cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy
bundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bundle
bundles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bundle
courts martial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: court martials
glosses: plural of court martial
alludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈluːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allude
floating island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating islands
Etymology: Calque of French île flottante.
Senses: examples: text: Such a floating island could carry small animals such as frogs, lizards, or rats, the resistant eggs of other animals, and specimens of plants not adapted to oceanic dispersal.
ref: 2010, C. Barry Cox, Peter D. Moore, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, page 225:
glosses: An aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a river delta or similar.
glosses: A French cold dessert consisting of an "island" of meringue, made of egg whites and sugar, floating in a "sea" of custard.
examples: text: The floating island doubles as a place for the children to do their homework and eat meals.
ref: 2006, Trends Very Best Kitchens & Bathrooms, page 69:
glosses: Synonym of kitchen island.
synonyms: word: kitchen island
Hyponyms: camalote
kirta
phumdi
Related terms: flotant
sudd
insensate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛn.sət/
Forms: form: insensates
Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Here, at any rate, hostility did not assume that slow and sickening form. It was a cosmic agency, active, lashing, eager for conquest: determination; not an insensate standing in the way.
ref: 1873, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 22”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes:
glosses: One who is insensate.
insensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛn.sət/
Forms: form: insensates
form: insensating
form: insensated
form: insensated
Etymology: From Latin īnsēnsātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And this thought, blinding them to all else, insensating them to all emotions but that of vengeance, was thought of Josephine.
ref: 1915, James Oliver Curwood, “ch. 24”, in God's Country And the Woman:
text: The train moved on again, keeping us prisoners in a stench-filled car, starving, suffocating, insensated.
ref: 2002, Shony A. Braun, My Heart Is a Violin, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
Jenifer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jenifers
Etymology: See Jennifer.
Senses: examples: text: "If you don't mind," said Sister Jenifer, "you had better dress like a Socialist. Wear a very soft hat, a very low collar, and a very red or green tie, done loose in the French fashion, and nobody will wonder at your looking clean, or at your asking questions."
ref: 1912, Laurence Housman, King John of Jingalo:
glosses: A female given name from Cornish, a less common form of Jennifer.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
starkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑːkɪʃ/
enpr: stärkʹĭsh
ipa: /ˈstɑɹkɪʃ/
Etymology: From stark + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat stark.
chutzpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chutzpas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chutzpah.
cliometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklaɪəʊˈmɛtɹɪks/
ipa: /ˌkliːəʊˈmɛtɹɪks/
Etymology: From Clio (“the Muse of history”) + -metrics.
Senses: glosses: The use of econometrics to study economic history.
Derived terms: cliometric
cliometrically
cliometrician
Related terms: cliodynamics
cliometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cliometric
form: most cliometric
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
Derived terms: cliometrically
cliometrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliometricians
Etymology: From cliometric(s) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It is hard to deny the fact that there are still many social historians who would rather sup with the Devil than indulge in number-crunching exercises or style themselves cliometricians.
ref: 1998, Dot Jones, “Foreword”, in Statistical Evidence relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911, page xiii/2:
glosses: An expert in cliometrics.
coccus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈkʰɑkəs]
Forms: form: cocci
Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin coccum, from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”).
Senses: glosses: Any approximately spherical bacterium.
glosses: One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.
Derived terms: -cocci
coccic
coccicidal
coccicide
coccoidal
coccous
-coccus
diplococcus
megacoccus
pentacoccous
Related terms: Oxycoccus
cocci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccus
cocci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: coccidioidomycosis
languishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Lacking of vigor or spirit.
Derived terms: languishingly
languishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of languish
languishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: languishings
Senses: examples: text: Happy, Monimia, he to whom these sighs, / These tears, and all these languishings, are paid!
ref: 1680, Thomas Otway, The Orphan:
glosses: The act of one who languishes.
chazzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈxɑzəɹ/
Forms: form: chazzers
form: chazer
form: chazir
form: chozzer
form: khazer
form: khazzer
form: khazir
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish חזיר (khazer), from Hebrew חֲזִיר (hazír).
Senses: glosses: A pig.
glosses: A police officer, especially one who is corrupt.
Related terms: chazzerai
clings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cling
clings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cling
costumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costume
Senses: glosses: plural of costume
costumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of costume
assertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assertion
exiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exile
exiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exile
debating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debate
debating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debatings
Senses: examples: 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation
If the war-minister, or all the ministers together, had had no debatings and dividings to look to; if they had had nobody but their master to obey; no families or particular individuals to conciliate or gratify; they would have acted upon the evidence
glosses: The act of taking part in a debate.
merest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.
ref: 1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 779:
glosses: superlative form of mere: most mere
yelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English yellynge, ȝellynge; equivalent to yell + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yell
yelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellings
Etymology: From Middle English yellynge, ȝellynge; equivalent to yell + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of producing a yell.
diverting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diverting
form: most diverting
Senses: examples: text: I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 247:
glosses: Amusing, distracting.
Derived terms: divertingly
divertingness
undiverting
diverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divert
earning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of earn
administering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of administer
administering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: administerings
Senses: examples: text: This "body to be cared for, protected, cultivated and preserved from the many dangers and contacts" required other bodies that would perform those nurturing services, providing the leisure for such self-absorbed administerings and self-bolstering acts.
ref: 2002, Wendy Woodward, Gary Minkley, Deep Histories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa, page 17:
glosses: administration
dilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more dilated
form: most dilated
Senses: examples: text: Now the rays of yellow being more refracted by the first Superficies of the said Air than those of red, are thereby made more oblique to the second Superficies, at which they are reflected to produce the colour'd Rings, and consequently the yellow Circle in each Ring will be more dilated than the red; and the Excess of its Dilatation will be so much the greater, by how much the greater is the obliquity of the Rays, until at last it become of equal extent with the red of the same Ring.
ref: 1704, Isaac Newton, Newton's Opticks:
text: Is a little better, more conscious, and quieter, bowels purged, mercurial stools, pulse jerking 144, right pupil rather more dilated than the left.
ref: 1847, Samuel Solly, The Human Brain, page 318:
text: Both pupils were very dilated, and quite inactive, excepting that she could distinguish light from darkness with the RIGHT eye, was quite blind, and had lost all power of smell.
ref: 1864, month=October, John W. Ogle, “Original Communications: Cases illustrating the Formation of Morbid Growths, Deposits, Tumours, Cysts, &c., in connexion with the Brain and Spinal Cord, and their Investing Membranes. With Observations”, in British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, volume 34, page 484:
text: M. Wecker found with ophthalmoscope a pale papilla, indications of hypertrophy of cellular tissue, very dilated veins, and some little hæmorrhagic spots.
ref: 2023, Walter Rivington, A Case of Pulsating Tumour of the Left Orbit, page 107:
glosses: Having undergone dilation; enlarged.
examples: text: The sternum forms a long, linear, deeply channeled lobe, between the coxæ, the apex very dilated, cordate, with a very elevated ridge in the centre, like a nose in profile
ref: 1855, John Curtis, “Remarks relative to the affinities and analogies of natural objects, more particularly of Hypocephalus, a Genus of Coleoptera”, in The transactions of the Linnean Society of London:
text: Of the same form as C. 12-guttata, but having the elytra of the female more dilated, and the apical serratures and the sutural spine much more distinct.
ref: 1860, John L. Le Conte, “Revision of the Cicindelæ of the United States”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, page 41:
text: A species very easily distinguished from the others by its very dilated black wings, which have only a few marginal hyaline spots and very few discal subhyaline dots.
ref: 1914, Memoirs of the Indian Museum, page 162:
glosses: Relatively large.
Derived terms: dilatedly
dilatedness
nondilated
subdilated
undilated
dilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dilate
crashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crash
hugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hug
deepening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deepen
deepening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deepenings
Senses: examples: text: Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain […]
ref: 1972, H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future, volume 1, page 408:
glosses: The act of becoming deeper.
Derived terms: iterative deepening search
flaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaring
form: most flaring
Senses: examples: text: This consists in a waving motion backward and forward, sometimes like a fan, sometimes like a long scroll flying in the wind, over which flaring waves chase each other with such velocity that the eye refuses to follow their trembling flight. It is, no doubt, this characteristic of sudden and seemingly capricious motion which has given rise in the imagination to the dragons, demons and giants, to the elvish " merry dancers " of the Shetlanders, to the Valkyries of the Norsemen, and to the ghostly gambols of the departed spirits of the Eskimos, to all the wealth of myth and folk-lore which touched the hearts and quickened the imaginations of the long forgotten forefathers of these northern tribes.
ref: 1878, Victoria University, Acta Victoriana, Victoria University, page 362:
text: “Little of this faulty book of mine was composed in the closet,” he explains; “it was gathered by my own eyes and ears, concocted in my own slender intellect while at my rural employment, and wrote down on scraps of paper as I found it convenient in the midst of the works of nature, in the open air, beneath the flaring sun, in a quarryhole perhaps. Sometimes again on a ‘braeside,’ and ablins whiles in a ‘thick wud,’ or on the back of a ‘grey stane,’ the whole, therefore, has the smell, as it were, of Nature; her rudeness is about it, and when her plaid keeps the shoulders of anything warm, that thing looks contented indeed.”
ref: 1933, Morton Henry Vollam, In Scotland Again, Dodd, Mead & Company, pages 78-79:
text: Mazie and Nick have trouble, in the first place, making the fire. They finally start a great flaring fire instead of the small steady flame that Prudence requires for cooking.
ref: 1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Short Story, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, page 10:
glosses: Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
Derived terms: flaringly
flaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flare
flaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flarings
Senses: examples: text: […] those shootings of stars, eclipses of the moon, howlings of dogs, and flarings of candles, carefully noted and interpreted by the oracular sibyls […]
ref: 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of something that flares.
examples: text: Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. Flaring is used to burn unwanted gas, putting CO₂ into the atmosphere, but is easy to detect and has been increasingly frowned upon in recent years.
ref: 2023 May 9, Damian Carrington, “‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: venting
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.
feasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feast
glared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glare
discourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discourse
concatenative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From concatenate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: In fact the titles could be anything – or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper.
ref: 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC:
glosses: Linked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive.
examples: text: concatenative synthesis
glosses: Operating by concatenation.
Derived terms: nonconcatenative
Related terms: catenate
catenation
catenative
concatenate
concatenation
pulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlk/
ipa: /pʊlk/
ipa: /pulk/
rhymes: -ʌlk
Forms: form: pulks
form: pulka
form: pulkha
Etymology: From Finnish pulkka.
Senses: glosses: A small sled, used for man-hauling supplies across snow and ice.
hustings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌstɪŋz/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋz
Forms: form: hustings
Etymology: Originally the plural of husting, later construed as a singular.
Senses: examples: text: I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, From This World to the Next:
glosses: A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting.
examples: text: Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings.
text: Health secretary Matt Hancock was booed and heckled at a general election hustings in his constituency after he launched an attack on Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of antisemitism.
ref: 2019 November 30, Eleanor Busby, “Matt Hancock booed and heckled by crowd as hustings descends into chaos”, in The Independent:
glosses: An election campaign.
hustings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌstɪŋz/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋz
Etymology: See the etymology of the main entry.
Senses: glosses: plural of husting
husting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hustings
Etymology: From Middle English husting, from Old English hūsting, borrowed from Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), from hús (“house”) + þing (“council, meeting”), equivalent to house + thing. Cognate with Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”).
Senses: glosses: A platform where candidates in an election give speeches.
examples: text: In the Anglo-Norman period we hear of a sale of land taking place ‘in the presence of the whole husting of London, in the House of Alfwin son of Leofstan’ and of land deraigned ‘by judgment of the husting’.
ref: 2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, page 819:
glosses: An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler.
Related terms: hustings
thing
folkmoot
conformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conformative
form: most conformative
Senses: examples: text: A true individual is not conformative but formative.
ref: 1932, Jean Toomer, “As the Eagle Soars”, in Crisis:
glosses: Tending to conform; abiding by rules, laws, or social conventions.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a conformation.
elephant's trunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: elephant's
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see elephant, -'s, trunk.
glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
Derived terms: word: Elephant's Trunk Nebula
taxonomic: Pachypodium namaquanum
word: elephant's trunk plant
elephant's
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elephant's
form: most elephant's
Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang, from elephant's trunk where trunk rhymes with drunk.
Senses: glosses: drunk (intoxicated with alcohol)
Synonyms: drunk
elephantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephantoids
Etymology: From elephant + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any mammal of the superfamily Elephantoidea
elephantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From elephant + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an elephant in form or appearance
Derived terms: elephantoidal
elephantoid fever
Related terms: elephantid
sandier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sandy: more sandy
sandiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sandy: most sandy
delimiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delimit
delimiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delimitings
Senses: examples: text: The age span implicit in these delimitings of the onset and end of adolescence is fairly variable.
ref: 1977, Guy J. Manaster, Adolescent Development and the Life Tasks, page 9:
glosses: The act or point of something being delimited.
delimiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That serves to delimit.
Derived terms: delimiting keratotomy
immemorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪ.məˈmɔːɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪəl
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From French immémorial. By surface analysis, im- + memorial.
Senses: examples: text: The rocks had stood overlooking the valley since time immemorial.
text: We will ride this morning to what we call the grove of Daphne. It is a real laurel grove. Some of the trees must be immemorial, and deserve to have been sacred, if once they were not so.
ref: 1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XIV, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 148:
text: ...the fact of the immemorial taking of the toll, though it would be rightful in its origin if the spot was in a port, and wrongful if it was not in a port, did not of itself afford sufficient ground for inferring that the spot was an antient port, or that such special services were rendered, either by express stipulation in some lost grant, or by immemorial usage, as would support such a grant or custom.
ref: 1868, James Redfoord Bulwer, editor, The Law Reports. Court of Common Pleas., volume 3:
text: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
glosses: That is beyond memory; ancient.
Derived terms: immemorially
time immemorial
creditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛdɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more creditable
form: most creditable
Etymology: From credit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Before receiving his testimony, the officer is required to ascertain from his own knowledge or by a creditable witness that he is a subscribing witness to the deed.
ref: 1847, Benjamin Franklin Hall, The Land Owner's Manual:
text: A more creditable rumour concerned Valentino's hallmark killer glance ...
ref: 1996, Giannino Malossi, Latin Lover: The Passionate South:
glosses: Credible or believable.
glosses: That brings credit or honour; respectable.
glosses: That can be assigned; assignable.
Synonyms: sense: believable
word: believable
sense: believable
word: credible
sense: that brings credit
word: commendable
sense: that brings credit
word: respectable
sense: that can be assigned
word: assignable
Derived terms: creditability
creditableness
creditably
uncreditable
bobbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobby
coccyges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔk.sɪˌd͡ʒiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of coccyx
cochleae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochlea
cochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.kli.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑk.li.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊkliə(ɹ)
Etymology: From cochlea + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
Derived terms: alicochlear
cochlear duct
cochlear implant
cochlearly
cochlear nerve
cochlear window
endocochlear
extracochlear
hypocochlear
intracochlear
noncochlear
olivocochlear
postcochlear
retrocochlear
sacculocochlear
transcochlear
vestibulocochlear
Related terms: cochleary
cockcrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockcrows
form: cock-crow
Etymology: From Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).
Senses: examples: text: I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 175:
glosses: The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light
Synonyms: break of day
sunup
sparrow-fart
dawn
Related terms: cockcrower
cockcrowing
cockscrow
cockfight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: cockfights
Etymology: From cock + fight.
Senses: synonyms: word: cockmatch
glosses: A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
cockfight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: cockfights
form: cockfighting
form: cockfought
form: cockfought
Etymology: From cock + fight.
Senses: examples: text: I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
ref: 1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245:
glosses: To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
Related terms: cockfighter
cockfighting
alectoromachy
chores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chore
chores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chore
cockspur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockspurs
form: cock's-spur
Etymology: From Middle English cokkispore, equivalent to cock + spur.
Senses: synonyms: gaff
glosses: A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
synonyms: barnyard grass
barnyard millet
cockspur grass
common barnyard grass
Japanese millet
water grass
glosses: Grass of species (Echinochloa crus-galli).
synonyms: cockspur hawthorn
cockspur thorn
glosses: A hawthorn of species (Crataegus crus-galli).
glosses: Orchard grass, a widely grown tall stout hay and pasture grass (Dactylis glomerata) of Eurasia.
glosses: A small West Indian tree (Pisonia aculeata).
glosses: Any of several spiny trees, formerly all of the genus Acacia, such as Vachellia cookii (cockspur acacia).
glosses: Burgrass of species Cenchrus echinatus.
glosses: An annual European weed of species Centaurea melitensis, naturalized in North and South America.
glosses: Any plant of species Casearia aculeata, of the tropical Americas.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Vachellia cookii
word: cockspur acacia
word: cockspur burner
word: cocksput coral
taxonomic: Erythrina crista-galli
word: cockspur coral tree
taxonomic: Plectranthus spp.
word: cockspur flower
taxonomic: Echinochloa crus-galli
word: cockspur grass
taxonomic: Crataegus crus-galli
word: cockspur hawthorn
word: cockspur lamp
taxonomic: Opuntia pusilla
word: cockspur pricklypear
taxonomic: Maclura cochinchinensis
word: cockspur thorn
collard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒlɑː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈkɒlə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɒlɑː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: collards
form: collart
form: collet
Etymology: Syncopic form of colewort (“cabbage, cabbage greens”), from Middle English colewort, coolwort, coulwort (“colewort”).
Senses: glosses: A Mediterranean variety of kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala.
wikipedia: + (plant)
Synonyms: sense: Mediterranean kale
word: borekale
sense: Mediterranean kale
word: collard greens
sense: Mediterranean kale
word: spring greens
instructive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instructive cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: noun case used to indicate means. It answers the question "how?", and in English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase by means of, as in "by means of the house". Languages that use the instructive case include Finnish and (rarely) Estonian.
Related terms: instrumental case
collectivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collectivisms
Etymology: From collective + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively
glosses: The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
Derived terms: anarcho-collectivism
anticollectivism
Related terms: collectivist
communism
collectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪvɪst/
Etymology: From collective + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to collectivism.
Derived terms: anarcho-collectivist
anticollectivist
collectivist anarchism
collectivist anarchist
collectivistic
noncollectivist
collectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪvɪst/
Forms: form: collectivists
Etymology: From collective + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of collectivism.
colossi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colossus
Synonyms: colossuses
compendia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɛn.di.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of compendium
Synonyms: compendiums
concordat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɔːdæt/
Forms: form: concordats
Etymology: From French concordat, from Latin concordatum.
Senses: examples: text: That eminent and independant statesman, Count Louis of Medicis, concluded a concordat with cardinal Gonsalvi, at Terracina, on the 16th February, 1816, probably the most humiliating instrument to which the Roman court has been forced to submit since the fall of the Bonapartes.
ref: 1820, Theodore Lyman, The Political State of Italy:
text: The Concordat of the See of Rome with King Diniz is the most interesting ecclesiastical epoch […].
ref: 1846, William Scott, The Christian Remembrancer:
text: Later, he also promoted a significant degree of reconciliation between the Austrian social democratic movement and the Roman Catholic Church through the negotiation of the 1960 Concordat.
ref: 2000, Bruno Kreisky, Matthew Paul Berg, The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice, page 486:
text: 1527: when the cardinal comes back from France, he immediately begins ordering up banquets. French ambassadors are expected, to set the seal on his concordat.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 116:
glosses: A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
confute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfjuːt/
Forms: form: confutes
form: confuting
form: confuted
form: confuted
Etymology: From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtō.
Senses: examples: text: Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].
ref: 1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence:
text: bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: The conjecture of [Greenland] jointing on the east with Spitzberg, Nova-zembla, and Tartary, is pretty well, if not entirely, confuted by the new discoveries of the Dutch and Russians.
ref: 1767, David Cranz, A History of Greenland:
text: We can look up something in a book and learn it perfectly well with no other motive than to confute reinforcement theory, or out of boredom, or idle curiosity.
ref: 1959, Noam Chomsky, Review of Verbal behavior, in Language, volume 35, number 1, page 41:
glosses: To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
Derived terms: confutable
confutative
confutement
inconfutable
Related terms: confutation
refute
ecomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomorphs
Etymology: From eco- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: A local variety of a species whose appearance is determined by its ecological environment.
Related terms: ecomorphic
forkytails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forkytail
conger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒŋɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋɡɚ/
homophone: conga (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɒŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: congers
Etymology: From Middle English congre, from Old French congre, from Latin conger, from Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).
Senses: examples: text: The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: conger eel
glosses: Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
glosses: A chain of booksellers.
Derived terms: conger moray
daggertooth pike conger
incoterms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incoterm
comitative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comitative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Noun case used to denote companionship. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase in company with, together with or with, as in "with the house." Languages that use the comitative case include Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Inari Sami, Northern Sami, Skolt Sami, and Quechua. It is also found in many Australian Aboriginal languages, where it is commonly used to form names of places and languages.
Highlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Highlander
stanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stane
ers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of er
ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of er
arses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arse
glosses: plural of arsis
arses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arse
ejaculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ejaculate
evangelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evangelises
form: evangelising
form: evangelised
form: evangelised
Etymology: From Old French évangéliser, equivalent to evangel + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of evangelize.
Derived terms: evangeliser
Incoterm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Incoterms
form: INCOTERM
form: INCO term
Etymology: Blend of international + commerce + term, a registered trademark of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Senses: qualifier: international trade
glosses: Any of a series of international sales terms that divide transaction costs and responsibilities between the buyer and seller.
parasail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasails
Etymology: From para- + sail.
Senses: glosses: A wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc
parasail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parasails
form: parasailing
form: parasailed
form: parasailed
Etymology: From para- + sail.
Senses: glosses: To take part in the recreational activity of parasailing.
Derived terms: parasailor
match-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match-ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of matchup.
matchup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃʌp/
Forms: form: matchups
Etymology: Deverbal from match up.
Senses: examples: text: It's not an arcade game—there is no crack of the bat or roar of the crowd or even much in the way of a screen display—but for the true fan, there is the excitement of mathematically structured matchups of real current and past teams with a more-than-passing resemblance to real-life outcomes.
ref: 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 14, page 51:
text: That’s broadly consistent with the Real Clear Politics average of all general election matchups between the two; RCP shows Biden with an average of a 6-point lead over Sanders.
ref: 2020 April 8, Chris Cillizza, “Why Joe Biden starts as the general election front-runner”, in CNN:
text: The highly anticipated all-American matchup between Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe — marking the first US Open semifinals between two US men in nearly 20 years — will cost you quite a few Honey Deuces to attend.
ref: 2024 September 6, Jordan Valinsky, “Ticket prices for the all-American men’s matchup at the US Open are surging”, in CNN:
glosses: A pairing of two things, people or teams, especially for a competition
see you later, alligator
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the song See You Later, Alligator (1955), chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: Didn't know you were sick, Whitey, thought you were like […] some of the other times. From the top stair, See you later, alligator.
ref: 1955, Judson Jerome, Nolan Miller, New Campus Writings:
glosses: Au revoir, see you soon.
wikipedia: See You Later, Alligator
Related terms: later, skater
later, tater
you wish, jellyfish
you later, baked potato
Aleksandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Алекса́ндра (Aleksándra).
Senses: examples: Aleksandra Skochilenko, b. 1990
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Алекса́ндра (Aleksándra)
Conger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Congers
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States.
Derived terms: Congerville
forsee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forsees
form: forseeing
form: forsaw
form: forseen
Etymology: From Middle English forseen, forsen, from Old English forsēon (“to look down upon, despise”), equivalent to for- + see. Compare Old Saxon farsehan, Old High German farsehan (Middle High German versehen).
Senses: examples: text: Could I forsee the sunken rocks of life?
ref: 1882, Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins:
glosses: To neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.
examples: text: The reasone why the Commissioner did so muche presse the reading of the declinator was, because he forsaw that they meant to putt him to a dilemma which still should bring ane inconvenience along with it …
ref: 1841, Gordon, History of Scots Affairs, from 1637 - 1641 (quote from 1638)
glosses: Alternative spelling of foresee.
glosses: To oversee; superintend; direct.
Related terms: foresee
consomme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consommes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of consommé.
consortia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consortium
consumerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsumərɪzm̩/
ipa: /kənˈsjumərɪzm̩/
Forms: form: consumerisms
Etymology: From consumer + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.
ref: 1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:
text: Insatiable consumerism has blinkered our vision and left us unable to distinguish between what we need and what we merely want.
ref: 2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It’s easy to say, as I often do, that it’s capitalism at work. Yet I am actively involved in consumerism, triggered by my insecurities.
ref: 2024 August 8, Angela Garbes, “Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “It’s where cultural identity and cheap viral consumerism intersect,” D. Andrew Price, head of content at Memes Media Group, said of how Mr. Kirk’s T-shirt has proliferated in recent days.
ref: 2025 September 14, Alexander Nazaryan, quoting D. Andrew Price, “‘Freedom’ Shirt Becomes a Meme and an Instant Commodity”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A materialistic attachment to possessions with a heavy use of consumables; a lifestyle based on such tendencies.
glosses: An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.
glosses: A policy or social movement of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, as well as improved safety standards, among other measures.
Derived terms: anticonsumerism
hyperconsumerism
political consumerism
postconsumerism
Related terms: anticonsumption
conspicuous consumption
consumerist
consumerization
consumerize
commercialism
throwaway society
consumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consumerist
form: most consumerist
Etymology: From consumer + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: consumerist society
text: In a consumerist hypersexualized environment where bare-midriffed fifteen-year-olds are the pedophilic standard of desirability, becoming older is coded as a set of deficiencies.
ref: 2011, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, page 125:
glosses: Of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.
Derived terms: anticonsumerist
hyperconsumerist
nonconsumerist
postconsumerist
preconsumerist
superconsumerist
Related terms: consumerism
consumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consumerists
Etymology: From consumer + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of consumerism.
contextualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contextualizes
form: contextualizing
form: contextualized
form: contextualized
form: contextualise
Etymology: From contextual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
antonyms: decontextualize
glosses: To place something or someone in a particular context.
Derived terms: contextualizable
contextualization
contextualizer
decontextualize
noncontextualized
overcontextualize
recontextualize
uncontextualized
undercontextualize
contortionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɔː(ɹ)ʃənɪst/
Forms: form: contortionists
Etymology: From contortion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An acrobat who is capable of twisting their body into unusual positions.
glosses: One who twists words and phrases.
Derived terms: contortionistic
Related terms: contort
contortion
contortionism
contractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contractile
form: most contractile
Etymology: From French contractile.
Senses: glosses: Capable of contracting, or of being contracted.
Derived terms: acontractile
anticontractile
arterio-contractile
contractile ring
contractile vacuole
electrocontractile
fibrocontractile
hypercontractile
hypocontractile
intercontractile
myocontractile
noncontractile
precontractile
procontractile
supercontractile
uncontractile
vasocontractile
coonskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coonskins
Etymology: From coon + skin.
Senses: glosses: The pelt of a raccoon
Derived terms: coonskin cap
coonskin hat
cornbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornbreads
form: corn bread
Senses: synonyms: maizebread
coordinate_terms: corn pudding
glosses: Bread made from cornmeal.
Derived terms: corn dog
corncob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈkɔːn.kɒb/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/
enpr: kôrnʹ-kŏb
ipa: /ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/
Forms: form: corncobs
form: corn-cob
form: corn
form: cob
Etymology: From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
Senses: examples: text: London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”, in The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons, published 1882, page 23:
text: Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.
ref: 1922, “Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry”, in Henry Haven Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765:
text: He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.
ref: 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House,, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
synonyms: word: cornhusker
word: hayseed
word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A yokel.
Derived terms: corncob engine
corncob pipe