cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sofees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those Turks which ſeem to be profeſſors of religion and devotion, and would be accounted * Sofees, do commonly read, as they walk along the ſtreets, and have their Beads longer then other men, carrying them in their hands into the Moſcheas, and are ever buſy with them as they walk up and down the ſtreets, […]
ref: 1737, John Greaves, “A description of the Grand Seignor's seraglio, or Turkish emperor's court”, in Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves, professor of astronomy in the University of Oxford, volume 2, London: Thomas Birch, →OCLC, pages 785–786:
glosses: plural of Sofee (“archaic form of Sufi”)
examples: text: Shah of Persia, founder of the dynasty of Sofees.
ref: 1893, “Ismail I”, in Cassell's new biographical dictionary: containing memoirs of the most eminent men and women of all ages and countries, New York: Cassell, →OCLC, page 470:
glosses: plural of Sofee (“archaic form of Safawi”)
Molokane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian молока́не (molokáne).
Senses: glosses: plural of Molokan
monte-jus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
mirrorscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirrorscopes
Etymology: From mirror + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A slide projector.
mirrorscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirrorscope
motograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motographs
Etymology: From moto- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A device used in the making of a loud-speaking telephone, depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface.
Derived terms: motographic
motographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motograph
mustahfizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mustahfiz
fricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fricated
form: most fricated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Made fricative.
myxomycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Myxomycetes + -ous
Senses: glosses: Relating to the fungus class Myxomycetes.
banyalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banyallas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of waddywood (“tree”).
synonyms: word: waddywood
extra: tree
banyallas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banyalla
waddywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waddywoods
Etymology: From waddy + wood.
Senses: synonyms: banyalla
cheesewood
glosses: An Australian tree, Pittosporum bicolor.
glosses: Its wood, used in making waddies.
pilotbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilotbirds
Etymology: From pilot + bird.
Senses: glosses: Pycnoptilus floccosus, an Australian acanthizid.
pilotbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilotbird
waddywoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waddywood
waddied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waddy
waddying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waddy
whaddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whaddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waddy (Aboriginal war club)
whaddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whaddie
underappraisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underappraisals
Etymology: From under- + appraisal.
Senses: glosses: An appraisal that undervalues something.
underappraisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underappraisal
overappraisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overappraisals
Etymology: From over- + appraisal.
Senses: glosses: An appraisal that overvalues something.
overappraisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overappraisal
wakif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakifs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waqif.
wakifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wakif
waqif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waqifs
form: wakif
Senses: glosses: The person who creates a waqf.
waqifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waqif
basification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basifications
Etymology: From base + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: In the process of basification, the top layer of the crust becomes basic, while the lower becomes ultrabasic acquiring the density of the mantle or an even greater density
ref: 1980, A. W. Bally, Dynamics of Plate Interiors, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Thereafter, the pH is increased in two stages (basification and then neutralization) to facilitate aluminum complexation and fixation.
ref: 1992, Richard W. Hemingway, Peter E. Laks, Susan J. Branham, Plant Polyphenols: Synthesis, Properties, Significance, →ISBN, page 1028:
text: Early basification applies when the tannage is basified right at the start of the process: the solution of the basifying agent is added immediately after adding the chrome in solution.
ref: 2009, Anthony D. Covington, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, →ISBN, page 233:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or process of making something more basic; raising the pH of something.
basifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basification
knee high
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee highs
Senses: glosses: a sock that reaches almost up to the knee
Synonyms: knee sock
knee highs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee high
noun of place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouns of place
Etymology: Calque of Arabic اِسْم مَكَان (ism makān)
Senses: glosses: In Arabic and other Semitic languages, a noun formed from a root and expressing the sense of "place of X".
atelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: incomplete development (of a body part)
atheromasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of atheroma
active participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the active voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the agent of the action denoted by the verb.
Derived terms: active participial
passive participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passive participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.
Derived terms: word: participial
headbutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headbutters
Etymology: From headbutt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She was a headbutter, a button- pusher.
ref: 1997, Sheila Weller, Saint of Circumstance: The Untold Story Behind the Alex Kelly Rape Case : Growing Up Rich and Out of Control, page 87:
text: Now meet the king of the headbutters: Pachycephalosaurus. This dinosaur was the largest of a group sometimes called "thick-headed lizards," which had specially thick skulls that were used for head-butting contests.
ref: 2002, Paul Dowswell, The Ultimate Book of Dinosaurs, page 132:
text: Good kickers could help with soccer practices; skilled headbutters could become champion goalies.
ref: 2014, Richard Kagan, Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children, page 215:
glosses: One who headbutts.
head butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head butters
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see head, butter.
examples: text: Before meetings get out of hand, stop the board meeting, and demand prayer to be offered to renew the minds of the “head butters,” and read scriptures from passages in Proverbs that will renew the minds of those present.
ref: 2013, Perry Stone, The Judas Goat, page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of headbutter.
head-butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-butters
Senses: examples: text: The big guy came running at me with his hands open to grab me, which might have meant he was a wrestler. But more likely it just meant he was a head-butter who wanted to yank me toward him, and then smash my face in with his forehead.
ref: 1995, Jerome Doolittle, Half Nelson: A Tom Bethany Mystery, page 103:
text: ...during a week when he had been accused of headbutting one of his players — I went on the air and said I didn't know whether Knight was a head-butter or not, but I did know that he was a butt-head for his comment.
ref: 2001, Dick Schaap, Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines, page 508:
text: The second chap, Adrian Ameche, was a head-butter; he loved to butt his head against walls.
ref: 2006, Nana S. Achampong, i, immigrant, page 330:
glosses: Alternative form of headbutter.
headbutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headbutter
shariatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shariatic
form: most shariatic
Etymology: From sharia + -ic.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In conformity with sharia law.
dompted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dompt
dompts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dompt
dompting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dompt
serpopard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpopards
Etymology: Blend of serpent + leopard.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: A mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions.
serpopards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serpopard
glumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glumpish
form: most glumpish
Etymology: From glump + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Now, in order that such invaluable treasures of wit […] and other repositories of such glumpish, churlish, and refractory persons as aforesaid, and thereby run the risk of being lost to all chearful^([sic]) society, or of dying with their avaricious and monopolizing possessors.
ref: 1816, Timothy Broadgrin (pseudonym), The Spirit of Irish Wit, page 2:
text: An' it worrets me as Mr. Tom 'ull sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his brow, an' a-lookin' at the fire of a night. He should be a bit livelier now — a fine young fellow like him.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, volume 2:
glosses: grumpy; sullen; gloomy
ecogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecograms
Etymology: From eco- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A diagram combining an ecomap and a genogram.
ecograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecogram
majestic plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majestic plurals
Senses: synonyms: plural of majesty
imperial we
hypernyms: royal we[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
coordinate_terms: plural of excellence
glosses: The first-person plural pronoun as traditionally used by a sovereign in formal speech to refer to themselves in their role as the monarch.
Related terms: author's plural
Her Majesty
His Majesty
plural of modesty
ecomap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomaps
Etymology: From eco- + map.
Senses: glosses: A diagram that shows all of the systems at play in an individual's life, used in social work.
Related terms: ecogram
ecomaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecomap
chorogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorograms
Etymology: From choro- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A geographical map illustrating the distribution of chorotypes.
chorograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorogram
chorotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorotypes
Etymology: From choro- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A pattern of geographical distribution of an organism.
Related terms: chorogram
chorotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorotype
culturagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturagrams
Etymology: From culture + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A graphical representation of various aspects of an individual's or family's culture, used in social work.
culturagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturagram
chronosystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From chronosystem + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chronosystems.
chronosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronosystems
Etymology: From chrono- + system.
Senses: glosses: A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
Derived terms: chronosystemic
chronosystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronosystem
mesosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesosystems
Etymology: From meso- + system.
Senses: glosses: A system of interconnections between the microsystems in an individual's life, such as interactions between a child's family and teachers.
Related terms: macrosystem
microsystem
mesosystems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesosystem
microsystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + systemic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a microsystem.
macrosystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + systemic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a macrosystem.
mesosystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + systemic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a mesosystem.
exosystemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exosystem + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exosystem.
skiatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪ.əˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈskaɪ.əˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: skiatrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -tron.
Senses: glosses: A kind of cathode ray tube that replaces the conventional light-emitting phosphor layer on the face of the tube screen with a scotophor such as potassium chloride.
skiatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skiatron
roister-doister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roister-doisters
Etymology: After Ralph Roister Doister, a 16th-century comic play by Nicholas Udall. See roister (“to engage in riotous behaviour”).
Senses: examples: text: A very artificiall beginning, to moove attention or to procure good-liking in the reader, unlesse he wrote onely to roister-doisters, and hacksters, or at least to jesters, and vices.
ref: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation:
glosses: A swaggering buffoon; a foolish braggart.
wikipedia: Ralph Roister Doister
roister-doisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roister-doister
scotophor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scotophors
Senses: glosses: Any material showing reversible darkening and bleaching when subjected to radiation by electrons.
Derived terms: scotophoric
scotophors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scotophor
cathodochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cathodochromic
form: most cathodochromic
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting cathodochromism.
cathodochromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when it is bombarded with electrons.
scotophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scotophoric
form: most scotophoric
Etymology: From scotophor + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of a scotophor
hackmanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackmanites
Etymology: From Hackman + -ite, named according to Finnish geologist Victor Hackman who first discovered the mineral in Kola peninsula.
Senses: glosses: An important variety of sodalite exhibiting tenebrescence.
wikipedia: fi:Victor Hackman
hackmanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackmanite
tenebrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenebrescences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tenebrēscēns, present participle of tenebrēscere (“to grow dark”).
Senses: examples: text: Most fundamental investigations of tenebrescence have dealt exclusively with the alkali halides, since, in addition to their relative simplicity, they were readily available in large single crystals of high optical purity. The reversible discoloration of alkali halides was originally observed by E. Goldstein late in the last century.
ref: 1954, The American Mineralogist, volume 39, page 616:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Reversible photochromism; the ability of a material to change colour when exposed to sunlight.
Derived terms: tenebresce
tenebrescent
subglottal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + glottal.
Senses: glosses: subglottic
pippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pippy
form: most pippy
Etymology: From pip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The pomegranate salads of Spain I did not taste, and much do I regret it; but I must say that, though the red-cored pippy fruit may throw a pleasant acid halo about the shred lettuce luminous with golden oil, the fruit itself is a most ugly and disappointing thing in real life.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 19, page 445:
text: The tomato hurtling from my hand hit a Bonzo Pup calendar hanging on the wall behind the now vanished head. The picture was obliterated behind a huge pippy red splash.
ref: 2010, Clarissa Lablache Cheer, Edwardian candlelight: My Childhood Memories, page 179:
text: And if Blai, who had gone down the brookside with a withy basket, came back in time, maybe his mother would have made some of the sweet, dark, pippy mess that she brewed with blackberries and honey to spread on barley cakes; but more likely that would be tomorrow.
ref: 2014, Rosemary Sutcliff, Warrior Scarlet:
glosses: Full of pips or seeds.
examples: text: "You ain't half as pippy as Mr. Carlyon was sometimes. It'll be all the same in a hundred years. Got a match?” Forsyth found no consolation in the fact that Carlyon was pippy.
ref: 1920, Francis Brett Young, E. Brett Young, Undergrowth, page 45:
text: He could not bring himself to post his wife an unhappy letter he had written: 'I'm such a pippy miserable blighter that it would be a sin to convey it to you and just when you will want bracing up.'
ref: 2013, Anthony Fletcher, Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front, page 58:
glosses: Having "the pip", or malaise; depressed.
pippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pippies
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the good professor should add to his files Goolwa cockle: the name, according at least to the fishing books I have perused, the pippy goes under in South Australia.
ref: 1987, Bulletin with Newsweek - Volumes 108-109, page 10:
text: I got it date-stamped at the library desk and put it in my pippy bag and trotted out into the bewildering sunshine.
ref: 2008, Frank Key, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, page 149:
text: As a child, because the rumpled foreskin on my pippy stuck uncomfortably to the loose skin of my scrotum, I would occasionally be observed trying to separate them through my clothing.
ref: 2012, Paul Krassner, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of pippie (all senses)
Favier explosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Favier explosives
Etymology: After the inventor, P. A. Favier, a Frenchman.
Senses: glosses: Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene, used in mining.
Favier explosives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Favier explosive
fireroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firerooms
Etymology: From fire + room.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: stokehold
firerooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireroom
flytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyte
flytes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flyte
flitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flitch
flitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flitch
Ferranti phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ferranti effect
Ferranti effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ferranti effects
Etymology: First observed during the installation of underground cables in Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti's 10,000 volt distribution system in 1887.
Senses: examples: text: The Ferranti effect is much more pronounced in underground cables, even in short lengths, because of their high capacitance.
glosses: An increase in voltage occurring at the receiving end of a long transmission line, above the voltage at the sending end. This occurs when the line is energized, but there is a very light load or the load is disconnected. The capacitive line charging current produces a voltage drop across the line inductance that is in-phase with the sending end voltages considering the line resistance as negligible.
supermanoeuvrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + manoeuvrability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supermaneuverability.
Related terms: supermanoeuvrable
supermaneuverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermaneuverable
form: most supermaneuverable
form: supermanoeuvrable
Etymology: From super- + maneuverable.
Senses: glosses: Possessing the property of supermaneuverability.
supermanoeuvrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermanoeuvrable
form: most supermanoeuvrable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supermaneuverable.
Related terms: supermanoeuvrability
Margaryize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Margaryizes
form: Margaryizing
form: Margaryized
form: Margaryized
Etymology: From Margary + -ize, after J. J. Lloyd Margary, inventor of the process.
Senses: glosses: To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate.
Margaryizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Margaryize
mavericked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maverick
mavericking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maverick
maverick brand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maverick brands
Senses: glosses: A brand originated by a dishonest cattleman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks.
maverick brands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maverick brand
make-and-break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: make-and-breaks
Senses: glosses: circuit breaker
Related terms: make-or-break
make-and-breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of make-and-break
fix the roof while the sun is shining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fixes the roof while the sun is shining
form: fixing the roof while the sun is shining
form: fixed the roof while the sun was shining
form: fixed the roof while the sun was shining
Etymology: From the notion that it is easier and more beneficial to fix a roof during dry rather than wet weather.
Senses: examples: text: You state it well: we should fix the roof while the sun is shining, and expand our nuclear-electric generating capacity while interest rates are low
ref: 1986, The Economist - Volume 299 - Page 4:
qualifier: proverbial
glosses: To deal with a problem or potential problem while conditions are favorable.
meleed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of melee
meleeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of melee
mezza majolica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: Italian pottery of the epoch and general character of majolica, but less brilliantly decorated; especially, such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.
microseismometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + seismometry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of microseisms.
microseismometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microseismometers
Etymology: From micro- + seismometer.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for the measurement of microseisms.
microseismometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microseismometer
mugginsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muggins + -ed.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Having had points deducted for making a mistake which another player then pointed out.
microseismograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microseismographs
Etymology: From micro- + seismograph.
Senses: glosses: A microseismometer that produces a graphic record.
microseismographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microseismograph
microseismogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microseismograms
Etymology: From micro- + seismogram.
Senses: glosses: The graphic record produced by a microseismograph.
microseismograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microseismogram
xynomyzithra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek ξινομυζήθρα (xinomyzíthra).
Senses: examples: text: Sfakiani pita, a cheese pie of local fame, something between a crepe and a pancake. The cheese is xynomyzithra, panfried and served with a drizzling of thyme honey.
ref: 2005, Liz Smith, Dishing: Great Dish--and Dishes--from America's Most Beloved Gossip Columnist:
text: It is one of a group of similar traditional products linked to the same geographical region: xynomyzithra in Crete, sérac (variously written) in Savoy, brocotte in parts of France, brossat in Catalonia, requesón in Spain (and requesón and ricota in Latin America); similar but not identical, because Corsican brociu can be eaten fresh but can also be ripened for several months, as brocciu passu, and thus develops a drier texture and stronger flavor.
ref: 2009, Andrew Dalby, Cheese: A Global History, page 70:
text: In the southwestern Sfakia area, the thin Sfakiani pita, filled with myzithra and topped with honey, is a dessert; however, travel just a bit further west, to Paleohora, and you will find your myzithropitakia will probably be made of the sour xynomyzithra, according to local custom.
ref: 2010, Korina Miller, Greek Islands, page 251:
glosses: A Greek cheese made from strained ewe or goat whey and a little milk.
datalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From data + -logy, from Danish datalogi. Proposed for use in English by Danish scientist Peter Naur.
Senses: glosses: The field of computer science.
wikipedia: Peter Naur
Synonyms: computer science
computing
sandwichery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwicheries
Etymology: From sandwich + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A sandwich bar, sandwich shop.
fat sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat sandwiches
Senses: examples: text: Nationwide, Rutgers is more known for its grease trucks then its highly rated business school. […] It is said that you are not really a Rutgers student until you have had a fat sandwich.
ref: 2005, Taryn Lynn Sauthoff, Omid Gohari, Rutgers New Brunswick College Prowler Off the Record, page 58:
text: At the top of the food chain is PJ's, whose pizza wins high accolades, and whose menu of fat sandwiches (a local delicacy that stuffs as many deep-fried items into a roll as possible) is extensive.
ref: 2012, Renee Pires, Day Trips from Philadelphia, page 43:
glosses: A submarine sandwich containing various fast food items such as burgers, fries, and gyro meat.
fat sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat sandwich
forecolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecolours
form: forecolor
Etymology: From fore- + colour.
Senses: examples: text: Then the violet and the blues will be the forecolours of the crimson red, which crowns a piece of work caressed by conscious hands, on a series of stones whose grain itself is a matter of choice - [...]
ref: 1986, Robert Phelps Colette, Flowers and Fruit:
glosses: Any colour which stands out among others.
examples: text: This marking is often done by setting the forecolour of the control.
ref: 2009, David Harrison, ated Functional Testing for Java-Swing:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A prominent colour, especially one that is superimposed and visible over other colours.
forecolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecolors
Etymology: From fore- + color.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forecolour.
forecolours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecolour
forecolors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecolor
foreguide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreguides
form: foreguiding
form: foreguided
form: foreguided
Etymology: From fore- + guide.
Senses: examples: text: The light they saw they followed fearlessly As Israel their clear foreguiding flame; [...]
ref: 1888, John Waugh, Messiah's mission: A poem in nine books:
text: And so far, Professor Burgess, whose idea of political science should have led him to more philosophic conclusions, making him prophetic instead of legal, falls short of his own opportunities, and gives us rather a work which might have been good for the past, than forecasts and foreguides the future.
ref: 1892, The Social Economist: 1891
text: Maclise, would he or would he not, must drop all and go to town to answer it. With wrath in his heart, therefore, he foreguided his beloved work as best he might, and addressed himself to the downward journey.
ref: 1911, The Atlantic Monthly:
text: Let it be mine to keep The holy purity of word and deed Foreguided all by mandates from on high Born in the ethereal region of the sky, Their only sire Olympus; [...]
ref: 2015, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Five Great Greek Tragedies:
glosses: To guide beforehand or in advance; guide forth or forward.
Derived terms: foreguidance
foresing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foresings
form: foresinging
form: foresang
form: foresung
Etymology: From fore- + sing.
Senses: examples: text: Jacob with the patriarchs (Himself their patriarch) through all his own Life's space the gladdest times of Christ foresang By words, act, virtue, toil.
ref: 1870, Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Christian Library:
text: God grant that I as thou May still at heart have Spring, Still may the fair To-be feel through the niggard Now And in the Winter-night the summer-day foresing!
ref: 1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence: New Poems:
text: They whispered like the windy river-reeds In thoughts that rise far under heights of Heaven — Did they foresing to Heaven of this day ?
ref: 1912, Isabella Fiske Conant, Gabriel: A Pageant of Vigil:
glosses: To sing beforehand or in advance.
Related terms: besing
foreconceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreconceive
cappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cappie
gathering rosebuds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gather rosebuds
Rarotonga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Rarotongan Rarotonga.
Senses: glosses: The largest and most populous island of the Cook Islands.
Derived terms: Rarotongan
noctiluca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏkˌtĭ.lo͞oˈkə
ipa: /ˌnɒk.tɪˈluː.kə/
enpr: näkˌtĭ.lo͞oˈkə
ipa: /ˌnɑk.tɪˈlu.kə/
Forms: form: noctilucae
form: noctilucas
Etymology: From Latin noctilūca.
Senses: examples: text: If a number of noctilucas are punctured with a needle, causing the cells to collapse, and are then subjected to an interrupted current, they respond just as uninjured cells do.
ref: 1917, Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington:
glosses: A firefly, glowworm.
glosses: The moon
glosses: A phosphorescent substance
glosses: Noctiluca scintillans (sea sparkle).
Derived terms: icy noctiluca
noctilucal
noctilucan
winterishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winterishly
form: most winterishly
Etymology: From winterish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the third room Santa Claus, winterishly arrayed, came in with a huge pack over his shoulder, from which he took something for each child as he walked up and down the aisles.
ref: 1892, Journal of Education, volumes 35-36, page 396:
text: As I caught sight of myself in a mirror, I realized I was the only person in the entire dressing-area who was horribly, winterishly pale. Alongside the olive Italians and the golden California girls, my skin had an unhealthy bluish tinge […]
ref: 1992, Tessa Duder, Alex in Rome, page 11:
glosses: In a way that is characteristic of winter.
wintrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wintrily
form: most wintrily
Etymology: From wintry + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wintry manner.
unwintry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwintry
form: most unwintry
Etymology: From un- + wintry.
Senses: glosses: Not wintry.
wintry mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintry mixes
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mixture of freezing rain, ice pellets, and snow.
wintry mixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wintry mix
wintrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wintrified
form: most wintrified
Senses: glosses: Made wintry; in a cold or icy state.
Lan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /læn/
rhymes: -æn
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Lan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /læn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: From Mandarin 嵐 /岚 (Lán).
Senses: examples: text: Drivers can take the exit and head north to Kelan, south to Jingle, or west onto a hill road that leads to Lan County in Lüliang City.
ref: 2020, Shunmin (鲁顺民) Lu, Yang Yao (杨遥), Chen Kehai (陈克海), 掷地有声：从山西看中国脱贫攻坚 [Pathway to Prosperity: China's Poverty Alleviation with a Case Study of Shanxi Province], →ISBN, page https://books.google.com/books?id=qKIwEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT414:
english: Pathway to Prosperity: China's Poverty Alleviation with a Case Study of Shanxi Province
translation: Pathway to Prosperity: China's Poverty Alleviation with a Case Study of Shanxi Province
glosses: A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
balances the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balance the books
balancing the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balance the books
balanced the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balance the books
matinée jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matinée jackets
form: matinee jacket
Senses: examples: text: “I just can't see you with wool and needles,” she said in amusement one day on the phone when Kerry told her she was halfway through a tiny white matinée jacket.
ref: 2007, Cathy Kelly, Best of Friends, →ISBN, page 440:
text: She gestured to her knitting. "I'm just running her up a little matinée jacket." .
ref: 2010, Madeleine Wickham, Cocktails For Three, →ISBN:
text: It was meant to be a matinée jacket but it bore a far stronger resemblance to a string vest, so many and various were the holes where the inexpert knitter had dropped stitches.
ref: 2012, Judith Saxton, Nobody's Children, →ISBN:
glosses: A short coat for a baby, similar to a cardigan.
matinée jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matinée jacket
matinee jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matinee jackets
Senses: examples: text: I'll feel silly fronting up to George Hocken and asking him for the loan of a baby matinee jacket," I complained. "And I don't know where he lives anyway."
ref: 2014, Margaret Pearce, Caught In Willaburra, →ISBN:
text: The Martin Report, a document containing new evidence against the Crown's case, was dismissed, and not until Azaria's missing matinee jacket was found in February 1986 was the need for a judicial inquiry established.
ref: 1994, Helen Birch, Moving Targets: Women, Murder and Representation, →ISBN, page 68:
text: The loveliest little matinee jacket for a baby can be made of thin silk trimmed with Italian Quilting.
ref: 2014, Lillie London, Lillie London's Needlework Book, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of matinée jacket.
matinee jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matinee jacket
matinée coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matinée coat
matinee idol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matinee idols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matinée idol.
matinee idols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matinee idol
unuplifting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unuplifting
form: most unuplifting
Etymology: From un- + uplifting.
Senses: glosses: Not uplifting.
exaltingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exaltingly
form: most exaltingly
Etymology: From exalting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that exalts.
unexalting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexalting
form: most unexalting
Etymology: From un- + exalting.
Senses: glosses: That does not exalt.
Victoria crape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Victoria crapes
Senses: glosses: imitation crape made from cotton
Victoria crapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victoria crape
violetear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violetears
form: violet-ear
Etymology: From violet + ear.
Senses: glosses: Any of the American hummingbirds of the genus Colibri, whose males have a violet-blue patch running back and down from the eye.
Derived terms: brown violetear
green violetear
sparkling violetear
white-vented violetear
violetears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violetear
mother load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mother lode.
volt-ampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volt-amperes
Senses: glosses: The unit of apparent power in an electrical circuit, equal to the product of root-mean-square (RMS) voltage and RMS current. Symbol VA.
Related terms: kilovolt-ampere
volt-amperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volt-ampere
varisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vary + syllabic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having a variable number of syllables, depending on pronunciation or analysis.
Derived terms: varisyllabicity
esoteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esotery
vitriolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vitriol
vitriolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vitriol
vitriolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitriolization
clapstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapsticks
Etymology: From clap + stick.
Senses: synonyms: clapper
musicstick
glosses: A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
glosses: A clapperboard.
clapsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clapstick
ouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tare an' ouns, man! And is it meself that'll be caring what ye may or may not be?
ref: 2009, Georgette Heyer, The Black Moth, →ISBN, page 119:
text: For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, page 1:
text: Thunder an' tear an' ouns," said he
ref: 1831, Thomas Crofton Croker, Killarney Legends: Arranged as a Guide to the Lakes, page 173:
text: Tundher-an-ouns, Sir, give it to us, or you'11 be afther stroking it into a wran at last, so you will.
ref: 1826, O'Hara family pseud, Tales by the O'Hara family, page 2:
glosses: Wounds, especially the wounds of Christ on the cross.
Derived terms: blood and ouns
horseperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsepersons
form: horsepeople
Etymology: From horse + person.
Senses: examples: text: This book has been designed to fill the gap in equine literature between the highly technical books intended for use only by the veterinarian and the non-technical, less informative ones that are commonly available to the horseperson.
ref: 2005, Horseman's Veterinary Encyclopedia, Revised and Updated, page xiv:
glosses: A horseman or horsewoman.
horsepeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseperson
horsepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseperson
inrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Swedish inrundning.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonetic feature found in Swedish, a form of rounding where the lips are protruded and kept relatively close together.
Related terms: inrounded
outrounding
outrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A calque of Swedish utrundning.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonetic feature found in Swedish, a form of rounding where the lips are protruded and kept relatively far apart.
Related terms: inrounding
outrounded
inrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an inrounded vowel
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting inrounding.
outrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an outrounded vowel
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting outrounding.
blood and ouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stephen watches Mulligan from the staircase as he mockingly blesses his surroundings and offers to an imaginary congregation the "body and soul and blood and ouns" (wounds) of a female Christ, "christine", […]
ref: 1996, Harry Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: The blood and wounds of Christ on the cross.
blood and ouns
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Och, blood an ouns! what can the matter be !
ref: 1807, Colman Jr., The Mountaineers, in The English and American Stage - Volume 13, page 36:
text: Blood an 'ouns can't you say something.
ref: 1833, The New Theatrical Observer and Censor of the Stage, page 70:
text: She laughed, and blood and ouns ! I heard the expression and kissed them all round, ay, the heiress herself!
ref: 1840, Margaret Baron-Wilson, Chronicles of life, page 77:
qualifier: mildly blasphemous
glosses: Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration.
van 't Hoff factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: van 't Hoff factors
Etymology: Named after J. H. van 't Hoff.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the effect of a solute upon colligative properties such as osmotic pressure, relative lowering in vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, and depression of freezing point. It is the ratio between the actual concentration of particles produced when the substance is dissolved, and the concentration of a substance as calculated from its mass.
van 't Hoff's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after J. H. van 't Hoff.
Senses: glosses: The generalization that, when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions, the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature and the exothermic by lowering it.
van 't Hoff factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of van 't Hoff factor
vantage game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vantage games
Senses: qualifier: lawn tennis
glosses: The first game after the set is deuce.
vantage games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vantage game
siphon recorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: siphon recorders
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to record the receipt of a telegraph message as an ink line on a roll of paper tape to be read back later by a trained operator.
siphon recorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphon recorder
mouse mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouse mills
Senses: glosses: An early electric motor resembling a small treadmill.
mouse mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouse mill
Madeira vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madeira vines
Senses: glosses: Anredera cordifolia, a South American ornamental succulent evergreen vine of the family Basellaceae.
Madeira vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madeira vine
Madeira wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: American mahogany
Cuban mahogany
small-leaved mahogany
West Indian mahogany
glosses: The mahogany tree (Swietenia mahagoni).
synonyms: false tamarind
wild tamarind
glosses: A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma latisiliquum) whose wood is used for boat trimming.
megalocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛfəli
Etymology: From megalo- + -cephaly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macrencephaly
synonyms: word: macrencephaly
megalocephalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛfəli
Etymology: From megalo- + cephal- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macrencephaly
synonyms: word: macrencephaly
megalocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megalocephalic
form: most megalocephalic
Etymology: From megalo- + -cephalic.
Senses: glosses: macrencephalic
Mahdiist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahdiists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mahdist.
Mahdiism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mahdi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mahdism.
Mahdiists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahdiist
Mahdist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahdists
form: Mahdiist
Etymology: From Mahdi + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Mahdism.
Mahdists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahdist
Mahdism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mahdiism
Etymology: From Mahdi + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed.
ref: 1899, Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, The Downfall of the Dervishes:
glosses: Islamic messianism regarding the coming of the Mahdi