cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
revenge is a dish best served cold
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Earliest known metaphorical reference to revenge as food in English is “And then revenge is very good eaten cold, as the vulgar say”, from an 1846 translation of Eugène Sue's Mathilde: Mémoires d'une Jeune Femme. The passage suggests that it was an existing expression. Similar proverbs are known as early as the 17th century with “Reuenge is not good in cold bloud” in a translation of Don Quixote.
The phrase exists in various Romance languages: Italian la vendetta è un piatto che va servito freddo, Spanish la venganza es un plato que se sirve frío, French la vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid. In French, it's commonly used since at least the 19th century.
In English, many variations are attested but the exact phrase revenge is a dish best served cold may originate from the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Senses: examples: text: He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.
ref: 1892, James Payn, A Modern Dick Whittington; or, A Patron of Letters, volume 1, page 222:
text: Time had brought me revenge on Lionel, and as the Italian proverb says, revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.
ref: 1949, Robert Hamer, John Dighton, Kind Hearts and Coronets, spoken by Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price):
text: Don Corleone nodded. “Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold,” he said.
ref: 1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, New York, page 404:
text: Of course! We are one big, happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?
ref: 1982, Jack B. Sowards, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, spoken by Khan (Ricardo Montalbán):
glosses: Revenge should not be rushed, because it must be calculated coolly and/or because it is most satisfying when delayed.
wikipedia: Eugène Sue
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Related terms: word: cold blood
word: justice delayed is justice denied
word: pay off old scores
word: revenge is sweet
sense: Klingon translation
word: bortaS bIr jablu'DI', reH QaQqu' nay'
nedocromil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A medication used to prevent wheezing, shortness of breath, and other breathing problems caused by asthma.
South Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A high intermontane grassland basin in Park County, in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado.
glosses: A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A small fictional snow-capped mountainous Colorado town, the setting of the adult animated sitcom South Park.
Derived terms: South Parkian
South Park Republicanism
South Park Republican
Chugwater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Wyoming, United States.
dirigistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But we have not, at least by 1997, observed any postrevolutionary reduction in the zeal of the dirigistes, who seem, genuinely, to consider themselves both epistemologically and morally superior to their fellow citizens.
ref: 1998, James M. Buchanan, “Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy”, in The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, volume 11, page 208:
text: 25 January 2020, The Economist, "Their way or Huawei" p. 44, 1st sentence in second column
Since the Chinese state props up its firms, dirigistes argue that the EU should help European 5G kitmakers like Nokia and Ericsson.
glosses: plural of dirigiste
Barretta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barrettas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Barretta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dotto train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dotto trains
Etymology: From the name of the manufacturers, Dotto.
Senses: glosses: A land train.
flying sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying sport
genetic gaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: plural of genetic gap
chaptalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chaptalizes
form: chaptalizing
form: chaptalized
form: chaptalized
Etymology: From Chaptal + -ize, after Jean-Antoine Chaptal, who developed the process.
Senses: glosses: To add sugar to grape juice during the fermentation of wine, usually to increase the alcohol content.
wikipedia: Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Derived terms: chaptalization
Related terms: gallize
euphoniousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From euphonious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being euphonious.
glosses: The degree to which a thing is euphonious.
Synonyms: euphony
wrist band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrist bands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wristband.
wrist bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrist band Alternative spelling of wristbands.
galge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galge
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyarugē), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), a wasei-eigo derived from English gal + game.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.
Ima
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From I'm or I'm going to.
Senses: examples: text: Ima call her as soon as you hang up.
ref: 2000, Charlotte Carter, Coq au vin, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of Imma (I'm going to).
examples: text: Ima gonna close my eyes and you toss that there pebble in the air.
ref: 2006, Dax Herrera, Edgar N Vective: Paranormal Detective, Hammerica Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: I'm.
Ima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A formerly common Anglo-American given name.
Ima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אמא.
Senses: glosses: Mom, Mommy, one's mother.
Han Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Hàn Chinese
Etymology: See Han for more historical information.
Senses: examples: text: About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.
ref: 2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2:
glosses: Referring to the largest ethnic group native to China.
Han Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hàn Chinese
Etymology: See Han for more historical information.
Senses: examples: text: Lueyang county is a mountainous county located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi'an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population—about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese, who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places.
ref: 2007, Marcus W. Feldman, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Shuzhuo Li, Xiaoyi Jin, Nan Li, “Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China”, in Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, editors, Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves, volume 2, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144:
glosses: The largest ethnic group native to China.
stage mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage moms
Senses: glosses: A woman who aggressively manages her children's acting or performing career, often in what is considered a detrimental and overbearing manner.
Related terms: soccer mom
chew on the scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews on the scenery
form: chewing on the scenery
form: chewed on the scenery
form: chewed on the scenery
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chew the scenery.
chew up the scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews up the scenery
form: chewing up the scenery
form: chewed up the scenery
form: chewed up the scenery
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chew the scenery.
come online
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes online
form: coming online
form: came online
form: come online
Senses: examples: text: It will be some time before the new factory comes online, and until then we can't fulfill demand.
glosses: To enter service or become active.
examples: text: Come online later; I want to talk to you.
glosses: To log in to an Internet communication system, such as an instant messenger, online game or forum.
Related terms: down the line
Tang dynasty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tang dynasty
Etymology: Partial calque from Chinese 唐朝 (Tángcháo).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese dynasty that lasted from 618 to 907 C.E.
eulogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulogy
between the devil and the deep blue sea
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea
form: the devil and the deep blue sea
Senses: synonyms: word: between a rock and a hard place
word: between Scylla and Charybdis
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
word: between the hammer and the anvil
word: between two fires
word: damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
word: doomed if you do
word: doomed if you don't
word: in a cleft stick
word: in bad bread
word: on the horns of a dilemma
glosses: Between undesirable alternatives.
Related terms: word: devil to pay, and no pitch hot
word: devil to pay
word: the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready
english: the seam between garboard strake and the keel; a seam on wooden boats
translation: the seam between garboard strake and the keel; a seam on wooden boats
word: devil seam
word: between a rock and a hard place
word: Hobson's choice
word: lesser of two evils
Mc-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /mək/
ipa: /mɪk/
note: before an unstressed syllable
ipa: /mæk/
homophone: Mack
homophone: Mac
Etymology: From Irish mac (“son”).
Senses: glosses: A patronymic used to form common Irish and Scottish names, similar to the English -son.
examples: text: Mc- + shit → McShit
text: Mc- + stupid → McStupid
text: "Nyah-nyah!" they all shouted. "Your name's not McCloy! You're Gerald McBoing Boing, the noise-making boy!'
ref: 1950 Gerald McBoing Boing (cartoon short)
text: His body is lean.
His feet aren't clean.
His mouth is real mean
When he's on the scene,
But all the time you hear the women really yellin' his name: Filthy McNasty.
ref: 1968 Eddie Jefferson "Filthy McNasty" (lyrics for a 1961 instrumental of the same name by Horace Silver)
text: Alternatively, one may make the example a bit sharper by discussing a being, call him 'McStupid', that always knows who he is, but knows nothing else.
ref: 2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness, Routledge, →ISBN, page 44:
text: I bet Thomas McSmart-arse makes some dumb comment about my nose-ring.
ref: 2006, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29:
text: And when she's not at the Law Review office, she's out with her goddamn Law Review friends. Goddamn Art McAsshole and goddamn Lisa Von- Bitchypants and the worst — the very worst — is that goddamn Charlotte Sidwell.
ref: 2007, Martha Kimes, Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Used in combination with a non-name descriptive word to form mock names.
examples: text: Mc- + griddle → McGriddle
text: Mc- + muffin → McMuffin
text: Mc- + rib → McRib
text: Mc- + café → McCafé
topics: business
coordinate_terms: word: i-
english: Apple
translation: Apple
glosses: Used to form the name of McDonald's products.
examples: text: Mc- + car → McCar
text: Mc- + church → McChurch
text: Mc- + job → McJob
text: Mc- + mansion → McMansion
text: Sesame Street is "McEducation." Like things served by the golden arches, Sesame Street has at once elevated the dregs and lowered the quality to mediocrity
ref: 1983 Wallace Marx, "It's Not How Long You Make It," New York Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 50 (19 Dec 1983), p11
text: Two years of hard work wiped out by one of your 2 minute McSessions!
ref: 1995 Christopher Lloyd, Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo, "Dark Victory," Frasier, Season 2, Episode 24 (aired 23rd May 1995), spoken by Niles Crane (played by David Hyde Pierce)
text: Some of the techniques have been imported from the United States, but Britain's tight political and media village is now the European market leader in this kind of McPolitics.
ref: 2003, Anthony Wright, British politics: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, page 35:
glosses: Indicating a lack of depth or worth, by association with McDonald's.
examples: text: Mc- + nuke → McNuke
glosses: Indicating an increase in availability or an increase in consumerism causing items to be more readily available.
Related terms: Mac-
McWord
ofan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ofanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ophan.
bluewashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bluewash
Related terms: redwashing
greenwashing
pinkwashing
purplewashing
bluewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluewash
bluewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bluewash
bluewashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bluewash
Mpls.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mpls, abbreviation of Minneapolis.
chieftainess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chieftainesses
Etymology: From chieftain + -ess. Middle English had an equivalent form cheventaynes but the OED asserts the term was derived anew in modern English in the 19th century. Piecewise doublet of captainess.
Senses: examples: text: He gazed in silence for some minutes upon the body of Meg Merrilies, as it lay before him, with the features sharpened by death, yet still retaining the stern and energetic character which had maintained in life her superiority as the wild chieftainess of the lawless people amongst whom she was born.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], “chapter ?”, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Mrs. Douse was more important than Mr. Douse; she was a chieftainess in her own right, and had great dignity.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: A female chieftain.
glosses: The wife of a chieftain.
Synonyms: english: chiefly Hawaiian
translation: chiefly Hawaiian
word: chiefess
word: chieftess
Hypernyms: chief
chieftain
chieftainesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chieftainess
genderbending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gender + bending.
Senses: examples: text: There is one episode in the novel, however, where questions of racial masquerade intrude on the freewheeling genderbending of the main characters.
ref: 2000, David John Bell, Barbara M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, page 452:
text: The genre is traditionally nonsexual, despite the scantily clad bimbos on the covers of its pulp magazines of the 1950s and despite its politically correct genderbending of the 1970s and 1980s.
ref: 2006, Peter Swirski, The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem, page 75:
glosses: The changing of a character's gender within a story.
genderbending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gender + bending.
Senses: examples: text: When the band broke up, Reed reinvented himself as a genderbending gutter poet and earned the nickname “The Godfather of Punk”, mostly by going out his way to subvert his fans' expectations on albums […]
ref: 2012, Combat Rock: A History of Punk (From It's^([sic]) Origins to the Present), →ISBN:
glosses: Confounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of another sex or in a way that makes one's gender identity ambiguous.
genderbending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gender + bending.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genderbend
Related terms: genderbender
gender changer
water bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water bombers
Senses: examples: text: The water bomber, a Canadair CL-215, hit a hillside in Evia in the battle to extinguish flames near a village outside Karystos. Greece’s air force, which owns the plane, later announced that both pilots had died in the crash.
ref: 2023 July 25, Helena Smith, “Both pilots die after plane crashes while fighting Greek wildfires”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of waterbomber.
clinical trial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinical trials
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A test of a medication or other medical treatment (such as a medical device), usually a comparison against a placebo, other medications or devices, or the standard medical treatment for a patient's condition.
Related terms: double-blind
RCT
white slavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 18 February 1990 "The Adventure of the Cheap Flat" season 2 episode 7 of Agatha Christie's Poirot: Hastings speaking to Poirot
Maybe they're not as innocent as thet seem. Suppose they're tied up in some shady import-export business? Drugs, white slavery?
glosses: Sexual slavery, particularly the forced prostitution of women of European ancestry.
qualifier: literal
glosses: Slavery or slave trading where the victims were of European ancestry.
superellipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superellipse
masta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastas
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of master, representing African-American Vernacular English.
half viaduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half viaducts
Senses: glosses: A type of viaduct built into a hillside, where only part of the road is supported by the structure.
ship of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ships of war
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: warship
dizygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + zygotic.
Senses: examples: text: I was not alone, moreover. I had a dizygotic twin, a female.
ref: 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 27:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Derived from two eggs that have been separately fertilized; dizygous.
Synonyms: dizygous
fraternal
Coordinate terms: monozygotic
identical
semi-identical
sesquizygotic
dizygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + -zygous.
Senses: glosses: dizygotic
ecogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The branch of genetics that studies the influence of hereditary factors on the response of organisms to their environment
ecotoxicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + toxicological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecotoxicology
Derived terms: ecotoxicologically
ectohormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectohormones
Etymology: From ecto- + hormone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any hormone that is secreted into an individual's environment and affects the behaviour or activity of another individual (of the same or different species) in the manner of a pheromone.
allergic rhinitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A group of symptoms similar to those of a cold such as runny nose and sore throat, caused by an allergic reaction to an allergen such as dust, plant pollens or animal dander.
Related terms: hay fever
ectoparasiticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectoparasiticides
Etymology: From ectoparasite + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
Nyepi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nyepis
Senses: glosses: A Hindu Balinese day of silence, fasting, and meditation that falls on Bali's Lunar New Year.
eliminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eliminators
Etymology: From eliminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, eliminates.
Derived terms: wolf eliminator
embryotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryotoxicities
Etymology: From embryo + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The toxicity of an embryotoxin
embryotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embryotropic
form: most embryotropic
Etymology: From embryo + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That affects the change and development of an embryo.
Related terms: embryotropin
endocon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocons
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The part of a conjugated metabolite which is derived from a natural product of the metabolizing organism.
Related terms: exocon
exocon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocons
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The part of a conjugated metabolite which is derived from the parent compound.
Coordinate terms: endocon
endocytosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endocytosed
form: most endocytosed
Senses: glosses: Ingested via endocytosis.
endocytosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endocytose
Related terms: endocytic
endocytose
endocytosis
endocytotic
enterohepatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + hepatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the liver and the intestine
Derived terms: enterohepatic circulation
epidemiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epidemiology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
Synonyms: epidemiological
Derived terms: clinicoepidemiologic
epidemiologically
immunoepidemiologic
palaeoepidemiologic
pharmacoepidemiologic
Related terms: epidemiology
epidemiologist
epigastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms. By surface analysis, epigastrium + -ic = epi- + gastr- + -ic = epi- + gastric.
Senses: synonyms: epigastrial
glosses: Of or pertaining to the epigastrium.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: midepigastric
pudendoepigastric
thoracoepigastric
epigastrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigastria
Senses: examples: text: In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.
ref: 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.
Related terms: epigastrial
epigastralgia
epigastric
epigene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + -gene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Foreign; unusual; not natural to the substance in which it was found.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the region just below the surface of the earth.
Related terms: topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: hypogene
epithelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitheliomas
form: epitheliomata
Etymology: From epithelio- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any tumor that originates in the epithelium
Derived terms: adenoepithelioma
chorioepithelioma
fibroepithelioma
lymphoepithelioma
medulloepithelioma
excitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excitatory
form: most excitatory
Senses: antonyms: inhibitory
glosses: Stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative.
glosses: Of or relating to excitation.
Derived terms: cardioexcitatory
hyperexcitatory
neuroexcitatory
nonexcitatory
sympathoexcitatory
exothelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliəm
Forms: form: exothelia
Etymology: From exo- + -thelium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A layer of flattened epithelial cells around an organ.
extrachromosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + chromosomal.
Senses: glosses: Happening outside a chromosome.
Derived terms: extrachromosomally
extrapyramidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + pyramidal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the neural pathways that are independent of the pyramidal tract.
Derived terms: extrapyramidally
pyramidal tract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramidal tracts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A major collection of axons that transmits nerve impulses from the motor cortex to the spinal cord.
extravascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
Derived terms: extravascularly
duplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuːplɪt/
Forms: form: duplets
Etymology: Mid-17th century. From Latin duplus.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of two things.
A tuplet of two notes played in the time of three.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of two things.
the set of two electrons, with antiparallel spins, in the same orbital
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
Synonyms: sense: group of two things
word: couple
word: pair
word: duo
word: super
Derived terms: duplet rule
smeddum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smitham
form: smithum
form: smiddum
Etymology: From earlier smitham, smytham, from Middle English smedma, from Old English smedma, smeodema, smedema (“fine flour, pollen meal, meal”).
Senses: glosses: Fine powder; flour.
glosses: The powder or finest part of ground malt.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Smitham.
examples: text: “Don’t like the name, don’t like it. There’s no smeddum to it. Besides, it makes me think of my Aunt Jinny. She called her three girls Faith, Hope, and Charity. Faith didn’t believe in anything—Hope was a born pessimist—and Charity was a miser.[…]”
ref: 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XVI, in Rainbow Valley:
text: maybe there were better folk far in Segget, but few enough with smeddum like his.
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 271:
glosses: Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle.
glosses: Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve.
glosses: A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal.
Derived terms: smiddum-tails
lex talionis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lex (“proposition or motion for a law, a bill”) + talionis, genitive singular of tālio (“retaliation”), from tālis (“of such kind”).
Senses: glosses: law of equivalent retaliation.
Related terms: eye for an eye
goes without saying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go without saying
columellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From columella + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a columella.
mischevious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs.chēʹ.vē.əs
ipa: /mɪsˈt͡ʃiː.vi.əs/
Etymology: From mischievous, under the influence of adjectives ending in -ious.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis mischevious and cruel: it disturbs whole Families, distracts the Brains of credulous People, and puts them in continuous Fear, and in Danger of their Lives:
ref: 1729, James Augustus Blondel, The Power of the Mother's Imagination Over the Foetus Examin'd:
text: That in actions for damages for libel, where the truth is pleaded and given in evidence, if it be found that the same was written or published properly for public information, and with no malicious or mischevious motives, the jury may find for the defendant or defendants...
ref: 1897, David Thomas Marvel et al., Delaware Reports, Containing Cases Decided in the Supreme Court …, volume 34, page 57:
text: One young Swede, whose English consisted wholly in the simple affirmative, "yes, O yes," and which he used to every interrogation, is beheld seated between two mischevious young lads, who are plying him with questions.
ref: 1970, John W. Fitzmaurice, The Shanty Boy, page 63:
text: When Ginger came home from the pet store, she was scared! But she soon made friends with Alice, the most mischievous gerbil she'd ever met! What kind of crazy adventures will she become part of?
ref: 2015, John Hyland, Ginger and Alice: The Story of Two Mischevious Gerbils:
glosses: Alternative form of mischievous and mischievious.
oglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ogler
despoilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despoiler
redactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redactor
lassoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lasso
lassoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lassoings
Senses: glosses: The act of catching something with a lasso.
lassoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lasso
Democratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: democratic
Senses: examples: text: The most recent Democratic president of the United States is Joe Biden.
text: The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi.
ref: 2025 February 4, Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of democratic (“pertaining to democracy”).
laundresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laundress
laundresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laundress
laundressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laundress
super-delegate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-delegates
Etymology: From super- + delegate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of superdelegate.
Aughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aughtons
Etymology: From Old English āc (“oak”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Acton.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Ellerton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7038).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3905).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Halton-with-Aughton parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5567).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Aston cum Aughton parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4586).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Collingbourne Kingston parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2356).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Aston cum Aughton
Aughton Park
Halton-with-Aughton
laundressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laundress
Ayre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse eyrr (“gravel bank”).
Senses: glosses: A sheading in the north of the Isle of Man.
Meronyms: Andreas
Bride
Lezayre
Ayre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ayres
Etymology: English and Scottish surname, variant of Ayer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
linesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linesman
ayre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayres
Etymology: From an unattested Norn word, from Old Norse eyrr. Compare Icelandic eyri, Norwegian øyr.
Senses: glosses: A narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank.
ayre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayres
Senses: examples: text: It is precisely to this—not destruction, but dissolution—(for dissolve is the poet's word) this melting into thin ayre, of the world itself, that Tooke maintains the word rack, i. e. reek, to be most- appropriate. And I think he was right in so doing.
ref: 1856, Notes and Queries, page 425:
text: ... Thus giues his sorrowes passage from his brest ; Sweet leaues (qd. he) which with the ayre doe tremble, Oh how your motions do my thoughts resemble, With that milde breath by which onely moue, Whisper my words in silence to my Loue ...
ref: 1870, Michael Drayton, Endimion and Phoebe: Ideas Latmus:
glosses: Archaic spelling of air.
documentate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: documentates
form: documentating
form: documentated
form: documentated
Senses: glosses: To document
Ayside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown. May be from Old Norse á (“river”) and Old English heafod (“headland”) or sætr (“summer pasture”). Also appears to have been influenced by Old English sīde.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England.
capriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caprioles
Etymology: Borrowed from French capriole, from Italian capriola.
Senses: glosses: A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
examples: text: With lofty turns and caprioles.
ref: 1595, John Davies, Orchestra:
text: When Dandy Dinmont, after executing two or three caprioles, and cutting the Highland-fling, by way of ridicule of his wife's anxiety, at last deigned to sit down, and commit his round, black, shaggy bullet of a head to her inspection.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A leap or caper, as in dancing.
capriole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caprioles
form: caprioling
form: caprioled
form: caprioled
Etymology: Borrowed from French capriole, from Italian capriola.
Senses: glosses: To leap; to caper.
examples: text: Brawny fighters, all cased in buff and iron, their hearts too sheathed in oak and triple brass, caprioled their huge war-horses, shook their death-doing spears; and went forth in the most determined manner, nothing doubting.
ref: 1838, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott:
glosses: To cause (one's mounted horse) to perform a capriole.
oleose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.li.əʊz/
Forms: form: more oleose
form: most oleose
form: oleous
Etymology: From Latin oleōsus.
Senses: examples: text: saline or oleose particles
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
text: This Acid is produced from the Tartar of Vegetables; which being Fermented or Diſtilled, it appears Acid Oleoſe
ref: 1687, Sir John Floyer, Pharmako-Basanos: or the Touchstone of Medicines, discovering the virtues of Vegetables, Minerals and Animals, by their Tastes and Smells:
glosses: oily
olearia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.liˈɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.liˈɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: olearias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Olearia of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
tabler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbələ(ɹ)/
/ˈteɪblə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tablers
Etymology: From table + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ...it has developed up to this point she has functioned as the tabler of topics specifically aimed at the affairs of Muriel and William's nuclear family.
ref: 1991, Richard J. Watts, Power in Family Discourse, page 166:
glosses: Agent noun of the verb to table; one who tables.
examples: text: The scene, the engine; but he now is come / To be the music-master; tabler too
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: One who boards others for payment.
tablers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabler
great grandmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great grandmothers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of great-grandmother.
great-great-grandparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-grandparents
form: great great grandparent
Etymology: From great- + great- + grandparent.
Senses: glosses: A parent of a great-grandparent, a grandparent of a grandparent and a great-grandparent of a parent.
Synonyms: second great-grandparent
Hyponyms: great-great-grandfather
great-great-grandmother
Related terms: great-great-grandchild
great-great-granddaughter
great-great-grandson
spiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spillers
Etymology: From Middle English spiller, from spill + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who spills.
topics: law
glosses: A party who is liable for spillage, particularly of oil or waste, in a body of water.
glosses: A square chamber that serves as the section of an industrial fishing net from which captured fish can easily be moved to a fishing boat.
spillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiller
hurlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurler
canzonetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canzonettas
Etymology: From Italian canzonetta, from canzone (“song”) + -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), from Latin cantiō. Doublet of canzonet. Cf. canzone.
Senses: examples: text: In the canzonetta, Mr. McDuffie summoned a subtle glow, which was well matched by flute and clarinet soloists.
ref: 2007 January 30, Steve Smith, “A Debut and a Fervent Violinist”, in New York Times:
glosses: A style of popular Italian secular vocal composition which originated around 1560, or a piece composed in this style
eloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: elopers
Etymology: From elope + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of elope: one who elopes.
elopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eloper
dumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumper
bedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedders
Etymology: From bed + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of bed; one who beds.
coordinate_terms: scout
porter
gyp
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: Contraction of bedmaker; a housekeeper or domestic cleaner (historically a domestic servant), generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern scout at Oxford University.
bedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedders
Etymology: From bed + -er (measurement suffix).
Senses: examples: text: From looking round, I realized that the gap in the market was for smart one-bedders in central locations.
ref: 2006, Liz Hodgkinson, The Complete Guide to Renovating and Improving Your Property:
ref: 2014 October 1, Hilary Osborne, “For sale: four-bedder complete with previous owners”, in The Guardian:
text: The main gripe with new condominiums these days is the lack of space, and that was apparent in this three-bedder unit with its small bedrooms and communal spaces.
ref: 2017 July 8, “A 3-bedder condo with space for a family of three”, in Lookbox Living:
text: Well if it’s a two-bedder, it’s not too big a problem. Such units are still big enough for her and her partner, and maybe their first child too.
ref: 2020 March 10, Ryan Ong, “Why two-bedroom units could be the safest choice for rental income”, in 99.co:
glosses: A property with a specified number of bedrooms.
Related terms: early-to-bedder
late-to-bedder
bedders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedder
wetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetter
waterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterers
Etymology: From water + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She has dabbled in jobs as various as plant-waterer for a garden centre, trackwork rider for a racehorse trainer and librarian's assistant […]
ref: 2007, Eleanor Crawforth, Stephen Procter, Michael Schmidt, New Poetries IV, page 86:
text: Help me to become a pure waterer, weeder, and deadheader of our little plot, to mature from manic bride and bonnarder to the calm, the jen, of deep and ancient garden wifedom.
ref: 2011, Marjorie Sandor, The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction, →ISBN:
glosses: One who waters plants.
examples: text: Any Community funds intended for wine producers should benefit the producers and not the manufacturers of false labels, the forgers of transit papers, the mixers or waterers of wine or the resourceful characters who defy science and produce wine without using any grapes whatsoever.
ref: 1980, Official Journal of the European Communities:
glosses: One who waters down, or dilutes, something.
examples: text: She installed an automatic waterer for her garden.
glosses: A device used for watering.
examples: text: Clean the chicks' waterer each time you refill it.
glosses: A device from which livestock, poultry, or pets may drink.
Synonyms: sense: device from which poultry drink
word: fount
waterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterer
syns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syn; Alternative form of syns..
for love or money
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He wouldn't tell us what happened at school for love or money, even when threatened with grounding.
glosses: For any reason whatsoever.
Synonyms: for love nor money
on pain of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒn ˈpeɪn əv/
ipa: /ɑn ˈpeɪn əv/
Etymology: From on + pain (“suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty”) + of; compare French sous peine de.
Senses: examples: text: On paine of death, no perſon be ſo bold,
 Or daring, hardy, as to touch the liſtes,
 Except the Martiall and ſuch officers
 Appoynted to direct theſe faire deſignes.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: [N]o flattery for't:
 No lick-foote, paine of looſing your proboſcis:[…]
ref: [1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act II, scene vi:
text: Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then,
 To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure,
 Betwixt your Swords[.]
 Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy
 He ſhould have diſobey'd.
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 105:
text: Translated, it was a warning to the Claytons to refrain from reporting the loss of the revolvers, or from repeating what the old sailor had told them—to refrain on pain of death.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Out to Sea”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC, page 16:
text: The White Queen is offered for sacrifice six times in succession, and must be refused each time on pain of checkmate!
ref: 1943 January, Irving Chernev, “Chess Thrillers”, in Chess Review:
synonyms: under pain of
upon pain of
glosses: Used to warn of consequences if a specified act is done or not done: subject to the punishment of (some penalty); or (generally) subject to the circumstance of (some thing).
Related terms: at the risk of
Hawcubite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawcubites
Senses: glosses: A member of a street gang in London, England, circa 1700.
glosses: A ruffian or bully.
precess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precesses
form: precessing
form: precessed
form: precessed
Senses: glosses: To have an angle that varies cyclically.
raw_tags: of an axis of rotation
glosses: To wobble; to rotate about an axis that precesses.
raw_tags: of a rotating object
Related terms: precession
to err is human
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Latin errāre hūmānum est.
Senses: glosses: Everyone makes mistakes.
confiteor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-fĭʹ-tē-ôr
ipa: /kənˈfɪtiɔː/
ipa: /kɒn-/
ipa: /-fiː-/
Forms: form: confiteors
Etymology: From Latin cōnfiteor (“I confess”), the first word of the prayer and used as its title in Ecclesiastical Latin. Doublet of confess.
Senses: examples: text: “Pugh!” she said. “You are disgusting! Go into the chapel now and say a confiteor each for your sin.”
ref: 1967, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 240, page 80:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.
wikipedia: confiteor
ideomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From ideo- + motor.
Senses: synonyms: ideokinetic
glosses: Of or pertaining to involuntary actions caused by subconscious thought.
Derived terms: ideomotor effect
feromone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feromones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pheromone.
fetotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feto- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: toxicity to the fetus via the placenta
fluoridosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluoride + -osis.
Senses: glosses: fluorosis
fluorochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorochromes
Etymology: From fluoro- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: Any of various fluorescent dyes used to stain biological material before microscopic examination
Derived terms: osteofluorochrome
Related terms: fluorochromatic
fluorochromic
follicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, having or resembling follicles.
Derived terms: angiofollicular
bifollicular
extrafollicular
follicular dendritic cell
follicularly
follicular mange
follicular phase
interfollicular
intrafollicular
lymphofollicular
macrofollicular
microfollicular
midfollicular
monofollicular
multifollicular
neurofollicular
nonfollicular
normofollicular
parafollicular
perifollicular
polyfollicular
prefollicular
pseudofollicular
transfollicular
trifollicular
unifollicular
let one rip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets one rip
form: letting one rip
form: let one rip
form: let one rip
Senses: glosses: To fart loudly.