cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sierra Nevada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sierra Nevada
Etymology: From Spanish Sierra Nevada (“snow-capped mountains”).
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Andalusia, Spain.
examples: text: Born on Earth in 2129, Alec Ryder says his love of new frontiers was fostered by a childhood in the Sierra Nevadas.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Alec Ryder Codex entry:
synonyms: Sierra
glosses: A mountain range in California and Nevada, United States.
glosses: A volcano in the Araucanía Region, Chile.
Derived terms: Sierra Nevada brushfinch
cdesign proponentsists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cdesign proponentsist
penthrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: pentaerythritol tetranitrate
throning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throne
Menae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The 50 goddesses of the lunar months within a four-year Olympiad. They were the daughters of the Moon goddess, Selene, and her lover, Endymion, a mortal king. Their individual names are not attested in any sources. Singular: Mene.
sacred fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacred firs
Senses: glosses: A species of fir, Abies religiosa, native to the mountains of central and southern Mexico and western Guatemala.
Synonyms: oyamel
stythies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stythy
stythy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stythies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stithy.
Saracenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsæɹəˈsɛnɪk/
Etymology: From Saracen + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Saracenic architecture, Saracenic music
text: the Saracenic style , in which the imagination of the architect is more florid than that which is usually indulged in the North
ref: 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to the Saracens.
Synonyms: Saracenian
Saracenical
Derived terms: saracenic ointment
pricklefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricklefishes
form: pricklefish
Etymology: From prickle + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Stephanoberycidae of stephanoberyciform fishes.
pricklefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricklefish
inopportuneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inopportune + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inopportune.
anointeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: anoint + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anoint
anointest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: anoint + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of anoint
buffas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffa
sleepness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepnesses
Etymology: From sleep + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Thy mouth or teeth, or thy hand, And notest how my soul devours With a sleepness like to trance [...]
ref: 1993, Fernando Pessoa, Maria Teresa Rita Lopes, Pessoa inédito:
text: " [...] thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleepness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit" [...]
ref: 2004, Chris A. M. Hermans, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Hermeneutics And Empirical Research In Practical Theology:
text: [...] And to hard labor and weariness, in many sleepnesses, in famine and thirst, in many fastings, in cold and nakedness, 28 Besides of which (matters) outside, the standing on of me what (is) according to the day, the care of all the churches.
ref: 2005, Alvin Cordes, The Translators New Testament:
text: The best style of taking a rest is the sleepness. A good, lasting sleepness helps the body quickly recover the energy that is lost.
ref: 2008, Chinh Van Chinh Van Pham, Fasting And Meditation To Live Happily:
text: That's because Hitler would stay up all night talking to them until sleepness over took him. They certainly didn't let sleepness overtake them while Hitler was talking.
ref: 2012, Dahn A. Batchelor, Whistling in the Face of Robbers:
glosses: The state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
Caecias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Now from the North / Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar / Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice / And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw, / Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud / And Thrascias rend the Woods and Seas upturn; / With adverse blast up-turns them from the South / Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds / From Serraliona […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A wind from the northeast.
stapelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stapelias
Etymology: From Stapelia, the genus name, after J. B. van Stapel.
Senses: examples: text: […]the instinctive faculty[…]sometimes falls into mistake and error, as in the instance which Mr. Kirby gives of the flesh-fly mistaking the blossom of the stapelia for carrion, the hen a piece of chalk for an egg ; and he may add the instance given by Dr. Roget, of the vulture mistaking the skin of an animal stuffed with hay for the carcase.
ref: 1835, The Gentleman′s Magazine, volume 159, page 234:
text: Prom.^([Promenaea]) stapelioides has 2-inch-wide yellow flowers with concentric red-brown markings, resembling the famous carrion flower stapelia, hence the epithet stapelioides.
ref: 2005, Complete Guide to Orchids, Ortho Books, page 211:
text: He had also a collection of stapelias and other small prickly plants; some of them were almost invisible without a magnifying glass, but most interesting.
ref: 2010, Marianne North, Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist, page 204:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Stapelia of low-growing succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa, and often giving off an odour of rotten flesh.
Synonyms: sense: genus of odoriferous plants
word: carrion flower
stapelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stapelia
curch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curches
form: courch
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots curch, from Middle Scots curche, from Early Scots curche (English Middle English keverchef). Doublet of kerchief.
Senses: examples: text: The snood was exchanged for the curch, toy, or coif, when a Scottish lass passed, by marriage, into the matron state.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: A square piece of linen formerly worn by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.
curches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curch
scissor sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissor sisters
Etymology: From the slang name of the sex position of tribadism, scissoring.
Senses: glosses: A lesbian.
sleepnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepness
Lugosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lugosian
form: most Lugosian
Etymology: From Lugosi + -an.
Senses: examples: the Lugosian vampire
a Lugosian accent
glosses: Of or relating to Béla Lugosi (1882–1956), Hungarian actor known for playing Dracula and other horror roles.
Karloffian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Karloffian
form: most Karloffian
Etymology: From Karloff + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt; 1887–1969), English actor known for his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster and for other horror roles.
syngenesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: syngenesious; synantherous
Monothelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The doctrines of the Monothelites.
Monothelitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Monothelite + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines of the Monothelites.
sapadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapadillos
form: sapadilloes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapodilla.
sapadillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapadillo
sapadilloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapadillo
suttling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suttle
taxors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxor
homotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + typical.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to a homotype
scimiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scimiters
Senses: glosses: Dated form of scimitar.
scimiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scimiter
petunse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petunses
form: petuntse
form: petuntze
Etymology: From French petunse, pe-tun-tse, &c., from F.X. d'Entrecolles's 1712 irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 白墩子 (“white lump”), formerly used to describe the bricks transported from Qimen, Anhui, to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.
Senses: examples: text: Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 86:
glosses: Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.
Synonyms: porcelain stone
pottery stone
petunses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petunse
petuntze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petuntzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of petunse.
petuntse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petuntses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of petunse.
petuntzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petuntze
petuntses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petuntse
unpurfled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + purfled.
Senses: glosses: Not purfled.
seven-thirty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-thirties
Senses: glosses: In the United States, a three-year Treasury Note bearing interest at a rate of 7.30% annually. Made during the American Civil War, the notes had denominations of $50, $100, $500, $1,000, and $5,000.
Related terms: five-twenties
springbock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springbocks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of springbok.
springboc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springbocs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of springbok.
springbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springbucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of springbok.
springbocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springbock
springbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springbuck
springbocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springboc
sea colander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea colanders
Senses: glosses: A large blackish seaweed (Agarum turneri) with perforated fronds.
glosses: A related brown seaweed, Agarum cribrosum.
sea colanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea colander
susceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susceptor
catheterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catheterisms
Etymology: From catheter + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The operation of introducing a catheter; catheterization.
Derived terms: autocatheterism
catheterisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catheterism
Palencia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛnsiə/
Senses: glosses: A province in northern Castile and León, Spain.
glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Palencia, Spain.
glosses: A barangay of Tarangnan, Samar, Philippines.
phosphor bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphor bronzes
Senses: examples: text: The weight of the body and the traction and braking forces are taken by the conventional dished bogie centre pivot with phosphor-bronze liner; this type of centre pivot facilitates passage over marshalling yard humps.
ref: 1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 382:
glosses: Any alloy of copper with 3.5 to 10% tin and up to 1% phosphorus, notable for toughness, strength, low coefficient of friction, and fine grain.
phosphor bronzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphor bronze
calctufa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calctuff
Senses: glosses: calcite
Related terms: calcsinter
prau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praus
Senses: examples: text: ... they had collected there, coming from north and south and from the outskirts of the East, after treading the jungle paths, descending the rivers, coasting in praus along the shallows, crossing in small canoes from island to island, passing through suffering, meeting strange sights, beset by strange fears, upheld by one desire.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:
glosses: Alternative form of proa.
extraverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + verbal.
Senses: examples: text: She can do it only by varying the messages transmitted through the extraverbal channels; through changes in muscular tension if she is holding the child, changes in facial set, gesture, or intonation.
ref: 1964, John Joseph Gumperz, Dell H. Hymes, The ethnography of communication, page 59:
glosses: Outside of speech; by other means than speaking.
Derived terms: extraverbally
extraverbally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extraverbal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Outside of speech; by other means than speaking.
averbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + verbal.
Senses: examples: text: It is not yet clear how these birds were able to “count” and to form averbal concepts of numbers without the help of characterizing words.
ref: 1978, Marvin D. Loflin, James Silverberg, Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology, page 266:
glosses: Not verbal; without words and speech.
Related terms: antiverbal
antiverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiverbal
form: most antiverbal
Etymology: From anti- + verbal.
Senses: examples: text: Though in very different ways, Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion each define their subjects as somehow beyond words — antiverbal or nonverbal, threatening or sublime, overpowering and intense or private and intuitive […]
ref: 1987, Wayne (Chris) Anderson, Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction (page 5)
text: Othello, Horatio, and Brutus strike me as notable exemplars of laconicism, but in Hotspur's case Shakespeare creates an antiverbal bias that is not so much philosophical as it is bound up in gender stereotype.
ref: 1989, Ronald L. Dotterer, Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context, page 206:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
sciences
semiotics
glosses: Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.
Related terms: averbal
on the hush-hush
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the hush.
chandleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chandlery
nonoppositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + oppositional.
Senses: glosses: Not oppositional.
counterdiscursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more counterdiscursive
form: most counterdiscursive
Etymology: From counter- + discursive.
Senses: examples: text: All of their texts, which were written during the 1980s and 1990s, share an oppositional and counterdiscursive impulse through which they express the possibility of a community different from that offered by the dominant culture.
ref: 2001, Petra Fachinger, Rewriting Germany from the Margins, page 5:
text: Postcolonial analyses of cultural production study counterdiscursive practices in cultures affected by the imperial enterprise, such as the legacy of subjugation and resistance of the black populations of the Americas.
ref: 2003, Dorothy E. Mosby, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature, page 27:
text: Overcompensating for anti-fat rhetorics by emphasizing the relative health and beauty of fatness, is I guess, a rather inevitable step in fighting for the rights of oppressed groups by performing counterdiscursive fat perfection.
ref: 2008, Lesleigh J. Owen, Living large in a size medium world, page 134:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.
quarter-deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-decks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quarterdeck.
quarter-decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-deck
dufferdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duffer + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of duffers.
dufferism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duffer + -ism.
Senses: examples: academic dufferism
glosses: The behaviour or opinions of duffers.
quarter deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter decks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quarterdeck.
quarter decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter deck
antidiscursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more antidiscursive
form: most antidiscursive
Etymology: From anti- + discursive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Opposing a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.
Synonyms: counterdiscursive
barbicanage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barbican + -age, or from Late Latin barbicanagium.
Senses: glosses: A tax, similar to murage, paid for the upkeep of a barbican.
smoulderingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smouldering + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition[…]
ref: 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
glosses: The state of smouldering.
monomyarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəˌmaɪˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɑnəˌmaɪˈɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From translingual Monomya + -arian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Monomya.
Synonyms: monomyary
Related terms: unimuscular
interedition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + edition.
Senses: examples: text: Had — contrary to expectation, or knowledge gained by external documentaton^([sic]) or interedition collation — revision or substantial correction with author participation occurred at any point within these series, the fact was bound to be discovered from comparison of single exemplars of each first and last issue.
ref: 1993, George Bornstein, Ralph G. Williams, Palimpsest: editorial theory in the humanities, page 220:
text: Price includes interedition supplement.
ref: 2002, Rashelle S. Karp, Bernard S. Schlessinger, The Basic Business Library: Core Resources, page 4:
glosses: Between editions of a publication.
chorussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chorus
chorussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chorus
choruser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorusers
Etymology: From chorus (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix) or chorus (noun) + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: Someone who choruses, or sings in a chorus.
Related terms: chorister
chorusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choruser
chorusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1847, William Vincent Wallace, Edward Fitzball, The songs, duets, trios and chorusses in Maritana:
glosses: plural of chorus
cyclic chorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclic choruses
Senses: glosses: The chorus that performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
cyclic poet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclic poets
Etymology: So called because keeping within the circle of a single subject.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote only about the Trojan war and its heroes.
examples: text: The Homer of this race of cyclic poets was to be an Italian
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Any of a coterie of poets writing on one subject.
cyclic poets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclic poet
ditype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditypes
Etymology: From di- + type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A ditypic taxon.
ditypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditype
ditypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There are two species in a ditypic genus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Containing only two members of the next lesser rank.
Related terms: ditype
monotypic
spiroylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: salicylic acid
spiroylous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: salicylaldehyde
maltin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltine
Etymology: From malt + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various medicinal preparations made from, or containing, malt.
stirrupless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stirrup + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without stirrups.
feedstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedstores
Etymology: From feed + store.
Senses: examples: text: In the twentieth century most of these vegetables were planted from seeds purchased from feedstores.
ref: 2009, Vynola Beaver Newkumet, Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy, page 33:
text: I bought them in bulk at the health food store because the local feedstores didn't carry organic grains.
ref: 2012, Stephanie Marohn, What the Animals Taught Me, page 122:
coordinate_terms: foodstore
glosses: A store selling feed for animals.
Related terms: feedbin
feeder
feedsack
feedstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedstore
storewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storewomen
Etymology: From store + woman.
Senses: glosses: A warehousewoman.
glosses: A shopwoman.
storewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storewoman
trophy money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An annual duty formerly paid in England by housekeepers towards providing harness, drums, colours, etc. for the militia.
padesoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padesoys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paduasoy.
petrosals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrosal
alatern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alaterns
form: alaternus
Etymology: From Latin alaternus (“the shrub Rhamnus alaternus”), of Unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus; Italian buckthorn).
alaterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alatern
alaternus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alaternuses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alatern.
alaternuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alaternus
sulphocyanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: thiocyanic acid
sea mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea mouse
sea mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea mice
Etymology: Perhaps because it resembles a bedraggled mouse when washed up on shore.
Senses: glosses: A marine polychaete worm (genus Aphrodita) with the body covered in a dense mat of setae.
glosses: The dunlin.
couchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of couching
crassament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crassaments
Senses: glosses: A crassamentum.
crassaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crassament
styptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more styptical
form: most styptical
Senses: glosses: styptic; astringent
retinopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retinopathy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to retinopathy.
partile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: joined in aspect by a perfect measure, with no variance
raw_tags: of planets
manna croup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: manna + Russian крупа (krupa) or Polish krupa ("groats, grits").
Senses: glosses: The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc.
glosses: The husked grains of manna grass.
Synonyms: sense: portions of hard wheat kernels
word: manna groats
relationshipless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From relationship + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a relationship.
shippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipping
antirelationship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirelationship
form: most antirelationship
Etymology: From anti- + relationship.
Senses: examples: text: That's why I'm antirelationship. 'Cause guys tend to be clingy.
ref: 2007, Bill Kramer, Unexpected Grace: Stories of Faith, Science, and Altruism, page 87:
text: Our drive for power is thus primarily antirelationship. It is suspicious of all authentic, loving relationships because other people may challenge us or be unwilling to let us be in control.
ref: 2011, Craig Nakken, Finding Your Moral Compass, page 40:
glosses: Opposing romantic relationships.
anhydrofructose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metabolic pathway that forms secondary metabolites from glycogen via 1,5-anhydro-D-fructase.
tautomerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tautomerase
romantic comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romantic comedies
Senses: examples: text: She loved to watch romantic comedy films with her mother.
text: Judging from his new movie, the sublimely silly They Came Together, director and co-writer David Wain is a closet connoisseur of the modern romantic comedy.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
synonyms: romcom
rom com
rom-com
romedy
glosses: A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.
glosses: Such a story.
romedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romedies
Etymology: Blend of romantic + comedy
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Synonym of romantic comedy.
synonyms: word: romantic comedy
Synonyms: romcom
rom-com
rom com
tetraiodomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: carbon tetraiodide
debyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debye
tetrahalomethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahalomethanes
Etymology: From tetra- + halo- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of fully halogenated methane derivatives of general formula CBrₖClₗFₘIₙ.
tetrahalomethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrahalomethane
rom-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rom-coms
form: romcom
form: rom com
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Alternative form of romcom.
thicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thick
transamidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transamidase
perchloropentacyclodecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From per- + chloro- + penta- + cyclo- + decane.
Senses: glosses: Mirex.
ofuda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ofudas
form: ofuda
Etymology: From Japanese 御札 (おふだ, ofuda).
Senses: glosses: A type of talisman or amulet issued by a Shinto shrine.
unfixt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfixt
form: most unfixt
Etymology: From un- + fixt.
Senses: glosses: unfixed
possessivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From possessive + -ity.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: possessiveness
glosses: The quality of being possessive (indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.).
examples: text: And yet there is this June, this damned Jewish vulture gnawing into my vitals whether I want it or not—first with her possessivity, her jealousy, her overwhelming sex and clawing beak, and now with hatred and malice and vindictiveness.
ref: 1933 May 19, Henry Miller, “Quiet Days in Clichy: 1932–33”, in George Wickes, editor, Letters to Emil, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 121:
text: If the erotic ambiguity of such figures is to be attributed both to the ambiguity of the painter’s desires (always fighting between unconscious erotical fancies, developed to the point of rape (The abandoned, 1964, and Oedipical idealization, I have dealt with previously) and to the ambiguity of his mother’s behaviour (who during her life denied herself physically, but substancially^([sic]) gave herself through her possessivity and the charms of her interested misogyny, handed over to her son and representing a form of lover’s jealousy).
ref: 1979, Terzoocchio, volumes 5–7, Bologna: Edizioni Bora, →OCLC:
text: His possessivity is just another form of his unrelentless love, that he wants to offer me.
ref: 2020, Elvira Tania, “Kindly Possessive”, in Cinta Tidak Sesakit Itu, Yogyakarta: Stiletto Indie Book, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Pietrangeli’s Andrea takes Crommelynck’s Bruno a step further in the psychological exploration of envy through Andrea’s projection of his guilt onto and his possessivity toward Maria Grazia in a crisis of the visual and auditory registers that only cinema can represent in its devastating and provocative fullness.
ref: 2020, Emma Katherine Van Ness, “Breaking Faith: Il magnifico cornuto, Envy and the Crisis of Vision”, in Antonio Pietrangeli, the Director of Women: Feminism and Film Theory in Postwar Italian Cinema, London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: possessiveness
glosses: The quality of being possessive (unwilling to yield possession).
undashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dashed.
Senses: glosses: Not marked with a dash.
examples: text: With high heart and undashed hopes she entered upon it.
ref: 1907, Grace Keon, When Love is Strong, page 173:
glosses: Not destroyed; not ruined.
premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premenstrual dysphoric disorders
Senses: glosses: A severe form of premenstrual syndrome, associated primarily with the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, and characterized by feelings of despair or anxiety, panic attacks and mood swings, irritability, apathy, and various physical aberrations.
Synonyms: word: PMDD
nanobiomechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + biomechanics.
Senses: glosses: A scientific field using the tools of nanomechanics to explore biomaterials and biomechanics
Synonyms: bionanomechanics
Related terms: nanobiomechanical
bionanomechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + nano- + mechanics.
Senses: glosses: nanobiomechanics
proposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proposable
form: most proposable
Etymology: From propose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being proposed.
clawbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clawbeds
Etymology: From claw + bed.
Senses: glosses: The part of the body that houses a mammal's claw.
Related terms: nailbed
clawbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clawbed
wroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of wreak
resampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resamplers
Etymology: From resample + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which resamples.
resamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resampler
screenprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screen printing.
screwpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwpines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screw pine.
screwpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwpine
Scandinavianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scandinavianisms
Etymology: From Scandinavian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Scandinavian habit, language feature, etc.
examples: Near-synonyms: Pan-Scandinavianism, Scandinavophilia, Scandinavism
glosses: Support of Scandinavian cultures, languages, especially in the context of irredentist pan-Scandinavian nationalism.
Derived terms: anti-Scandinavianism
Scandinavianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scandinavianism
Fennoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fennomans
form: Fennomen
Etymology: From Fenno- + man.
Senses: glosses: A member or supporter of a nationalist political movement in 19th-century Finland that wanted to raise Finnish to the national language of the country.
Related terms: Fennomania
Fennophile
Svecoman
Fennomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fennoman
Fennomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fenno- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: The Fennoman movement for Finnish nationalism.
sclereid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclereids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: stone cell
glosses: A reduced form of sclerenchyma cell with highly thickened, lignified walls.
sclereids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclereid
Scandinavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scandinavisms
Etymology: From Scandinavia + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: With the Eidsvoll Constitution of 1814, Norway had gained a radically free and democratic constitution that many national-liberals felt was worth imitating. Scandinavism gained support, and a Norwegian–Swedish expeditionary force was formed to support Denmark in the 1848 war against Prussia, but it never actually engaged in combat.
ref: 2015, Johan Strang, Nordic Cooperation: A European Region in Transition, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of Scandinavianism.
Scandinavisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scandinavism
rerisen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɹɪzən/
Etymology: From re- + risen.
Senses: glosses: risen again
reshare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshares
form: resharing
form: reshared
form: reshared
Etymology: From re- + share.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve overshared about my mother in print. Let me briefly reshare. It’s complicated.
ref: 2018 January 23, John Sutherland, “Oversharing has its perils, but telling all about my mother worked for me”, in The Guardian:
text: One participant, Kalae Nouveau, suffered more than others: her original and subsequent posts were deleted, resharing her posts was banned, and her account was shadow-banned, meaning its visibility was restricted.
ref: 2020 October 19, Lacey-Jade Christie, “Instagram censored one of these photos but not the other. We must ask why”, in The Guardian:
text: The emphasis on boosting “meaningful social interactions” between friends and family meant that the feed leant towards reshared material, which was often misinformed and toxic. “Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research.
ref: 2021 October 25, Dan Milmo, “Facebook revelations: what is in cache of internal documents?”, in The Guardian:
text: The Multicultural voices: No Voice account also reshares content from Fair Australia and other accounts with which Daoud says there is a “common understanding”.
ref: 2023 September 18, Rafqa Touma, Ariel Bogle and Nick Evershed, “No campaign spreads through TikTok ‘like wildfire’ as pro-voice creators struggle to cut through”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To share again.
reshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reshares
Etymology: From re- + share.
Senses: examples: text: There are two types of reshares in Facebook: (a) link reshares and (b) content reshares.
ref: 2014, Vijay Atluri, Günther Pernul, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXVIII: 28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference, DBSec 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2014, Proceedings, page 168:
text: The emphasis on boosting “meaningful social interactions” between friends and family meant that the feed leant towards reshared material, which was often misinformed and toxic. “Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research.
ref: 2021 October 25, Dan Milmo, “Facebook revelations: what is in cache of internal documents?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The act of sharing previously shared material again, so as to reach a further group of users.
resharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshare
reshares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshare
reshares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reshare
reshared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reshare
Ancient Roman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ancient Roman
form: most Ancient Roman
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ancient Roman.
Ancient Roman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ancient Romans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ancient Roman.
Ancient Romans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ancient Roman
rituality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritualities
Etymology: From ritual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ritual.
ritualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rituality
rockpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockpools
Etymology: From rock + pool.
Senses: glosses: tidepool
rockpools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockpool
seamail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sea + mail.
Senses: glosses: mail transported by ship over the sea
self-adhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + adhesive.
Senses: glosses: adhesive
uncoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A process in which the viral capsid of a virus is removed, leading to the release of the viral genomic nucleic acid.
uncoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncoat
unpaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + paced.
Senses: examples: an unpaced bicycle race
glosses: Not paced; without a set speed.
undecimalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decimalized.
Senses: glosses: Not decimalized.
interparliamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + parliamentary.
Senses: glosses: Between parliaments.
justicialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish justicialismo. Equivalent to justicial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Peronism
Derived terms: economic justicialism
global justicialism
national justicialism
social justicialism
justicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more justicial
form: most justicial
Senses: glosses: Relating to justice; judicial.
Derived terms: justicialism
xenophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xenophilous
form: most xenophilous
Etymology: From xeno- + -philous.
Senses: examples: text: In September 2000 General Guei, who had inflamed the anti-northern atmosphere by attacking believers in democracy as xenophilous, escaped an assassination attempt.
ref: 2002, Peter Schwab, Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs, page 33:
glosses: xenophilic; loving what is foreign
yuppieism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuppism
form: yuppyism
Etymology: From yuppie + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The lifestyle or attitudes of yuppies.
Related terms: yuppiness
yuppyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yuppieism.
zootechnician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zootechnicians
Etymology: From zoo- + technician.
Senses: glosses: One working in the field of zootechnics, or animal husbandry.
zootechnicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zootechnician
mettlesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mettlesome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mettlesome.
microbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbats
Etymology: From micro- + bat.
Senses: glosses: Any of the small bats in the suborder Yangochiroptera.
Related terms: megabat
microbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbat
mindreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindreaders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mind-reader.
mindreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mind-reading.
mindreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindreader
Kentish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛn.tɪʃ/
Etymology: From Kent + -ish.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Modern English spoken in Kent.
glosses: A dialect of Old English that was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A local government area in northern Tasmania, Australia; in full, Kentish Council.
Kentish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛn.tɪʃ/
Forms: form: more Kentish
form: most Kentish
Etymology: From Kent + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: On leaving Wye, we find the country changing character; the Downs come closer to the line, and grazing gives way to orchards and hop-gardens, with pleasant farm buildings, including oasthouses, another characteristic Kentish sight.
ref: 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
text: The church has a high, typically Kentish, tower, begun in the 15th century, while parts of the main structure date from two centuries earlier.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 111:
glosses: Of or relating to Kent or its inhabitants.
glosses: From the western part of Kent (whose inhabitants are traditionally called "Kentish men" and "Kentish maids"), as opposed to the eastern part (whose inhabitants are "men of Kent" and "maids of Kent").
Derived terms: word: Kentish fire
word: Kentish glory
word: Kentishman
english: bird: Charadrius alexandrinus
translation: bird: Charadrius alexandrinus
word: Kentish plover
word: Kentish rag
Related terms: english: unrelated to Kent
translation: unrelated to Kent
word: Kentish Town
leghole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legholes
Etymology: From leg + hole.
Senses: glosses: A hole in a piece of clothing intended for putting one's leg through.
legholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leghole
mixtite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixtites
Senses: glosses: diamictite
mixtites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixtite
monoglycerides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoglyceride
morning coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning coats
Senses: examples: text: Behind him a group of men in starched high collars and black morning-coats and striped trousers stood about in attitudes of stern pensiveness, frowning at their fingernails, or gazing fixedly out of the window.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: A man's formal coat worn as the principal item in morning dress, it also used for royal ascot and weddings.
Synonyms: english: American English
translation: American English
word: cutaway
morning coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning coat
ghostings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghosting
muckheap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckheaps
Etymology: From muck + heap.
Senses: glosses: dunghill; dung heap
muckheaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckheap
mythicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythicizations
Etymology: From mythic + -ization.
Senses: glosses: conversion into a myth or legend
mythicizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythicization
mucoviscidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muco- + viscid + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Cystic fibrosis.
Related terms: mucoviscid
mucoviscidose
multipair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + pair.
Senses: examples: a multipair cable
glosses: Comprising more than one twisted pair.
lezginka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lezginkas
form: lezghinka
Etymology: Russian лезги́нка (lezgínka)
Senses: glosses: A fast-paced dance of many peoples in the Caucasus Mountains.
lezginkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lezginka
lezghinka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lezghinkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lezginka.
lezghinkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lezghinka
Liburnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liburnians
Etymology: From the tribe's self-designation, most likely Illyrian. Doublet of Livornian.
Senses: glosses: Any member of an ancient Illyrian tribe inhabiting the district called Liburnia, a coastal region of the northeastern Adriatic between the rivers Arsia (Raša) and Titius (Krka) in what is now Croatia.
Related terms: Liburni
Liburnians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Liburnian
hemophagocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemophagocyte