cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diazaheterocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazaheterocycles
Senses: examples: text: As expected, extension of the aromatic-ring system of the diazaheterocycle strongly affects a role played by the aromatic-ring interactions in the assembly process of co-crystals.
ref: 2007, Polish Journal of Chemistry, volume 81, numbers 5-7, page 1106:
text: Examples of suitable diazaheterocycles include imidazolidine, pyrazolidine, piperazine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, pyrazine, and annulated bicyclic compounds comprising such diazaheterocycles.
ref: 2013, Advances in Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor):
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocycle that contains a pair of double bonded nitrogen atoms
diazaheterocycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diazaheterocycle
oxyorthosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyorthosilicate
cassiopium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cassiopeium.
light-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹspĭr'ĭ-t(ĭ)d
Forms: form: lighter-spirited
form: more light-spirited
form: lightest-spirited
form: most light-spirited
form: lightspirited
Etymology: From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) + spirited (“having spirit”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Having a light or cheerful spirit.
Craigentinny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A north-eastern suburb in City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2974).
lipcurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipcurls
Etymology: From lip + curl.
Senses: examples: text: Flehmen or lipcurl was quite common, usually by a male to the urine of a female, especially if the female was in heat.
ref: 1970, Journal of Mammalogy, page 279:
text: Sexual activity includes lipcurl, sniffing the rear or urine of another animal, courting, attempted and/or successful mounting.
ref: 1980, Desert Bighorn Council, Transactions - Volume 24, page 18:
text: The lipcurl or horse laugh (flehmen in German) may occur in response to the smell of strange manure or to a variety of other odors.
ref: 1980, Proceedings:
text: During lipcurl, odorant molecules are being aspirated into the vomeronasal organs in the roof of the mouth (Ladewig and Hart, 1980).
ref: 1984, Journal of animal science - Volume 58, Issue 1, page 507:
glosses: Synonym of flehmen.
synonyms: word: flehmen
lipcurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipcurls
form: lipcurling
form: lipcurled
form: lipcurled
Etymology: From lip + curl.
Senses: examples: text: The male sniffs the urine or takes some into his mouth and "lipcurls" by raising his head with the mouth open and upper lip curled back.
ref: 1984, Journal of animal science - Volume 58, Issue 1, page 507:
glosses: To perform a lipcurl.
lipcurls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipcurl
lipcurls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lipcurl
lipcurling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lipcurl
lipcurled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipcurl
postcustodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + custodial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an approach to preservation that focuses on collaborative management of artifacts rather than custodianship over a closed repository.
unstale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstale
form: most unstale
Etymology: From un- + stale.
Senses: examples: text: Along the road to Anywhere, when each day had its story; When time was yet our vassal, and life's jest was still unstale;
ref: 1907, Robert William Service, The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses, page 123:
text: ...they were her lovers, and when they went to war, it was for glory to lay before the altar of that unchaste unstale bed” (896).
ref: 1954, William Faulkner, A Fable:
text: That final image is Romantic just as Wallace Stevens thought the romantic should be — that is, unstale and unspent, excitingly drawn from the present yet impossible to grasp without a sense of a child as not trailing Wordsworthian or Rousseauist clouds of glory.
ref: 2007, Michael O'Neill, The All-Sustaining Air, page 51:
text: He hurried away up the beach, leaving Elizabeth alone with George, who smelled like sun and salt and unstale sweat .
ref: 2014, Paul Di Filippo, The Great Jones Coop Ten Gigasoul Party, page 51:
glosses: Not stale; fresh.
unstaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstaled
form: most unstaled
Etymology: From un- + staled.
Senses: examples: text: But the sagas have another quality which they share only with a few of the great literary masterpieces of the world : the quality of vivid, unstaled and undauntable life.
ref: 1930, Snorri Sturluson, Eric Rücker Eddison, Egil's Saga, page xii:
text: If you are a busy lawyer without any outside ambitions you spend your days using one bit of your mind, and the rest remains comparatively young and unstaled.
ref: 2008, John Buchan, The Dancing Floor, page 24:
text: But her heart was so so generous, her range of acquaintance so wide and her delight in human relationships so unstaled, that she could have spent a national income without difficulty.
ref: 2011, Winifred Holtby, South Riding:
text: Burns' language is imbued with a momentum of its own that induces laughter and exhilaration – an effect unstaled by familiarity.
ref: 2012, Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology:
glosses: Not having gone stale; fresh.
unstampable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stampable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be marked with a stamp.
unstaling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstaling
form: most unstaling
Etymology: From un- + stale + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The answer in itself now makes a large and distinguished literature to which, full as it is of keen intelligence and even of constructive vision, we can return with with unstaling pleasure.
ref: 1922, John Drinkwater, The Lyric: An Essay:
text: One sometimes regrets that the War is over— thinking of the gipsy life that one led, of the unstaling interests and the bigness of it all, but above everything of the unconstrained friendliness that was bom and fostered in days of instant peril and in trench and dug-out and ramshackle billet.
ref: 1931, Robert Henry Joseph Steuart, March, Kind Comrade, page 217:
text: He made special mention of three things — the glory of ocean, the perfect ' Mysore bonda ' of a caterer then largely patronised by college youth and the unstaling pleasures of the tram.
ref: 1961, N. Raghunathan, Sotto Voce: Our new rulers, page 123:
text: Her prototype, Queenie, offered him a "waiting love and unstaling welcome" that he had never received from human lovers.
ref: 2010, Katharine Rogers, First Friend: A History of Dogs and Humans, page 194:
glosses: That does not go stale; that remains fresh and current.
directability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: directabilities
Etymology: From direct + -ability.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: dirigibility; steerability
hypernyms: manageability
;
tractability
glosses: Ability to be directed.
Related terms: directable
directabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directability
unstartlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unstartlingly
form: most unstartlingly
Etymology: From unstartling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as not to startle; unsurprisingly.
midfrequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midfrequency
tellurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of tellurizing.
climo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From climate.
Senses: glosses: Climate; weather patterns.
reshootings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reshooting
TCEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TCE
African locust bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African locust beans
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of Parkia, a genus of trees in the legume family Fabaceae, especially Parkia biglobosa.
glosses: A bean that is the fruit of such trees.
Hypernyms: mimosoid
Hyponyms: word: twisted cluster bean
taxonomic: Parkia speciosa
word: stink bean
taxonomic: Parkia timoriana
word: tree bean
Related terms: dawadawa
sumbala
African locust beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African locust bean
iridiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridium
kamebanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual kameba + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An antitumor ent-kaurenoid isolated from Isodon kameba.
species barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: species barriers
Senses: examples: text: The people had died because they ate meat from infected cows. A species barrier had crumbled.
ref: 2003 June 3, Sandra Blakeslee, “Mad Cows, Sane Cats: Making Sense of the 'Species Barrier'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The species barrier often is not an absolute barrier and refers to the difficulties in the transfer from one species to the next.
ref: 2004, W. Michael Scheld et al., editors, Infections of the Central Nervous System, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 261:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
zoology
glosses: The inability of a disease to be transmitted from one species to a different one.
species barriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of species barrier
aplasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: aplastic; relating to aplasia
Rioplatense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːəʊpləˈtɛnseɪ/
ipa: /ˌɹioʊpləˈtɛnseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛnseɪ
Etymology: From Spanish rioplatense.
Senses: glosses: Platine; belonging to the River Plate
Rioplatense
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːəʊpləˈtɛnseɪ/
ipa: /ˌɹioʊpləˈtɛnseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛnseɪ
Etymology: From Spanish rioplatense.
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in and around the Río de la Plata Basin of Argentina and Uruguay.
sickle moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickle moons
Etymology: From the resemblance to the agricultural tool.
Senses: examples: text: "A what?" "A sickle moon. It's shaped like a sickle, you know — a tool. There used to be one on the flag of the USSR."
ref: 1999, Wendy Elks, Sickle Moon Ghost, page 37:
text: The moon is the key. If there is a full moon or a very thin sickle moon, there will be a spring tide.
ref: 1999, Barry Beck, Cathy Beck, Fly-Fishing the Flats, page 83:
text: One also has to bow to the sickle moon or it will bring bad luck.
ref: 2014, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis, page 173:
glosses: A crescent moon.
sickle moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sickle moon
nfd
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: demographics
demography
glosses: Abbreviation of not further defined.
Shakespere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Shakespeare.
Brigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”). Doublet of bridge and Bruges.
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0007).
undecet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌndɛˈsɛt/
Forms: form: undecets
Etymology: From decet on the model of Latin undecim (“eleven”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of eleven musicians; a piece of music written for such a group
dihydroretinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + hydro- + retinol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: retinol with two hydrogen atoms added, found in human metabolism of vitamin A
thiazolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thiazole + -o.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A thiazole ring fused to a ring of another compound. (Square brackets with numbers will indicate the orientations of the rings)
cultured stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An engineered stone replacement product, composed of polyester resin with embedded stone dust, and dyes to make the plastic resin composite appear like the natural stone that the dust was derived from.
Hyponyms: cultured granite
cultured marble
Related terms: terrazo
freight wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freight wagons
Senses: examples: text: ROL saw a potential market for the movement of intermodal traffic at speeds of up to 100mph, which would be easier to path alongside passenger services, using a new design of freight wagon.
ref: 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 52:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: goods wagon
word: goods carriage
word: freight carriage
word: goods truck
word: freight truck
word: freight car
english: In Canada and the US
translation: In Canada and the US
glosses: A railroad car used to carry freight.
glosses: American spelling of freightwagon
freight wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freight wagon
cup-tossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup-tosser
cupulograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupulogram
curacins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curacin
curetments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curetment
curmurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curmur
curmurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curmur
custard cannons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custard cannon
cuticularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuticularization
CUVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CUV
C-values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-value
CVRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CVR
cyanases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanase
cyanobenzyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanobenzyl
cyanomethyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanomethyl
cyanomethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanomethylation
cybridizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybridization
driver-only operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This taps into issues such as driver-only operation, on which Labour has been outspoken in supporting striking union members.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 44:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The operation of a train without a conductor or guard as a cost-cutting measure; one-man operation.
Synonyms: word: DOO
on everyone's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Bellingham was the name on everyone's lips, even reluctantly among the small band of Scotland fans who chose to publicly appreciate England's superstar - belatedly and once the game was lost, admittedly.
ref: 2023 September 12, Phil McNulty, “Scotland 1-3 England: 'Complete package' Jude Bellingham puts concluding flourish on world-class performance”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Being the subject of general discussion or rumour.
Related terms: talk of the town
under the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Outdoors at night.
Related terms: sleep rough
cost-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: a cost-cutting measure
text: Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of cost cutting; also used attributively
Livesey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liveseys
form: Livesay
form: Livezey
Etymology: From an unrecorded Old English cognate of Old Norse hlíf (“cover, protection”) + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and separate suburb in Blackburn with Darwen district, Lancashire, England.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Grangemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, oil refinery and port in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9381).
normal extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal extensions
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A finite, algebraic extension of some field such that if it contains any root of any irreducible polynomial over that base field then it contains all of the roots of that polynomial.
Hypernyms: algebraic extension
Hyponyms: Galois extension
edemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more edemic
form: most edemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oedemic.
Derived terms: antiedemic
fixed field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed fields
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: Galois theory
glosses: A subfield of a given field which contains all of the fixed points that are common to all of the automorphisms of some subgroup of the automorphism group of that given field.
Cultra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area near Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 4080).
set aright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets aright
form: setting aright
form: set aright
form: set aright
form: set right
Senses: glosses: To correct, repair, adjust, amend.
Related terms: get right
neo-liberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neo-liberal
form: most neo-liberal
Etymology: From neo- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: The very success of the ‘neo-liberal’ agenda, embraced to a greater or lesser extent by governments of all complexions, has created an incipient political monster.
ref: 2011, Guy Standing, chapter 1, in The Precariat, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: Driven by the neo-liberal ethos of the time, the legislation was focused on opening up the rail network to competition, with very little emphasis on improving the lot of the passenger, facilitating investment, or (indeed) reducing costs.
ref: 2019 October 23, Christian Wolmar, “It's not the EU's fault that privatisation has broken down”, in Rail, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of neoliberal.
neo-liberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-liberals
Etymology: From neo- + liberal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neoliberal.
neo-liberals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-liberal
chestfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chestfeed
chestfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chestfeed
Bigland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Biglands
form: Biglin
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + Old English land (“land”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
boil someone's piss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boils someone's piss
form: boiling someone's piss
form: boiled someone's piss
form: boiled someone's piss
Senses: synonyms: word: give someone the shits
word: piss off
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To irritate someone very much; to make someone very annoyed.
sunriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunrisers
Etymology: From sunrise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was up with the first “sunrisers” and his ax was the last to break the stillness at night.
ref: 1916, Anne Shannon Monroe, Happy Valley: A Story of Oregon, page 129:
text: When he woke that morning she was sitting up. That in itself was unusual, for Joseph is a sunriser.
ref: 1958, Jean Ariss, The quick years, page 219:
text: For the ambitious passengers there is always the opportunity to jog around the deck followed up by an early sunriser's breakfast.
ref: 1978, Brand Book, page 26:
text: The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.
ref: 2003, Roberta Martin Starry, Gold Gamble, page 156:
glosses: An early riser who gets up at dawn.
examples: text: Stefan took out a brandy flask. "Would you like a sunriser?"
ref: 1978, Noel Pierce, Praetorius Point, page 167:
text: So far as I could see, the African resident likes a sunriser, an eleven o'clocker, an appetizer before lunch, a great many sundowners, and a few nightcaps.
ref: 1990, Kenneth M. Cameron, Into Africa: the story of the East African safari, page 128:
glosses: An alcoholic beverage drunk early in the morning.
examples: text: What causes this resistance is among the great mysterious defects of national life. But is it, as the sunrisers claim, diminishing in its obstructive force?
ref: 1986, Management Today:
text: Those who put priority on promoting high tech industry (sunrisers) and those who emphasized the need to protect declining industries (sunsetters) were unable to agree on a common approach.
ref: 1986, Harvard University. Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Annual Review, page 7:
text: A sunriser goes through life open to the idea that the best may still be coming.
ref: 2013, John Hunt, The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life, page 20:
glosses: One who likes novelty and change; one who is optimistic about new endeavors.
sunrisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunriser
trust-funder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trust-funders
Etymology: From trust fund + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who is the beneficiary of a trust fund.
Related terms: trust fund baby
trust-funders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trust-funder
light organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹôr'găn
Forms: form: light organs
Etymology: From light (noun) + organ (noun).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A luminous organ of an animal.
Synonyms: english: of marine animals
translation: of marine animals
word: photophore
Related terms: photogenic
civil parish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil parishes
Senses: glosses: An administrative subdivision of a borough or local government district, which is the lowest tier of local government, mainly, but not exclusively, in rural areas.
wikipedia: community (Wales)
community council#Scotland
Synonyms: word: CP
raw_tags: used on large-scale OS maps
language nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language nests
Etymology: Calque of Maori kōhanga reo.
Senses: examples: text: From our viewpoint, getting a language nest established is essential. It is very difficult to remain motivated to use the target language on a regular basis if there is no circumstance that necessitates it.
ref: 2018, Leanne Hinton, The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization:
text: There are now language nests all over the world—Besides New Zealand and Hawai'i, there are language nests (and immersion preschools for endangered languages by other labels) in mainland United States (for example, the Esther Martinez fund of the Adminstration for Native Americans funded proposals for nine ongoing or planned language nests and other pre-school immersion programs in 2015.
ref: 2018, Kenneth L. Rehg, Lyle Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, page 447:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The location itself.
Related terms: kohanga reo
episodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From episodal + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: episodially
episodically
glosses: In an episodic manner; in episodes.
episodially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From episodial + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: episodally
episodically
glosses: In an episodic manner; in episodes.
civil parishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil parish
Huxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ho͞oʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Huhsi
form: Husi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湖西 (Húxī).
Senses: examples: text: The aircraft took off from Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung, headed for the island of Makong, but crash-landed in Huxi township of Penghu County, the main island of the chain also known as the Pescadores.
ref: 2014 July 23, Faith Hung, “Leaders of Taiwan, China offer condolences for 48 dead in plane crash”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2023, Industrials:
text: There is much to see and do in Magong City and the adjacent township of Huxi, but even those staying on the islands for just one night should make good use of the bridges and causeways that provide access to the islands of Baisha and Xiyu.
Road 203 heads north out of Magong – home to over half of the county’s 104,000 permanent residents as well as serving as the archipelago’s administrative center — and through Huxi before veering westward across Baisha.
ref: 2018 June 4, “The Windswept Allure of Penghu”, in Taiwan Business TOPICS, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2020:
text: The spill, which took place last June, has only recently come to light. Company executives say they were not notified of the spill until a year after it took place. Seven employees are facing punishment for their role in the incident.
The affected area is more than 0.8 hectares plot of land in Huxi Township, on the offshore islands of Penghu.
ref: 2018 July 23, “Oil spill recovery likely to take two years: CPC”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 04 May 2024:
text: Temples across Penghu County have crafted "rice bag turtles" in preparation for the traditional "Ciguei" (乞龜) ceremony held on the islands for Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb. 12 this year.[…]
The largest turtle, located in Huxi Township's Longmen Guanyin Temple, also carries a small turtle on its back and is trailed by three even smaller ones, symbolizing generational inheritance, according to temple director-general Yang Chao-wu (楊昭武).
ref: 2025 January 27, Chen Chi-ching, Wu Kuan-hsien, “Rice bag turtles set to bless Penghu for Lantern Festival”, in Focus Taiwan, sourced from Taipei (CNA), archived from the original on 27 Jan 2025:
glosses: A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan.
glosses: A rural village in Huxi, Penghu County, Taiwan.
masterals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masteral
simple root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple roots
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A root of a polynomial equation which has multiplicity one.
multiple root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple roots
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A root of a polynomial equation which has multiplicity greater than one.
kildee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kildees
Senses: examples: text: At the mouth of the pool in which I had bathed, there was a point of sand, on which I saw several kildees, a species of plover, and, being desirous to note some of their peculiarities, I approached as close as these pretty little birds would permit, without their being driven to take wing.
ref: 1871, Parker Gillmore, A Hunter's Adventures in the Great West, page 175:
text: He had risen at daybreak to go out and shoot kildees on the Common, and he was hurrying along with his gun on his shoulder when the citizen stopped him and asked him what he was going to do with that gun.
ref: 1890, William Dean Howells, A Boy's Town, page 153:
text: As I ride up to the hole of water with its bluff high to the back of it and a gravelly beach to the front, the kildees chirp and dance along the water's edge.
ref: 1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of killdeer.
kildees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kildee
one-pager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-pagers
Senses: glosses: A document consisting of a single page that summarizes a topic, such as a process, a strategy, a business plan or issue.
chittim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chittims
Senses: examples: text: Louisa brought four chittims (about a halfpenny).
ref: 1898, Children's Missionary Magazine of the United Presbyterian Church:
text: Eno whispered to her to take chittims and pay for her nuts.
ref: 1909, Beatrice W. Welsh, An African Girl: The Story of Ma Eno, page 53:
text: It is also on record that brass rods (worth 6d each) and chittims (worth ¼d each) were used in Efik, Uruan, Oron and the Cross River countries during this period.
ref: 1990, Stella Attoe, A Federation of the Biase People:
glosses: A Nigerian currency.
chittims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chittim
scientophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientophiles
Etymology: From sciento- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Worse, they had no feeling for it, and they displayed this tone-deafness repeatedly in the full view of ASF's supposed audience of dedicated scientophiles as gathered up by a narrowly technocratic editor.
ref: 2012, Algis Budrys, Benchmarks Continued 1975-1982, page 189:
glosses: A person who likes science but isn't necessarily a scientist.
tumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tumb
sponsoree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponsorees
Etymology: From sponsor + -ee.
Senses: synonyms: sponsee
glosses: One who is sponsored.
sponsorees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponsoree
honery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honery
form: most honery
Senses: examples: text: The conductor said: 'That man must be an honery son of a bitch, he must be an honery man, he ought to be punished.'
ref: 1896, American Negligence Cases:
text: The lame duck congress has been putting us on a mighty inspiring example of just how honery a congress can be, if they really make up their minds to be honery.
ref: 1982, Will Rogers, Writings - Volume 2; Volume 5:
text: He's such an honery raskel. He's always been double trouble around here.
ref: 2008, Dovie Pilney, Charlie the Cocky Rooster: Another Adventure, page 40:
text: Mose gave a shy grin declaring, “I really just manage the bunk house and all those honery critters that live there with me.”
ref: 2011, LaVerne Shaw, Tangled Vines, page 23:
glosses: Difficult and stubborn; ornery.
examples: text: Mr. Payne is an honery member of the club, only assuming active duties when he can borrow Cole's wheel, which is used only and altogether by Mr. Payne and other members of his society.
ref: 1887, The Makio, page 71:
text: On Motion of J.N. Taylor Mrs. J.B. Cowan was elected an Honery Member of the Ass. On Motion of Dr. Cowan Genl G.G. Dibbrell and Genl A.W. Campbell were also elected Honery Members.
ref: 2010, Michael R. Bradley, Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort and Staff, page 148:
text: "I am a 'honery' member of a club—and now I'm approaching the exciting part of my letter.
ref: 2015, Jane D. Abbott, Happy House, page 89:
glosses: Honorary
lessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of less
lessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of less
methylpentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylpentanes
Etymology: From methyl- + pentane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methyl derivative of a pentane, but especially 2-methylpentane
methylpentan-
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of methylpentane, in which the following part of the word starts with a vowel e.g. -ol or -al
mercaptobenzthiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mercaptobenzothiazole abbreviated as MBT
melilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melilite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of melilite
isoindol-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an isoindole derivative, followed by a vowel.
lactosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactosomes
Senses: glosses: A micelle, containing lipid and protein, found in milk
laminoforaminotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laminoforaminotomies
Etymology: From lamino- + foraminotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A form of foraminotomy in which the vertebral lamina are also removed
lumbotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbotomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision of the lumbar muscles, typically to access a kidney
lumbotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumbotomy
lysogalactosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyso- + galactosylceramide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a galactosylceramide in which an acyl group has been removed by hydrolysis
lysoglucosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyso- + glucosylceramide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a glucosylceramide in which an acyl group has been removed by hydrolysis
lysohexosylceramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyso- + hexosylceramide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a hexosylceramide in which an acyl group has been removed by hydrolysis
enlightment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enlightments
Senses: examples: text: The Magnificent Lady said, “Without relying on means and wisdom together, no enlightment is possible, but if both means and wisdom come together, enlightment can be achieved.” She said that she wanted to continue the journey to Lhasa.
ref: 2007 December 10, Hildegard Diemberger, When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 229:
text: His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.
ref: 2012 May 18, Sri B. G. Ramesh, translated by Sri M. N. Suresh Kumar, Ashoka, Bangalore: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 14:
text: The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model.
ref: 2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of enlightenment.
enlightments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enlightment
town councils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town council
Enlightment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
ref: 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
text: […]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.
ref: 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
text: As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.
ref: 2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century, Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of Enlightenment.
borough council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borough councils
Senses: coordinate_terms: boroughmaster
glosses: A body of people elected to manage the affairs of a local government district with borough status, metropolitan borough or London borough; e.g. Spelthorne Borough Council.
borough councils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borough council
black carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Tihomir Novakov in 1980.
Senses: examples: text: Carbonaceous particles in the atmosphere consist of two major components — graphitic or black carbon and organic material.
ref: 1980, T. Novakov, Soot in the Atmosphere, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Report LBL-11676, page 1
text: Black carbon is the sooty material ejected from diesel engines in their exhaust gases. RSSB notes that it can cause lung diseases. Nitrogen dioxide is also a product of burning diesel and can effect people's lungs.
ref: 2021 October 6, Philip Haigh, “Pollutants and air quality on our trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 32:
glosses: Elemental carbon in the form of very fine graphite particulates, a major component of soot.
push button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push buttons
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, while you can open the doors from the outside push button, you can't close them from the outside. No big deal - merely an observation. There is a push button inside to close them.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of push-button.
push buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push button
cudgel one's brain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cudgels one's brain
form: cudgeling one's brain
form: cudgelling one's brain
form: cudgeled one's brain
form: cudgeled one's brain
form: cudgelled one's brain
form: cudgelled one's brain
form: cudgel one's brains
Senses: synonyms: rack one's brain
glosses: to think hard and try to remember something.
cudgel one's brains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cudgels one's brains
form: cudgeling one's brains
form: cudgelling one's brains
form: cudgeled one's brains
form: cudgeled one's brains
form: cudgelled one's brains
form: cudgelled one's brains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cudgel one's brain.
neo-imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neo-imperialist
form: most neo-imperialist
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neoimperialist.
neo-imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-imperialists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neoimperialist.
says you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Hot dogs are the best food ever! — Says you!
text: My car is the fastest car in this whole parking lot! — Says you. Prove it, let's race.
glosses: a statement of disagreement or disbelief, especially when highlighting hypocrisy
airline seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airline seats
Senses: examples: text: Standard Class relies on the majority of seats being airline seats. [...] Starting in 42004, while there are still a lot of airline seats, it does have eight tables around bays of four seats. These will prove popular on the long journeys, as they offer a fine view of the stunning Scottish scenery.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in RAIL, page 52:
glosses: A style of seat found in aircraft, also in some trains.
airline seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airline seat
beat one's brains out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats one's brains out
form: beating one's brains out
form: beat one's brains out
form: beaten one's brains out
form: beat one's brains out
Senses: synonyms: rack one's brain
cudgel one's brain
glosses: to think very hard about.
Related terms: beat someone's brains out
however one slices it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any way one slices it.
synonyms: word: any way one slices it
foot the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foots the bill
form: footing the bill
form: footed the bill
form: footed the bill
Senses: examples: text: The cop tried the door. “It's locked, hey,” he said. “Bust it down,” roared Oedipa, “and Hitler Hilarius here will foot the bill.”
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 103:
text: When I spoke to Hitachi, it was very open that it will foot the bill, not taxpayers or farepayers.
ref: 2022 April 20, Philip Haigh, “What caused the cracks in Hitachi's Class 800 trains...”, in RAIL, number 955, page 53:
glosses: To pay for something.
shumacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shumac
shumacs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shumac
shumacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shumac + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of shumac: the process of applying a preparation of sumac to an object.
shumacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From shumac + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shumac
shumaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shumac
shumacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shumacing.
shumacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shumac
shumacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shumac
cotton mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton mills
Senses: examples: text: Oldham is a typical Lancashire former mill town, with the town and its surrounding area once dominated by the cotton manufacturing industry. A number of the large cotton mills still stand in the area, although most are now either in use for other purposes, or stand empty and derelict.
ref: 2019 October 23, Andy Coward, “New acclaim for Oldham Loop”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: A building housing spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from raw cotton.
shumack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shumacks
Senses: examples: text: Shumack, Chapacour, and the famous Snake-root, ſo much admir'd in England for being a Cordial, and an Antidote in all Peſtilential Diſeases.
ref: 1708, J[ohn] Oldmixon, “[The History of Virginia.] Of the Climate, the Soil, and Its Productions, as Trees, Seeds, Plants, Roots, Fruits, and Flowers.”, in The British Empire in America, Containing the History of the Discovery, Settlement, Progress and Present State of All the British Colonies, on the Continent and Islands of America. In Two Volumes. […], volume I, London: Printed for John Nicholson […], Benjamin Tooke […], and Richard Parker and Ralph Smith […], →OCLC, page 308:
text: Immediately after leaving the town, on each side of the road, were the purple flowers of the iron-weed and the red shumack, under which the deer love to repose, for it conceals them from their enemies, as the variegated heath did the tartan-clad Highlanders.
ref: 1833, J[ames] E[dward] Alexander, chapter IV, in Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 82:
text: He seemed like a broken reed / On the shore of a marshy lake, / In the fall when the shumacks bleed / 'Mid the withering grass of the brake.
ref: 1931, Gustav Melby, Light and Shade, St. Paul, Minn.: La Beau Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sumac.
shumacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shumack
cotton mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton mill
Newhey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9311).
sumaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumach
sumaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sumach
Failsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8901).
sumached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sumach