cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
horse opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse operas
form: horse-opera
Senses: examples: text: Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay.
ref: 1952 November 3, “Way Out West”, in Time:
text: It's in this horse-opera mode that War For The Planet Of The Apes finds its most rewarding rhythms: in the parallels between Caesar's woodland stronghold and the archetypal frontier settlements of Western fiction; […]
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The Ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes Ends Up Surrendering to Formula”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2017:
synonyms: hoss opera
oater
oat opera
glosses: A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.
examples: text: The Ravels, after having played a successful engagement at the Metropolitan, closed last evening, and sail to-day for New-Orleans, and now we have no amusement but nigger minstrels and the horse opera—i.e., circus.
ref: 1856 March 31, “Affairs in California: San Francisco”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Mar 2009:
text: Nor is it much easier to give the analysis of this extraordinary odyssey, which relates the trials, sufferings, and adventures of an ex-Sous-Prefêt, who has married a circus rider, and has abandoned home, friends, and position, to become the manager of an itinerant horse-opera.
ref: 1879 January 29, “On the Parisian Boards: Another of Jules Verne's Stories on the Stage”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Mar 2009:
synonyms: hoss opera
oat opera
glosses: An equestrian show, as in a circus.
polyacetylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyacetylene
polyynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyyne
ethnolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛθnəlɛkt/
Forms: form: ethnolects
Etymology: From ethno- + -lect.
Senses: examples: text: AAVE is an ethnolect of African Americans.
glosses: A language variety specific to an ethnic group.
Derived terms: ethnolectal
multiethnolect
Related terms: dialect
idiolect
sociolect
ecolect
cryptolect
Tongans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tongan
aswarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈswɔː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: more aswarm
form: most aswarm
Etymology: From a- + swarm.
Senses: examples: text: 1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, “Ben Jonson,” in Tristram of Lyonesse, and other poems, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904, p. 309,
The mountain where thy Muse’s feet made warm
Those lawns that revelled with her dance divine
Shines yet with fire as it was wont to shine
From tossing torches round the dance aswarm.
text: The juniors hurried out like bees aswarm, asking no questions, clattered up the staircase, and added themselves to the embroilment.
ref: 1899 February, Rudyard Kipling, “The Impressionists”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Over all the more populous districts the air was ever aswarm with planes up to a height of five miles, where the giant air-liners plied between the continents.
ref: 1930, Olaf Stapledon, “IV, 3”, in Last and First Men:
text: He banished all irrelevancies from his canalised mind. His great ham of a face was tickling as though aswarm with insects, but there was no room left in his brain to receive the messages which his nerve endings were presumably delivering—his brain was full.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Blood at Midnight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
synonyms: swarming
glosses: Filled or overrun (with moving objects or beings).
tin-foil hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin-foil hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tinfoil hat.
commies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commie
Commie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Commies
Etymology: From Communist + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A Communist.
Commie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Commie
form: most Commie
Etymology: From Communist + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Communist.
Commie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Commies
Etymology: From commodore + -ie.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Commodore computer.
Commies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Commie
vales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪlz
homophone: veils
homophone: vails
Senses: glosses: plural of vale
Kassandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a rare spelling variant (or alternate transliteration) of Cassandra.
testacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From testate + -cy.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The condition of being testate, of having left a valid will at one's death.
uglification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uglifications
Etymology: From ugly + -fication.
Senses: examples: text: I go to put in readiness the feast
Kept to the honour of our goddess Famine,
Where, for more glory, let the ceremony
Take place of the uglification of the Queen.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
text: There is an amusing side to this terrible threat to the countryside. So long as the uglification and slummification of England was confined to the industrial centres, few of the really best people troubled themselves.
ref: 1928 August, R. B. Suthers, “The Disappearance of Rural England”, in The Labour Magazine, volume 7, number 4, London: Trades Union Congress; Labour Party, page 172:
glosses: The process of being made ugly or uglified.
Related terms: uglify
ugly
skybox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyboxes
Etymology: From sky + box.
Senses: examples: text: When Aislyn showed up at the rally with her ticket, she and her friends and parents all got quickly ushered over to a fancy-looking private entrance and up to an even fancier luxury skybox.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 92:
glosses: A seating area for VIPs in a stadium.
examples: text: Thankfully, tools have been created to assist in the skybox creation process.
ref: 2004, Paul Marino, 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima:
text: To ensure consistent sizing for all images, you should give each image in the skybox the same pixel width and height dimensions.
ref: 2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A cube with textures on its inner faces, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield.
Related terms: skydome
fuddy-duddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuddy-duddy
programming languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of programming language
micropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪkɹəˈpɒlɪtn̩/
ipa: /-kɹəʊ-/
ipa: /ˌmaɪkɹəˈpɑlɪt(ə)n/
ipa: /-kɹoʊ-/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)n]
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Etymology: Blend of micro- (prefix meaning ‘very small’) + metropolitan.
Senses: examples: text: The government has created a new label for these communities, which increasingly fill the gaps on the map between major cities. The new term – Micropolitan Statistical Areas – recognizes that even small places far from metro areas are economic hubs that draw workers and shoppers from miles around. […] The largest micropolitan areas have more people than many metro areas. The Torrington, Conn., micropolitan area is the largest, with a population of 183,000 – bigger than the population of 103 metropolitan areas. Torrington is a micro, not a metro, because the central city has fewer than 50,000 people, the threshold for a city anchoring a metro area. Cities at the centers of micropolitan areas have at least 10,000 people but no more than 49,999.
ref: 2004 June 27, Haya El Nasser, “Small-town USA goes ‘micropolitan’”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023:
coordinate_terms: ecumenopolitan
megalopolitan
megapolitan
metropolitan
nonmetropolitan
rural
glosses: Of or pertaining to a city or twin cities having at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 inhabitants; of a city: less populated than a metropolitan area but more than a rural one.
micropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪkɹəˈpɒlɪtn̩/
ipa: /-kɹəʊ-/
ipa: /ˌmaɪkɹəˈpɑlɪt(ə)n/
ipa: /-kɹoʊ-/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)n]
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Forms: form: micropolitans
Etymology: Blend of micro- (prefix meaning ‘very small’) + metropolitan.
Senses: examples: text: For marketing experts who help companies decide where to expand, the "micropolitans" represent potentially lucrative – and untapped – markets. More than 28 million people, or one in 10 Americans, live in such areas.
ref: 2004 June 27, Haya El Nasser, “Small-town USA goes ‘micropolitan’”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023:
coordinate_terms: ecumenopolis
eperopolis
megalopolis
megapolitan
megapolis
metropolis
glosses: A city or twin cities having at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 inhabitants; a city which is less populated than a metropolitan area but more than a rural one.
Related terms: micropolis
e-trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-trades
Etymology: From e- + trade.
Senses: examples: "EU seeks e-trade without borders" - BBC News, 08/02/2007 http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2004-06-27-rural_x.htm
glosses: online trade
Related terms: e-trader
e-trading
threepeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹipit/
Forms: form: threepeats
form: threepeating
form: threepeated
form: threepeated
form: three-peat
form: 3-peat
form: 3peat
Etymology: Blend of three + repeat
Senses: glosses: To win something three times consecutively.
threepeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹipit/
Forms: form: threepeats
form: three-peat
form: 3-peat
form: 3peat
Etymology: Blend of three + repeat
Senses: glosses: A third successive win.
Related terms: 3
-peat
repeat
three
threequel
hat trick
nucleocosmochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1997 Bernard E. Pagel - Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
Fowler's nucleocosmochronological model
glosses: Of or pertaining to nucleocosmochronology
fourpeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fourpeats
form: fourpeating
form: fourpeated
form: fourpeated
form: four-peat
Etymology: Blend of four + repeat. Compare threepeat (to rhyme with repeat).
Senses: glosses: To win something four times consecutively.
fourpeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourpeats
form: four-peat
Etymology: Blend of four + repeat. Compare threepeat (to rhyme with repeat).
Senses: glosses: A fourth successive win.
Derived terms: threepeat
three-peat
Related terms: hat trick
four-peat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: four-peats
form: four-peating
form: four-peated
form: four-peated
form: fourpeat
Etymology: Blend of four + repeat
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. will try to repeat as 4x100m men’s world champions for the first time since 1993, when they four-peated.
ref: 2025 September 20, Liam Tharme, “Anna Hall wins first U.S. heptathlon world title since Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1993 ; Relay heats”, in The Athletic, The New York Times:
glosses: To win something four times consecutively.
four-peat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-peats
form: fourpeat
Etymology: Blend of four + repeat
Senses: glosses: A fourth successive win.
Derived terms: threepeat
three-peat
five-peat
six-peat
Related terms: hat trick
nucleocosmochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nucleo- + cosmochronology.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A technique for estimating the age of astronomical objects by measuring the relative abundances of isotopes
Derived terms: nucleocosmochronological
overproportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overproportionate
form: most overproportionate
Etymology: From over- + proportionate.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, an overproportionate decrease of the market price in times of falling demand may still serve as an indicator for imperfect collusion in a market […]
ref: 2006, Leslie Neubecker, Strategic Competition in Oligopolies With Fluctuatuating Demand:
glosses: overproportioned
Derived terms: overproportionately
overproportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overproportion
overproportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overproportioned
form: most overproportioned
Senses: glosses: Having excessive proportions
overproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overproportions
form: overproportioning
form: overproportioned
form: overproportioned
Etymology: From over- + proportion.
Senses: glosses: To give something excessive proportions
overproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overproportions
Etymology: From over- + proportion.
Senses: glosses: Excessive proportion.
mega-joules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mega-joule
giga-joules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giga-joule
tera-joules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tera-joule
pico-farads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pico-farad
nano-farads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano-farad
micro-farads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-farad
retropresbyteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + presbyteral.
Senses: glosses: Positioned behind the presbytery of a cathedral
milli-farads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milli-farad
nano-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano-ohm
micro-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-ohm
milli-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milli-ohm
overconsolidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overconsolidated
form: most overconsolidated
Etymology: From over- + consolidated.
Senses: glosses: consolidated to an excessive degree
glosses: consolidated to a greater extent than that due to the overburden
raw_tags: of soil
overconsolidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + consolidated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overconsolidate
kilo-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilo-ohm
mega-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaohms
form: megohms
Senses: glosses: plural of mega-ohm
giga-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giga-ohm
tera-ohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tera-ohm
tetrakaidekahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tetrakaidecahedral
Etymology: From tetrakaideka- + -hedral.
Senses: examples: text: These figures indicate the general symmetry of the cells, their departure from the dodecahedral, and their tendency towards the tetrakaidekahedral, form.
ref: 1992, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form:
glosses: In the form of a tetrakaidekahedron.
Synonyms: tetradecahedral
tetrakaidekahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrakaidekahedrons
form: tetrakaidekahedra
form: tetrakaidecahedron
Etymology: From tetrakaideka- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: Two large flat surfaces and twelve edge facets make each squame a fourteen-sided solid or tetrakaidecahedron.
ref: 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 81:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid figure having fourteen faces.
Synonyms: tetradecahedron
Related terms: tetrakaidekahedral
heterotransplantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterotransplantable
form: most heterotransplantable
Etymology: From hetero- + transplantable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being transplanted from an individual to another of a different species
Related terms: heterotransplantation
heterotransplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotransplantations
Etymology: From hetero- + transplantation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: xenotransplantation
struggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strugglers
Etymology: From struggle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Huge credit must go to Championship strugglers Ipswich, who were well organised and kept their Premier League opponents at bay for 151 minutes in the tie, including more than an hour at the Emirates.
ref: 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, in BBC:
glosses: One who struggles.
equitemporaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + temporaneous.
Senses: examples: 1845 Encyclopædia metropolitana
[…] has observed that the vibrations of a pendulum, though the arches it describes be unequal, are in the sense formerly declared equitemporaneous, &c.
glosses: Performed in equal periods of time; contemporaneous.
rhinolaryngologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhinolaryngology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Henry Wagner — trained in Europe, and like others just mentioned, cosmopolitan in his reading and approach to rhinolaryngologic problems.
ref: 1950, Transactions of the American Laryngological Association:
glosses: Of or pertaining to rhinolaryngology.
rhinolaryngology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhino- + laryngology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the nose and larynx, especially the anatomy, physiology and pathology
bastardsword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastardswords
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
bastard swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastard sword
towpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towpath
zhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhu
form: zhus
form: tcho
Etymology: The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 銖 /铢 (zhū).
Senses: examples: text: Modern research showed the correct number of millet seeds greatly exceeded surviving examples of the zhu in weight, until one tried growing older millet strains for several generations without modern agrochemicals. By the third year, his seeds produced a zhu within about 5% of its known historical value.
glosses: An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
Related terms: sanzhu
wuzhu
zhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhu
form: zhus
Etymology: The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 筑 (zhù or zhú).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ancient Chinese string instrument thought to have had a rectangular zither-like body with silk strings played with a bow.
ever-present
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ever-present
form: most ever-present
Senses: examples: text: She arrived a bit late, her ever-present briefcase in tow.
synonyms: ubiquitous
omnipresent
glosses: Always present; always there
ever-present
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ever-presents
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who is present in every contest.
mammet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmamɪt/
Forms: form: mammets
form: maumet
form: mawmet
form: mommet
Etymology: From Middle English mawmet, from Anglo-Norman maumet, shortened form of mauhoumet, mahumet; deriving from Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately derived from Arabic Muhammad.
Senses: examples: text: Moloc that mawmett. there darre no man wᵗ ſay
The Reſte of ſuche Reconyng may make a fowle fraye
ref: c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
glosses: A false god; an idol.
examples: text: And then to haue a wretched puling foole, / A whining mammet, in her Fortunes tender, / To answer, Ile not wed, I cannot Loue: / I am too young, I pray you pardon me.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
text: this is no world / To play with mammets and to tilt with lips
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act HENRY 4-1, scene ii], page 3:
text: He didn't want to go, and I didn't want him to go; and we stood there like two mommets and there was nothing we could say.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 49:
glosses: A doll or puppet; a lifeless figure, an effigy, a scarecrow.
examples: text: Blind, deaf, insensate driveler!—Torpid, blockish, brainless mammet!
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. V, letter 88:
text: "Had it anything to do with father's making such a mommet of himself in the carriage this afternoon?
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:
glosses: A contemptible person; a weakling, a fool.
Related terms: mammetry
Baphomet
equinecessary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + necessary.
Senses: glosses: Necessary or needful in the same degree.
keygen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkiːˈd͡ʒɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: keygens
Etymology: Short for key generator.
Senses: examples: text: A key generator, or keygen, is a mini program that generates a product key or serial number that unlocks or activates software. Keygens are usually standalone executables, but some are command-line programs that you run in Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (OS X).
ref: 2013, Chris Fehily, Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small program used to generate a license key used to unlock a trial version of software illegitimately.
Ansus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesian New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ansus terms
and ⁠
Travis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævɪs/
rhymes: -ævɪs
Etymology: From an Old French word meaning "to cross over," related to traverse. Probably a name for a gatekeeper or the toll collector of a bridge.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
examples: text: Mejias, according to the police report, said he had provided a third person, Travis Dyson, a credit card on Thursday to rent a hotel room for the night.
ref: 2020 March 13, Oliver Darcy, “Andrew Gillum apologizes after being found ‘inebriated’ in hotel room where police say man was treated for ‘possible drug overdose’”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Falls County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Travis County
Travis picking
Amto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea.
Synonyms: Ki
Siafli
Siawi
Related terms: amt ⁠
Antakarinya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antikirinya
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Oodnadatta region of South Australia; a major dialect of the Western Desert language group.
Related terms: ant ⁠
placebo effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placebo effect
petrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The idea of speaking in front of such a large audience was petrifying.
synonyms: frightening
terrifying
glosses: Causing immense fear; extremely scary
petrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of petrify
gameplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gameplans
Senses: examples: text: they will still enjoy getting the better of their neighbours and proving that, when they can execute Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s gameplan, there are reasons for optimism.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of game plan.
minnesinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minnesingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Minnesinger, from Minne (“courtly love”) + Singer (“singer”).
Senses: glosses: A peripatetic musician in Germany in the 12th to the 14th centuries, often performing songs of courtly love.
stock still
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stock-still.
stock still
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Paul stood stock still; then came a strong impulse to turn and run back.
ref: 1897, Sam T. Clover, Paul Travers' Adventures:
glosses: Alternative form of stock-still.
eradicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eradicate + -ive.
Senses: examples: eradicative measures against smallpox
glosses: Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
Synonyms: annihilative
eradicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eradicatives
Etymology: From eradicate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That which eradicates.
honest-to-goodness
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honest-to-goodness
form: most honest-to-goodness
Senses: examples: text: Is the clam chowder made with honest-to-goodness clams?
text: [']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.
ref: 1961 (republished 2010), Joseph Heller, Catch-22, London: Vintage Books, ISBN 978-0-09-955218-5, page 22
text: At first glance, Lincoln seemed caught in a time warp—a place of 1930s tourist cabins and Mom-and-Pop diners where one could get honest-to-goodness milk shakes, made in a blender with real ice cream.
ref: 2003, Alston Chase, “Ah, Wilderness!”, in Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 1 (The Unabomber: Crimes and Questions), pages 102–103:
text: Captain Mark heard about it; and dropped in after school to commend his protege. "Young lady, that's the most honest-to-goodness useful thing I ever heard hail from a schoolroom!"
ref: 2011, John Rogers, Clara Nickerson Boden, The Cut of Her Jib, page 82:
glosses: Real; genuine.
honest-to-goodness
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honest to goodness.
Related terms: real McCoy
dysphemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysphemism
milli-joules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milli-joule
usuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usury
dowdier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dowdy: more dowdy
Plains Apache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Apache.
Senses: glosses: The Apache peoples living primarily in Oklahoma.
Plains Apache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Apache.
Senses: glosses: The now-extinct Southern Athabascan language spoken by the Plains Apache people.
Related terms: Kiowa Apache
apk ⁠
dowdiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dowdy: most dowdy
pollinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒləˈnəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌpɑləˈnoʊsɪs/
Forms: form: pollinoses
Senses: glosses: An allergy to grass and other pollen which causes cold symptoms in sufferers; hay fever.
Synonyms: hay fever
orthoepist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈθəʊɪˌpɪst/
ipa: /ˈɔːθəʊˌiːpɪst/
ipa: /ɔɹˈθoʊəpɪst/
ipa: /ˈɔɹθoʊˌɛpɪst/
Forms: form: orthoepists
form: orthoëpist
Etymology: From orthoepy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.
Hypernyms: linguist
phonetician
Hyponyms: dialectician
Derived terms: orthoepistic
orthoepistical
Vascons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vascon
neurotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotomy
neurotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotomist
neurotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotome
somnambulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of somnambulate
somnambulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of somnambulate
somnambulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of somnambulate
somnambulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somnambulist
villainess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villainesses
Etymology: From villain + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female villain.
misdescriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misdescriptive
form: most misdescriptive
Etymology: From mis- + descriptive.
Senses: examples: text: "Superhealth Yogurt" would be a misdescriptive trademark for a yogurt that was very high in fat.
topics: law
glosses: In United States trademark law, tending to mislead consumers about the qualities of the product represented by the mark.
Derived terms: deceptively misdescriptive
misdescriptiveness
misdescriptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misdescriptive + -ness.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being misdescriptive.
descriptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvnəs/
Etymology: From descriptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being descriptive.
Synonyms: descriptivity
Related terms: prescriptiveness
normativeness
genericness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From generic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being generic.
topics: law
glosses: In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being generic, and therefore unregistrable.
Synonyms: genericity
unregistrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + registrable.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In United States trademark law, incapable of receiving trademark registration.
Derived terms: unregistrability
unregistrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + registrability.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being unregistrable.
registrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From register + -able (“able, capable”).
Senses: examples: text: Every mortgage of land evidenced in writing is registrable with the Land Office.
ref: 1994, Derek Roebuck, Law Relating to Banking in Hong Kong, page 212:
glosses: Able or needing to be registered.
examples: text: Even if the symbol were a variation on an apostrophe, Vodafone claimed, the Work would still be registrable, because symbols and typographic elements may be protectable where a work in combination contains expressive elements, as is the case here.
ref: 2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in United States Copyright Office, page 3:
topics: law
glosses: Able or needing to be registered.
In United States trademark law, capable of receiving trademark registration.
Derived terms: registrability
abbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbats
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of abbot.
aborigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈɔɹ.ə.d͡ʒən/
Forms: form: aborigens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aborigin
rhizomelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the hip and shoulder joints
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characterized by rhizomelia
muhtar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊtɑː/
ipa: /ˈmʊtɑɹ/
Forms: form: muhtars
Etymology: From Turkish muhtar and Ottoman Turkish مختار (muhtar, “village headman”), from North Levantine Arabic مختار (“village headman”), from substantive application of Arabic مُخْتَار (muḵtār, “chosen”).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of mukhtar: an appointed village headman, particularly in Ottoman contexts.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An elected village or neighborhood official in modern Turkey.
forestage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestages
Etymology: From Middle English forstage, equivalent to fore- + stage.
Senses: glosses: The part of a theatre stage in front of the closed curtain.
examples: text: The formation of exogenous uric acid is largely within our power; the amount can be diminished by limiting the forestages of uric acid-nucleins and purin derivatives—in the food.
ref: 1905, AMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association:
text: The various foot abnormalities have been found to belong to a series of specific types (I to V), all of which have their forestages in embryonic blebs, the final location of which has proved to be decisive for the type of abnormality.
ref: 1934, The journal of experimental zoology - Volume 67, page 515:
text: The antecedents of exhange are the subjective forms of appropriation of alien possessions, robbery and gift-giving - just as presents given to the chief and penalties imposed by the chief represent forestages of taxation.
ref: 2001, Jeffrey C Alexander, Mainstream and Critical Social Theory, →ISBN:
text: The explanation of Gnostic ideas “in terms of themselves,” i.e., in terms of their historical foundations, is futile, for in that way they are reduced only to their less developed forestages but not understood in their actual significance.
ref: 2013, Alfred Ribi, The Search for Roots: C. G. Jung and the Tradition of Gnosis, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: A preliminary or developmental stage.
examples: text: Ships of Forecastle were ships with Forestages, and carried about 150 men each ; they were the largest ships then in use.
ref: 1787, John Fenn, Original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI.:
text: This account differs from that in the Cottonian Roll, as well as from that given by Hackluyt, which are both 14,956. In neither of these, however, is any mention of the ships of forstage, the barges, ballengers, or victuallers.
ref: 1838, The United Service Magazine, page 22:
text: Another letter of 1462 also mentions 'great forestages out of Spain'.
ref: 1977, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror - Volume 63, page 367:
text: The oldest have single-decked and open forestages and the hulls are clinker-built for the characteristic nail pattern is shown; the planks are short.
ref: 1979, Frank Howard, Sailing Ships of War, 1400-1860, page 19:
glosses: Forecastle.
forestage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forestages
form: forestaging
form: forestaged
form: forestaged
Etymology: From Middle English forstage, equivalent to fore- + stage.
Senses: examples: text: There is subtle thought, even profound thought, not so much in the working out of the plots as in the selection and forestaging of such humorous situations as make the plots work themselves out.
ref: 1925, O. Henry, Works - Volume 13, page xxiii:
text: Yet, despite the invocation of cultural practices in images, the facade setting preventing the spectators' attention from wandering to an outside environment, prevented spectators from seeing the action as a natural aspect of a total environment by forestaging the action as a construct in response to particular situations.
ref: 1991, Susan Lisbeth Chast, Ellen Stewart and La Mama: A Study of Theatrical Spaces:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.
examples: text: Not only was Binodlal one of the first to forestage sontap (“heat”) as the key element in fevers, but he was also one of the first to try to understand sontap as "motion."
ref: 2016, Projit Bihari Mukharji, Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences, →ISBN:
text: It forestages the insistent presence of patterns of centre/periphery relations within Chicanidad, or rather the presence of multi-tier Chicanidades, with substantial disparities regarding the needs and problems of their members, increasing the gap between the centred and the peripheral ones.
ref: 2016, Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem, Mythmaking across Boundaries, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: To make prominent; to bring into focus.
forestage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestages
Etymology: From forest + -age.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
topics: law
glosses: A service paid by foresters to the king.
forestages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestage
forestages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forestage
baken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: bacon
Etymology: From Middle English baken, from Old English bacen, ġebacen, past participle of bacan (“to bake”). Cognate with Scots baken (“baked”), Dutch gebakken (“baked”). More at bake.
Senses: examples: text: And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 2:7:
text: And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That in every Town in the Colony, where Bread is Baken for Sale, there ſhall be Choſen one Clerk of the Market, or more, as each Town ſhall find needful, at their Annual Election of Town Officers, who ſhall duly be Engaged, to the faithful performance of ſaid Office, as other Town Officers are ;[…]
ref: 1719, John Allen, “An ACT, Stating the due Aſſize of Bread”, in The Charter Granted by His Majeſty, King Charles the Second, to the Colony of Rhode-Iſland, and Providence-plantations in America, page 59:
text: As they grew soft and fluid, there oozed out 550 grains of a reddish watery liquid, which smelled like newly baken bread. To this liquid Dr. Pearson has given the name of laccic acid.
ref: 1819, George Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Including the Latest Improvement and Discovery and the Present States of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, volume 2, Collins and Company, page 112:
glosses: alternative past participle of bake; baked.
wikipedia: King James Bible
lactovegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæk.təʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæk.toʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lactovegetarians
Etymology: From lacto- + vegetarian.
Senses: glosses: A person whose diet excludes meat and eggs, but includes dairy products.
lactovegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæk.təʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæk.toʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From lacto- + vegetarian.
Senses: glosses: Excluding meat and eggs, but including dairy products.
Synonyms: lactarian
lactarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lækˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /lækˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lactarians
Senses: glosses: A lactovegetarian.
uffda
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Uff da! (UF dah): Norwegian expression used to indicate dismay or concern. Roughly equivalent to "Good grief!"
ref: 2004, C. L. G. Martin, Uff Da!, Tricycle Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: “Ooh, uffda.”
ref: 2024 October 21, Paul Simms, “The Return of Jerry” (4:06 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak):
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: Alternative spelling of oofta.
unquestioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquestioned
form: most unquestioned
form: unquæstioned
Etymology: From un- + questioned.
Senses: glosses: Not subjected to an interrogation
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Accepted without question; indisputable
raw_tags: of a fact
ranseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːnˈsɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: ranseurs
Etymology: From French, originated from Corsica.
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of spear with a long sharp end and two projections on each side.
Related terms: partizan
spetum
befogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befogged
form: most befogged
Senses: examples: text: 1614, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses, London: Nathaniel Butter,
[…] euery one a Furies shape assumes,
Befog’d and clouded with my hel-hatch’d fumes.
text: Standing half-befogged upon the mountain of his Fate, all that part of the wide panorama was wrapped in clouds to him; but anon those concealings slid aside, or rather, a quick rent was made in them; […]
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book V. Misgivings and Preparatives.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section V, page 142:
text: Peter Baron, as he sat in his corner while the train stopped, considered, in the befogged gaslight, the bookstall standard of literature and asked himself whose character had fallen to pieces now.
ref: 1892, Henry James, “Sir Dominick Ferrand”, in The Real Thing and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, published 1893, page 46:
glosses: Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.
examples: text: […] this morning he was close aboard the N. Coast, it seemeth high ragged land and full of guts, he was becalmed and befogged, and stood S. wards into the channell […]
ref: 1635, Luke Foxe, North-west Fox, London: Thomas Fawcet, page 171:
text: The fact is, he knew every rock, the set of every current at every season of the year, and in his younger days had often gone to the assistance of befogged vessels and piloted them safely into harbour or clear of the coast.
ref: 1912, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, chapter 20, in Blessington’s Folly, London: John Long, page 306:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Caught in fog.
examples: text: […] you speake you wot not what, you are altogether befogd and benighted in this question.
ref: 1607, Arthur Dent, The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen, London: Edward Bishop, page 254:
text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXIX,
If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got.
text: […] so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
glosses: Confused, muddled.
Derived terms: unbefogged
befogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befog
cacistocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacistocracies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kakistocracy.
hylozoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hylozoisms
Etymology: From hylo- + Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?
ref: a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:
glosses: A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
Synonyms: panbiotism
Derived terms: hylozoic
hylozoist
hylozoistic
Related terms: pandeism
panpsychism
pantheism
panvitalism
bovid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊvɪd/
rhymes: -əʊvɪd
Forms: form: bovids
Senses: glosses: An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, cattle, goat, and sheep).
Synonyms: word: bovid
Hypernyms: word: artiodactyl
word: ruminant
word: ungulate
word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: antelope
word: bull
word: bullock
word: calf
word: dogie
word: cattle
word: cow
word: heifer
word: ox
word: steer
word: aurochs
word: banteng
word: kouprey
word: gaur
word: gayal
word: yak
word: drong
word: dzo
word: zebu
word: Brahma
word: buffalo
word: African buffalo
word: anoa
word: arni
word: Cape buffalo
word: carabao
word: tamaraw
word: water buffalo
word: bison
word: wisent
word: beefalo
word: addax
word: bongo
word: duiker
word: gazelle
word: goat
word: gnu
word: sheep
word: bontebok
word: bushbuck
word: dik-dik
word: eland
word: hartebeest
word: impala
word: klipspringer
word: kudu
word: nilgai
word: nyala
word: oribi
word: oryx
word: roan
word: royal antelope
word: sable antelope
word: sitatunga
word: springbok
word: topi
word: waterbuck
word: wildebeest
word: beef
word: beefsteak
word: bullfighting
word: leather
word: milk
word: veal
word: minotaur
word: Taurus
Derived terms: bovid hybrid
Related terms: Bovidae
Bovril
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒvɹɪl/
ipa: /ˈbɒvɹəl/
ipa: /ˈbɑvɹɪl/
ipa: /ˈbɑvɹəl/
Etymology: Blend of bovine + Vril.
Senses: examples: text: A valuable if seldom-employed restorative is made with Bovril as one of the ingredients.
ref: 1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:
text: The conversation had turned to pictures, and some of those on the walls were being admired by the guests, most of whom showed by their remarks that they saw little difference between a water colour and an advertisement for Bovril.
ref: 1930 August, Shaugh Courtenay, “Red Hair and Yellow Curtains”, in The Cornhill Magazine, page 233:
text: We mix up at the stainless steel kitchen sink under the shelves with all the jars of jam and bottles of Bovril and butter and stuff this infinitesimal minute wee tiny quantity of ammonium nitrate with about a snuff pinch of aluminium powder […]
ref: 2005, Harold Strachan, Make a Skyf, Man!:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A brand of beef extract made in the UK.
Derived terms: bovrilise
bovrilize
bibovine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the genus Bibos or animals of this genus.
Related terms: Bibos
bovine
bovine ephemeral fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A viral disease of cattle, caused by species of genus Ephemerovirus, transmitted by insects.
Synonyms: sense: viral disease of cattle
word: BEF
Hypernyms: fever
Related terms: Bovine ephemeral fever virus
bovine leukaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovine leukemia
Senses: glosses: bovine leukosis
bovine leukemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bovine leukaemia.
Derived terms: Bovine leukemia virus
enzootic bovine leukosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzootic bovine leucosis
Senses: glosses: bovine leukosis