cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ideotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideotypes
Etymology: From ideo- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality
qualifier: cognitive science
glosses: A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli
Derived terms: idiotypy
Related terms: ideotypic
idiotype
ideotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideotype
metarepresentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metarepresentations
Etymology: From meta- + representation.
Senses: glosses: A representation of a representation.
Related terms: metarepresentational
metarepresentative
metarepresentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metarepresentation
hypercognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + cognitive.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the system by which individuals regulate their own cognitive activity.
toe loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe loops
Senses: glosses: In figure skating, a toe pick-assisted jump that takes off and lands on the same backward outside edge.
incentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incentre
excenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excenters
Etymology: From ex- + center.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The center of an excircle.
Related terms: excircle
excenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excenter
cow creamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow creamers
form: cow-creamer
Senses: glosses: A traditional creamer (jug) in the shape of a cow.
khao soi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khao soy
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ข้าวซอย (kâao-sɔɔi), which is perhaps derived from Burmese ခေါက်ဆွဲ (hkaukhcwai:) or Shan ၶဝ်ႈသွႆး (khāo sáui).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Wide rice noodles.
ghost pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost peppers
form: ghost chili
form: ghost chili pepper
Etymology: Calque of Assamese ভোট-জলকীয়া (bhüt-zolokia, “Bhutanese chili”). The first element bhüt, meaning Bhutanese, was mistakenly confused for a near-homonym bhut meaning ghost, thus producing the English (mis-)translation "ghost pepper".
Senses: examples: text: I buy a puree of ghost peppers from Dave's Gourmet, the makers of Dave's Insanity Sauce […]
ref: 2012, Kevin Gillespie, David Joachim, Fire in My Belly: Real Cooking, page 241:
glosses: Synonym of bhut jolokia.
synonyms: word: bhut jolokia
bhut jolokia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhut jolokias
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese ভোট-জলকীয়া (bhüt-zolokia, literally “Bhutanese chili”) or ভূত-জলকীয়া (bhut-zolokia, literally “ghost chili”).
Senses: synonyms: ghost pepper
ghost chili
ghost chili pepper
glosses: A kind of very spicy hot chili pepper from India.
ghost peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost pepper
hardflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardflips
Etymology: From hard + flip.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A trick that combines a frontside pop shuvit with a kickflip.
hardflips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardflip
airwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airwalks
Etymology: From air + walk.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A trick in which the skater holds the board and kicks out both feet while in the air.
airwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airwalk
no comply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no complys
form: no complies
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A trick in which the skater plants the front foot and pops the board using only the back foot.
no-communication theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A no-go theorem stating that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.
ricy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ricy
form: most ricy
Senses: examples: text: […] a ricy fluid, exactly resembling the rice water discharges of cholera […]
ref: 1855, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 816:
glosses: Alternative form of ricey.
anthropochorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænθɹɒpəˈkɔːɹəs/
Etymology: From anthropo- (“man, human”) + Ancient Greek χωρίζω (khōrízō, “separate, spread”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
qualifier: or flora
glosses: that have populations transported as aliens to geographical areas by the direct or indirect, typically inadvertent, action of humans.
raw_tags: of fauna
examples: text: From their initial habitats, many anthropochorous insects have been transported by humans around the globe and several are now cosmopolitan in distribution.
ref: 2003, Kevin J. Edwards, Ian Ralston, Scotland After the Ice Age: Environment, Archaeology and History, 8000 BC - AD 1000:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
qualifier: or flora
glosses: that have populations effectively relying on human transport or action, typically inadvertent, for their propagation.
raw_tags: of fauna
Derived terms: anthropochore
anthropochory
unbeggarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbeggarly
form: most unbeggarly
Etymology: From un- + beggarly.
Senses: glosses: Not beggarly.
next-to-last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of next to last.
potational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From potation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to potation.
second-to-last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of second to last.
second from last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of second to last.
second-from-last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of second-to-last.
second last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: second-last
Senses: glosses: Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
Synonyms: penultimate
second-last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of second last.
last but one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
Synonyms: penultimate
occipitomental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From occipito- + mental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to (the distance between) the chin and the occiput.
suboccipitobregmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to (the distance between) the middle of the large fontanelle to the undersurface of the occipital bone where it joins the neck.
varial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varials
Etymology: Blend of vary + aerial?
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: An aerial move during which the skater rotates the board.
varials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varial
anthropochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropochores
Etymology: From anthropo- + -chore.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that depends on anthropochory as a routine means of reproductive dispersal.
examples: text: Although most anthropochores undoubtedly have been transported by man from the Old World to the New, there is evidence that at least some now known from Europe first became known from the United States and were carried east.
ref: G. W. Frankie
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A population of a species in a region where it does not natively occur, established by anthropochorous events in the past.
Derived terms: anthropochorous
anthropochory
fundoshis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundoshi
andy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: andies
Etymology: From android + -y, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Senses: examples: text: Well, no intelligence test would trap such an andy. But then, intelligence tests hadn't trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the '70s.
ref: 1968, Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?:
text: 1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting as William Shatner), TekWar
These damn andies can pass for humans, as can most of the more expensive andies these days.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: android
wikipedia: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Synonyms: replicant
andies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andy
moodwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mood + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: They also felt better moodwise, which was unrelated to their improved attention.
ref: 2010, Jonathan S. Kaplan, Urban Mindfulness, page 54:
glosses: With regard to mood.
worthfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worthful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being worthful.
worthfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more worthfully
form: most worthfully
Etymology: From worthful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a worthful manner.
Rascian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rascian
form: most Rascian
Etymology: From Rascia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Rascia, a region of the medieval Serbian principality.
Rascian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rascians
Etymology: From Rascia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Rascia.
Rascians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rascian
ratchetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratcheting
reacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈæktɚ/
ipa: /ɹiːˈæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
homophone: reactor
Forms: form: reacters
Etymology: From react + -er.
Senses: examples: text: While he is easier to work with than the one who reacts quickly to whatever happens, the slow reacter rarely makes other than his routine contributions to what's going on.
ref: 1972, Philip Roger Marvin, Man in motion: a winning game plan for executives, page 107:
glosses: One who reacts.
reacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reacter
rare groove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The brainchild of DJ Gilles Peterson, it specializes in a dance-oriented fusion of rap, rare groove and jazz, combined with 'motivational' lyrics.
ref: 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Soul or jazz music that is very hard to source or relatively obscure.
hyuk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nyuk (“exaggerated laugh”).
rawhider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rawhiders
Etymology: From rawhide + -er, from their use of the material.
Senses: glosses: An itinerant cowboy.
rawhiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rawhider
machohood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macho + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being macho.
magpie tanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie tanagers
Senses: glosses: Cissopis leverianus, a South American tanager.
magnetic termite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic termites
Senses: glosses: Amitermes meridionalis, a eusocial insect in the family Termitidae, endemic to northern Australia.
compass termite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass termites
Senses: glosses: magnetic termite
mahalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahala
mohalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohallas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mahallah.
mohallas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mohalla
mahallya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahallyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mahallah.
mahallyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahallya
mahallas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahalla
mahallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhalə/
Forms: form: mahallahs
form: mahalla
form: mahallya
form: mehalla
form: mohalla
form: muhalla
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic حَلَّ (ḥalla)
Arabic مَحَلَّة (maḥalla)bor.
Classical Persian مَحَلَّه (mahalla)bor.
Urdu مَحَلَّہ (mahalla)bor.
Classical Persian مَحَلَّه (mahalla)bor.
Hindi मुहल्ला (muhallā)bor.
English mahallah
Borrowed from Hindustani مَحَلَّہ (mahalla) / मुहल्ला (muhallā), from Classical Persian مَحَلَّه (mahalla), from Arabic مَحَلَّة (maḥalla).
Senses: examples: text: ‘His Majesty signed the search warrant. We are combing the third muhalla now.’
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 483:
text: When she was young, Dolly was considered the most beautiful girl in the mohalla.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 63:
glosses: A subdivision or neighborhood.
examples: text: Three large mehalle, with an overall strength of over 1200 infantry and 400 cavalry, occupied the heart of the Gebel.
ref: 1986, Giorgio Rochat, Omar al-Mukhtar: The Italian Reconquest of Libya, Darf Publishers, page 43:
glosses: An armed formation of Arabs.
mahallahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahallah
mahmil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahmils
Senses: glosses: Dated form of mahmal.
mahmal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahmals
Etymology: From Arabic مَحْمَل (maḥmal)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kajawah (“a litter etc. borne by a camel”).
synonyms: word: kajawah
extra: (“a litter etc. borne by a camel”).
mahmils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahmil
mahmals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahmal
mathemagical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mathemagical
form: most mathemagical
Etymology: Blend of mathematical + magical
Senses: glosses: Involving mathematical "magic" or trickery.
drawtube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawtubes
Etymology: From draw + tube.
Senses: glosses: The tube that is drawn out in order to expand a telescope.
drawtubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawtube
Crayford focuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crayford focusers
Etymology: It was initially demonstrated to the Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society.
Senses: glosses: A simplified focusing mechanism for amateur telescopes, having a smooth spring-loaded shaft which holds the focus tube against four opposing bearing surfaces, and controls its movement.
excl
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The price was £400 excl VAT.
glosses: Abbreviation of excluding.
glosses: Abbreviation of exclusive.
magnus hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnus hitches
Senses: glosses: A knot tied similarly to a rolling hitch but with the final hitch in the opposite direction.
magniloquency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: magniloquence
Machupo virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Etymology: Named after the physicists Ludwig Mach (who refined the idea) and Ludwig Zehnder (who proposed it in 1891).
Senses: glosses: A device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.
hearseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hearse + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a hearse.
cyton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytons
Etymology: From cyto- + -on; compare German Cytos.
Senses: glosses: perikaryon
cytons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyton
ruki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the sounds (r, u̯, K, i̯) which triggered the change. The law is stated as a mnemonic rule because the word руки (ruki) means “hands” in Russian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound change that took place in the satem branches of the Indo-European language family, and according to which an original *s changed to *š after the consonants *r, *k, *g, *gʰ and the semi-vowels *w (*u̯) and *y (*i̯).
macrodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macrodynamics.
defencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defence
MacConkey agar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MacConkey agars
Etymology: The medium was developed by the bacteriologist Alfred Theodore MacConkey.
Senses: glosses: A culture medium designed to grow gram-negative bacteria and differentiate them for lactose fermentation.
Derived terms: sorbitol MacConkey agar
macrogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macrogeography.
macrogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + geographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macrogeography.
Maeonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /maɪˈ-/
ipa: /meɪˈ-/
ipa: /miˈoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /maɪˈ-/
ipa: /meɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Maeonian
form: most Maeonian
Etymology: From Maeonia + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Lydian
glosses: Of or relating to ancient Maeonia.
Maeonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /maɪˈ-/
ipa: /meɪˈ-/
ipa: /miˈoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /maɪˈ-/
ipa: /meɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Maeonians
Etymology: From Maeonia + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Lydian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of ancient Maeonia.
Maeonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maeonian
machometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Machmeter.
machometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machometer
patola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati પટોળાં (paṭoḷā̃), plural of પટોળું (paṭoḷũ).
Senses: glosses: A double ikat, usually silk, from Gujarat, western India.
glosses: Luffa spp. (Philippine usage).
glosses: Trichosanthes cucumerina (Sinhalese usage).
glosses: Trichosanthes dioica (Portuguese usage).
patolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patola
partigianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partigiano
physibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physible
isolation tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolation tanks
Senses: glosses: A lightless, soundproof tank inside which a subject floats in salt water at skin temperature. They were originally used to test the effects of sensory deprivation and are now used for meditation and relaxation.
e-learner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-learners
Etymology: From e- + learner.
Senses: glosses: One who learns by means of e-learning.
e-learners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-learner
fafia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FAFIA.
parson's freehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system within the Church of England in which the rector or vicar of a parish holds title to benefice property, such as the church, churchyard or parsonage, the ownership passing to his successor.
Benford's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after physicist Frank Benford, who stated it in 1938.
Senses: glosses: A law concerning the frequency distribution of digits in much real-world data, where the number 1 occurs as the leading digit about 30% of the time, and the expected distribution for digits beyond the first approaches a uniform distribution.
psychophysical parallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that mental and bodily experiences occur in tandem with each other, but without any type of causal interaction.
psychological autopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychological autopsies
Senses: glosses: An analysis of the psychological factors that led to an individual's death.
pum-pum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pum-pums
form: poom-poom
form: pom-pom
Senses: examples: text: Go to a nightclub / To have some fun / Looking at pum-pum / Pum-pum come, pum-pum goes, it's alright
ref: 2008, “Pum-Pum”, in Repentance, performed by Lee "Scratch" Perry:
text: […] she dismissed these queasy impressions as part of her dream and tried to roll over, when she felt a clammy hand flutter down atop her pum-pum and brush it ecstatically […]
ref: 2013, Anthony C. Winkler, Dog War, page 74:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vulva.
Derived terms: pum-pum shorts
conversion van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversion vans
Senses: glosses: A full-sized cargo van that is sent to third-party companies to be outfitted with various luxuries for road trips and camping.
critical care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Intensive care.
cruciate ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruciate ligaments
Senses: glosses: Any of the pairs of ligaments arranged like a letter X in various joints of the body, such as the knee.
Derived terms: anterior cruciate ligament
posterior cruciate ligament
cruciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cruciate
cruciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cruciate
exercise wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercise wheels
Senses: glosses: A hamster wheel.
glosses: An ab wheel.
bonseki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 盆石 (bonseki, “tray rocks”).
Senses: glosses: The ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black lacquer trays using sand and pebbles.
June beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: June beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of several scarab beetles that appear around June in temperate parts of North America.
Derived terms: green June beetle
ten-lined June beetle
sportspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sport + -speak.
Senses: glosses: The style of language associated with sports reporting or coaching.
poseurish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poseurish
form: most poseurish
Etymology: From poseur + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a poseur.
pambasileia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: king of all
Related terms: king of kings
Sandaun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tok Pisin Sandaun, from English sundown.
Senses: glosses: A province in northwestern Papua New Guinea.
Synonyms: West Sepik
long line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A topological space, constructed by stringing together an uncountable number of intervals, which is "longer" than the real line.
Synonyms: Alexandroff line
fractionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: frăkʹshənīz
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.ʃən.aɪz/
Forms: form: fractionizes
form: fractionizing
form: fractionized
form: fractionized
form: fractionise
Etymology: From fraction + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To separate into fractions
Derived terms: subfractionize
fractionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: frăk'shən-ĭz-āʹshən
ipa: /ˌfɹæk.ʃən.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: fractionizations
form: fractionisation
Etymology: From fraction + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of separating into fractions.
lionizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lionizers
form: lioniser
Etymology: From lionize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lionizes.
fractionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fractionises
form: fractionising
form: fractionised
form: fractionised
Etymology: From fraction + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fractionize.
fafiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæfiˌɪt/
Forms: form: fafiates
Etymology: From FAFIA (“forced away from it all”) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: After she got that job she became a fafiate.
topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A science fiction fan who has become inactive in the fandom community due to other obligations.
fafiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfæfiˌɪt/
/ˈfæfiˌeɪt/
/ˈfæfiˌɪt/
Forms: form: fafiates
form: fafiating
form: fafiated
form: fafiated
Etymology: From FAFIA (“forced away from it all”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Nope. "Fafia" stands for "Forced Away From It All." Wide variety of things: family doesn't approve; financial reasons; job takes up too much time; or, in a few cases (can you say "John Vanible?" I knew you could), people have been so obnoxious that they were essentially fafiated by fandom itself, the ultimate shame of being outcast by the pariahs...
ref: 1989 October 13, Dan'l DanehyOakes, “Re: gafiated: definition wanted”, in rec.arts.sf-lovers (Usenet), message-ID <1638@pbhyc.PacBell.COM>:
text: People usually give away collections when gafiating, if not fafiating due to inconveniences to fanac such as death.
ref: 1995 October 24, Gar Farber, “Re: Secret Apas - Not (was Re: Fandom Organizations)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <46kc1k$g69@panix2.panix.com>:
text: I haven't seen her posting on here since FKO or maybe earlier, and a mutual friend has been trying to email to her and not getting answered. Anybody around Ohio know if she's just covered-up with her day job or had something happen to seriously fafiate her?
ref: 2001 April 23, Margaret Middleton, “searching for Maureen O'Brien”, in rec.music.filk (Usenet), message-ID <20010422224951.03422.00000529@ng-ms1.aol.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To (cause to) exit fandom and become inactive in fandom activity due to other obligations.
fafiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fafiate
fafiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fafiate
fafiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fafiate
fafiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæfiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fafiations
Etymology: From FAFIA (“forced away from it all”) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Having dropped back into rasff for a bit, I'm now dropping out again. Fall semester has started, and even with lots of filtering and aggressive ignoring of political threads, being a full-time parent and half-time graduate student doesn't leave time for Usenet. Even with three free mornings a week while Joseph's in pre-school.
ref: 2004 September 24, Morris M. Keesan, “Fafiation”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <fda8l0p5m92qav0t0lblve03fgg2f30ted@4ax.com>:
text: A little happier, but still drained at this point, fafiation could now occur.
ref: 2008 June, Nick Farey, “Egotorial”, in This Here..., number 8.5, page 2:
text: Tadao Tomomatsu may have announced his gafiation, but he is still busy on Facebook with the odd general announcement. Think this is more a fafiation?
ref: 2010 April, Lloyd Penney, “The Fanivore”, in File 770, number 158, page 41:
text: I leapt at the chance to go to Nursing school. It wasn’t easy, but I made it through — though at the cost of near total fafiation for two years — and today I work as a surgical nurse in a large regional hospital in East Tennessee.
ref: 2014, Curt Phillips, “Who is this “Curt Phillips” person, anyway?”, in Curt Phillips for TAFF!, page 4:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The act of fafiating; exiting involvement in fandom due to other obligations.
examples: text: Something happened to this newsgroup during my fafiation.
ref: 2004 October 18, Doug Wickstrom, “The interminable political argument that swallowed rasff”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <7j26n0984dfnq46n96o98f8k1et5ge8lnf@4ax.com>:
text: I'm afraid that I've never met his second wife, Laura Brodian, as (like so many medical fen) I suffered FAFIAtion when I got stuck into building my practice.
ref: 2005 January 2, SJ Doc, “Re: Frank Kelly Freas (1922-2005) R.I.P.”, in alt.fan.mike-jittlov (Usenet), message-ID <ffpit0liig7rdmqi6r7fn7r3o1gfaufoja@4ax.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The state or result of having fafiated; having exited fandom due to other obligations.
Related terms: fafiate
fafiated
fafiates
fafiating
gafiation
fafiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fafiation
coumestan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coumestans
Senses: examples: text: We investigated the anti-hyperlipidemic effect and the underlying mechanism of wedelolactone, a plant-derived coumestan, in HepG2 cells and high-fat diet (HFD)−induced hyperlipidemic hamsters.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Wedelolactone Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Improves Hepatic Steatosis Partly by AMPK Activation and Up-Regulation of Expression of PPARα/LPL and LDLR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of oxidation products of pterocarpan that are similar to coumarin.
Related terms: coumestrol
coumestans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coumestan
burttinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burttinols
Etymology: From Latin burttii + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of isoflav-3-enes found in the flowering plant Erythrina burttii.
burttinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burttinol
prenylflavonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenylflavonoids
Etymology: From prenyl + flavonoid.
Senses: glosses: Any prenylated flavonoid.
Hyponyms: prenylchalcone
prenylflavanone
prenylflavone
prenylflavonol
prenylflavonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenylflavonoid
isoxanthohumol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + xanthohumol.
Senses: glosses: A prenylflavonoid and phytoestrogen found in hops and beer.
luteone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A prenylated isoflavone found in the pods of Laburnum anagyroides.
glosses: A twenty-three carbon terpenoid from the dorid nudibranch Cadlina luteomarginata.
coumestrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A coumestan with estrogenic activity, found in soybeans and other foods.
astraciceran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fungicidal isoflavan found in Astragalus cicer.
pseudobaptigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + baptigenin.
Senses: glosses: An isoflavone found in Trifolium pratense (red clover).
transculturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transculturations
form: transculturisation
form: transculturization
Etymology: From trans- + culture + -ation, coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1947.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper we briefly revisit the first iterations of the ‘Bothways’ philosophy to demonstrate its symmetry with the Yolŋu transculturation heritage (of the Warramiri in particular), developed through many centuries of contact with sea-faring visitors.
ref: 2019 April 2, Ben van Gelderen, Kathy Guthadjaka, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, volume 50, number 1, →DOI, page 147:
text: […] the inherent difficulties of migratory processes, including traumatizing predepartures and journeys, the challenges of transculturation and family reorganization, and the coming to terms with new living conditions […]
ref: 2022, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Health and Health Care Inequities, Infectious Diseases and Social Factors, page 93:
glosses: The phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.
Related terms: acculturation
deculturation
neoculturation
transculturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transculturation
rebecome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebecomes
form: rebecoming
form: rebecame
form: rebecome
Etymology: From re- + become.
Senses: glosses: To become again.
rebecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebecome
rebecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebecomings
Senses: examples: text: By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
ref: 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living:
glosses: An act of becoming again.
rebecomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebecome
rebecame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rebecome
rebecomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebecoming
Petersburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Petersburg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to Saint Petersburg
Petersburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petersburgians
Etymology: From Petersburg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a native or inhabitant of Saint Petersburg
Synonyms: sense: person from Saint Petersburg
word: Petersburger
Petersburgians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Petersburgian
Schechnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schechnerian
form: most Schechnerian
Etymology: From Schechner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Richard Schechner, professor of Performance Studies and editor of TDR: The Drama Review.
rasabox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasaboxes
Etymology: From rasa + box.
Senses: glosses: One of a set of labelled boxes in a diagram drawn on the floor, each representing an emotion or facet of a character, used in training actors to play a part.
rasaboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasabox
Caccinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caccinian
form: most Caccinian
Etymology: From Caccini + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Giulio Caccini (1551–1618), Florentine composer and significant innovator of the early Baroque era.
glosses: Of or relating to Francesca Caccini (1587–1640?), opera composer, daughter of Giulio Caccini.
deculturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deculturation
neoculturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoculturations
Etymology: From neoculture + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The creation of new cultural phenomena as a result of the intermingling of separate cultures.
neoculturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoculturation
unresourced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + resourced.
Senses: glosses: Not supplied with resources.
get on the stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on the stick
form: getting on the stick
form: got on the stick
form: got on the stick
form: gotten on the stick
Senses: glosses: To get started; to begin working; to become active.
unwagered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wagered.
Senses: glosses: Not wagered.
unslated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slated.
Senses: examples: an unslated roof
glosses: Not fitted with slates.
unslated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unslate
rhymeprose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪmproʊz/
Etymology: Calque of German Reimprosa, equivalent to rhyme + prose.
Senses: examples: text: At that time he expressed feelings in song and wrote metaphorical verse. His rhymeprose and verse began to accumulate, but in a grown man such childish efforts could only inspire shame.
ref: 2013, Peter H. Lee, Sourcebook of Korean Civilization: Volume One:
glosses: An early form of poetry, not strictly distinguished from prose writing, but having certain poetical features.
sheep laurel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: wicky
lambkill
glosses: A shrub of species Kalmia angustifolia, in the family Ericaceae, with pink flowers.
board rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: board rules
Senses: synonyms: lumber rule
glosses: A scale marked with numbers, used for finding without calculation the area (in square feet) of a (wooden) board.
hold in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds in
form: holding in
form: held in
form: held in
Senses: examples: text: to hold in laughter, or one's emotions
text: When the world is a monster
bad to swallow you whole,
kick the clay that holds those teeth in,
throw your trolls out the door.
ref: 1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Can’t Get There From Here”, in Fables of the Reconstruction:
glosses: To keep something to oneself; to prevent from escaping.
examples: text: He wanted to laugh and could hardly hold in.
glosses: To restrain oneself.
scratchgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scratch + grass.
Senses: glosses: Muhlenbergia asperifolia, a grass native to much of North America.
sand badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand badgers
Senses: glosses: Asian badger (Meles leucurus)
Asian badger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian badgers
Senses: synonyms: sand badger
glosses: Meles leucurus, a badger native to China, Kazakhstan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia, generally lighter in colour than the European badger.
gaining twist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaining twists
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: gain twist
glosses: In rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle.
elephant paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A large size of paper, measuring 23 by 28 inches, or sometimes 22 by 30, or (double elephant paper) 26 by 40 inches.
Derived terms: double elephant paper
snake cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake cucumbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Armenian cucumber.
synonyms: word: Armenian cucumber
Armenian cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Armenian cucumbers
Etymology: Unknown. Although the snake melon has been cultivated since antiquity, the term mentioning Armenia originated in the US c. the 1950s.
Senses: glosses: Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, a long, slender variety of muskmelon which resembles a cucumber in taste and inner appearance.
Synonyms: sense: snake cucumber, snake melon, yard-long cucumber
word: Cucuminis melo var. flexosus
star cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star cucumbers
Senses: glosses: Sicyos angulatus, an annual vine in the cucumber family, native to eastern North America.
attributeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From attribute + -less.
Senses: examples: text: One wonders whether such an event, a conscious, improbable-but-made-probable event, took place at the time of creation, the act itself being nothing but a polarisation (or separation quality-wise) of the attributeless Nirguna, a separation of zero plus x and minus x. This is indeed the genesis of the Big Bang theory of science.
ref: 1979, Bhavan’s Journal, XXV, issues 13-26, 269/1:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Without attributes; that cannot be described using attributes.
Derived terms: attributelessness
cucumbertree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucumbertrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cucumber tree.
cucumber tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucumber trees
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of trees with cucumber-like fruit.
Averrhoa bilimbi, native to South-east Asia.
glosses: Any of several species of trees with cucumber-like fruit.
Dendrosicyos socotrana, native to Socotra.
glosses: Any of several species of trees with cucumber-like fruit.
Kigelia africana, native to tropical Africa.
glosses: Any of several species of trees with cucumber-like fruit.
Magnolia acuminata, native to the northeastern United States and southern Ontario.
Synonyms: sense: Averrhoa blimbi
word: bilimbi
sense: Averrhoa blimbi
word: tree sorrel
sense: Kigelia africana
word: sausage tree
sense: Magnolia acuminata
word: cucumber magnolia
sense: Magnolia acuminata
word: blue magnolia
sense: Magnolia acuminata
word: cucumbertree
cucumbertrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucumbertree
Soqotra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Socotra.
Soqotran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Soqotran
form: most Soqotran
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Socotran.
Soqotran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soqotrans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Socotran.
Soqotrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soqotran
ribbongrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ribbon + grass.
Senses: glosses: reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea).
box level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box levels
Senses: glosses: A spirit level in which a glass-covered box is used instead of a tube.
line of levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of levels
Senses: glosses: A connected series of measurements, by means of a level, along a given line, such as that of a railroad, to ascertain the profile of the ground.
summer complaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An infection with Campylobacter.
strike oil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes oil
form: striking oil
form: struck oil
form: struck oil
form: stricken oil
Senses: examples: text: In today's oil patch you strike oil the modern way – the geologist examines the rock cuttings brought up in the drilling mud to see if there is any oil on them as John had done here.
ref: 2015, Mike Shepherd, Oil Strike North Sea: A first-hand history of North Sea oil, Luath Press Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: To find petroleum when boring for it.
examples: text: J. Paul Getty's formula for success sorts this idea out: “Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” That's good advice, but most of us will not strike oil. In fact we may become irritated by the idea that something spectacular must occur for success to emerge.
ref: 2002, R. Wayne Pace, Organizational Dynamism: Unleashing Power in the Workforce, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: To have sudden good fortune, especially financially.
Related terms: strike gold
Kharchia local
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tall landrace wheat cultivar of India.
Penney's game
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Walter Penney.
Senses: glosses: A game for two players in which each player selects an equally long sequence of heads or tails. The winner is the player whose sequence occurs first when a fair coin is tossed repeatedly.
Budd-Chiari syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition caused by occlusion of the hepatic veins that drain the liver, presenting with abdominal pain, ascites and hepatomegaly.
yellow atrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow atrophies
Senses: glosses: A fatal condition of the liver in which it undergoes fatty degeneration and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.
seam presser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seam pressers
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A heavy roller to press down newly ploughed furrows.
glosses: A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams.
hold by the button
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds by the button
form: holding by the button
form: held by the button
form: held by the button
Senses: examples: text: When a slanderer addresses himself to any one, let him only withhold his attention, while he argues thus with himself: --- Why does this man hold me by the button, and seem so desirous of calling my attention to another's failings?
ref: 1798, A Clergyman of the County of Kent, Crude Thoughts:
synonyms: buttonhole
glosses: To detain in conversation to the point of weariness or tedium; to bore while tallking to
dry stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry stoves
Senses: glosses: A hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates.
counterdrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdrains
Etymology: From counter- + drain.
Senses: glosses: A drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An inserted device or other means by which excess fluid is drained off from a part of the body in which it accumulates.
counterdrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterdrains
form: counterdraining
form: counterdrained
form: counterdrained
Etymology: From counter- + drain.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To drain off excess fluid from a part of the body in which it accumulates.
counterdrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdrain
counterdrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterdrain
countertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countertides
Etymology: From counter- + tide.
Senses: glosses: A contrary tide.
countertides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countertide
counterfissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfissures
Etymology: From counter- + fissure.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of contrafissure.
synonyms: word: contrafissure
counterfissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfissure
cake urchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake urchins
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Clypeaster of echinoderms.
Synonyms: sea biscuit
sea biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea biscuits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cake urchin.
synonyms: word: cake urchin
glosses: Synonym of hardtack.
synonyms: word: hardtack
slate grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slate greys
Senses: examples: text: England were even more vulnerable under the slate-grey skies of Sáo Paulo than they had been in the searing heat of Manaus.
ref: 2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk:
glosses: Alternative form of slate gray.