cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
purposivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purposive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The tumultuous debate within me gradually was resolving itself into an icy purposivity midway between determination and resignation.
ref: 1948, Percy Winner, chapter 20, in The Mote and the Beam, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 332:
text: The species-preserving purposivity of higher organisms is no greater than that of the lowest forms of life, and Jakob von Uexküll was entirely justified in stating that all living organisms are equally well adapted to their environments.
ref: 1996, Konrad Lorenz, chapter 5, in Robert D. Martin, transl., The Natural Science of the Human Species, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 93:
synonyms: purposiveness
glosses: The state or condition of being purposive.
focusedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From focused + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being focused
durag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durags
Senses: examples: text: A tall boy with thick lips and a durag crossed near and muttered the word skunk into his ear, but the number 3 came and Jesse jumped straight on it.
ref: 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), pages 51–52:
glosses: Alternative spelling of do-rag.
wikipedia: Slim Thug
durags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durag, alternative spelling of do-rags.
ferricrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferricretes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ferruginous concrete conglomerate
ferruginized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ferruginize
ferruginized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Converted into ferruginous form
Derived terms: unferruginized
duely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more duely
form: most duely
Senses: examples: text: ...leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance, which I haue truly found to me and myne, and therfore do duely and dayly pray for you and yours...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of duly.
-time
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: She is a four-time world champion.
glosses: Suffix used to indicate how many times something has occurred.
diarrhea of the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He's just a kid, and he's got diarrhea of the mouth, but he's pretty cool.
ref: 1999, Nora Roberts, Inner Harbor:
text: A psychologist might call his behavior narcissistic, egotistical, and, no doubt, a sign of hidden insecurity. Donald himself called it "truthful hyperbole." Broker Ed Gordon labeled it "diarrhea of the mouth."
ref: 2005, Gwenda Blair, Donald Trump: Master Apprentice, page 215:
text: When the person holding the highest office in the land makes derogatory comments about people who have held, or are holding high positions in our military and other institutions of our democracy, this kind of thoughtless diarrhea of the mouth has repercussions around the world.
ref: 2019, Larry Donaldson, “Letter: Words used by the leader of the free world do matter,”, in The Lima News:
glosses: Foolish talkativeness, logorrhea.
Related terms: motormouth
flavoreductase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavoreductases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the reduction of a flavin
flavoreductases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavoreductase
florideophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: florideophyceans
Senses: glosses: Any red alga of the class Florideophyceae
florideophyceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florideophycean
flowcytometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From flowcytometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of flow cytometry
fluanizone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fluanisone.
fluroquinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fluoroquinolone.
periplous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periplouses
form: periploi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίπλους (períplous, “voyage, naval manouver, account of a voyage”), from περί (perí, “peri-: around”) + πλοῦς (ploûs, “voyage”), from πλεῖν (pleîn, “to swim”).
Senses: examples: text: In ancient Greek a periplous entailed the extended navigation of coasts and description of such journeys; its interminable lists of land- and sea-marks, anchorages and travel times, […] were a means of creating what Braudel […] called maps "made of memories laid end to end".
ref: 2013, Cyprian Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea, London: Thomas and Hudson, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of periplus.
foveomacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foveo- + macular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the fovea and the macula
fragmentability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragmentabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being fragmentable
fructophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being fructophilic
deep-dish pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-dish pizzas
form: deepdish pizza
form: deep dish pizza
Etymology: From deep-dish + pizza. From being made in a high-walled pan.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chicago-style pizza (“a pizza casserole on a bread base”).
synonyms: word: Chicago-style pizza
extra: a pizza casserole on a bread base
Coordinate terms: english: a regular crust pizza, not as thick as deep-dish but thicker than thin-crust
translation: a regular crust pizza, not as thick as deep-dish but thicker than thin-crust
word: thick-crust pizza
english: a pizza with a thin and crispy bread base
translation: a pizza with a thin and crispy bread base
word: thin-crust pizza
Related terms: pan pizza
pizza dish
thick-crust pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thick-crust pizzas
form: thick crust pizza
Senses: glosses: A pizza with a focaccia bread base.
glosses: Synonym of deep-dish pizza (a pizza with a very thick and fluffy bread base).
synonyms: word: deep-dish pizza
extra: a pizza with a very thick and fluffy bread base
glosses: A regular crust pizza, in comparison to a thin-crust pizza.
Coordinate terms: deep-dish pizza
thin-crust pizza
thin-crust pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thin-crust pizzas
form: thin crust pizza
Senses: glosses: A pizza with a thin and crispy bread base.
glosses: Synonym of New York-style pizza.
synonyms: word: New York-style pizza
Coordinate terms: english: a pizza with a very thick and fluffy bread base
translation: a pizza with a very thick and fluffy bread base
word: deep-dish pizza
english: a regular crust pizza
translation: a regular crust pizza
word: thick-crust pizza
Chicago-style pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicago-style pizzas
form: Chicago style pizza
form: Chicago pizza
Etymology: From Chicago + style + pizza.
From being a style of pizza that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Senses: glosses: A casserole-like deep-dish pizza with a characteristically high-edged crust on which the toppings are often layered upside down (first cheese and meat or vegetables, then tomato sauce).
Coordinate terms: New York-style pizza
deep-dish pizza
New York-style pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New York-style pizzas
form: New York style pizza
form: New York pizza
Etymology: From New York + pizza, as it originated in that city.
Senses: glosses: A pizza with a thick crispy outer bread crust, and thin soft bread base
Coordinate terms: Chicago-style pizza
thin-crust pizza
TBTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TBT
TBYTEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TBYTE
pan pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan pizzas
Senses: glosses: A pizza that was baked in a pizza pan
Coordinate terms: deep-dish pizza
TCXOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TCXO
pizza pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza pans
Senses: glosses: A pan specialized for making US-style pizzas, similar to a pie pan, cookie sheet, or paella pan, frequently with a perforated bottom. (in making an Italian pizza, the flattened dough is placed directly on the floor of the oven)
Coordinate terms: pan pizza
Related terms: pizza oven
pizza stone
TESTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TEST
tests of time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test of time
glosses: Alternative form of test of time.
Taishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: T'ai-shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 臺山 /台山 (Táishān).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese Communist power struggle has not benefited the people. The following verse started circulating in the Taishan area near Canton not long ago.
ref: 1978 January 8, L. Chen, “What they say of Peiping rule”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: According to the court, Fan Wei and Wu conspired to manufacture and sell the drugs in 2012, and brought the others — described as “drug-making technicians” — on board. Between July and November of that year, the court says, the group set up a “den” in Guangdong’s Taishan city, where they produced and sold more than 63 kilograms of methamphetamine and 365.9 grams of dimethyl amphetamine.
ref: 2019 April 30, Yanan Wang, “China sentences 6 foreigners for drugs; Canadian gets death”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Toishan
word: Toisan
sense: from Taishanese
word: Hoisan
Derived terms: Taishanese
Taishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: T'ai-shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 泰山 (Tàishān).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
the bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of the bomb
pizza oven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza ovens
Etymology: From pizza + oven.
From being an oven specialized for making pizza.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conveyor oven. (From being frequently found in modern pizzerias.)
synonyms: word: conveyor oven
extra: From being frequently found in modern pizzerias.
glosses: A wood-fired brick oven with a stone floor in the baking chamber. (From being an oven found in traditional pizzerias, and an accessory built in backyards for pizza)
glosses: A specialized infrared oven; a squat thin oven which fits a single pizza, that uses high intensity infrared lamps to rapidly blast and bake a pizza.
Coordinate terms: pizza pan
pizza dish
pizza stone
TIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TI
Shrubya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Shrub + Dubya.
Senses: examples: text: If I believed Shrubya could learn from experience, and take correction, I wouldn't be as worried about the meanspirited manipulative rat being the Republicratic nominee.
ref: 2000 September 13, STella, “Re: Bush vs.Subliminable Messages”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
text: Clinton worked hard and did some good things. To his detractors: he’s gone folks, get over it. Your “Shrubya” was appointed by the U.S. Supremes. So the rich get richer, the economy heads south, public schools may begin Bible study, Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered, and the environment is secondary to corporate profits.
ref: 2001 February 21, John R. Love, “Letters to the editor: The blame game”, in Idaho Statesman, volume 137, number 210, Boise, ID, page 14:
text: President Shrubya expressed shock and dismay today over the fact that his energy policies have brought exploding gas prices and huge new profits to his friends in the oil industry.
ref: 2001 May 18, Doug Robarchek, “Shrubya taking big oil profits mighty hard, sources claim”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 132, number 138, Charlotte, NC, page 13B:
text: Years ago, in response to some political bullshit heaved by Shrubya and his ignoble Cabal of Curs, I remember seeing long lines of people outside Mexican consular offices waiting to get a Matricula Consular card.
ref: 2017 March 24–30, Gustavo Arellano, quoting Gringo Wants to Play Bingo, “¡Ask a Mexican!”, in OC Weekly, volume 22, number 30, page 8:
topics: government
politics
glosses: George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
twelve o'clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twelve o'clock
TWOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TWOC
upperhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upperhand
upper hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper hand
purple noise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple noises
Senses: glosses: violet noise
adderbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adderbolt
AD&Ds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AD&D
aerovacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerovac
alkides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkide
Allens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Allen
Allens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Allen
amphophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphophil
amnioserosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnioserosa
ammonids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ammonid
analogue clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analogue clock
Andriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andriot
Andean hillstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andean hillstar
hillstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillstars
Senses: glosses: One of several varieties of hummingbirds, principally of genus Oreotrochilus, which live at higher altitudes.
Derived terms: word: Andean hillstar
taxonomic: Urochroa bougueri
word: white-tailed hillstar
hillstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hillstar
Andean potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andean potato
antwrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antwren
B-rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B-roll
A-rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-roll
ASPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ASP
ATFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATF
ATHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATH
B finals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B final
bare-throated bellbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bare-throated bellbirds
Senses: synonyms: araponga
glosses: A species of bird found in moist subtropical and tropical forests in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, Procnias nudicollis.
bar crawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar crawl
bandwagon fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandwagon fan
bark mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bark mill
B-cuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B-cupper
C-cuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-cupper
BCRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BCR
tea lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Thin sheet lead, used in lining tea chests.
musaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musaics
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mosaic (“type of art”).
musaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musaic
uptitling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From up- + titling.
Senses: examples: text: To summarise, E - while ignoring the initial ramble about the NHS, the Greeks and the 'uptitling' of Personnel to Human Resources - seems unduly exercised by 'the tendency to employ specialists of all kinds which can lead to line managers abdicating their responsibility' with consequent deleterious effect on costs and criticises the adoption of 'mee too' thinking in designing organisations.
ref: 2003, Management Services - Volume 47, page 8:
text: Uptitling as a strategic device, however, is not a joke: a recent UK survey by Reed International revealed that 50 per cent of workers would register greater job satisfaction with a nicer title, even if it made no difference to their duties or salary.
ref: 2007, Tony Thorne, Shoot the Puppy: A Survival Guide to the Curious Jargon of Modern Life, →ISBN:
text: As others have commented, uptitling is also part of a form of "credentialism" that ultimately springs from striving to produce a good CV with the disturbing side effect of inflation.
ref: 2014, Roland Paulsen, Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Uptitling has been seen by some as an attempt by employers to improve job satisfaction without increasing pay.
ref: 2015, BUSINESS Essential, →ISBN, page 668:
glosses: The practice of giving a job an impressive title to make it appear more desirable.
examples: text: But instead, we discover after a few pages that we have been victimized by the common publisher's trick of “uptitling.”
ref: 1963, The School Counselor - Volumes 11-13, page 252:
glosses: The practice of giving a book a more impressive title than its content merits.
chevronny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chevrony
form: chevronné
form: chevroné
Etymology: From French chevronné (“chevroned”), equivalent to chevron + -y.
Senses: examples: text: CHEVRONNE, or Chevronny, ſignifies the dividing of the ſhield ſeveral times chevron-wiſe.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Having chevrons, especially (heraldry) charged with chevrons.
glosses: Chevron-shaped, zigzag, especially (heraldry) chevronwise.
Alcaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alcaic
chaff engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaff engines
Senses: synonyms: chaff cutter
glosses: A machine for cutting straw or hay into chaff.
chaff engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaff engine
play the devil with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the devil with
form: playing the devil with
form: played the devil with
form: played the devil with
Senses: examples: text: There's a silly young fool; but perhaps it's not entirely his fault. The last six months of the war played the devil with many an unformed character.
ref: 1937, Rupert Penny, The Talkative Policeman, page 166:
synonyms: play the cat and banjo with
play merry havoc with
play merry hell with
play Old Harry with
play the deuce with
play the dickens with
play the mischief with
glosses: To cause great trouble or distress to.
black whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black whale
blood noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood nose
block groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block group
bloodbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodbank
BOFDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BOFD
bodyshamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodyshamer
play merry hell with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays merry hell with
form: playing merry hell with
form: played merry hell with
form: played merry hell with
Senses: glosses: Synonym of play the devil with.
synonyms: word: play the devil with
Related terms: like merry hell
play hell with
play the dickens with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the dickens with
form: playing the dickens with
form: played the dickens with
form: played the dickens with
Senses: glosses: Synonym of play the devil with.
synonyms: word: play the devil with
play the deuce with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the deuce with
form: playing the deuce with
form: played the deuce with
form: played the deuce with
Senses: glosses: Synonym of play the devil with.
synonyms: word: play the devil with
homedawg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homedawgs
Etymology: From home + dawg.
Senses: glosses: A homeboy.
borderposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borderpost
valley floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valley floors
Senses: glosses: The lowest part or bottom of a valley (as seen in a cross-section).
homedawgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homedawg
aspecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aspect
patent of precedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patents of precedence
Senses: glosses: A grant to an individual by letters patent of a higher social or professional position than the precedence to which their ordinary rank entitles them.
patents of precedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patent of precedence
valley floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valley floor
field ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ice formed in the polar seas in large surfaces, distinguished from icebergs
skios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skio
skeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeos
form: skio
Etymology: From Scots skeo, from Norwegian skjå (“a drying-house, shed”), related to Icelandic skjá (“a shelter”), probably from or related to Old Norse skjár (“a window-pane or opening”). Compare also Norwegian skur.
Senses: glosses: A fisherman's hut in Orkney.
skeos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeo
galactomannoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactomannoproteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycoprotein derived from a galactomannan
galactomannoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactomannoprotein
galactosaminoglycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactosaminoglycan
gammabaculovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammabaculoviruses
Etymology: translingual Gammabaculovirus
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Gammabaculovirus
gammabaculoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gammabaculovirus
gastropodochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastropod + -chory.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: seed dispersal by means of gastropods
phalansterianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phalansterian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] professors of pantheism, socialism, phalansterianism, all the 'isms' in ismdom […]
ref: 1872, George Augustus Sala, Gaslight and Daylight, with Some London Scenes They Shine Upon, page 168:
glosses: Synonym of phalansterism.
synonyms: word: phalansterism
phalangiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phalangiform
form: most phalangiform
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a phalanx.
namees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namee
scrutinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrutinate
scrutinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrutinate
scrutinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrutinate
Peggies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Peggy
peggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peggies
Etymology: From the name Peggy.
Senses: glosses: Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
peggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peggies
Senses: examples: text: Against this, her deck staff runs to about a hundred, being made up of some fifty able-seamen, eight or ten 'peggies' […]
ref: 1936, Charles Richard Benstead, Atlantic Ferry, page 178:
text: The number of "peggies" going aft to fetch the meals had been increasing steadily.
ref: 1955, Willi Frischauer, Robert Jackson, The Altmark affair, page 177:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The petty officers' mess steward.
peggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peggy
tuning head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuning heads
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of peghead
synonyms: word: peghead
tuning heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuning head
route step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: route steps
Senses: glosses: A style of marching in which soldiers walk abreast but are not required to keep their steps in the same rhythm.
route steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of route step
spikenail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spikenails
Etymology: From spike + nail.
Senses: examples: text: After the mans wounds were dress'd I gave him a spike nail and a knife which to them was of great value […] .
ref: 1774, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 28 June
glosses: A large nail or spike.
spikenails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spikenail
spike plank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spike planks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A platform before the mizzenmast of a vessel, used in Arctic voyages so that a sailor standing on it can see further ahead and pilot the ship out of the ice.
spike planks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spike plank
minute glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minute glasses
Senses: glosses: A sandglass whose sand runs out in one minute.
Coordinate terms: hourglass
minute glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minute glass
intensen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intensens
form: intensening
form: intensened
form: intensened
Etymology: From intense + -en.
Senses: examples: text: By the last trip, suddenly and almost without my being aware of it, the sea becomes its own lure: a refreshing break from the intensening heat of August.
ref: 1973, The School Counselor, volume 21, page 142:
text: As the fight intensened the sky seemed to turn an orange-yellow and black smoke rose into the air.
ref: 2011, Ricky Spain, Jr., The Protectors, page 120:
text: Punctually as we stand-to about 3 a.m. hark! and their thin sweet voice intensening with the growing light 'droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath'.
ref: 2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow:
glosses: To grow or become more intense; intensify
intensened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intensen
intensens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intensen
intensening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intensen
tensened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tensen
tensens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tensen
tensening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tensen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tensen
tensening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tensen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of becoming more tense.
public spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being public-spirited.
touchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌ.t͡ʃɪd.nɪs/
Etymology: From touched + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And Benjamin's theory of Ideas indicates the character of "ideal" touchedness.
ref: 2001, Peter David Fenves, Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin, page 11:
text: But it's the placing of that patch of textile you notice, its touchedness.
ref: 2005, Michael S. Bird, Sandra Blow, page 55:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being touched
emperor moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emperor moths
Senses: glosses: A moth of the subfamily Saturniinae.
emperor moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emperor moth
bottle chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle charts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chart purporting to show the track of sealed bottles thrown from ships into the sea, based on its currents.
bottle charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle chart
sanitaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanitary
sanitaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Building clean, lack of cloak rooms, poor ventilation; sanitaries need attention.
ref: 1864, Educational Pamphlets 48: Hygiene, page 493:
text: The sanitaries of the Washington school have outlived their usefulness, the odor from them and their surroundings being very offensive, and in my opinion injurious to pupils and teachers.
ref: 1904, Municipal Register of the City of Waterbury, page 34:
text: I'm blowing sanitaries. You pull the lever on that crapper and a few hundred pounds of smelly stuff will fly up your nose in a heart beat.
ref: 2003, Crazy Ivan: Based on a True Story of Submarine Espionage, →ISBN, page 38:
text: She headed for the sanitaries rather than the exterior hatch, and Zhang could clearly hear her vomiting inside the tiny compartment.
ref: 2016, D. Nolan Clark, Forsaken Skies, →ISBN:
glosses: Facilities for handling human waste; Structure containing toilets, seats over a cesspit, or tanks for holding excrement.
examples: text: He picked up his white sanitaries and the red and white striped stirrup socks and sat down on the dressing stool once again before he slipped his feet into the sanitaries, making sure that the elastic tops reached just above his knees.
ref: 2002, Emil Mihelich, Around the Horn, →ISBN, page 107:
text: The 1909 Genoa High School Baseball Club members are shown wearing striped leggings, or stirrups, over white stockings called “sanitaries.”
ref: 2010, Denise Moran, Genoa and Kingston, →ISBN:
text: He switched on the light and donned his uniform: white pants that stopped high up the calf for the look he liked, sanitaries, navy blue stirrups, worn cleats, and the navy blue shirt that buttoned down the front and had "All-Stars" written on the front and his surname, "Pleasance," and number, "9," on the back.
ref: 2011, Peter Abrahams, Revolution #9, →ISBN:
text: Somebody —and I am certain it was Cade Hernandez —must have picked the thing up, because Coach Ritchey's rotten tooth had a way of showing up in a randomly selected boy's sanitaries, cap, or athletic supporter before every game we played.
ref: 2014, Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: White knee-length stockings.
nightfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightfires
Etymology: From night + fire.
Senses: examples: text: So I go on with my clowns & ponies, angels floating over peasants warming themselves by nightfires, devils, laborers, simple country girls, of donkey-bodied men & mystic bursts of rain over symbolic volcanoes.
ref: 1979, John Brandi, Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World, page 40:
text: I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 884:
text: Around the nightfires, I read Ezekiel and Leviticus and then spoke mysteriously about the quarry we chased, lengthening all I knew of the Harp gang into flatulent legend.
ref: 2010, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River: Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
glosses: Will o' the wisp.
nightfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightfire
flycraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flycrafts
form: flycraft
Etymology: From fly + craft.
Senses: examples: text: The flycraft was coasting toward the enemy killer biomachines when suddenly chance dealt Andora a soft blow in the form of a collision with a piece of space junk that glowed softly as it was repelled by the cloak and shield.
ref: 2010, John Likides, EROS TRIUMPHANT:
text: "They don't have to follow on land. There are flycraft and matboats in Peace City that will search us out."
ref: 2015, original 1978, Brian W. Aldiss, Enemies of the System:
text: Against the blackboard surface of the sky, flycrafts whizzed by, leaving crisscrossing trails of radiance that slowly dissipated, soon replaced by others.
ref: 2018, Bill Campbell, Francesco Verso, Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A machine, device, or vessel that is capable of flight
flycrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flycraft
greasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: greaseable
Etymology: From grease + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A greasable bolt allows the user the ability to apply grease to the inner sleeve where the bolt makes contact with the Leaf spring. This improves suspension function and reduces friction.
glosses: Able to be greased.
taquara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taquaras
Senses: glosses: A kind of bamboo (genus Olyra) found in Brazil.
have got to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has got to
form: having got to
form: had got to
form: had got to
form: got to
form: gotta
Senses: examples: text: Hey, you've got to hide your love away
ref: 1965, “You've Got to Hide Your Love Away”, in John Lennon (lyrics), Help!, performed by the Beatles:
glosses: Alternative form of have to (“must”).
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
form: DRV
form: Democratic Rep. of Vietnam
form: Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam
form: Democratic Republic of Viet Nam
Senses: glosses: Official name of North Vietnam: a former country in Southeast Asia existing from 1945 to 1976, when it merged with South Vietnam to become the single state of Vietnam.
Synonyms: DRV
North Viet-Nam
North Vietnam
North Viet Nam
Derived terms: DRV
Related terms: alt: RVN
word: Republic of Vietnam
alt: SRV
word: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
word: Viet Nam
word: Vietnam
word: Viet-Nam
word: VN
asisst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of assist.
glomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the glomera
glucophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That selectively ferments glucose
raw_tags: of a yeast
Related terms: fructophilic
grainyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, in fruit flies, associated with regulation of dopa
granulocytopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From granulocyte + -penic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to granulocytopenia
gummivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gummivores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any animal that feeds on the gum or sap of trees
gummivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gummivore
haemorheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haemo- + rheological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemorheological.
haplodepletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haplo- + depletion.
Senses: glosses: depletion of haploid cells
haploidise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haploidises
form: haploidising
form: haploidised
form: haploidised
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo haploidisation
haploidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haploidizes
form: haploidizing
form: haploidized
form: haploidized
Etymology: From haploid + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haploidise.
Related terms: haploidization
haploidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haploidize
hemithoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + thoracic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hemithorax
hemolysation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemolysations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemolyzation.
histoantigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histoantigens
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of histocompatibility antigen.
synonyms: word: histocompatibility antigen
histoantigens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histoantigen
homocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoclines
Etymology: From homo- + -cline.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sequence of rock strata that dip in the same direction and manner
Related terms: homoclinal
homoclinic
homoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homocline
homoclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of homoclinic.
synonyms: word: homoclinic
homunculine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of a homunculus
homunculine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homunculines
Senses: glosses: Any extinct monkey of the genus Homunculus
homunculines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homunculine
humerofemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From humero- + femoral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to (or comparing) the humerus and the femur
Derived terms: humerofemoral index
hyperbilirubinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + bilirubinaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperbilirubinemic.
hypercarcinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + carcinogenic.
Senses: glosses: More than usually carcinogenic
hypercrosslinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + crosslinked.
Senses: glosses: Very crosslinked
hyperextensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperextensors
Etymology: From hyper- + extensor.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle involved in hyperextension of the trunk
hyperextensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperextensor
hyperfiltering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + filtering.
Senses: glosses: Undergoing hyperfiltration
hypermineralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + mineralisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypermineralization.
hyperphysiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + physiologic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperphysiological.
hyperphysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + physiological.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Greater than the normal physiological amount or level
hypochondrodysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochondrodysplasias
Etymology: From hypo- + chondrodysplasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An extreme form of chondrodysplasia.
hypomasculinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + masculinized.
Senses: glosses: Less than normally masculinized
Related terms: hypomasculinity
hyposynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + synthesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reduced rate or amount of synthesis of a particular biochemical substance
Xuan'en
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shüǎnʹǔnʹ
Forms: form: Suanen
form: Süanen
form: Hsuan-en
form: Hsüan-en
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn).
Senses: examples: text: (Chunmuying) District of Hsuanen County has fulfilled this year's grain procurement quota.
ref: [1969 December 9 [1969 December 3], “Hupeh Agriculture”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 237, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 6:
text: Some cadres kept two sets of books, one with the real figures in the village and another with fake numbers for the eyes of grain inspectors. This was widespread in several counties in Guangdong province.²³ In Xuan’en county, Hubei, one in three book-keepers falsified the accounts.
ref: 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
text: A source from Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, said the patient was Huang Dengying, a 61-year-old former official in Xuanen county who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013 for taking bribes, but released early on February 17.
ref: [2020 February 27, Mandy Zuo, “Ex-prison inmate infected with coronavirus travels from Wuhan to Beijing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2020, People & Culture:
glosses: A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
short 20th century
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The continuity that exists between the two centuries would appear to distance Schmitt from [Eric] Hobsbawm and his description of the short 20th century. But we must squelch this first impression. […] The long 19th century can be explained as adding the "setback of over 60 years", from 1848 to 1917, to Hobsbawm's short 20th century.
ref: 2021, Miguel Saralegui, “Modernity and Postmodernity: Chronology as Philosophy of History”, in The Politics of Time: Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Political Thought (Social Sciences & Humanities; 4), Santander, Cantabria, Spain: Cantabria University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 231:
text: However, Wang Hui's strong dissatisfaction with [Eric] Hobsbawm's "short 20th century" is that he believes that this concept was developed mainly from the European perspective, without taking into account the proper place of Chinese events and the Chinese revolution in the 20th century, […]
ref: 2022 November, Rong Jian, translated by Ren Zhi, edited by David Rong, Calling Back the Ghost of Revolution – Critique of Wang Hui’s View on Chinese Revolutionary History (Translation Series of Contemporary Chinese Scholars), New York, N.Y.: Bouden House, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Alternative form of short twentieth century.
short 20th century
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short 20th centuries
Senses: examples: text: […] Salvadorean history – including that of its literary development since independence – falls into three clear-cut periods: a very long 19th century until the Great Massacre of 1932; a very short 20th century from 1932 to the signing of the Peace Accords of 1992, and since then the possibility, at least, of a New Dawn of political reconciliation.
ref: 1997, Roy C. Boland, “El Salvador: 19th- and 20th-century Prose and Poetry”, in Verity Smith, editor, Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, Chicago, Ill.; London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, page 286, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of short twentieth century.
iadromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diadromous.
immunodysfunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunodysfunctions
Etymology: From immuno- + dysfunction.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dysfunction of the immune system
immunodysfunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunodysfunction
immunoturbidimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immuno- + turbidimetrically.
Senses: glosses: In an immunoturbidimetric manner
indenoisoquinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indenoisoquinolines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A four-ringed heterocycle composed of an indene fused with an isoquinoline
indenoisoquinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indenoisoquinoline
infraglenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + glenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the glenoid cavity
Derived terms: infraglenoid tubercle
infraventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + ventricular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath a ventricle
interbasinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + basinal.
Senses: glosses: Between basins
intercontractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + contractile.
Senses: glosses: Between successive contractions
interdermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + dermal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of subdermal.
synonyms: word: subdermal
interglenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + glenoidal.
Senses: glosses: Between glenoids
intestosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intesto- + somatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the intestines and body
Derived terms: intestosomatic index
intraaxonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + axonal.
Senses: glosses: Within an axon
intraaxonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intra- + axonally.
Senses: glosses: In an intraaxonal manner
intracavernously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an intracavernous manner
isovalue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + value.
Senses: glosses: Having the same value
isovalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isovalues
Etymology: From iso- + value.
Senses: glosses: An isovalue line
itemwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From item + -wise.
Senses: glosses: With regard to items
glosses: One item at a time
anti-fascisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-fascism
anti-lifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-lifer
BeVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BeV
blackamores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackamore
breast bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breast bone
CMSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMSs
Senses: examples: text: Because of Wikimedia's educational mission, MediaWiki supports file types that may be uncommon in other web applications or CMSes, like SVG vector images, and multipage PDFs and DjVus. They are rendered as PNG files, and can be thumbnailed and displayed inline, as are more common image files like GIFs, JPGs and PNGs.
ref: 2012, Sumana Harihareswara & al., "MediaWiki", The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol. II, p. 191
glosses: plural of CMS
cook outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cook out