cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
odd one out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odd ones out
form: odd man out
Senses: examples: text: Am I the odd one out for thinking this is quite alarming? That I should find it weird to see a 41-year-old influencer bleating about her “bleph”.
ref: 2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 23:
synonyms: odd man out
glosses: Something or someone in a group that is different or exceptional, that does not fit.
glosses: A visual puzzle where the guesser has to choose which word/picture/symbol etc. does not fit with the others.
aziridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈzɪɹɪdiːn/
Forms: form: aziridines
Etymology: From aza- + -iridine. Aza denotes a monocycle with a single nitrogen atom, and -iridine is used to mark a three-membered monocycle.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A three-membered heterocycle containing two methylene groups and an imine; the nitrogen equivalent of ethylene oxide.
glosses: Any derivative of this basic structure.
Synonyms: ethyleneimine
azacyclopropane
Derived terms: aziridination
aziridinium
aziridinol
bisaziridine
oxaziridine
Related terms: azetidine
an analogous four-membered heterocycle
azolidine
an analogous five-membered heterocycle
pop up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops up
form: popping up
form: popped up
form: popped up
Senses: examples: text: The toast is in the toaster - when it pops up it will be ready.
glosses: To come up with a "pop" sound.
examples: text: I can't remember where I left my keys, but they normally pop up somewhere.
text: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref: 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
glosses: To appear without warning.
examples: text: […]where you should put the disclaimer for software (somewhere that the user sees it when they start the program, tho' I wouldn't do that, just put it in the 'about' box like the mpgn.com guy suggests -- otherwise, having something pop up makes it annoyware, IMHO).
ref: 1994 September 8, Kendall Bullen, “COPYRIGHT POLICY”, in rec.games.frp (Usenet):
glosses: (Of an alert, advertisement, etc.) To suddenly appear onscreen.
examples: text: My computer just popped up a warning about Internet security.
glosses: To display as an alert, advertisement, etc. that suddenly appears on screen.
rub salt in the wound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs salt in the wound
form: rubbing salt in the wound
form: rubbed salt in the wound
form: rubbed salt in the wound
form: rub salt in someone's wounds
form: rub salt into the wound
form: rub salt into the wounds
Etymology: Derived from the stinging sensation of salt deliberately being rubbed into an open, bleeding wound.
Senses: examples: text: To rub further salt into the wound, the narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock received the new corporate blue livery and double arrows logo.
ref: 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Vale of Rheidol”, in RAIL, number 974, page 47:
synonyms: word: add insult to injury
word: kick someone when they are down
word: twist the knife
word: rub it in
word: add fuel to the fire
word: add insult to injury
word: cap it all off
word: fan the flames
word: make matters worse
word: throw gasoline on the fire
word: With malice
word: hit someone when they are down
word: kick a dog when it's down
word: kick someone when they are down
word: punch down
word: put the boot in
word: rub it in
word: rub salt in the wound
word: strike someone when they are down
word: twist the knife
glosses: To aggravate or exacerbate a physical or emotional injury.
extratropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪkəl
Etymology: From extra- + tropical.
Senses: glosses: Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking or having lost tropical characteristics.
Derived terms: extratropical cyclone
up and coming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up and coming
form: most up and coming
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of up-and-coming.
went wild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go wild
Pumas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pumas
Senses: examples: text: England were on the scoreboard after only one minute, Wilkinson, who missed five penalties in his side's opener against the Pumas, knocking over a three-pointer from bang in front, despite boos from the crowd.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: the national rugby union representative team of Argentina
Pumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Puma
daymark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daymarks
Etymology: From day + mark.
Senses: synonyms: daymarker
day marker
glosses: A mark (such as a tower) designed to help navigators to find their way during daylight hours.
Related terms: landmark
seamark
sea mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea marks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seamark.
synæresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synæreses
Senses: examples: text: IN an attempt to extend observations on the synæresis of actomyosin by adenosine triphosphate to a less disorganized and more physiologically complete system, the volume changes which accompany the disappearance of the latter in a muscle fibre suspension are being studied.
ref: 1951 June 30, BB Marsh, Nature 167 - Letters to Nature: A Factor Modifying Muscle Fibre Synæresis, pages 1065–1066:
text: Synæresis, spirantization, and sonorant-degemination
ref: 1985, Charles-James N. Bailey, Ethnoloɠue, Languages of the World: English Phonetic Transcription, →ISBN, chapter 9 title:
glosses: Alternative spelling of synaeresis.
synæreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synæresis
kinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kino
self-existent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlfɛɡzˈɪstənt/
Forms: form: more self-existent
form: most self-existent
Etymology: From self- + existent.
Senses: glosses: Existing without having been created.
examples: text: Campbell exquisitely says, "'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force.
Related terms: God
syllabic break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllabic breaks
Senses: glosses: A division between syllables in a word.
syllabic breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabic break
interbank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + bank.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or taking place between two or more banks (financial institutions).
snow angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow angel
mesoscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + scale.
Senses: glosses: Of medium size or extent; between microscale and macroscale.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Roughly 2–200 kilometers (or ~1-124 miles) in extent; between microscale and synoptic.
raw_tags: of a weather phenomenon
Derived terms: mesoscale convective system
submesoscale
Related terms: masoscale
misoscale
mososcale
musoscale
mesoscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoscales
Etymology: From meso- + scale.
Senses: glosses: A scale of intermediate size.
cuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkui/
Etymology: Borrowed from Peruvian Spanish cuy (“guinea pig”) (ultimately from Quechua quwi (“guinea pig”)).
Senses: glosses: guinea pig meat
woo-woo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woo-woos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woo woo.
woo-woo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woo-woo
form: most woo-woo
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woo woo.
all bark and no bite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all bark but no bite
form: all bark no bite
Senses: glosses: Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
glosses: Often making cutting remarks, but having a gentle personality underneath.
examples: text: The phrase "all bark, no bite" could have been coined for our mutts; couple of wimps, those two.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.28
glosses: Aggressive but never combative.
Related terms: all garnish and no meat
all hat and no cattle
all talk and no action
video nasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video nasties
Senses: glosses: A video recording depicting excessive gore and violence.
creäture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krē.āʹtyo͝or
ipa: /kɹiːˈeɪtjʊə/
Forms: form: creätures
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of creature.
creätures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krē.ā'tyo͝əz
ipa: /kɹiːˈeɪtjʊəz/
enpr: krē.ā'chərz
ipa: /kɹiːˈeɪt͡ʃɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of creäture
infrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrequencies
form: infrequence
Etymology: From Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”), equivalent to in- + frequency or infrequent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: the infrequency of her visits
text: Because of the infrequency of the services, signals are not considered necessary, but stations are linked by telephone.
ref: 1957 December 24, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
synonyms: word: rarity
word: irregularity
word: scarcity
word: infrequency
word: rareness
word: rarity
word: seldomness
word: scarcity
word: uncommonness
glosses: The characteristic of being infrequent.
examples: text: […]it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither
ref: 1657, Philemon, transl. Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch:
glosses: The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
Synonyms: uncommonness
rareness
infrequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infrequency
QGP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Physicists are attempting to make QGP by smashing large atomic nuclei into one another at such high energies that the protons and neutrons squeeze together.
ref: 2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 126:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of quark-gluon plasma.
squark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɑːk/
rhymes: -ɑːk
Forms: form: squarks
Etymology: From s- + quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical supersymmetric counterpart to a quark, having a spin of zero instead of one-half.
Hyponyms: sbottom squark
scharm squark
sdown squark
sstrange squark
stop squark
sup squark
supersymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəsɪˈmɛtɹɪk/
Forms: form: more supersymmetric
form: most supersymmetric
Etymology: From super- + symmetric.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to supersymmetry.
Derived terms: LSP
selectron
sfermion
slepton
smuon
sneutrino
sparticle
spreon
squark
stauon
superpartner
SUSY
SUSY-GUT
Related terms: axino
chargino
gluino
gravitino
neutralino
photino
wino
zino
Plinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Pliny + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Pliny the Younger or Pliny the Elder.
Derived terms: interplinian
Plinian eruption
ultraplinian
hilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillings
Etymology: From hill + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the hilling of potatoes
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The act or process of heaping up earth around plants.
Related terms: earth up
hilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hill + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hill
crinolined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crinoline + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a crinoline skirt.
phonostatistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phono- + statistics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the application of statistical methods to phonology and phonetics
Related terms: phonostatistic
phonostatistical
Carolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caroluses
form: Caroli
Etymology: From Carolus, Latin for Charles. Doublet of Charles.
Senses: glosses: An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.
Related terms: Carolus dollar
Carolus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caroluses
Etymology: From Latin Carolus, Latinized form of the personal name Charles. This surname is mostly found in South Africa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Latin.
triathletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triathlete
fika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːkə/
Forms: form: fikas
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish fika.
Senses: examples: text: Fika can be done anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.
ref: 2015, Anna Brones, Johanna Kindvall, Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats, page 3:
text: Fika is casual by nature, so there's no need to get fancy.
ref: 2016, Melissa Bahen, Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast: 70 Simple Recipes & Crafts for Everyday Celebrations, page 65:
text: Today, fika is a necessary component to work-life balance.
ref: 2018, Lynda Balslev, The Little Book of Fika: The Uplifting Daily Ritual of the Swedish Coffee Break, page 7:
synonyms: coffee break
glosses: The Swedish practice of taking a break from daily activities or meeting with people to enjoy pastries and drinks, typically coffee.
pan-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pæn.pæn/
Forms: form: pan pan
form: panpan
form: Pan Pan
form: Pan-Pan
form: PAN-PAN
Etymology: From French panne (“breakdown”), reduplicated.
Senses: examples: text: It should be a relatively simple matter (particularly on a modern yacht) to teach almost anyone to heave-to, take the position from an electronic navigator, then make a PAN-PAN call on the radio (see below).
ref: 1996, John Mellor, Handling Troubles Afloat, page 179:
text: You can use the same outline for Pan Pan calls.
ref: 2005, Bob Armstrong, Getting Started in Powerboating, page 170:
text: If you transmit a Pan-Pan call, then find that you no longer require assistance, you must cancel the message.
ref: 2006, Elbert S. Maloney, Chapman Piloting & Seamanship, page 411:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
economics
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: A radio call indicating a minor emergency requiring some assistance, or priority in handling, but not endangering the safety of the vessel or those aboard.
Related terms: mayday
sécurité
SOS
pan-pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pæn.pæn/
Etymology: From Japanese パンパン (panpan), an ellipsis of パンパンガール (panpangāru).
Senses: examples: text: In his recent overview of occupied Japan, John Dower poignantly describes the "pan-pan girls" who offended conservatives with their willingness to trade sexual favors for the Americans' gifts and money.
ref: 2003, David Richard Leheny, The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure, →ISBN:
text: Their fiction does, however, reflect specificiteis of post-Surrender society; the women work as maids and pan-pan, American GIs are ever-present, and shortages and disruptions are commonplace.
ref: 2004, Douglas Slaymaker, The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction, →ISBN, page 41:
text: ...popular perceptions of the pan-pan has given way in Ōe's series to an androcentric censure that sees the native intellectual youth as the chief victim of occupation.
ref: 2007, The Journal of Japanese Studies - Volume 33, Issue 2, page 400:
text: The sight of the heavily made-up pan pan smoking on street corners beneath railway overpasses at stations like Yurakucho, or even worse, the sight of these women hanging from the arm of their swaggering GI partners, constituted a painful affront to male national pride.
ref: 2009, Stephen Mansfield, Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History, page 210:
text: The pan-pan girls who associated with African American GIs ("Kuro-pan" or "Black pan-pan girls") were considered lower status than those who associated with Euro-American GIs ("Shiro-pan", or "White pan-pan girls").
ref: 2010, Maria Höhn, Seungsook Moon, Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War Two to the Present, →ISBN:
glosses: A Japanese prostitute who catered to American GIs in post-WWII occupied Japan.
Related terms: pum-pum
porte-parole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porte-paroles
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French porte-parole.
Senses: glosses: A spokesperson, one who speaks on another's behalf.
sayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sayable
form: most sayable
Etymology: From say + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment.
ref: 2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12:
glosses: Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable.
sayable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sayables
Etymology: From say + -able.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, verbs indicate incomplete sayables – predicates – that are related to actions and undergoing of actions.
ref: 2015, Ana María Mora-Marquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, page 113:
glosses: That which can be said.
articulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more articulable
form: most articulable
Etymology: From articul(ate) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is beyond a doubt that many sounds are articulable, which do not occur in English.
ref: 1796, P. W. Fogg, Elementa Anglicana, volume 2, page 159:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
qualifier: linguistic expressions
glosses: Capable of being pronounced or expressed distinctly in speech.
raw_tags: of words
qualifier: thoughts
glosses: Capable of being expressed clearly in language.
raw_tags: of ideas
Synonyms: enunciable
expressible
Derived terms: inarticulable
unarticulable
Jethart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jeddart.
tropicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropicalizations
Etymology: From tropical + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of tropicalizing
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Conversion to tropical form
tropicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɑpɪkəlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈtɹɒpɪkəlaɪz/
Forms: form: tropicalizes
form: tropicalizing
form: tropicalized
form: tropicalized
Etymology: From tropical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To modify something (such as electronic equipment) for use in the tropics, especially by making it resistant to heat and humidity
detritivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛtɹəˈtɪvəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more detritivorous
form: most detritivorous
Etymology: From detritus + -vorous.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: That feeds on detritus; saprophagous
filter feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filter feeders
form: filter-feeder
Senses: examples: text: The best-protected species are the big, peaceful filter feeders, the basking shark and particularly the whale shark, with its photogenic polka dots and mysterious long-range migration patterns.
ref: 2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.
Derived terms: filter feed
seaquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiˌkweɪk/
Forms: form: seaquakes
Etymology: From sea + quake.
Senses: glosses: A hydrostatic pressure disturbance caused by an earthquake or volcano in the seabed.
detritivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈtɹaɪtɪvɔː/
ipa: /-ˈtɹɪ-/
ipa: /dəˈtɹaɪtəvɔɹ/
ipa: /-ˈtɹɪ-/
ipa: /-ɾə-/
Forms: form: detritivores
Etymology: From German Detritivore, from Latin dētrītus (“the act of rubbing away”) (from dēterō (“to rub away, to rub off, to wear out”), from dē- (“away; down”) + terō (“to rub; to wear away, to wear out”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to rub by twisting; to twist, to turn”)) + Latin vorāre (from vorō (“to devour, to eat greedily; to swallow up”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”)). Analyzable as detritus + -i- + -vore.
Senses: examples: text: Termites are herbivores and detritivores variously involved in the comminution and decomposition of vegetable matter, through most of the warm temperate and tropical zones.
ref: 1978, J. P. La Fage, W. L. Nutting, “Nutrient Dynamics of Termites”, in M. V. Brian, editor, Production Ecology of Ants and Termites (International Biological Programme; 13), Cambridge; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
text: If one has sound data for microbial biomass dynamics in decaying litter, along with identities of the decomposer fungi, then one can make useful projections and hypotheses regarding nutrient flow, environmental controls on decay rates, and potential detritivore production founded upon basic knowledge of the properties of fungal species and their interactions with other microbes and animals[…].
ref: 1992, Steven Y. Newell, “Estimating Fungal Biomass and Productivity in Decomposing Litter”, in George C. Carroll, Donald T. Wicklow, editors, The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem (Mycology; 9), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 521:
text: Fish are represented at several trophic levels in aquatic systems, from detritivore and herbivore to carnivore.
ref: 1992, S. J. Ormerod, “Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems”, in M[iroslav] Radojević, R[oy] M. Harrison, editors, Atmospheric Acidity: Sources, Consequences and Abatement (Environmental Management Series), Barking, Essex: Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 382:
text: Others are detritivores (i.e. they feed off organic detritus), such as some pteropods.
ref: 2014, Louis Legendre, “Pelagic Marine Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles”, in André Monaco, Patrick Prouzet, editors, Ecosystem Sustainability and Global Change (Seas and Oceans), London: ISTE Ltd.; Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 46:
text: , detritus feeder (“saprophage”)
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: detritophage
detritus eater
glosses: An organism that feeds on detritus; a detrivore, a saprophage.
Derived terms: macrodetritivore
Related terms: detritivorous
detritivory
enunciable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enunciable
form: most enunciable
Etymology: From enunci(ate) + -able.
Senses: qualifier: linguistic expressions
glosses: Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.
raw_tags: of words
examples: 1989, Richard Schechner, "Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting," TDR, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring), p. 6,
Even scientific propositions regarding entities like "strange attractors" or "quarks" are not understood by many people—and are accepted as real only when these abstruse ideas, often enunciable only as mathematical equations, have been translated into "practical results."
qualifier: thoughts
glosses: Capable of being expressed clearly in language.
raw_tags: of ideas
Synonyms: articulable
expressible
concetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concetto
faute de mieux
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊt də ˈmjɜː/
ipa: /fɔːt-/
ipa: /-ˈmjø/
ipa: /foʊt də ˈmjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /-ˈmjʊɹ/
Forms: form: more faute de mieux
form: most faute de mieux
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French faute de mieux.
Senses: examples: text: Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.
ref: 1823, "Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92
text: Among the explanations commonly advanced are: (1) Greek males were driven to seek romance and sexual gratification with other males, faute de mieux, by the seclusion and enforced intellectual impoverishment of *women; (2) […]
ref: 1998, “homosexuality”, in Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, editors, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation, Oxford, published 2004, →ISBN, page 353:
glosses: For want of something better; for lack of an alternative; as a makeshift.
Kagay-anon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Cebuano Kagay-anon, from kagayan, meaning "river".
Senses: examples: text: As for the piece of land where Ah Fat used to be, it's still an unused empty lot, a silent witness to the life of a Cantonese immigrant named Yu New, who became a Kagay-anon known as Ah Fat and built a bakery that came to define an era […]
ref: 2010, Ann Gorra, City of Gold, page 32:
glosses: A person from Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.
soogin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soogins
Etymology: A term from the 1800's
Senses: glosses: A bed quilt.
corsetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corsetries
Etymology: From corset + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry.
ref: 2001, Valerie Steele, The Corset: A Cultural History, Yale University Press, page 67
text: Women of wealthy mercantile families asserted their status by imitating the styles from royal courts and helped spread the fashion of corsetry throughout cities and towns all across Europe. In subsequent centuries, the corset was modified ...
ref: 2007, Daniel Delis Hill, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising, Texas Tech University Press, page 144
text: The modern bra, as a concept, has its origins in corsetry (so does shapewear, which you'll learn more about in chapter 3).
ref: 2018, Cora Harrington, In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of corsetery.
examples: text: Henry puts his hands on my waist and expresses surprise at all the boning and corsetry under the silk.
ref: 2003, Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: The collective noticeable portion of a corset.
megaquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaquakes
Etymology: From mega- + quake.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: A megathrust earthquake.
glosses: A very powerful earthquake, generally rated above 7 on the Richter scale.
motherload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherloads
Etymology: A corruption of motherlode.
Senses: glosses: A very large amount of something, especially something valuable.
Isidora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isadora
Etymology: Name of a fourth-century saint. The feminine equivalent of Isidore, from Ancient Greek Ἰσιδώρα (Isidṓra, “gift of Isis”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek; rare in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Related terms: Isidore
zooarchaeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zooarchaeologists
form: zoarchaeologist
form: zooarcheologist
Etymology: From zoo- + archaeologist.
Senses: glosses: A scholar of zooarchaeology.
fibrillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more fibrillar
form: most fibrillar
Etymology: From fibril + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fibrils.
glosses: Having the characteristics of fibrils.
Derived terms: afibrillar
antifibrillar
extrafibrillar
fibrillarity
fibrillary
granulofibrillar
interfibrillar
intrafibrillar
macrofibrillar
microfibrillar
multifibrillar
myofibrillar
nanofibrillar
neurofibrillar
nonfibrillar
perifibrillar
prefibrillar
protofibrillar
subfibrillar
tonofibrillar
head blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head blights
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: a blight afflicting the seed heads or inflorescences of cereal crops
optic nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optic nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: olfactory nerve
oculomotor nerve
trochlear nerve
trigeminal nerve
abducens nerve
facial nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve
vagus nerve
accessory nerve
hypoglossal nerve
glosses: Each of the second pair of cranial nerves that carry visual information from the retina to the brain.
Related terms: optic chiasm
go Fantee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes Fantee
form: going Fantee
form: went Fantee
form: gone Fantee
Senses: examples: text: He was perpetually ‘going Fantee’ among natives, which, of course, no man with any sense believes in.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 24:
glosses: To go native; to adopt the habits etc. of native people.
Fantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fantees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fanti.
Fantee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fanti.
Fanti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfænti/
Forms: form: Fantis
form: Fanti
form: Fantee
form: Fante
Etymology: From the Fanti language.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group living in south-western Ghana (also known as Mfantsefo).
Fanti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfænti/
Forms: form: Fantee
form: Fante
Etymology: From the Fanti language.
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
faquir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faquirs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fakir.
naik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɑː.ɪk/
/ˈneɪ.ɪk/
Forms: form: naiks
form: nayak
form: nayaka
form: naique
form: naig
Etymology: From Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “leader, governor”).
Senses: glosses: A lord or governor in South Asia.
examples: 1888: Also, he had to keep his temper … especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)
glosses: A non-commissioned officer equivalent to corporal in a corps of Indian, Pakistani or Nepalese soldiers.
cattos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catto
asperges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin aspergō (“to sprinkle”); the rite is so called from the words "Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor" (Psalm 51).
Senses: glosses: A Christian rite in which the congregation is sprinkled with water.
glosses: The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
asperges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin aspergō (“to sprinkle”); the rite is so called from the words "Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor" (Psalm 51).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asperge
roches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roche
Ausbruch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ausbruchs
form: ausbruch
Etymology: From German Ausbruch. Mentioned in English since at least 1775.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ausbruch.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Ausbruch.
glosses: A kind of very sweet wine, produced especially in Austria, Germany, and Hungary, historically usually made from or with the juice that runs out of grapes without any pressing, and now often made from botrytized grapes (those infected with noble rot).
Related terms: wine from unpressed grapes
straw wine
dessert wine
assume the mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assumes the mantle
form: assuming the mantle
form: assumed the mantle
form: assumed the mantle
Etymology: From the act of putting on particular robes of office.
Senses: glosses: To take on a specific role or position, along with any associated responsibilities.
raw_tags: with "of"
Synonyms: take up the mantle
pick up the mantle
Related terms: carry the mantle
hybris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hubris.
Montepulciano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montepulcianos
Etymology: From Italian Montepulciano.
Senses: glosses: An Italian red wine made from grapes cultivated in the Marche, Abruzzi and Apulia regions.
hys
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of his.
examples: text: Petti’s effort was motivated by hys desire to change a practice that hy recognized as discriminatory, and thus clearly contrary to CC’s values.
ref: 2014, Han Sayles, “Beyond Inclusivity: An investigation of CC’s new trans-inclusive healthcare”, in Cipher Magazine (Colorado College), archived from the original on 18 Nov 2020, page 8:
glosses: Gender-variant or gender-neutral spelling of his.
doss-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doss-houses
form: dosshouse
form: doss house
Etymology: From doss + house.
Senses: examples: W. Besant
They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.
coordinate_terms: flophouse
glosses: A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.
doss down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dosses down
form: dossing down
form: dossed down
form: dossed down
Senses: examples: text: After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor.
text: The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups.
ref: 2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: To sleep on someone's sofa or floor because there is no bed spare.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To sleep.
Synonyms: crash
Spy Wednesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spy Wednesdays
Etymology: From the idea that Judas Iscariot was spying on Jesus before betraying him. The Middle Irish equivalent, Cédaín in Braith ["Wednesday of Betrayal" or "Spy Wednesday"], is attested in the 15th-century Leabhar Breac.
Senses: examples: text: CATHEDRAL. Spy-Wednesday—Evening Office of Tenebrae, at 5½ o'clock.
ref: 1844 March 30, “Order of Service in Holy Week.”, in Bengal Catholic Herald, Vol.VI No.13 p.174:
text: On Spy Wednesday 1916 Thomas McDonagh gave B Company, 2nd Battalion, Irish Volunteers a pep talk.
ref: 1974 January 23, Seamus de Burca, "Peadar Kearney (1883–1942)" Dublin Historical Record (Old Dublin Society) Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 42–56 : 49
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Holy Wednesday.
synonyms: word: Holy Wednesday
Holy Wednesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holy Wednesdays
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Holy Week < Eastertime
synonyms: Good Wednesday
Spy Wednesday
related: word: Palm Sunday
word: ;
word: Holy Monday
word: ;
word: Holy Tuesday
word: ;
word: Holy Thursday
word: Maundy Thursday
word: Green Thursday
word: Sheer Thursday
word: White Thursday
word: ;
word: Holy Friday
word: Good Friday
word: Black Friday
word: Golden Friday
word: Great Friday
word: Pasch of the Cross
glosses: The Wednesday four days before Easter Sunday.
Related terms: english: one week later
translation: one week later
word: Easter Wednesday
LISN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LISNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Line Impedance Stabilisation Network.
enologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enologists
Etymology: From eno- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oenologist.
oenologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oenologists
form: enologist
form: œnologist
Etymology: From oenology + -ist or oeno- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in the science of oenology.
barrico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barricos
form: barricoes
Etymology: From Spanish barrica.
Senses: glosses: A small cask.
tea-towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-towels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tea towel.
pustulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustulous
form: most pustulous
Etymology: From pustule + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing pustules.
glosses: Resembling a pustule.
Synonyms: pustular
pustulate
Related terms: pustulant
pustulent
under one's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Orestes Jones kept his real ambitions under his hat until the time struck.
ref: 1939, G. M. (Review of General Manpower by John S. Martin)," Time, 30 Jan
text: The Prime Minister jabbed his cigar at Sir Darius. 'I told you those Holmlanders had something under their hats...."
ref: 2009, Michael Pryor, Blaze of Glory, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Concealed; confidential; secret.
unselfconsciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unselfconsciously
form: most unselfconsciously
Etymology: From unselfconscious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At the waterfall she quickly strips and washes, then stands and talks to me unselfconsciously naked, as, feeling very pale and clothed, I swim in my black bathing suit.
ref: 1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:
glosses: In a manner which is not self-conscious.
cow parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the trip over the grass-covered sleepers and between the cow-parsley and briars, an open wagon was added to the usual combination of locomotive and coach, for the benefit of those who wanted to take photographs.
ref: 1954 April, A. R. G. Hawkins, “The Easingwold Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
glosses: Anthriscus sylvestris, a weedy biennial umbellifer native to the Old World.
glosses: Any of a variety of plants of similar appearance.
Synonyms: sense: Anthriscus sylvestris
word: wild chervil
sense: Anthriscus sylvestris
word: wild beaked parsley
sense: Anthriscus sylvestris
word: keck
sense: Anthriscus sylvestris
word: Queen Anne's lace
Barbaresco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑɹbəˈɹɛskoʊ/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹbɑˈɹɛskoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛskəʊ
Forms: form: Barbarescos
Etymology: From Italian barbaresco, after the town where it is produced.
Senses: glosses: A strong red wine made in Piedmont from Nebbiolo grapes.
epis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epi
Barolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹəʊləʊ/
ipa: /bəˈɹoʊloʊ/
ipa: /bɑˈɹoʊloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: Barolos
Etymology: From Italian barolo, named after Barolo, in whose area it is produced. Possible Celtic origin.
Senses: glosses: A full-bodied Piedmontese red wine made from Nebbiolo grapes.
moscato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moscatos
Senses: glosses: A white grape variety used to make light, sweet white wine.
glosses: A wine made with this grape.
death cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death caps
Senses: examples: text: Erin Patterson has told a court that the majority of the mushrooms in a beef wellington dish served in her Leongatha home came from a local supermarket, but says she also accepts the dish contained death caps.
ref: 2025 June 3, Nino Bucci, “Erin Patterson accepts beef wellington served at fatal lunch contained death cap mushrooms, triple murder trial hears”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: death cup
glosses: The deadly poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides.
Related terms: word: amanitin
english: closely related
translation: closely related
word: destroying angel
death cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death caps
Etymology: From a clipping of capacitor.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A potentially dangerous capacitor on the primary side of the power transformer in a guitar amp.
aeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeneous
form: most aeneous
form: aëneous
form: æneous
Etymology: From Latin aēneus (“made of copper or bronze”).
Senses: examples: text: They are unquestionably distinct from the B. velatus, — being not only more æneous and metallic, with their pubescence even coarser still, and of a much more golden hue, but their entire punctation is deeper and (particularly on the head) less dense[…].
ref: 1865, Thomas Vernon Wollaston, Coleoptera Atlantidum: Being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries, page 16:
text: The normal colour of the whole upper surface is rich metallic green, in some examples having a more æneous or golden-green tint.
ref: 1888, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, page 374:
text: It is useful to combine with each dose of the bromides 2-5 mins. of liquor arsenicalis, or 2-5 grs. of salol, which tend to diminish the symptoms of bromism, the most characteristic of which are aeneous eruptions on the forehead, face, and back, alimentary disorders, and mental lethargy.
ref: 1906, Lewis Campbell Bruce, Studies in Clinical Psychiatry, page 167:
text: The female is larger, more convex, more coarsely sculptured, paler and more æneous in lustre and with the prothorax less transverse and more narrowed anteriorly.
ref: 1909, Entomological Society of Canada, The Canadian Entomologist, volume 41, page 279:
text: Very similar to australiensis but the postmarginal vein absent, the thorax more aeneous and more deeply punctate, umbilicately punctate, the scape is metallic only at the middle portions, the ends white and the grooves on each side of the median carina of propodeum are shallower.
ref: 1912, Queensland Museum, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, volumes 1-2, page 152:
text: […]the colour is more aeneous overall and lacks the blue reflections;[…].
ref: 1988, Australian Entomological Magazine, volumes 12-17, page 91:
glosses: Bronze-colored.
bolete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈlit/
Forms: form: boletes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bōlētus (“edible mushroom”), from Ancient Greek βωλίτης (bōlítēs).
Senses: examples: text: The boletes, or fleshy pore fungi, are a conspicuous element of the summer and fall "mushroom" flora of Michigan.
ref: 1971, Alexander Hanchett Smith, Harry Delbert Thiers, The Boletes of Michigan, University of Michigan Press, page 1:
text: When gathering boletes and other mushrooms for food, avoid picking from polluted habitats such as along heavily trafficked roads, along railroad tracks or power line clearings, near landfills or roadside litter dumps, and chemically treated lawns.
ref: 2000, Alan E. Bessette, William C. Roody, Arleen R. Bessette, North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored Mushrooms, Syracuse University Press, page 375:
text: Any bolete that matches the traits described above should instantly react with a turquoise color change when a drop of ammonia is placed on the stem. If it doesn't, you've got the wrong mushroom.
ref: 2009, Joe McFarland, Gregory M. Mueller, Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide, University of Illinois Press, page 128:
glosses: A type of fruiting body produced by certain fungus species in the order Boletales, especially those of genus Boletus, many of which are prized for their flavour; any species of said order that produces such a fruiting body.
Derived terms: word: bay bolete
taxonomic: Leccinum scabrum
word: birch bolete
taxonomic: Tylopilus felleus
word: bitter bolete
word: bolete eater
word: boletic
taxonomic: Butyriboletus appendiculatus
word: butter bolete
alt: Gyroporus castaneus
word: chestnut bolete
word: Devil's bolete
word: foxy bolete
taxonomic: Leccinum manzanitae
word: manzanita bolete
taxonomic: Boletellus obscureococcineus
word: rhubarb bolete
word: Satan's bolete
Related terms: cep
porcini
Boletales
Boletus
boletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolete
infelicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: infelicities
Etymology: From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.
Senses: examples: text: The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]
ref: 2007, Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's legal language: law and poetry in early modern England, page 4:
glosses: The condition of being infelicitous.
examples: text: Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.
ref: 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
inferential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inferential
form: most inferential
Etymology: From inference + -ial.
Senses: synonyms: illative
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
Derived terms: inferentialism
inferentialist
inferentiality
inferentially
inferential statistics
noninferential
infighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infighters
Etymology: From infight + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Marx was one of the great infighters of all time, and a lot of his writing was topical and ad hominem—no-holds-barred disputes with thinkers now obscure and intricate interpretations of events largely forgotten.
ref: 2016 October 10, Louis Menand, “Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A person who engages in infighting.
infinitival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: more infinitival
form: most infinitival
Etymology: From infinitive + -al.
Senses: examples: text: For example, we want to be able to stipulate in the lexical entry for persuade simply that it takes an NP and a clausal Complement ([...]). From the meaning of persuade, it will follow that the clausal Complement cannot be interrogative or exclamative. From independent word-order restrictions (an NP Complement must be positioned immediately adjacent to its sister V), it will follow that an NP Complement must precede the clausal Complement. Given that both Exceptional Clauses and Small Clauses must immediately follow a transitive Verb, it will follow that the clausal Complement of persuade cannot be an S or an SC, but rather must be an S-bar. Given that S-bar can be either finite or infinitival, we should expect to find that in the unmarked case, either type of clausal Complement is possible with persuade: and examples such as the following suggest that this is correct:
 (64) (a) Mary persuaded John [_(Sʼ) [_C that] he should resign]
 (64) (b) Mary persuaded John [_(Sʼ) [_C e] PRO to resign]
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 360:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or formed from an infinitive.
glosses: Having a function or usage similar to an infinitive.
Derived terms: infinitivally
Related terms: infinite
infinity