nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: brain traffic Part of Speech: noun 1. The movement and coordination of internal signals that govern the working of the body and mind, especially neural impulses and hormones. Labels: uncountable Example: In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve. Therefore he is never normally subject to "imaginations." Example: When a large amount of one amino acid is administered, the delicate balance of amino acid "brain traffic" becomes distorted. 2. The discussion of ideas, especially over the Internet. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST Example: But the system continues operating. "Brain traffic" is developing. It spreads to the widest range of specialists, from a rank-and-file engineer to a prominent scientist; from an ordinary manager of a plant to an executive of a national corporation. 3. An ability to think, with an emphasis on the limited capacity and speed a person is capable of, analogous to the limits of a road system for handling vehicular traffic. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: The intensity of the radio noise, the vital nature of the decisions that have to be made — right now — the requirement for accelerated brain traffic; they were often more than a guy could effectively handle. Example: The Sea-Wolf bore down on me for all my brain-traffic would bear.
Word: Mantecan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Manteca + -an 1. Of or relating to Manteca, California, in the United States.
Word: Mantecan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Manteca + -an 1. A native or inhabitant of Manteca, California, in the United States.
Word: Mantecans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mantecan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Indophobic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Indo- + -phobic. 1. Exhibiting or relating to Indophobia. Labels: not-comparable Example: The extreme Indophobic discomfort with the connection of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin was exemplified by the conviction of the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, who, without knowing a word of the language, proposed that Sanskrit was not a cognate of Greek, it was Greek. Example: Even the Hindus have more knowledge than us in some matters of astronomy and mathematics'—a virtually unprecedented admission for the often Indophobic Abdul Lateef.
Word: unicorning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unicorn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unicorned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unicorn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unicorned Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a single horn. Labels: not-comparable Example: To the second series belong the unicorned and bicorned species of Asia. Example: Doctor Shepard related in his book that unicorned sheep exist in Nepal and on occasion are even sent to Europe.
Word: work one's buns off Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of work one's butt off. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I worked my little buns off making my special souffle for you!" She said, Example: The poor girl has been working her buns off at the catering business and the most we've done so far is cuddle on the couch.
Word: works one's buns off Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of work one's buns off Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: working one's buns off Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of work one's buns off Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: worked one's buns off Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of work one's buns off Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: well heeled Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of well-heeled. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Manteca Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish manteca. 1. A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States. Example: “I am completely disgusted in sharing with you that, later yesterday evening, I received a call from the Manteca PD that the suspect in this horrific crime turns out to (be) my 18-year-old son,” McAllister wrote in a note on the police department’s Facebook page on Wednesday.
Word: angkong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tagalog angkong, from Hokkien 俺公 (án-kong, “paternal grandfather”). Pronunciation: /ɑŋˈkɔŋ/ 1. paternal grandfather; paternal grandpa Labels: Philippines Example: Were you surprised when your parents remained calm when you told them about your grades? When you failed your midterms, I went to your house and apologized. Granted that your angkong hit me with his cane, which I guess I deserved. I didn't want you to be less of who you were before you met me. 2. term of address for one's paternal grandfather Labels: Philippines Example: After Angkong was buried, a Chinese altar, with the accompanying table for making offerings, was purchased and installed in the dining room. His portrait and altar faced the dining table, and from then on, the altar would be the focal point of family life.
Word: breastling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From breast + -ling. 1. A suckling babe or child. Labels: rare
Word: breastlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breastling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: social piranha Part of Speech: noun 1. Malapropism of social pariah.
Word: quattuordecillions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quattuordecillion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quattuordecillionths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quattuordecillionth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quindecillionths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quindecillionth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quintillionaires Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quintillionaire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: five-pin Part of Speech: noun 1. five-pin bowling (played only in Canada) Labels: uncountable
Word: fivepin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: five + pin 1. Any of the bottle-shaped targets with rubber rings around them that are used in fivepin bowling.
Word: cyprinodontine Part of Speech: noun 1. Any pupfish of the subfamily Cyprinodontinae
Word: cyprinodontines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyprinodontine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cytoadhesins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cytoadhesin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cytohistologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From cyto- + histologically. 1. In a cytohistological manner Labels: not-comparable
Word: Pieech Part of Speech: name Etymology: Anglicization of German Piëch 1. A surname.
Word: decollectivisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + collectivisation. 1. Alternative form of decollectivization. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dehydrodimers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dehydrodimer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: discovertebral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From disco- + vertebral. 1. Relating to the intervertebral discs Labels: not-comparable
Word: dorsumal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dorsum + -al. 1. Synonym of dorsal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: eigenworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eigen- + worm. 1. Any of the fundamental movements that make up the wiggles of a worm Example: This extends the applicability of the eigenworm representation and provides a common and compact basis for capturing worm postures. Example: This suggests that there is some relevant information that is lost in the eigenworm transform.
Word: eigenworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eigenworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elasmobranchian Part of Speech: noun 1. Any fish of the subclass Elasmobranchii
Word: electrocompression Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + compression. 1. electrostatic (or electromagnetic) compression Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: electrotransformant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + transformant. 1. A transformant undergoing electrotransformation
Word: electrotransformants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electrotransformant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PPs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of PP Labels: form-of, plural
Word: BHs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of BH Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Qajar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately from Azerbaijani Qacar (“Qajar (member of the Qajar tribe)”). 1. A member of the Qajar tribe. 2. A member of the Qajar dynasty, a ruling dynasty of Iran (1789–1925) founded by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar.
Word: Qajar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ultimately from Azerbaijani Qacar (“Qajar (member of the Qajar tribe)”). 1. Of or relating to the Qajar tribe. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to the Qajar dynasty or its period of rule in Iran (1789–1925). Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ilkhanid Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the Ilkhans. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ilkhan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of ilkhan. Labels: alt-of
Word: Tulunid Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the Tulunids. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Hamdanid Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the Hamdanids, a Shi'ite Arab dynasty that ruled northern Syria in 906–1004. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Hamdanid Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of the Hamdanid dynasty.
Word: blow-up doll Part of Speech: noun 1. A sex toy in the form of an inflatable life-size doll. Example: For thirty-six years the Lost Property office was managed by Maureen Beaumont, and when I went there to interview her, back in the late Nineties, she told me people didn't seem embarrassed about what they'd lost. She'd known men collect stashes of porn, or blow-up dolls.
Word: blow-up dolls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blow-up doll Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arahantship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arahant + -ship. 1. the position of arahant. Labels: uncountable Example: according to the scriptures arahantship is possible as long as the Dhamma exists. He went on to say, however, that while arahantship may be theoretically or doctrinally possible, it is realistically impossible because of the absence today of both suitable teachers and people with pure, clear minds. Example: First the fruit of arahantship arises, then the knowledge of destruction.
Word: Ongar Part of Speech: name Etymology: Said to be a derivative of Old English wong (“plain, field”), in the sense of "meadow". 1. A civil parish and post town with a town council in Epping Forest district, Essex, England, the parish includes Chipping Ongar. 2. An outer western suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Word: Chipping Ongar Part of Speech: name 1. A small market town in Ongar parish, Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5503).
Word: High Ongar Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5603).
Word: whey aye Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of wye aye. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: planter's chair Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of wooden one-person armchair with wickerwork backing, designed to be used in tropical climates. Example: Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.
Word: planter's chairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planter's chair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Uzbekizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of Uzbekize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Uzbekizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of Uzbekize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Uzbekized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of Uzbekize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Uzbekization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Uzbek + -ization. 1. The process of making something Uzbek. Labels: uncountable
Word: dictatorless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dictator + -less. 1. without a dictator. Labels: not-comparable Example: We dispose of our heritage of wealth to assist and reinforce what remains of what we call "a free world," though the regime in the United Kingdom is very close to Communism and a failure, as all dictatorless socialist states are bound to be. Example: Stalin himself, who spoke of the joy of Soviet life in 1936, clearly had no affection for pictures of happiness in a future dictatorless, “self-regulating” society and in images of mass consumerism.
Word: Americanless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From American + -less. 1. without Americans. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ambition: An Americanless England. Also, sales. Address: Watch bill-boards. Example: Winter clientele is 70% French, heavily Italian and Belgian, and nearly Americanless.
Word: dot down Part of Speech: verb 1. To score a try Example: […]Makazole Mapimpi became the first Springbok try scorer in a RWC final when he dotted down in the 67th minute. Example: France centre Nassira Konde crossed for her second try to close the gap, but Meg Jones ensured England had the final say as she latched on to replacement Holly Aitchison's kick to dot down.
Word: written in the stars Part of Speech: adj 1. Destined to happen, fated to happen. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: 1948, Tony Martin (performer), Leo Robin (composer), It Was Written in the Stars It was written in the stars That our love would be born It was written in the stars We'd meet early one morn Example: In the end it felt as if it was written in the stars. Every 12 years South Africa have an unerring habit of winning World Cups and they have done so again, following up their triumphs of 1995 and 2007 with another prodigious display of power and might.
Word: RWC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Rugby World Cup. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The high, high concept that takes Robbo there is a Faragian dystopia where, to ensure a home nations win in the RWC, it’s been made illegal for foreign rugbyists to enjoy the miraculous benefits of Lucozade Sport.
Word: triplexity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From triplex + -ity. 1. The state of being triplex.
Word: triplexities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of triplexity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elevenfoldness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From elevenfold + -ness. 1. The property of being elevenfold. Labels: uncountable
Word: sight sing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sight + sing. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪt ˌsɪŋ/ 1. To sing a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.
Word: shitbull Part of Speech: noun 1. Spoonerism of bullshit. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: 'That's shitbull. You can never tell, believe me. / 'The word's bullshit.' Example: Let us cut all the shitbull.
Word: shitbull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of shit + (pit) bull. 1. A pit bull terrier. Labels: derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: I went upstairs and got some hamburger and lured pitbull shitbull into my garage. Example: Better than to have bred and kept shitbulls.
Word: shitbulls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shitbull. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: velvet hippo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Presumably an allusion to the large size and short coat of pit bull-type dogs or their reputation for aggression and unpredictability. 1. A pit bull terrier. Labels: figuratively, slang Example: My real life angel is my very own velvet hippo named Angel, and she is magical. Example: Velvet Hippo, Silver Shark—those are only a couple of the names that June's fans call her.
Word: beat a hasty retreat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally a military term, referring to the pace set by drummers in the British army. 1. To leave as quickly as possible. Example: A few nights ago, a fair trader had commenced unloading her cargo, consisting of light goods, in the Pent, but in the midst of the operation was discovered by the Philistines, and obliged to beat a hasty retreat across the rope-walk to the sea... Example: I found not a sole around and beat a hasty retreat, but before leaving I took a look around and was impressed by the location and proximity of the lagoon.
Word: beats a hasty retreat Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of beat a hasty retreat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: beating a hasty retreat Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of beat a hasty retreat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beaten a hasty retreat Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of beat a hasty retreat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: born tired Part of Speech: adj 1. Chronically tired; asthenic. Labels: not-comparable Example: God creates the human family, but the mother is the instrument of creation and the child of the tired mother will always be born tired, and there is nothing so pitiful as the child born tired. Example: To the latter reference has been made so repeatedly that it will suffice here to say that the asthenic child is “born tired". 2. Lazy; shiftless. Labels: not-comparable Example: But, lord! Young Har never finishes anything – too tired! 'Ang me, sir, if I don't think 'e were born tired! Example: New South Wales is quite literally regarded as a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; that is, a paradise for uncles who have turned dishonest and for nephews who are born tired.
Word: divaned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From divan + -ed. 1. Furnished with one or more divans. Example: He had prepared a house for our accommodation; and a clean room, carpeted and divaned, some excellent coffee, and a plentiful supply of fresh water, were "impayable" luxuries after the discomforts of the wilderness. Example: Some, taking off their turbans and loosening their girdles, ensconced themselves under the arcades, lying on their carpets and covered with their pelisses and cloaks; some strolled into the divaned chambers, which were open to all, and more comfortably stowed themselves upon the well-stuffed cushions; others, overcome with fatigue and their revel, were lying in deep sleep, outstretched in the open court, and picturesque in the blazing moonlight.
Word: auntying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of auntie Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: auntied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of auntie Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Pakula Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Polish Pakuła. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: Rypien Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Polish Rypień. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: neocolonize Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of neo-colonize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: neo-colonise Part of Speech: verb 1. UK standard spelling of neo-colonize.
Word: galaxy-brain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a popular image macro meme in which a series of increasingly absurd or surreal thoughts is paired with images of a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically framing the ideas as too profound for average minds to comprehend. 1. Appearing to be insightful and profound, but actually absurd, incomprehensible, or nonsensical. Labels: Internet, sarcastic, usually Example: On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic. Example: Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.
Word: neocolonise Part of Speech: verb 1. UK standard spelling of neo-colonize.
Word: spruing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sprue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lovesickly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From lovesick + -ly. 1. In a lovesick manner. Example: ...and, most of all, a romantic figure like Errol Flynn to captain the Sea Hawks, to be loyal to the Queen, to gaze lovesickly into the big, beautiful, cowy, Spanish eyes of Brenda Marshall, to lead his stalwart men (Alan Hale, J. M. Kerrigan, William Lundigan and all the others including an interesting newcomer, David Bruce) into Panama to rob the Spanish, to stand by them and help them escape when they are captured, and finally to slash his way in duel after duel through guard and intriguing lords to his Queen with the plans of the ARMADA. Example: Not to phone or meet her or hang around lovesickly.
Word: lovesickly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lovesick + -ly. 1. Characterized by or suffering from lovesickness to an uhealthy degree. Example: This wretched victim whose once-victorious arms are now rendered impotent by the misunderstanding of a message from his Sin-Par cannot be the real Amadís, the Doncel del Mar, the Caballero de la Espada Ardiente, only his lovesickly shadow. Example: On the lovesickly, languorous "Flowerz," garage vocalist Roland Clark swoons amid a heat-haze of sound, again spun from a spangly, filtered disco loop.
Word: person unknown Part of Speech: noun 1. An individual yet to identified.
Word: persons unknown Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of person unknown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emmetropized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of emmetropize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: endogenicity Part of Speech: noun 1. The condition of being endogenic Labels: uncountable
Word: enzymolyzed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enzymolyze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ephaptically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ephaptic + -ally. 1. In an ephaptic manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: epiplastral Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to an epiplastron Labels: not-comparable
Word: erythronolactone Part of Speech: noun 1. The butanolide 3,4-dihydroxydihydro-2(3H)-furanone Labels: uncountable
Word: ethiopathological Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of etiopathological. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: ethnoflora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ethno- + flora. 1. The flora of a region that is used by that region's native inhabitants Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: euchromosomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of euchromosome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eumuroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + muroid. 1. Any rodent of the clade Eumuroida of muroid rodents, including families Calomyscidae, Nesomyidae, Cricetidae, Muridae and their closest ancestors.
Word: eumuroids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eumuroid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: externomedian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From externo- + median. 1. external to a median Labels: not-comparable
Word: extramedian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + median. 1. Synonym of externomedian. Labels: not-comparable 2. Beyond the middle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: extradiol Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of estradiol. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: extraoesophageal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of extraesophageal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: stately homes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stately home Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bottle blonde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from the dye or bleach being supplied in a bottle. 1. A person (usually a woman) who dyes or bleaches their hair a shade of blonde. Labels: derogatory
Word: bottle blondes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bottle blonde Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fasciological Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to fasciology Labels: not-comparable
Word: fervenulin Part of Speech: noun 1. The heterocyclic ketone 6,8-dimethylpyrimido[5,4-e][1,2,4]triazine-5,7-dione Labels: uncountable
Word: fesselin Part of Speech: noun 1. A protein, present in smooth muscle, that stimulates actin Labels: uncountable
Word: fibrotization Part of Speech: noun 1. Conversion to a fibrotic state; fibrosis Labels: uncountable
Word: model shop Part of Speech: noun 1. A retail outlet that sells models (miniatures), or kits to make them. Example: You can't just walk into a model shop and buy little Tube trains, although you could for a brief period in the Fifties, when Eveready made a model Underground train, to advertise the battery that powered it. So Underground modellers work from 'scratch' - that is, they make their own stuff, or adapt.
Word: model shops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of model shop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: howdy doody Part of Speech: intj Etymology: An extended form of the expression howdy to more completely mirror the original expression "how do you do". Pronunciation: /haʊdi ˈdudi/ 1. An informal greeting. Labels: dated, informal
Word: co-linguist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + linguist. 1. One who shares a language with someone. Example: Muslim Bengal asserted its Muslim personality in 1947 against its co-linguist Hindu neighbours. Twenty-four years later, it asserted its regional personality also, through a revolt against its co-religionist West Pakistanis. Example: The former is capable — when speaking to a co-linguist — of conveying almost a photographic image of an area of bush so extensive is his knowledge of the names of vegetation and descriptions of terrain.
Word: co-linguists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of co-linguist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rowan berry Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rowanberry. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rowan berries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rowan berry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rowan-berry Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rowanberry. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rowan-berries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rowan-berry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: timekeep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From time + keep, or possibly back-formation from timekeeping. 1. To keep track of and/or enforce any restrictions on the time; keep time. Example: Thus, the difficulty retarded persons experience with focusing and/or maintaining their attention toward a relevant stimulus dimension (Fisher & Zeaman, 1973) may well hinder their ability to timekeep and predict temporal intervals. Example: This exercise takes about forty-five minutes. Arrange for someone to timekeep.
Word: timekeep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From time + keep, or possibly back-formation from timekeeping. 1. A timekeeper; someone or something that timekeeps. Example: A timekeep gave us our cards and our badges and told us where to punch in and then let out a yell for Johnson, our straw boss. Example: Round little timekeeps set with crystal eye.
Word: timekeeps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of timekeep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: timekeeps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of timekeep Labels: form-of, plural
Word: timekept Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of timekeep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: time-keep Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of timekeep. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A small unit, such as a platoon, can time-keep and synchronize very well by itself, particularly if the parade path is not too noisy. Example: Ideas on how to improve the process and ideas for other meetings are exchanged at this time and the allocation of roles for the next meeting is made – who will arrange the venue, who will send out the action points typed up, who will time-keep, etc.
Word: time-keeps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of time-keep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: time-kept Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of time-keep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: time keep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From time + keep. 1. Alternative form of timekeep. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Who time keeps? Who evaluates the results? Example: Since it was not uncommon to be able to time keep, it should not have been that bad of a problem.
Word: time keeps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of time keep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: time keeping Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of timekeeping. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: time keeping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of time keep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: time kept Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of time keep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: walk-through Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from walk through. 1. That can be walked through. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of passenger carriages in a train, having no doors in gangway connections between the carriages, often in combination with longitudinal seating, creating a "see-through" effect through the train. Labels: not-comparable Example: The new trains will also be fully 'walk-through', with no carriage end-doors. Travelling on them is like riding on a sinuous, moving corridor. It's less claustrophobic than the old arrangement, but now you can no longer choose the carriage not occupied by the declaiming loony. Example: Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
Word: walk-through Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from walk through. 1. Alternative form of walkthrough. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: walk-throughs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of walk-through Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cardhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From card + house. Piecewise doublet of charthouse. 1. A business establishment that hosts card-playing, especially one where patrons play poker. Labels: countable Example: "Twas first to the cardhouse and then down to Maisie's," intoned that mournful ballad "The Cowboy's Lament." But most real-life trail riders went first to the bathtub and then to the haberdasher, if only because neither Maisie nor the cardhouse would truly welcome a man so long as he had the look and smell of a summer in the saddle. Example: He spends six nights a week at the cardhouse. 2. A structure of plate-like mineral deposits that rest on each other's edges. Labels: attributive, uncountable Example: He also expressed the opinion that certain sensitive clays derived their properties from the fact that the flaky minerals were arranged in an unstable “cardhouse” fabric. Example: The microstructures do not appear to conform entirely to either cardhouse or honeycomb structures. 3. Synonym of house of cards (any sense). Labels: countable Example: The photographer glanced up at them over a four-storeyed cardhouse, which he had built out of crispbread. Example: On the other hand (and perhaps incompatibly) he was thought to be dangerously addicted to speculation: 'an inveterate theorist, an intellectual cardhouse builder'.
Word: cardhouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cardhouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: card house Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cardhouse. Example: So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes. Example: And if you look carefully at the card house, you will see that top two cards are aces of clubs. 2. Alternative form of cardhouse. Example: He owned a goulash or card house, on upper Broadway, where I got many laughs. Example: Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy card house, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from the coal-oil lamp right above him.
Word: card houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of card house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: card-house Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cardhouse. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Unimportant as this confirmation is to the proof of a design and intention to depose the King, let us see whether in any part Adams's evidence "is supported, and I think you will find it falls to the ground like the card-house of a baby, directly the finger of a human being is applied to it — there is not a thing that can stand on this testimony, and there is this, curious circumstance attending it, which would alone destroy that which is much better combined that this with is, that no two of the witnesses ever saw one another. Example: ...thus the assumption has sometimes been made that the corresponding dried extruded test pieces contain very porous microstrutures resembling card-house or relaced flocs.
Word: card-houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of card-house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: washing mitt Part of Speech: noun 1. A mitt-shaped piece of terrycloth used for personal hygiene.
Word: flimmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blend of flicker + glimmer. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪmə(ɹ)/, /ˈflɪmɚ/ 1. A flickering glimmer. 2. One of the delicate lateral filaments typical of some flagella. (mastigoneme)
Word: flimmer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blend of flicker + glimmer. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪmə(ɹ)/, /ˈflɪmɚ/ 1. To glimmer, flicker. Labels: intransitive
Word: ice fishes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ice fish Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ice fished Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ice fish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: garlion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blend of garlic + onion. 1. A hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber Example: Garlions are being offered on the market as a compromise cross between garlic and onions for those who cannot quite make up their minds to take garlic to their bosom.
Word: fishhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fyschehous, from Old English fisċhūs; equivalent to fish + house. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃ.haʊs/ 1. A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch. Example: It is in the fishhouse where the fishermen gather in the morning to exchange news about the weather, tides, the price of seafood, about one another and about the people who live in Mullet Springs. Example: Often they did not know until that morning whether a particular fishhouse had work. 2. A temporary shelter belonging to an individual fisherman for use while ice fishing. Example: Those who expect to fish in real winter weather must have a little stove in the fishhouse. Example: Everyone in town, E. A. Walter, president of the Glei wood State Bank, to the last median at the Soo Line Railroad roundhouse seems to own a fishhouse. 3. A restaurant that specializes in fish and seafood. Example: Chesapeake is a California version of an East Coast fishhouse, but more comfortable and sophisticated. Example: On an island where chefs lean toward Caribbean cuisine, Chef Konrad Jochum presents refreshingly simple, traditional fare (a la some New England fishhouse); his plump oysters Rockefeller and seafood cream-sherry pan roasts are exquisite. 4. A business that breeds fish for aquariums, selling them either to pet shops or directly to the public. Example: As does sometimes happen, one particular tank in our fishhouse supported fish and plants better than any other, so the inmates were evacuated and the young Discus introduced. Example: I have about seven different species in my fishhouse; some of them I am afraid are more suitable for a cooler house than the one they are living in at the moment, but on the whole they are doing well.
Word: fishhouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fishhouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fish house Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fishhouse. Example: In the center of the fish house, a metal conveyor belt dropped stiff, gaping trout onto a second belt to be sorted into bins according to size. Example: On the Chickahominy, the Hazelwood brothers' fish house at Hicks Island and the Menzel brothers' fish house near the old shipyard thrived by serving local and distant markets. As late as 1977, a Publick Observer article boasted, "If you are served turtle soup in Atlanta or catfish in Ft. Wayne, Ind., chances are good that the main ingredients came from the waters of the James or the Chickahominy." 2. Alternative form of fishhouse. Example: Except as provided in paragraph (d), a shelter, including a fish house or dark house, may not be on the ice between 12:00 a.m. and one hour before sunrise after the following dates: Example: When holes are drilled and a fish house put up, it's time to get busy. 3. Alternative form of fishhouse. Example: Along U.S. Route 1, you'll find the area's best family fish house, the Captain's Tavern, with an ideal mix of both simple fried fish and designer seafood. Example: When he was living in Portugal, he would cook them at the beach over a driftwood fire, skewered on a stick. This recipe is a mash-up of Joseph's method and a recipe from a fish house on the Amalfi Coast
Word: fish houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fish house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fish-house Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fishhouse. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: From this place they proceeded across the great marsh to Sir William Johnson's fish-house, on the Sacondaga, capturing a man named Martin, and another named Harris, on the way, and at the fish-house taking a brave fellow named Solomon Woodworth and four others. Example: Early the next moming I walked into a fish-house near our hotel, where three or four men were engaged in trundling out the pickled fish on barrows, and spreading them to dry.
Word: fish-houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fish-house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unhistory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + history. 1. The stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The mill-house, like the family of the miller, is for Hardy a representative part of the unhistory of the country, what we now know as local history, and which many consider to be the only sure basis of any historical knowledge; Example: Hagen and Zelman note that "what we lost" is also the "unwritten sufferings of ordinary women, ordinary people" who "are doomed to become unhistory" (445). 2. The suppressed history of controversial events. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Somehow, in this eerie age of unhistory, the whole meaning and purpose of life has been twisted around, warped and distorted. Example: Kutler says, "Nixon would have us make unhistory out of a sequence of events for which we have ample evidence. 3. Inaccurate representations of the past that are presented as history. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The history, or rather the unhistory, of Stonehenge, is, paradoxical though it seems, a long and old story. Example: However, they encounter a serious problem: the actor begins to alter the dates of verifiable historical events, moving the Tunguska explosion from 1888 to 1908. We are told that, from this point on, 'the film project foundered further into a chaos of unhistory' (1983, 56).
Word: unhistories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unhistory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Johannesburger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Johannesburg + -er. 1. an inhabitant of Johannesburg. Example: By using a midget, skin-tight car of the kind made in Italy the Johannesburger might save himself much tribulation, but he likes large and glittering things, and would rather toil round his city in vain search of a place to put his supercharged, supergrinning Mammalac than use a baby car. Example: A Johannesburger will seldom ask a visitor what he thinks of the city.
Word: shark bite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the resemblance of the hemline to an object which has had a large chunk bitten off by a shark. 1. Having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee. Labels: not-comparable Example: She'd changed her long-sleeved shirt three times before settling on a paisley print one with a shark bite hem. Example: She didn't look like the other nurses, with her red shark-bite top, impractical heels, and frosted Bardot bun.
Word: sharkbite Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of shark bite. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shark-bite Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of shark bite. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: light-witted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English light-witted, from light (adjective) + witted (“having intelligence or understanding”, adjective), from the noun wit. See more at light, wit, -ed. 1. Having a feeble or weak intellect. Example: When the Maior of the Citie, the two Dukes, and the two chiefe Juſtices, were ſet in Guyldhall for the performance of their commiſſion, and began to call the empanels for the enquirie, as the vſe and other is, diuers light witted, and leſſe brayned perſons of the citie, priuely armed them, and by the ringing of Bow bell, thought to aſſemble together a great multitude of their minde and opinion, and ſo by force and might to take from the kepers all ſuch priſoners, as were before apprehended, for the late committed robbery and riot, as they were goyng to their triall or arreignment.
Word: sprued Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sprue Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: contemplate one's navel Part of Speech: verb 1. To spend time thinking about oneself or one's own interests, especially to the exclusion of others. Example: People keep coming to me for advice that they go on to ignore, so I've decided to stop wasting effort on ingrates and instead dedicate more time to contemplating my navel and my many other attractive features and admirable qualities. Example: But mainly he wanted to dwell on his resentments, contemplate his navel and work himself into a mean, sullen mood, because that’s the way he plays best. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see contemplate, navel.
Word: begrieve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- (“around, about, over”) + grieve. 1. To grieve over or about. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive Example: […] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […] Example: He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers. Near Namur on the Meuse he describes a hermits' lodge carved in stone with the internal movable contrivance representing the Passion. 2. To cause grief or grieving. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive Example: It was begrieving to see how the intrusion of even a smattering of pride and moral standards could impede on what had always been a carefree, shiftless life.
Word: begrieved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of begrieve Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: begrieves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of begrieve Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: begrieving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of begrieve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: round and round Part of Speech: adv 1. In a repeated circular motion. Labels: not-comparable Example: The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step ; and it is truly astonishing that this continued revolution does not set all their heads swimming like a top ; but I have been positively assured that it only occasions a gentle sensation which is marvellously agreeable. Example: Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars. 2. Following the same course repeatedly in vain. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: Instances were known of people who, being asked to dine at Todgers’s, had travelled round and round for a weary time, with its very chimney–pots in view ; and finding it, at last, impossible of attainment, had gone home again with a gentle melancholy on their spirits, tranquil and uncomplaining.
Word: forkweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fork + weed. 1. The alga Dictyota dichotoma Labels: uncountable
Word: fractograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fracto- + -graph. 1. The graphical result of fractography
Word: fractographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fractograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: around and around Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of round and round. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Yugoslavic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Yugoslav + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to Yugoslavia. Labels: historical, not-comparable, uncommon
Word: stagger breathing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stagger breathe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stagger breathing Part of Speech: noun 1. a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect Labels: uncountable
Word: stagger breathe Part of Speech: verb 1. within a choir or wind instrument ensemble, to breathe independently so that no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect Labels: intransitive
Word: pilot scheme Part of Speech: noun 1. An experiment carried out to test a new idea or concept before full-scale introduction; a pilot study. Example: After a pilot scheme, VT [Virgin Trains] introduced 275 [body] cameras from September 2018. Between April and September 2019, assaults on VT staff fell by 30% compared with the previous year.
Word: pilot schemes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pilot scheme Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poor old Part of Speech: adj 1. Used to indicate that one has sympathy for something or someone familiar that does not have an optimal situation. Labels: informal, not-comparable
Word: paint with the same brush Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of tar with the same brush.
Word: Winchburgh Part of Speech: name 1. A village in West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid area NT0874).
Word: Dalmeny Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1477). 2. A town in the Eurobodalla council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Word: Wy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of wy. Labels: alt-of
Word: genotypify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From geno- + typify. 1. Synonym of genotype.
Word: genotypified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of genotypify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: glycohormone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glyco- + hormone. 1. Any hormone that contains a sugar moiety
Word: glycohormones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glycohormone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: graphette Part of Speech: noun 1. A generalisation of a (possibly disconnected) graphlet
Word: graphettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of graphette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grasstree Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of grass tree. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: grasstrees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grasstree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: guineagrass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Guinea grass. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: Burscough Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈbɜ(ɹ)ːskəʊ/, /ˈbɜː(ɹ)skə/ 1. A small town and civil parish with a town council in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4411).
Word: topepo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blend of tomato + pepper. Pronunciation: /təˈpɛpəʊ/ 1. A reputed hybrid between the tomato and the sweet pepper. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Camelon Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8680).
Word: light-winged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) + winged (“having wings”, adjective). 1. Having light or fleet wings; swift.
Word: life-expired Part of Speech: adj 1. Worn out, outdated, at the end of its useful life. Labels: not-comparable Example: The current fleet of 80-year-old pre-war ex-LU trains is life-expired and will be replaced.