cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
from hunger
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She looked good, but as an actress she was strictly from hunger. http://www.hulu.com/watch/77882/the-donna-reed-show-pardon-my-gloves?c=1011
text: "That's the place for you, the San Berdoo. I live there so I ought to know. The owner's strictly from hunger. Come on, I'll get you fixed up swell."
ref: 1939, Nathanael West, The Day of the Locusts, page 17:
text: The play went on and on with people shouting and using dirty language. The jokes were from hunger and there was only one sexy scene
ref: 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, page 159:
text: This place is a dump. I mean your bathrooms are from hunger. Where's the Jacuzzi? Where's the 'his and her' sinks? Where's the towel warmer?
ref: 2007, Paula Marantz Cohen, Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs, page 70:
text: "The men in this hamlet are either married, or worn out, or ignorant, or religious zealots, or indigent." Esther was forced to agree that the boys in this town were from hunger, but said, "That's what marriage brokers are for...."
ref: 2008, Paul M. Levitt, Come with me to Babylon, page 115:
glosses: Of poor quality; tolerable only in desperate circumstances.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see from, hunger.
blind man's bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: Alternative form of blind man's buff.
hardware cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardware cloths
Senses: examples: text: Hardware cloth is a sturdy, thick wire mesh that comes plain or coated […]
ref: 1997, Sara Jane Von Trapp, Landscaping from the Ground Up, page 84:
glosses: A flexible wire-mesh material, consisting of loosely woven wires in a simple rectangular grid.
glosses: A type of such fabric, differentiated by material, coating, wire diameter, and mesh size.
Related terms: chicken wire
hardware cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardware cloth
deferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defer
deferring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deferrings
Senses: examples: text: It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values […]
ref: 2007, Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought:
glosses: deferral
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: never look a gift horse in the mouth
Etymology: Calque from Latin expressions such as equi dentes inspicere donati (“to inspect the teeth of a provided horse”) in St. Jerome's c. 400 Preface to the Commentaries of the Letter to the Ephesians (Commentariorum in Epistolam ad Ephesios Libri Tres), which designates it as a "common proverb" (vulgare proverbium). The ultimate referrent is inspection of horses' teeth as a way of ascertaining their age and value.
Senses: examples: text: No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth.
ref: 1546, John Heywood, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: He ne’er consider'd it, as loth
To look a Gift-horse in the mouth.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
glosses: One should not unappreciatively question or inspect a gift too closely.
wikipedia: Letter to the Ephesians
St. Jerome
Synonyms: beggars can't be choosers
something is better than nothing
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
satisfactory
Related terms: long in the tooth
straight from the horse's mouth
Trojan horse
malaria mosquito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malaria mosquitos
Senses: glosses: Any of the closely-related malaria-spreading mosquitos of the genus Anopheles, especially Anopheles gambiae.
onshoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of onshore
ESRF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.
telicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tiːˈlɪsɪti/
Forms: form: telicities
Etymology: From telic + -ity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense.
Related terms: telic
atelic
resultativity
telicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telicity
IFR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Initialism of Integral Fast Reactor.
IFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: pilot training
glosses: Initialism of instrument flight rules, a set of rules for a pilot flying on instruments, primarily as a means of navigating through inclement weather.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:IFR.
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of infection fatality rate.
Coordinate terms: SVFR
VFR
Related terms: CFR
krumkake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krumkakes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian krumkake (“curved cake”). Compare Middle English crumcake, cramkake (“loaf of unleavened bread; a twisted or crumpled cake”).
Senses: glosses: A Norwegian cookie invented by emigrants to America, prepared as a rolled-up cone, sometimes with a filling.
Related terms: krum kake
crumcake
crum cake
krum kake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krum kakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of krumkake.
crumcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumcakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krumkake.
crum cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crum cakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crumcake.
krum kaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of krumkake.
bunkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunker
from my cold, dead hands
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: from my cold, dead fingers
Senses: examples: text: I won't have the government instituting gun control! They can have my shotgun when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
synonyms: over my dead body
glosses: Only after my death.
examples: text: You want me to sell you a family heirloom like this? Tsk, you can take it from my cold, dead hands.
glosses: Never; not under any circumstances.
bunchberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunchberries
Etymology: From bunch + berry.
Senses: hypernyms: cornel
dogwood
glosses: Either of two species of dwarf dogwoods:
Cornus suecica - Eurasian bunchberry or northern bunchberry.
hypernyms: cornel
dogwood
glosses: Either of two species of dwarf dogwoods:
Cornus canadensis - Canadian bunchberry or eastern bunchberry.
synonyms: Canadian dwarf cornel
crackerberry
glosses: The fruit of either of these plants.
bunchberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunchberry
behind the bit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Evading the bit.
raw_tags: of a horse
ghost train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost trains
Senses: glosses: A fairground attraction in which participants ride through a haunted house in a railcar.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A ghost-themed excursion offered by many tourist railways around the world. Usually, a fictional story is created and performed with static displays or live actors on either side of a train. Actors and actresses play out a story on the long and narrow stage provided by the railcar aisles.
glosses: A rail service which does not appear in the public timetables.
glosses: A supernatural manifestation of a railway locomotive or passenger cars.
glosses: An unmanned train rolling on the train line.
examples: text: As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated. In modern geographical terms, it went across four independent states: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania. As such, it has now joined the long list of 'ghost trains', extinguished by the ongoing war.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:
glosses: A train service that no longer exists, having stopped running.
Synonyms: runaway train
glider
Hypernyms: sense: fairground attraction
word: dark ride
walking fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking ferns
Senses: glosses: Either of two species of fern in the genus Asplenium (Asplenium rhizophyllum or Asplenium sibiricum) that produce new plantlets from the tips of their leaves.
net metering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: net energy metering
NEM
glosses: An electricity billing arrangement where excess energy (especially renewable energy) generated by an electricity consumer is credited towards their future consumption.
hammered dulcimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammered dulcimers
form: hammer dulcimer
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of dulcimer whose metal strings are stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board that has two bridges, one bass and one treble, set on a stand and played with small mallet-like hammers.
Derived terms: hammered dulcimerist
Related terms: roman: yanggeum
word: 양금
roman: yángqín
word: 揚琴
roman: yángqín
word: 扬琴
unostentatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unostentatious
form: most unostentatious
form: un-ostentatious
Etymology: From un- + ostentatious.
Senses: examples: text: But terror had overpowered the scanty remains of a body once so powerful, and sensible they were only suffered to remain in this ancient seat by connivance and from compassion, they did not venture upon taking any step which might be construed into an assertion of their ancient rights, contenting themselves with the secret and obscure exercise of their religious ceremonial, in as unostentatious a manner as was possible.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 279:
glosses: Not ostentatious; simple; unpresuming.
unpresuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpresuming
form: most unpresuming
Etymology: From un- + presuming.
Senses: synonyms: unpretentious
simple
humble
glosses: Not presumptuous
ex.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of example.
topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of exercise.
severer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈvɪəɹə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of severe: more severe
severer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈvɪəɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɛvəɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /sɪˈvɪəɹə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: severers
Etymology: From sever + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They received this name from the jealousy of their rivals, who thereby intimated that they were severers of the unity of the Algonquin nation, as a people who were setting up an independent government […]
ref: 1862, Sir Daniel Wilson, Prehistoric man, researches into the origin of civilisation, page 133:
glosses: One who severs.
wood ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood ears
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 木耳 (mù'ěr)
Senses: glosses: An edible fungus in the genus Auricularia, shaped like an ear and growing on wood.
Synonyms: tree ear fungus
tree-ear fungus
tree ear mushroom
tree-ear mushroom
tree ear
tree-ear
Coordinate terms: black fungus
black mushroom
tree jellyfish
tree jellyfish fungus
tree jellyfish mushroom
wood jellyfish
wood jellyfish fungus
wood jellyfish mushroom
comstockery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Comstockery
Etymology: Named after Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) (and the Comstock laws which he propagated) + -ery, coined in an editorial in The New York Times in 1895 and famously adopted by George Bernard Shaw in 1905.
Senses: examples: text: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, letter, New York Times, Sept. 26, 1905,
Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States.
text: 1916, H. L. Mencken, column, Baltimore Evening Sun, July, 19, 1916,
A people unconvinced of the pervasiveness of sin, the supreme importance of moral problems, the need of harsh and inquisitorial laws--in brief, of the whole Puritan theological and political apparatus--would never have permitted the growth of such curious flowers as Comstockery, so obnoxious and so incomprehensible to all foreigners.
text: Yet while chiding extreme libertarianism, [David] Selbourne veers dangerously close to Comstockery in his tsk-tsking of noise that “masquerades as music,” gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices.
ref: 2019 January 18, Mark Green, “Three Authors Consider Contemporary Politics, Anxiously”, in New York Times:
glosses: Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
wikipedia: Comstock laws
George Bernard Shaw
-ery
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /əɹi/
Forms: form: -erie
form: -ry
Etymology: From Middle English -erie, from Anglo-Norman -erie, which is from -ier + -ie; a suffix forming abstract nouns.
The suffix first occurs in loans from Old French into Middle English, but becomes productive within English by the 16th century, in some instances properly a combination of the agent suffix -er with -y as in bakery, brewery, but also as a single suffix in terms like slavery, machinery (which are not derived from slaver or machiner). By surface analysis, -er + -y.
Senses: examples: text: midwife + -ery → midwifery
text: cook + -ery → cookery
glosses: Added to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
examples: text: bake + -ery → bakery
text: distill + -ery → distillery
text: join + -ery → joinery
glosses: Added to verbs to form nouns meaning "place of" (an art, craft, or practice).
examples: text: crock + -ery → crockery
text: hose + -ery → hosiery
text: shrub + -ery → shrubbery
glosses: Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "a class, group, or collection of."
examples: text: snob + -ery → snobbery
text: tomfool + -ery → tomfoolery
glosses: Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "behavior characteristic of."
Synonyms: sense: place of
english: activity
translation: activity
word: -ing
sense: collection
word: -age
sense: collection
word: -ing
-ery
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /əɹi/
Etymology: Alteration of -y.
Senses: examples: text: My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.
ref: 1917, The Christian Advocate, volume XCII, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 559, column 1:
glosses: Forming adjectives.
welders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welder
golf clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf club
prestidigitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prestidigitates
form: prestidigitating
form: prestidigitated
form: prestidigitated
Senses: glosses: To perform magic with the hands or using sleight of hand.
glosses: To juggle.
Related terms: prestidigitation
prestidigitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prestidigitate
prestidigitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prestidigitate
prestidigitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prestidigitate
idiomaticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiomaticity (but the word is rare in its count sense)
merchantile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mercantile.
non-agenda
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + agenda.
Senses: examples: text: They are wasting their time on non-agenda items.
glosses: Not on the agenda; not of importance; not of current importance.
registered trademarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registered trademark
tree kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree kangaroos
Senses: glosses: Any of several Australian macropods, of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for life in the trees.
Derived terms: Lumholtz's tree kangaroo
hit a home run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits a home run
form: hitting a home run
form: hit a home run
form: hit a home run
Senses: examples: text: He was the first pinch hitter to hit a home run on the first pitch of his career.
ref: 2016, Jonathan Fraser Light, The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed., McFarland, →ISBN, page 437:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit a ball during an at-bat that results in all runners on base and the hitter scoring runs; the best result of an at-bat.
examples: text: I wanted to get up to the plate and take the chance of hitting a home run. Even if I didn't hit a home run, I would be working with the man I respected and loved more than any businessman I had ever known.
ref: 2010, Steven K. Scott, Mentored by a Millionaire: Master Strategies of Super Achievers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: To achieve the best possible result.
glosses: To engage in genital intercourse.
Coordinate terms: sense: to engage in genital intercourse
word: get to first base
sense: to engage in genital intercourse
word: get to second base
sense: to engage in genital intercourse
word: get to third base
bat a thousand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats a thousand
form: batting a thousand
form: batted a thousand
form: batted a thousand
form: bat one thousand
Etymology: From a baseball batting average, often stated as the number of hits per 1000 at bats (so 1000 would be 100 percent).
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: literal
glosses: To reach first base on every at-bat.
examples: text: He's batting a thousand so far with the new boss.
glosses: To achieve success at each attempt.
examples: text: No one can bat a thousand for the whole season.
glosses: To achieve perfection.
glosses: To have identical outcomes with each attempt.
Synonyms: go
be two for two
Related terms: bat five hundred
commuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commute
commuting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commutings
Senses: examples: text: The poet Geoffrey Grigson added an atmospheric 1950s gloss on these bizarre commutings [of seeds]: 'between Swindon and London you may see them often enough during the summer, the sunlight through the carriage window catching them as they float about in the thin smoke of cigarettes'.
ref: 2010, Richard Mabey, Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants, page 140:
text: It was cheaper to build both railways and suburbs to the south, and commuting - which Charles Pearson called 'oscillating' - began between the village of Greenwich and London Bridge. (The term 'commuting' is from America, and did not become established in Britain until the 1940s).
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 12–13:
glosses: travel between home and workplace
glosses: travel by public transportation such as by jeepney
Derived terms: anticommuting
cybercommuting
intercommuting
noncommuting
telecommuting
Related terms: commuter
commuting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Causing, or involved in commutation
Flemming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flemmings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
myrmecophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məːˈmɛkəfʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈməɹməkoʊˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: myrmecophytes
Etymology: From German Myrmekophyt, equivalent to myrmeco- (“ant”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: A plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
Derived terms: myrmecophytic
myrmecophytism
Related terms: myrmecophile
myrmecophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmecophyte
back to back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back-to-back.
back to back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Stand back to back so that we can see which of you is taller.
synonyms: dos a dos
glosses: With one's back facing that of somebody else.
examples: text: We can't watch these films back to back! That's just way too much for one night.
glosses: Consecutively; one after the other.
geroscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gero- + science.
Senses: glosses: The science of ageing, and of age-related disease.
Derived terms: geroscientist
geroscientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geroscientists
Etymology: From gero- + scientist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist whose speciality is geroscience.
luciferins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luciferin
nuclear pore complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear pore complexes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proteinaceous assembly that selectively transports cargoes across the nuclear envelope
proteinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteinaceous
form: most proteinaceous
Etymology: From protein + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: By enabling delivery fo active components beneath the skin, the sting and venom opened a bonanza of opportunities for the evolution of highly specific and active components, particularly proteinaceous materials.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
text: A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
ref: 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of protein
lingling-o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingling-os
Etymology: (Tagalog?)
Senses: glosses: A three-pointed decorative amulet, of bronze or jade, found throughout Southeast Asia
spiny anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiny anteaters
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An echidna.
Austronesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɒs.tɹəˈniː.ʒə/
Etymology: Back-formation from Austronesian (from Latin austro- (“southern”) + Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) + -ia).
Senses: glosses: Those areas of the world, mostly in Southeast Asia and the Pacific but also including Madagascar, that are inhabited by speakers of Austronesian languages.
Meronyms: Maritime Southeast Asia
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
Related terms: Austronesian
mesoporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + porous.
Senses: examples: text: A nanobullet comprising of multifunctional Janus nanocomposites (a head of magnetic Fe₃O₄ and a body of mesoporous SiO₂ containing doxorubicin) is reported to be a safe and efﬁcient treatment for liver cancer.
ref: 2020 September 11, Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D, “What are the Recent Applications of Nanobullets?”, in AZO Nano:
glosses: Having pores of a size between 2 and 50 nanometres.
raw_tags: of a material
Related terms: microporous
macroporous
microporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + porous.
Senses: glosses: Having micropores of a size less than 2 nanometres.
raw_tags: of a material
Derived terms: nonmicroporous
ultramicroporous
Related terms: mesoporous
macroporous
macroporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macroporous
form: most macroporous
Etymology: From macro- + porous.
Senses: glosses: Having macropores, i.e. pores of a relatively large size (e.g. greater than 50 nanometres).
raw_tags: of a material
Derived terms: nonmacroporous
supermacroporous
Related terms: microporous
mesoporous
recategorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recategorizations
Etymology: From re- + categorization.
Senses: glosses: The act of recategorizing
Kennet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which is a tributary of the Thames.
glosses: A former local government district in Wiltshire, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Wiltshire unitary authority.
Related terms: Kennett
postalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstælviˈəʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌpəʊstælˈviːələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈælvi.ələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌpoʊstælˈviələɹ/
rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: post-alveolar
Etymology: From post- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
Derived terms: apicopostalveolar
postalveolarization
Related terms: alveopalatal
palatoalveolar
retroflex
postalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstælviˈəʊlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌpəʊstælˈviːələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈælvi.ələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌpoʊstælˈviələɹ/
rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: postalveolars
form: post-alveolar
Etymology: From post- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, such as English sh in the word shoe.
Related terms: alveopalatal
palatoalveolar
retroflex
wotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wotcher (“greeting”).
wotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Wotcha doin'?
text: Wotcha got there?
text: It ain't wotcha do, it's the way thatcha do it
qualifier: eye-dialect
glosses: Alternative form of whatcha.
Grecian knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grecian knots
Senses: synonyms: Psyche knot
glosses: A way of knotting up a woman's hair in imitation of the Ancient Greek style.
Psyche knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Psyche knots
Senses: examples: text: Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 397:
text: Why, really, he drove all the ladies to wearing those odious Psyche knots.
ref: 1896, John Kendrick Bangs, The Bicyclers:
glosses: Synonym of Grecian knot.
synonyms: word: Grecian knot
homopolymeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homopolymeric
form: most homopolymeric
Etymology: From homopolymer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homopolymer
Related terms: heteropolymeric
heteropolymeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + polymeric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heteropolymer
Related terms: homopolymeric
heteropolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropolymers
Etymology: From hetero- + polymer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of copolymer.
synonyms: word: copolymer
Derived terms: word: heteropolymeric
homotrimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homotrimers
Etymology: From homo- + trimer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: trimer
<
oligomer
<
molecule
;
substance
coordinate_terms: heterotrimer
glosses: A trimer, especially a biologically active one, derived from three identical monomers.
Derived terms: homotrimeric
homotrimerization
homotrimerize
Related terms: polymer
homotetramer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homotetramers
Etymology: From homo- + tetramer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetramer, especially a biologically active one, derived from four identical monomers
Derived terms: homotetrameric
Related terms: heterotetramer
homopentamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homopentamers
Etymology: From homo- + pentamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from five identical monomers
Derived terms: homopentameric
Related terms: heteropentamer
homohexamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homohexamers
Etymology: From homo- + hexamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from six identical monomers
Derived terms: homohexameric
Related terms: heterohexamer
homoheptamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoheptamers
Etymology: From homo- + heptamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heptamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from seven identical monomers.
Derived terms: homoheptameric
Related terms: heteroheptamer
homooctamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homooctamers
Etymology: From homo- + octamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An octamer derived from eight identical monomers
Derived terms: homooctameric
Related terms: heterooctamer
heterodimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodimers
Etymology: From hetero- + dimer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: dimer
<
oligomer
<
molecule
;
substance
coordinate_terms: homodimer
glosses: A dimer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different monomers.
Derived terms: word: heterodimeric
word: heterodimerise
word: heterodimerization
word: heterodimerize
heterotrimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotrimers
Etymology: From hetero- + trimer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: trimer
<
oligomer
<
molecule
;
substance
coordinate_terms: homotrimer
glosses: A trimer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but similar) monomers.
Derived terms: heterotrimeric
heterotrimerization
Related terms: polymer
heterotetramer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotetramers
Etymology: From hetero- + tetramer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetramer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but often similar) monomers
Derived terms: heterotetrameric
Related terms: homotetramer
heteropentamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropentamers
Etymology: From hetero- + pentamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but similar) monomers
Derived terms: heteropentameric
Related terms: homopentamer
heterohexamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterohexamers
Etymology: From hetero- + hexamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but similar) monomers.
Derived terms: heterohexameric
Related terms: homohexamer
heteroheptamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroheptamers
Etymology: From hetero- + heptamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heptamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but similar) monomers
Derived terms: heteroheptameric
Related terms: homoheptamer
heterooctamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterooctamers
Etymology: From hetero- + octamer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An octamer which contains two or more different monomer species.
Derived terms: heterooctameric
Related terms: homooctamer
homodimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homodimer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homodimer
Related terms: heterodimeric
homotrimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homotrimer
Related terms: heterotrimeric
homotetrameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homotetramer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homotetramer.
Related terms: heterotetrameric
homopentameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + pentameric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homopentamer
Related terms: heteropentameric
homohexameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homohexamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homohexamer.
Related terms: heterohexameric
homoheptameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homoheptamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homoheptamer
Related terms: heteroheptameric
homooctameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homooctamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a homooctamer
Related terms: heterooctameric
heterooctameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterooctamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heterooctamer
Related terms: homooctameric
heteroheptameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heteroheptamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heteroheptamer
Related terms: homoheptameric
heterohexameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterohexamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heterohexamer.
Related terms: homohexameric
heteropentameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heteropentamer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heteropentamer
Related terms: homopentameric
heterotetrameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterotetramer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heterotetramer
Related terms: homotetrameric
mischio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian mischio (literally “mixed, speckled, mottled”).
Senses: glosses: A colorful variety of marble (metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone).
mistico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misticos
form: misticoes
Senses: glosses: mistic (type of sailing vessel)
exultingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exultingly
form: most exultingly
Etymology: From exulting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hark—even now she cries exultingly
The vengeful cry that tells of battle turned—
ref: 1889, “Agamemnon”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The House of Atreus, 2nd edition, page 56:
text: She laughed exultingly, and the boy felt cold and strangely troubled.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 163:
glosses: In an exulting manner; with joy at a success or triumph.
Related terms: exult
exultation
incautiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incautiously
form: most incautiously
Etymology: From incautious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shewn.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: […] the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water […]
ref: 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, “Chapter 2”, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 41:
text: The parson explained that the dissenters were insufficiently grounded in religious learning, inappropriately eager to administer the sacraments without his help or sanction, and incautiously emotional in their worship.
ref: 2008, Jewel L. Spangler, “Chapter 2”, in Virginians Reborn: Anglican monopoly, Evangelical dissent, and the rise of the Baptists in the late Eighteenth Century, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, page 43:
glosses: In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
designedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪ.nɪd.li/
Forms: form: more designedly
form: most designedly
Etymology: From designed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But such language is merely intended to heighten the illusion which he has designedly produced, to give his carefully-elaborated poem the air of an improvisation.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 5, page 76:
text: The unions themselves had accepted the inevitability of some reduction because of the designedly more durable character of modern equipment—[...].
ref: 1962 November, “Talking of Trains: The one-day strike”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
glosses: By design; intentionally; according to plan.
pleadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pleadingly
form: most pleadingly
Etymology: From pleading + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She looked from one to another pleadingly.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 15, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 194:
glosses: In a pleading manner; with pleas.
indissolubly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indissolubly
form: most indissolubly
Etymology: From indissoluble + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Wedlok is the laufull couple of man & wife, ordeyned indissolubly to bring forth children, & to eschew fornicacion. […] I added this terme (indissolubly) that is to saye, vndepartably or wtout breakyng, that a man shold not thinke that wedlocke ones lawfullye made can be vndone & broken […]
ref: 1538, Erasmus Sarcerius, chapter 56, in Richard Taverner, transl., Common Places of Scripture, London: John Byddell:
text: […] On they move
Indissolubly firm; nor obvious hill,
Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, divides
Their perfect ranks;
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_VI), Book 6, lines 68-71:
text: […] the day is already commenced which is to bind us indissolubly; and when we are once united, there shall be no recurrence of these mental terrors: I guarantee that.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in Jane Eyre:
text: I wouldn’t have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
text: The words that were said every day to others would be said to him, in that quiet consulting room whose desk and carpet and square modern armchair would share indissolubly in the moment.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 18, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: In an indissoluble manner; in a manner that is unable to be dissolved.
Synonyms: indivisibly
inextricably
inseparably
injuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more injuriously
form: most injuriously
Etymology: From injurious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was in vain to diſcover my Reſentments, which were always turned into Ridicule; and I was forced to reſt with Patience while my noble and moſt beloved Country was ſo injuriouſly treated.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Love of His Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 269:
glosses: In an injurious manner; in a manner that injures or damages.
deprecatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deprecatingly
form: most deprecatingly
Etymology: From deprecating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
ref: 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
glosses: In a deprecating manner.
Derived terms: self-deprecatingly
confidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confidingly
form: most confidingly
Etymology: From confiding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a confiding manner; in a matter that confides.
unalterably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɑl.təɹ.əbli/
Forms: form: more unalterably
form: most unalterably
Etymology: From unalterable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: First experiences are always the most memorable because they fix themselves in the mind unalterably and most powerfully.
text: Sac. From that instant my affection was unalterably fixed on him—and thence I am reduced to my present langour.
ref: 1870, William Jones (transl.), Sacontalá; or, The Fatal Ring, Act III, page 59
glosses: In an unalterable manner; in a manner that makes it impossible to be altered.
Synonyms: immutably
unchangeably
scoundrelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scoundrelly
form: most scoundrelly
Etymology: From scoundrel + -y.
Senses: examples: scoundrelly behaviour
synonyms: scoundrelous
glosses: Like or befitting a scoundrel.
blushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌʃɪŋli/
Forms: form: more blushingly
form: most blushingly
Etymology: From blushing + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: blushedly
flushedly
flushingly
glosses: In a blushing manner; in a manner that evokes a blush.
according to plan
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔɹdɪŋ tə ˈplæn/
Forms: form: to plan
Etymology: according to + plan
Senses: examples: text: to go according to plan
synonyms: to plan
glosses: As intended, as planned, as expected; without the occurrence of any complications.
barefooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barefoot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: water skiing with bare feet (without water skis)
Olympic goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Olympic goals
Etymology: This unique type of goal was named after Argentine striker Cesareo Onzari’s (at left) corner kick that spun directly into the goal for Argentina in a 1924 friendly against Uruguay, the reigning Olympic champion.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A goal scored directly from a corner kick without any other player - on either team - touching or otherwise deflecting the ball into the goal.
paycheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paycheques
Etymology: From pay (“wages or salary”) + cheque (“means of payment”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paycheck.
poison dart frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poison dart frogs
Etymology: From poison + dart + frog. Named because a few species were used by Native Americans as a source of poison for blowdarts.
Senses: glosses: Any of the poisonous frogs of the family Dendrobatidae.
Synonyms: sense: frog in Dendrobatidae
word: poison arrow frog
sense: frog in Dendrobatidae
word: dart frog
sense: frog in Dendrobatidae
word: poison frog
Derived terms: green and black poison-dart frog
imitator poison-dart frog
strawberry poison-dart frog
yellow poison-dart
sayang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.jaŋ/
ipa: /ˈsa-/
ipa: /ˈsa.jɑŋ/
Etymology: * (Singaporean and Malaysian English): Borrowed from Malay sayang.
* (Philippine English): Borrowed from Tagalog sayang.
Senses: glosses: love
glosses: sweetheart, darling
sayang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.jaŋ/
ipa: /ˈsa-/
ipa: /ˈsa.jɑŋ/
Etymology: * (Singaporean and Malaysian English): Borrowed from Malay sayang.
* (Philippine English): Borrowed from Tagalog sayang.
Senses: examples: text: He does sayang me a lot
glosses: to love, adore
glosses: to regret, to miss (regret the absence of)
glosses: to soothe
glosses: to call someone by an affectionate nickname such as 'darling'
sayang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.jaŋ/
ipa: /ˈsa-/
ipa: /ˈsa.jɑŋ/
Forms: form: more sayang
form: most sayang
Etymology: * (Singaporean and Malaysian English): Borrowed from Malay sayang.
* (Philippine English): Borrowed from Tagalog sayang.
Senses: glosses: pitiful, regrettable
sayang
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.jaŋ/
ipa: /ˈsa-/
ipa: /ˈsa.jɑŋ/
Etymology: * (Singaporean and Malaysian English): Borrowed from Malay sayang.
* (Philippine English): Borrowed from Tagalog sayang.
Senses: examples: text: “Um, okay...” Rosa glanced at the blank boxes. “Cried over spilled milk. Six letters, third letter is a...”
“Sayang,” said the old man cheerfully.
“Sayang. It fits, po...”
“Sayang. That's what I say whenever I spill some milk.” He cackled.
“With these weak wrists and fingers, I say sayang several times a day! Give me another.”
ref: 2005, Alex Garland, “Sandmen”, in The Tesseract, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., →ISBN:
text: But going back to my dad, he died four years ago of leukemia. So he never met my daughter and he never reached the date of our wedding. So sayang. So I decided I wanted to write a book about him. I wanted to write a book for him and about him, for my daughter so she would get to know her lolo. And I was really stumped. Wala akong maisip about a story. This was the time when I just wrote Tuwing Sabado.
ref: 2017, Russell Molina, “Magic Secrets, Revealed”, in Bumasa at Lumaya 2: A Sourcebook on Children's Literature in the Philippines, Anvil Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: alas, what a pity!
candleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candleberries
Etymology: From candle + berry: the waxy coating on the fruits of several species was traditionally used to make candles.
Senses: glosses: Any of the plants in the genus Myrica, containing about 35-50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales, with a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
glosses: The fruit of plants in the genus Myrica.
Synonyms: bayberry
bay-rum
sweet gale
wax-myrtle
candleberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candleberry
duns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dun
duns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dun
bayberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayberry
dunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dun
dunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunnings
Senses: examples: text: He asked his attorney to send her a dunning letter.
glosses: Attempt to collect a debt.
traumatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trauma + -ology.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: A branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of trauma.
Related terms: traumatic
traumatological
traumatologist