cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hypergraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: The paradigm had been different for artists such as Picasso and Braque, Paul Klee and Mark Tobey who had used writing, letters, signs, and symbols before hypergraphy; their works were seen as figurative or non-figurative.
ref: 1983, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Lettrisme: into the present, page 32:
text: Isou has also explored the domain of the novel into which he has introduced hypergraphy.¹² His first novel, Les journaux des Dieux, is essentially visual: words are replaced by images.
ref: 1984, Association internationale d'etudes du Sud-Est europeen, Papers for the V. Congress of Southeast European Studies, page 142:
text: Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.
ref: 2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, page 171:
glosses: A key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.
Synonyms: sense: Lettrist method
word: hypergraphics
sense: Lettrist method
word: metagraphics
sense: Lettrist method
word: metagraphy
Related terms: hypergraphia
metagraphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metagraphy + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.
ref: 2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, page 171:
glosses: hypergraphy
seastead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seasteads
Etymology: Blend of sea + homestead
Senses: glosses: A permanent dwelling or settlement constructed at sea, outside the territory claimed by any national government.
Related terms: seasteading
seasteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seastead
extrapyramidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extrapyramidal + -ly.
Senses: examples: extrapyramidally active dopamine antagonists
glosses: Relative to the extrapyramidal pathways.
handicappeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handicapped
unrewardingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrewarding + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unrewarding.
disableds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is so despite the fact that the disableds are better qualified and their performance within the work situation the same or even better than that of their ablebodied counterparts.
ref: 1991, South African Journal of Labour Relations - Volume 15, page 50:
text: Leimkuehler, founder and president of PEL, a prosthetics supply company, spent the next 35 years skiing whenever he could, promoting the sport to other disableds.
ref: 1992 January, Ski, page 30:
text: This knowledge cannot be articulated in its entirety (written or spoken) but exists ensconced in distinctive organizational practices. To this extent, it is not possible to reduce the occupationally disableds' experience of occupational disability […]
ref: 2008, Mikael Holmqvist, The Institutionalization of Social Welfare, page 138:
text: He didn't like talking about this with her and didn't realize until just now that there was a whole realm he talked about only with other disableds.
ref: 2014, Mona Simpson, A Regular Guy:
glosses: plural of disabled
undisabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disabled.
Senses: glosses: Not having been disabled.
craftinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craftiness
breachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breacher
darkfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkfics
Etymology: From dark + fic.
Senses: examples: text: This is supposed to be a darkfic? Darkfics tend to involve a great deal of suffering and/or death.
ref: 2000 February 10, Chris Schack, “Re: [Ranma] [FanFic] The Surprise Announcement”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):
text: 'Tides' is not in the narrow, torture-room sense a darkfic but does provocatively posit great destruction and suffering.
ref: 2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 283 (footnote)
text: Like other forms of revisions, darkfics are “canon-corrective,” and specifically aimed at what are considered to be underdeveloped “images of intense violence and broody introspection,” which, if dealt with at all in the canons, are “forgotten by the time the next episode or issue comes around” (Fanlore, “Darkfic” n. pag.).
ref: 2013, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic which deals with disturbing situations and themes.
examples: text: If you are that sensitive and can't seperate^([sic]) things, don't read darkfic - or fanfic in general.
ref: 1998 January 27, MegaZone [username], “Re: Creating a Fanfic”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):
text: Fluffy romance differs dramatically from angst romance; the latter, however, usually conforms to the rule against sad endings (Radway 1984, 73), or becomes darkfic rather than romance.
ref: 2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Darkfic creates a sense of realism stretching beyond the canons, lingering on the physical effects of traumatic events, and reading characters' reactions from the perspective of human psychology.
ref: 2013, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
Synonyms: sense: fan fiction dealing with disturbing situations and themes
word: shockfic
sense: fan fiction dealing with disturbing situations and themes
word: sickfic
darkfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkfic
Aspergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Asperger + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The secret of a happy and fulfilling Aspergian life is to first know and understand your individual limits and boundaries; […]
ref: 2008, Cornish, "What Aspies Need to Know When Working in the Neurotypical Environment", in Asperger Syndrome and Employment: Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome (ed. Genevieve Edmonds & Luke Beardon), Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2008), page 119
text: In the Aspergian world, conversations are exchanges of information, not exchanges of pleasantries.
ref: 2009, Masha Gessen, Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century, Houghton Mifflin, published 2009, →ISBN, page 177:
text: The Aspergian need for R&R—ritual and routine—is a way of controlling our world.
ref: 2010, Rudy Simone, Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Of, related to, or having qualities similar to those of Asperger's syndrome.
Synonyms: word: Aspergerian
word: Aspergic
word: spergy
Aspergian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aspergians
Etymology: From Asperger + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: An Aspergian may be able to talk for hours on their favorite subject, but bring up a local sports team or the weather, and they're stumped (unless that is one of their obsessions).
ref: 2010, Rudy Simone, Asperger's on the Job: Must-Have Advice for People with Asperger's or High Functioning Autism, and Their Employers, Educators, and Advocates, Future Horizons, published 2010, →ISBN, page 12:
text: And so, the only thing I could do, being a passive Aspergian was to withdraw into a world of autistic hell.
ref: 2011, Cornish, "Getting the Right Diagnosis, and Its Impact on Mental Health: Is This The Best the NHS Can Do?", Aspies on Mental Health: Speaking for Ourselves (eds. Luke Beardon & Dean Worton), Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2011), page 77
text: But because Aspergians can express themselves in words, they have more ways to deal with their aversions or indulge their interests.
ref: 2011, Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter, Gallery Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: A person with Asperger's syndrome.
Synonyms: word: Aspergerian
word: Aspergic
word: Aspie
word: sperg
word: sperglord
Hypernyms: word: autie
Aspergians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aspergian
spieler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːlə/
Forms: form: spielers
form: shpieler
form: speiler
Etymology: From German Spieler (“player, gambler”) or from spiel.
Senses: examples: text: That a crowd of Sydney stealers,
Jockeys, pugilists and spielers
Brought some horses, real heelers,
Came and put us through.
ref: 1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo:
text: ‘A spieler,’ Leah gently loosened the painful crab hold of the boy's hand. ‘[…] A trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 228:
glosses: A swindler, a gambler.
glosses: A gambling club.
examples: text: "Bosco! He eats 'em alive! Eats 'em alive!" Brissenden exclaimed, imitating the spieler of a locally famous snake-eater.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter 31, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC:
text: Two thousand men, women and children turned out for this giant excursion and danced and drank the day away while professional spielers extolled the virtues of the new metropolis and inveigled the unwary into investment.
ref: 1961, Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part I:
glosses: A person who speaks fluently and glibly; a barker.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A radio or television announcer.
Related terms: spiel
arrhae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrha
demake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dēʹ-māk
ipa: /ˈdiː.meɪk/
rhymes: -iːmeɪk
Forms: form: demakes
Etymology: From de- + make, modelled on remake.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A remake of a modern game for an older platform.
demake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dē-mākʹ
ipa: /diˈmeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: demakes
form: demaking
form: demade
form: demade
Etymology: From de- + make, modelled on remake.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To remake (a modern game) for an older platform.
demakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demake
demakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demake
cubo-cubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cubo- + cubic.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a Cremona transformation such that the homaloids of the transformation and its inverse all have degree 3.
raw_tags: of a transformation
antedatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antedating
tacnode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tacnodes
Etymology: Latin tactus + English node
Senses: examples: text: A tacnode is defined to be a singularity equivalent to the origin in the curve y²-x²#61;0, that is, the union of two smooth arcs meeting with contact of order two. Similarly, an oscnode is a singularity equivalent to y²-x⁶#61;0, i.e., consisting of two smooth branched with contact of order three, and so on.
ref: 2012, Joe Harris, Algebraic Geometry: A First Course, page 262:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point of a curve where two or more osculating circles to the curve at that point are tangent, so that two branches of the curve have ordinary tangency at the double point.
Related terms: oscnode
tacnodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tacnode
antipoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipoints
Etymology: From anti- + point.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of points constructed from two foci of a curve.
antipoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipoint
Aronhold set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aronhold sets
Etymology: Named after Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: One of the 288 sets of seven of the 28 bitangents of a quartic curve corresponding to the seven odd theta characteristics of a normal set.
Aronhold sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aronhold set
azygetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: azygetic triad; azygetic tetrad; azygetic set
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: unpaired
bicuspidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + cuspidal.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having two cusps.
bielliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.ɪˈlɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Etymology: From bi- + elliptic.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a branched double cover of an elliptic curve.
raw_tags: of a curve
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: hyperelliptic
raw_tags: of a surface
superelliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + elliptic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a superellipse.
biflecnode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biflecnodes
Etymology: From bi- + flecnode.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fleflecnode
Related terms: biflecnodal
biflecnodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biflecnode
bigenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigenera
Etymology: From bi- + genus.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The second plurigenus P₂ of a surface.
binode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binodes
Etymology: From bi- + node.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A double point of a surface whose tangent cone consists of two different planes.
Related terms: binodal
unode
binodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binode
biregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + regular.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a regular map with regular inverse.
raw_tags: of a map
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a biregular map from one to the other, i.e. isomorphic as abstract varieties.
raw_tags: of two varieties
Derived terms: biregularly
biscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + scribed.
Senses: examples: a biscribed triangle
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Both circumscribed and inscribed, i.e. having vertices that lie on a curve and sides that are tangent to the curve.
bitangential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + tangential.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a bitangent.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Meeting a curve at the tangency points of its bitangents.
Brianchon hexagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brianchon hexagons
Etymology: Named after Charles Julien Brianchon (1783–1864).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A nonplanar hexagon whose three diagonals meet.
Zeuthen-Segre invariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zeuthen-Segre invariants
Etymology: Introduced by Zeuthen (1871) and rediscovered by Corrado Segre (1896).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain invariant of complex projective surfaces.
shellbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellbags
Etymology: From shell + bag.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A set of registry keys that store details about a viewed folder, such as its size, position, and icon.
shellbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shellbag
Wallerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wallerian
Etymology: From Waller + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Augustus Volney Waller (1816–1870), British neurophysiologist.
Derived terms: Wallerian degeneration
yestaday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈjɛstədeɪ/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yesterday.
abasheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: abash + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abash
abaseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: abase + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abase
currency signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currency sign
unkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unkies
Etymology: Clipping of uncle + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unky.
unkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unkie
glosses: plural of unky
charmoniumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charmoniumlike
form: most charmoniumlike
Etymology: From charmonium + -like.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having properties similar to those of charmonium
cloudification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloud + -ification.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The conversion and/or migration of data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing
topics: food
lifestyle
science
sciences
glosses: The process of making a drink, etc. cloudy.
Related terms: cloudify
framedragging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frame dragging.
monochromatizating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monochromatize
multifermion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fermion.
Senses: glosses: multifermionic
nanodiode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodiodes
Etymology: From nano- + diode.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nanoscale diode
nanodiodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodiode
wustite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wustites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wüstite.
dysequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysequilibria
Etymology: From dys- + equilibrium.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disequilibrium.
dysequilibria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysequilibrium
wustites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wustite
batoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batoids
Senses: examples: text: Pristis is no longer indicated to be sister to all extant batoids except torpediniforms and may be a member of a clade including guitarfishes and rajids.
ref: 2012, Jeffrey C. Carrier, Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, CRC Press, page 80:
glosses: Any fish of the superorder Batoidea; a ray or skate
flood pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flood pools
form: floodpool
Senses: glosses: An area that is inundated during periods of flooding to prevent inundation elsewhere.
glosses: A swimming pool that is filled by water at high tide and remains filled at low tide.
carcharhinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the carcharhinids.
cytoprotecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cytoprotecting
form: most cytoprotecting
Etymology: From cyto- + protecting.
Senses: glosses: cytoprotective
diferuloylmethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: curcumin
chalk off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chalks off
form: chalking off
form: chalked off
form: chalked off
Senses: glosses: To set off an area or shape with chalk.
examples: text: Yet Wayne Rooney scored at a good time, three minutes after the restart, to soothe any gathering nerves and the night can ultimately be chalked off as one of the finest occasions of Hodgson's 17 months in the job.
ref: 2013 October 11, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
examples: text: In one last extraordinary twist, City thought they had snatched victory and Sterling a hat-trick, but emotions switched instantly as once again VAR had the final word and the goal was chalked off.
ref: 2019 April 17, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 4-3 Tottenham Hotsput”, in BBC News:
glosses: To disallow or cancel
examples: text: We had chalked him off as an idiot!
glosses: To chalk (someone) up dismissively or jeeringly.
examples: text: He seemed like an idiot, so I chalked him off.
glosses: To dismiss or be dismissive towards (someone or something); to reject (someone or something).
examples: text: The funds are going to be chalked off from the events fund.
glosses: To deduct from something; to separate from something.
glosses: To mark off (something).
glosses: To kill (someone).
digitoflavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: luteolin
equitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equitizes
form: equitizing
form: equitized
form: equitized
form: equitise
Etymology: From equity + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide (real estate or other assets) among several investors and place into publicly traded stock.
Derived terms: de-equitize
equitization
Eurospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Euro-speak
Etymology: From Euro (“short for Europe or European Union”) + -speak.
Senses: qualifier: derogatory or satirical
glosses: An English-language register used by European Union civil servants and politicians, often considered confusing or unnecessarily complex.
lamnoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamnoids
Senses: glosses: Any shark of the order Lamniformes
nonantigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonantigens
Etymology: From non- + antigen.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any material that does not function as an antigen (in a specific environment)
ophthalmologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ophthalmologically
form: most ophthalmologically
Etymology: From ophthalmological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ophthalmological manner
glosses: With reference to, or by means of ophthalmology.
orthorectification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthorectifications
Etymology: From ortho- + rectification.
Senses: glosses: The processing of an aerial photograph by orthorectifying it.
glosses: The orthophoto that is produced by this process.
pneumotonometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotonometers
Etymology: From pneumo- + tonometer.
Senses: glosses: An ophthalmic instrument that is used to measure the intraocular pressure using a balanced air pressure (sometimes achieved by blowing a puff of air at the cornea and measuring the subsequent flattening for the corneal surface)
orcish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orcish
form: most orcish
form: orkish
Etymology: From orc + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: an orcish blade
topics: fantasy
glosses: Of or relating to orcs (monstrous humanoid creatures).
deprecatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deprecatorily
form: most deprecatorily
Etymology: From deprecatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deprecatory manner.
Carelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Karelia.
1870s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bertha Von Hillern was an amazingly fast speed and endurance walker. In the 1870s, America went crazy, and crowds of thousands gathered to see this "pedestrienne" compete strategically.
ref: 2006, Kathryn Parker, Winchester, page 82:
text: Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.
ref: 2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Funicular railways take gradients to the extreme, running two cars in counterbalanced, contrary motion over often-perilous cliff inclines. […] Britain's first funicular railways arrived in Scarborough in the 1870s.
ref: 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, number 922, page 50:
glosses: The decade from 1870 to 1879.
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NASUWT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers.
hending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hend
visualizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visualization + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to visualization.
physis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: Nature, as contrasted with law or custom.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The epiphyseal plate, a hyaline cartilage plate in the metaphysis at each end of a long bone, found in children and adolescents.
Derived terms: physeal
-physis
concrescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrescence
resyndicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resyndicates
form: resyndicating
form: resyndicated
form: resyndicated
Etymology: From re- + syndicate.
Senses: glosses: To syndicate again.
Related terms: resyndication
resyndicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resyndicate
resyndicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resyndicate
resyndicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resyndicate
Mush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Muş
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մուշ (Muš).
Senses: glosses: A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.
glosses: A province of Turkey.
skytale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skytales
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club, baton, cylinder used for encoding and decoding”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scytale.
Related terms: Skytalism
skytales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skytale
scytale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtəliː/
/ˈskɪt-/
Forms: form: scytales
form: skytale
Etymology: From Latin scytale (“cylinder used for encoding and decoding”), from Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club, baton, cylinder used for encoding and decoding”).
Senses: examples: text: But, being perſwaded that they would not hear any propoſal to that effect, he delivered each of them a ſcytale, or ſtaff on which the Lacedemonians wrote their ſecret letters, and with theſe diſpatch’d them home to the Ephori.
ref: 1753, Desiderius Erasmus, anonymous translator, The Apophthegms of the Ancients, volume I, A. Millar, translation of Apophthegmatum opus (in New Latin), pages 53–54:
text: This Perſian grandee reſolved, if poſſible, to humble the inſolence and haughtineſs of Lyſander, and for this purpoſe diſpatched ſome of his emiſſaries to Sparta, where they expoſed his ambitious views, charging him with an intention to render himſelf general for life, and independant of his conſtituents, and alleged ſuch probable reaſons for what they ſaid, that the ſenate and Ephori immediately diſpatched a ſcytale to recall him.
ref: 1764, William Guthrie, John Gray, A General History of the World from the Creation to the present Time, volume II, J. Newberry et al., page 408:
text: This was what the Spartans called a ſcytale, a thong of leather or parchment, which they twiſted round a ſtaff in ſuch a manner, that there was no vacancy or void ſpace left upon it.
ref: 1768, Charles Rollin, anonymous translator, The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, 5th edition, J. Rivington et al., translation of Histoire Ancienne (in French), page 307:
glosses: A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.
Related terms: scytalinid
Scytalism
scytalone
scytales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scytale
iconophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From icono- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An aversion to icons.
Related terms: iconophobic
ballan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballans
Senses: glosses: Clipping of ballan wrasse
obligeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: oblige + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oblige
shirketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: shirk + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shirk
annulleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: annul + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annul
rescindeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rescind + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescind
itinerarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪˌtɪnəˈɹɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɪˌtɪnəˈ-/
ipa: /ˌaɪˌtɪnəˈɹɛɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɪˌtɪnəˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: itineraria
Etymology: From Latin itinerārium.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Roman road map in the form of a listing of cities, villages and other stops, with the intervening distances.
dozenals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dozenal
scareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: scare + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scare
wipeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wipe + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wipe
casone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casoni
form: casones
Etymology: From Italian casone.
Senses: glosses: A type of peasant's house in the Veneto.
stock sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock sheets
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A strong card, typically black, with firm clear plastic strips placed horizontally, used to store or display stamps.
Synonyms: sense: Hagner
word: 1
Hagner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hagners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hagner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hagner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hagners
Etymology: Trademark erosion of Hagner UK.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A stamp display stock sheet made by Hagner UK, or, through trademark erosion, any similar stock sheet.
unbastardized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbastardized
form: most unbastardized
Etymology: From un- + bastardized.
Senses: glosses: Not bastardized.
needletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needletails
Etymology: From needle + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of various birds in the genus Hirundapus, related to the swift.
Derived terms: brown-backed needletail
purple needletail
silver-backed needletail
white-throated needletail
needletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needletail
cheat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheats out
form: cheating out
form: cheated out
form: cheated out
Senses: examples: text: In stage acting, we are frequently asked to cheat out to the audience by opening up our body positions so that we are something halfway between facing them and our partner.
ref: 2015, Robert Barton, Acting: Onstage and Off, page 184:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: open up
glosses: To face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.
Related terms: cheat out of
chronic Lyme disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A long-term recurring condition of disputed veracity in some persons who have recovered from Lyme disease, resulting in presentation of Lyme-like symptoms.
Synonyms: word: chronic Lyme
chronic Lyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of chronic Lyme disease.
keraunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ceraunic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεραυνός (keraunós) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the audible detection of thunder
Derived terms: isokeraunic
Related terms: keraunograph
keraunic medicine
cerimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of redox titration involving cerium salts
Derived terms: cerimetric
Prešov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Slovak Prešov.
Senses: glosses: A city in eastern Slovakia.
casoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casone
Žilina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northwestern Slovakia situated on the Váh river.
glosses: Žilina Region, one of eight regions in Slovakia.
Trnava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Croatia.
glosses: A city and region (Trnava Region) in Slovakia.
chinolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinolones
Senses: glosses: Any quinolone antibiotic
Váh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Slovak Váh.
Senses: glosses: Váh, a river in Slovakia
antireductionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + reductionism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A holistic viewpoint opposed to reductionism.
Related terms: antireductionist
antireductionistic
antireductionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antireductionistic
form: most antireductionistic
Etymology: From anti- + reductionistic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposing reductionism; exhibiting or relating to antireductionism.
soppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soppingly
form: most soppingly
Etymology: From sopping + -ly.
Senses: examples: soppingly wet clothes
glosses: So as to be wet to the point of dripping.
soppily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soppily
form: most soppily
Etymology: From soppy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a soppy way.
producest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: produce + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of produce
PCE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of perchloroethylene.
topics: business
energy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of power conversion efficiency.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of prenatal cocaine exposure.
immunotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotherapists
Etymology: From immuno- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: A therapist who carries out immunotherapy.
immunochemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunochemist
immunotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotherapist
immunobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunobiologists
Etymology: From immuno- + biologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies immunobiology.
immunobiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunobiologist
noncentering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + centering.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the noncentering of the rivet holes, one of the rivets was tapered and the two rivets were overlapping.
ref: 2005, Failure Analysis of Engineering Structures:
glosses: Failure to center something.
pranksterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prankster + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The attitudes or behaviour of a prankster; a tendency to play practical jokes.
nonaudible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + audible.
Senses: glosses: Not audible; that cannot be heard.
unarmedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unarmed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I saw with a sinking heart that their revolver holsters also were gone. Was it because of the Duke's plan, and by his direction, that they had been seduced into unarmedness?
ref: 1914, John Reed Scott, The Duke of Oblivion, page 208:
glosses: The quality of being unarmed; lack of weapons.
beardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beard + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.
ref: 2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair, page 147:
text: When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.
ref: 2013, Janet Trewin, Presenting on TV and Radio: An insider's guide:
glosses: Prejudice against bearded people.
examples: text: the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism
ref: 1846, William Hughes, The three students of Gray's Inn, page 172:
glosses: The period during which one has a beard.
examples: text: arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism
ref: 1844, William North, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anti-Coningsby; or, The new generation grown old:
glosses: Support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
Related terms: beardist
pogonophobia
pogonophilia
anticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anticizes
form: anticizing
form: anticized
form: anticized
Etymology: From antic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Could the orb sweep those puny particles
It just half-lights at distance, hardly leads
I' the leash — sweep out each speck of them from space
They anticize in with their days and nights […]
ref: 1871, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau:
text: Most musicians are convinced that this kind of information is designed for doctors and dentists, whom they regard as hopelessly addicted to stereophonic anticizing, right down to locomotive and automobile noises.
ref: 1966, The Music Journal, volume 24, page 79:
glosses: To perform antics.
anticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anticize
anticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anticize
pogonophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pogonophobic
form: most pogonophobic
Etymology: From pogono- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: They are part of a noble pogonophobic tradition dating back to early Christian times, when clean-shaven Romans guarded Western civilisation against shaggy savages.
ref: 1997, Kharak Singh, Apostasy among Sikh youth: causes and cures, page 175:
text: […] knows I'm pogonophobic. When I hired him he hadn't grown his beard. Nowadays I'm not important enough to fire him.
ref: 2001, Carole Morin, Penniless in Park Lane, page 61:
text: Did you hear of the pogonophobic barber, / Who suddenly decided that he wanted fame? / But on the stage he developed nomatophobia, / And couldn't bear to hear his own name.
ref: 2006, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition:
glosses: Having an aversion to beards.
Related terms: pogonophobia
word-formational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to word formation.
Related terms: morphological
corporosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporosities
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin corpus (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: How's your corporosity today?
glosses: One's body; hence, one's state of health.
corporosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporosity
CVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CVAs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: FAST
FASTER
glosses: Initialism of cerebrovascular accident.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of costovertebral angle.
CVAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CVA
cerebrovascular accident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebrovascular accidents
form: CVA
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted).
cerebrovascular accidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebrovascular accident
DNAR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of do not attempt to resuscitate.
Gray Lady
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gray Lady
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Grey Lady.
glosses: A female volunteer for the American Red Cross during the World War I and World War II eras.
gerontocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gerontocratic
form: most gerontocratic
Etymology: From geronto- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to gerontocracy.
Derived terms: gerontocratically
refuged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refuge
refuging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refuge
undeaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeafs
form: undeafing
form: undeafed
form: undeafed
Etymology: From un- + deaf.
Senses: examples: text: My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To free from deafness.
Crilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crillys
form: Creely
form: Crelly
form: Crilley
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Raghailligh (“son of Raghailleach”). Compare Crawley.
Senses: examples: text: It had been Mr. Crilly's home since the early settlement of the pioneers in that region.
ref: 1903, Benjamin F. Gue, From 1866 to 1903, page 240:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
postroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postroads
form: post road
form: post-road
Etymology: From post + road.
Senses: glosses: A road designated for the transportation of postal mail.
flip book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flip books
Senses: related: word: flipbook
synonyms: flick book
kineograph
glosses: A booklet containing a sequence of near-identical images so that flipping rapidly through the pages produces an illusion of animation.
postroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postroad
nomina acti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomen acti
toldja
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊld͡ʒə/
Forms: form: toldya
Senses: examples: text: Toldja we would get rain today.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of told you.
Related terms: I told you
told you so
spimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spimmers
Etymology: From spim + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.
ref: 2004, Newsweek, volume 143, page iii:
text: Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses.
ref: 2004, Larry Long, Personal Computing Demystified, page 225:
text: Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
ref: 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:
text: Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones^([sic]) of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless.
ref: 2012, Natarajan Meghanathan, Nabendu Chaki, Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology:
glosses: One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
spimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spimmer
swayeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sway + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sway
pseudoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(p)suːdəʊˈaktɪv/
Forms: form: pseudo-active
Etymology: From pseudo- + active.
Senses: examples: text: […] to avoid awareness of ideas and feelings associated with the stressful event, to compensate for an immature level of ego development, and to continue a pseudoactive but actually passive-dependent life trajectory.
ref: 1997, Mardi Jon Horowitz, Stress response syndromes: PTSD, grief, and adjustment disorders:
text: […] our inadequate agency and our passivity may narcissistically ensnare us into believing that we are indeed in charge of the whole complex of events and thus determine a pseudoactive sense of futile activity.
ref: 2009, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Spontaneity: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry, page 63:
glosses: Apparently, but not truly, active.
cashdesk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashdesks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cash desk.
antiprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiprotection
form: most antiprotection
Etymology: From anti- + protection.
Senses: qualifier: economy
glosses: Opposing protectionism.
protectionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protectionistic
form: most protectionistic
Senses: examples: text: If you don't change the bureaucracy first, the existing protectionistic laws and the Board will derail any positive efforts between management and labor that fall outside the edges of what the NLRB might call the "field of battle."
ref: 1996, F. David Pierce, Shifting Safety and Health Paradigms, page 58:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to protectionism.
cashdesks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashdesk
poeticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poeticizations
Etymology: From poetic + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making poetic.