cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
criminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminators
Senses: glosses: One who criminates.
deliber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delibers
form: delibering
form: delibered
form: delibered
Senses: glosses: To deliberate.
Santa sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Santa sacks
Senses: glosses: A sack used for transporting Christmas presents.
Santa sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Santa sack
fanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.ləs/
ipa: /ˈfɛən.ləs/
Etymology: From fan + -less.
Senses: examples: text: fanless video card
text: It was a good solid house, fanless but airy.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 255:
glosses: Having no fan.
glosses: Having no fans (supporters).
genitrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genitrix
sandre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandres
Etymology: From French sandre, from German Zander. Doublet of zander.
Senses: glosses: zander, pikeperch (fish)
here you go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of here you are.
Related terms: here we go
augusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of august
augusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of august
platin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platins
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of platen.
platin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any platinum-based antineoplastic, of which class cisplatin is the archetypal member.
Hyponyms: cisplatin
carboplatin
nedaplatin
oxaliplatin
Derived terms: platinate
Itali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ancient Italic tribe.
checkered flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkered flags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chequered flag.
Legundi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra
Bunguran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small archipelago of Indonesia, located in the South China Sea
Banggai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: an archipelago located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Karakelong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the chief island of the Talaud Islands north east of Sulawesi, Indonesia
jinkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jinky: most jinky
jinkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jinky: more jinky
tichel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tichels
Etymology: From Yiddish טיכל (tikhl), compare German Tuch (“cloth”).
Senses: examples: text: She knew that even with the formless skirts extending to her ankles, the billowing blouses with sleeves reaching her wrists, and her hair covered by the tichel, men turned when they passed her on the street.
ref: 2003, Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope, Random House, →ISBN:
text: The tichel was compared to hijab with suggestions of how Muslim women might adapt it. The contributor ‘mama-star’ was enthusiastic about her discovery, pointing out how the Muslim blogger had talked about her ‘orthodox Jewish sisters’.
ref: 2013, Reina Lewis, Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: mitpachat
snood
shpitzel
glosses: A headscarf often worn by married orthodox Jewish women in compliance with the code of modesty known as tzniut, though individuals from other sects of Judaism also wear them depending on personal choice.
tichels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tichel
dislimned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dislimn
dislimned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dislimned
form: most dislimned
Senses: examples: text: the scent dried away like water, dislimned like a far-off small thing when the tears of effort drown it.
ref: 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 42:
glosses: Deprived of an outline; made indistinct, hazy.
close-stools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of close-stool
at gaze
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: When he wished to draw Harvey's attention to the peak-halyards, he dug his knuckles into the back of the boy's neck and kept him at gaze for half a minute.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
text: Lord John was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant-gun, his eager hunter's soul shining from his fierce eyes.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: They were prick-eared animals, roused by her voice from their business and standing now at gaze.
ref: 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 52:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Gazing; standing so as to stare (especially of deer); statant guardant. (Compare at bay.)
human year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human years
Senses: glosses: A regular calendar year, as opposed to a dog year or the "year" of any other animal species.
glosses: A unit of age relative to the species being considered, defined such that an animal's age in "human years" is the equivalent age of a human being in calendar years.
human years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of human year
VLSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of very large scale integration.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: WSI
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: IC
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: solid-state
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: chip
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: discrete component
ULSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of ultra large scale integration.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: WSI
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: IC
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: solid-state
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: chip
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: discrete component
Tamagotchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/
ipa: /ˌtɑməˈɡoʊt͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˌtɑməˈɡɑt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɒtʃi
Forms: form: Tamagotchis
form: tamagotchi
Etymology: A genericization of Tamagotchi, the name of a virtual pet series: the word is a Japanese blend of 卵 (たまご, tamago, “egg”) + ウオッチ (uotchi, from English watch).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tamagotchi.
glosses: A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.
wikipedia: Bandai
Tamagotchi
peccans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peccan
presbyterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyteria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin presbyterium. Doublet of presbytery.
Senses: examples: text: Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
ref: 1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:
topics: architecture
glosses: A presbytery.
glosses: A college of priests in active ministry of a particular Catholic church; a diocese, eparchy, or similar group of priests.
presbyteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presbyterium
hosels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosel
duck soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck soup
pruritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pruritus.
resipiscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resipiscent
form: most resipiscent
Senses: glosses: Showing resipiscence; right-minded; repentant.
Ladislaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Ladislaus, Latinization of a Slavic royal name *Voldislavъ, from the elements Proto-Slavic *voldь (“power”) (see *volděti) and Proto-Slavic *slava (“glory”). Doublet of Laszlo and Vladislav.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
Ktulu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cthulhu.
triturator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triturators
Etymology: From triturate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device for triturating.
Adrians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Adrian
runcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runcations
Senses: examples: text: Then, having given it a second stirring, immediately before you sow; cast and disperse it into rills, or small narrow trenches, of four or five inches deep, and in even lines, at two foot interval, for the more commodious runcation, hawing, and dressing the trees: […]
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: The object of this harrowing or raking was simply in order that the weeds might be more easily eradicated ; but it is a question whether the good it did in facilitating the "runcation" (or hand-weeding) was greater than the injury it inflicted by bruising and tearing the corn.
ref: 1855 July, The Farmer's magazine:
text: Even swine have been known so to feed ; and, further, by their constant runcation among whatever lies on the ground, suggest impurity, even if they were not generally foul feeders.
ref: 1865, William Smith, editor, A concise dictionary of the Bible:
glosses: The act of weeding by hand.
dillisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dulse.
ethic datives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethic dative
makeunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeunders
Etymology: Wordplay blend of makeover + under, replacing over with its opposite.
Senses: examples: text: While some women need a makeover to add makeup, some women need a makeunder to take it down a notch.
ref: 2011, Coni Masciave, Beauty Rehab: Your Guide to Feel Beautiful, Sexy, and Confident in Twenty-Eight Days, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 142:
text: The typical candidate for a makeunder is a woman who applies her makeup with too liberal a hand, styles her hair in a distracting or unattractive manner, or wears clothes that could be described as unflattering or over the top. The ideal candidate for a makeunder does all three of these simultaneously, mostly likely while upending a bottle of perfume into her cleavage.
ref: 2011 October 18, Anna Lefler, The Chicktionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: A makeover in which the quality, flashiness or value of something is downgraded.
makeunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makeunder
draw live
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws live
form: drawing live
form: drew live
form: drawn live
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: After the flop or turn, to be able to win a particular hand, depending on the remaining community cards.
raw_tags: of a player
Coordinate terms: draw dead
draw thin
osteogenesis imperfecta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: brittle bone disease
word: glass bone disease
word: OI
word: Vrolik's Syndrome
glosses: A hereditary disease characterized by brittle bones that easily fracture.
reverse jinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse jinx
yestertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + tide (“time, season, period”).
Senses: glosses: A time period previous to the present; the past.
Synonyms: foretime
yestertime
the past
yestertide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yester- + tide (“time, season, period”).
Senses: examples: text: And loudly to her lovers called, to leap To arms for her sore sake, that yestertide In her delight delighted, and drank deep Of her lascivious wine-cups, […]
ref: 1889, Alfred Austin, The Human Tragedy:
text: Fair cooling spray, oh, lovely sea! / How maiden coy thy changing mood; / To-night thou'rt sweet with smiles for me, / Scarce yestertide I vainly wooed / Thy fretful features for a smile, / Naught could for me one thought beguile.
ref: 1905, Dr. Frederick H. Williams, “Fair Cooling Spray, O Lovely Sea!”, in The Connecticut Magazine, volume 9, number 3, page frontispiece:
glosses: In times past, at a prior time; in the past.
Synonyms: beforehand
yestertime
formerly
at someone's service
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: John will be at our service for the duration of the visit.
glosses: Fully available to help or to be of use to someone, or some organisation.
examples: text: James Bond. At your service.
glosses: By way of introduction on first meeting another person.
at your service
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: 'My name, Madame, is Hercule Poirot - at your service.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 6, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 120:
text: “Thorin Oakenshield, at your service! Dori at your service!” said the two dwarves bowing again.
ref: 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
text: "Are you Ziba?" the king asked him. "At your service!" he answered.
ref: 2010, Common English Bible with Apocrypha, →ISBN:
glosses: Used as a polite introduction on first meeting another person.
examples: text: "But senors," added he, smiling, "if you think a residence there so desirable, my apartments in the Alhambra are at your service."
ref: 1832, Washington Irving, Talses of the Alhambra:
text: How you laughed when you admitted your lies to me, and I promised to make you sit one day and I would pretend to be your lover, bring you tea while you soaked in the bath, lightly scented raspberry candles at your feet, and declare in my deepest voice, My darling, your every wish, your every command is mine. I am at your service eternally.
ref: 2015, Priscila Uppal, At Your Service, →ISBN:
glosses: Available for assisting you or for you to use.
belligerati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of belligerent + literati which is also the plural of belligerātus.
Senses: examples: text: I am not, in this instance, referring to the belligerati - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and chums - ever-present in the liberal press on both sides of the Atlantic.
ref: 2005, Tariq Ali, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography Of The Sixties, page 19:
text: They are the belligerati who are given opinion columns and radio talkback programs; who are accorded the status of minor celebrities; and there can at times seem no end to the uniquely Australian cross of their public bullying
ref: 2011, Andrew Charlton, Man-Made World, page 88:
text: Since neoconservatives and the liberal belligerati have sought to appropriate these ideological resources on behalf of imperialism, aspects of this question will be examined in chapter 1.
ref: 2011, Richard Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism, page xviii:
glosses: Literary people, authors — literati — who promote wars of aggression.
yestertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yestertimes
Etymology: From yester- + time.
Senses: glosses: Time previous to the present; the past.
Synonyms: foretime
yestertide
the past
yestertime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yester- + time.
Senses: examples: text: And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime.
ref: 1920, Yoné Noguchi, Seen & unseen, or, Monologues of a homeless snail:
glosses: In times past, at a prior time; in the past.
Synonyms: beforehand
yestertide
formerly
service area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service areas
Senses: examples: text: The sign says that the next service area is 12 miles on.
glosses: A place built alongside a limited-access road where one can stop to buy fuel, refreshments, and so on.
Related terms: parking area
rest area
service areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service area
service charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service charges
Senses: glosses: An amount added to a bill in a restaurant, or other similar establishment, which is normally paid to the waiter or waitress.
glosses: A fee charged for a service, typically to cover administration or processing costs.
Synonyms: service fee
Related terms: handling charge
shipping and handling
service charges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service charge
service industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service industries
Senses: glosses: An industry that does not produce any goods, but only provides a service, such as banking or insurance.
service industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service industry
seek out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seeks out
form: seeking out
form: sought out
form: sought out
Etymology: From Middle English seken out, sechen out (“to seek out”), dissimilated from Middle English *outseken, outsechen (“to seek out”). More at outseek.
Senses: examples: text: At the head of the fiord, and along its sides, can still be seen the hulks of German destroyers and submarines. These sought shelter in this secluded spot, but the British Navy sought them out and sank them.
ref: 1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384:
text: Some of us order far more than we need online. Some of us are so deep in the countryside that delivery vans must divert their routes to seek us out.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: Ralph still seeks out physical release. Like Moses, he does his best thinking when he’s swimming. “I think challenging yourself physically is a great way of getting all the crap out of your head,” he said.
ref: 2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To try to locate; to search for.
Synonyms: forseek
hunt down
track down
yesterfang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + fang (“catch”).
Senses: examples: text: Although milians and infinite numbers of them [fish] be taken, yet on the next [day] their losse will be so supplied with new store that nothing shall be missing of the yesterfang.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
glosses: That which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.
see over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees over
form: seeing over
form: saw over
form: seen over
Senses: glosses: To inspect something fully.
sell on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells on
form: selling on
form: sold on
form: sold on
Senses: examples: text: Rather than sell the company's products on commission they, like distributors, buy stock from head office and sell it on for profit.
ref: 1994, Richard Welford, Kate Prescott, European business: an issue-based approach:
glosses: to resell.
examples: text: I was opposed to his ideas, but he sold me on them.
text: I have indeed been sold on renewable energy!
text: It made an impression, but it wasn’t enough to sell me on it. The cane stayed in storage. To me, it signified defeat, so I kept it out of sight at college, social events, job interviews — everywhere.
ref: 2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: To convince.
yestermorning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + morning.
Senses: examples: text: Where do the favourites delay? Nay, where is yestermorning's rose?
ref: 1897, Robert S. Littell, The living age: Volume 212:
glosses: Yesterday morning.
Synonyms: yestermorn
selling point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selling points
Senses: examples: text: With such powerful selling-points, why is it, as recent editorial comment and correspondence in this journal has revealed, that "Condor" has yet to bring a warm glow to the countenance of the L.M.R.'s accountants?
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 46:
text: So the main interest of the book (and its selling point, carefully highlighted in the blurbs) lies in the contradiction between the feminist ideals of equality and independence in relationships
ref: 1985, Mariana Valverde, Sex, power and pleasure:
text: March 25 1982, LA Times, One Last Time Around Ocean Boulevard Route
When the Long Beach Grand Prix was started in 1975 the major selling point was that Formula One cars would race down Ocean Blvd...
text: May 16 2003, CBS News, Renee Zellweger's '60s Flashback - The Early Show
But for Zellweger, the major selling point was the script. "It was such a great read," says the actress.
text: The unique selling point of the Dowty wagon control system is that it can both retard and accelerate wagons, and therefore remains the only 'total wagon control system' available for hump marshalling yards, even in 2021.
ref: 2021 June 2, Michael Rhodes, “Tinsley reborn...”, in RAIL, number 932, page 36:
topics: business
glosses: The property or characteristic of a good that most attracts purchasers.
soaking wet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: drenched
soaked to the bone
sopping wet
wet through
wringing wet
glosses: Extremely wet.
examples: text: I weigh one hundred eight pounds soaking wet, I work out because it's important to me to stay in shape, and I'm not half as fragile as you think I am.
ref: 2005, Terry Mejdrich, The Devil's Kettle:
glosses: As a maximum; at most.
raw_tags: of a person's weight
soaked to the skin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely wet.
Synonyms: drenched
soaking wet
wet through
send-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: send-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from send off.
Senses: examples: text: A send-off occurs when a player commits a serious violation and is ordered by the referee to leave the field for the rest of the game.
ref: 2009, Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, →ISBN, page 333:
text: Some of the players tried to heavy or sweet-talk the referee into reversing his decision, even as the threat of a send-off loomed.
ref: 2009, Shireen Lolesi, Wives and Girlfriends, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Dally had a running battle with the referee, who accused him of kneeing an opponent — though, given a punch was enough to earn a send-off, perhaps the official was unsure of what he saw as Dally was not asked to leave the field.
ref: 2011, Sean Fagan, Dally Messenger III, The Master, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A penalty for a serious infraction of the rules in which the player is ordered to leave for the rest of the game; red card
examples: text: The last regular steam-hauled passenger train between Glasgow and Helensburgh Central was given a fitting send-off from Queen Street Low Level at 11.2 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:
text: A great send-off at the station for Stanley.
ref: 1988, Charles Rey, Neil Parsons, Michael Crowder, Monarch of All I Survey: Bechuanaland Diaries, 1929-1937, →ISBN, page 180:
text: The medicine man gave the faithful animal a proper send-off into its next spiritual world.
ref: 2000, Chris Kiana, Alaska Crying Baby, →ISBN:
text: You say: you should have seen it, you should have seen the send-off, the cheering crowds following us to the train, everyone joyful, clapping and shouting, cheering us on, it was like a festival to the triumphant sound of the Marseillaise.
ref: 2011, Philippe Besson, In The Absence Of Men, →ISBN:
text: In that coast of send-offs and farewells, how did one more send-off matter?
ref: 2012, Binoo K. John, The Last Song Of Savio De Souza, →ISBN:
text: Now that he had given her the cheque from Sir John they could be a little more relaxed about giving Harry the send-off he merited.
ref: 2014, Mark Robertson, Off Key, →ISBN, page 314:
glosses: Alternative form of sendoff.
such and such
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of such-and-such.
such and such
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of such-and-such.
yesterseason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + season.
Senses: examples: text: Dared try fly, we, these impassible trees, whose drive-capturing crests communicate failed shots to yesterseason's leafy cache [...]
ref: 2009, Carlton Thurman, Caddie Esoterica:
text: The dried umbles of the Queen Anne's lace of yesterseason, [...]
ref: 1980, Vincent Gaston Dethier, The world of the tent-makers:
glosses: A past or prior season, last season; an earlier or previous period of time.
Related terms: yestertide
suicide bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide bombings
Senses: glosses: An attack carried out by a suicide bomber or a group of them.
yesk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yesks
form: yesking
form: yesked
form: yesked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yex.
stunt woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stunt women
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stuntwoman.
P'urhépecha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Purepecha.
yete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yetes
form: yeting
form: yeted
form: yote
form: yeted
form: yote
form: yoten
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yet ("to melt, found").
karter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karters
Etymology: From kart + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of karting.
entertainment center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entertainment centers
form: entertainment centre
Senses: examples: text: The first step in finding the right entertainment center is to measure your electronics—depth, width, and height.
ref: 2009, C. J. Petersen, Good Housekeeping Clutter Rescue!, page 131:
text: And if you want to go the whole route, a videodisc machine is certainly a welcome addition to any entertainment center.
ref: 1982 Dec, “Media Room: Entertainment Center in Your Home”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 158, number 6, page 86:
text: Over-all view of the author's home "entertainment center" which includes a TV set and bookshelves in addition to the amplifier and speaker enclosure.
ref: 1956, Radio & Television News: Volume 56, page 46:
glosses: A piece of furniture, usually composed of a shelves and possibly also including cabinets, used to house major electronic items used for entertainment, such as a television set, a VCR and/or DVD player, stereo components, and cable or satellite television receivers.
glosses: A location to which people congregate to be entertained by performances or amusing activities.
Related terms: breakfront
procuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procurations
Etymology: From Latin prōcūrātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of procuring; procurement.
glosses: The management of another's affairs.
glosses: The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
glosses: A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
Related terms: procure
entertainment centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entertainment center
lavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavements
Etymology: From French lavement, from laver (“to wash”).
Senses: glosses: A washing, a bathing.
glosses: An enema; a suppository.
lavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavement
obturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obturations
Etymology: From Latin obtūrātiō. Compare French obturation.
Senses: examples: text: Deaf by an outward obturation.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
text: None of Mr. Knott's gestures could be called characteristic, unless perhaps that which consisted in the simultaneous obturation of the facial cavities, the thumbs in the mouth, the forefingers in the ears, the little fingers in the nostrils, the third fingers in the eyes and the second fingers, free in a crisis to promote intellection, laid along the temples.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The process of a bullet expanding under pressure to fit the bore of the firearm, or a cartridge case expanding under pressure to seal the chamber.
Derived terms: overobturation
underobturation
Related terms: obturate
obturative
colporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colporters
Etymology: Anglicization of colporteur, from French.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colporteur.
antiphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphrases
Senses: examples: text: [T]he first man came right up to me and held out his hand in the European manner of greeting, save only that it was the left hand instead of the right, and in an English the most mutilated and full of antiphrases I had ever heard said that he was my friend[.]
ref: 1946, Jack McLaren, The Oldest Inhabitants, quoted in An Australian Muster, page 10:
glosses: A word or phrase used in a sense that is different to its literal or usual meaning.
jacobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacobins
Etymology: From Jacobin, q.v. In reference to birds, via French jacobine, from a supposed resemblance to the Dominicans' formerly standard hood or coloring. In reference to soup, via French soupe à la Jacobine.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jacobin.
glosses: A domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) with reversed feathers on its neck.
glosses: Any hummingbird of the genus Florisuga.
glosses: A kind of thick French soup with cheese.
Synonyms: sense: pigeon
word: Jacobin
sense: pigeon
word: Jacobin pigeon
sense: pigeon
word: jacobin pigeon
sense: pigeon
word: jacobine
sense: pigeon
word: jacobine pigeon
suicide bombings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide bombing
send-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of send-off
selling points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selling point
sanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanity
jacobine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).
glosses: Synonym of jacobin, a breed of domestic pigeon.
synonyms: word: jacobin
extra: a breed of domestic pigeon
ambon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ambo.
embrine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrines
form: embrining
form: embrined
form: embrined
Etymology: From em- + brine.
Senses: glosses: To soak in brine.
tosses around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toss around
tossing around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toss around
tossed around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toss around
opéras comiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opéra comique
smear campaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smear campaign
mechanotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanotherapists
Etymology: From mechano- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: A therapist specialising in mechanotherapy
Related terms: mechanotherapeutic
mechanotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanotherapist
mechanotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to mechanotherapy
glosses: by means of mechanotherapy
gun lobbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gun lobby
hot pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot pot
planchettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planchette
requestes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requeste
sandres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandre
procurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procuration
obturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obturation
ambons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambon
unrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrates
form: unrating
form: unrated
form: unrated
Etymology: From un- + rate.
Senses: examples: text: I'm annoyed that Netflix won't let me unrate that movie.
glosses: To remove the rating from something.
betwattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betwattle
Chandlerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chandlerish
form: most Chandlerish
Etymology: From Chandler + -ish, after writer Raymond Chandler.
Senses: examples: text: […] Polanski has been completing with the writer Robert Towne the script for his new movie, a Chandlerish detective story of the thirties, "Chinatown" […]
ref: 1973, The New York Times biographical service, volume 4, New York Times & Arno Press, page 1518:
text: Broadbent's smoky, sultry originals "The Long Goodbye" and "Lady In The Lake" uphold the album's Chandlerish spirit.
ref: 1992 August 15, Billboard, volume 104, number 33, page 57:
text: These include Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One (19867) [sic] which covers Bruce Wayne’s (and Jim Gordon’s) first weeks on the streets, in a Chandlerish tale of crooked cops and a rotten city […]
ref: 1997 The BFI companion to crime, Volume 1997, Part 2, University of California Press, p44
glosses: Resembling the work of author Raymond Chandler in style or theme
Chandlerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chandlerisms
Etymology: From Chandler + -ism, after writer Raymond Chandler.
Senses: examples: text: As Rigby Reardon, Steve Martin easily mimics the patented Hollywood tough guy of the period, dangling a cigarette from one side of his mouth while distorting a Chandlerism from the other.
ref: 1982, The Review of the news, volume 18:
text: I'm especially struck with the way you turn the Chandlerism, the colorful unlikely metaphor or simile, into legitimate novelistic indication of character, rather than trick writing for its own sake.
ref: 1999 Anthony Boucher, letter to Kenneth Millar, published in Tom Nolan (1999) Ross Macdonald: a biography, p114
text: The funny thing is, Chandler would come up with a good image, pictorial, and like I said I would come up with a Chandlerism, as it were.
ref: 2002, Film noir reader 3: interviews with filmmakers of the classic noir period, Limelight, page 110:
glosses: A passage of writing or dialogue that uses vivid and lyrical metaphors or similes, characteristic of the work of writer Raymond Chandler.
Fu Manchu moustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fu Manchu moustaches
form: Fu Manchu mustache
Etymology: Associated with Fu Manchu, the villain in a series of novels written by Sax Rohmer in the first half of the 20th century.
Senses: glosses: A long, thin, drooping mustache.
wikipedia: Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu moustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fu Manchu moustache
Fu Manchu mustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fu Manchu mustache
inextensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being inextensible
polyspectra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyspectrum
polyspectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyspectra
Etymology: From poly- + spectrum.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A higher-order spectrum of a multivariate stationary time series
interbinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + binary.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Between the components of a binary star.
faxed star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faxed stars
form: fixed star
form: faxed-star
Etymology: From Middle English faxed sterre, from Old English feaxede steorra (“comet”, literally “maned star”), equivalent to faxed (“having hair, hairy”) + star, from the tail appearing as though the star had hair.
Senses: examples: text: The difference between true and false glory is elegantly illustrated by Milton in his description of Satan, who, falling, was defigured from a star of high magnitude into a faxed star, whose meteoric flash soon fades, […]
ref: 2009, Harry Alfred Long, Personal and Family Names:
glosses: A comet; meteor.
faxed-star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faxed-stars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of faxed star.
faxed stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faxed star.
domite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Puy-de-Dôme, where it is found, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A greyish variety of trachyte.
tania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannier
form: tanier
form: tannia
form: tanya
Etymology: From Tupian.
Senses: examples: text: Most research on Colocasia esculenta has been done on taro (C. esculenta var. esculenta), which is grown in Hawaii, the Pacific islands and the Philippines, where it is an important staple food. Assumptions about the development of eddoe have to be based on extrapolations from taro, which belongs to the same species but is grown for the main corm, or from tania (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) …. However, eddoe, taro and tania differ in their morphology and duration of growing period.
ref: 1994, H Waaijenberg and E. Aguilar, Production and Partitioning of Dry Matter in Eddoe (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum) (Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE), page 3
glosses: New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).
glosses: Taro.
unrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrate
unrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrate
exhonorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Through false association with honor (as the verb can mean something like “restore someone’s honor”).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exonerate.
ironiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironisers
form: ironizer
Etymology: From ironise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who speaks ironically
insume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insumes
form: insuming
form: insumed
form: insumed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin insumere; prefix in- (“in”) + sumere (“to take”).
Senses: examples: text: insume blood
glosses: To take in; to absorb.
legitimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of legitimacy.
marcesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marcesce
marcesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marcesces
form: marcescing
form: marcesced
form: marcesced
Senses: glosses: To become or be marcescent.
intactivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of intact + activism.
Senses: glosses: The advocacy of the right to genital integrity, i.e., the right of a person to not be subjected to involuntary, nontherapeutic modification of their genitals.
Related terms: intactivist
male circumcision
female circumcision
intersex
ambiguous genitalia
Ebenezer Scrooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ebenezer Scrooges
Etymology: After the character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Senses: glosses: A scrooge; a miser.
Synonyms: Scrooge
tineae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinea
tineas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinea
faydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fay (“fairy”) + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, Household words:
text: He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom.
ref: 1998, George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz:
glosses: The realm or sphere of faerie.
faydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fay (“fated, doomed”) + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feydom.
feydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faydom
Etymology: From fey + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?
ref: 2005, John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet:
glosses: The state of being fey or doomed.
Romeo and Juliet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Romeo & Juliet
Etymology: From a tragedy, written by Shakespeare, about two young lovers named Romeo and Juliet whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike cynical you, however, I do believe a Romeo and Juliet love is possible.
ref: 1996, Katherine Stone, Rainbows, page 73:
text: We all married—well, most of us married—for love, for some version of Sinatra and Casablanca love, for a love that would light up our lives and cast out fear, for a Romeo and Juliet love (except with a better ending), for a love that the poet John Donne once wrote "makes one little room an everywhere."
ref: 2008, Judith Viorst, Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know, page 6:
glosses: A pair of lovers, particularly if they are young, visibly enamored, and come from families or groups that are on opposing sides of a dispute.
Derived terms: Romeo and Juliet clause
Romeo and Juliet couple
Romeo and Juliet-esque
Romeo and Juliet law
queens of spades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queen of spades
jacks of spades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack of spades
kings of spades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king of spades
Shebrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shebrews
Etymology: Blend of she- + Hebrew, the latter jocularly analysed as he- + -brew.
Senses: glosses: A female Hebrew.
Synonyms: word: Hebrewess
Shebrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shebrew
embrace, extend and extinguish
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Formerly used internally by Microsoft. First described outside Microsoft in a 1996 New York Times article entitled "Microsoft Trying to Dominate the Internet".
Senses: glosses: A strategy of marketing that involves extending widely used standards of product categories with proprietary capabilities, and then using the differences to disadvantage its competitors.
Synonyms: EEE
Hansel and Gretel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A German fairy tale, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812, about the siblings named Hansel and Gretel who are threatened by a cannibalistic witch who lives in a house made of cake and bread.
NYE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Year's Eve.
Coordinate terms: NYD