cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spermatiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bearing the spermatium.
Iguisabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Iguisabel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
spermatiophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatiophores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermatophore.
spermatiophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatiophore
vulpid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulpids
Senses: examples: text: According to Hottentot legend, the cape fox feeds on ostrich eggs by rolling them over rocks until they break open. Little is known about reproductive behavior and life span of this small vulpid.
ref: 1972, Bernhard Grzimek, Grzimek's Animal life encyclopedia, page 253:
text: The three vulpids under discussion here are the Pale Fox (Vulpes pallidus; the Sand Fox (V. rueppelli); and the Cape Fox (V. chama).
ref: 1979, Maxwell Riddle, The wild dogs in life and legend, page 151:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the true fox genus (Vulpes).
vulpids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulpid
speedboater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedboaters
Etymology: From speedboat + -er.
Senses: glosses: A speedboat user.
speedboaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedboater
spermatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatoxins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermatotoxin.
spermatoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatoxin
spermatotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatotoxins
Etymology: From spermato- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any spermatotoxic substance.
spermatotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatotoxin
spermatotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spermatotoxic.
spermiducal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the spermiduct or vas deferens.
spermotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermotoxins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermatotoxin.
spermotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermotoxin
speronaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speronaros
form: speronaroes
Senses: glosses: A kind of Sicilian open boat.
speronaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speronaro
easy-oars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of easy-oar
easy-oaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of easy-oar
easy-oared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of easy-oar
go Chapter 11
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes Chapter 11
form: going Chapter 11
form: went Chapter 11
form: gone Chapter 11
form: go chapter 11
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: To file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Sovnarkom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Совнарком (Sovnarkom).
Senses: glosses: The Council of People's Commissars.
Related terms: sovnarkhoz
go chapter 11
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes chapter 11
form: going chapter 11
form: went chapter 11
form: gone chapter 11
Senses: examples: text: “No, actually they went chapter 11 so I wanted to get your opinion on how I should bill for this. Wilson told me they are willing to reimburse us and give us a small fee. We are on the way to the Waffle House; can I buy you some breakfast?”
ref: 2018 July 18, Leslie Jackson, The Rapacious Creditor (Rapatious Creditor), volume 1, Leslie w. Jackson, page 123:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of go Chapter 11.
sphaeriaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: sphaerioid
glosses: Of or relating to the Sphaeriaceae.
pea clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea clams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fingernail clam.
synonyms: word: fingernail clam
pea clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea clam
Daccaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daccaites
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Dhakaite.
Daccaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daccaite
earnings season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earnings seasons
Senses: examples: text: Sports fans wait all year for the beginning of football, basketball, or baseball season. And children can't help but anticipate the holiday season. But it's earnings season that fundamental analysts look forward to.
ref: 2009, Matthew Krantz, Fundamental Analysis For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: The mood in corner offices may be about to sour. “Earnings season is going to be the confessional event,” says Jim Tierney of Bernstein, an investment firm, referring to the month or so when most companies report their quarterly results.
ref: 2023 January 22, “Big business is in for a rough earnings season”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The time of year when corporate earnings are reported, usually in January, April, July, and October.
earnings seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earnings season
in book
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Sicilian opening was wild, but the speed of play made it clear both players were "in book", up to a point.
ref: 2022 January 21, Colin McGourty, “Tata Steel 5: Rapport & Mamedyarov hit the front”, in chess24, archived from the original on 19 May 2022:
text: Wesley So had prepared a line with a temporary pawn sacrifice against Praggnanandhaa and both players appeared to be in book for a long time.
ref: 2023 January 19, Mark Crowther, “Giri overtakes Abdusattorov in a dramatic final round of the Tata Steel Masters to grab his first title”, in The Week in Chess, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023:
topics: board-games
chess
games
antonyms: out of book
glosses: Of a chess player: following a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").
sphericocylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spherico- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Of a lens: having a hemispherical end and a cylindrical end.
sphincteralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sphincter + -algia.
Senses: glosses: Pain in the sphincter.
spicehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicehouses
Etymology: From spice + house.
Senses: examples: text: Down here in the waterfront area we have a very unique market, simply because you have the fish on the waterfront, you have groceries, fruit, you have produce, you have spicehouses, you have pickling-houses, for example.
ref: 1964, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works, Real Property Acquisition Practices and Adequacy of Compensation in Federal and Federally Assisted Programs: Hearings..., page 145:
text: They showed her the spicehouses, where plants and trees from lands lost long ago were kept bathed in continual heat: they showed her the harvest of nuts and berries and fruits and sugars such as Inland had never dreamed of.
ref: 2022, Gwyneth Jones, Ann Halam, Skybreaker:
glosses: A warehouse where spices are stored.
spicehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spicehouse
spiderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiderly
form: most spiderly
Etymology: From spider + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: spidery
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a spider.
spikehorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spikehorns
Etymology: From spike + horn.
Senses: glosses: A deer whose antlers do not branch.
spikehorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spikehorn
comandra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comandras
Senses: glosses: The bastard toadflax, Comandra umbellata.
comandras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comandra
spiritweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spirit + weed.
Senses: glosses: The perennial herb Eryngium foetidum.
spirocheticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirocheticides
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills spirochetes.
spirocheticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirocheticide
spirochetocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirochetocides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spirocheticide.
spirochetocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirochetocide
spitzkop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitzkops
Senses: glosses: A rocky, sharp-pointed hill.
spitzkops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitzkop
splatterwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From splatter + work.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The creation of a design on a surface by spattering colouring matter upon it.
splendently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more splendently
form: most splendently
Etymology: From splendent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a splendent manner.
craniomedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + medullary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cranium and medulla.
splenomedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spleno- + medullary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the spleen and medulla.
splenoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splenomas
form: splenomata
Etymology: From spleno- + -oma.
Senses: glosses: A tumor of the spleen.
splenomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splenoma
splenomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splenoma
splinter-new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splinter-new
form: most splinter-new
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brand new.
synonyms: word: brand new
splinty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splinty
form: most splinty
Senses: glosses: Having the texture of splent coal.
tobacco splitworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobacco splitworms
Senses: glosses: The moth Phthorimaea operculella.
tobacco splitworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobacco splitworm
packet station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packet stations
Etymology: From packet, a vessel to carry mail etc.
Senses: examples: text: A branch line was to run from Newport to Ryde, which had by then attained considerable importance as the packet station providing the quickest access to the island from London, via Portsmouth.
ref: 1946 March and April, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 112:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ferry port used by packets (ferries) carrying mail and passengers over short distances, e.g. across a channel.
Spokan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Spokane (“Native American tribe”).
spokiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spoky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A spoky roll is shown beside a smooth roll in Figure 1. Spokiness occurs both with 35mm and with 16mm film but does not appear to cause projection difficulties with 35mm film.
ref: 1942, International Projectionist, volumes 17-18, page 12:
glosses: The state or condition of being spoky.
packet stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packet station.
spoky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoky
form: most spoky
Etymology: From spoke + -y, from the resemblance to spokes of a wheel.
Senses: examples: text: A spoky roll is shown beside a smooth roll in Figure 1. Spokiness occurs both with 35mm and with 16mm film but does not appear to cause projection difficulties with 35mm film.
ref: 1942, International Projectionist, volumes 17-18, page 12:
text: When a spoky roll is stored for a long time, the film flows permanently into the spoky condition, resulting in film distortion.
ref: 1995, 1995 ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning applications:
glosses: Of a roll of film: incorrectly wound, resulting in humps that appear as radial lines.
Derived terms: spokiness
spokestoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spokestoon
spoliary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoliaries
Senses: synonyms: spoliarium
glosses: The place in an Ancient Roman amphitheatre where slaughtered gladiators were dragged and the clothes stripped from their bodies.
spoliaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoliary
spondylizema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In spondylizema the body of the vertebra is destroyed, and we therefore get pelvis obtecta — that is to say, the lumbar spine covers in the brim of the pelvis.
ref: 1912, David Berry Hart, Guide to midwifery, page 684:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disintegration and sinking in of the lower lumbar vertebrae.
spondylotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to spondylotherapy.
spondylotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spondylotherapists
Senses: glosses: One who carries out spondylotherapy.
spondylotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondylotherapist
spondylotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spondylotherapy.
synonyms: word: spondylotherapy
spondylotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spondylo- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: A form of therapy involving stimulation by ice, electric currents, etc. of the nerves originating from the spinal cord.
Related terms: spondylotherapeutic
spondylotherapeutics
spondylotherapist
ToC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ToCs
Senses: examples: text: The first method aims at parsing the ToC page so as to segment it into entries, each entry being formed by a label and a reference to a page number.
ref: 2010, Hervé Déjean, Jean-Luc Meunier, “XRCE Participation to the 2009 Book Structure Task”, in Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, Andrew Trotman, editors, Focused Retrieval and Evaluation: 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009, Brisbane, Australia, December 7-9, 2009, Revised and Selected Papers, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Fig.11 shows the ToC structure of a book which can be departed into following seven layers: (1) book title (BT); (2) chapter (CH); (3) subchapter (SC); (4) paragraph (PH); (5) page (PG); (6) sentence (ST); and (7) words (WD).
ref: 2012, Xueming Qian, “Semantic Based Sport Video Browsing”, in Muhammad Tanvir Afzal, editor, Semantics in Action: Applications and Scenarios, InTech, →ISBN, page 155:
text: The complete ToC can complement the syllabus of “Software Testing,” if students were introduced to programming their freshman year with the help of Python.
ref: 2017, Ashwin Pajankar, Python Unit Test Automation: Practical Techniques for Python Developers and Testers, Apress, →ISBN, page xix:
text: The process of manually building the ToC of a book is very time-consuming.
ref: 2018, Antoine Doucet, “Logical Structure Extraction from Digitized Books”, in Volker Margner, Umapada Pal, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, editors, Document Analysis and Text Recognition: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Systems (Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence; volume 82), World Scientific, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TOC (“table of contents”).
powdery scab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of potato tubers, caused by the cercozoan Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea, and characterized by small lesions progressing to raised pustules containing a powdery mass.
spoolwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spool + wood, from its use in making spools.
Senses: glosses: The wood of the paper birch (Betula papyrifera).
sporadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sporadic.
thumpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] Yet ſhe thumpt it on her way / With a ſportly hey de gay: […]
ref: 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, section 10, pages 4–5:
glosses: simple past and past participle of thump
sportly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sportly
form: most sportly
Etymology: From sport + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] Yet ſhe thumpt it on her way / With a ſportly hey de gay: […]
ref: 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, section 10, pages 4–5:
text: I try to play a sportly game, / with all the boys I meet; / But just as soon as my back is turned, / Lord Massy, how they cheat.
ref: 1966, F. Ray Blakely, A Touch of the Master's Hand, page 52:
text: The solids are detailed with a sportly plaid trim inside the (A) collar band, (B) yoke, (C) cuff, (D) pocket gussets and (E) under the pocket flaps.
ref: 1977, Texas Monthly, volume 5, number 10, page 224:
glosses: sporty, sportive
parallel computing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most impressive applications of massively parallel computing have been in the context of wide-area distributed platforms.
ref: 2003, Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis, Introduction to Parallel Computing, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: A type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.
bimbocore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bimbo + -core.
Senses: examples: text: It goes without saying that this is all thanks to social media – invariably the most fertile environment for cretinous ideas and noxious role models – and a landscape in which “bimbocore” now looms large.
ref: 2022 May 10, Celia Walden, “Celia Walden: Gen Z are deluded if they think ‘bimbo’ can be turned into a compliment”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: But then, when I go to a gay bar in London, I’m like, “Oh, let me do bimbocore for the night,” and I’ll dress up in an ultra-femme way, knowing that I’m not being hypersexualised in that space.
ref: 2022 June/July, Maddy Alford, quoting Simone Murphy, “Finding pride in our style”, in Cosmopolitan, page 49:
text: Then there’s “bimbocore”, a hyper-feminine aesthetic that takes apart patriarchal definitions of femininity and focuses on dressing for yourself, a “modern act of feminism”.
ref: 2022 September 25, Annie Brown, “Think”, in South China Morning Post:
text: Since the pandemic, microtrends have organically popped up on TikTok, with users describing grouped looks or aesthetics – bimbocore, Catholic chic – that might most accurately be described as “vibes” or “a mood”.
ref: 2022 December 14, Hannah Ewens, “Trends Used to Come Back Round Every 20 Years. Not Anymore.”, in Vice, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2022:
text: That’s the very caricature that ‘bimbocore’ – a recent social media trend — is using to reclaim ‘hyper-femininity’ through Barbie doll-esque fashion and beauty.
ref: 2023, Anita Bhagwandas, Ugly: Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards, Blink Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Captured on a camcorder, we see Dakota and Jackie head from Gucci’s Rodeo Drive boutique with a plethora hands in tow—evoking a sense of nostalgia for the ‘bimbocore’ days of Paris Hilton schlepping her designer bags down Beverly Hills—to saunter down Sunset Boulevard strapped with a Starbucks.
ref: 2023 January 10, Ava Gilchrist, “See Dakota Johnson And Her Best Friend, Jackie, Gallivant Around LA In New Gucci Campaign”, in Marie Claire, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2023:
qualifier: TikTok aesthetic
glosses: An aesthetic based around stereotypical feminine elements such as glitter and the colour pink.
spreadboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreadboards
Etymology: From spread + board.
Senses: glosses: Part of a textile machine where the flax is drawn out by the rollers.
spreadboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreadboard
spreadation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreadations
Etymology: From spread + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A banquet; a rich spread of food.
spreadations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreadation
pourasabha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourasabhas
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali পৌরসভা (pōurośobha).
Senses: glosses: a municipality in Bangladesh or West Bengal.
Xiden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃaɪ.dən/
/ˈzaɪ.dən/
Etymology: Blend of Xi + Biden, in reference to Xi Jinping (born 1953), the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
Senses: examples: text: I keep waiting for ONE of my left-leaning facebook buddies to say what a good job Xiden is doing.
ref: 2021 July 29, Jason Burke, “Re: Two Puddles Of Blood In Dealey Plaza?”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):
text: Not content with being #3 on the Chinese Wuhan Virus state list, the wreckless hypocrite woke folks of Massachusetts are holding posh dinner parties and spreading the virus like crazy, classic democrats like those governors and Xiden that were caught secretly not wearing masks.
ref: 2021 August 9, iceber...@gmail.com, “OT Cases in Massachusetts going through the roof again!”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):
text: Trump was famously on the verge of banning it when Xiden rode in and gave a reprieve.
ref: 2022 October 4, JeSSe, “Chink spyware app has Hook$ into Bolshevik power structure”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: Joe Biden (born 1942), the 46th president of the United States, viewed as a pawn or tool of China.
wikipedia: Chinese Communist Party
Xi Jinping
sproutage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sprout + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Q. As to the extent of the sproutage of them on the floor, how was that? A. There was some beans among those spread out a little sprouted, but the worst sprouted beans were at one side.
ref: 1880, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 82:
glosses: Something that sprouts; plant growth.
DeepDreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From DeepDream + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: #DeepDreaming is already as easy as a "click to upload" online tool.
ref: 2015 August 3, Emerson Rosenthal, “Google's Deep Dream for Dummies”, in Vice, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2021:
text: Many websites allow you to play directly with DeepDreaming. […] After the initial results presented in 2015, many new additional papers and blog postings were presented about DeepDreaming: […]
ref: 2017, Antonio Gulli, Amita Kapoor, TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook: Over 90 unique recipes to solve artificial-intelligence driven problems with Python, Packt, →ISBN, page 153:
text: The term “dream,” however, has been used—albeit metaphorically—in connection with a technique, DeepDreaming, discovered by Alex Mordvintsev of Google Artists and Machine Intelligence [AMI], while analyzing the operations at work in the process of recognition using artificial neural network.
ref: 2020, Neil Leach, “Do Robots Dream of Digital Buildings?”, in Philip F. Yuan, Mike Xie, Neil Leach, Jiawei Yao, Xiang Wang, editors, Architectural Intelligence: Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, published 2022, →ISBN, page 61:
text: MdC [Matias del Campo]: I am pretty sure it is probably the ﬁrst built project that used DeepDreaming and style transfers as a design method.
ref: 2022, “Interview: Matias del Campo”, in Dimensions, volume 35, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, →ISSN, page 089, column 2:
glosses: The use of a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedelic experience in the deliberately overprocessed images.
wikipedia: DeepDream
ImageNet
springmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springmakers
Etymology: From spring + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of springs (mechanical devices that exert force).
springmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spring + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of springs (mechanical devices that exert force).
springmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springmaker
sprucery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spruce + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant.
sprucification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of sprucifying.
spurflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurflowers
Etymology: From spur + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Plectranthus.
spurflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurflower
spurmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurmakers
Etymology: From spur + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of spurs.
spurmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spur + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of spurs.
spurmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurmaker
percolozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percolozoans
Etymology: From the taxonomic name Percolozoa + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any unicellular organism of the phylum Percolozoa.
percolozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the taxonomic name Percolozoa + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the phylum Percolozoa.
percolozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percolozoan
infomachine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infomachines
Etymology: From info- + machine.
Senses: examples: text: The computer itself is of the utmost triviality to the workings of the infomachine you are watching.
ref: 1991, David H. Gelernter, Mirror Worlds, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Clipped compound of information machine.
logframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logframes
Senses: glosses: In the Logical Framework Approach to project development, a matrix whose rows represent events (activities, outputs, purpose, goal) and whose columns list information about those events.
logframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logframe
infomachines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infomachine
spur-rial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spur-rials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spur-royal.
spur-ryal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spur-ryals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spur-royal.
spur-ryals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spur-ryal
spur-rials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spur-rial
Horringford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in Arreton parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5485).
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: PAH
word: polyaromatic hydrocarbon
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds composed of multiple aromatic rings, many of which are found in coal and in oil deposits, and are produced by the combustion of organic matter.
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
spurwing plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurwing plovers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spur-winged plover.
spurwing plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurwing plover
spurwing wattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Australian shrub Acacia triptera.
spurwing goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurwing geese
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spur-winged goose.
spurwing geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurwing goose
spurwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurwings
Etymology: From spur + wing.
Senses: glosses: Any of various butterflies of the genus Antigonus.
Hyponyms: common spurwing
large spurwing
small spurwing
West-Mexican spurwing
white spurwing
Related terms: spurwinged
spurwing goose
spurwing plover
spurwing wattle
spurwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurwing
there's more than one way to feed a cat
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: There's more than one way to feed a cat. This leftover pizza is just what I need to wreck my diet.
ref: 1989, Garfield's Longest Catnap:
glosses: Synonym of there's more than one way to skin a cat.
synonyms: word: there's more than one way to skin a cat
mobik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊbɪk/
ipa: /moʊbɪk/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: mobiks
form: mobiki
form: mobnik
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian мо́бик (móbik), from моб(илизо́ванный) (mob(ilizóvannyj), “mobilized”) + -ик (-ik, diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "The video was posted on and being reposted by pro-Wagner channels, which matches Prigozhin's 'Fire Shojgu' narrative...Also some Wagner patches are visible on it. Nearly all 'poor mobiks' (mobilized men) on the video wear balaclavas," Krutov wrote.
ref: 2022 October 6, Isabel van Brugen, “Putin Has 'Lost Control' as Infighting Breaks Out Among Russia's Elite”, in Newsweek:
text: The Defense Ministry has pumped out a stream of videos showing happy "mobiks," as the recruits are known in Russian slang, learning to shoot, attack tanks, tie a tourniquet, plant a land mine and other military tasks.
ref: 2022 October 16, Neil MacFarquhar, “'Coffins Are Already Coming': The Toll of Russia's Chaotic Draft”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A Russian conscript during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially a young man with little to no fighting experience.
Derived terms: chmobik
Related terms: mogilization
Tyrese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taɪˈɹiːs/
Forms: form: Tyreses
form: Tyreese
form: Tyrece
form: Tyreece
form: Tyrez
form: Tyreez
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly a Blend of Tyrone + Reese or Maurice
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
Related terms: Tyre
Tyrece
Tyree
Tyreece
Tyreese
Tyreese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tyreeses
form: Tyrese
form: Tyrece
form: Tyreece
form: Tyrez
form: Tyreez
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: Tyre
Tyrece
Tyree
Tyreece
Tyrese
spyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spyships
Etymology: From spy + ship.
Senses: glosses: A ship (water-borne vessel) used for espionage.
spyships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spyship
squadrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian squadrismo.
Senses: glosses: A policy of violence by squads of Fascists in Italy after the First World War.
squallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squall + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: And he had a wife, was the plague of his life, / With her squallery, bawlery, ho!
ref: 1827, The Atheneum, volume 21, page 163:
text: The rising of the curtain drew his habitual groan from Potts, and he fled to collogue with the goodly number of honest fellows in the house of music who detested 'squallery.
ref: 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:
glosses: squalling
Yupanqui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Yupanqui, from Quechua.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
stagnational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stagnation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to stagnation.
squamulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squamulations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The condition of being squamulate; the presence of small scales.
squamulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squamulation
squaredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From squared + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If the binomial roots of a series of quadratics be squaredly squared, and those results be constant portions of the cube of the resolvend, and the dioristic limit; […]
ref: 1809, Charles Hutton, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London from Their Commencement in 1665 to the Year 1800, volume 3, page 41:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having been squared (again).
squareman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaremen
Etymology: From square + -man.
Senses: glosses: A stonecutter.
squaremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squareman
Tyrece
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tyreces
form: Tyrese
form: Tyreese
form: Tyreece
form: Tyrez
form: Tyreez
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: Tyre
Tyree
Tyreece
Tyreese
Tyrese
Tyreece
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tyreeces
form: Tyrese
form: Tyreese
form: Tyrece
form: Tyrez
form: Tyreez
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: Tyre
Tyrece
Tyree
Tyreese
Tyrese
Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the Isle of Wight, England, renamed from Calbourne parish in 2019.
Obrador
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊbɹədɔː(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Porchfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield parish, northern Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4491).
plays the clitar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the clitar
playing the clitar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play the clitar
played the clitar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the clitar
Calbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the River Caul Bourne.
Senses: glosses: A village in Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield parish, west-central Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4286).
wikipedia: River Caul Bourne
Punxsutawney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpʌŋksəˈtɔːni/
Etymology: Borrowed from Unami Punkwsutènay (literally “mosquito town”).
Senses: glosses: A borough in southern Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States, known for its annual Groundhog Day celebration.
polyaromatic hydrocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaromatic hydrocarbons
Senses: examples: text: Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
ref: 2022 February 9, Karen McVeigh, “‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters”, in The Guardian:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
synonyms: word: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
squdge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʌd͡ʒ/
ipa: /skwʊd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
rhymes: -ʊdʒ
Forms: form: squdges
form: squudge
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Now there were two objects, ricocheting off a rocky headland, occasionally bumping each other with a squdge inaudible above the sloshing water.
ref: 1940, C. Daly King, Bermuda Burial, page 195:
text: Students plodded bravely on, unmindful of the cold rain water that made a "squdge" in the soaked shoes every time a step was taken.
ref: 1927, Olde Penn, volume 26, number 4, page 88:
text: Rob's harpoon whistled through the air and sank, with a “squdge,” into the side of the bobbing, evasive target.
ref: 1911, Lieut. Howard Payson [John Henry Goldfrap], The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship (The Boy Scouts; 3), New York: A. L. Burt Company, page 29:
glosses: A wet, squashy sound.
examples: text: What on earth did they do with themselves in those little transitory houses on their quarter-acre plots, without a decent tree on the estate, and the very road a squdge of clay and clinker?
ref: 1927, John Lofland, Doomsday Cult, page 11:
glosses: A wet, squashy mess.
squdge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwʌd͡ʒ/
ipa: /skwʊd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
rhymes: -ʊdʒ
Forms: form: squdges
form: squdging
form: squdged
form: squdged
form: squudge
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To move in a wet, squashing manner; to squish.
squdges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squdge
squdges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squdge
squdging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squdge
squdged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squdge
xray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xrays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of X-ray.
squary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squary
form: most squary
Etymology: From square + -y.
Senses: glosses: neat and compact
squeege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squeeges
form: squeeging
form: squeeged
form: squeeged
Senses: glosses: To squeeze.
squeege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squeeges
Senses: glosses: Dated form of squeegee.
squeeges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squeege
squeeges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squeege
squeeging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squeege
squeeged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squeege
Chale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the south of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4878).
One
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.
ref: 2003, John R. Kohlenberger III, The Evangelical Parallel New Testament, 1196
text: Hopefully, after reading this chapter, this reflection upon Christianity versus skepticism will cause each of us to contemplate more critically upon the One who died for us so that we might live for Him.
ref: 2009, Dallas R. Burdette, Biblical Preaching and Teaching, pages 128-129:
text: I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the One who, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him
ref: 2015, Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages, page 167:
glosses: Honorific alternative letter-case form of one, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Syrma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Iota Virginis, a binary star in the constellation of Virgo.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Iota Virginis A, one of the two components of this star.
mobiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobik
synechology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synechiology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνέχεια (sunékheia, “continuity”), + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The metaphysical doctrine of the connection of things by causation.
synechological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to synechology.
swordfisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordfishermen
Senses: glosses: A fisherman who fishes for swordfish.
swordfishermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordfisherman
sybarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sybarisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sybaritism.
sybarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sybarism
toothette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothettes
Etymology: Trade name, from tooth + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Assist the patient with brushing the teeth and cleaning the mouth, using a soft toothbrush, a toothette, or a gauze-padded tongue blade.
ref: 1986, Kathleen Hoerth Belland, Mary Ann Wells, Clinical Nursing Procedures, page 16:
text: If you are attempting to force the toothbrush in, use a toothette. The sponge tip will not cause injury to the lips or gums. Use toothettes with caution.
ref: 2016, Douglas Scharre, Long-Term Management of Dementia, page 145:
glosses: A swab consisting of a small sponge on a stick, used for oral hygiene.
toothettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothette
swindledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swindle + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of swindlers.
swearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swearingly
form: most swearingly
Etymology: From swearing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While swearing (using curse words).
glosses: While swearing (making a vow or oath).
swearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swearily
form: most swearily
Etymology: From sweary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sweary manner.
sweariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sweary.
suspicionful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspicionful
form: most suspicionful
Etymology: From suspicion + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of suspicion; suspicious.
susotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sūs (“pig”) + toxin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic basic substance obtained from cultures of the swine fever bacillus.
sviatonossite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An andradite-syenite mineral.
Svetambara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shwethambara
form: Svetambar
form: Shvetambara
form: Swetambar
Etymology: From Sanskrit श्वेताम्बर (śvetāmbara), from Sanskrit श्वेत (śveta, “white”) and अम्बर (ambara, “cloth”)
Senses: glosses: One of the two main branches of Jainism (the other being the Digambara), in which the ascetics wear white clothes and are not obliged to practise nudity.
Shwethambara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Svetambara.
Svetambar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Svetambara.
Shvetambara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Svetambara.
Swetambar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Svetambara.
muhapatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muhapattis
form: mahapatti
form: mahpatti
form: muhpatti
Senses: glosses: A white square of cloth or card worn across the face by certain Jains, to prevent saliva from coming into contact with sacred items.
muhpatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muhpattis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muhapatti.
muhapattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muhapatti
mahapatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahapattis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muhapatti.
mahpatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahpattis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muhapatti.
muhpattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muhpatti
mahapattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahapatti
mahpattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahpatti
suspectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspectible
form: most suspectible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suspectable.
sursumvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The amount by which the eyes can diverge in a vertical plane.
Related terms: sursumvergent
surmisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From surmised + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I will provide an interpretation that allows for the reality of some of the surmisedly fantastic sources.
ref: 2003, James Robert Enterline, Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus:
glosses: According to surmise.
lunchwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lunch + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: After a busy morning in the office, I was glad to head lunchwards.
glosses: Towards lunch.
breakfastwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From breakfast + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: I had a quick shower and headed breakfastwards.
glosses: Towards breakfast.
scrotalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrot(um) + -algia.
Senses: examples: text: Complications noted were relatively minor, all less then 5%, such as urinary tract infection, self-limited sensory changes in the feet due to positioning, transient ED, scrotalgia, and minor wound problems.
ref: 2008, Reynaldo G. Gomez, “Stricture Excision and Primary Anastomosis for Anterior Urethral Strictures”, in Steven B. Brandes, editor, Urethral Reconstructive Surgery (Current Clinical Urology), Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the scrotum.
dinnerwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dinner + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: At about seven in the evening, the hotel guests began to head dinnerwards.
glosses: Towards dinner.
supperwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supper + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards supper.
suppressal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppressals
Senses: glosses: Act of suppressing; suppression.
suppressals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppressal
sundangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sundang
Gournay-en-Bray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French, attested as Old French Gornai in 1049.
* The first element is probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *gorn (“fishery, reach”) + *-ako, Latinized as Latin -acum.
* The second element was added in 1962 to avoid confusion with Gournay-le-Guérin in the department of Eure. It references Pays de Bray and is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from *braco, for which see braye (“mud, daub”).
Senses: glosses: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
wikipedia: Gournay-le-Guérin
Pays de Bray
streakwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From streak + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a streak or streaks.
streakwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From streak + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a streak or streaks.
Ferrières-en-Bray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Ferrières-en-Bray
Senses: glosses: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
Straffordian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Straffordian
form: most Straffordian
Etymology: From Strafford + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the English statesman Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641).
Straffordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Straffordians
Etymology: From Strafford + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.
Straffordians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Straffordian