cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ball in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balls in hand
Senses: glosses: In billiards, a circumstance in which a fault by another player, such as a scratch, permits the competitor to take the cue ball in hand and place it anywhere on the table.
balls in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball in hand
baulks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baulk
baulks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baulk
McDearmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of McDairmid.
judicial day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judicial days
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A day on which a court is open.
dragoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæɡənɛs/
Forms: form: dragonesses
form: dragonness
Etymology: From dragon + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The King Apollo, with an arrow, freed / From his strong string, destroy’d the Dragoness
ref: 1616, George Chapman, “A Hymn to Apollo”, in The Whole Works of Homer:
glosses: A female dragon.
examples: text: But what really catches my attention about this dragoness is her thick tail, which looks to be twice as thick as a normal dragon tail. And I really don't know how to say this, except to say that this dragoness is seriously luscious. Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all, but there it is. This is one seriously juicy-looking dragonette.
ref: 2018, Gabe Hudson, “What a Fitting Place for me to Die, Here in the Belly of the Beast”, in Gork, the Teenage Dragon, page 202:
topics: fantasy
lifestyle
synonyms: dragonette
glosses: A female dragon.
adnominalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnominalisation
Etymology: From adnominal + -ization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the process of transformation into an adnominal
Related terms: adnominalize
nominalization
pronominalization
adverbialization
adnominals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adnominal
rutherford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rutherfords
Etymology: After Ernest Rutherford.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.
wikipedia: Ernest Rutherford
Synonyms: megabecquerel
depth of field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depths of field
Senses: examples: text: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
ref: 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2016:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: DOF
coordinate_terms: depth of focus
glosses: The distance in front of and behind the subject that appears to be in focus.
transmembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Etymology: From trans- + membrane.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Traversing a cellular membrane.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a transmembrane protein or segment.
Derived terms: transmembrane protein
transmembranous
transmembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Forms: form: transmembranes
Etymology: From trans- + membrane.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a transmembrane protein, or the transmembrane portion of a protein
transmembranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹənəs
Etymology: From trans- + membranous.
Senses: glosses: transmembrane, traversing a cellular membrane
cargas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carga
handlebar moustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handlebar moustaches
form: handlebar mustache
Senses: examples: text: A pleasant, dapperly dressed man with a handlebar moustache that he regularly twists and tugs...
ref: 2003, Christopher Phillips, Socrates café: a fresh taste of philosophy, page 103:
glosses: A broad moustache worn long and curled up at the sides.
misdoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdoers
Etymology: From misdo + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Saint Edmund from the horizon’s edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true. So old, yet so modern, actual […]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIV, Henry of Essex”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: A person who commits a misdeed; an offender.
normales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normale
spring roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring rolls
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 春捲 /春卷 (chūnjuǎn, literally “vernal/spring-time spool”), equivalent to spring + roll.
Senses: glosses: A type of savoury food consisting of shredded vegetables wrapped in a pancake made from rice flour and then fried.
glosses: An egg roll.
glosses: summer roll
Derived terms: spring roll wrapper
Vietnamese spring roll
Stephan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek στεφανίζω (stephanízō, “to crown”) & Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “that which surrounds, crown, wreath”).
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Hyde County, South Dakota.
examples: text: For the whole year, the exotic automaker sold 7,430 cars and SUVs, down 9.5% compared to 2019. But the last quarter of 2020 was the best in the Italian supercar maker’s history and its order banks are already filled for the first nine months of 2021, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann said.
ref: 2021 April 1, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Sales of Bentleys and Lamborghinis are booming because rich people are bored”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname from Breton of Breton origin.
Derived terms: stephanite
Steffen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
equities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equity.
broadcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadcaster
circulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulation
reproductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reproduction
compilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compilation
prohibitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prohibition
phonorecords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonorecord
phonorecord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonorecords
Etymology: From phono- + record.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A physical object that contains a permanent record of a sound.
endorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endorse
endorses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endorse
criticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of criticize
nonsequential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sequential.
Senses: examples: text: We might watch Green Porno from end to beginning, or out of order. After all, the series was designed primarily for those "fourth-screen" devices that encourage nonsequential or one-off viewing.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 107:
glosses: Not sequential; not in any regular sequence
Derived terms: nonsequentiality
nonsequentially
performable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more performable
form: most performable
Etymology: From perform + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be performed.
Derived terms: unperformable
kouprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koupreys
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer គោព្រៃ (koo prɨy).
Senses: examples: text: The kouprey is the national animal of Cambodia.
glosses: A wild, forest-dwelling ox, Bos sauveli, from Cambodia and surrounding countries.
Synonyms: kouproh
grey ox
Indo-China
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Indochina.
banteng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæn.tɛŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɑn.tɛŋ/
Forms: form: bantengs
Etymology: From Malay banteng.
Senses: glosses: A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula.
Related terms: scrub bull
dipositronium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipositroniums
Etymology: From di- + positronium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The short-lived combination of two positronium exotic atoms that are bound together in the same way as a hydrogen molecule
power law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power laws
Senses: examples: text: the death toll from a large number of small civil wars is lower than that from a few big interstate wars, to say nothing of world wars, consistent with the power-law distribution of deadly quarrels.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 314:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x)=axᵏ).
aapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːpɑː/
Forms: form: aapas
Etymology: From Urdu آپا (āpā) / Bengali আপা (apa).
Senses: examples: text: I am close to bhai and his wife Shaffo, whom I call aapa, who herself is a well-read person and a true soul-mate to her husband.
ref: 2006, Asha Ranawa, Woman's Triumph, page 46:
glosses: A sister that is older than oneself; also used as a term of familiarity or respect toward a woman that is older.
unmethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + methylated.
Senses: glosses: Not methylated
shamefast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪmfɑːst/
Forms: form: more shamefast
form: most shamefast
Etymology: From Middle English shamefast, schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (“modest”), corresponding to shame + fast.
Senses: examples: text: With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid / Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Novv vvhen as vvine had drovvned and drouſed the underſtanding: vvhen the night ſeaſon, vvhen the entermingling of men and vvomen together one vvith another (and namely, they of young and tender yeeres, vvith thoſe of elder age) had cleane put out & extinguiſhed all reſpect and regard of ſhamefaſt honeſtie: there began firſt to be practiſed all ſorts of corruption, for every one had all pleaſures readie at commaundement, and his choiſe of thoſe vvhereto by nature he vvas more prone and given to luſt after.
ref: 1600, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXIX]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 1027–1028:
text: But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare.
ref: 1624, Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 6); reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC:
glosses: Bashful, modest; shy.
Derived terms: shamefaced
shamefastly
shamefastness
unshamefast
microlith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microliths
Etymology: From micro- + -lith.
In the sense of rock components, the name was suggested by Vogelsang in 1867.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small stone tool.
glosses: The microscopic acicular components of rocks.
Synonyms: sense: stone tool
word: microlite
Related terms: microlithic
dynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dynamical
form: most dynamical
Etymology: From dynamic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The physiology of matter in the abstract is dynamical, that of mineral species is both dynamical and chemical, while that of organized forms is at once dynamical, chemical, and biotical.
ref: 1883, Science, volumes 1-2, page 279:
glosses: dynamic
Derived terms: aerodynamical
astrodynamical
chemodynamical
chromodynamical
dynamical horizon
dynamical system
dynamical time
electrodynamical
geodynamical
hemodynamical
hydrodynamical
isodynamical
morphodynamical
neurodynamical
nondynamical
pharmacodynamical
photodynamical
quasidynamical
urodynamical
ichthyosauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyosaurus
callee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callees
Etymology: From call + -ee.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
examples: text: The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value.
ref: 1975, Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr., Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, MIT AI Lab, page 24
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A function called by another.
Related terms: collect call
bag and baggage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.
ref: 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
text: 1989, John P. Murphy (annotator and editor), Jesuit Latin Poets of the 17th and 18th Centuries, page 85,
They did not wait the two months granted, but made a quick decision and picked up bag and baggage, and after leaving four Fathers to care for the Catholics, left on carts and on foot for Antwerp.
text: For many years, INS regulations required that deportable aliens be issued a "bag-and-baggage" letter notifying them of their obligation to appear for deportation at a time no sooner than seventy-two hours after service of the notice.[…]Sensibly, the INS amended their regulations in 1986 to eliminate the bag-and-baggage letter, instead assuring that the INS would hold the apprehended person for a minimum of seventy-two hours before removal,[…].
ref: 1998, David A. Martin, “Chapter 1: Obstacles to the Effective Enforcement of Immigration Laws in the United States”, in Kay Hailbronner, David A. Martin, Hiroshi Motomura, editors, Immigration Controls: The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United States, page 25:
text: With bag and baggage, they, along with about six hundred other servicemen of various US Forces, were herded into olive drab military buses and transported to San Francisco, where their ship was waiting, the USNS General Walker.
ref: 2002, Joseph H. Maddox, Save the Day, page 79:
glosses: All one's possessions.
bag and baggage
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I could go from valley to valley and from hill to hill; I could “bring up” when it was necessary; and when my labours were finished in one place, I could go on, bag and baggage, to another.
ref: 1857, Robert Fortune, A Residence Among the Chinese, Digital Print, published 2012, page 94:
text: The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter IV, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild):
text: In early February the North China Marines arrived, bag and baggage, decked out with full uniforms, overcoats and fur-lined hats.
ref: 2011, Stanford D. Carman, Wake And Reunion, page 125:
glosses: With all one's possessions.
harme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmes
Senses: examples: text: […] To this purpoſe our Sauiour alſo produceth examples, mouing vs to bee wiſe by the experience of others harmes.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of harm.
glades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪdz/
rhymes: -eɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of glade
conveyancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈveɪənsɪŋ/
Forms: form: conveyancings
Etymology: From conveyance + -ing.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The drawing of deeds etc. concerning transfer of property, and the legal execution of such transfers.
conveyancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈveɪənsɪŋ/
Etymology: From conveyance + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conveyance
protobrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊtəˈbɹəʊsɪs/
Etymology: From proto- + Ancient Greek βρῶσις (brôsis, “eating”).
Senses: glosses: The first meal after a complete fast; the meal that ends or breaks a fast.
bulleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Set off by bullet points.
raw_tags: of text
Synonyms: bullet-pointed
Derived terms: bulleted list
unbulleted
bulleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bullet
predictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prediction
hydria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪdɹeə/
Forms: form: hydrias
form: hydriae
form: hydriai
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδρία (hudría, “water jar or water container”).
Senses: glosses: A three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water.
holden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊldən
Etymology: From Middle English holden, from Old English healden, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan. By surface analysis, hold + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Asses milke is holden for to be thickest, and therfore they use it in stead of renning, to turn milke and gather curds thereof. It is thought also to be very good for to make womens skin faire and white
ref: 1603, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, volume I, London: Adam Fslip, page 348:
text: And in the worst construction they conceited Money, or a resignation of that part was holden by the King in France, would beget a Peace at their own will and pleasure.
ref: c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 37:
text: The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the swein-mote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury.
ref: 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
text: She was pale and trembling. He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself, which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: past participle of hold
contriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contrive
contriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrivings
Senses: examples: text: Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?
ref: 2007, Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul, page 192:
glosses: The act of one who contrives.
contrives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contrive
summing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sum
summing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summings
Senses: examples: text: In this manner each page [of accounts] is summed up, and […] the amount of the last page of all, as comprehending all the particular summings of the preceding pages, is to be considered as the total amount of the whole account.
ref: 1815, John Dougall, The Young Man's Best Companion and Guide to Useful Knowledge:
glosses: The act or result of addition; a sum.
Derived terms: summing up
summing
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: summin'
form: summink
form: summick
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of something.
détournement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: détournements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of detournement.
khaganate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khaganates
form: kaganate
form: kaganat
form: khakanate
Etymology: From khagan + -ate (forms denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: An empire comprising several khanates.
Related terms: khagan
khan
khanate
Khazar Khaganate
talk dirty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks dirty
form: talking dirty
form: talked dirty
form: talked dirty
Senses: examples: text: I love it when you talk dirty.
text: Meet me on Friday / Down, down, down in blue city / Got no address / Just a telephone number / Phone me tonight / And maybe we can talk dirty
ref: 1981, “Seedy Films”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell:
text: You got to not talk dirty, baby, if you wanna impress me / You can't be too flirty, mama, I know how to undress me
ref: 1986, Prince, “Kiss”, in Parade, performed by Prince and the Revolution:
glosses: To use profane language, especially sexual vulgarities for the purpose of arousal.
Related terms: dirty talk
khagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khagans
form: kagan
form: kaghan
form: khaqan
form: qaghan
form: qaqan
Etymology: Ultimately from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan). Doublet of khan.
Senses: examples: text: As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 69:
text: "A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 52:
glosses: A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.
Derived terms: khaganate
hautbois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hautbois
Etymology: Borrowed from French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautboy.
Senses: synonyms: oboe
glosses: Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
examples: text: Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 3”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
Derived terms: hautboist
disembowelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disembowelments
Etymology: From disembowel + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of disemboweling.
Synonyms: evisceration
Derived terms: disemvowelment
Related terms: hanged, drawn and quartered
subtler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of subtle: more subtle
loyalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loyalist
hurricanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurricane
Afrikander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrikanders
form: Africander
form: afrikander
form: africander
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Afrikaner (“breed of cattle”).
glosses: Archaic form of Afrikaner (“member of ethnic group”).
Derived terms: Afrikanderdom
helo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhi.loʊ/
Forms: form: helos
Etymology: Clipping of helicopter + -o.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A helicopter.
helo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhi.loʊ/
Forms: form: helos
form: heloing
form: heloed
form: heloed
Etymology: Clipping of helicopter + -o.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as it's flyable, I've got a squad of air policemen heloing in from Mountain Home to set up a defensive perimeter, and park rangers and Idaho State Policemen ready to go into the mountains after this guy.
ref: 1998, Stephen Hunter, Time to Hunt, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 380:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To travel via helicopter.
hetaira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetairai
form: hetairas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).
Senses: examples: text: In one of the Greek satirist Lucian's Dialogues of Courtesans, a conversation takes place between the hetaira Tryphaena and a young client named Charmides.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 129:
glosses: Alternative form of hetaera.
hetaerae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetaera
shooting iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting irons
form: shooting-iron
Senses: examples: text: "It ain't the rifle, Harry," Sam said good-temperedly; "it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron."
ref: 1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies:
text: Look like a fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXV, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 267:
text: "Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand."
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxv. 183:
text: The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.
ref: 1943 June 14, Cheap Firepower:
glosses: A firearm, especially a handgun.
shooting-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting-irons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shooting iron.
Discordia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Discordia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of discord, confusion, and strife.
glosses: Synonym of Eris.
synonyms: word: Eris
Synonyms: english: Greek contexts
translation: Greek contexts
word: Eris
Derived terms: Discordianism
orbita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.bɪt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.bət.ə/
Forms: form: orbitae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin orbita (“a circuit, orbit”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of orbit.
tintacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tintack
tarbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarbrush
tar-brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tar-brushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tarbrush.
tar-brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tar-brush
inurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inurement
hanging offence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging offences
form: hanging offense
Senses: examples: text: Word reached the ear of the prosecuting attorney of the only testimony that could establish a motive and make the crime a hanging offence.
ref: 1908, John Fox Jr., chapter 26, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:
text: Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?
ref: 1999 June 18, Rod Beaton, “Astros winning despite obstacles”, in USA Today:
glosses: A crime so serious that it is punishable by means of death by hanging.
hanging offense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging offenses
Senses: examples: text: Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?
ref: 1999 June 18, Rod Beaton, “Astros winning despite obstacles”, in USA Today:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hanging offence.
siltier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of silty: more silty
siltiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of silty: most silty
tiebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tieback
ravels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ravel
ravelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravellings
form: raveling
Etymology: From ravel + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: gerund of ravel
A tangled mess; a decomposition.
examples: text: Ravelling is necessary because the execute function in the IBM implementation only accepts charactervectors as argument.
ref: 1980, Gijsbert van der Linden, APL 80: International Conference on APL, June 24–26, 1980:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: gerund of ravel
In the APL programming language: the act of reshaping a variable into a vector.
ravelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raveling
Etymology: From ravel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ravel
geotextiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geotextile
drainages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainage
sub-surface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The next two stages of new signalling equipment went live on London Underground's sub-surface lines at the beginning of September.
ref: 2019 October, “Edgware Rd cabin closes”, in Modern Railways, page 22:
glosses: Alternative spelling of subsurface.
slitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪtən
Senses: glosses: past participle of slit
tipping points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipping point
linge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: linges
form: linging
form: linged
form: linged
Etymology: From Middle English lengen (“to linger”), from Old English lenġan (“to make long, lengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *langijan, from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (“to make long”). Cognate with Scots ling (“to lengthen, prolong, delay; tarry, continue”). More at linger.
Senses: glosses: To work hard.
Related terms: lingy
tuned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tune out
tuning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tune out
tunes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tune out
tunes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tune in
tuning in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tune in
tuned in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tune in
tuned in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tuned in
form: most tuned in
Senses: glosses: Listening to or watching a channel, station, etc., as on television or radio.
glosses: Paying attention.
examples: text: tuned in to youth culture
glosses: Attuned; having a sense of understanding.
yowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yowl
yowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yowl
yowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yowl
yowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yowlings
Senses: examples: text: They were dancing to the tune of incessant yowlings, the thudding of wooden drums and the monotonous dry rattling of pebbles in turtle-shell rattles.
ref: 1996, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms:
glosses: A sound that yowls.
yowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yowl
mobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mob
mobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobbings
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The aggressive behaviour of a group of animals on another individual (especially a predator).
examples: text: As in the Salem Witch Hunt mobbings, the McMartin Preschool Sexual Abuse Case mobbings also provides^([sic]) an opportunity for analyzing what could have been done, but wasn't, to stop a relentless social process that hurt everyone in its wake[…]
ref: 2012, Maureen P. Duffy, Len Sperry, Mobbing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions:
glosses: Group bullying.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Mob programming.
mobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mob
mobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mobbed
form: most mobbed
Senses: examples: text: The London train's fuckin mobbed. This really gits ma fuckin goat, this. Ah mean, ye pey aw that fuckin dough fir a ticket, they British Rail cunts urnae fuckin shy, n then thir's nae fuckin seats!
ref: 1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Times Film School, page 48:
glosses: Crowded.
Derived terms: unmobbed
Related terms: mobbed-up
swaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swath
grab bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grab bag
grab-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grab-bag
unvalidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + validated.
Senses: glosses: Never having been validated.
snowball's chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of snowball's chance in hell.
ash tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash trees
Etymology: See ash, etymology 2.
Senses: glosses: A tree of the genus Fraxinus, with compound leaves and a tough, flexible wood.
pars intercerebralis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Late Latin pars intercerebralis.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: a neurosecretory center of the insect brain, located along the anterior midline.
derechos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derecho
cambios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambio
supernovas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernova
butt-naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: butt naked
Etymology: Probably related to (and perhaps simply a variant of) buck naked. It is not clear which of the two forms came first, but the earliest written evidence suggests that buck naked is present some four decades earlier.
Senses: examples: text: They could hardly have all marched off butt-naked.
ref: 1998, John Peel, The Outer Limits: The Vanished, New York: Tor Kids, →ISBN, page 8:
text: He cannot picture life without alcohol, drugs or butt-naked rooftop escapades.
ref: 2008, Chris Kovach, chapter 11, in Alcoholics Synonymous, →ISBN:
glosses: Stark naked, completely nude.
Synonyms: nude
crushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crushingly
form: most crushingly
Etymology: From crushing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to defeat overwhelmingly.
glosses: So as to belittle; dishearteningly.
Related terms: soul-crushingly
boles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bole
atmospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atmosphere
revolutionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolutionist
parings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paring
malcontents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malcontent.
malcontents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malcontent
pagodas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pagoda
infinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinity
sophistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophistry
sierras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sierra
Upsidedownland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From upside down + -land.
Senses: glosses: Australia.
glosses: The supposed state of mind of someone whose sense of reality is the converse of the truth, or whose actions seem to imply as such.
discomposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discompose
discomposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discomposed
form: most discomposed
Senses: examples: 1768, Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natur'd Man, 1792, The Good Natured Man, John Bell, page 80,
Zounds, sir, but I am discomposed, and will be discomposed. To be treated thus!—Who am I?—Was it for this I have been dreaded both by inns and outs!
glosses: Uneasy or disturbed.
Derived terms: discomposedly
discomposedness
undiscomposed
ruder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rude: more rude
ampitheatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amphitheatre.
ampitheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amphitheater.
unappeased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappeased
form: most unappeased
Etymology: From un- + appeased.
Senses: glosses: That has not been appeased
clôture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clôtures
Senses: examples: text: A House of Commons manifestly demoralized, unable to dispatch the business, docked of freedom of debate by the clôture, in bondage at once to the caucus and to Irish disaffection, is proclaimed the sole organ of the national will, the supreme and only power of the State.
ref: 1894, Goldwin Smith quoted in The Review of Reviews; Volume IX, page #600
glosses: Alternative spelling of cloture.
verifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verifiers
Etymology: From verify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Branding Machine is mainly responsible for computing and writing of the unique and secure product validation data to the tag. The component called product verifier is able to determine whether the product validation data delivered by an RFID tag is authentic and thus indicates the tagged product’s authenticity.
ref: 2008, Damith C. Ranasinghe, Peter H. Cole, “Introduction from the editors”, in Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting, Springer, →ISBN, page 18:
synonyms: verificator
glosses: Agent noun of verify: someone or something that verifies.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device used to verify that a punched card had been punched correctly.
stipendiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stipendiates
form: stipendiating
form: stipendiated
form: stipendiated
Etymology: From Latin stipendiatus, past participle of stipendiari (“to receive pay”).
Senses: examples: text: all the sciences are taught in the vulgar French by professors stipendiated by the greate Cardinal
ref: 1644 September 18 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 8 September 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to ſtipendiate profeſſors;—but it may be a greater good to lower the duty upon paper, and upon tea, and upon bricks and timber.
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section II, page 14:
synonyms: stipend
glosses: To provide (someone) with a stipend, or salary; to pay, support or fund.
orthologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orthology + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting orthology; having been separated by a speciation event. Usually while retaining the same function.
raw_tags: of genes or sequences
Derived terms: nonorthologous
orthologously
Related terms: ortholog
homologous
orthologization
paralogous
xenologous
juveniles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juvenile
bullfrogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullfrog
litres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litre
kilograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilogram
Related terms: kgs
droughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drought
unsexy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unsexier
form: more unsexy
form: unsexiest
form: most unsexy
Etymology: From un- + sexy.
Senses: glosses: Not sexy.
examples: text: Byford explains: "My first task is to maintain a good state of repair. Attend to the basics. The unsexy stuff - the tracks, the drains, things that don't involve a ribbon-cutting. [...]."
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 52:
glosses: Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding.
raw_tags: of research etc
Related terms: nonsexy
odorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odorants
form: odourant
Senses: glosses: Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes
odorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: odourant
Senses: glosses: Having an odour/odor.
Derived terms: deodorant
reodorant
overhyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhype
overhyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overhyped
form: most overhyped
Senses: glosses: That has been promoted or publicized excessively.
overhype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhypes
form: overhyping
form: overhyped
form: overhyped
Etymology: From over- + hype.
Senses: glosses: To promote or publicize excessively.
misfunctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfunction
misfunctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misfunctioning
form: most misfunctioning
Senses: glosses: That is not functioning properly; malfunctioning
misfunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misfunctions
Etymology: From mis- + function.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of malfunction.
synonyms: word: malfunction
misfunction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfunctions
form: misfunctioning
form: misfunctioned
form: misfunctioned
Etymology: From mis- + function.
Senses: glosses: To function incorrectly; to malfunction.
biomineralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomineralizations
Etymology: From bio- + mineralization.
Senses: examples: text: This process of ‘biomineralization’ is used today to reclaim gold from the Youanmi deposits of Western Australia.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 51:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of hard mineral deposits within a living organism; especially the process whereby bone and similar structural material is formed.
Related terms: biomineral
biomineralize
biomineralogy
disintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disintegrate
disintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disintegrated
form: most disintegrated
Senses: glosses: That has undergone disintegration
Derived terms: photodisintegrated
undisintegrated
androstadienone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androstadienones
form: androsta-4
form: 16-dien-3-one
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of testosterone reported to have pheromone activity in humans
hypergravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + gravity.
Senses: glosses: The presence of an apparently increased gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
neurobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurobiologists
Etymology: From neuro- + biologist.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialist in neurobiology
spermatagonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatagonium
spermatagonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatagonia
Etymology: From spermata- + -gonium.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermatogonium.
androstenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androstenones
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid, specifically 5α-androst-16-en-4-one, found in human sweat; reported to be a pheromone.
crooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːnd/
rhymes: -uːnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of croon
young adult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young adults
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: AYA; emerging adult
text: Young adult actress Annie Jay wrote a book called Stars in Your Eyes, Feet on the Ground giving career advice for young adult actors.
synonyms: YA
hypernyms: adult#Noun
coordinate_terms: adolescent#Noun
teenager
;
kid#Noun
;
middle-ager
older adult
glosses: A person who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience.
examples: text: My favorite young adult writer, Jen Derbyshire, just published her 50th paperback novel, the latest in an adventure series spanning fifteen years.
text: Emily said to shelve these books in Young Adult and to make a table display with some of them.
topics: media
publishing
synonyms: YA
glosses: An adolescent; a genre of writing aimed primarily at this readership.
agropastoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agro- + pastoral.
Senses: glosses: based upon agriculture and the rearing of sheep
Related terms: agropastoralist
stylistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of literary style, and how it changes within different contexts.
Derived terms: linguo-stylistics
mediated stylistics
Related terms: stylistic
stylistically