cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The accused's stubborn silence outraged the prosecutor.
glosses: simple past and past participle of outrage.
outraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outraged
form: most outraged
Derived terms: outragedly
unoutraged
exacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exact
felled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fell
graced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Derived terms: ungraced
graced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grace
draped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪpt/
rhymes: -eɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drape
deduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deduce
conspired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conspire
conjectured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conjecture
spunging-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spunging-houses
Senses: examples: text: Vanity is the perfection of a Fop; my Huſband had this Excellence, that he valued nothing of Expence, and as his Hiſtory you may be ſure, has very little vveight in it; 'tis enough to tell you, that in about tvvo Years and a Quarter he Broke, and vvas not ſo happy to get over into the Mint, but got into a Spunging-Houſe, being Arreſted in an action too heavy for him to give Bail to, ſo he ſent for me to come to him.
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 70:
text: The inquiry thus made, does his solvency prove dubious? Seizing his person affords no security. In jail, or in a spunging-house, his effects, for every purpose of removal or dissipation, are as much in his power as if he were at home. Secure the effects themselves, all removal, all dissipation is at end.
ref: 1827, John Stuart Mill, editor, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Epecially Applied to English Practice, from the MSS. of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. IV, Book IX, Chapter VII:
text: Miss Jemima was made to fetch the drawing-master's receipts and letters. This one was from a spunging-house: that entreated an advance: another was full of gratitude for Rebecca's reception by the ladies of Chiswick
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XIX, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of sponging-house.
scolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scold
chatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃætɪd/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæɾɨd]
rhymes: -ætɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chat
charred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of char
charred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charred
form: most charred
Senses: synonyms: blackened
glosses: Burnt, carbonized.
Derived terms: charredness
uncharred
centred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.təd/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.təɹd/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: centered
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of centre
centred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.təd/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.təɹd/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: centered
Senses: glosses: UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of centered.
Derived terms: centredness
ethnocentred
matricentred
multicentred
noncentred
patricentred
uncentred
thatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thatch
thatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a thatched cottage
text: The thatched cottage in the heart of the country is artistically most attractive—provided that we have not got to live in it!
ref: 1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
glosses: Covered or roofed with thatch.
examples: text: Yet if this is unacceptable, so is the alternative of denying any objective difference between wealth and poverty — or between a well-thatched man and a bald one.
ref: 1968, Britannica Perspectives, volume 3, page 138:
glosses: Having a specified kind of hair.
garnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹnɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɑɹnɪʃt
Forms: form: more garnished
form: most garnished
Senses: glosses: Decorated with garnish.
Derived terms: ungarnished
garnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹnɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɑɹnɪʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garnish
traded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trade
beguiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beguile
sallied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sally
prostrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prostrate
notified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of notify
narrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of narrate
investigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of investigate
sued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: pseud
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sue
mowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊd/
ipa: /moːd/
ipa: /moʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: mode (except Scotland)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mow
grabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæbd/
rhymes: -æbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grab
perjured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perjure
thickened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thicken
fished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɪʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fish
fished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɪʃt
Forms: form: more fished
form: most fished
Senses: examples: text: The trawl-net boats were continually coming in clean, and, with rare exceptions, were very poorly fished until the recent cold, frosty weather set in, when some splendid takes were secured, yielding to each crew for one night's fishing from £100 to £200.
ref: 1880–1884, Francis Day, The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, page 215:
glosses: Containing or loaded with fish.
emphasized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emphasized
form: most emphasized
Senses: examples: text: A slight inward swinging of the arms is always necessary, and is slightly more emphasized with girls.
ref: 1910, Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 56:
text: Whenever the subgroup members meet, the fraternal activities are more emphasized and anticipated, because the meeting usually creates an informal and pleasurable ethnic-style atmosphere. Fraternal activities are much more emphasized by immigrant churches and temples than by congregations in Korea, because for many members the lay association meeting is the only source for social gathering outside their home and workplace.
ref: 2003, Okyun Kwon, Buddhist and Protestant Korean Immigrants, pages 193-194:
text: I'm the first one in my family to graduate from college . . . higher education just hasn't been very emphasized.
ref: 2010, James A. Vela-McConnell, Unlikely Friends: Bridging Ties and Diverse Friendships, page 101:
glosses: Having been given extra stress or focus.
Derived terms: nonemphasized
overemphasized
underemphasized
unemphasized
emphasized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emphasize
hollowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hollow
Derived terms: unhollowed
sponging-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponging-houses
Senses: examples: text: she perswaded the Creditors to send Two Bayliffs, who carry'd me to a Spunging-House in a very weak Condition […]
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI:
glosses: A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.
ignited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ignite
enfranchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enfranchise
enfranchised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enfranchised
form: most enfranchised
Senses: glosses: emancipated
Derived terms: nonenfranchised
unenfranchised
etched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃt
Senses: examples: text: [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
qualifier: body part or person
glosses: Toned and with a well-defined musculature.
raw_tags: of a muscle
Derived terms: nonetched
unetched
etched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of etch
reproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reprove
galvanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of galvanised (“coated with zinc”).
Derived terms: nongalvanized
ungalvanized
galvanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of galvanize
strapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strap
strapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The pregnant woman should wear a wide-strapped bra that supports the breasts without causing nipple pressure.
ref: 2002, Caroline Bunker Rosdahl, Mary T. Kowalski, Textbook of Basic Nursing, page 917:
glosses: Having a strap or straps.
glosses: Muscular.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Punched him in his belly and he gave him a slap, / But little did he know the lil' boy was strapped, / The kid pulled out a gun, he said "Why did ya hit me?" / The barrel was set straight for the cop's kidney
ref: 1989 April 4, Slick Rick, “Children's Story”, in The Great Adventures of Slick Rick:
text: I ain't gonna be out here strapped.
ref: 2006 October 15, “Margin of Error” (43:48 from the start), in The Wire, season 4, episode 6 (television production), spoken by Omar Little (Michael K. Williams), via HBO:
glosses: Armed; carrying a weapon.
examples: text: Families struggling to meet mortgage payments or pay for health care can easily find themselves too strapped to take advantage of school meals, even though they are a bargain.
ref: 2010 January 4, Janet Poppendieck, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 9:
synonyms: cash-strapped
strapped for cash
glosses: Poor; broke.
Synonyms: sense: muscular
word: ripped
sense: without money
word: impoverished
Derived terms: cash strapped
cash-strapped
strapped for money
unfrequently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfrequently
form: most unfrequently
Etymology: From unfrequent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She not unfrequently stopped at the Parsonage, and had a few minutes' conversation with Charlotte, but was scarcely ever prevailed upon to get out.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 30, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: Near to the jail, and by consequence near to Smithfield also, and the Compter, and the bustle and noise of the city; and just on that particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on purpose, and where horses in hackney cabriolets going westward not unfrequently fall by accident, is the coach-yard of the Saracen's Head Inn;
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: Hurry had all the prejudices and antipathies of a white hunter, who generally regards the Indian as a sort of natural competitor, and not unfrequently as a natural enemy.
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, “chapter 3”, in The Deerslayer:
text: Kings and free states not unfrequently maintained a troupe of professional singers and dancers, ready to undertake at the shortest notice the performance of the most elaborate Ode.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 2, pp. 12-13:
glosses: Infrequently.
grizzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grizzle
grizzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grizzled
form: most grizzled
Senses: glosses: Greyed, old.
glosses: Grey or partly grey.
glosses: Streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous.
Synonyms: sense: greyed, old
word: grey-haired
word: grizzly
word: hoary
word: elderly
Derived terms: grizzledness
grizzled skipper
ungrizzled
Related terms: sense: greyed, old
word: silver-haired
sense: greyed, old
word: silvery-haired
sense: greyed, old
word: white-haired
summers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summer
summers
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In the summer.
summers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of summer
braided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Senses: examples: text: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of braid
braided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Forms: form: more braided
form: most braided
Senses: glosses: Plaited, woven, entwined.
examples: text: Further upstream, at the gravel mining site near the mouth of Sweetwater Creek, the Arroyo Seco channel is very braided and shallow with some exposed bedrock ledges.
ref: 2001 June 8, Draft Envrionmental Impact Report/Envrionmental Impact Statement for the Salinas Valley Water Project, Monterey County Water Resources Agency; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, SCH# 20000034007, page 2:
glosses: Divided into several channels.
raw_tags: of a stream
Derived terms: braided belt
braidedness
braided river
cobraided
unbraided
phantoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantom
favourites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favourite
bayonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayonet
dramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drama
spunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spunges
Senses: examples: text: ‘What do you wear a mask too?’ enquired Sir William. ‘Oh yes, by gad, it’s the most useful thing upon earth—don’t you know the mask of necessity is so elastic, it pulls into every shape?’ replied Sponge. ‘True! flexible as a spunge,’ returned Sir William.
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sponge.
spunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spunges
form: spunging
form: spunged
form: spunged
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sponge.
distresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distress
distresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distress
prearranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-arranged
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prearrange
Related terms: prearrange
mistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: plural of mistress
spunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spunge
shrivelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrivelled
form: most shrivelled
form: shriveled
Etymology: Equivalent to shrivel + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A prune is a shrivelled plum.
text: All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
ref: 1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], “The Parsonage”, in Agnes Grey. […], London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
glosses: Collapsed in size.
shrivelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shriveled
Etymology: Equivalent to shrivel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrivel
Related terms: shrivel up
unhinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhɪndʒd/
Etymology: From unhinge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhinge
unhinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhɪndʒd/
Forms: form: more unhinged
form: most unhinged
Etymology: From unhinge + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.
ref: 1998, SPIN, page 78:
text: While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
antonyms: hinged
glosses: Mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane.
Derived terms: come unhinged
hinged
unhinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhɪndʒd/
Forms: form: more unhinged
form: most unhinged
Etymology: From un- + hinged.
Senses: examples: text: an unhinged door
glosses: Not furnished with a hinge.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
raw_tags: of a stamp
Related terms: MUH
MNH
Saxons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saxon
recognises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recognise
recognizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recognize
orphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphan
orphans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orphan
lends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lend
jests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Senses: glosses: plural of jest
jests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jest
blushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of blush
blushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: glosses: Embarrassment.
Derived terms: spare someone's blushes
blushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blush
supposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suppose
furrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furrow
furrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of furrow
furnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furnish
furnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of furnish
mounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊnts
Senses: examples: text: Of all the horses, their mounts were the finest.
glosses: plural of mount
mounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mount
clutches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of clutch
examples: text: Once the organization was in his clutches, her future there was bleak.
glosses: Grasp; possession; control.
clutches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clutch
brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brush
brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brush
argues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of argue
mistranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtɹænz.leɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /mɪsˈtɹæːnz.læɪ̯.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mistranslations
Etymology: From mis- + translation.
Senses: examples: text: MORE mischief has been done to the cause of truth by mistranslations of, and consequent miscomments on the holy scripture, than is at first thought imagined or perceived.
ref: 1824, S H. Jackson, The Jew:
text: The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data.
ref: 2012, Helen Lauer, Kofi Anyidoho, Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, page 87:
glosses: An incorrect translation.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The incorporation of the incorrect amino acid into a peptide sequence.
immesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immeshes
form: immeshing
form: immeshed
form: immeshed
form: inmesh
Senses: glosses: To enmesh; to catch as with meshes; to ensnare.
inmesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inmeshes
form: inmeshing
form: inmeshed
form: inmeshed
Etymology: From in- + mesh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of immesh To enmesh; to catch as with meshes and nets; to ensnare.
night glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night glasses
form: night-glass
Senses: glosses: A spyglass or binoculars with large diameter lenses, used to see objects better in the dark.
Related terms: night vision
night goggles
cremaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːˈmastə/
ipa: /kɹiˈmæstəɹ/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cremasters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρεμαστήρ (kremastḗr, “suspender”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: musculus cremaster
glosses: A thin muscle attached to the testicles.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In the pupae of certain species of butterfly, a hook-shaped protuberance from the rear of the chrysalis casing, by which the caterpillar fixes itself to the pad of silk it has cemented to the underside of a perch.
Derived terms: cremasterial
cremasteric
night-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of night glass.
bug-bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug-bears
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bugbear.
freer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːəɹ/
rhymes: -iə(ɹ)
Forms: form: freers
Senses: glosses: One who frees.
freer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːəɹ/
rhymes: -iə(ɹ)
Forms: form: free-er
form: freeër
form: freeer
Senses: examples: text: In brief, the freer the competition, the unfreer the man.
ref: 1950, Henry Pratt Fairchild, The Prodigal Century, page 223:
glosses: comparative form of free: more free
firmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From firm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: to put on a firmer footing
text: "The DfT appears to have put things on a firmer footing, but the path is littered with cautionary tales of transport projects that later went off the rails.
ref: 2022 August 10, Mel Holley, “Network News: Question marks over TransPennine upgrade spending”, in RAIL, number 963, page 24:
glosses: comparative form of firm: more firm
firmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firmers
Etymology: From firm + -er.
Senses: examples: face firmers
glosses: A physical exercise or cosmetic product intended to firm part of the body.
glosses: A thin chisel with a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
fonder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fond: more fond
fatter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fat: more fat
kindest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kind: most kind
strictest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of strict: most strict
clearest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: clear + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clear: most clear
clearest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clear + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of clear
inconstancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconstancies
form: inconstancie
Etymology: From in- + constancy or inconstant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Although she loved him for many years, his inconstancy eventually drove her to another.
glosses: Lack of constancy; lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.
infallibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌfæləˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ˌɪnˌfæləˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: infallibilities
Senses: examples: text: The myth of the infallibility and objectivity of medicine and all science has come to replace religious myths.
ref: 1977 December 10, Kate Gyllensvard, Richard Millen, “Blue Collar, White Collar, Lavender Collar: A Look At The Gay Work Force”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 11:
synonyms: faultlessness
perfection
antonyms: fallibility
glosses: The property of being infallible; the ability to never make a mistake.
Related terms: papal infallibility
undoubted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdaʊtɪd/
Forms: form: more undoubted
form: most undoubted
Etymology: From Middle English undouted, undoutid, equivalent to un- + doubted.
Senses: examples: text: His undoubted skill meant that he was in much demand.
text: More should I question thee, and more I must,
Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion’d welcome and undoubted blest.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Thou Spirit who ledſt this glorious Eremite
Into the Deſert, his Victorious Field
Againſt the Spiritual Foe, and broughtſt him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 1–2, lines 8–11:
text: Of what he has particularly accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I shall relate, I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: The place of psychology in business is undoubted; whether it can prevail against more concrete and material facts, and if so, how long, remain debatable propositions.
ref: 1923 December 3, “Current Situation”, in Time:
text: Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
text: The “recognition” before a 2,300-strong congregation of foreign royals, heads of state, former prime ministers, and charity and community representatives, saw him presented four times as “your undoubted king” to the compass points of the raised coronation theatre with no murmur of dissent.
ref: 2023 May 6, Caroline Davies, “Coronation of King Charles is a visual feast veiled in the mists of the past”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Without doubt; without question; certain.
Synonyms: uncontested
unquestioned
undisputed
doubtless
Derived terms: undoubtedly
regeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regenerations
Etymology: From re- + generation or regenerate + -ion, from Latin regenerātiō.
Senses: examples: text: The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration.
text: But the key thing that excites Jolliffe about biochar is that it avoids waste and it can actually give something back to the environment. "The nice thing is that the biochar doesn't just sit there in a heap," she says. "It's used for soil regeneration. You can spread it on the land and it can not only enhance the soil's capacity to manage moisture, but it also acts as a fertiliser.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “Building a greener future”, in RAIL, number 999, page 35:
glosses: Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
topics: Christianity
glosses: The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
glosses: The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
examples: text: The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).
ref: 1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, page 202:
text: 2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
glosses: The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
Synonyms: word: palingenesia
word: rebirth
word: regen
Derived terms: autoregeneration
bush regeneration
irregeneration
myoregeneration
neuroregeneration
osteoregeneration
photoregeneration
regenerationism
regenerationist
self-regeneration
superregeneration
unregeneration
urban regeneration
Related terms: regenerate
restructuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restructure
restructuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restructurings
Senses: synonyms: restructure
glosses: A reorganization; an alteration of structure.
large scale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more large scale
form: most large scale
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of large-scale.
small scale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more small scale
form: most small scale
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of small-scale.
eventful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eventful
form: most eventful
form: eventfull
Etymology: From event + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: With the number of drunken revellers on the streets it could hardly fail to be an eventful night.
text: […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
glosses: Of or pertaining to high levels of activity; having many memorable events.
Derived terms: eventfully
eventfulness
noneventful
uneventful
cheerily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cheerily
form: most cheerily
Etymology: From cheery + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Having already dismissed the story as a heap of piffle, he cheerily advised the reporters to go for a run.
text: Matters stood thus in the Castle of Avenel, when a winded bugle sent its shrill and prolonged notes from the shore of the lake, and was replied to cheerily by the signal of the warder.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 50:
text: What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:
synonyms: word: cheerfully
word: cheerly
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
meekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːk.li/
rhymes: -iːk.li
Forms: form: more meekly
form: most meekly
Etymology: From Middle English mekely, mekeliche, equivalent to meek + -ly. Compare Old Norse mjúkliga.
Senses: examples: text: When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God,
Meekly thou did'st resign this earthly load
Of Death, call'd Life; which us from Life doth sever.
ref: 1673, John Milton, When Faith and Love which parted from thee never:
glosses: In a meek manner; quietly and humbly.
fortepiano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortepianos
form: fortepianoes
Etymology: From Italian fortepiano, from forte (“loud”) + piano (“soft”).
Senses: glosses: A keyboard instrument; the smaller, quieter precursor to the pianoforte.
Derived terms: fortepianist
Related terms: pianoforte
acknowledges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acknowledge
inattentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.əˈtɛn.tɪv/
Forms: form: more inattentive
form: most inattentive
Etymology: From in- + attentive.
Senses: examples: text: He was inattentive in class and did not do well in his exams.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a lack of attention; not paying attention; careless.
Synonyms: absent-minded
distracted
distrait
unconcentrated
Derived terms: inattentively
inattentiveness
marketable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marketable
form: most marketable
Etymology: From market + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The quality and scarcity ensured that the product was eminently marketable.
text: If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
ref: 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
glosses: Capable of being marketed.
examples: text: The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.
ref: 2010, Gennady Stolyarov II, The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools:
glosses: Saleable (of goods) or employable (of people).
Derived terms: marketability
marketableness
marketably
nonmarketable
unmarketable
eventfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eventfully
form: most eventfully
Etymology: From eventful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an eventful manner; with much activity.
eventfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eventfulnesses
Etymology: From eventful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being eventful.
chance'd be a fine thing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: chance is a fine thing
form: chance's a fine thing
form: chance would be a fine thing
Etymology: An ellipsis of even having a chance [to do so / at that] would be a fine thing and similar ideas, in reference to something that is either completely impossible or currently forbidden by circumstances, higher authorities, etc., originally chiefly with regard to opportunities to have sex or get married.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Hawthon: Why didn't you get wed if you were so curious? There's plenty would have had you.
Fanny: Chance is a fine thing. Happen I wouldn't have had them!
Mrs Hawthorn: Happen you'll be sorry for it before long. There's not so many will have you now, if this gets about.
ref: 1912, Stanley Houghton, Hindle Wakes, act I, scene i:
text: Come on. You're management, Corrigan. Get it sorted.
Right. Chance would be a fine thing. [VO] That's a thing people say, isn't it...
Mark, can't you reset it?
Chance would be a fine thing, Lisa.
I know what you should do. Coffee run. Corrigan, 200 lattes.
Good, good one Jeff. Chance would be a fine thing, a fine thing indeed. [VO] Hmm. Saying that too often now.
ref: 2009 September 18, Jesse Armstrong & al., Peep Show, Season 6, Episode 1
text: Dr Clarkson: Sit down and put your feet up if you can.
Mrs Patmore: Oh, chance'd be a fine thing.
ref: 2012 September 23, Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 3, Episode 2
text: Me winning the lotto? Chance'd be a fine thing.
glosses: Synonym of no chance or fat chance, with a somewhat more cheerful attitude.
synonyms: word: no chance or fat chance
word: with a somewhat more cheerful attitude
Synonyms: one should be so lucky
one should live so long
synchroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchroscopes
Etymology: From synchro- + -scope, from syn- + chrono- + -scope, from Ancient Greek σύν (sún)+χρόνος (khrónos)+σκοπέω (skopéō).
Senses: glosses: An instrument that indicates the degree to which two alternating current systems are synchronised with each other; used especially in electricity generation.
glosses: An instrument used to synchronise the propellers of a twin-engine aircraft.
middle-of-the-roadness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From middle-of-the-road + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being middle-of-the-road.
middle-of-the-road
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Even some middle-of-the-road economic commentators have been hyperventilating, saying that she’s essentially calling for price controls, which is odd, because she didn’t say anything like that.
ref: 2024 August 19, Paul Krugman, “Kamalanomics, Revealed: A Solid Center-Left Agenda”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of middle of the road.
Derived terms: middle-of-the-roadness
razed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raze
razed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more razed
form: most razed
Senses: examples: text: Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two Provincial roses on my raz’d shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Slashed or striped in patterns.
en bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɒ̃ ˈblɒk/
Etymology: From French en bloc.
Senses: examples: text: The nation's 50 million smokers remain at liberty to vote en bloc for a fussbudget-free Congress. Are the polls ready to accommodate smokers?
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting Russell Seitz, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
glosses: as a whole; all at once; all together.
Related terms: en masse
Lodebar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Translated, it means "land of nothing".
Senses: examples: text: Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 9:5:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A place where David found a member of the family of Saul.
censi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of census
Dhanalaxmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dhanalakshmi
form: Dhana Laxmi
Etymology: Cf. dhana and Laxmi.
Senses: examples: text: On the following day, the woman-folk worship Goddess Dhanalaxmi for prosperity.
ref: 1980, T. Vedantam, J. K. Barthakur, Census of India, 1971: Series 2: Andhra Pradesh, India Office of the Registrar General, page 138:
text: 2004, http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/nov112004/deep2.asp
Goddess Dhanalaxmi is propitiated on the Amavasya night in Hindu homes. Goddess Laxmi is said to have emerged from the ocean during the 'samudra manthan'. Her birth is celebrated with pujas, illuminations and crackers and festivity in every Hindu home.
glosses: A Hindu goddess, one of the eight forms of Laxmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, fortune and prosperity.
auricula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə
Forms: form: auriculae
form: auriculas
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin auricula (“external ear; ear”). Doublet of auricle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: pinna
auricle
glosses: The external part of the ear.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: atrial appendage
auricular appendix
auricle
glosses: A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart.
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
synonyms: valva
glosses: A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura.
examples: text: Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, some auricula roots in the other.
ref: 1919, Michael Wood, The White Island, page 122:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
synonyms: bear's ear
glosses: An ornamental primrose (Primula auricula)
Related terms: auricle
auricular
auricularis
auriculate
auriculo-
brushwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌʃˌwʊd/
Forms: form: brushwoods
Etymology: From brush + wood.
Senses: examples: text: His pupils assemble every evening before his tent; where, by the light of a large fire, made of brushwood and cow’s dung, they are taught a few sentences from the Koran, and are initiated into the principles of their creed.
ref: 1799, Mungo Park, chapter 12, in Travels in the Interior of Africa, volume 1:
text: Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]
ref: 1991, Ivan Turgenev, chapter 3, in Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, page 14:
glosses: Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
examples: text: The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being lined on each ſide with impenetrable bruſh-wood, like the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca; [...]
ref: 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVI, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copseware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 279:
text: Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man.
ref: 1920, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, chapter 12, in A Brazilian Mystic, Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, page 169:
text: Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.
ref: 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:
glosses: Small trees and shrubs.
correcte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Possibly a medicinal herb.
fire eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire eaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire-eater.
gas fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas fires
Senses: glosses: A fireplace or heater whose flames are fuelled by combustible gas.