cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tū
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Shortened form of Tū-mata-uenga, Māori for 'Tū of the angry face', one of the great gods of Māori mythology, and the origin of war.
rotundo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rotunda.
Related terms: ore rotundo
gole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goles
form: ghole
Senses: examples: text: About this time a large gole of horsemen came on towards me, and I proposed to charge; but as they turned at once from the fire of the guns, and as there was a nullah in front, I refrained from advancing after them.
ref: 1849, Brigadier Lockwood, Report of 2nd Cavalry Division at Battle of Goojerat:
glosses: The main body of an army in array; a clustered body of troops; an irregular squadron of horsemen.
chipyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipyards
Etymology: From chip + yard.
Senses: glosses: A storage area for sawdust and small pieces of wood at a sawmill.
categorical imperatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to these Categorical Imperatives, certain actions are allowed or disallowed as being morally possible or impossible […].
ref: 2002, Immanuel Kant, W. Hastie (translator), The Metaphysics of Morals, in The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence, page 29 (originally published in 1797)
text: Categorical imperatives do not typically contain an 'if. They tell you what to do unconditionally. They may nevertheless be defended by reasons.
ref: 2001, Roger Scruton, Christopher Janaway, German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, page 75:
glosses: plural of categorical imperative
faecal transplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faecal transplants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fecal transplant.
church key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃəːtʃ.ki/
ipa: /ˈtʃɝtʃ.ki/
Forms: form: church keys
form: churchkey
Etymology: See Wikipedia at church key § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody was killed, but a guy from the rival gang was supposed to have had his eyes popped out with a church key.
ref: 2008, Ted J. Gouin, Coco Colored Boy, page 36:
text: "[…]Once you didn't need a church key to open a can of beer much anymore, they didn't need me to go around handing out church keys anymore either."
ref: 2009, Jim Lehrer, Eureka: A Novel, page 81:
text: The triangle end of the church key was the most important part in the early days. To get into the cans, drinkers would create two triangular Vs in the top of the can (opposite each other to let air in so the beer would pour out easily) and away they went. The other end of the church key was used to pop off the “crown cork” that is still in use to seal glass beer bottles today.
ref: 2011, Bobby Mercer, ManVentions: From Cruise Control to Cordless Drills, pages 58–59:
glosses: An opener, typically with both can opener and bottle opener features, having a triangular tip that pierces the can.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see church, key.
Hypernyms: opener
fecal transplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fecal transplants
form: faecal transplant
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The transference of bacteria from the feces of a donor to the bowel of a patient suffering from colitis or of a Clostridium infection
Synonyms: fecal bacteriotherapy
fecal transfusion
transpoosion
gruppetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gruppetti
form: gruppettos
form: grupetto
form: groupetto
Etymology: From Italian gruppetto.
Senses: qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: Synonym of autobus (“a large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race”).
synonyms: word: autobus
extra: (“a large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race”)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A trill or turn.
undesirability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undesirabilities
Etymology: From un- + desirability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being undesirable.
examples: text: India is merely the geopsychic site for a cluster of undesirabilities that continue to be illicitly desired.
ref: 1999, Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay, page 91:
glosses: Something undesirable.
undreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdɹiːmd/
Etymology: From un- + dreamed.
Senses: examples: text: unpathed waters and undreamed shores
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: The Germans have understood this, and have taken such very energetic measures that their primary schools are safe places for all to a degree undreamed of by us.
ref: 1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of undreamt.
gruppetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gruppetto
unenterprising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenterprising
form: most unenterprising
Etymology: From un- + enterprising.
Senses: glosses: Lacking the property of being enterprising.
wade through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wades through
form: wading through
form: waded through
form: waded through
Senses: examples: text: This synopsis saves me from having to wade through a pile of textbooks.
glosses: To search or progress through with difficulty, as when performing a boring, repetitive research task.
wade in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wades in
form: wading in
form: waded in
form: waded in
Senses: examples: text: The Federal Reserve is under pressure to wade in with an emergency interest-rate cut.
glosses: To interrupt someone, or a situation, by doing or saying something abruptly, or forcefully, and usually without thinking about the consequences.
publics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publicks
Senses: glosses: plural of public
publics
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of public
grinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪnt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of grinch
grinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪnt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grinch
antiphrastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiphrastical
form: most antiphrastical
Senses: examples: text: We are now beginning to let ourselves be fooled no longer by the arrogant antiphrastical recriminations of good society in favour of the very thing it sets aside, ignores, smothers, or destroys; we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
ref: 1977, Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”, in Image, Music, Text, Fontana, page 148:
glosses: Antiphrastic.
Northern Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Northern European are all of the northern countries from the United Kingdom and upwards and over before you hit Russia.
Southern Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southern European
Eastern Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eastern European
Western Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Western European
formel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formels
Senses: examples: text: "There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another. The formel's voice lilted, drifting in and out of his thoughts."
ref: 1987, Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer, page 39:
text: "... and as, in “The Assembly of Fowls,” the formel or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, ..."
ref: 1879, David Laing Purves, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems:
glosses: An adult female hawk or eagle.
Related terms: tiercel
Central European
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːən
Etymology: From Central Europe + -ean, or central + European.
Senses: examples: text: Who knows much about the venerable traditions of Central European kingdoms like Poland-Lithuania, Bohemia, and Hungary and their valiant struggles for freedom?
ref: 1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 5:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Central Europe, its people, or its culture.
Derived terms: Central European Midsummer Time
Central European
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːən
Forms: form: Central Europeans
Etymology: From Central Europe + -ean, or central + European.
Senses: examples: text: Central Europeans also have in their heads a number of different historical maps and milestones that are not particularly well known outside the region or necessarily respected by their neighbors, and they still regularly use them as points of orientation.
ref: 1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 5:
text: Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, and Slovene national elites have tried desperately to prove that their countries do not belong to the "East"; that they are, indeed, Central Europeans.
ref: 2003, Ivan T. Berend, History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, page xiii:
glosses: A Central European person; one who comes from or lives in Central Europe.
Central Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Central European
Central Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Central American
South Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of South American
Norman window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norman windows
Senses: glosses: A window that has the shape of a semicircle on top of a rectangle.
pandemonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandæmonism
form: pandaemonism
Etymology: From pan- + demon + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At all events, it is interesting to learn, from this work, with greater accuracy, an old religious system of the East, in which are to he found, with Pandemonism and the metempsychosis, the elements of the worship of the stars, of astrology, the theurgy, the doctrine of amulets, as well as the elements of the Hindoo religion, particularly the system of castes.
ref: 1833, Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious and Ecclesiastical Terms, page 291:
text: Every object, animate or inanimate, every idea, abstract or concrete, became endowed with a spirit of its own. The religion of Rome was a pandaemonism, a belief, not in one god, pervading all nature and identified with nature, but in millions of gods, a god for every object, every act.
ref: 1910, Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett, The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary, page 1481:
text: But he was scarcely right in attempting to derive all primitive religious concepts from an undifferentiated "dim pandemonism."
ref: 1974, Stephen Porter Dunn, Introduction to Soviet Ethnography, page 491:
text: The dignity and calm of Isiac faith had something to impress anxious or fickle pagans who were beguiled by the murky occultism of the sects or the pandemonism of the magicians.
ref: 1996, Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire, page 121:
text: This peculiar anthropological docetism, or pandemonism, is not compatible with the Christian faith.
ref: 2004, Boris Jakim, The Comforter, page 226:
glosses: Belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.
examples: text: It was but the original faith of the ancient ancient Teutons which the Christian monks had perverted into pandemonism.
ref: 1927, Lewis Browne, Elsa Weihl, That Man Heine: A Biography, page 257:
text: While this ancillary thought explains evil in the world, it also completely extinguishes the good and introduces pandemonism instead of pantheism.
ref: 1987, Friedrich Schelling in Ernst Behler, Philosophy of German Idealism, p. 235
text: Whereas pantheism asserts that all is God, pandemonism asserts that all is hell; whereas pantheism asserts that all is sacred and divine, pandemonism asserts that all is profane and contaminated.
ref: 2003, Robert Wicks, “Literary Truth as Dreamlike Expression in Foucault's and Borges's "Chinese Encyclopedia"”, in Philosophy and Literature, volume 27, number 1, pages 80–97:
glosses: Belief in a universe that is infused with an evil spirit.
Derived terms: pandemonistic
Related terms: pantheism
pandeism
panzoism
pandaemonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pandemonism.
pandæmonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pandemonism.
lilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lilins
Senses: glosses: A supernatural being in ancient Mesopotamian folklore, and later in Jewish folklore in which they are associated with Lilith.
Related terms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Lilu
unearned income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unearned incomes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Income that is not a wage, such as interest, dividends or realized capital gains from investments, rent from land or property ownership, and any other income that does not derive from work.
midnight movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midnight movies
Etymology: Originating in 1950s American television, the term has undergone several changes over time (see Wikipedia article).
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A B-movie, often in camp style and with a retro theme.
glosses: A low-budget film which has become a cult classic, referring in this sense to original tradition of showing such films at night.
glosses: A low-budget film shown on television after midnight, particularly but not exclusively in the US.
midnight movies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midnight movie
Yunani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Unani.
dough-nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dough-nuts
Senses: examples: text: The older children snatched sponge-cakes and dough-nuts from the forks and began to eat ravenously.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 160–161:
glosses: Archaic spelling of doughnut.
soto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sotos
Etymology: From Indonesian soto, ultimately from Hokkien 牛草肚 (gû-chháu-tō͘).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A traditional Indonesian soup mainly composed of broth, meat, and vegetables
Related terms: soto ayam
biskop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biskops
Etymology: From Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: Any of the species Cymatoceps nasutus and Sparodon durbanensis of large gamefish of South Africa.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cymatoceps nasutus
word: black biskop
taxonomic: Sparodon durbanensis
alt: syn. Sparus durbanensis
word: white biskop
shop-walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop-walkers
form: shopwalker
Senses: examples: text: Small trades-folk, male and female shop-walkers, better class artisans, lower middle-class women worn with household cares, occasional young folk in search of a sensation—these were the impressions which the audience conveyed to the trained observation of Malone.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 25:
text: The shop-walkers behaved curiously, too. As the little group passed they bowed to Maia as though she were a Queen.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Christmas Shopping”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: A retail store floor supervisor.
Synonyms: word: floorwalker
humming-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humming-tops
Senses: examples: text: A humming-top? What a good idea! She will love to watch it go waltzing and singing down the sky.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Christmas Shopping”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: Alternative spelling of humming top.
humming top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humming tops
form: humming-top
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spinning top.
synonyms: word: spinning top
thermotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more thermotropic
form: most thermotropic
Etymology: From thermo- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Tending to move towards or away from a source of heat
raw_tags: of a plant
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting different phases at different temperatures
raw_tags: of a liquid crystal
bayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baying
voes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voe
tablespoonsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablespoonful
deadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadmen
Etymology: From dead + man. In the sense referring to a safety switch, the notion of an operator who is dead is the figurative archetype representing any incapacitation, absence, or inattention. See also Dead Hand in that regard.
Senses: examples: text: There is no deadman to be found at Deadman's Curve.
glosses: A corpse
examples: text: The building code requires deadmen for retaining walls.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A long object, often a timber or log, buried to serve as an anchor for a wall or for stays.
examples: text: a deadman device
text: [...] a Brown-Boveri deadman's control; [...].
ref: 1962 April, “Beyond the Channel: Western Germany: The Henschel 4,000 h.p. V320 diesel”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
manufacturing
rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: dead man's switch
qualifier: safety equipment
glosses: A cutout device that operates in the event that an operator releases the control handles, leaves the operator's seat, or otherwise seems to be no longer present and alert.
Derived terms: Deadman
teaspoonsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teaspoonful
deadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadman
lipoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipomas
form: lipomata
Etymology: From lip- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells.
Derived terms: adenolipoma
angiolipoma
fibrolipoma
lipomatosis
lipomatous
myelolipoma
thymolipoma
fire axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire axes
Senses: glosses: A special type of axe used by firefighters, typically featuring a pick-shaped pointed poll (area of the head opposite the cutting edge) and in a vivid color to make it easily visible during an emergency.
fat cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat cells
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cell of the body whose primary function is to store fat.
Synonyms: adipocyte
fire axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire axe
Ewing's sarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ewing's sarcomas
form: Ewing sarcoma
Etymology: First described by James Ewing (1866–1943), American pathologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: A malignant small-round-blue-cell tumor that forms in bone or soft tissue.
wikipedia: James Ewing
osteomyelitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteomyelitides
form: osteomyelites
form: osteomyelitises
Etymology: From osteo- + myelitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection of the bone
Derived terms: osteomyelitic
synovitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synovitides
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the synovium.
Derived terms: perisynovitis
tenosynovitis
spondylolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spondylo- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A defect or stress fracture of the pars interarticularis of the vertebral arch.
Related terms: spondylolytic
cajoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The zookeeper was cajoling the lion back into its cage.
glosses: present participle and gerund of cajole
cajoling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cajolings
Senses: examples: text: Threats and cajolings failed to convince her.
glosses: The act of one who cajoles.
autonomation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Autonomation means transferring human intelligence to a machine.
ref: 1988, Taiichi Ohno, “Autonomation (Automation with a Human Touch)”, in Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-scale Production, page 121:
text: This concept of autonomation is meant to convey the combination of mechanical automation and human control.
"Autonomation" implies the attachment of extra functions to automated machines so the machine will stop automatically when […].
ref: 1998, Schon Beechler, Kristin Stucker, Japanese Business, page 541:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Automation design concept developed at Toyota using error-proofing and automatic process defect-detection to ease human participation in demanding just-in-time manufacturing.
Related terms: automation
autonomy
poka-yoke
poka-yoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ポカヨケ (poka yoke), from ポカ (poka, “a blunder”) + よける (yokeru, “to dodge, avoid”).
Senses: examples: text: Poka yoke emphasizes 100% inspections upstream for possible causes of defects, as well as rapid feedback and follow-up actions.
ref: 2007, Bijay K. Jayaswal, Peter C. Patton, Design for Trustworthy Software […] , Prentice-Hall:
text: One of the central concepts of Lean practice in Toyota today is something called poka-yoke (fool-proofing).
ref: [2010, James Coplien, Gertrud Bjørnvig, “What the System Is, Part 2: Coding It Up”, in Lean Architecture for Agile Software Development, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: A methodology of using low-cost techniques to error-proof production processes.
Centralian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Centralia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of the great interior basin of Australia.
Centralian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Centralians
Etymology: From Centralia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Central Australia.
cuss word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuss words
form: cussword
Senses: glosses: Curse word or phrase.
cussword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cusswords
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cuss word.
cusswords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuss words
Senses: glosses: plural of cussword
cuss words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cusswords
Senses: glosses: plural of cuss word
epigrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more epigrammatically
form: most epigrammatically
Etymology: From epigrammatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: To put it epigrammatically, fetishization of the commodity is accompanied by fantasization of the self.
ref: 1992, David Brett, C.R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, page 129:
glosses: In a manner suggestive of an epigram.
chambranles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chambranle
mantle-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mantle-trees
Etymology: From mantle + tree.
Senses: examples: text: No more shall I from mantle-trees hang down
To honour thee, my little parlsey crown.
ref: 1600's. Robert Herrick (1591-1674), To Larr (poem)
glosses: A beam of wood over the opening of an open fireplace, from which items were hung.
Synonyms: chambranle
mantle
formels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formel
get wet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets wet
form: getting wet
form: got wet
form: got wet
form: gotten wet
Senses: examples: text: I stood too close to the waterfall, and I got wet.
text: The steel of this tool isn't stainless, so if you get it wet, you need to dry it off promptly.
text: Some things can go in the water, like my dolphin boots, but other things, like books, are not so good when they get wet.
ref: 2004, Karen Hesse, The Music of Dolphins, page 84:
text: The station had an ingenious "worm" - a corrugated iron tunnel permitting First Class passengers to transfer from platform to hotel without fear of getting wet.
ref: 2022 August 24, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the Cotswold Line”, in RAIL, number 964, page 60:
glosses: To come into contact with, or to put (something) into contact with, water, rain, mist, or another liquid.
examples: text: Sometimes I get wet right away, but other times I'm aroused but not very wet.
ref: 2002, Sallie Foley, Sally A. Kope, Dennis P. Sugrue, Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self, page 281:
glosses: Of a woman, to become sexually aroused, as indicated by the occurrence of the natural lubrication of the vagina.
examples: text: Alonzo Harris: […] Didn't know you liked to get wet, dog.
Jake Hoyt: What's "wet"?
Alonzo Harris: Butt-naked. Ill. Sherms. Dust. PCP. Primos. P-Dog. That's what you had. That's what you were smoking, you couldn't taste it?
ref: 2001, David Ayer, Training Day:
glosses: To abuse phencyclidine (commonly known as "PCP" or "angel dust").
nonnarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + narcotic.
Senses: glosses: Not narcotic; lacking narcotic effects.
nonnarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnarcotics
Etymology: From non- + narcotic.
Senses: glosses: A drug that is not a narcotic.
nonmilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-military
Etymology: From non- + military.
Senses: glosses: Not military; civilian.
nonmigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-migratory
Etymology: From non- + migratory.
Senses: glosses: Not migratory; that does not migrate.
nonmalignant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-malignant
Etymology: From non- + malignant.
Senses: glosses: Not malignant, without malice.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a growth in the body, not cancerous.
nonmagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-magnetic
Etymology: From non- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Not magnetic; not affected by a magnet.
narcoterrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narco- + terrorism; coined by President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 Fernando Belaúnde Terry in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police.
Senses: examples: text: Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.
ref: 1993, James Rochlin, Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America, page 223:
text: Noboa did not provide details on the partnership but said on X that it aims to help in the fight against narcoterrorism and illegal fishing in Ecuador.
ref: 2025 March 19, Hira Humayun and Michael Rios, “Ecuador’s president invites foreign armies to fight gangs in the country”, in CNN:
synonyms: narcoterror
glosses: Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.
Derived terms: counternarcoterrorism
éclats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of éclat
nonmoving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-moving
Etymology: From non- + moving.
Senses: examples: text: The adjudicator must recalendar a case where the parties file a joint motion to recalendar or where the nonmoving party “affirmatively indicates” a nonopposition, unless they articulate “unusual, clearly identified, and supported reasons” for denying the motion.
ref: 2025 July 24, Kate Mahoney and Merle Kahn, “RESPONDING TO DHS MOTIONS TO RECALENDAR”, in Immigrant Legal Resource Center, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025, page 2:
glosses: Not moving; stationary; inert.
Derived terms: nonmoving part
nonmoving part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmoving parts
Senses: glosses: In a piece of machinery with multiple parts, a part that is not powered to move.
nonmoving parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmoving part
moving part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving parts
Senses: antonyms: nonmoving part
glosses: Part of a machine that is powered to move.
glosses: One of the variables or components in a complex situation.
moving parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moving part
nonirritating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + irritating.
Senses: glosses: Not irritating; not an irritant.
Welsher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welshers
Etymology: From Welsh + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Walian: a Welsh person, a Welshman or Welshwoman.
synonyms: word: Walian
extra: a Welsh person, a Welshman or Welshwoman
Related terms: Englisher
Irisher
gizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Arabic غَزَلَ (ḡazala, “to display amorous behavior, to court”).
Senses: examples: text: Nay then; but you're a gizzing at me, maister.
ref: 1875, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 253:
text: She sang the flirtiest song, something about “But I knew dear, somebody else was gizzing you”.
ref: 2004, Patricia Page, Across the Magic Line: Growing Up in Fiji, page 197:
glosses: To grin and laugh at someone.
glosses: To gaze.
iatroculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈætɹəʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”); iatro- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The culture of medical professionals.
Related terms: iatrocultural
keratohyalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratohyalins
Etymology: From kerato- + hyalin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
nonpoisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + poisonous.
Senses: glosses: Not poisonous.
Synonyms: nontoxic
nonvenomous
ranchettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchette (a small ranch.)
undersells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undersell
underselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undersell
underselling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All this rampant underselling has more or less forced the government's hand: they will seek ways to prevent it from having deflationary and involutionary effects on the national economy.
glosses: The act or practice of underselling.
Related terms: undercutting
undermining
undersold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: we will not be undersold [a low-price guarantee from a seller to their customers]
glosses: simple past and past participle of undersell
undersold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersold
form: most undersold
Senses: examples: text: Wow, that flavor with the mint leaves is undersold. It's a hidden gem.
glosses: Sold with insufficient enthusiasm.
linguanaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪnɡwənɔːt/
Forms: form: linguanauts
Etymology: From Latin lingua (“language”) + -naut.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is passionate about languages.
partlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtlət/
Forms: form: partlets
Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps a diminutive form of pert, or from its habit of ruffling the feathers round its neck; see Etymology 2 below.
Senses: examples: text: How now, dame Partlett the hen?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: A hen (originally in the form Dame Partlet).
partlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtlət/
Forms: form: partlets
Etymology: Origin unknown. Possibly from the mediaeval French name Pertelote.
Senses: examples: text: On 1 February 1505, he ordered a new set of clothes for prince: an arming doublet of black satin, with fashionable detachable sleeves, and with it an arming partlet or under-collar […]
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 189:
text: A black witch known as Mother She was going along Front Street toward the store, a frail bent shape in black partlet with cane laboring brokenly through the heat.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 65:
glosses: A covering for the neck and upper chest, originally worn by both sexes, but later especially by women to cover a low neckline.
petroliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more petroliferous
form: most petroliferous
Etymology: From petrol + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: Oil-shales are often the last relics of a former impregnation with petroleum; they are associated with phenomena—such as the intrusive asphaltites or manjacks—common to petroliferous regions, but in many cases the parent oilfields, the sources of the former impregnation, are things of the past.
ref: 1922, Intermountain Industry and Engineering: Official Publication: Utah Motor Transport Ass'n, volume 24:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Containing or yielding petroleum.
raw_tags: of a rock or geologic formation
Related terms: bituminous
calcium chromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The yellow calcium salt of chromic acid, CaCrO₄
Georgium Sidus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel in 1781, after King George III + Latin sīdus (“star”).
Senses: examples: text: I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus […] to a star, which (with respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.
ref: 1783, William Herschel, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, section 73.2:
text: The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone.
ref: 1812, Thomas Jefferson, letter, 17 June
text: The satellites of the Georgium Sidus, too, appear to move nearly at right angles to the plane of his orbit […]
ref: 1821, James Ferguson, Astronomy, volume II, page 86:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The planet Uranus.
Herschel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɝʃl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɜːʃl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃəl
Etymology: (Uranus): after its discoverer, William Herschel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: Herschel Walker’s campaign for Senate removed a false claim – which inaccurately said the Republican candidate graduated from the University of Georgia – from a website for his Senate bid, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
ref: 2021 December 17, Rachel Janfaza, “Herschel Walker campaign deletes a false claim saying the Republican candidate for Senate graduated from college”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The planet Uranus. In use until the mid-19th century as an alternative to Georgium Sidus after King George III.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of several impact craters in the Solar System, such as the one on Mimas.
glosses: A place name:
A special service area in the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A former settlement on Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A settlement in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, named after Sir John Herschel.
Herschel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɝʃl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɜːʃl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃəl
Forms: form: Herschels
Etymology: (Uranus): after its discoverer, William Herschel.
Senses: examples: text: This Herschel could be sent through stages of Buckingham's components, producing an arbitrary excess of gliders along a variety of different paths.
ref: 1996 November 16, Paul Callahan, “Still-life glider reflector found”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: This uses Paul Callahan's catalysis of a glider into a Herschel and a glider, followed by David Buckingham's 77, 64, 64, 77, and 77 gen Herschel moves.
ref: 1999 October 7, Mirek Wojtowicz, “Conway's Life: Glider reflector?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: In Conway's Life, for example, a surprising number of small patterns serendipitously create R-pentominos and/or B-heptominos, which are "tamable" and happen to travel very well; this is what allows Herschel circuitry to be built.
ref: 2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A heptomino shaped like the lowercase letter h, critical as a methuselah.
Synonyms: D-heptomino
J-heptomino
blende
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
homophone: blend
Forms: form: blendes
form: blind
form: blinde
Etymology: From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).
Senses: examples: text: The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 310:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
Derived terms: blendous
hornblende
ruby blende
zincblende
tommyknocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒmiːnɒkə/
Forms: form: tommyknockers
Etymology: From Cornwall.
Senses: examples: text: Then he's down one of these adits, talking to the tommyknockers, more'n likely.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 335:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A mythical creature, like a brownie or leprechaun, believed to live in underground tunnels; later associated with dead miners.
demarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + marketing.
Senses: examples: text: The "just say no" advertising campaign was mostly ineffective demarketing of illegal drugs.
glosses: Marketing where the goal is reducing the demand for goods or services.
Synonyms: negative advertising
demarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From de- + marketing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demarket
demarket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demarkets
form: demarketing
form: demarketed
form: demarketed
Etymology: From de- + market.
Senses: examples: text: US tobacco companies have been forced to demarket tobacco products.
glosses: To apply marketing methods to reduce the demand for (goods or services).
quag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwæɡ/
ipa: /kwɑɡ/
ipa: /kwæɡ/
ipa: /kwɒɡ/
Forms: form: quags
form: quaw
form: quagh
Etymology: Uncertain. Most often suggested to be an alteration of Middle English quabbe (“a marsh, bog”), from Old English *cwabbe (“that which shakes or trembles, something soft and flabby”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”); this is supported by 1590s attestations of quabmire for quagmire (other earlier variants are quamire, from the 1550s, and quavemire from the 1520s). It has alternatively been suggested to be related to quake, as quaggy ground quakes when trod.
Senses: examples: text: If a person ventures on one of these quags, it bends in waves under his feet; and if the surface breaks, he is in danger of sinking to the bottom.
ref: 1771 December 16, John Walker, Account of the Irruption of Solway Moss:
text: Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells
ref: 1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools:
glosses: Quagmire; marsh; bog.
quags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quag
re-odorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-odorants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reodorant.
re-odorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-odorant
repurpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈpɝ.pəs/
ipa: /ɹiːˈpɜː.pəs/
Forms: form: repurposes
form: repurposing
form: repurposed
form: repurposed
form: re-purpose
Etymology: From re- + purpose.
Senses: examples: text: The town common was repurposed as a practice field.
text: The church was repurposed as a nightclub by lighting changes and removing the pews, but it never opened.
text: Looking north towards Moorgate, through the new tunnel being built at Bank for southbound Northern Line services. More than half a mile of new tunnels have been excavated, producing nearly 200,000 tonnes of material which is being repurposed as building material in Dartford.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 68, photo caption:
text: Tesla has repurposed the lightweight, energy-dense cells that power its cars for huge grid-scale batteries that provide essential backup for renewables.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: To reuse for a different purpose, on a long-term basis, with or without alteration.
Synonyms: sense: alter
word: remodel
supercruise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supercruises
form: supercruising
form: supercruised
form: supercruised
Etymology: From super- + cruise.
Senses: examples: text: The F-18 was able to supercruise 320 miles to the battlefield in 20 minutes and loiter there for an hour.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cruise at supersonic speed without using afterburners.
supercruise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercruises
Etymology: From super- + cruise.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mode or period of aircraft flight involving supercruising.
bloody warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloody warriors
form: bloody-warrior
Senses: glosses: A deep red variety of wallflower (Erysimum).
bloody-warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bloody warrior.
nonobjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonobjectives
Etymology: From non- + objective.
Senses: glosses: With respect to an assignment or mission, something that is not an objective or goal.
nonobjective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + objective.
Senses: synonyms: subjective
unobjective
glosses: Not objective; biased.
nonpolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-political
Etymology: From non- + political.
Senses: glosses: not political; not related to politics
nonpracticing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-practicing
form: nonpractising
form: non-practising
Etymology: From non- + practicing.
Senses: examples: text: Michael: Um, uh, I guess um, I guess I'm, uh a nonpracticing Jew.
Lelaina: Hey, I'm a nonpracticing virgin.
ref: 1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Michael Grates and Lelaina Pierce (Ben Stiller and Winona Ryder):
glosses: Not practicing; of a person in a particular profession, not engaged in the practice of that profession; of a person born into a particular religion, not abiding by the rituals and mores of that religion.
Synonyms: lapsed
nonobservant
nonreligious
secular
unobservant
nonpunishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + punishable.
Senses: glosses: Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
nonradioactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + radioactive.
Senses: glosses: Not radioactive; not generating radioactivity.
nonrefundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-refundable
Etymology: From non- + refundable.
Senses: glosses: Not refundable; not able to be refunded.
nonobjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonobjective
punishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more punishably
form: most punishably
Etymology: From punishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a punishable manner; in a manner that merits punishment.
punishability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punishabilities
Etymology: From punish + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being punishable; the ability to be punished.
Derived terms: unpunishability
punishabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punishability
eH
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: redox potential (in volts).
redox potential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redox potentials
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: eH
glosses: The difference in voltage between an inert electrode and a system containing oxidation and reduction; a measurement of the system's oxidation
grasscloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasscloths
Etymology: From grass + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A wall covering made from the fibres of jute, rushes or other grasses.
glosses: Any of various coarse cloths, the fibre of which is rarely that of a grass; especially, the Chinese summer-cloth made from ramie, Boehmeria nivea, properly a nettle.
swainsonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Swainsona + -ine
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An indolizidine alkaloid, found in various Swainsona and other species (including locoweed), which disrupts the nervous system.
don't pass go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: don't pass Go
Etymology: From the board game Monopoly, in which a certain card ("Go directly to jail; do not pass go, do not collect $200") sends the player to the jail square without the usual traversal of the board.
Senses: examples: text: As usual, this information was imparted to me with a blank stare, and dumped in my lap with an expression that said, "Don't pass Go, don't collect 200 dollars, go straight to jail!"
ref: 2001, Janice E. Hale, Learning While Black, page 126:
glosses: To say that somebody is obliged to do something without question.
indolizidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indolizidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle containing a six-membered ring fused to a five-membered ring, one of the bridging atoms being nitrogen; any derivative of this compound, especially several alkaloids
Derived terms: methylindolizidine
oxoindolizidine