydextrose
Related terms: word: dextrin
english: left sugar
translation: left sugar
word: levulose
diagnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəɡˈnəʊsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of diagnosis
diagnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəɡˈnəʊsiz/
ipa: /daɪəɡˈnəʊzɪz/
ipa: /daɪəɡˈnəʊsiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diagnose
shake the pagoda tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes the pagoda tree
form: shaking the pagoda tree
form: shook the pagoda tree
form: shaken the pagoda tree
Etymology: The pagoda was a gold coin used in the Madras Presidency until 1818.
Senses: glosses: To find a source of easy enrichment; to become absurdly rich in a short time period.
wikipedia: Madras Presidency
diathermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diathermies
Etymology: From dia- + therm + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The generation of heat using high-frequency electromagnetic currents; especially the therapeutic production of heat in tissues in order to form coagulation
Derived terms: cyclodiathermy
diathermia
diathermic
endodiathermy
Related terms: electrocautery