cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
army brat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: army brats
Senses: examples: text: O-Ren Ishii was born on an American military base in Tokyo, Japan. The half Japanese, half Chinese American army brat made her first acquaintance with death at the age of nine.
ref: 2003, Quentin Tarantino (writer–director), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (film), 0:33–4
glosses: One who has a parent or parents in the military, possibly one who lives on a military base.
replot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: replots
form: replotting
form: replotted
form: replotted
Etymology: From re- + plot.
Senses: glosses: To plot again.
Derived terms: replotter
replots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replot
replotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replot
replotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replottings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent plotting.
replotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replot
downtowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downtown
true lover's knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true lover's knot
West Nile virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Nile viruses
form: West Nile Virus
form: WNV
Senses: examples: text: West Nile virus surfaced in New York in 1999 and within four years had covered the whole of America.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 371:
glosses: A particular flavivirus that causes West Nile fever, dangerous to humans.
fotograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of photograph.
preplanetary nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preplanetary nebulae
form: preplanetary nebulas
Etymology: From pre- + planetary nebula.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stage in stellar evolution when a star starts to shed its outer layers before coming a true planetary nebula.
Synonyms: protoplanetary nebula
protoplanetary nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoplanetary nebulae
form: protoplanetary nebulas
Etymology: From proto- + planetary nebula.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stage in stellar evolution when a star starts to shed its outer layers before coming a true planetary nebula.
Synonyms: preplanetary nebula
Related terms: protoplanetary disk
graphospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphospasms
Etymology: From grapho- + spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: mogigraphia
glosses: Writer's cramp, muscular spasms in the thumb and forefinger that occur when writing.
harbor seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbor seals
form: harbour seal
Senses: glosses: A species of true seals, Phoca vitulina.
Synonyms: common seal
harbour seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbour seals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of harbor seal.
caught some zs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch some zs
catching some zs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catch some zs
zone defenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zone defense
little girls' room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little girls' rooms
form: little girl's room
form: little girls room
Etymology: Originally from the need to find public lavatories for children, possibly by analogy with the somewhat earlier-attested little boys' room, but already in broader euphemistic use by its first known appearance in John O'Hara's BUtterfield 8.
Senses: examples: text: The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.
ref: 1935, John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8, Ch. ix, page 279
glosses: Synonym of ladies' room: a public lavatory intended for use by women.
synonyms: word: ladies' room
extra: a public lavatory intended for use by women
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A room belonging to or used by little girls, particularly their bedroom.
Synonyms: bathroom
Coordinate terms: little boys' room
Related terms: women's room
USP unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USP units
Senses: glosses: A unit of potency of drugs, used in the United States Pharmacopeia.
USP units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USP unit
little girls' rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little girls' room
glosses: plural of little girl's room
swan boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swan boat
little boys' room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little boys' rooms
form: little boy's room
form: little boys room
Etymology: Originally from the need to find public lavatories for children, but subsequently used more broadly.
Senses: examples: text: Excuse me, where is the little boys' room? My son is about to burst a bladder.
text: He accidentally locked himself in the ca—in the little boys' room.
ref: 1934 August 18, Liberty, page 40:
text: The first [sc. cartoon], representing a very young chap seeking directions to the little boys' room in the Metropolitan Museum, prompted the management to frame it and hang it in the aforesaid room.
ref: 1938 November 25, Princeton Alumni Weekly, page 209:
glosses: Synonym of men's room: a public lavatory intended for use by men.
synonyms: word: men's room
extra: a public lavatory intended for use by men
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A room belonging to or used by little boys, particularly their bedroom.
Synonyms: bathroom
Coordinate terms: little girls' room
nummus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nummi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nummus. Doublet of luma.
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of low-value copper coins issued by the Roman and Byzantine empires during Late Antiquity.
repressures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repressure
repressuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repressure
repressured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repressure
daltonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daltonists
Senses: glosses: A person afflicted with daltonism.
daltonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daltonist
cog wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cog wheel
army brats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of army brat
wild child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild children
Senses: examples: text: Then there was Ruby, who had been a wild child, willful, and determined to be everything her parents hated and feared.
ref: 1992, Mercedes Lackey, The Lark and the Wren:
text: Paula was a wild child! She like to party and have fun, and it was quite obvious that she was looking for a man to party and have fun with her.
ref: 1998, Iyanla Vanzant, In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want:
text: His son with the uncombed black hair is now fifteen and is known around Truro as "that wild child, Angel Martinez".
ref: 2004, Heather McDonald, Pamela S Ward, An Almost Holy Picture:
text: "I was a wild child," she said, sounding devilish, "never did get tamed. My mother thought I was incorrigible. She called me bad, beautiful, and selfish […]
ref: 2005, Joan Anderson, A Walk on the Beach: Tales Of Wisdom From An Unconventional Woman:
synonyms: enfant terrible
glosses: A headstrong, rebellious young person.
regular polygons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regular polygon
presumedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From presumed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] a great loss has been sustained at the hands of many who would have fully appreciated the labors of that admirable poet, presumedly because they have never been presented to the reading world in a suitable English form.
ref: 1902, Watson Bradsaw, The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, Preface, page ix:
glosses: In a way that is presumed; expectedly; presumably.
Related terms: presume
presumed
presumption
presumptuous
presumingly
sac-a-lait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sac-a-lait
form: sacalait
Etymology: From Louisiana French sac-à-lait (literally “bag of milk”), a folk etymology reinterpretation of Choctaw sakli (“trout”), ultimately from Proto-Muskogean *¢akliCo (“trout”).
Senses: glosses: A white crappie (Pomoxis annularis).
barbe espagnole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, literally "Spanish beard".
Senses: glosses: Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides).
dereferenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dereference + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The assertions check that all conditions required of a dereferenceable iterator are satisfied […]
ref: 2003, Jeremy Gibbons, Johan Jeuring, Generic Programming:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That can be dereferenced.
epically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more epically
form: most epically
Etymology: From epic + -ally or epical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an epic manner; in the style of an epic
examples: text: It is a rare sunny afternoon in an epically miserable London June when the wide South Bank plaza area along the Thames near Waterloo Bridge begins filling with bicycle riders.
ref: 2007 November, Todd Balf, “Critical Mess”, in Bicycling:
text: Due to some epically drunk behavior at his sister's Prada fashion thing the weekend before last, he'd somehow cheated on his supremely hot, now ex-girlfriend, […]
ref: 2008, Rachel Maude, Poseur: The Good, the Fab and the Ugly, Poppy, →ISBN:
text: They stopped discussing them because it usually meant epically dull speeches from Steve on market fluctuations and innovations in Internet trading.
ref: 2008, Joe Stretch, Friction, Vintage, →ISBN, page 144:
text: […] I've been so stupid, so epically stupid and selfish and cruel and …"
ref: 2012, Penny Vincenzi, More Than You Know, Doubleday, →ISBN:
glosses: Extremely; very; significantly.
mythographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythographers
Etymology: From mytho- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: one who studies or writes down myths and legends
mythographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythographer
chenier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈnɛəɹ/
other: /ˌʃɛnˈjɛəɹ/
Forms: form: cheniers
form: cheniere
Etymology: From (Louisiana) French chênière, from chêne (“oak”).
Senses: glosses: An area of scrub oak growing in an accumulation of alluvial soil in a stream, creek, bayou, marsh or river.
glosses: A beach ridge consisting of sand or crushed shells raised above mudflats forming part of a strand plain.
chinaball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinaballs
Etymology: From China + ball.
Senses: glosses: A chinaberry.
coonass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkunæs/
rhymes: -unæs
Forms: form: coonasses
form: coon-ass
Etymology: Uncertain. Commonly explained through various dubious or outright disprovable folk etymologies, as discussed in Sexton's article Cajun or Coonass? Exploring Ethnic Labels in French Louisiana Regional Discourse (2009).
Senses: examples: text: Then I took off a-running like a motorcycle / Heard the bullets whining and the sirens wail / It took half the cops in Dallas County / Just to put one coonass boy in jail
ref: 1971, Charlie Daniels, “Trudy”, in Charlie Daniels:
synonyms: Cajun
glosses: A Cajun (a member of the ethnic group descending from Acadia, living primarily in Southern Louisiana).
Related terms: hillbilly
redneck
do as I say and not as I do
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: do what I say, not what I do
Etymology: This simplified order first appeared in John Selden's Table-Talk (c. 1654): "Preachers say, 'Do as I say, not as I do.'"
The original parsing is found in the New Testament (Matthew 23:1-3; King James Version): “Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.”
Senses: examples: text: Do what I say now, not what I do
The dilettantish peekaboo
ref: 2006, J. G. Thirlwell, “Sieve”, in Damp, performed by Foetus:
glosses: Do not imitate my behavior but obey my instructions.
raw_tags: as imperative
Related terms: hypocrisy
parrotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parroted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parrot
psittacine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to parrots.
psittacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psittacines
Etymology: Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós).
Senses: glosses: Any bird in the order Psittaciformes: a parrot.
Synonyms: parrot
channel coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When this coal is put into the fire, it crackles, and separates into laminae, as the channel coal does into irregular pieces, burns for some time with a heavy flame, becomes red-hot, and gradually consumes to light white ashes.
ref: 1772, Philosophical Transactions, page 265:
text: Of channel coal there has been imported into the States from England 17,767 tons, against 27,641 tons in 1871.
ref: 1873, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, ..., page 1256:
text: Between 25,000 and 30,000 bushels of channel coal were mined from three pits in Phelps and Crawford counties and hauled to the Works […]
ref: 1964, James D. Norris, Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826-1876, page 112:
glosses: Misconstruction of cannel coal.
æolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æolian
form: most æolian
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aeolian.
Indo-Aryans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indo-Aryan
synecdochy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synecdochies
Etymology: From synecdoche + -y.
Senses: glosses: The use of a synecdoche.
Synonyms: word: the use of the figure of speech
Hypernyms: Some class synecdochy as a type of metonymy
while others consider them exclusive terms
metonymy
jumpoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from jump off.
Senses: examples: text: Most men are not going to admit that they have a girlfriend, or a wife, or a jumpoff on the side.
ref: 2007, T. White, Understanding Richard, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Now I’m not saying that she needs to be on the level of a valedictorian and super model at the same time to be “jumpoff” material either.
ref: 2008, “Your Royal Flyness”, From MySpace to My Place: The Men’s Guide to Snagging Women Online, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 18:
text: It’s going to be an interesting Father’s Day for this well known Sports Commentator. Both his jumpoff and girlfriend recently revealed their baby plans.
ref: 2009, pusssykatt@aol.com, “UNDERGROUND BUZZ 01/08/09 **BLIND ITEMS**”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
text: You in love with the bitch but to us she a jumpoff
ref: 2018 March 25, 2 Eleven, “Blood Walk”:
text: I hit your bitch, she a jumpoff
Cartier bracelets for her, they don't come off
ref: 2018 December 21, Lil Baby in 21 Savage, “Can’t Leave Without It”:
glosses: A sexual partner who is more than a one-night stand but with whom one does not intend to form a long-term romantic relationship.
Synonyms: sexual partner
RHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of right-hand side.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of rectangular hollow section.
glosses: Initialism of retired husband syndrome.
RHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Horticultural Society.
LHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of left-hand side.
nursing home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursing homes
Senses: glosses: A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities.
Synonyms: word: care home
word: carehouse
word: old-age home
word: old folks' home
word: old people's home
word: rest home
word: senior citizens' home
nursing homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursing home
rest home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rest homes
Senses: glosses: A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities.
Synonyms: care home
nursing home
old people's home
old-age home
old folks' home
retirement home
rest homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rest home
reflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈfleɪʃən/
Forms: form: reflations
Etymology: From reflate + -ion, parallel to deflation.
Senses: examples: text: This continues until there is a reflation, a currency devaluation and government guarantees of the efficacy of key financial intermediaries.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, quoting Ray Dalio, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: disinflation
glosses: The act of restoring a deflated general level of prices to a previous or desired level.
Derived terms: reflationary
Related terms: deflation
inflation
dimmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimmable
form: most dimmable
Etymology: From dim + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The store is having a sale on dimmable chandeliers.
antonyms: nondimmable
undimmable
glosses: Able to be dimmed: able to have illumination decreased in brightness without blowing out or degrading the service life of the LED or light bulb.
raw_tags: of lights
Derived terms: dimmability
undimmable
Related terms: dim
mood light
mood lighting
honey guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey guides
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: honey mark
honey spot
pathfinder
glosses: A colorful spot or stripe on a flower indicating to insects the location of nectar production.
honey dippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey dipper
airpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airpowers
form: air power
Etymology: From air + power.
Senses: examples: text: That led to the city falling much faster than anyone expected into the hands of Somalia's transitional government, which has used Ethiopian troops and airpower to reclaim much of the country.
ref: 2007 January 1, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Somali Clan Elders Urge Islamists to Leave Stronghold”, in New York Times:
glosses: Airborne military power; an air force.
Coordinate terms: cyberpower
seapower
sea power
spacepower
Related terms: airbase
air base
air defence
air defense
air denial
airdrome
aerodrome
air force
air forces
air superiority
air supremacy
baldheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bald-headed
Etymology: From bald + headed.
Senses: examples: text: "If you go to many classical performances, you see that a lot of them are senior citizens, baldheaded and white," said Mr. Robinson[…]
ref: 2007 January 1, Campbell Robertson, “Mozart, Now Singing at a Theater Near You”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bald-headed.
boatful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatfuls
form: boatsful
Etymology: From Middle English botefull, botfull, equivalent to boat + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The city consumes boatfuls of fish every day.
text: Often sponsored by publishers, the cruises, aboard commercial liners, feature popular authors who give readings and seminars -- even knitting lessons -- to boatfuls of book lovers.
ref: 2007 January 1, Amy Cortese, “At Sea With a Book to Read, and the Author of It, Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
Related terms: boatload
franticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frantic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Or, more brightly, a private equity firm saw an opportunity for a savvy investor who could operate the property without the quarter-to-quarter franticness that comes with making Wall Street happy.
ref: 2007 January 1, David Carr, “The Lonely Newspaper Reader”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being frantic
Synonyms: franticity
hyperfocused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperfocused
form: most hyperfocused
Etymology: From hyper- + focused.
Senses: examples: text: While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan.
ref: 2007 January 1, Karen Crouse, “With Wild-Card Spot Clinched, Jets Can Finally Talk Playoffs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Extremely focused; unwavering.
hyperfocused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hyper- + focused.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperfocus
uncommercial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + commercial.
Senses: examples: text: But Columbia Records executives deemed the idea uncommercial […] and instead proposed an album of lullabies.
ref: 2007 January 1, Stephen Holden, “Hush, Little Baby, Mama’s Crooning”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable.
uncommercial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncommercials
Etymology: From un- + commercial.
Senses: examples: text: This uncommercial was turned down by CBC on the grounds that it violated standards of taste […]
ref: 2001, Margaret Gallagher, Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy:
glosses: A spoof advertisement created for countercultural purposes.
rewardingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rewarding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And his rapport with the drummer Matt Abts, the keyboardist Danny Louis and the bassist Andy Hess felt rewardingly deep.
ref: 2007 January 1, Nate Chinen, “Toting Up the Sum of Its Influences”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a way or to an extent that is rewarding
peacocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peacocky
form: most peacocky
Etymology: From peacock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: From his short passes to the hip-length tan winter coat he slipped on after the game, Pennington proved in myriad ways that he was all about being practical, not peacocky.
ref: 2007 January 1, “With Wild-Card Spot Clinched, Jets Can Finally Talk Playoffs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Proud and boastful.
examples: text: “Samson 4th” was third, a smart, peacocky horse, favoured by his marvellous action, which invariably catches the Judge's eye.
ref: 1882, Shire Horse Society, Shire Horse Stud Book, volume 3, page xix:
text: The famous Biennial was won by Earl of Dartrey, a light, peacocky horse, who was, perhaps, better than he looked.
ref: 1891, Sir George Chetwynd, Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf, page 122:
glosses: Of a horse: showy in motion; holding itself high while running.
minisession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisessions
Etymology: From mini- + session.
Senses: examples: text: I probably gave another three or four minisessions just sitting around talking shop.
ref: 2007 January 1, Amy Cortese, “At Sea With a Book to Read, and the Author of It, Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: A brief session
minisessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisession
boatfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatful
counterthreat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterthreats
Etymology: From counter- + threat.
Senses: examples: text: The agreement was reached after months of negotiations -- and a final week of threats and counterthreats.
ref: 2007 January 1, Steven Lee Myers, “Russia-Belarus Gas Deal Averts Feared Disruptions in Europe”, in New York Times:
glosses: A threat made in response to an earlier threat by another party
fenceline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fencelines
form: fence line
Etymology: From fence + line.
Senses: examples: text: The farmers up here will have a lot of cleaning to do along the fencelines before they bale hay next June or they will be baling kindling.
ref: 2007 January 1, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Edges and Order”, in New York Times:
glosses: The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
qualifier: Oklahoma
glosses: A narrow strip of territory that a municipality annexes to surround unincorporated territory that the municipality wants to reserve to itself for future growth.
Related terms: strip annexation
proclamation boundary
counterthreats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterthreat
nonconsumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: From non- + consumption.
Senses: examples: text: I believe in conspicuous nonconsumption.
glosses: The failure to consume
greatgrandchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greatgrandchild
overcommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + communication.
Senses: examples: text: Or is it a product of our drifting in an ocean of overcommunication?
ref: 2007 January 1, “Is It Who We Are, or How We Act? (5 Letters)”, in New York Times:
text: Where communication is concerned, both overcommunication and undercommunication are undesirable. Overcommunication wastes both the sender's and receiver's time by transmitting more information than necessary.
ref: 2022, William Singleton, Musings on Leadership: It's for Everyone and Everywhere in Life, PQA United, →ISBN, page 118:
antonyms: undercommunication
glosses: Excessive communication; communicating too much.
repost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊst
Forms: form: reposts
form: reposting
form: reposted
form: reposted
Etymology: From re- + post.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe I should repost the FAQ for the benefit of newbies.
glosses: To post again.
examples: text: He's starting to learn that when the trap comes to kick it out right away and repost.
ref: 2007 January 1, Howard Beck, “Knicks Have a Hard Time Dealing With Rejection”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To post up again; to reset oneself at the post.
repost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊst
Forms: form: reposts
Etymology: From re- + post.
Senses: examples: text: This newsgroup mostly seems to consist of reposts of the FAQ. Doesn't anyone talk?
glosses: The act of posting again; the material thus posted.
repost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊst
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of riposte.
reposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repost
reposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repost
reposting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repostings
Senses: examples: text: monthly repostings of a FAQ to a newsgroup
text: […] reposted bombmaking and narcotics manuals from notorious publishers like Paladin and Loompanics. Some of these reposters alluded to the “Feinstein Amendment” as an abridgement of speech and motivator behind their repostings.
ref: 2020, Mark A. Tallman, Ghost Guns, page 138:
glosses: The act of posting something again.
examples: the reposting of a foreign service officer to a new city
the reposting of a teacher to a new school
glosses: Assignment to a different post or station.
reposted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repost
Dutch Limburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Dutch (of the Netherlands) + Limburg
Senses: glosses: The roughly northeastern part of the Benelux region of Limburg (speaking Dutch and two groups of its dialects; not to be geographically confused with historical political entities), which belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, where it is administratively designated as the provincie (province) Limburg, as opposed to Belgian Limburg, which is part of Flanders region (northern Belgium), confusingly under the same administrative designation
leaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaguers
Etymology: From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.
Senses: examples: text: We must break the leaguer of the city.
glosses: A siege.
examples: text: Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
glosses: The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
Related terms: beleaguered
leaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaguers
form: leaguering
form: leaguered
form: leaguered
Etymology: From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.
Senses: glosses: To besiege; to beleaguer.
examples: text: So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours...
ref: 1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger:
glosses: To set up camp.
Derived terms: leaguerer
leaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaguers
Etymology: From league + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.
glosses: A person in a league
Related terms: beer leaguer
Little Leaguer
major-leaguer
non-leaguer
Texas leaguer
leaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaguers
Etymology: Related to lager.
Senses: examples: text: Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported.
ref: 1794, Cape of Good Hope:
text: 5000 leaguers of rum went to Angola , for the purchase of slaves.
ref: 1819, The Glasgow Geography, page 41:
glosses: A measure of liquid.
leaguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaguer
señoritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of señorita
galletas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galleta
denning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of den
infosec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Contraction.
Senses: examples: text: The plan also emphasizes technology transfer to the infosec side of NSA […]
ref: 1999, Fred B Schneider, Trust in Cyberspace:
text: Analysis of the intersection between infosec and computer forensics.
ref: 2005, Robert Schperberg, Kenneth C Brancik, Cybercrime: Incident Response and Digital Forensics:
text: Information security (infosec) is "the protection of information and its critical elements, including the systems and hardware that use, store, and transmit […]
ref: 2006, Jack R Greene, The Encyclopedia of Police Science:
text: This was just plain deceitful and wrong, but the infosec people were too clueless ... This hampered infosec's ability to apply modern analysis techniques […]
ref: 2006, Gary McGraw, Software Security: Building Security In:
coordinate_terms: netsec
glosses: Abbreviation of information security.
exercise ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercise balls
Senses: synonyms: fitness ball
yoga ball
gym ball
physioball
Swiss ball
glosses: A soft, elastic ball with a diameter of approximately 35 to 85 centimetres, used in physical therapy and exercise.
exercise balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exercise ball
house master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house masters
Senses: glosses: A teacher in charge of a boarding house at a boarding school.
glosses: A teacher in charge of a sports house at a school.
fencelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenceline
warn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)nt
Senses: examples: text: We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted.
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 19, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
text: Perhaps if I warn't a blacksmith's wife, and (what's the same thing) a slave with her apron never off I should have been to hear the Carols.
ref: 1860, Charles John Huffam Dickens, chapter 4, in Great Expectations:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't.
examples: text: "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"
ref: 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of weren't.
fuck trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck truck
panel vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel van
fuckwittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuckwitted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It's a war against terror and it's a war against ignorance, and it's a war against prejudice and pure dumb-arsed fuckwittedness, and we've got to win that […]
ref: 2003, Stephen Sewell, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America:
text: At any rate, this particular incidence of fuckwittedness had me arrive at Southampton Parkway ready to alight, struggling to the exit door in the corridor […]
ref: 2006, Stephen Francis, Reconstructing Stephen:
text: He should have stayed away from the war wound fuckwittedness, the being cute.
ref: 2008, James Meek, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent:
glosses: Extreme stupidity.
Related terms: fuckwit
fuckwitted
fuckwittery
Varuṇa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Varuna.
information security
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access and disruption.
Synonyms: data protection
infosec
Hypernyms: security
Derived terms: information-security
zemindar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemindars
Senses: examples: text: The land should, when procurable on such terms, be rented from the Zemindar, or the person to whom it has been let; and the rentee should engage to plough, and sow the land and reap the crop, […]
ref: 1840, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Papers on the Cultivation of Cotton in India, London, page 62:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zamindar.
religious naturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religious naturalists
Senses: glosses: A person who believes in religious naturalism.
Related terms: religion
naturalism
easy as falling off a log
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: easier than falling off a log
form: easy as rolling off a log
Senses: examples: text: For me, making a meal out of leftovers is as easy as falling off a log.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very easy.
Synonyms: easy
1950's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Two other major coal-mining centers, each producing coking-grade bituminous coal, have been developed in Honan since the late 1950's. Hopi, in northernmost Honan, arose in 1957 on the site of a small, primitive operation in a deposit of lean coal, low in volatile content. A city was established in that year, and the mining complex was linked by a 12-mile rail spur with Tangyin, on the main Peking-Hankow line.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, “The North China Plain”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: Alternative form of 1950s.
Oompa Loompas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oompa Loompa
osteopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteopenias
Etymology: From osteo- + -penia.
Senses: glosses: The medical condition of having low bone density, but not low enough to be considered osteoporosis.
Derived terms: osteopenic
spiritual naturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritual naturalists
Senses: glosses: A person who believes in spiritual naturalism.
Related terms: spiritual #1
#2
naturalism #2
#3
neo-pantheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-pantheists
Etymology: From neo- + pantheist.
Senses: glosses: A person who believes in neo-pantheism
glosses: A person who believes in a modern form of pantheism
Related terms: pantheism
vermiculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vermiculate
vermiculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vermiculate
vermiculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vermiculate
vermiculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vermiculated
form: most vermiculated
Senses: glosses: Decorated with lines like worm tracks.
Minsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Minsky moment
Chomsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We do not spend our days huddled in smoke-filled rooms plotting world domination while Jared Kushner plays dreidel in the back with Noam Chomsky and George Soros sneaks the last latke.
ref: 2022 January 19, Yair Rosenberg, “Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2022:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Chomskyan
Chomskian
Chomsky hierarchy
Chomskyist
Chomskyite
Chomsky Normal Form
Egyptian fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Egyptian fraction
lift schemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lift scheme
Escheresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Escheresque
form: most Escheresque
Etymology: From Escher + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the works of M C Escher (1898-1972), Dutch artist, characterised by explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellation.
USPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USP
key chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key chains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keychain.
little boys' rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little boys' room
cubelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cubelike
form: most cubelike
Etymology: From cube + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cube.
catawampuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catawampus
key chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key chain
zins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zin
air-blown asphalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-blown asphalts
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Asphalt produced by blowing air through molten asphalt to raise its softening point and modify other properties.
little boy's rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little boy's room
little girl's rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little girl's room
back stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back story
pig-nose turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig-nose turtle
time clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time clock
punch clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punch clocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of time clock.
synonyms: word: time clock
punch clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punch clock
enate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enates
Etymology: From Latin ēnātus.
Senses: examples: text: A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
text: Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.
ref: 2000, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga, page 86:
glosses: A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
glosses: Any maternal female relative.
enate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enate
form: most enate
Etymology: From Latin ēnātus.
Senses: glosses: Related to someone by female connections.
glosses: Related on the maternal side of the family.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
glosses: Growing out.
Synonyms: enatic
Coordinate terms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: agnate
word: cognate
Houdinied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Houdini
enatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enatic
form: most enatic
Senses: glosses: enate (related through female bloodline)
Houdinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Houdini
Houdinis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Houdini
labryinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of labyrinth.
gloms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glom
glommed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glom
function object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: function objects
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: An object that encapsulates a function pointer (or equivalent).
Synonyms: functional
functionoid
functor
function objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of function object
shufflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuffling
glomming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glom
red under the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reds under the bed
form: reds under the beds
Etymology: From red (meaning communist) and the traditional child's fear of a monster lurking under the bed.
Senses: glosses: An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society.
reds under the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red under the bed
clinginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clingy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being clingy
Synonyms: clingingness
Dhupadhola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Nilotic language of the Jopadhola people of Uganda.
Synonyms: Adhola
the same
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: One day is much the same as the next when you're depressed.
text: A mother loves all her children the same.
glosses: In the same manner; to the same extent, equally.
the same
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: You have a red Mercedes? I've got the same!
glosses: The identical thing, ditto
DLT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DLTs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: LTO
glosses: Initialism of Digital Linear Tape: a computer storage tape format having a single spooled cartridge using multitrack linear serpentine recording on a half-inch wide tape.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of device layer transfer: the process of fabricating a device on one substrate, followed by transfer to target substrate.
LTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTOs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: DLT
glosses: Initialism of Linear Tape-Open, an open standard computer storage tape format having a single spooled cartridge with half-inch tape.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
glosses: Initialism of link-time optimization.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
coordinate_terms: TLI
glosses: Initialism of lunar transfer orbit.
topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of lithium titanate oxide (“Li₄Ti₅O₁₂”).
Derived terms: LTO battery
Related terms: topics: space-science
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GTO
LTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Land Transportation Office.
LTO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of limited time only.
QIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QICs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of quarter-inch cartridge: a tape storage format having a dual spooled cartridge with a quarter-inch wide tape.
Related terms: DAT
whiskery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskeries
Etymology: From whiskey/whisky + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: […]where the house of God was hidden by whiskeries, wineries, and breweries that were built against it.
ref: 1915 June 10, Parliamentary Debates, published 1917, page 3925:
text: Even today, Devin’s story is told and retold in the local whiskeries and his critics secretly wish he would come swaggering back with another bombastic plan to enhance their wealth.
ref: 1968, Bob Davis, The Dingle War, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 1:
text: Long synonomous^([sic]) with top-drawer talent, first-rate eateries, top-shelf whiskeries, Our Town has worn the crunchy fruit like a medal.
ref: 1976 November 11, Daily News, volume 58, number 119, New York, N.Y., page 4:
text: Honda still has the reputation of being overrun by whiskeries and brothels.
ref: 2008, V!VA Travel Guides Colombia, Viva Publishing Network, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: A whiskey distillery.
skiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skiable
form: most skiable
Etymology: From ski + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The new snow on the mountain was extremely skiable.
glosses: Able to be skied on; having conditions amenable to skiing.
Derived terms: unskiable
Related terms: ski
bolshevism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolshevisms
Senses: examples: text: You can never tell to what length of devilry men will go when, setting out to see justice done, they give rein to the spirit of vindictiveness and are bent only on revenge and reprisals. The results may be terrible when the Simeons and Levis of society take law and justice into their own hands. Often it has worked ou into grossest inhumanity and vilest bolshevism.
ref: [1923], Thomas Tully, “Simeon and Levi—Evil Confederates”, in The Sons of Jacob and Their Tribal Blessings: Character Studies: A Series of Sunday Afternoon Addresses, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bolshevism.
Derived terms: anarcho-bolshevism
antibolshevism