cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tear up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈtɪɹ ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈtɪəɹ ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/
Forms: form: tears up
form: tearing up
form: teared up
form: teared up
Etymology: See: tear (“liquid that falls from the eyes”).
Senses: examples: text: After seeing Johnny tear up at that cheesy movie, I knew he was a loser.
glosses: To start shedding tears.
Related terms: choke up
well up
cushaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushaws
Etymology: Speculation that the term derives from a Native American language is unsubstantiated.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain cultivars of Cucurbita argyrosperma (Cucurbita mixta), one of the species of winter squash.
Synonyms: sense: Cucurbita argyrosperma
word: Japanese pie pumpkin
sense: Cucurbita argyrosperma
word: pipian
sense: Cucurbita argyrosperma
word: cushaw pumpkin
sense: Cucurbita argyrosperma
word: cushaw squash
sense: Cucurbita argyrosperma
word: winter crookneck squash
cushaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushaw
lineny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lineny
form: most lineny
Etymology: From linen + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She laid herself upon the bed, regardless of her fluffy tulle and magnolia blossoms, and turned her face against the lineny coolness of the pillow.
ref: 1885, Alice King Hamilton, chapter 17, in One of the Duanes, Philadelphia: Lippincott, pages 239–240:
text: Garth sat beside the bed in the middle of the big sunny ward. […] The place was blanched and lineny with an apocalyptic impersonal light and people shaded their eyes and lowered their voices.
ref: 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 216:
text: I felt the material of her dress against my cheek. And smelt the clean lineny smell of her.
ref: 1997, Peter Cameron, Andorra, New York: Picador, Part Two, Chapter Fifteen, p. 175:
glosses: Resembling or characterized by linen.
Synonyms: sense: resembling linen
word: linenlike
clothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clothy
form: most clothy
Etymology: From cloth + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling cloth.
Synonyms: clothlike
clocklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clocklike
form: most clocklike
Etymology: From clock + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a clock.
examples: He arrived every day with clocklike regularity.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a clock.
Occurring repeatedly at a precise time or at regular time intervals; always on schedule.
synonyms: word: dependable
word: predictable
word: punctual
word: regular
word: cyclic
word: cyclical
word: periodic
word: periodical
word: regular
stretchably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stretchably
form: most stretchably
Etymology: From stretchable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stretchable way; elastically.
streetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From street + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without streets; roadless.
meat house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat houses
form: meathouse
form: meat-house
Senses: glosses: A place where meat is cured or stored
clothlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clothlike
form: most clothlike
Etymology: From cloth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling cloth.
Synonyms: clothy
linenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linenlike
form: most linenlike
Etymology: From linen + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling linen.
Synonyms: lineny
meathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meathouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meat house.
clockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clock + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a clock or clocks.
Derived terms: clocklessness
watchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watchless
form: most watchless
Etymology: From watch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not vigilant; failing to keep watch.
glosses: Without a watch (timepiece).
cummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cummers
form: kimmer
Etymology: From Middle English commare, from Old French commere (modern French commère), from Late Latin commāter.
Senses: synonyms: commother
co-mother
glosses: The relationship of a godmother to the other godparents (godsibs or gossips), and the legal parents, of a child.
glosses: A female companion or intimate (of another woman).
synonyms: lass
glosses: Lass, the feminine equivalent of fellow.
cummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cummers
Etymology: From cum + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A sure fire way to get off in seconds, even if watching him squirm about in orgasm weren't enough. That boy was about as noisy a cummer as any I've encountered […]
ref: 1997, Scott O'Hara, Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane, page 137:
text: In point of fact, Whitmore wasn't just a slow cummer, but rather unable to have an orgasm whenever anyone else was present.
ref: 2013, David Bergman, The Violet Hour, page 186:
glosses: One who cums or climaxes.
mapwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From map + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: He placed his fingertip where he had left off and began to focus again. So far the spiral had only moved a few inches beyond the borders of Novanna City mapwise.
ref: John Durbin Jr, Naomi (page 300)
glosses: In terms of a map.
examples: text: The countryside unfolded mapwise beneath us.
glosses: In the manner of a map.
meat rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat racks
Senses: glosses: A rack used for storing meat.
examples: text: Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the "meat rack" — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection...
ref: 1963, John Rechy, City of Night, page 48:
glosses: A place where people can meet looking for sexual partners.
Synonyms: sense: place to find sex partners
word: meat market
meat ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat tickets
Senses: glosses: meal ticket
Tangos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tango
killifishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪ.li.fɪʃ.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of killifish
meatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meatus + -al.
Senses: synonyms: meatic
glosses: Of, pertaining to or resembling a meatus.
Derived terms: canthomeatal
extrameatal
intrameatal
orbitomeatal
ostiomeatal
suprameatal
supraorbitomeatal
transmeatal
tympanomeatal
meathook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meathooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meat hook.
meathooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meathook
panchax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panchaxes
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Panchax.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tropical fish in the cyprinodontiform families Aplocheilidae and Nothobranchiidae which were formerly classified in the genus Panchax.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Epiplatys annulatus
word: banded panchax
taxonomic: Aplocheilus panchax
word: blue panchax
taxonomic: Aphyosemion australe
word: lyretail panchax
taxonomic: Aplocheilus lineatus
word: striped panchax
panchaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panchax
mirv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mirvs
form: mirving
form: mirved
form: mirved
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To attack with MIRV missiles.
mirvs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mirv
mirving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mirv
mirved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mirv
meatometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatometers
Etymology: From meato- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device to measure the width of a human's urinary meatus.
meatometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatometer
meatotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatotomies
Etymology: From meato- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A form of penile modification in which the underside of the glans is split, sometimes performed to alleviate meatal stenosis or urethral stricture.
pea patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea patches
Senses: glosses: A small piece of land planted with peas.
glosses: A small farm.
examples: text: Watching the way the Pirates cut up the pea patch with their merciless hitting and precision fielding, the New Yorkers grew more dejected.
ref: 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, page 170:
glosses: A baseball field.
examples: text: It behooves any revolutionaries, educational or other, to consider all problems and consequences before they start tearing up the social pea patch.
ref: 1995, Murray Newton Rothbard, Making Economic Sense, page 158:
glosses: A realm of endeavor.
meatotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatotomy
Tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tiger
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The Bangladesh national cricket team.
meatotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatotomes
Etymology: From meato- + -tome.
Senses: glosses: A scalpel used to cut into the urethra to enlarge it.
long stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long stops
form: long-stop
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position
meatotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatotome
unvacuumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + vacuumed.
Senses: glosses: That has not been cleaned with a vacuum cleaner.
enlargen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlargens
form: enlargening
form: enlargened
form: enlargened
Etymology: From Middle English enlargen; more at enlarge.
Senses: glosses: To enlarge.
Synonyms: sense: enlarge
word: largen
Tomahawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tomahawk
honeysuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeysucks
Etymology: From Middle English honysoke, from Old English huniġsūce, huniġsūge; equivalent to honey + suck.
Senses: examples: text: Wild honeysucks climb on the walls
ref: 1916, Thomas Hardy, Domicilium:
glosses: honeysuckle
mecocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meco- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: long-headed.
honeysucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeysuck
broachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broachable
form: most broachable
Etymology: From broach + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be broached (opened for discussion).
unbroachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + broachable.
Senses: glosses: Not broachable.
Tori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoɹ.i/
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: The American singer Tori Amos was born in 1963.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Victoria.
Tori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoɹ.i/
Senses: glosses: A region of Georgia, in the central part of the country, bordered by Imereti and Kartli in the north and Meskheti and Trialeti in the south.
discussible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discussible
form: most discussible
Etymology: From discuss + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of discussable.
Derived terms: indiscussible
undiscussible
Totenkopfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Totenkopf
good jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good job
baitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of baiting
besties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bestie
x-heights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x-height
XSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Extensible stylesheet language, any of a family of languages in which code can be written to describe how XML files are to be transformed.
dead sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead sleeps
Senses: glosses: A particularly sound sleep
examples: text: Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The initial interval of slumber was usually referred to as “first sleep,” or, less often, “first nap” or “dead sleep.”
ref: 2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, page 364:
glosses: The first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, before the watch.
Synonyms: sense: first sleep of the night
word: first sleep
morning sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning sleeps
Senses: examples: text: Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The succeeding interval of slumber was called “second” or “morning” sleep.
ref: 2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, pages 364–365:
glosses: The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, after the watch.
Synonyms: second sleep
next sleep
Information Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Just as we were beginning to feel comfortable about living in the space age, bold headlines in an I.B.M. advertisement told us “there's growing agreement that” we now are in the information age.
ref: 1977 June 9, George McGovern, “The Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: This is the information age, in which, we are told, biology is defined by a three-billion-letter instruction manual called the genome and human thoughts are analogous to digital bits flowing through a computer.
ref: 2001 August 7, Dennis Overbye, “Time of Growing Pains for Information Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The resources of the information age enormously increase the potential productivity of such investigations. This situation will improve as more and more data becomes available.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 68:
synonyms: word: cyberage
word: digital age
word: info age
glosses: The current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.
cyberage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + age.
Senses: examples: text: In the nuclear age, America knew where every Soviet weapon was located and who had the authority to fire them. In the cyberage, there is no way to count the threats or even figure out who has their finger on the keyboard — the modern-day “button.”
ref: 2021 June 15, David E. Sanger, “Once, Superpower Summits Were About Nukes. Now, It’s Cyberweapons.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: digital age
coordinate_terms: atomic age
nuclear age
space age
glosses: The computer-driven Information Age.
failproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more failproof
form: most failproof
Etymology: From fail + -proof.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: foolproof, idiot-proof
synonyms: failureproof
coordinate_terms: failsafe
fail-safe
fail safe
;
failureless
glosses: Resistant to failure; that cannot go wrong.
Related terms: failure rate
flawless
triphasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + phasic.
Senses: glosses: Having three phases.
Related terms: three-phase
failureproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From failure + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of failproof.
synonyms: word: failproof
wussiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wussy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being wussy; weakness, ineffectualness.
sbirros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sbirro
paygrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paygrades
Etymology: From pay + grade.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pay grade.
paygrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paygrade
premarkup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + markup.
Senses: glosses: Before a markup (increase in price).
snerk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: snrk
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: Expressing amusement; a snicker, or a snort of laughter.
snerk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snerks
form: snerking
form: snerked
form: snerked
form: snrk
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To snicker or snort with laughter to express amusement.
gruft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: a gruft that adheres to the grass in wet weather
glosses: The particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.
tourte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourtes
Etymology: French tourte
Senses: examples: text: Make a Godiveaux farce as for the tourte under that name; cut the fillet of a neck of mutton into thin slices, and a few onions in the same manner; put some of the Godiveaux in the bottom of the pie, then some of the mutton, and slices of onions upon it, […]
ref: 1812, B. Clermont, The Professed Cook (page 371)
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of French pie.
sunkenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sunkenly
form: most sunkenly
Etymology: From sunken + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sunken way.
bibliolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliolatries
Etymology: From biblio- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: Excessive admiration for a book.
examples: text: the danger of bibliolatry is only too apparent in the contemptuous references often made by Christian authorities to the uselessness of pagan literature since access to the Bible had been secured by the Church.
ref: 1909, James Allanson Picton, Man and the Bible: A Review of the Place of the Bible in Human History, page 270:
text: Bibliolatry led to a phobia about swearing; rejection of the Bible made it possible again, and with it a release of the repressions which gave the Puritan middle class their moral energy.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 164:
text: The exponents of bibliolatry rely on the letter and make the spirit dependent on the letter
ref: 1972, John Hoyles, The edges of Augustanism: the aesthetics of spirituality in Thomas Ken, John Byrom and William Law, page 97:
text: they are also committing "bibliolatry" by putting the Bible where God alone belongs
ref: 1991, Moisés Silva, God, language, and Scripture: reading the Bible in the light of general linguistics, page 38:
text: "bibliolatry" (the fundamentalist insistence on the literal truth of "the Bible as the Word of God")
ref: [1992, Frederick Burwick, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, page 68:
text: Some sectors of the religious world have been accused […] of "bibliolatry," that is, valuing their Bible itself so highly that they are almost guilty of idolatry.
ref: 2008, Michael J. Cook, Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-being in a Christian Environment, page 267:
related: word: Bibliolatry
glosses: Specifically, excessive reverence for, or worship of, the Bible or Qur'an, especially as taken literally.
Derived terms: bibliolater
bibliolatric
bibliolatrical
bibliolatrist
bibliolatrous
deliriants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deliriant
snerks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snerk
snerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snerk
snerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snerk
proudness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proudnesses
Etymology: From Middle English proudnes, proudnesse, equivalent to proud + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Pride.
vacuä
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuüm
weewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weewees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wee-wee.
weewee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weewees
form: weeweeing
form: weeweed
form: weeweed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wee-wee.
weewees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weewee
souplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more souplike
form: most souplike
Etymology: From soup + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling soup; soupy.
finitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From finite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, some logical principles no longer apply, including Aristotle’s theorem of the excluded middle, according to which a mathematical statement is always either true or false. In finitism, a statement can be indeterminate at a certain point in time if the value of a number has not yet been determined. For example, with statements that revolve around numbers such as 0.999..., if you carry out the full period and consider an infinite number of 9’s, the answer becomes 1. But if there is no infinity, this statement is simply wrong.
ref: 2025 August 4, Manon Bischoff, “Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An extreme form of constructivism, according to which a mathematical object does not exist unless it can be constructed from natural numbers in a finite number of steps.
Derived terms: finitist
ultrafinitism
finitist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finitists
Etymology: From finite + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of finitism.
finitist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more finitist
form: most finitist
Etymology: From finite + -ist.
Senses: examples: Primitive recursive arithmetic, or PRA, is a quantifier-free formalization of the natural numbers. It was first proposed by Skolem as a formalization of his finitist conception of the foundations of arithmetic, and it is widely agreed that all reasoning of PRA is finitist. Many also believe that all of finitism is captured by PRA, but others believe finitism can be extended to forms of recursion beyond primitive recursion, up to ε₀, which is the proof-theoretic ordinal of Peano arithmetic. PRA's proof theoretic ordinal is ω^ω, where ω is the smallest transfinite ordinal. PRA is sometimes called Skolem arithmetic.ᵂᴾ
glosses: Of or relating to finitism.
finitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finitist
ultrafinitist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrafinitists
Etymology: From ultrafinitism + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of ultrafinitism.
ultrafinitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrafinitist
ultrafinitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + finitism.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A form of finitism that is even more extreme in that it denies those constructs whose construction cannot be physically performed (such as a number that no human could have time to calculate).
Synonyms: ultraintuitionism
unechoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + echoing.
Senses: glosses: That does not echo; echoless.
selachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈleɪkɪən/
Forms: form: more selachian
form: most selachian
form: selacian
Etymology: From the (disused) genus name Selache, from Latin selachē, from the plural of Ancient Greek σέλαχος (sélakhos, “shark”).
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 4-10 shows crude apparatus which was used to make rough measurements of the vertical forces produced by selachian tails.
ref: 1981, R. McNeill Alexander, The Chordates, page 104:
text: Telling selachian sharks apart from batoid skates and rays is relatively easy (with some exceptions noted below), but telling skates (rajiforms) apart from rays (myliobatiforms) can be more challenging.
ref: 2014, Gene Helfman, George H. Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, page 8:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to (what is now classified as) the superorder Selachimorpha or division Selachii, comprising the sharks; or, sometimes more broadly, to the subclass Elasmobranchii, including sharks, rays and related species.
examples: text: These two tours had whetted the colonies' appetite for Royal visits, and by the turn of the century that appetite was positively selachian.
ref: 1963, Walkabout, volume 29, page 12:
text: Leary frowned and then smiled his selachian smile.
ref: 2007, Edward Docx, Pravda, page 258:
glosses: Sharklike.
selachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈleɪkɪən/
Forms: form: selachians
form: selacian
Etymology: From the (disused) genus name Selache, from Latin selachē, from the plural of Ancient Greek σέλαχος (sélakhos, “shark”).
Senses: examples: text: However, some selachians enter freshwater and a few, like the stingray Paratrygon motoro, are even restricted to freshwater.
ref: 1999, William C Hamlett, editor, Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes, page 300:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism of the superorder Selachimorpha or subclass Elasmobranchii; an extant shark (or related species).
echoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echoers
Etymology: From echo + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, echoes or repeats something back.
echoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echoer
echoingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more echoingly
form: most echoingly
Etymology: From echoing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The building is deserted. The door closes echoingly behind you.
glosses: In an echoing way.
trampish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmpɪʃ/
Forms: form: more trampish
form: most trampish
Etymology: From tramp + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.
ref: 1927, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 200, page 150:
glosses: Like a tramp (homeless person); scruffy.
Derived terms: trampishly
stoozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From stooze + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stooze
stoozing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stooze + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For the very sophisticated, there's a game called stoozing where you can get your own back on the banks and play the interest game.
ref: 2008, Martin Lewis, The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught, →ISBN, page 76:
text: "Stoozing isn't exactly a way to get rich," the student said. "That's why I just took one afternoon to go around and do it - because the profit isn't that much."
ref: 2009 March 20, Mark Price, “Student gets money for nothing from banks”, in Otago Daily Times:
text: They would be charged interest by others, or their interest-free loan could be used to gain a profit at interest (an Old Testament version of the modern-day practice of stoozing, in which money borrowed ona credit card at zero per cent introductory rate is invested for profit).
ref: 2010, Guy Brandon, Free to Live: Expressing the love of Christ in an age of debt, →ISBN:
text: Ultimately, the best cards for stoozing carry no fee on purchases for as long as possible.
ref: 2015 November 17, Amelia Murray, “Return of 'stoozing': how you can profit again from 0pc credit cards”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A form of arbitrage in which money is borrowed at an interest rate of 0% and invested elsewhere to make a profit until the borrowing period ends.
ultraintuitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + intuitionism.
Senses: glosses: Ultrafinitism.
ultraintuitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraintuitionists
Etymology: From ultra- + intuition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of ultraintuitionism; an ultrafinitist.
ultraintuitionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultraintuitionist
cyberglobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + globe.
Senses: examples: text: We are stuck with our bodies. Feminism, as a politics that is committed to theorizing the body as a site of resistance, must return from the cyberglobe to this problematic place.
ref: 2001, Zillah R Eisenstein, Manmade breast cancers:
text: Alternative sources of knowledge claims — no longer tied to professional qualifications — sprang up across the cyberglobe almost overnight […]
ref: 2008, Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives:
glosses: The cybersphere or cyberworld.
vocatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vocatively
form: most vocatively
Etymology: From vocative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Kinship terminology is reportedly not used vocatively in family II, whereas it is in family I (note that Kwaza has no vocative morpheme). It is by MA considered ugly to use the words for 'husband' and 'wife' vocatively.
ref: 2004, Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza, page 722:
glosses: In a vocative way.
evocativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evocative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being evocative
posthuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more posthuman
form: most posthuman
form: post-human
Etymology: From post- + human.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: transhuman (sometimes synonymous)
text: posthuman intelligence
text: Despite his title, Dr. Fukuyama has no taste for a rerun of history and believes a posthuman future is one to avoid.
ref: 2002 April 2, Nicholas Wade, “A Dim View of a ‘Posthuman Future’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: You could imagine this metropolis as an exemplary post-human city-state, run on A.I.—a twenty-first-century Athens—or as a gated community for the élite, a fortress against the coming chaos.
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
antonyms: prehuman#Adjective
glosses: Succeeding human beings as presently defined; more than, or beyond, what is human.
posthuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthumans
form: post-human
Etymology: From post- + human.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: transhuman (sometimes synonymous)
text: Well, Dr. Vinge said, it’s possible that artificial post-humans would use us the way we’ve used oxen and donkeys.
ref: 2008 August 26, John Tierney, quoting Vernor Vinge, “Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: prehuman#Noun
glosses: A supposed being of this kind.
Related terms: infrahuman
inhuman
nonhuman
posthumanism
posthumanity
subhuman
superhuman
suprahuman
ultrahuman
unhuman
posthumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthuman
tardies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tardy
tardies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tardy
cenancestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cenancestors
Etymology: From cen- + ancestor.
Senses: examples: text: If Gram-positive Bacteria and Archaea did diverge first from the cenancestor, then it would be reasonable to assume that these groups should be monophyletic.
ref: 2000, Fergus G. Priest, Michael Goodfellow (editors), Applied Microbial Systematics, page 35:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: concestor
last common ancestor
last universal ancestor
last universal common ancestor
LCA
LUA
LUCA
glosses: The last ancestor common of two or more lineages, especially the last universal common ancestor of all life.
couvade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kuːˈvɑːd/
/kuːˈvæd/
Forms: form: couvades
Etymology: From French couvade (“brooding”).
Senses: glosses: A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
glosses: Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.
upper-crust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upper-crust
form: most upper-crust
form: upper crust
Senses: examples: text: An upper-crust London party.
text: They're aiming for a more upper-crust clientele.
text: In 1986, Takako Doi was elected leader of the Japan Socialist Party; another woman is the president of Takashimaya, Japan's most upper-crust department store chain.
ref: 1989, Roy Thomas, Japan: The Blighted Blossom, page 172:
text: But Prentice had grown up richer and more upper-crust than Richard had any idea of.
ref: 1993, Alice Adams, Almost Perfect, published 1998, page 192:
text: Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.
ref: 2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: That was another story, and the retirees who frequented the relatively lowbrow kino Ridge were more likely than the more upper-crust folks at Amado or Rio Rico to shut up and pay their fines than they were to hire criminal defense attorneys.
ref: 2012, J. A. Jance, Left for Dead, page 43:
text: “You ever see the movie Spotlight?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”
ref: 2023 August 10, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “Urgent Care” (11:58 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 6, spoken by John Slattery (John Slattery):
glosses: Posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.
Related terms: high on the hog
labefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of labefy
labefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labefy
summeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From summery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being summery.
Dublinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dublin + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist.
ref: 1972, Hélène Cixous, The exile of James Joyce:
text: When Beckett arrived one of the first surprises was his Dublin accent; but Lennon was also somewhat taken aback by the idiomatic Dublinese of his discourse...
ref: 1999, Anthony Cronin, Isaac Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist:
text: Neighbours would strain to hear if the fast passionate arguments were being conducted in Italian or high-speed Dublinese.
ref: 2002, Sarah Hartley, Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map:
text: ...he found her flat Dublinese as difficult to navigate, but by the end of that night language had lost meaning...
ref: 2008, Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd:
glosses: The dialect spoken in Dublin.
creative writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke, she had the good fortune to take a creative-writing class at nearby Hampshire College with James Baldwin, who suggested she try playwriting, and, even though she feared he was just trying to politely steer her away from prose, she did.
ref: 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The art of writing texts such as novels, short stories and poems which fall outside the bounds of professional, journalistic, academic and technical discourse.
glosses: Such texts generally.
dichoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Widely separated near the top of the head
raw_tags: of eyes
Derived terms: dichoptically
alelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alelike
form: most alelike
Etymology: From ale + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling ale or some aspect of it.
hypotaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + taurine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino sulfinic acid that is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of taurine
ascariasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Forms: form: ascariases
Etymology: From ascar- + -iasis.
Senses: glosses: A disease of humans caused by the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides in humans and by other species of Ascaris in other mammals.
Hypernyms: helminthiasis
ice pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice pops
Senses: glosses: A snack made of frozen juice on a stick; an ice lolly or popsicle.
glosses: A frozen snack consisting of flavoured ice in a tube; a freeze pop.
Synonyms: sense: frozen juice on a stick
word: popsicle
equal-interval chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equal-interval chord
unprintably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprintably
form: most unprintably
Etymology: From unprintable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprintable way; obscenely.
unprintables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unprintable
freezie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freezies
Etymology: From freeze + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A frozen snack consisting of flavoured ice in a tube; a freezepop.
undirected path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undirected paths
Senses: examples: A path x→y←z is an undirected path.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a directed graph, a path in which the edges are not all oriented in the same direction.
printability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printabilities
Etymology: From print + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being printable, or of being a suitable ink or paper for use in printing.
Synonyms: printableness
printabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printability
unprintability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unprintable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unprintable.
Synonyms: unprintableness
directed path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directed paths
Senses: examples: A path x→y→z is a directed path.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a directed graph, a path in which the edges are all oriented in the same direction.
World Turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: World Turtles
form: world turtle
Senses: examples: text: In the underworld beneath the lid on the back of the world turtle, where the god Batara Kala and the goddess Setesuyara lived, there was perpetual darkness.
ref: 1970, Hubert Sieben, Ian Fraser Grant, Bali: Morning of the World, page 6:
glosses: The mythical giant sea turtle or tortoise that upholds the World in various cosmologies.
peg it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pegs it
form: pegging it
form: pegged it
form: pegged it
Senses: glosses: To run away; to leg it; to scarper.
glosses: To die.
ELTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ELT
ephemerises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephemeris
OKDK
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊkeɪˈdiːkeɪ/
ipa: /ˌəʊkɪˈdəʊki/
Etymology: Near-reduplication of OK.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of okey-dokey.
surform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surforms
Etymology: Genericized trademark from a brand name, purportedly a blend of surface and form.
Senses: examples: text: This job calls for a surform.
text: This job calls for a surform file.
glosses: A tool with which one grates, rasps, planes, or shaves material, especially wood, to form its surface.
Related terms: grater
designoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From design + -oid. Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1996 in the book Climbing Mount Improbable.
Senses: glosses: That came up by accident but appears to be designed.
designoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designoids
Etymology: From design + -oid. Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1996 in the book Climbing Mount Improbable.
Senses: glosses: A designoid object.
biotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotoxin
biosimilars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosimilar
bitruncations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitruncation
bodychecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodycheck
bodychecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bodycheck
bodychecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bodycheck
bodychecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bodycheck
circumnavigators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumnavigator
click-throughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of click-through
clickthroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickthrough
coherentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coherentist
cohobations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohobation
coinheritances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinheritance
coletas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleta
coelurosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelurosaur
expertize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkspətaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛkspɚtaɪz/
ipa: /ˈekspətɑez/
ipa: /ˈekspətaɪz/
ipa: [ˈekspətɑe̯z]
Forms: form: expertizes
form: expertizing
form: expertized
form: expertized
Etymology: From expert + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To act as an expert.
examples: text: Latour Latour, vibrant with outraged dignity, demanded that the painting be brought into court and expertized.
ref: 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 57:
glosses: To give an expert opinion on; to assess.
stresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stressers
Etymology: From stress + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stressor.
cafétéria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafétérias
Etymology: From French cafétéria.
Senses: examples: text: Monday evening May 5, is the date for the May Campus luncheon given annually by the Y. W. C. A. This is served in cafétéria style and is much enjoyed by the entire student body and many town people.
ref: 1913, Pi Beta Phi, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, volume 29, page 723:
text: Waiting in line for the cafétéria in the transit centres at Creteil, a southern suburb of Paris, is a 24-year-old chemistry student.
ref: 1979, Bruce Grant, The Boat People: An Age Investigation with Bruce Grant, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 172:
text: Residences, cafétérias
ref: 1999, Jeanne Lamoure-Rontopoulou, Evaluating Higher Education, UNESCO, →ISBN, page 95:
text: With the exception of cafétérias and self-service restaurants, most eateries take credit cards.
ref: 2000, Steve Fallon, Michael Rothschild, France, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 202:
text: Once inside and taking heed of the directions of their informative guide Rosemary, Charlotte turned her gaze from the wonderful display of leather handbags, gloves, and perfumes on the beauty counter and followed Daisy and the others onto the escalator going up to the cafétéria floor. / The selection of drinks in the cafétéria was extensive.
ref: 2013, Rosalie Marsh, Oranges: A Journey, Christal Publishing, →ISBN:
text: We now had the whole day on our hands, and we wandered aimlessly around the town until we found a cafétéria tucked away in a side alley near the town centre.
ref: 2015, Colin S. Story, After the Grape Harvest: Après les Vendanges, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, →ISBN:
text: French school cafétéria food is amazing with tasty, hot meals every day. To enter the cafétéria you have to put your hand into a fingerprint scanner. It checks whether you’ve paid for your lunches for the month. / Every year group enters the cafétéria at a different time and it rotates.
ref: 2016, Sam Pease, The Jet Project: A 600-day Global Ed-venture with My Son, Random House, →ISBN, “Jet’s Diary”:
glosses: Rare spelling of cafeteria.
clientèle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [klaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl]
ipa: /kliː.ɒnˈtɛl/
ipa: /klaɪ.ənˈtɛl/
ipa: [klaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl]
ipa: [klɑɪ.n̩ˈtel]
ipa: [kliː.n̩ˈtel]
Forms: form: clientèles
Etymology: Borrowed from French clientèle, ultimately from Latin cliēns (English client).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clientele.
Astrea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Astraea (“goddess”).
Assuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Aswan.
Aristide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Aristides
synonyms: Aristides
glosses: A male given name.
IgG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Immunoglobulin G.
Derived terms: pIgG
PIgG
PIIgG
UIgG
Related terms: Ig
IgA
IgM
pIg
pIgA
pIgG
pIgM
IgA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of immunoglobulin A.
Derived terms: pIgA
Related terms: Ig
IgG
IgM
pIg
pIgA
pIgG
pIgM
IgM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Immunoglobulin M.
Derived terms: pIgM
Related terms: Ig
IgA
IgG
pIg
pIgA
pIgG
pIgM
IgD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: immunoglobulin D
cordeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordeaux
Etymology: From French cordeau.
Senses: examples: text: The middle section of cordeau is attached (by means of a string) to a narrow lead plate, […]
ref: 1960, Basil Timothy Fedoroff, Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items, volume 3, page 312:
glosses: A detonating cord.