cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
superstardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superstar + -dom or super- + stardom.
Senses: examples: text: Eminem: A normal life is boring, but superstardom’s close to post mortem.
ref: 2002 October 28, Marshall Mathers III et al., “Lose Yourself”, Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile, Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records
text: Boasting thirteen years in the drag industry, Saki [Yew] once took a hiatus to pursue a dance career. Now, she’s back, back, back and ready to be catapulted to superstardom to serve “looks, sass and a dulled down Australian accent”.
ref: 2024 September 12, Sam Damshenas, “‘A new direction for the franchise’: Drag Race UK stars on “mind-blowing” season 6”, in Gay Times:
glosses: The status or position of a superstar.
hooliganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhu.lɪ.ɡən.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: hooliganisms
Etymology: From hooligan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Only one [tomb] stone was damaged (the Scaife one), and this took place on Friday, March 2, 1951, as a result of hooliganism on the part of two boys.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: Bromsgrove Tombstone Damaged”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
glosses: unruly, aggressive behavior; behavior associated with hooligans
Derived terms: football hooliganism
white ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white ants
Etymology: From white + ant, reflecting a superficial resemblance to the ant.
Senses: examples: text: The most important point in the work of the white ant remains to be noted. I have already said that the white ant is never seen.
ref: 1885 October, Henry Drummond, “The White Ant: A Theory”, in Popular Science Monthly, page 741:
text: The most voracious cable-muncher in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Australia is the termite, or white ant, which eats through both lead and polythene sheathings.
ref: 1971 June 3, “Technology Review: Spoiling the termite′s dinner”, in New Scientist, page 573:
text: 1990 December 13, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page D.3,
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy to hear that the hon. Member appreciates the fact that white ants cause a lot [of] destruction in his area. There is very little we can do about white ants.
text: White ants destroy living plants by removing the epidermal layers, effectively ‘ringbarking’ the subject.
ref: 1995, Bill Sheat, Gerald Schofield, Complete Gardening in Southern Africa, page 424:
text: Our house was built on a hard ferruginous conglomerate, in order to be out of the way of the white ant, but they came in despite the precaution;[…].
ref: 2010, David Livingstone, “15: Conversations on Rain-Making”, in Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, editors, Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation, page 246:
coordinate_terms: black ant
red ant
glosses: A termite.
existant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of existent.
reduplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reduplicate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The loss of the reduplicative syllable in the perfect is sufficiently accounted for by the same occurrence in almost all the modern, and even some of the ancient branches of the Indo-Germanic family.
ref: 1848, Chevalier Bunsen, Charles Meyer, Max Müller, Three Linguistic Dissertations:
text: A hyphen (-) is generally used to indicate the boundary between the components of ordinary and reduplicative compounds in derivational morphology.
ref: 2004, Jean Robert Opgenort, A Grammar of Wambule:
glosses: Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double
Derived terms: reduplicative paramnesia
reduplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reduplicatives
Etymology: From reduplicate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech; in contrast, in English reduplicatives are much less frequent and often involve phoneme modulation (ding-dong; wham-bam).
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word obtained by the process of reduplication.
slip-case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slip-cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slip case.
slip case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slip cases
form: slip-case
Senses: examples: text: for, if there should appear a pocket-book, which may be drawn up by a riband from its slip case . . . the child would seize upon these with delight.
ref: 1835, Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education:
text: 2003 Miriam A. Drake - Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
If a noble book suggests the need of a noble binding, consider a chemise inserted into a tastefully decorated slip case, leaving the book in its original state.
glosses: A removable protective covering for a book etc
brain cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain clouds
Senses: examples: text: For three weeks she lay on her bed of death ; and one morning, being still in the same brain-cloud, still wondering why her husband did not come to her . . .
ref: 1880, Walter Besant, The seamy side:
text: 1998 Kate F. Hays - Integrating Exercise, Sports, Movement, and Mind
He continued to experience "brain cloud" when we discussed her and had difficulty accessing any emotion related to her.
text: "Okay, okay, I must have had a brain cloud or something. I'm sorry, I'm just a dumb country girl. Y'all go away and let me cook."
ref: 2005, T. L. Vance, The Third Son:
coordinate_terms: brain fog
glosses: The temporary inability to think properly, or to remember something.
peroxyacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: acetone peroxide
gabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabblers
Etymology: From gabble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To Bradly, Podson was a minor pub gabbler out of a hundred such. He had boozed away an evening with Podson because he was an attendant parasite on Doctor Ramsey.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.
Synonyms: chatterer
jabberer
gaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæfl̩/
rhymes: -æfəl
Forms: form: gaffles
Etymology: From Middle English gaffolle, a borrowing from Middle Dutch gaffel, gafel (“fork”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”), related to Old English gafol, ġeafel (“fork”).
Senses: glosses: A lever used to bend a crossbow.
examples: text: These birds, having been some time previous bereft of the weapons nature designed for their defence, are now fornished with gaffles, or artificial spurs, each of which is a polished steel blade , about three inches in length, half an inch wide at the base, curved slightly upwards, sharp at the point and on the upper edge, and firmly fastened to the leg by means of a clasp.
ref: 1860, George Palmer Putnam, Popping the Question: And Other Tales, page 295:
text: One sits with a harp at his lord's feet; another tames the wild hawk and trains him, teaches him with his little gaffles till the Welsh bird becomes docile.
ref: 1880, Frederick Metcalfe, The Englishman and the Scandinavian, page 169:
text: Conkling and Me Too Platt, by putting the gaffles into President Garfield, ruptured the Republican party from narrative to neckband, and the Democrats won in a walk.
ref: 1906, William Cowper Brann, Brann, the Iconoclast, page 319:
glosses: A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively).
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired.
glosses: a fork in an orienteering race.
gaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæfl̩/
rhymes: -æfəl
Forms: form: gaffles
form: gaffling
form: gaffled
form: gaffled
Etymology: From Middle English gaffolle, a borrowing from Middle Dutch gaffel, gafel (“fork”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”), related to Old English gafol, ġeafel (“fork”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, sword or dagger, human arms are but artifical claws and fangs, tied on like false spurs to the fighting cock. So, we repeat, Oberlus, czar of the isle, gaffles his four subjects; that is, with intent of glory, puts four rusty cutlasses into their hands.
ref: 1854, Herman Melville., The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles:
text: Blood doth not follow the law of the mountain stream, by getting more muddy as it descends; neither are men and women of the nature of the gaffled cocks we use to fight at the mains on the Inch of Perth, which send down their fighting propensities to the tenth gallinaccous generation.
ref: 1889, J. M. Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, page 39:
text: He earned my contempt by carrying a pistol and drawing it on Senator Benton (known to be unarmed) in the Chamber, like a gaffled fowl in a cock-pit waiting provocation.
ref: 1891, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, Men and Events of Forty Years, page 62:
text: Gentlemen took great interest in the management of the cock, the skill of gaffling, the science of feeding and grooming, and the expertness in handling the fowl.
ref: 2003, Jennie Holliman, American Sports, 1785-1835, page 126:
glosses: To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon.
glosses: to include a gaffle in an orienteering race.
nitriloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amygdalin; vitamin B17
vitamin B17
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₁₇
Senses: glosses: pseudoscientific name for the toxic chemical laetrile, commonly used to falsely market it as a vitamin
sodbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodbusters
Etymology: From sod + buster.
Senses: glosses: An agricultural laborer or farmer who breaks up the land, as with a plough.
Derived terms: sodbuster plough
Related terms: sodbusting
by chance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I stumbled across the exit by chance.
text: [...] Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself, I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: Unexpectedly, accidentally; without foreplanning.
examples: text: Are you by chance looking for the exit?
text: If by chance you notice the fine, almost sweet maltiness of the aroma, and the brisk, dry, mineral quality of the flavors, even better.
ref: 2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times:
synonyms: by any chance
glosses: Possibly; perhaps.
Derived terms: Come By Chance
scandium-45
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the only stable isotope of scandium, ⁴⁵₂₁Sc, having twenty-one protons and twenty-four neutrons
scandia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: scandium oxide
Scandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæn.di.ə/
rhymes: -ændiə
Etymology: + -ia. See Scandinavia, Scania.
Senses: glosses: Scandinavia
glosses: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A city and town in Kansas, United States.
glosses: A city in Minnesota, United States.
Derived terms: Scandia Valley
ergasiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An irrational fear of being able to work properly, especially that of a surgeon being able to operate.
titania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of titanium dioxide.
synonyms: word: titanium dioxide
titaniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more titaniferous
form: most titaniferous
Etymology: From titano + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Containing or yielding titanium.
raw_tags: of an ore
titanious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to titanium, especially when in a +3 oxidation state; titanous.
titanium-46
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of titanium, ⁴⁶₂₂Ti, having twenty-two protons and twenty-four neutrons; it amounts to about 8% of the element in nature
Related terms: titanium-47
titanium-48
titanium-49
titanium-50
titanium-47
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of titanium, ⁴⁷₂₂Ti, having twenty-two protons and twenty-five neutrons; it amounts to about 7% of the element in nature.
Related terms: titanium-46
titanium-48
titanium-49
titanium-50
titanium-48
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of titanium, ⁴⁸₂₂Ti, having twenty-two protons and twenty-six neutrons; it amounts to about 74% of the element in nature
Related terms: titanium-46
titanium-47
titanium-49
titanium-50
titanium-49
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of titanium, ⁴⁹₂₂Ti, having twenty-two protons and twenty-seven neutrons; it amounts to about 5% of the element in nature
Related terms: titanium-46
titanium-47
titanium-48
titanium-50
titanium-50
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of titanium, ⁵⁰₂₂Ti, having twenty-two protons and twenty-eight neutrons; it amounts to about 5% of the element in nature
Related terms: titanium-46
titanium-47
titanium-48
titanium-49
titano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Combined with titanium
Derived terms: titanocolumbate
titanocyanide
titanofluoride
titanomagnetite
titanoniobate
titanosilicate
Related terms: titanotherium
titanium sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Crude titanium metal that has not yet been refined or forged
titanocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: dicyclopentadienyl titanium; a divalent radical of similar structure to ferrocene
Derived terms: titanocene dicarbonyl
titanocene dichloride
dicyclopentadienyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + cyclopentadienyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two cyclopentadienyl radicals in a molecule
Related terms: dicyclopentadiene
metallocene
varlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varlet
fitted cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fitted caps
Senses: glosses: A baseball cap that is not elasticated or adjustable at the back.
Synonyms: sense: a type of cap
word: cap
baseball cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl ˌkæp/
ipa: /ˈbeɪs.bɔl ˌkæp/
ipa: /ˈbeɪs.bɑl ˌkæp/
Forms: form: baseball caps
Senses: examples: text: There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
ref: 2002, The Libertines, “Time for Heroes”, in Up the Bracket:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A cap with a rounded crown and a curved, stiffened bill at the front.
Related terms: baseball
rally cap
trucker hat
omittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omittances
Etymology: From omit + -ance.
Senses: examples: , III.v
I marvel why I answer'd not again;
But that's all one: omittance is no quittance.
glosses: The act of omitting something; omission.
adultress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adultresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adulteress.
daddio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daddios
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of daddy-o.
adultresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adulteresses
Senses: glosses: plural of adultress
apimania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin apis (“bee”) + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Cesi's Lincean bees made a spectacular impression and contributed greatly to the apimania that gripped the Rome of Urban VIII.
ref: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (volume 40, page 216)
glosses: An excessive interest in bees.
epicedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicede
glosses: plural of epicedium
epomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Epomania characterized the eighteenth century; and although admirable efforts were expended by the Romantic poets in the next, century, there were no epicists who could stand the test of time as Milton and his predecessors had.
ref: 1980, Clementine Christos Rabassa, Demetrio Aguilera-Malta and social justice: The tertiary phase of epic tradition in Latin American literature:
glosses: rage or passion for writing epics
hypnotizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypnotiz(e) + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The hypnotizability of people varies.
glosses: the ability to be hypnotized
Related terms: hypnosis
hypnotism
hypnotist
hypnotize
adulteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adultresses
Senses: glosses: plural of adulteress
'Auhelawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Auhelawa.
Adzera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acira
form: Atsera
form: Atzera
form: Azera
Senses: glosses: An Oceanic Austronesian language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Adzera terms
word: azr ⁠
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=adz
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsu
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsa
word: Note: On 1
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=adz
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word: 14
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word: 2008
english: new code adz
translation: new code adz
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=adz
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsu
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsa
word: SIL International split the ISO 639-3 classification into three separate languages: Adzera
alt: zsu
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=adz
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsu
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word: Sukurum
alt: zsa
urls: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=adz
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsu
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zsa
word: and Sarasira
biller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: billers
Etymology: From bill + -er.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An issuer of a bill.
examples: text: "[…] O, O, O," continued the horrible old creature, "you billers and cooers, I have been listening to such flatteries, such confessions! Beware, beware, Arthur, there's many a slip."
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
glosses: One who bills (caresses in fondness), in the context of billing and cooing.
Ægir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Ægir.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A giant and king of the sea, personifying the power thereof. He is the son of Fornjótr, and the brother of Logi and Kári. He has nine daughters — the billow maidens — by his wife, Rán, namely: Bára, Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Unnr.
West Briton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌwɛst ˈbrɪtn/
Forms: form: West Britons
form: West Brit
Senses: glosses: A person from the western part of Britain, a Welsh or Cornish person, especially (historical) the western Britons who resisted the 5th-century Anglo-Saxon invasion.
examples: text: Coordinate term: Plastic Paddy
text: —Well, I'm ashamed of you, said Miss Ivors frankly. To say you'd write for a rag like that. I didn't think you were a West Briton.
ref: 1914, James Joyce, The Dead:
synonyms: jackeen
shoneen
glosses: An Irish person considered to be excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of British society.
Hypernyms: race traitor
Derived terms: West Britonism
billow maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billow maiden
productize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: productizes
form: productizing
form: productized
form: productized
form: productise
Etymology: From product + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: commercialize
text: The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) provides its members with new technologies which they can productize as part of their membership in the consortium.
ref: 1990, AI Trends:
text: “[…]What I do is pattern recognition. I try to recognize a pattern before anyone else does.”
“And then?”
“I point a commodifier at it.”
“And?”
“It gets productized. Turned into units. Marketed.”
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Configurable processes are at the heart of the ESA platform. In this way, it productizes the integration of the underlying systems and provides the PCA developer with a homogenous model of the enterprise and the ability to define processes on top of that model.
ref: 2003, Dan Woods, Packaged Composite Applications: An O'Reilly Field Guide to Enterprise Software:
text: During the period of 1992–2003, Japan focused on productizing PV as a grid-tied, small-scale PV system (over 90% of which was a standardized residential rooftop system) accounting for over 90% of its overall cumulative PV installation.
ref: 2010, Tidd Joe, Gaining Momentum: Managing The Diffusion Of Innovations:
text: Google’s push into productizing generative AI is substantially fear-driven, faith-based, and informed by the actions of competitors that are far less invested in and dependent on the vast collection of behaviors — websites full of content authentic and inauthentic, volunteer and commercial, social and antisocial, archival and up-to-date — that make up what’s left of the web and have far less to lose.
ref: 2025 May 26, John Herrman, “Google Is Burying the Web Alive”, in New York magazine:
glosses: To make something into a product, especially a commercial product.
Related terms: productionalize
productionize
productization
commodify
commoditize
pinioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn.jənd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pinion
limericist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limericists
Etymology: From limerick + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who writes limericks.
epicede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪsiːd/
Forms: form: epicedes
form: epicedia
Etymology: From Latin epicēdīum, from Ancient Greek ἐπικήδειον (epikḗdeion), neuter singular form of ἐπικήδειος (epikḗdeios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + κῆδος (kêdos, “care”).
Senses: examples: text: "This epicede, longer and more ornate than that issued two years before on Prince Henry, is neither much worse nor much better in substance and in style."
ref: 1875, Algernon Charles Swinburne, 'George Chapman: A Critical Essay, page 139:
glosses: An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
Synonyms: elegy
epicedium
apparels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apparel
marline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlines
Etymology: From Middle English merlin, from Middle Low German marling, from Middle Dutch marlijn (“cord”), from marlen (“secure, fasten”), frequentative of maren (“to moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
Senses: examples: 1749 (Sunday 26th May), John Newton's journal
A young man, who has been the whole voyage out of irons, first on account of a large ulcer, and since for his seeming good behaviour, gave them a large marline spike down the gratings, but was happily seen by one of the people.
glosses: A light all-purpose cord commonly used to bind the end of a larger rope, to prevent fraying.
glosses: Twine used similarly.
Derived terms: marlinspike
marline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marlines
form: marlining
form: marlined
form: marlined
Etymology: From Middle English merlin, from Middle Low German marling, from Middle Dutch marlijn (“cord”), from marlen (“secure, fasten”), frequentative of maren (“to moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
Senses: examples: to marline a rope
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: marl
glosses: To wind marline around.
beauty is only skin deep
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: beauty is only skin-deep
Etymology: First use appears c. 1809, although beauty is but skin-deep appears much earlier.
Senses: examples: text: "Handsome those that handsome do say I; beauty is only skin deep; it is the principle of the heart I consider.
ref: 1809, Francis Lathom, London, Or, Truth Without Treason, A Novel, page 2:
text: And she graced the transition. Beauty is only skin-deep, but the nerves lie very near to the skin. Nerve—but just here will you oblige by perusing again the quotation with which this story begins?
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:
text: Isn’t it time the marketing budgets were reapportioned to the bones and muscles of the building themselves? At present, the beauty in London’s building boom is barely skin deep.
ref: 2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: beauty is but skin-deep
glosses: A person's character matters more than their appearance.
Related terms: it's what's inside that counts
hulking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌlkɪŋ/
Etymology: From hulk + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 212:
glosses: Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.
glosses: Unwieldy.
Derived terms: hulkingly
hulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌlkɪŋ/
Etymology: From hulk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hulk
hulking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌlkɪŋ/
Forms: form: hulkings
Etymology: From hulk + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.
ref: 1953, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings (volume 2, part 2, page 513)
glosses: A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.
Related terms: hulk
somnambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somnambulatory
form: most somnambulatory
Senses: glosses: Relating to or carried out while sleepwalking.
glosses: Going through the motions.
appareling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apparel
appareling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparelings
Senses: glosses: clothing
FNQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Far North Queensland.
Spring Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spring Festivals
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 春節 /春节 (Chūnjié), the usual modern name for the holiday.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Hui in the northwest do not celebrate the Han holidays of Zhongqiu, Qingming, or even Chun Jie (Spring Festival), the Hui in most of China's cities gladly participate.
ref: 2020, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese..., page 192:
glosses: Synonym of Chinese New Year.
synonyms: word: Chinese New Year
apparelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apparel
apparelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparellings
Senses: glosses: clothing
appareled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apparel
sagittal crest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagittal crests
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) in many mammals and primates
propanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₃H₇-OH
1-propanol, n-propanol, propyl alcohol, propan-1-ol, n-propyl alcohol or 1-propyl alcohol – CH₃CH₂CH₂OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₃H₇-OH
isopropanol, isopropyl alcohol or propan-2-ol – (CH₃)₂CH-OH
Agul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aghul
form: Aguly
Senses: glosses: A language primarily spoken by the Aghul people in Russian Dagestan and in Azerbaijan.
Aguly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aghul
form: Agul
Senses: glosses: A language primarily spoken by the Aghul people in Russian Dagestan and in Azerbaijan.
Akoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Acholi.
butanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butanols
Etymology: From butane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
butan-2-ol or sec-butanol - CH₃CH₂CH(CH₃)-OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
2-methyl-propan-1-ol or iso-butanol - (CH₃)₂CHCH₂-OH
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric aliphatic alcohols, C₄H₉-OH
1,1-dimethyl-ethanol or tert-butanol - (CH₃)₃C-OH
Derived terms: biobutanol
ethambutol
kauri-butanol value
linear perspective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear perspectives
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A form of geometric perspective in which parallel lines are represented as converging in order to give the illusion of depth and distance.
Hypernyms: perspective
Related terms: foreshortening
tranquilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquilizer
terms of endearment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of term of endearment
poppets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.pɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of poppet
term of endearment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terms of endearment
Senses: examples: text: The words had such a softening influence, that he appended a term of endearment to Mrs. Dombey's name (though not without some hesitation, as being a man but little used to that form of address): and said, ‘Mrs. Dombey, my—my dear.’
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Dombey and Son:
text: "Kun" is a term of endearment often used in Japan for small boys. Yoshi-kun lived with his parents and grandparents in a house in Takasaki.
ref: 1987 September 20, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Kidnap-Murder of 5-Year-Old Shakes Japan”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Jun 2013:
text: The people of Madagascar call him Deba, which means Big Boss. When President Didier Ratsiraka came to power 26 years ago, the moniker was meant as a term of endearment.
ref: 2002 June 16, Simon Robinson, “Tropical Trouble”, in Time:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
synonyms: endearment
antonyms: term of abuse
hypernyms: term
glosses: A word, phrase, or nickname used as a term of address expressing affection; it is often a diminutive.
Synonyms: word: term of endearment
word: endearment
Hypernyms: word: term
word: word
word: phrase
word: hypocorism
word: nickname
word: pet name
term of address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terms of address
Senses: synonyms: form of address
style
glosses: A word or phrase used to address or refer to someone or something without using his, her, their or its name (for example, His Excellency or your Honor).
glosses: A title used before someone's name when addressing them or referring to them (for example, Mister Jones or Lord Mountbatten).
Related terms: term of endearment
terms of address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of term of address
parachuting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parachutings
Etymology: From parachute + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The sport or activity of jumping with a parachute.
Related terms: parachutist
parachute
parachuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From parachute + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parachute
tressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tress
hemi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemis
Etymology: Clipping of hemisphere.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A motor with hemispherical combustion chambers. A piston engine internal combustion engine with hemispherical piston cylinder heads.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A combustion chamber with the hemispherical cylinder head from such an engine.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A hemispherical cylinder head from such a motor.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A vehicle equipped with such a motor engine.
glosses: Domed versions of the above that have cylinder heads that are not exactly hemispherical
Synonyms: sense: engine motor
word: hemi engine
sense: cylinder head
word: hemi head
zhou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊ/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 粥 (zhōu). Doublet of jook and juk.
Senses: examples: text: We did, however, send them to a Chinese nursery school that fed them a daily lunch of zhou, a rice porridge with various seasonings: pickled turnips, flakes of dough sticks, green or red beans, sesame paste, or something called hot prickly mustard tubers.
ref: 2008 June 11, Matthew Forney, “Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Chinese contexts
glosses: Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
synonyms: word: congee
extra: a thick rice porridge
partridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partridge
jellyfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jellyfish
cacophonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacophony
fuckin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fucking.
fuckin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
Senses: examples: text: —Nah, not me, my mum—I need some help. I've been to every fuckin door—please. Shar—my name is Shar. I'm local. I live here. Check!
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fucking.
Niger-Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined in the 1950s by Joseph Greenberg, from the name of the two principal rivers in the area this language family is spoken, the Niger River and the Congo River.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A major language family of sub-Saharan Africa noted for the use of a noun class system.
Niger-Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined in the 1950s by Joseph Greenberg, from the name of the two principal rivers in the area this language family is spoken, the Niger River and the Congo River.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Niger-Congo language family, or pertaining to its associated peoples.
Related terms: Niger-Kordofanian
amortisseur winding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amortisseur windings
Senses: glosses: A squirrel cage winding placed near the surface of the pole faces of a synchronous motor. Its main purpose is to dampen any speed fluctuations or oscillations that may occur as a result of sudden load changes. It is also used to accelerate the motor during starting. All the windings are shorted at the two ends of each pole of the motor. As the rotating field moves past the winding it induces currents in the winding which produce torque and accelerate the motor so as to overcome the lag in its speed.
Synonyms: sense: squirrel cage winding
word: damper winding
ambitransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæmbɪˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
Etymology: From ambi- + transitive.
Senses: glosses: Able to be used transitively or intransitively without requiring morphological change.
raw_tags: of a verb
Derived terms: ambitransitivity
Related terms: ditransitive
intransitive
transitive
ambitransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæmbɪˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
Forms: form: ambitransitives
Etymology: From ambi- + transitive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An ambitransitive verb.
anticausative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + causative.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.
raw_tags: of an intransitive verb
anticausative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticausatives
Etymology: From anti- + causative.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb or construction of this kind.
Related terms: middle voice
anticausativisation
control verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb which takes multiple arguments, one of which is another verb, such that one of the control verb's arguments (possibly its subject) is syntactically both an argument of the control verb and an argument of the other verb.
Related terms: object-control
subject-control
object-control
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A control verb whose shared object is not the subject.
subject-control
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: whose shared object is its subject.
raw_tags: of a control verb
crosse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosses
Etymology: From French crosse (“stick”).
Senses: glosses: A lacrosse stick.
lacrosse stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrosse sticks
Senses: glosses: The primary instrument used in lacrosse to handle the ball.
Synonyms: crosse
banan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banans
Senses: examples: text: "Hundreds of them," he exclaimed, "may be seen in New Orleans today, three generations from Italy, still pushing carts, yelling 'Banans,' 'Banans,' 'Banans'!!"
ref: 1991, George E. Pozzetta, Immigrants on the Land: Agriculture, Rural Life, and Small Towns:
glosses: Banana.
dreamchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹim.t͡ʃɪld.ɹən/
Senses: examples: text: The dream-children whom I would now raise, if I could, before every one of you, according to your various circumstances, should be the dear child you love, the dearer child you have lost, the child you might have had, the child you certainly have been. Each of these dream-children should hold in its powerful hand one of the little children now lying in the Child’s Hospital, or now shut out of it to perish. Each of these dream-children should say to you, “O, help this little suppliant in my name; O, help it for my sake!”
ref: 1858, Charles Dickens, Speech in the Freemasons’ Hall in London following the proposal of a toast to “Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children”, closing paragraph:
text: […] met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dreamchildren with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.
ref: 1996, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, page 79:
text: Perhaps some of the dreamchildren and vision-children who never show up in this reality are members of other families that we love and belong to, elsewhere.
ref: 2002, Elisabeth Hallett, Stories of the Unborn Soul: The Mystery and Delight of Pre-birth Communication, page 260:
text: Dreamchildren are not only imaginary child characters who dream; they also tend to be fantasized about by the authors of the stories in which they appear.
ref: 2004: Amy Christine Billone, The Boy Who Lived: From Carroll’s Alice and Barrie’s Peter Pan to Rowling’s Harry Potter, pUnknown (pp178–202)
text: She loved children, and in default of them she delighted in the poetic fiction of dreamchildren.
ref: 2005, James Huneker, Painted Veils, page 240:
glosses: plural of dreamchild
dreamchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹim.t͡ʃaɪld/
Forms: form: dreamchildren
form: dream child
Etymology: From dream + child.
Senses: examples: text: The startup, a dreamchild of veteran entrepreneur Greg Wolfond and backed by Montreal venture-capital firm Real Ventures, this week launches a mobile payment solution for retailers that is less costly than offerings from established players […]
ref: 2015 October 22, Sean Silcoff, “Fintech startup Dream Payments launches with sector approval”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: Chester’s Grosvenor Park theatre, which opened in 2010, is the dreamchild of Andrew Bentley and Alex Clifton and forerunner of the more permanent Storyhouse arts centre.
ref: 2020 August 30, Clare Brennan, “Educating Rita; The Comedy of Errors review – a breath of fresh air”, in The Observer:
text: The dream child of 10 Basque businessmen who hoped to prolong San Sebastián’s summer season into late September, the San Sebastian Film Festival was born on Sept. 21, 1953.
ref: 2022 September 23, John Hopewell, “San Sebastian at 70: How the Modern Festival Was Born”, in Variety:
synonyms: brainchild
glosses: Something produced or established as a result of someone's imagination or personal efforts.
sublingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sublinguālis, from sub- (“under, below, beneath”) + linguālis (“relating to the tongue”); equivalent to sub- + lingual.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: see list of routes of administration
glosses: Administered through placement under the tongue.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: subglossal
coordinate_terms: transglossal
translingual
glosses: Situated beneath the tongue.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland.
Derived terms: sublingual artery
sublingual caruncle
sublingual duct
sublingual gland
sublingual immunotherapy
sublingually
sublingual nerve
sublingual nucleus
sublingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
Forms: form: sublinguals
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sublinguālis, from sub- (“under, below, beneath”) + linguālis (“relating to the tongue”); equivalent to sub- + lingual.
Senses: topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A particular scale near the front of the lower jaw in snakes, usually in a pair.
bedwetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedwettings
form: bed-wetting
Etymology: From bed + wetting.
Senses: glosses: A type of urinary incontinence involving involuntary urination while in bed during sleep.
Synonyms: sense: involuntary urination while asleep
english: in its broad sense
translation: in its broad sense
word: enuresis
sense: involuntary urination while asleep
english: in its usual sense
translation: in its usual sense
word: nocturesis
sense: involuntary urination while asleep
word: sleepwetting
Related terms: word: bedwetter
word: bedwetting alarm
alt: pissabed
word: piss-the-bed
english: nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep
translation: nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep
word: to wet oneself
word: to wet the bed
bedwetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bed-wetting
Etymology: From bed + wetting.
Senses: examples: text: Really? There'll be none of this bedwetting attitude towards problems when I take office.
glosses: Characterized by cowardly attitudes; wishy-washy.
sustainable development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustainable developments
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
business
ecology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations' ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of nature.
attacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attacchi
Etymology: From Italian attacco.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short musical phrase treated as a point of imitation, for example as the subject of a fugue.
attacchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attacco
image processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any form of information processing whose input and output are both images, such as photographs or frames of video.
forest machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest machines
Senses: glosses: A machine used for logging or various other forestry purposes.
Synonyms: forestry machine
sledding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sled
sledding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: sleddings
Senses: glosses: The act of sliding downhill, or transporting something, on a sled.
Derived terms: hard sledding
lava sledding
rough sledding
tough sledding
Related terms: sledder