cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gawkin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gawking.
managin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of managing.
bathin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bathing.
ramblin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of rambling.
skippin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of skipping.
glowin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of glowing.
remindin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of reminding.
testin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of testing.
concernin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of concerning.
attendin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of attending.
chattin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chatting.
forgivin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forgiving.
peelin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of peeling.
double standardist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double standardists
Etymology: From double standard + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An upholder of double standards
prospectin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of prospecting.
convincin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of convincing.
starfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From star + filled.
Senses: glosses: Full of stars; starry.
bonejarring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bonejarring
form: most bonejarring
form: bone-jarring
Etymology: From bone + jarring.
Senses: glosses: shaky, rickety, causing shaking
Derived terms: bonejarringly
tau protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tau proteins
Senses: examples: text: [Bennet] Omalu’s experimental breakthrough – along with UCLA researchers – uses positron-emission tomography (PET scan) and a radioactive “tracer” called FDDNP to bind to tau proteins in the brain.
ref: 2017 November 22, “Courier editorial: CTE research has ramifications”, in Nancy Newhoff, editor, The Courier, volume 159, number 272, Waterloo, Ia.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A5, columns 2–3:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: tau
glosses: A protein abundant especially in the neurons of the human central nervous system that stabilizes microtubules, and when misfolded is associated with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Hypernyms: english: MAP
translation: MAP
word: microtubule-associated protein
Related terms: MAPT
tauopathy
unaccessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accessed. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: In larger systems, total system power may be reduced by placing data and address level shifters in unaccessed modules in a low-dissipation condition.
ref: 1972, Electronic Design, volume 20, page 90:
text: We demonstrate nucleation control, with high fidelity, in a regime that has remained unaccessed in theoretical, numerical and experimental studies on atoms and molecules as well.
ref: 2016, Chandan K Mishra, A K Sood, Rajesh Ganapathy, “Site-Specific Colloidal Crystal Nucleation by Template-enhanced Particle Transport”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not accessed.
toeboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toebox
toe boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe box
Squamish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/
Forms: form: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Etymology: From Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
Squamish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/
Forms: form: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Etymology: From Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.
Senses: glosses: The Salishan language of this people.
glosses: A district municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
Synonyms: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim
Derived terms: Squamish-Lillooet
Related terms: Skokomish
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Senses: examples: text: But when Kwetásel’wet (Steph Wood), who is Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, attended public school in North Vancouver, the focus of her history classes was elsewhere.
ref: 2024 March 1, Christopher Cheung, “A Walk Through Squamish Legends, Lifeways and Histories”, in The Tyee:
text: The event, open to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh community, will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre in West Vancouver.
ref: 2024 October 17, Bhagyashree Chatterjee, “Squamish Nation to unveil 25-year roadmap for the future”, in North Shore:
text: I spent the remaining two hours of our British Columbia drive eagle-eyed, looking for more Indigenous signage. They felt like an invitation to learn more and a reminder that there is deep meaning in all these natural features, and compelled me to dive into a Google rabbit hole where I found a YouTube explainer on pronunciation that treated me to an earful of Sea to Sky Highway roadsigns read by a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh individual.
ref: 2025 March 3, Kathryn Romeyn, “A Sea-to-Sky Highway Road Trip for Indigenous Culture in Whistler and Beyond”, in Condé Nast Traveler:
glosses: Squamish
Related terms: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Senses: examples: text: The language school’s philosophy is to create an immersion setting in a homelike environment for babies and their families. Since Sḵwx̱wú7mesh was historically an oral language without a formal writing system, a writing developed over the years, and the current system was adopted officially in 1990.
ref: 2024 March 8, Gordon McIntyre, “Former Kits little yellow schoolhouse reborn as Squamish language centre”, in The Vancouver Sun:
synonyms: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim
glosses: Squamish language.
biogeoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogeosciences
Etymology: From bio- + geoscience.
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary field of study integrating geoscience and biology.
Hypernyms: geoscience
biogeoscientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogeoscientists
Etymology: From bio- + geoscientist.
Senses: examples: text: We are seeking a Biogeoscientist to teach introductory, intermediate, and advanced biology and environmental studies courses.
ref: 2003, Black Issues in Higher Education, Volume 20, Issues 8-14:
glosses: A scholar or researcher in biogeoscience.
biogeoscientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogeoscientist
biogeosciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogeoscience
monosulfurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosulfuron
fishbone diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishbone diagram.
kosherness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kosher + -ness. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: If perchance she finds an egg already covered by a shell, she must at once consult the shochet to determine its kosherness.
ref: 1941, The American Poultryman: Official Publication for the American Poultry Association:
text: Each package is neatly wrapped in cellophane and dated to insure freshness, also bearing the strict endorsement of Rabbi Jacob Pikelny as to kosherness.
ref: 1942, The Advocate: America's Jewish Journal, volume 101, page 31:
glosses: The quality of being kosher.
kosherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kosherly
form: most kosherly
Etymology: From kosher + -ly. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: The Ostend Hotel on the boardwalk in Atlantic City was a hotel that catered, kosherly, to Jews of the Diaspora who when they saw the sea didn't always know what to make of it.
ref: 1979, Lucienne S. Bloch, On the Great-circle Route: A Novel, page 30:
glosses: In a kosher manner.
inconceptualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconceptualizable
form: most inconceptualizable
form: inconceptualisable
Etymology: From in- + conceptualizable. First attested in the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: In attempting to resolve this problem, Triadism poses the question as to why the transcendent or inconceptualizable God, who is plenitude itself, needs to manifest Himself in the phenomenal.
ref: 1986, Paul E. Murhpy, Triadic Mysticism: The Mystical Theology of the Śaivism of Kashmir:
glosses: Not conceptualizable.
resiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resiliates
form: resiliating
form: resiliated
form: resiliated
Etymology: From French résilier (“cancel, annul, invalidate”).
Senses: examples: text: A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...].
ref: 1989, Esten Kenneth Williams, F. W. Rhodes, Christopher Bentley, John McNair, Mavis Butkus, Marc Casavant, Canadian law of landlord and tenant:
text: One of the parties may, for a serious reason, unilaterally resiliate the contract ...
ref: 2003, Michał Seweryński, Collective Agreements and Individual Contracts of Employment, Kluwer Law International, →ISBN:
text: [...] Tremblay decided to give Normand notice on April 19, 2001, that it intended to resiliate the contract.
ref: 2012, John O. Haley, Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and The European Union, LexisNexis, →ISBN:
topics: law
glosses: To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.
Related terms: resiliation
unmarketability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + marketability. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Schedule B excepts one class — unmarketability by reason of possibility of liens — but by an exception to the exception, prevents the exclusion of actual losses by such liens […]
ref: 1894 August 6, “Wheeler v. Real-Estate Title Insurance and Trust Company of Philadelphia”, in The Baltimore Underwriter:
glosses: Unsuitability for marketing.
stoplessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stopless + -ly. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: And that woman (God bless her), a real skinny ugliness, with dyed black hair like a gypsy, and a tongue that ran stoplessly on relentless ball-bearings, was so jealous of Little Hannah that, if it were only possible, she would have ripped and hacked her to pieces just with her eyes.
ref: 1969, Hilda Shubert, They came from Kernitza, page 156:
glosses: In a stopless manner.
nationwidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nationwide + -ly. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: JSLH has also approved the grading system for diagnostic accuracy of MDS and adopted this standardized diagnostic system to the educational item for certification of the laboratory hematology specialists, aiming at a nationwidely expanding morphological evaluation of myelodysplasia.
ref: 2018 May 9, K. Tohyama, “Present status and perspective of laboratory hematology in Japan: On the standardization of blood cell morphology including myelodysplasia: On behalf of the Japanese Society for Laboratory Hematology”, in International Journal of Lab Hematology, volume 40, number S1, →DOI, pages 120-125:
qualifier: very rare error
glosses: Misconstruction of nationwide (“across a nation”).
hebophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hebophiliac
form: most hebophiliac
Etymology: From hebophilia + -ac.
Senses: examples: text: […] and may seek out or find himself in the presence of the opportunity to engage in pedophiliac/hebophiliac activities […]
ref: 1991, Peter Cimbolic, The Identification and Treatment of Sexual Disorders and the Priesthood, page 598:
text: As such, those child victims over the age of twelve were the victims of hebophiliac priests.
ref: 2008, Stephanie Adduci, FORGIVE ME FATHER, FOR I HAVE SINNED, page 63:
text: It cannot, properly understood, provide a basis from which to argue that homosexuals ought to be in and hebophiliac Imams out
ref: 2010, Elaine Craig, Sex And The Supremes: Towards A Legal Theory of Sexuality, page link:
glosses: Misspelling of hebephiliac.
linguicist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linguicist
form: most linguicist
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals.
ref: 1992, Robert Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Not to live up to these demands for minority children is linguicist.
ref: 1995, Ofelia García, Colin Baker, Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education, →ISBN:
text: The remaining ones have, through linguicist processes, been hierarchized so that speakers of some languages and varieties have more power and material resources than their numbers would justify, simply because of being speakers of those languages and varieties.
ref: 2013, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?, →ISBN:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.
linguicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguicists
Senses: examples: text: Many Western linguicists may never have experienced cross-linguistic interactional reciprocity. Not experiencing situations with equal relations between languages, and always being linguistically unthreatened my dull sensitivity to language issues.
ref: 1989, Noel Broadbent, Nordic Perspectives on Arctic Cultural and Political Ecology, page 95:
text: In this context, it seems to have been a major strategic mistake on the part of militant linguicists to have mounted the Official English movement, despite their rather dramatic gains to date.
ref: 1989, Eduardo Hernández Chávez, “The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss”, in Estudios Fronterizos:
text: Was he a racist? Not exactly. But he was a "linguicist" — to use a disparaging word deployed by the Language Rights Movement (a group founded at Roskilde University in Denmark, which campaigns for a universal declaration of linguistic human rights).
ref: 1998, Brick - Issues 58-63, page 43:
glosses: One who discriminates on the basis of language.
examples: text: Let us pass now from a consideration of lexicon to that of morpheme analysis, as practised by linguicists.
ref: 128, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics - Issue 8, page 1955:
text: Some linguicists (see footnote 13 below) avoid all semantic and psychological criteria in their analyses and believe "that such criteria play no part, or at least need not play one, in the theoretical foundation of phonemics";
ref: 1957, John B. Newman, “The area of semantics”, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, volume 43, number 2:
glosses: One who studies language; a linguist.
linguicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linguicist
presbytress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbytresses
Etymology: From presbyter + -ess.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of presbyteress.
rown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: From Middle English rowen, from Old English rōwen, ġerōwen, from Proto-Germanic *rōanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), equivalent to row + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of row
rown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
ipa: /ɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
ipa: /ɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: rowns
form: rowning
form: rowned
form: rowned
Etymology: From Middle English rownen, variant of rounen, from Old English rūnian. More at roun.
Senses: examples: text: And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.
ref: 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:
glosses: Archaic spelling of roun.
rown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊn/
ipa: /ɹoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
ipa: /ɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: rowns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rowan.
preke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹiːk/
Forms: form: prekes
form: preak
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Describing also what he calls the Preke or Poulps, Polypus. 'Tis, he says, a naked Fish, having eight Fingers or Arms, spread out almost like the Rays of a Star-Fish, and the Mouth in a Manner in the Middle of them.
ref: 1743, Henry Baker, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Polype:
text: A climbing fish was known to the Greeks; but though mentioned by Oppian, in about twenty different parts of his "Halieuticks," and most curious qualities attributed to it, we do not correctly know this fish, the preke: "he has eight long legs or fibres, four on each side of his head, which serve him to crawl, cling to the rocks, and entangle his prey."
ref: 1858, William Wright, Fishes and fishing:
synonyms: calamary
glosses: An octopus or similar marine organism, such as a cuttlefish or squid.
niki-niki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mark […] went up to the native camp, chuckling and distributing sticks of niki-niki, or trade tobacco, to a score of black snatching hands.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 21:
text: There were no problems when she ran the nearby Barrow Creek pub and paid her Aboriginal girls $30 a week, with meals and a bit of niki niki (chewing tobacco).
ref: 1985, The Age, Wednesday, May 29, 1985, p. 11:
text: The usual handout was a sugar bag of salt beef and some niki niki tobacco.
ref: 2008, Sheryl McCorry, Diamonds and Dust:
glosses: Chewing tobacco.
TLN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TLNs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of translator's note or translation note.
Synonyms: sense: translating note
word: TN
Related terms: english: translator or translation
translation: translator or translation
word: TL
english: machine translation
translation: machine translation
word: MTL
nonmateriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + materiality.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being nonmaterial.
germ theory of disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germ theory
Senses: glosses: The theory (coherent scientific explanation of an observable fact) that some diseases are caused by microorganisms.
aunicornist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aunicornists
Etymology: From a- + unicorn + -ist, based on atheist.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly everyone but small children are asantaists, while the same is true of aunicornists — even if they have never once decided as an absolute fact, or even as a matter of faith, that unicorns do not exist.
ref: 2016 January 30, Nicholas Bittner, The Roads Around Religion, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A person who does not believe in unicorns.
Hypernyms: nonbeliever
Coordinate terms: adragonist
afairyist
aleprechaunist
asantaist
atoothfairyist
aunicornists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aunicornist
azeusist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azeusists
Etymology: From a- + Zeus + -ist, based on atheist.
Senses: examples: text: At least 99 percent of murderers are aZeusists—they do not believe in Zeus—yet no one suggests that this non-belief somehow causes their wrongdoing.
ref: 2010, Jack Bowen, If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers, page 100:
glosses: A person who does not believe in Zeus.
Hypernyms: atheist
azeusists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azeusist
bored out of one's tree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely bored.
Synonyms: bored out of one's brains
bored out of one's mind
trouble causer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouble causers
form: trouble-causer
form: troublecauser
Senses: glosses: Synonym of troublemaker.
synonyms: word: troublemaker
trouble-causer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouble-causers
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of trouble causer.
would it hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Would it hurt to say "please" once in a while?
glosses: Used to point out that the interlocutor is failing to do something relatively easy that they should be doing.
Related terms: would it kill someone
empty-hoofed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From empty + hoof + -ed, based on empty-handed.
Senses: glosses: With nothing on one's hooves.
amatonormativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A compound of Latin amātō or amātus and normativity, modeled on heteronormativity and coined by philosophy professor Elizabeth Brake in 2011.
Senses: examples: text: Amatonormativity is oppressive when it privileges members of one form of caring relationship at the expense of noncomformists, whose opportunities are thereby significantly worsened.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 98:
text: Casual amatonormativity is routine even in scholarly research.
ref: 2017, Carrie Jenkins, What Love Is: And What It Could Be, unnumbered page:
text: "I dislike [Valentine's Day] because I'm aromantic and it's very symbolic of the culture of amatonormativity," thesis student Aiden Juge commented.
ref: 2020 February 12, Sophia Brown, “Redefining Valentine's Day culture on campus”, in The Catalyst, New College of Florida, page 9:
glosses: The assumption that all human beings pursue love or romance, especially by means of a monogamous long-term relationship.
Related terms: amatonormative
extenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extense
ill-behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-behaved
form: most ill-behaved
Etymology: From ill + behaved.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ill behaved.
swap meets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swap meet
rhombic dodecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombic dodecahedra
form: rhombic dodecahedrons
form: rhombicdodecahedron
Senses: examples: text: Doing this we would find that the network which is dual to the space filling array of rhombic dodecahedra is the space filling array of tetrahedra and octahedra in which 12 edges meet at the vertices which fall at the centers of the original rhombic dodecahedra.
ref: 1990, [1978], Peter Pearce, Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design, page 5:
text: Crystallographers are familiar with the rhombic dodecahedron as a domain of reference with which to account for the growth and structure of natural crystals.
ref: 2007, Scott Eastham, American Dreamer: Bucky Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature, page 160:
text: Rhombic Dodecahedrons appear as well in the unit cells of diamonds, four vertices absent with the chemical bonds on the remaining edges. The Rhombic Dodecahedron can be used to tessellate 3D space in a manner similar to the Cube.
ref: 2013, L. Dennis, Brender McNair, N. J. Woolf, L. H. Kauffman, “6: The Mereon 120/80 — Form Informing Function”, in Lynnclaire Dennis, Jytte Brender McNair, Louis H. Kauffman, editors, The Mereon Matrix: Unity, Perspective and Paradox, page 135:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A convex polyhedron that has 12 congruent rhombic faces, 24 edges and 14 vertices of two types (eight 3-edge and six 4-edge) and is a Catalan solid.
rhombic dodecahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhombic dodecahedron
rhombic dodecahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhombic dodecahedron
spinach mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tatsoi (Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa or Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
Synonyms: Chinese flat cabbage
rosette pakchoi
broadbeaked mustard
spoon mustard
rosette bok choy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tatsoi (Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa or Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
Synonyms: Chinese flat cabbage
rosette pakchoi
broadbeaked mustard
spoon mustard
spinach mustard
spoon mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tatsoi (Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa or Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
Synonyms: Chinese flat cabbage
rosette pakchoi
broadbeaked mustard
spinach mustard
red silky oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊk
Forms: form: red silky oaks
Senses: glosses: Certain trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae:
Alloxylon flammeum (Queensland waratah)
glosses: Certain trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae:
Carnarvonia araliifolia, of Australia
glosses: Certain trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae:
Grevillea banksii (dwarf silky oak, white silky oak)
glosses: Certain trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae:
Alloxylon wickhamii (syn. Oreocallis wickhamii)
glosses: Certain trees and large shrubs in the family Proteaceae:
Stenocarpus salignus (Killarney beefwood), of Australia
glosses: Wood of any of these trees.
hate mailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate mailers
form: hate-mailer
form: hatemailer
Senses: glosses: A person or other entity who sends hate mail.
politically corrects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of politically correct
politically correcting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of politically correct
politically corrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of politically correct
hate mailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hate mailer
remarketable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remarketable
form: most remarketable
Etymology: From remarket + -able. Attested since the 19th century, popularised in the next.
Senses: examples: text: The remarketable value of those lands is well known in Egypt to represent more than doable the amount of the Loan.
ref: 1866 March 24, The Railway News, volume 5, page 344:
glosses: Suitable for being marketed again.
Hypernyms: marketable
remarketability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remarketable + -ity. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: An automobile and an overcoat, for instance, may be equally durable, but the former is more plausibly categorized as a capital good than is the latter — which is to say that remarketability better describes the distinction that is typically made.
ref: 1990, Bruce J. Caldwell, Carl Menger and His Legacy in Economics, page 149:
glosses: Suitability for being marketed once more.
Hypernyms: marketability
black bamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black bamboos
Senses: glosses: Phyllostachys nigra, native to Hunan province in China and widely cultivated, used for lumber as well as in gardens.
Hyponyms: sense: Phyllostachys nigra
taxonomic: Phyllostachys nigra f. henonis
word: henon bamboo
pendidikan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay pendidikan moral (“moral studies”), Malay pendidikan (“education”).
Senses: glosses: Moral studies, a school subject for non-Muslim students in Malaysia that teaches about personal morality.
just you wait
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that something unpleasant is going to happen to the interlocutor, and the speaker is glad about it, as in vengeance or punishment.
Related terms: mark my words
up-jumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up-jumped
form: most up-jumped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upjumped.
upjumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upjumped
form: most upjumped
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jumped-up.
synonyms: word: jumped-up
cosmopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmo- + -poietic.
Senses: examples: text: God is supposedly a cosmopoietic deity.
text: A cosmopoietic event occurred many millennia ago.
glosses: Referring to the creation/formation of the universe or world.
Related terms: cosmopoiesis
Internetphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Internet + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: As to the Internetphobia from your shop owner, I wonder if it is a fear of losing business to Internet merchants? OTOH, it could be just an extension of the computerphobia many people have.
ref: 1996 April 24, OneMTHead, “Re: Local Store Upset”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), message-ID <4llq1q$hse@newsbf02.news.aol.com>:
glosses: An aversion to the Internet.
Hypernyms: Luddite
Related terms: computerphobia
African rosewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African rosewoods
Senses: glosses: A vernacular name for several plants:
Millettia laurentii, a legume tree native to western central Africa that yields a wood called wenge.
glosses: A vernacular name for several plants:
Species in the genus Guibourtia, including
glosses: A vernacular name for several plants:
Species in the genus Guibourtia, including
Guibourtia coleosperma, a tree species of Angola and some neighboring countries.
glosses: A vernacular name for several plants:
Hagenia abyssinica (East African rosewood), a species of flowering plant native to high-elevation regions of central and eastern Africa.
glosses: A vernacular name for several plants:
Pterocarpus erinaceus, or other African Pterocarpus spp.
annual ryegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annual ryegrasses
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of ryegrass, including:
Lolium multiflorum, grown as a cover crop
glosses: Any of various species of ryegrass, including:
Lolium rigidum which considered a noxious weed in Australia
arctic poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctic poppies
Senses: glosses: Any of certain Papaver species of high latitudes, in Papaver sect. Meconella:
Papaver radicatum
glosses: Any of certain Papaver species of high latitudes, in Papaver sect. Meconella:
Papaver gorodkovii
bathroom bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathroom bills
Senses: examples: text: Did anyone know that the state of Maryland has a bill which states that it is illegal for a business to turn away someone to use the bathroom that suffers from:
Crohn's Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
IBD
Ostomy Device Users
ref: 1996 June 23, Jesse, “Maryland's "Bathroom Bill"”, in alt.support.crohns-colitis (Usenet):
text: Proposed bathroom bill could improve quality of life
ref: 2006 August 4, Rick, “RISG.ORG Current News Update posted on our website.”, in alt.support.arthritis.risg-spondy.info (Usenet):
glosses: Legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms.
examples: text: His goal, he emphatically clarified, was to enact “an anti-discrimination bill,” “not a bathroom bill.”
ref: 2020, Alexander K. Davis, Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms.
In particular, legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms by transgender individuals.
gampi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganpi
Senses: glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia albiflora (miyama ganpi).
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia canescens, a south Asian plant
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia ganpi (ko ganpi)
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia kudoi (shakunan-ganpi), endemic to Kyushu (Yakushima)
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia pauciflora (sakura ganpi)
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia pseudoretusa (munin-aoganpi), endemic to the Ogasawara Islands
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia retusa (ao ganpi)
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia sikokiana (ganpi) (syn. Diplomorpha sikokiana) (ki ganpi)
glosses: A Japanese shrub of the genus Wikstroemia, some species of which have been used for making paper in Japan, including:
Wikstroemia trichotoma
landed societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landed society
digital courage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare e.g. Dutch courage, liquid courage.
Senses: glosses: The sense of being able or emboldened to say something to someone over digital media (text, instant message, etc.) that one would not normally say face to face.
go combo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes combo
form: going combo
form: went combo
form: gone combo
Senses: examples: text: She learned to her horror that the men of Capricornia said that once a man went combo he could never again look with pleasure on a white woman unless he blacked her face.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia, page 47:
text: Hence, the play abounds with abject or degraded forms of whiteness embodied in characters who use addictive drugs, go combo, commit violent crimes or simply succumb to the tropical heat.
ref: 2003, Helen Gilbert, “Millennial blues: racism, nationalism and the legacy of empire”, in Elizabeth Schafer, Susan Bradley, editors, Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, page 22:
glosses: of a Caucasian man: to have a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman
membrane protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membrane proteins
Senses: examples: text: 2000. Lodish H, Berk A, Zipursky SL, et al. Molecular Cell Biology. 4th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman; 2000. Section 3.4, Membrane Proteins. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21570/
Associated with each membrane is a set of membrane proteins that enables the membrane to carry out its distinctive activities.
text: Membrane proteins, such as receptors, ion channels, and transporters, comprise nearly 30% of all proteins in eukaryotic cells.
ref: 2015, Liszewski K, “Dissecting the Structure of Membrane Proteins”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, volume 35, number 17, Mary Ann Liebert, page 1:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that is associated with a biological membrane; association typically refers to either the ability to copurify membrane lipids with said protein or the ability to visualize a physical association in situ.
Derived terms: integral membrane protein
peripheral membrane protein
membrane proteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of membrane protein
never-married
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: never-marrieds
Senses: examples: text: For males the opposite is true; the ever-marrieds have substantially higher wages and salaries than the never-marrieds in every case.
ref: 1979, Peter J. Kuch, An Analysis of Earnings in Canada: Census Analytical Study:
glosses: Someone who has never been married.
never-marrieds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of never-married
one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor
form: one's elevator doesn't go to the top
form: one's elevator doesn't go to the top floor
Senses: glosses: Used as an indirect way to say that someone is mentally deficient.
glosses: Used as an indirect way to say that someone is crazy.
Related terms: full deckism
not have both oars in the water
one brick short of a full load
play with a full deck
succubitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succubitches
Etymology: Blend of succubus + bitch.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A succubus who is a bitch (an irritating, disagreeable woman).
N-V
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NV
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of nitrogen vacancy.
gas van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas vans
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: automobiles
glosses: A motor vehicle constructed with an air-tight chamber that contains exhaust fumes (carbon monoxide) whilst the engine is active, used for execution by carbon monoxide.
Synonyms: gas wagon
Bankhar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bankhars
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian банхар (banxar).
Senses: glosses: A working dog of a breed found in Mongolia, with similar characteristics to the Tibetan Mastiff, usually used by nomadic herders to protect livestock.
rent controls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rent control
talked about
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more talked about
form: most talked about
Senses: examples: text: Facebook released its 2015 Year in Review on Wednesday, including a host of “Top 10 Lists” detailing the most talked about people, events and topics on the social network over the past 12 months. Game of Thrones topped Facebook’s list of most talked about TV shows for the second year in a row, with another Sunday night star, The Walking Dead, coming in at a close second.
ref: 2015, Megan McCluskey, “These Are the Most Talked About TV Shows on Facebook”, in Time:
glosses: Discussed by many people.
baby elephant in the room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby elephants in the room
Etymology: baby + elephant in the room
Senses: glosses: An obvious but mostly inconsequential issue.
TJI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of turbulent jet ignition, an ignition system for cylinders in internal combustion engines.
RP-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of rocket propellant 1 (a highly refined kerosene; usually used in combination with LOX).
Coordinate terms: english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LOx
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LOX
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LO
english: liquid hydrogen
translation: liquid hydrogen
word: LH
english: liquid hydrogen
translation: liquid hydrogen
word: LH2
english: liquid methane
translation: liquid methane
word: LM
english: liquified natural gas
translation: liquified natural gas
word: LNG
Related terms: alt: jet propellant 1
word: JP-1
JP-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: jet fuel
kerosene
coordinate_terms: JP-4#Noun
JP-5#Noun
JP-7#Noun
JP-8#Noun
glosses: Initialism of jet propellant 1 (a highly refined kerosene; a type of jet fuel).
Coordinate terms: english: aviation gasoline; similar to leaded automotive petrol gasoline; not a jet fuel
translation: aviation gasoline; similar to leaded automotive petrol gasoline; not a jet fuel
word: avgas
english: aviation gasoline; similar to leaded automotive petrol gasoline; not a jet fuel
translation: aviation gasoline; similar to leaded automotive petrol gasoline; not a jet fuel
word: AvGas
english: aviation gasoline; similar to leaded automotive petrol gasoline; not a jet fuel
translation: aviation gasoline; similar to leaded automotive petrol gasoline; not a jet fuel
word: AVGas
english: a type of jet fuel, similar to automotive diesel fuel
translation: a type of jet fuel, similar to automotive diesel fuel
word: Jet A
english: a type of jet fuel, similar to automotive diesel fuel
translation: a type of jet fuel, similar to automotive diesel fuel
word: Jet A1
Related terms: english: rocket propellant 1
translation: rocket propellant 1
word: RP-1
imprepared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imprepared
form: most imprepared
Etymology: From Latin impraeparātus. Attested since the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unprepared.
synonyms: word: unprepared
improtected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improtected
form: most improtected
Etymology: From Latin imprōtēctus. By surface analysis, im- + protected.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unprotected.
synonyms: word: unprotected
peace be with you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of farewell.
synonyms: word: farewell
cow creamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow creamer
in rare form
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on rare form
Senses: examples: text: He's usually quite confrontational anyway, but he's in rare form today so watch out.
glosses: Operating or performing at a high level or at one's best; extreme.
crazy glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trade name Krazy Glue.
Senses: glosses: superglue
Tyroleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyrolean
body fascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lookism
SUI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of stress urinary incontinence.
sentenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sentence + -able.
Senses: examples: a sentenceable offence
glosses: Resulting in a judicial sentence.
KLOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KLOC
Sui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sweɪ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 隋 (Suí).
Senses: glosses: The Sui dynasty of China which ruled from 581 to 618.
glosses: A surname of Chinese origin.
Sui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sweɪ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 隨／随 (Suí).
Senses: examples: text: At P’inglin (north-east of the present Sui county, Hupeh), more than one thousand people rose under Ch’en Mu, calling themselves the “P’inglin Army”.
ref: 1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume 3, Bombay: People's Publishing House, →OCLC, page 248:
text: Shen-nung’s geographical origin has been controversial. According to a peasant tradition he was born in a village at the northern border of the county of Sui in Hupei and has been worshipped there (Ching-chou-chi in T’P’YL 189, 6b).
ref: 1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:
text: In the past, Mao Pao was ferried across the river [in time of danger] because earlier he had set free a tortoise,⁵ and the marquis of Sui received a pearl because he had saved a snake.⁶
[...]⁶ Sui was a principality (in Sui County in modern Hupeh Province) in the Warring States period. The marquis of Sui once saved a wounded snake. In return, the snake searched for a large pearl in the river and gave it to the marquis.
ref: 1978, “The Chun-shan Wolf”, in Conrad Lung, transl., edited by Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau, Traditional Chinese Stories, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:
text: By 1985, a volume of the famous scholar Jao Tsung-I/Rao Zongyi (together with Tseng Hsien-tung/Zeng Xiantong) appeared under the title “Studies on the Inscriptions of the Bells and Chimes From the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Tseng State at Sui-Hsien” (Province of Ho-pei/Hebei, county of Sui).
ref: 1989, Fritz A. Kuttner, “Bronze Bells”, in The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China, 1st edition, New York: Paragon House, published 1990, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Mr Zeng returned to Sui county, about 200km north of Wuhan, on January 21 to celebrate the Chinese new year with his parents.[...]“If the disease drags on for two months, the start-up I work for will go under and I’ll lose my job,” he said. “There is nothing I can do about this except hope the epidemic will end soon. I am ready to spend a few months in Sui County.”
ref: 2020 February 7, Don Weinland, Sun Yu, Xinning Liu, “Chinese villages build barricades to keep coronavirus at bay”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2020:
glosses: A county of Suizhou, Hubei, China.
Sui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sweɪ/
Forms: form: Suis
form: Sui
Etymology: From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic people living primarily in the Guizhou province of China, with around 430,000 people.
Sui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sweɪ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.
Senses: glosses: The language of these people, part of the Kra-Dai language family.
Sui
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sweɪ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 水族 (Shuǐzú) or Sui Suic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Sui language or the Sui people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Sui terms
stand treat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands treat
form: standing treat
form: stood treat
form: stood treat
Senses: examples: text: Is "standing treat" a sale of liquor? Certainly to the "treator," but is it a sale to the "treatee"?
ref: 1888, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, Law Notes (volume 7, page 131)
text: An ordinary Australian of the locality would have […] said Yes or No to the price asked, and, as a preliminary to doing business, would have stood the needy seller treat. Mark had to stand treat himself, and had to take Jock out to inspect the plant.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 62:
glosses: To pay the cost of treating someone to something.
light intensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light intensities
Senses: glosses: The amount of light emitted by a light source.
Related terms: luminous intensity
uninsipid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninsipid
form: most uninsipid
Etymology: From un- + insipid.
Senses: glosses: Not insipid.
DEN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Denver.
GER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GOR
form: GŒR
form: GOER
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of gastroesophageal reflux.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Great Eastern Railway.
slaughterwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaughterwomen
Etymology: From slaughter + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman employed to slaughter animals in a slaughterhouse.
slaughterwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaughterwoman
SLO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLOs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of social license to operate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: SLA
SLI
glosses: Initialism of service-level objective.
SLO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of San Luis Obispo.
A-grade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I realised I had been an A-grade fool.
glosses: Outstanding; of the first rank.
Synonyms: first-rate
grade-A
prize
Schumann resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schumann resonances
Etymology: Named after the physicist Winfried Otto Schumann, who predicted them mathematically in 1952.
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low-frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.