cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pastophorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pastəˈfɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: pastophori
Etymology: From Latin pastophorus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παστοφόρος (pastophóros), from παστός (pastós, “ceremonial curtain”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearer”), a loose calque of Demotic jrj-ꜥꜣ, from Egyptian jrj-ꜥꜣ (“doorkeeper”), from jrj (“keeper”) + ꜥꜣ (“door”). An old interpretation of the Greek term as ‘shrine-bearer’ is now rejected.
Senses: glosses: A type of lesser priest in ancient Egypt, originally serving as a doorkeeper to a temple.
pastophori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastophorus
Ure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.
Senses: glosses: A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale
glosses: A surname.
Urs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Urus
Etymology: Arabic عرس (literally “wedding”)
Senses: topics: Islam
Sufism
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the dargah.
super-injunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-injunctions
form: super injunction
form: superinjunction
Etymology: From super- + injunction.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Perroncel was at the centre of a legal row in January when former England captain John Terry took out a super-injunction – a court order so secret that no one was supposed even to mention its existence – to stop any publication of allegations that he had had an affair with her.
ref: 23 August 2010, Steve Doughty, The Daily Mail:
text: BBC presenter Andrew Marr said on Tuesday he had taken out a superinjunction to protect his family's privacy.
ref: 26 April 2011, John Plunkett, The Guardian:
glosses: A legal injunction which also prohibits any mention of its existence to the media or public.
Related terms: hyper-injunction
taxative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Related to taxation and taxing. Compare the German taxativ.
Senses: examples: text: We gather from this that the taxative machinery of the exchequer — that is, the visits of the barons to the different towns and county courts for the purpose of rating the feudal aids and assessing Danegeld — […]
ref: 1906, William Stubbs, Lectures on Early English History, page 325:
glosses: Relating to taxation.
examples: text: They are merely demonstrative, not taxative.
ref: 1829, Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland, volume 1, published 1825, page 599:
text: It was held that the description was indicative of the identity of the lands, but not taxative as to the extent.
ref: 1876, Robert Hunter, A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant, 4th edition, volume 2, page 182:
glosses: Exhaustive, comprehensive.
open bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open bites
Senses: glosses: A configuration of a mouth wherein the front top teeth are separated vertically from the front bottom teeth even while the back top teeth are resting directly upon the back bottom teeth.
open bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open bite
literatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɪtəˈɹɑːtəs/
Forms: form: literati
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līterātus, litterātus. Doublet of literate and literato.
Senses: examples: text: Now, we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be married,—in fact, Mr. [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge agrees to allow him a wife.
ref: 1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. Letter I.”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 21:
synonyms: literato
coordinate_terms: literata
glosses: A learned person; especially one acquainted with literature.
literatae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin līterātae.
Senses: glosses: plural of literata
litterati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin litterātī.
Senses: examples: text: To theſe Apollo anſwered, That the onely means whereby to make the way to the Liberal Arts eaſie, was the fervent love of learning, the taking delight in reading the fruitful labours of his Litterati, and to ſtudy out of pleaſure; […]
ref: 1656, Trajano Boc[c]alini, translated by Henry [Carey, 2nd] Earl of Monmouth, “The XXXV. Advertisement. Publick Audience is given by Apollo, wherein by wise Answers, he decides many Affairs of his Vertuosi.”, in I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus; […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […] and Thomas Heath […], →OCLC, page 71:
text: Pray do not betray my ignorance: the reviewers and such litterati have called me a learned and ingenious gentleman.
ref: 1775 April 25, Horace Walpole, “1616. To the Rev. William Cole.”, in Mrs. Paget Toynbee [i.e., Helen Toynbee], editor, The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford […], volume IX (1774–1776), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1904, →OCLC, page 190:
text: Save in the rare and limited instances of invention in the plastic arts, or in mathematics, the individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws, without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati.
ref: 1954 [1929], Ezra Pound, “How to Read”, in T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, editor, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1968, →LCCN, part 1 (The Art of Poetry), section IV, page 21:
text: Their critique of the zuhhad ascetics whose showy and at times gruesome austerities certainly did win popular support suggests that if anything the likes of Kharraz and Muhasibi beforehand represented a distinctly anti-popularist circle of urbane litterati who sought dignity in mastering their books rather than their bodies.
ref: 2012, Nile Green, “Origins, Foundations and Rivalries (850–1100)”, in Sufism: A Global History, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Uncommon form of literati.
litterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more litterate
form: most litterate
Senses: examples: text: That and if they want ſuche farre fetched vocables, than ſerche they out of ſome rotten Pamphlet foure oꝛ fyue diſuſed wooꝛdꝭ of antiquitee, therewith to darken the ſence vnto the reader, to the ende, that who ſo vnderſtandeth theim, maie repute hym ſelfe foꝛ moꝛe cunnyng, and litterate: and who ſo dooeth not, ſhall ſo muche the rather yet eſteeme it to be ſome high mattier, becauſe it paſſeth his learnyng.
ref: 1549, Erasmus, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomium […], London: […] Thomas Berthelet, →OCLC, signature A iii, verso:
text: For wretched avarice and beſtiality of luſt, hee was knowne to be moſt diſſolute, and hee was ſo ill bred, and extravagantly drowned in ignorance, that he became an enemy of all litterate and learned men, terming them the skum and filth of men, endeavouring by all meanes that men ſhould ſhun and avoid them as a poyſon or a contagious plague.
ref: 1636, [Gio Antonio de Paoli], translated by R[obert] B[asset], “65. Licinius. Anno Dom. 310.”, in The Lives of All the Roman Emperors, […], London: […] N[icholas] and I[ohn] Okes, and are to be sold by George Hutton […], →OCLC, pages 149–150:
text: They fall, we know, under the Study and Conſideration of the Theologues; but does not the general Knowledge of them lie open to common Senſe, and the common Underſtanding of reaſonable and litterate Men?
ref: 1714, Richard Steele, A Defence of Drinking to the Pious Memory of K. Charles I., Dublin: […] , →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Obsolete form of literate.
lychnis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪknɪs/
Forms: form: lychnises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Lychnis of flowering plants.
egg timers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg timer
death masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death mask
majusculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin majusculae, feminine plural form of majusculus (“somewhat greater or great”), diminutive of major, majus.
Senses: glosses: capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier
Related terms: minusculae
maiuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maiuscules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of majuscule.
maleficiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare (“to bewitch”).
Senses: glosses: cursed; bewitched
maleficiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maleficiates
form: maleficiating
form: maleficiated
form: maleficiated
Etymology: From Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare (“to bewitch”).
Senses: examples: text: every black dog or cat he sees he suspecteth to be a Devil, every person comes near him is maleficiated
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: To bewitch; to harm or curse.
vote mob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vote mobs
Etymology: From vote + mob, by analogy with flash mob.
Senses: examples: text: At the University of Guelph, some students took Mercer's rant rather seriously. They used the concept of flash mobs[…]and created vote mobs.[…]In particular, the event has also been called a "surprise party," as evidenced by a You-Tube video in which a vote mob comes out of the woods and rolls out a banner that reads, "Surprise! We are voting!"
ref: 2011 April 22, Michael Taube, “Vote mob mentality”, in Ottawa Citizen, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2011:
glosses: A gathering of usually young people assembled for the purpose of voting in an election or encouraging youth participation in it and often organized through social media.
cœmeterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœmeteria
Etymology: An unadapted adoption of the Latin coemētērium. Doublet of cemetery.
Senses: examples: text: After the rediscovery and opening of the other cœmeteria, the name belonging to this one cœmeterium was applied to all.
ref: 1913, Charles George Herbermann &al. [eds.] of the Knights of Columbus Catholic Truth Committee, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume 3, Encyclopedia Press, page 418:
glosses: An ancient cemetery, churchyard, or burial ground.
whore's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Argyll Robertson pupils.
Argyll Robertson pupils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909), a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon, who described the condition in the mid-1860s in the context of neurosyphilis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pupils which narrow to track an object as it approaches the face, but which will not narrow in reaction to increased light ("accommodating, but not reactive"); a symptom of the neurosyphilis stage syphilis infection.
Synonyms: word: whore's eyes
mancipatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In Ancient Rome, a solemn verbal contract by which the ownership of certain types of goods (res mancipi) was transferred.
mannas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manna
materiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: materiated
Etymology: From Latin materiatus.
Senses: examples: text: After long enquiry of things immersed in matter, to interpose some subject which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
antonyms: immateriate
glosses: Consisting of matter; material.
Derived terms: immateriate
membrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membrifications
Etymology: From member + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The formation of members or limbs.
mentalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛnˈteɪ.lɪs/
rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Forms: form: mentales
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin mentālis, ellipsis of musculus mentālis (“the chin muscle”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.
wikipedia: mentalis
Related terms: mental
modificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modificators
Senses: examples: text: What peculiar types of people do such behavior modificators treat that may be different from patients who will seek psychotherapy or group therapy?
ref: 1969, Cyril M. Franks, Behavior Therapy: Appraisal and Status, page 484:
glosses: That which modifies.
deaffrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːæfɹɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deaffrications
form: deaffricatization
Etymology: From de- + affrication.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The reverse process of affrication; the process of turning an affricate into a plosive or a fricative.
debuccalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌbʌ.kə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən
ipa: dɪ-
ipa: -ˌbʊ-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: debuccalizations
Etymology: From de- (“from, off”) + buccal (“pertaining to the mouth”) + -ization. Literally meaning “removal from the mouth”.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: deoralization
antonyms: buccalization
glosses: A sound change in which a consonant loses its original place of articulation and becomes [h] or [ʔ].
Related terms: debuccalize
Nancy Reagan gaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nancy Reagan gazes
Etymology: From the attentive look Nancy Reagan was noted for fixing on her husband, Ronald Reagan, U.S. President from 1981 to 1989, when he made public appearances.
Senses: examples: text: Pat Nixon held the title for most stoic [Washington] wife until Maureen Dean gave an Oscar-winning performance during her husband's Watergate testimony, sitting primly behind him, blond hair pulled back, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze.
ref: 1989, Margaret Carlson, "I'M Nobody, Who Are You?", Time, May 8, 1989, ISSN 0040-781X
text: Peter Chernin, the head Fox TV programmer, … will titularly replace Roth and serve as Murdoch's malleable functionary. He looks at his boss with a sort of adoring Nancy Reagan gaze.
ref: 1992, Laureen Hobbs, "The Industry & The Webs", Spy, December 1992/January 1993 p. 18 ISSN 0890-1759
text: Joan’s attention appeared to be wandering from her leader. Instead of fixing him with the requisite Nancy Reagan gaze, she kept sneaking glances out the window.
ref: 2011 February 12, Miriam Lord, “Hard to keep up the Nancy Reagan gaze when a rugby hero undresses”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: A transfixed look upon a person taken as showing absolute devotion or affection.
fortition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈtɪʃən/
ipa: /fɔɹˈtɪʃən/
Forms: form: fortitions
Etymology: From fortis + -ition; compare lenition.
Senses: examples: text: 1988, Sylvia Moosmüller, Sociophonology, Peter Auer, Aldo di Luzio (editors), Variation and Convergence: Studies in Social Dialectology, page 76,
The two process types following from these assumptions, lenition processes, aiming at articulatory ease at the expense of perception, and fortition processes, resulting in articulatory difficulty in favor of better perception, were further modified by Dressler & Drachman (1977), as lenitions need not necessarily impede perception; similarly fortitions need not necessarily result in articulatory difficulty.
text: In order to distinguish between the two kinds of voiceless final stops the terms 'final devoicing' and 'fortition after sonorants' are used here. Although fortition after sonorants is quite well attested for present-day contact English and in general Irish English, the significance of fent, spent, trent in terms of interference is slight as fortition after /n/ is common in mainland varieties of Middle English as well. Especially in late Middle English many instances of a preterite in /d/ after /n/ changing to /t/ with simultaneous loss of the preterite ending are recorded.
ref: 2007, Raymond Hickey, Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms, page 62:
text: Donegan (1985: 37–38) offers the following description of fortitions and lenitions. Fortitions are listener-oriented processes, which increase phonetic properties of phonemes. They strengthen the properties of an individual segment by emphasizing certain phonetic features, sometimes at the expense of other features within the segment.
ref: 2009, Anna Balas, “Why can Poles perceive Sprite but not Coca-Cola? A Natural Phonological account”, in Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann, editors, Phonology in Perception, Phonology & Phonetics: 15, page 37:
text: 2011, Matthew Gordon, 39: Stress: Phonotactic and Phonetic Evidence, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume II: Suprasegmental and Prosodic Phonology, page 924,
Typically, stressed syllables trigger qualitative fortition and/or lengthening, whereas unstressed syllables are associated with lenition and/or shortening.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: lenition
glosses: A sound change in which a consonant becomes more fortis.
examples: text: No rotation; no appointment by lot; no mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, “Relections on the Revolution in France”, in Thomas Haviland Burke, editor, Opinions on Reform, published 1831, page 17:
glosses: Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
Related terms: fortify
fortite
allœopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For my own part, so absolute had my loss of faith in the old school become (although its leading men personally commanded my entire respect) that I felt that if every member of my family were to succumb under fatal diseases, in homœopathic hands, I should feel that I had done my best for them. There was no alternative, in my mind between allœopathy and homœopathy.
ref: 1877, W. H. Furness, The North American Journal of Homœopathy, Boericke & Tafel, Volume VIII, № II, Article XII, page 147:
glosses: Obsolete form of allopathy.
Derived terms: allœopathic
congenerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From congenerous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being congenerous or congeneric.
yoak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoaks
Senses: examples: text: God doth not need / Either man's work or his own gifts, who best / Bear his milde yoak […]
ref: 1673, John Milton, When I Consider How My Light is Spent:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of yoke.
banisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Robert of Artoys banisht though thou be
ref: 1596, William Shakespeare (debated), Edward the Third, act 1, scene 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of banished; simple past and past participle of banish.
meet halfway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meets halfway
form: meeting halfway
form: met halfway
form: met halfway
Senses: examples: text: Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet halfway.
ref: 2005, Paul Laurence Dunbar et al., The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar, →ISBN, page xxii:
text: In the essay, I proposed that the very best storytelling was the kind where the writer and reader meet halfway, the writer only painting fifty percent of the picture and forcing the reader to fill in the rest.
ref: 2010, Robert Swartwood, Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words Or Fewer, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation.
raw_tags: of two parties
examples: text: So please, dear, won't you let us come up and talk nicely together? . . . [W]e can get you out of this scrape if you will meet us halfway and be a nice sensible boy.
ref: 1919, B. M. Bower, chapter 11, in The Thunder Bird:
text: [T]imes are changin', West. Law's comin' into the country an' we old-timers oughta meet it halfway with the glad hand.
ref: 1922, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in Man Size:
text: "Mr. Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness."
ref: 1959 August 3, “Geneva: The Eighth Week”, in Time:
glosses: To compromise with or to accommodate.
examples: text: Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway."
ref: 1947 September 1, “Italy: A Clock for Fiumicino”, in Time:
glosses: To settle (contrary opinions, etc.) by making concessions.
Related terms: split the difference
Bay Stater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bay Staters
Etymology: From Bay State, a nickname name given to Massachusetts due to the geographical features of Massachusetts Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Buzzards Bay and Narragansett Bay, + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America.
wikipedia: Buzzards Bay
Cape Cod Bay
Massachusetts Bay
Narragansett Bay
Synonyms: word: Massachusettsan
word: Massachusite
word: Masshole
cave bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cave bears
Senses: examples: text: The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
ref: 1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:
text: It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 7, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.
play Nostradamus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays Nostradamus
form: playing Nostradamus
form: played Nostradamus
form: played Nostradamus
Senses: glosses: To predict, or to try to predict, the future.
plays Nostradamus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play Nostradamus
playing Nostradamus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play Nostradamus
played Nostradamus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play Nostradamus
comparative linguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comparative linguists
Etymology: Back-formation from comparative linguistics.
Senses: glosses: linguist whose field is comparative linguistics.
no rights reserved
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Modelled on earlier all rights reserved.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a work, or other copyright holder, releases the work into the public domain.
air biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air biscuits
Senses: glosses: A flatus; an emission of digestive gases from the anus.
trouser cough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouser coughs
Senses: glosses: A flatus; an emission of digestive gases from the anus.
mordentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mordente
palliative care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients.
threatener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threateners
Etymology: From threaten + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who threatens.
nexum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nexum.
Senses: glosses: A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
Related terms: nexus
brown outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown out
browns out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brown out
browning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brown out
browned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brown out
notabilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Neuter plural of Latin notabilis (“notable”).
Senses: glosses: Things or people worthy of notice.
Related terms: bona notabilia
notanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notandum
notandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notanda
Etymology: From Latin, from notare (“to observe”).
Senses: glosses: Something to be noted or observed; a notable fact.
tyrociny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin tirocinium (“first service, trial”). Doublet of tirocinium.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a tyro or beginner; apprenticeship.
nubecula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nubeculae
Etymology: From Latin nūbēcula, diminutive of nūbēs (“cloud”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slight spot on the cornea.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cloudy object or appearance in urine.
nubeculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nubecula
numismata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numisma
choreiform movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choreiform movements
Senses: glosses: repetitive and rapid, jerky, involuntary movement that appears to be well-coordinated; often seen in Huntington's disease.
Xenaverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Xenaverse
Etymology: From Xena + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: Guess things are different in the Xenaverse. Maybe Ares and the other gods don't like competition?
ref: 1998, Greg Cox, Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look at Xena: Warrior Princess, page 88:
text: The show is an amazing foray into women's expressions of rage — there's a lot of other women in the Xenaverse with a penchant for feats of arms […]
ref: 2005, "Doris", quoted in Sue Austin, Women's Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-hatred, Love and Agency, page 22
text: Gender was not relevant in the Xenaverse. There, a girl or a boy could be a warlord or a farmer, a bard or a sad sack needing protection.
ref: 2013 September 9, Jennifer Sky, “My Life as a Warrior Princess”, in The New York Times:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe depicted in the Xena: Warrior Princess series.
examples: text: Many wonderful people and events have come into our lives from being part of the Xenaverse.
ref: 2002, Jo Marriott, Carly Bramwell, “Maid Marion, Meet Xena”, in Nikki Stafford, editor, How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans, page 72:
text: The task of mapping the online Xenaverse is, of course, an impossible one. The Xenaverse is too expansive, too unstructured, too fluid and fast moving to be charted; […]
ref: 2003, Sara Gwellian-Jones, “Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess”, in Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn, editors, The Audience Studies Reader, page 188:
text: For instance, when I lived in Italy a couple of years ago, I stumbled across the Italian Xenaverse.
ref: 2005, Anik LaChev, "Fan Fiction: A Genre And Its (Final?) Frontiers", Spectator, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2005, page 91
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fandom of Xena: Warrior Princess.
Related terms: Hercverse
objicient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈd͡ʒɪʃənt/
ipa: /ɒbˈd͡ʒɪsiənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: objicients
Etymology: From Latin obiiciēns, present participle of obiiciō (“to object”).
Senses: examples: text: To this objection, my answer stands as might be expected, admitting my own major, and denying the minor which the objicient has appended to it.
ref: 1872, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, “Dr. Bain on the Relativity of Human Knowledge”, in The Dublin Review, volume 71:
glosses: One who makes objection; an objector.
HS1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of High Speed 1, a high-speed railway between London and the Channel Tunnel.
playoff beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playoff beards
Senses: examples: text: In the closing credits of the documentary, Boston players were asked to rate and rank the best playoff beards on the team.
ref: 2013 November 27, Dan Carson, “Boston's Koji Uehara Thinks Red Sox Burly Man Beards Are 'Gross'”, in Bleacher Report:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A beard grown by members of a sports team as a sign of unity or good luck during the postseason.
pænultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] pereiopods 5 — 7 slender, with slender, drepaniform fingers, and with the pænultimate joints each provided with a spine on the hind margin […]
ref: 1942, Tromsø Museums Skrifter (Universitetsførlaget), volume 3, page 454
text: Whether the manuscripts were ‘Original’ or simply copies, the last half of the statement is certainly true, since this edition first prints a version of “for a’ that,” called “the bonniest lass” in ed. 1959, p. 69, which all critics agree is unquestionably by Burns, and which is, in that case, the closest he ever came to an apology or tu quoque for his erotic songs, in the pænultimate chorus on King Solomon: ‘The smuttiest sang that e’er was sung, his Sang o’ Sangs is a’ that.’
ref: 1964, Gershon Legman, The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography, University Books, page 163:
text: A second type of colouration which occurs much more frequently and is much more significant is that which consists of a melismatic insertion prior to the ultimate or pænultimate note of a cadence or after an accent in either the Mediatio or Finalis.
ref: 1966, Victor Henry Mattfeld, Georg Rhaw’s Publications for Vespers (Institute of Mediaeval Music), page 296
text: Whole phrases (like the pænultimate one in Sanctorum meritis (Sarum 51)) are sometimes completely scalar.
ref: 1968, Vernon Perdue Davis, A Primer of Ancient Hymnody (E. C. Schirmer Music Co.), page 55
text: The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) expressed this idea when he said that humankind is living in the time “before the last” (pænultimate), and this can never have absolute validity.
ref: 1988, Karl-Reinhart Trauner, “From Neo-absolutism to Conciliation?”, in Security and Independency: The Third Reich as the Myth of the XXth Century?, page 33:
glosses: Archaic spelling of penultimate.
pathognomonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Without that, 'tis vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of ætiologics, pathognomonics, procatarctics, prognostics...
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 39:
glosses: The study of characteristic indications (pathognomonic signs) of particular diseases.
æsculin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of esculin.
procatarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.
examples: text: Procatarctic cause, called also primitive and incipient cause, is either an occasion which of its own nature does not beget a disease, but, happening on a body inclined to diseases, breeds a fever, gout &c. (such as are watching, fasting, and the like); or an evident and manifest cause, which immediately produces the disease, as being sufficient thereto, such as is a sword in respect to a wound.
ref: 1797, Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, Encyclopædia Britannica, "Causes", page 271:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Descriptive of an existing condition or state that caused, predisposed for or excited a present condition.
procatarctics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Without that, 'tis vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of ætiologics, pathognomonics, procatarctics, prognostics...
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 39:
glosses: The study of procatarctic causes.
etiologics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aetiologics.
aetiologics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aetiology + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The study of aetiologies.
ætiologics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Without that, 'tis vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of ætiologics, pathognomonics, procatarctics, prognostics...
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 39:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of aetiologics.
aetiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aetiology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an aetiology.
Œdipal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Oedipal.
stœchiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stœchiometries
Senses: examples: text: It is possible to know something of theoretical chemistry, and to even do some successful and correct laboratory work in chemistry by strictly obeying the directions laid down in reliable books, without possessing a thorough mastery of the construction and use of chemical equations and of stœchiometry ; but the chemical work done by operators who can not of their own knowledge and skill write and balance chemical equations and make correct stœchiometric calculations must always be untrustworthy.
ref: 1900, Oscar Oldberg, Inorganic General, Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Chicago Medical Book Company; Volume I, Part III, Chapter LXVIII, page 479
glosses: Obsolete spelling of stoichiometry.
Related terms: stœchiometric
stœchiometrical
stœchiometrically
kneeling chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneeling chair
didie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didies
form: diddy
form: didy
form: didee
Senses: examples: text: Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.
ref: 1946, Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men:
glosses: A diaper.
Rhætians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tiberius under your lucky Auſpices, in a pitch’d Battle, attacked the formidable Rhætians, and cut them to Pieces.
ref: 1760, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace (by an unknown translator), fourth edition, volume I, book IV, page 395
glosses: plural of Rhætian
officinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin officīnae.
Senses: glosses: plural of officina
officinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of officina
Hamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamites
form: Khamite
Etymology: From Ham + -ite. Coined in the first half of the 19th century along with Semite and Japhetite and the adjectives Hamitic, Semitic, Japhetitic.
Senses: examples: text: And when in history he was taught about the Africans as Hamites who had been cursed by Noah, everything including his family, his people and the priests fell into place.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 313:
glosses: A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples.
Derived terms: Hamitic
Hamitism
Hamitoid
Hamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamite
orsum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orsum
form: orsumer
form: most orsum
form: orsumest
Senses: examples: text: Ruru in quite a mess after getting caught up in a parapara tree. New Zealand Bird Rescue removed the sticky substance and berries, gave him a thorough bath and he is now fully waterproof and ready to go home. NZ Bird Rescue - you’re O for Orsum.
ref: 2021 May 6, P_U_K_E_K_O, Reddit, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: Tooday was an orsum day! The best day ever!
ref: 2021, Phyllis King, Scarlet Stiletto: The Thirteenth Cut, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of awesome.
GTIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GTINs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Global Trade Item Number
GTINs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GTIN
super injunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super injunctions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of super-injunction.
superinjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinjunctions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of super-injunction.
gatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Persian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia.
Derived terms: gatchwork
wedmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wedding + admin.
Senses: glosses: The administration and planning associated with a wedding.
UID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UIDs
form: uid
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of unique identifier.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of user ID (identifier/identification number).
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of unique identification number.
Related terms: sense: computing unique ID
word: GUID
sense: computing unique ID
word: UUID
sense: user ID
word: FID
sense: user ID
word: GID
sense: user ID
word: PID
sense: user ID
word: SID
sense: user ID
word: TID
rhythmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhythm + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The study of rhythm.
Jermain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jermains
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Germain.
in flames
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: By analogy with fighter planes being shot down and bursting into flames.
Senses: glosses: Dramatically and with no hope of recovery.
raw_tags: with a verb
pellicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelliculae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pellicle (“thin layer in biology etc.”).
pelliculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellicula
canuding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of canoeing + nude.
Senses: examples: text: Ontario off the beaten path is safe for discreet camping, hiking, and canuding.
ref: 2006, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada:
glosses: Nude canoeing.
wedcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedcasts
Etymology: Blend of wedding + webcast.
Senses: glosses: A webcast of a wedding.
wedcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedcast
Œnotria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oenotria
form: Enotria
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἰνωτρία (Oinōtría).
Senses: examples: text: From this grove the nations of Italy, and all the land of Œnotria, look for responses when in perplexity.
ref: 1892, The Art of Poetry, page 255:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ancient territory in southern Italy.
Chicom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicoms
Etymology: Blend of Chinese + communist.
Senses: examples: text: Action against the ChiCom nuclear facilities which was incidental to other military actions taken against Communist China in response to Chinese aggression would generally be preferable to actions directed against nuclear facilities alone.
ref: 1964 April 22, W.A. Harriman, The Bases for Direct Action Against Chinese Communist Nuclear Facilities, Washington, D.C.:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Communist Party of China, a Chinese cadre.
examples: text: Action against the ChiCom nuclear facilities which was incidental to other military actions taken against Communist China in response to Chinese aggression would generally be preferable to actions directed against nuclear facilities alone.
ref: 1964 April 22, W.A. Harriman, The Bases for Direct Action Against Chinese Communist Nuclear Facilities, Washington, D.C.:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A proponent of Chinese Communism, whether Maoist or its subsequent development.
examples: text: Action against the ChiCom nuclear facilities which was incidental to other military actions taken against Communist China in response to Chinese aggression would generally be preferable to actions directed against nuclear facilities alone.
ref: 1964 April 22, W.A. Harriman, The Bases for Direct Action Against Chinese Communist Nuclear Facilities, Washington, D.C.:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Any citizen of the People's Republic of China.
drever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drevers
Senses: glosses: A short-legged scenthound of a Swedish breed.
CHW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Chai Wan in Hong Kong.
CNY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Majestic Bay offers traditional CNY set menus (from S$388) as well as a CNY dim sum lunch set menu (S$68 per person).
ref: 2014 February 6, “Chef Yong's Group Restaurants”, in Today, Singapore, →OCLC, Dining Guide, page 71:
text: Multiracial CNY celebrations true to Singapore spirit: President Halimah
ref: 2019 February 5, Adrian Lim, “Multiracial CNY celebrations true to Singapore spirit: President Halimah”, in The Straits Times, Singapore, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2019, in title:
text: Gone are the days of hustling through busy streets to shop for CNY goodies, because they can now be ordered online and delivered to your doorsteps.
ref: 2019 February 5, Lo Tern Chern, “Of CNY, angpows and fireworks”, in The Star, Malaysia, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2019:
glosses: Initialism of Chinese New Year.
proœmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin prooemia.
Senses: glosses: plural of proœmium
glosses: plural of proœmion
IRR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Individual Ready Reserve.
glosses: Initialism of Internet Routing Registry.
IRR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IRRs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Internal rate of return.
JPY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of John Paul Young (singer).
KYD
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One thousand yards, a unit of measurement.
LAK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Lai King in Hong Kong.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of Los Angeles Kings.
LAK
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of left (side) above knee (said of an amputee/amputation).
LRD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: now reclaimed
glosses: Initialism of Little Red Dot, nickname for Singapore: a city, island, and country in Southeast Asia.
LRD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LRDs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of little red dot.
LSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of laminated strand lumber; a type of engineered dimensional lumber beam, composed of laminated wood.
Coordinate terms: LBL
LVL
OSB
microlam
LVL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LVLs
form: lvl
form: lvl.
form: Lvl.
form: Lvl
Senses: glosses: Initialism of laminated veneer lumber, a type of engineered dimensional lumber beam, composed of laminated wood.
glosses: Abbreviation of level.
Synonyms: sense: level
word: Lv
sense: level
word: lv
sense: level
word: L.
sense: level
word: L
sense: level
word: l.
sense: level
word: l
Coordinate terms: LBL
LSL
microlam
MGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of megestrol acetate.
MNT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of medical nutrition therapy.
MOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOPs
form: MOP
form: MoP
Senses: examples: text: The MOP — a 30,000-pound bomb with 6,000 pounds of explosives — was designed for “reaching and destroying our adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities,” according to a fact sheet from the US Air Force.
ref: 2025 June 21, Kevin Liptak, “Strikes on Iranian nuclear sites thrust US into escalating Middle East conflict”, in CNN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of means of production.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of mode of production.
examples: text: Item: TWICELAND Fantasy Park Photobook (Sealed) / Price: 800 pesos only / DOP: PAYO / MOD: SCO or GGX / MOP: BPI or Gcash
ref: 2023 February 28, Teudoongie Shop (@TeudoongieShop), Twitter:
related: word: mop
glosses: Initialism of method of payment.
glosses: Initialism of muriate of potash.
Coordinate terms: alt: BLU-82
word: daisycutter
roman: BLU-82
alt: BLU-82
word: daisy-cutter
roman: BLU-82
alt: BLU-82
word: daisy cutter
Related terms: english: massive ordnance airburst
translation: massive ordnance airburst
alt: GBU-43
word: MOAB
MVR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MVRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of motor vehicle record.
NIO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of New I/O (“new (or nonblocking) input/output”).
NIO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Stormont officials spelled out linguistic pitfalls that could offend nationalists and unionists in a 164-page guidance document for Mandelson and other new NIO ministers.
ref: 2023 August 23, Rory Carroll, “Files reveal terms ministers were warned not to use in Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Northern Ireland Office.
OMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OMRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of optical mark recognition.
glosses: Initialism of optical mark reading.
glosses: Initialism of optical music recognition.
PAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of protection at birth.
PEN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PENs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
qualifier: speed skating
glosses: Abbreviation of penalty (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate).
PKR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [piˈkej.a]
Senses: qualifier: Malaysian politics
glosses: initialism of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party, Malaysian liberal political party.)