cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
newsgathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From news + gathering.
Senses: examples: text: This portable camera is just the thing for on-the-spot newsgathering.
text: Our network has the best newsgathering operation in the country.
text: How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.
ref: April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
topics: broadcasting
media
coordinate_terms: sports gathering
glosses: The collection of information related to current events.
malintent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæl.ɪnˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: From mal- + intent.
Senses: glosses: Malicious intent.
the thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This book isn't quite the thing.
text: I need a present for my friend, and I think this is just the thing.
glosses: The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose.
examples: text: He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:
text: “When did money become the thing — the only thing?” Ms. Lim’s character asks in the opening monologue.
ref: 2017 November 2, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘Junk’ Revives a Go-Go Era of Debt and Duplicity”, in The New York Times:
text: Brewfest needs to become the''' thing at Rutgers.
ref: 2018 September 30, Steve Politi, “A Rutgers fan's secret to survival: Beer. Lots and lots of beer.”, nj.com
text: "I'm a little confused why she's the thing,” McCaskill told CNN.
ref: 2018 December 26, Avery Anapol (quoting Claire McCaskill), “McCaskill on Ocasio-Cortez: ‘I’m a little confused why she’s the thing’”, The Hill
glosses: The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored.
Synonyms: ticket
Related terms: the shit
conglomerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conglomeration
cosmetologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmetologist
outearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outearns
form: outearning
form: outearned
form: outearned
form: outearnt
form: outearnt
Etymology: From out- + earn.
Senses: examples: text: Generally those with more responsibility outearn those with less.
glosses: To make more money than, to earn more than.
outearns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outearn
outearning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outearn
outearned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outearn
outjump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outjumps
form: outjumping
form: outjumped
form: outjumped
Etymology: From out- + jump.
Senses: examples: text: It was a goal that showcased all of the 20-year-old’s qualities as he outjumped Nahuel Ferraresi to win the header and shot at Faríñez with his right foot before slotting home the rebound with his left.
ref: 2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in the Guardian:
text: 'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras Country.'
ref: 1865, Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County:
glosses: To jump better than; particularly higher than, or further than.
Synonyms: outhop
outjumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outjump
outjumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outjump
outjumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outjump
smiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smiters
Etymology: From Middle English smyter, smitere, equivalent to smite + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who smites.
Derived terms: cushion-smiter
psalm-smiter
smiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smiter
ovenproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oven-proof
Etymology: From oven + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Please cook the potatoes on this tray: it's ovenproof.
glosses: Suitable for use in an oven, without being damaged by the heat.
raw_tags: of a dish
Related terms: flameproof
palminerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the venation arranged like the fingers of an open hand; palmately nerved.
raw_tags: of a leaf
parallelinerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parallelinerved
form: most parallelinerved
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the venation arranged in parallel lines of veins
raw_tags: of a leaf
peltinerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peltinerved
form: most peltinerved
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the veins radiating from the centre
raw_tags: of a leaf
Related terms: peltate
sea turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea turtle
green turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green turtle
penninerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penninerved
form: most penninerved
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: penniveined
glosses: Having the nerves arranged on each side of the midriff like the barbs of a feather
raw_tags: of a leaf
probabilistically checkable proofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probabilistically checkable proof
Jurchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːt͡ʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːt͡ʃən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜɹt͡ʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜɹt͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɛn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃən
Forms: form: Jurchens
form: Jurchen
form: Jurched
form: Jurchet
form: Jurgen
Etymology: From a reconstruction of Jurchen *jörcen, attested via Middle Chinese 竹里真 (trjuwk li^X tsyin) and Khitan 𘲮𘯤𘰭 (*ju rả n), developed under the influence of Manchu ᠵᡠᡵᠴᡳᡨ (jurcit) and Classical Mongolian ᠵᠦᠷᠴᠢᠳ (ǰürčid). Vajda argues for a derivation from a Proto-Tungusic word meaning "reindeer people", cognate with the Orochs of Russia's Khabarovsk Province and the Oroks of Sakhalin.
Senses: synonyms: word: Nurchen
word: Nuzhen
word: Nuchen
word: Nuzhi
word: Nuchih
word: Jin
english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: Eastern Tartars
word: Golden Tartars
glosses: A member of a medieval and early modern Tungusic people, progenitors of the Manchus.
Jurchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːt͡ʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːt͡ʃən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜɹt͡ʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜɹt͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɛn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃən
Forms: form: Jurched
form: Jurchet
form: Jurgen
Etymology: From a reconstruction of Jurchen *jörcen, attested via Middle Chinese 竹里真 (trjuwk li^X tsyin) and Khitan 𘲮𘯤𘰭 (*ju rả n), developed under the influence of Manchu ᠵᡠᡵᠴᡳᡨ (jurcit) and Classical Mongolian ᠵᠦᠷᠴᠢᠳ (ǰürčid). Vajda argues for a derivation from a Proto-Tungusic word meaning "reindeer people", cognate with the Orochs of Russia's Khabarovsk Province and the Oroks of Sakhalin.
Senses: synonyms: Nurchen
glosses: An extinct Tungusic language (code jur), related to Manchu.
compatibilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compatible + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: soft determinism
antonyms: incompatibilism
hard determinism
glosses: The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
Related terms: compatibilist
thaumaturgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaumaturgists
Etymology: From thaumaturge + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:
glosses: A performer of thaumaturgy; a performer of miracles; a magician.
Synonyms: thaumaturge
Related terms: thaumaturgic
thaumaturgus
thaumaturgy
quadruple bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruple bluffs
Senses: examples: text: The Reason it is not interpretable may be that while we can appreciate the difference between sincerity and a bluff, and even between a bluff and a double bluff, our minds aren’t yet rigged up to appreciate the difference between, say, a triple bluff and a quadruple bluff.
ref: 1998, J Haiman, Talk is Cheap, Oxford university press, →ISBN:
text: I have been given the topic of lust and immediately I wonder what it is that you are expecting, and as I wonder I try and think should I go for bluff, double bluff, triple bluff or quadruple bluff.
ref: 2008, 28 February, Rt Revd Tim Thornton, Bishop of Sherborne, Lent lecture given to Salisbury Cathedral
text: everything I was told as if it was at least a double-bluff and more likely a triple- or quadruple-bluff
ref: 2008, 4 November, J Beresford, TV Scoop review
text: Clearly, Britain's only hope is that the whole story is part of an elaborate, black-ops quadruple bluff designed to lull Johnny Foreigner into a false sense of security over the apparently shambolic nature of our national defence system.
ref: 2008 September 23, L Mangan, “The spy who came unstuck on national TV”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The next bluff in sequence after a double bluff and a triple bluff
quadruple bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quadruple bluffs
form: quadruple bluffing
form: quadruple bluffed
form: quadruple bluffed
Senses: glosses: To perform a quadruple bluff
tea dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea dances
form: T-dance
form: T dance
Senses: glosses: A late afternoon or early evening dance, typically with a live orchestra (often referred to as a palm court orchestra) playing light classical music.
glosses: Any late afternoon or early evening dance, especially one similar to nightclub dancing that would usually be held later at night.
theme song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theme songs
Senses: examples: text: “Liberty Bell March” is the theme song to Monty Python's Flying Circus.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
synonyms: signature tune
theme tune
glosses: A song which accompanies a television or radio program, usually as an intro or outro.
therapeutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: therapeutic
Derived terms: bibliotherapeutical
biotherapeutical
dietotherapeutical
immunotherapeutical
nontherapeutical
pharmacotherapeutical
phototherapeutical
phytotherapeutical
posttherapeutical
pretherapeutical
psychotherapeutical
radiotherapeutical
subtherapeutical
untherapeutical
zootherapeutical
therapeutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapeuticals
Senses: glosses: Such an agent
thermograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermographs
Etymology: From thermo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A thermometer which records the temperature.
thermograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermographs
form: thermographing
form: thermographed
form: thermographed
Etymology: From thermo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: To record temperature using such an instrument
Related terms: bathythermograph
thermography
palafitte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palafittes
Etymology: From French palafitte.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pile (“wooden structure used to support prehistoric dwellings”).
synonyms: word: pile
extra: wooden structure used to support prehistoric dwellings
fire-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fire-proof
form: most fire-proof
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fireproof.
thermology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of heat
glosses: imaging of the body by means of infrared radiation
Related terms: thermologic
thermological
thermologist
thermogram
plagiotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagiotropic
form: most plagiotropic
Etymology: From plagio- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing at an oblique or almost horizontal angle
Derived terms: plagiotropically
Related terms: plagiophototropic
plagiotropism
plagiotropy
theme songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theme song
filicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filicide
thermoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoscopes
Etymology: From thermo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A scientific instrument that measures changes in temperature.
Derived terms: thermoscopic
thermoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From thermoscope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the thermoscope.
examples: text: Thermoscopic observations.
glosses: Made by means of a thermoscope.
thesaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From thesaurus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a thesaurus.
thingummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thingummy
Thespian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɛspi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛspiən
Forms: form: Thespians
Senses: glosses: A person from the ancient Greek city of Thespiae.
examples: text: In his way Carlyle was as much of a Thespian as Garrick or Kemble, Booth or Jeferson.
ref: 1903, Adrian H[offman] Joline, The Diversions of a Book-Lover, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 170:
text: Now, I don’t think you’ve met Melissa Wayne, a fellow Thespian.
ref: 1990, Pat Booth, Malibu, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 156:
text: The courtyard’s empty and the Clients are inside the castle making pigs of themselves while watching a troupe of Thespians bait an animatronic bear.
ref: 1995 April, George Saunders, “Bounty”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 290, number 1739:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of thespian.
Thespian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɛspi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛspiən
Forms: form: more Thespian
form: most Thespian
Senses: examples: text: Went to that magnificent Temple of Thalia, the New Olympic, and saw the bewitchingest Pauline, in the person of Winifred Emery, that ever I saw in the shammiest, stagiest, tawdriest, tinsellest, transparentest, most diaphanously theatrical comedy I ever saw in the absolute period of my Thespian existence.
ref: 1890 December 24, “Judy’s Diary”, in Judy: The London Serio-comic Journal, volume 46, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 306, column 2:
text: He stopped, and smiled, his blond hair, male-model good looks, and his ponytail giving away his Thespian dreams.
ref: 1990, Pat Booth, Malibu, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 113:
text: “A stunning clotheshorse upon whom no discernible Thespian demands were made,” wrote Jack Gould, the television critic for The New York Times.
ref: 2019 February 18, “Lee Radziwill, Former Princess and Sister of a First Lady, Is Dead at 85”, in The New York Times, section B, page 8:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of thespian.
Thessalonica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɛsələˈnaɪkə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Thessalonīca, from Ancient Greek Θεσσᾰλονῑ́κη (Thessălonī́kē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (Thessălós, “Thessalian”) + νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”), possibly named for her birth on the anniversary of the Battle of Crocus Field in Thessaly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.
wikipedia: Alexander the Great
Battle of Crocus Field
Cassander
Philip II of Macedonia
Thessalonike of Macedon
Derived terms: Thessalonican
Thessalonican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Thessalonica + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or from, Thessalonica (Thessaloniki)
Synonyms: Salonican
Thessalonian
Thessalonican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thessalonicans
Etymology: From Thessalonica + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone of or from Thessalonica (Thessaloniki)
Synonyms: Salonican
Thessalonian
Thessalonicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thessalonican
theurgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪk
Etymology: From Latin theurgicus. By surface analysis, theurgy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, theurgy.
Derived terms: theurgically
Bo Diddley beat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bo Diddley beats
Etymology: Made popular by musician Bo Diddley.
Senses: glosses: A rumba-like beat similar to hambone, somewhat resembling the "shave and a haircut" beat.
wikipedia: Bo Diddley
theurgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theurgy
tickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪkli/
/ˈtɪkəli/
Forms: form: ticklier
form: tickliest
Etymology: From tickle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.
examples: text: a tickly woollen blanket
glosses: Producing an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.
Derived terms: tickly-bender
pancake tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancake tortoises
Senses: glosses: A flat-shelled species of tortoise, taxonomic name Malacochersus tornieri.
supremes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supreme
supreming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supreme
supremed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supreme
utility knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility knife
tondi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tondo
unifacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From uni- + facial.
Senses: glosses: Having, or showing, a single face.
examples: text: Some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface.
glosses: Having only one principal or specialized surface or edge.
glosses: Cylindrical.
strobili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: strō-bī′lī
ipa: /stɹəʊ̯ˈbaɪ̯.laɪ̯/
ipa: /stɹoʊ̯ˈbaɪ̯.laɪ̯/
ipa: /stɹoʊ̯ˈbʌɪ̯.lʌɪ̯/
ipa: /stɹəʉ̯ˈbɑe̯.lɑe̯/
ipa: /stɹɐʉ̯ˈbaɪ̯.laɪ̯/
ipa: /stɹoˈbaɪ̯.laɪ̯/
ipa: /stɹoˈbʌi̯.lʌi̯/
ipa: /stɹoˈbəi̯.ləi̯/
ipa: /sʈɾoːˈbaj.laj/
rhymes: -aɪlaɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of strobilus
prædecessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædecessors
Senses: examples: text: Oure said brother, your prædecessor, paide to him c li. of Scottez money.
ref: 1447, Let. Coldingham, Sur. Soc. 12, page 160:
text: Mr Thomas Smith your prædecessor has been dead about 16 or 17 years he was never concerned with the Army accounts.
ref: 1716, John Flamsteed, Letter to Mr. Abraham Sharp; letter 1,421 in The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal (CRC Press; →ISBN, 9780750307635) published in 1997 by Eric G Forbes, Murdin Lesley, and Frances Willmoth (editors), page 790
glosses: Obsolete spelling of predecessor.
prædecessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prædecessor
not equal sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: not equal signs
Senses: glosses: A relation symbol that indicates that two expressions are different; the ≠ symbol.
œnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine; Being a Complete Manual of Viticulture and Œnology: Being a Complete Manual of Viticulture and Œnology
ref: 1872, John Louis William Thudichum, A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine; Being a Complete Manual of Viticulture and Œnology: Being a Complete Manual of Viticulture and Œnology, main title (Macmillan and co.)
text: Royal schools of viticulture and œnology.
ref: 1893, The United States Office of Experiment Stations, the United States Deptartment of Agriculture, and the States Relations Service, Experiment Station Record, volume 4, page 329 (G.P.O.)
glosses: Dated spelling of oenology.
photofit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photofits
Etymology: From photo + fit, from the British police force's Photofit system for constructing facial composites.
Senses: examples: text: The witness was called in to create a photofit resembling her memory of the attacker.
glosses: An image of a person constructed out of bits of photographs of other people; a facial composite.
wikipedia: Photofit
Derived terms: photofitting
photofits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photofit
doudouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doudouks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duduk.
see into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees into
form: seeing into
form: saw into
form: seen into
Senses: glosses: To perceive the truth about, especially of future events.
examples: text: Just see her into the house.
glosses: To escort into, especially a place of shelter.
Related terms: in
printing house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printing houses
Etymology: From the expansive sense of house to refer to any building, particularly those like shops or workshops where people work together for a common purpose. Originally used in reference to printing workshops supplying or included within a bookshop; later used more expansively to refer to any institution or company involved in printing.
Senses: glosses: An institution or commercial company chiefly devoted to printing.
glosses: The building where printing occurs.
glosses: Synonym of printshop: a place to make personal copies.
synonyms: word: printshop
extra: a place to make personal copies
Synonyms: sense: printing company
word: publisher
sense: printing company
word: publishing house
sense: printing company
word: printshop
sense: printing company
word: printing shop
sense: printing company
word: press
sense: printing company
alt: metonyms
word: printing press
sense: printing company
word: imprimery
sense: building for printing
word: printworks
Hypernyms: sense: printing company
word: printer
raw_tags: of self-run printing houses
Hyponyms: sense: printing company
english: subsidiary printing house
translation: subsidiary printing house
word: imprint
ecocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːkə(ʊ)ˈsaɪdəl/
Forms: form: more ecocidal
form: most ecocidal
Etymology: From ecocide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Awareness of the ecocidal propensities of the rural population coincided with the first reckless surge of modern industry.
ref: 2007, Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, Picador, published 2008, page 273:
glosses: Destructive of the environment.
bump-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bump-offs
Senses: examples: text: Scotland Yard men were searching tonight for a girl who wore a leopard skin coat, in connection with a so-called "bump-off" murder, the first of its kind in Britain.
ref: 1936 January 26, “Seek Girl in ‘Bump-off’”, in New York Times, page 24:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bumpoff.
pébrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French pébrine.
Senses: examples: text: In 1852, a disease called pébrine began to spread among the silkworms.
ref: 2007, Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, Picador, published 2008, page 267:
synonyms: gattine
pepper disease
glosses: A parasitic disease affecting silkworms.
catachreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catachresis
shaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːkə/
rhymes: -ɑːkə
Forms: form: shakas
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Shaka is not a word in the Hawaiian language, which lacks the /ʃ/ sound.
Senses: examples: text: Greet someone with the slang, “Howzit?” and say goodbye with a flash of the “shaka” sign (fist closed, thumb and pinky extended) and you have established your credibility with Hawaii natives.
ref: 2008 August 10, “Obama: At Home in the Islands”, in New York Times:
text: US President-elect Obama flashes the 'shaka' before he greets a crowd […]
ref: 2008 December 27, photo caption, Reuters:
glosses: A greeting gesture in which the thumb and little finger are extended while curling the three middle fingers in a semi-fist, used to express a variety of positive meanings including all right, hello and goodbye.
Synonyms: hang-loose sign
robe de chambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robes de chambre
Etymology: From French robe de chambre.
Senses: glosses: dressing gown
extrasystole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊl
Forms: form: extrasystoles
Etymology: From extra- + systole.
Senses: examples: text: An extrasystole originating at the rhythmic centre is thus followed by a returning cycle of natural length.
ref: 1914, Thomas Lewis et al., “The Excitatory Process in the Dog's Heart,”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, containing Papers of a Biological Character, volume 205, page 404:
text: A 30-year-old woman, with no heart disease, was referred to our center with a history of rare episodes of sustained tachycardia and frequent feeling of extrasystoles.
ref: 2005, Gian-Battista Chierchia MD et al., “Arrhythmia Rounds: A Case of Junctional Extrasystoles?”, in Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, volume 16, number 5, page 557:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A premature contraction of the heart, producing an interruption or irregularity in heartbeat rhythm, associated with heart disease or the use of some pharmaceuticals.
Synonyms: english: PVC
translation: PVC
word: premature ventricular contraction
alt: VPB
word: ventricular premature beat
Derived terms: postextrasystole
Related terms: extrasystolia
extrasystolic
skipped heartbeat
palpitation
cordelière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordelières
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cordeliere.
muzaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muzaky
form: most muzaky
Etymology: From muzak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] whose voice might be nice enough to make you forgive the rotten songs and the Muzaky backgrounds he covered […]
ref: 1996, Will Friedwald, Jazz Singing:
text: It's difficult to appreciate the innovative breakbeats when they're sandwiched between muzaky sex-talk, and the album mostly fails because of it.
ref: 2001, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, John Bush, All Music Guide to Electronica:
text: Copyright-free music can be a bit tacky and muzaky, but it is a low-budget option.
ref: 2002, Moi Ali, Practical Marketing and Public Relations for the Small Business:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Reminiscent of Muzak; insipid and monotonous.
polyrhythms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyrhythm
Nomic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the suffix -nomic; see -nomy.
Senses: examples: text: This is not to say that nuanced, intermediate levels may not arise in Nomic through game custom and tacit understandings.
ref: 1982, Douglas Hofstadter, Scientific American:
text: The game Nomic also has rules that change over time. But these games still have rules for how they're played...
ref: 2004, Andrew S. Glassner, Interactive Storytelling:
text: Nomic, a "game of self-amendment," is most fundamentally characterized by its rule 213, 213. If the rules are changed so that further play is impossible, or if the legality of a move cannot be determined with finality, or if by the Judge's best reasoning, not overruled, a move appears equally legal and illegal, then the first player unable to complete a turn is the winner.
ref: 2005, Yusuf Pisan, The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment:
glosses: A game, intended to model certain aspects of legal systems, in which players take turns by modifying the game's rules.
house martin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house martins
Etymology: From house + martin.
Senses: glosses: A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, genus Delichon
glosses: A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, genus Delichon
common house martin or western house martin (Delichon urbicum).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Delichon dasypus
word: Asian house martin
taxonomic: Delichon urbicum
word: common house martin
taxonomic: Delichon nipalense
word: Nepal house martin
taxonomic: Delichon lagopodum
word: Siberian house martin
taxonomic: Delichon urbicum
word: western house martin
crossborder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-border.
crossborder
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-border.
breloque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɹəˈləʊk/
Forms: form: breloques
Etymology: From French breloque.
Senses: examples: text: she praised the lovely breloques or gimcracks which the young gentleman wore
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: […]wearing a waist-coat rich in breloques (the most amusing of which was a dagger the size of a fingernail)
ref: 1971, Dmitri Nabokov translating Vladimir Nabokov, Glory, page 1:
glosses: A seal or charm for a watchchain.
antidrug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidrug
form: most antidrug
form: anti-drug
Etymology: From anti- + drug.
Senses: examples: text: The antidrug administration cracked down on cocaine sales.
glosses: Against drugs; advocating against drug use.
Synonyms: antinarcotics
counternarcotics
sand martin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand martins
Senses: examples: text: 1668, John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: Sa. Gellibrand and John Martyn, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 151,
SAND-MARTIN, Shore-bird.
text: 1774, Gilbert White, Letter 20 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, 1789, p. 175,
The only instance I ever remember where this species haunts any building is at the town of Bishop’s Waltham, in this county, where many sand-martins nestle and breed in the scaffold-holes of the back-wall of William of Wykeham’s stables:
text: The position was perched on a sort of razor-back of limestone with dug-outs driven horizontally into the cliff like sand-martins’ nests.
ref: 1938, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Homage to Catalonia, Boston: The Beacon Press, published 1955, page 38:
text: The sandmartins’ nests were loopholes of darkness in the riverbank.
ref: 1975, Seamus Heaney, “Nesting-Ground”, in New Selected Poems, 1966-1987, London: Faber and Faber, published 1990, page 42:
glosses: A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, Riparia riparia.
Synonyms: sense: Riparia riparia
word: bank swallow
sense: Riparia riparia
word: collared sand martin
sense: Riparia riparia
word: European sand martin
Derived terms: taxonomic: Riparia paludicola
word: brown-throated martin
taxonomic: Riparia diluta
word: pale sand martin
undertrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undertrained
form: most undertrained
Etymology: From under- + trained.
Senses: examples: text: The undertrained zookeeper met with an unfortunate fate.
glosses: Not having adequate training.
preinvasion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + invasion.
Senses: examples: text: The preinvasion police force did nothing.
glosses: Before an invasion; the state before an invasion.
cotemporality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotemporalities
Etymology: From co- + temporality.
Senses: examples: text: Tolstoj goes on to stress the cotemporality of past and present as he tells us that all of these precious moments return to Andrej's memory "not merely as something past but as something present."
ref: 1984, Nicholas O. Warner, “The Texture of Time in War and Peace”, in The Slavic and East European Journal, volume 28, number 2, page 198:
text: Young women who adopt urban attire deny cotemporality to their locally dressed counterparts by accusing them of feudal marital and dating practices.
ref: 2004, Sara L. Friedman, “Embodying Civility: Civilizing Processes and Symbolic Citizenship in Southeastern China”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 63, number 3, page 714:
glosses: The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
Synonyms: contemporaneity
contemporaneousness
Related terms: cotemporal
cotemporally
unwholly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unwhole + -ly or un- + wholly.
Senses: examples: text: The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known.
ref: 1911, Harper's Magazine:
text: ...but the growth of the house from the blueprint to the completed building is a process not unwholly like that of the growth of the kitten into a cat...
ref: 1971, Kenneth Ewart Boulding, Collected Papers:
glosses: In a way that is not whole; partially, incompletely.
wholely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From whole + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If this circle fall wholely without the ellipse, the point H will be the vertex of the greater axis...
ref: 1810, John Dougall, The Modern Preceptor:
text: A wholely owned subsidiary is one whose common voting shares are wholely owned...
ref: 1983, James Bradley, Introduction to Data Base Management in Business:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wholly.
quotationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənəli/
ipa: /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃnəli/
ipa: /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənli/
ipa: /kwoʊˈteɪʃənəli/
ipa: /kwoʊˈteɪʃnəli/
ipa: /kwoʊˈteɪʃənli/
rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From quotational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have presented this matter thus quotationally because I am anxious to emphasize Conrad's understanding loyalty to his art...
ref: 1922, The Sewanee Review:
text: So as not to appear disbelieving, they opted to respond quotationally, to offer literal citation of chapter and verse.
ref: 1994, Harold M Schulweis, For Those Who Can't Believe:
text: In my quotationally informed analysis, the ages of the poet and auctoritas are similarly premodern modes...
ref: 1998, Eloise Knowlton, Joyce, Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation:
glosses: As a quotation; by use of quotations.
cyberbully
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberbullies
Etymology: From cyber- + bully.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, male cyberbullies use the computer more than the cell phone.
ref: 2007, Teri Breguet, Frequently Asked Questions about Cyberbullying:
glosses: A bully who operates online, in cyberspace.
cyberbully
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cyberbullies
form: cyberbullying
form: cyberbullied
form: cyberbullied
Etymology: From cyber- + bully.
Senses: examples: text: Another Internet concern is cyberbullying. LGBT youth sometimes are the targets of harassment by persons (usually other students) who use the Internet...
ref: 2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities:
text: Around one-third of those being cyberbullied told no one about the bullying.
ref: 2008, Rita Cheminais, Every Child Matters:
glosses: To bully online.
cyberbullying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + bullying.
Senses: synonyms: cyberharassment
glosses: Acts in cyberspace intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
cyberbullying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cyber- + bullying.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyberbully
cyberbullied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyberbully
cyberbullies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberbully
cyberbullies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cyberbully
IOU1
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I owe you one.
carpule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpules
Etymology: A registered trademark CARPULE^®. Developed, coined and trademarked in 1928 by Bayer Dental. Current trademark owner is Kulzer Dental GmbH.
Senses: glosses: A type of ampule or cartridge, distributed by Kulzer Dental GmbH, former Heraeus Kulzer GmbH , that contains liquid medication to be inserted using a syringe. It is often a tube with a puncturable cap on one end and a sliding plug on the other end.
no host bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no host bars
form: no-host bar
Senses: glosses: A bar at a social event where guests are required to pay for the drinks themselves.
Synonyms: cash bar
normal for Norfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Peculiar or odd.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a patient, having lesser intellect.
Related terms: normal for Wisbech
normal for Stoke
unharried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unharried
form: most unharried
Etymology: From un- + harried.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who wishes may quit and ride away, untroubled and unharried.
glosses: Not harried; free of harassment
Related terms: unhurried
ascomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascomycetes
Etymology: From the taxonomic name Ascomycetes (“older synonym of Ascomycota”) reanalyzed as a plural common noun; by surface analysis, asco- + -mycete.
Senses: examples: text: Chromistas are oomycetes whereas fungi includes chytridiomycetes, zygomycetes, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and mitosporic fungi.
ref: 2001, Michael J Carlile, The Fungi, 2nd edition, publisher summary, page 11:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by the production of a sac, or ascus, which contains non-motile spores.
Synonyms: sac fungus
Derived terms: ascomycetous
Related terms: ascocarp
ascomycetal
ascospore
loculoascomycete
saccharogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsækəɹəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
Forms: form: more saccharogenic
form: most saccharogenic
Etymology: From saccharo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: producing sugar or capable of producing a sugar.
Related terms: saccharogen
shakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaka
hang-loose sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hang-loose signs
form: hang loose sign
Etymology: From hang loose.
Senses: examples: text: After three runs, I was surfing the wake and letting go of the rope's handle with one hand so I could give the hang-loose sign to my buds.
ref: 2002, Richard Carlson, Extreme Success, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: The shaka, a gesture made with a fist with the thumb and little finger extended.
sac fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sac fungi
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota, having non-motile spores in a sac
Synonyms: ascomycete
obligate carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obligate carriers
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An individual who may be clinically unaffected but who must carry a gene mutation based on analysis of the family history; this usually applies to disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive and X-linked recessive manner.
pabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pabbles
form: pabbling
form: pabbled
form: pabbled
Senses: examples: text: […] and also to blear your een, at the same time makin' the room so insufferably hot that water would pabble in a dish […]
ref: 1827, “Noctes Ambrosianae”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 21, page 479:
text: The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
ref: 1832, “Christopher at the Lakes”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 31, page 879:
text: We hear them pabbling in the pan, as the landlady turns them lightly over with her knife in the buttered meal […]
ref: 1834, “Stephen Oliver on Angling”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 35, page 789:
glosses: To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
peely-wally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiliˌwali/
ipa: /ˈpiːliwali/
ipa: /piːliˈwali/
Forms: form: peelie wallie
Etymology: From Scots peely-wally.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Are there no English troops out here?’ ‘A few,’ Gilzean said. ‘But they're all sick. Peely-wally lot the English, ye ken.’
ref: 1984, William Boyd, An Ice Cream War:
text: But I felt that Tommy's championing of the lit de soleil, as it's known in Maryhill, was courageous and condign. It allowed otherwise peely wally Glaswegians to hold their tanned faces aloft in polite company and let their neighbours think they'd been to Santa Ponsa or Majorca.
ref: 2011 July 3, Kevin McKenna, The Guardian:
glosses: Pale, pasty; off-color or ill-looking.
piffy on a rock bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Age and etymology are uncertain; it existed in the 1930s and possibly derives from a music hall catchphrase. Some commentators (e.g. World Wide Words) suggest that piffy may have originally been patience, and the rock bun was simply a type of cake.
Senses: examples: text: I hate your work parties: you always talk shop with your mates and leave me sat like piffy on a rock bun.
glosses: A person ignored or sidelined from an activity
play someone like a fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays someone like a fiddle
form: playing someone like a fiddle
form: played someone like a fiddle
form: played someone like a fiddle
Senses: synonyms: play someone like a bass fiddle
play someone like a violin
glosses: To play (manipulate) (a person) skillfully.
pogonophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogonophiles
Etymology: From pogono- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: One who loves or studies beards.
Related terms: pogonophilia
procatalepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊkætəˈlɛpsɪs/
Etymology: From Latin procatalepsis (“anticipating and answering an objection”), from Ancient Greek προκατάληψις (prokatálēpsis, “seizing in advance”).
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical exercise in which the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it, in an attempt to strengthen the argument by dealing with possible counter-arguments.
examples: text: This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
synonyms: prebuttal
preemption
prolepsis
glosses: Rebuttal of anticipated objections.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Left dislocation.
Related terms: procataleptic
inb4
straw man
red face test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red face tests
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical test of a person's embarrassment that is either passed or failed. Saying one passes the red face test means one would not blush and thus would not be embarrassed by disclosing something to others or doing something, and saying one fails the red face test means a situation would cause them discernible embarrassment.
resistance distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistance distances
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In classical mechanics, the distance from the resistance (on a lever) to the fulcrum.
return spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return springs
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The spring that returns a door handle or knob to its original position when rotated.
servitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servitisation
Etymology: Irregularly from service + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The delivery of a service component as an added value, when providing products.
alexanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælɪɡˈzændɚz/
ipa: /ˌælɪɡˈzɑːndəz/
other: /ælɪkˈsɑːndəz/
note: æ-tensing, rhotic
ipa: [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndɚz]
note: æ-tensing, non-rhotic
ipa: [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndəz]
Forms: form: alexanders
form: Alexanders
Etymology: From French alisander, apparently named for Alexander the Great, for one or more species thought to be endemic to Macedonia.
Senses: glosses: Any of various umbellifers, often specifically Smyrnium olusatrum or Heracleum maximum, the cow parsnip.
glosses: Various plants of genus Zizia or Angelica thought to resemble European alexanders.
Derived terms: golden alexanders
alexanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælɪɡˈzændɚz/
ipa: /ˌælɪɡˈzɑːndəz/
other: /ælɪkˈsɑːndəz/
note: æ-tensing, rhotic
ipa: [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndɚz]
note: æ-tensing, non-rhotic
ipa: [ˌælɪɡˈzeəndəz]
Forms: form: Alexanders
Etymology: See alexander, Alexander.
Senses: glosses: plural of alexander
demotivating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: crushing
word: demotivating
word: demoralizing
word: disappointing
word: discouraging
word: disheartening
word: dispiriting
word: gutting
glosses: That causes demotivation.
demotivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demotivate
spectatoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectator + -ing; process suggested by Masters and Johnson (1970).
Senses: glosses: The act of a person focusing on him/herself during sexual activity, as if watching as a third person.
spinoreticular tract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinoreticular tracts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ascending pathway in the white matter of the spinal cord, positioned closely to the lateral spinothalamic tract.
storagewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storagewalls
Senses: examples: text: […] for a lounge, a storagewall, and the cove lighting strip along the windows.
ref: 1952, Upholsterer and Interior Decorator, volume 112, page 129:
glosses: Alternative form of storage wall.
superpub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpubs
Etymology: From super- + pub.
Senses: glosses: A very large bar, usually in a converted building, that serves food and drink all day, and generally does not conform to the regulations of a public house.
saccharoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsækəˌɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: more saccharoid
form: most saccharoid
Etymology: From saccharo- + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: saccharoidal
glosses: Having a texture like granulated sugar.