cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pinacocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacocytes
Etymology: From pinaco(derm) + -cyte.
Senses: examples: text: Minchin (1896, 1898, 1908) also concluded that the pinacocytes could leave the dermal epithelium and become calcoblasts in both larva and adult sponge.
ref: 1961, Contributions to Marine Science, University of Wales Marine Science Laboratories, page 3:
text: As you can see in Fig 27.7, sponges have only three types of cells in their bodies: pinacocytes (epithelial cells), choanocytes (collar cells) and amoebocytes (amoeboid cells).
ref: 1992, Martin Rowland, Biology, page 626:
text: Despite this, in some studies the origin of new pinacocytes is not clear or is disputed (Wilson and Penney, 1930; Borojevic and Lévi, 1965).
ref: 2012, T. L. Simpson, The Cell Biology of Sponges, page 570:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.
Derived terms: english: cell which adheres to the surface to which the sponge attaches
translation: cell which adheres to the surface to which the sponge attaches
word: basopinacocyte
english: cell on the inner surface of a canal of the sponge
translation: cell on the inner surface of a canal of the sponge
word: endopinacocyte
english: cell on the exterior surface of the sponge
translation: cell on the exterior surface of the sponge
word: exopinacocyte
word: pinacocytic
Related terms: amoebocyte
choanocyte
squamule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskweɪmjuːl/
Forms: form: squamules
Etymology: See squamo- and -ule.
Senses: examples: text: The cap of the mushroom has squamules.
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small scale.
unni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unnis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unnie.
penteract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penteracts
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A five-dimensional hypercube.
Related terms: tesseract
alme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almes
form: awalim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of almah.
pencil skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnsəl skɜːt/
Forms: form: pencil skirts
Etymology: From pencil + skirt, referring to its shape.
Senses: examples: text: Anna decided to wear a black pencil skirt with her blue blouse that day to work.
text: And for Italian sportswear giant MaxMara, the cornerstone of the show was a crisp khaki safari jacket shown over a pencil skirt.
ref: 2004 November 1, Kate Betts, “Into the Wild”, in Time:
text: For a long while I said any girl could get through round one of MasterChef simply by turning up in a pencil skirt and making a fried Nutella sandwich with condensed milk and an expression that says, "I like older men with no hair".
ref: 2011 February 12, Grace Dent, The Guardian:
glosses: A slim skirt (clothing) with a straight and narrow cut, usually approximately knee-length.
Derived terms: pencil-skirted
polyhalogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + halogenated.
Senses: glosses: Halogenated with multiple halogen atoms.
Related terms: polybrominated
polychlorinated
polyfluorinated
polyiodinated
there being
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of there be
revulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revulsive
form: most revulsive
Etymology: From Middle French révulsif.
Senses: examples: text: It was so clearly a bad idea. It had certainly given her enough squirming, revulsive qualms, before she’d done it.
ref: 2021, Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace, Tor, page 29:
glosses: Causing revulsion.
revulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revulsives
Etymology: From Middle French révulsif.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That which causes revulsion; a revulsive remedy or agent.
unformat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unformats
form: unformatting
form: unformatted
form: unformatted
Etymology: From un- + format.
Senses: examples: text: Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
ref: 1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66:
text: This step releases the button so that it isn't pressed in anymore, and the formatting should disappear. If one click doesn't do the trick, then some of the text probably wasn't formatted. It is now! Click the button again to unformat the text.
ref: 1999, Margaret Levine Young, David C. Kay, Kathy Warfel, WordPerfect 9 for Windows For Dummies, page 119:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk.
aretalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aretalogies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A form of sacred biography in which a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.
Derived terms: aretalogist
Related terms: aretological
aretalogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aretalogy
aretalogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aretalogists
Etymology: From aretalogy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who recites or who authors aretalogies.
aretalogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aretalogist
spaneria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The constant state of warfare was a fact of life in the reign of King Louis-Philippe, and although the spaneria was a high price to pay, the nation overflowed with riches and national pride.
ref: 1990, John Brockman, Speculations, page 196:
glosses: A scarcity of males.
lappets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lappet
lanch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanches
Senses: examples: text: […] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints
called locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'
ref: 1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:
glosses: A large bed of flints.
lanch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lanches
form: lanching
form: lanched
form: lanched
Etymology: See lance, launch.
Senses: examples: text: And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords
And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,
Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue
For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: To pierce, as with a lance; to lance.
glosses: To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
lanches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lanch
lanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanch
lanching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lanch
lanched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lanch
secret service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret services
Senses: examples: text: True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret service has not been so successful as that clever, astute brute-man Hitler and his agents.
ref: 1940 September 20, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 24, column 4:
text: On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
glosses: A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy.
angstbunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angstbunny
battlezones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlezone
scutellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: scutella
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin scūtellum, diminutive of Latin scūtum (“shield”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
A grass seed cotyledon that is highly modified for absorption.
Derived terms: mesoscutellum
metascutellum
postscutellum
semielliptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-elliptical
Etymology: From semi- + elliptical.
Senses: topics: architecture
biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of half an ellipse (divided along the major axis).
Related terms: english: in mathematics
translation: in mathematics
word: semi-elliptic
sensillum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensilla
form: sensilla
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sensillum, from New Latin sensillum, diminutive of Latin sēnsus (“perception, feeling”). Coined by German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician and artist Ernst Haeckel in Systematische Phylogenie (1895).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.
Derived terms: chemosensillum
hygrosensillum
mechanosensillum
sensillum chaeticum
thermosensillum
designated survivor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designated survivors
Etymology: designated + survivor
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A member of the cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the president and all those in the line of succession are gathered at a single location, so as to provide a successor should a catastrophic event occur where the others die or are incapacitated.
leathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leather
leathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherings
Senses: glosses: A beating.
leathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leather
leathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leathered
form: most leathered
Senses: examples: text: He'd been out with some of his work colleagues and naturally, got leathered. He remembers leaving the group to go to an ATM to get some much needed 'funds for more alcohol'.
ref: 2007, Trudi Willis, Travel Bug, →ISBN, page 192:
text: When Seini was born, we had a bash in a pub near my house called the Delph. All the St Helens lads came down as well as my schoolmates and we got leathered.
ref: 2010, Sean Long, Nick Appleyard, Longy - Booze, Brawls, Sex and Scandal, →ISBN:
text: Before we get totally leathered on national pride,' he said, 'maybe we should first work out how to be proud of being in the human race. I would like that. I would like that first.'.
ref: 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Very drunk; intoxicated.
Derived terms: unleathered
no-see-ums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-see-um
Stepanakert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Ստեփանակերտ (Stepʻanakert). Named after Stepan Shahumyan, a communist revolutionary active throughout the Caucasus.
Senses: glosses: The capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
wikipedia: Stepan Shahumyan
Synonyms: Khankendi
biting midge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biting midges
Senses: glosses: Any Ceratopogonidae, a family of small flies (1-4 mm long) in the order Diptera.
Synonyms: sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: midgie
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: sand fly
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: punkie
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: punky
sense: Ceratopogonidae
word: ceratopogonid
Derived terms: non-biting midge
biting midges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biting midge
lerps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lerp
acrylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrylation
actinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinin
actinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinoid
subjectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjectivity
satsivi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈtsiː.viː/
ipa: /səˈtsi.vi/
rhymes: -iːviː
Forms: form: satzivi
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian საცივი (sacivi).
Senses: glosses: A Georgian sauce made of walnuts and served cold either as a dipping sauce for bread, or sauce for boiled or fried game or fish.
glosses: A poultry, fish, or vegetable appetizer made with the satsivi sauce.
adamantyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamantyl
aerodontalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerodontalgia
afterguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterguard
afterloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterload
akiapolaaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akiapolaau
allophycocyanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allophycocyanin
ambries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambry
solstitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒlˈstɪʃ.əl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: solsticial
Senses: examples: text: a solstitial point
text: […] Fig. 2 is taken as being in the solstitial meridian plane N W S E, with the node D in front at the centre of the figure, and the node V behind the figure, D C V being the nodal diameter of the Earth, and W C E a solstitial diameter rectangular to D C V.
ref: 1903, John Jones, A kinetic universe, page 51:
text: Gaillard had tried to show that the avenues had a solstitial orientation.
ref: 2000, Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology, page 214:
glosses: Pertaining to a solstice.
examples: text: […] the moment of his birth, the solstitial moon is to be full, […]
ref: 1827, “The Correspondent”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, page 182:
glosses: Occurring on a solstice.
Derived terms: solstitial colure
solstitially
effluviant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effluviant
form: most effluviant
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to effluvium.
examples: "A formal idea of the heaven and the earth may be obtained by imagining the heaven as at first an effluviant generation from a mono central point, occupying, or creating and occupying space; the earth, as the airiest or end of such generative action, with the gradual relaxation of central tension and abnegation of such centre, the consequence being the formation of a huge internal spherical vacuity, termed in the genetic record 'earth.'" ("Clear as Mud," Richmond Daily Dispatch http://imls.richmond.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ddr;cc=ddr;idno=ddr0886.0025.062;view=text;rgn=div3;node=ddr0886.0025.062%3A3.3.2,Sept. 11, 1863
glosses: Offensively smelly.
leaf casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf castings
Senses: glosses: A process in which damaged paper is repaired by means of wetting the old paper in a cast and concurrently aging pulp to the damaged part or parts.
stichic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stich + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Describing verse that is not divided into stanzas, but consists of lines all having the same metrical form
subpentagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + pentagonal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having five sides, but not forming a regular pentagon
subtriangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + triangular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Somewhat triangular
nonkilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-killing
Etymology: From non- + killing.
Senses: examples: text: Hunger does not normally induce frog killing in a nonkilling laboratory rat. However, if that rat has had the experience of watching a rat kill frogs, ....
ref: 1976, Kenneth Evan Moyer, The psychobiology of aggression, page 146:
text: I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices
ref: 2001, Jeff Evans, Undoing time: American prisoners in their own words, page 149:
text: (...) we encourage scientific research (...) to aid us in the transition to nonviolent, and nonkilling societies
ref: 2007, 8th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Charter for a World Without Violence:
glosses: Not engaging in killing.
nonkilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonkillings
form: non-killing
Etymology: From non- + killing.
Senses: examples: text: […] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings.
ref: 1993, Ven. S. Dhammika, Seven Pillar Edicts, 7, translation of original by Ashoka the Great:
text: Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […]
ref: 1994, Grolier Incorporated, Academic American encyclopedia, page 165:
text: […] but nonkilling of humans is a minimum characteristic
ref: 2002, Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, page 1:
glosses: Lack of killing; permitting to live.
examples: text: […] then its death is a moral wrong even if the result of "nonkillings" will be a marked decrease in the population of that part of the animal kingdom.
ref: 1991, Kent Greenawalt, Religious Convictions and Political Choice, page 105:
text: But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly
ref: 1994, Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the mind: language and human nature, page 200:
text: This also includes nonkillings that in the end eliminate the group, such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children out of the group
ref: 2008, Heinz Duthel, Guilty as Charged! A Case for the International Criminal Court, page 20:
glosses: An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect).
Related terms: ahimsa
nonlethal
nonviolence
satyagraha
non-killing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonkilling.
Christologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christology
drive wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive wheels
Senses: examples: text: Squeezing two handles together pressed a serrated drive wheel against the can rim. And rotating a T-handle turned a toothed drive wheel
ref: 1974, Rudolf F. Graf with George J. Whalen, How it works, illustrated: everyday devices and mechanisms, page 38:
text: A year later, in 1706, Hauksbee produced his Influence Machine. By cranking round a large drive wheel he was able to spin a glass globe inside which a vacuum had been produced.
ref: 1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75:
hypernyms: wheel#Noun
<
component#Noun
part#Noun
glosses: A wheel that transmits power to other elements of a mechanism.
examples: text: You should have tire chains on your drive wheels in this weather.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
hypernyms: wheel#Noun
<
component#Noun
part#Noun
coordinate_terms: driving wheel
driver
qualifier: industrial
glosses: One of the wheels of a motor vehicle that drives (in the engineering sense), that is, one of the wheels that takes power from the drivetrain and applies it to the ground so as to propel the vehicle.
drive wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drive wheel
breeding-grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breeding-ground
celestials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celestial
cobbler's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobblers'
Senses: glosses: shoe repair shop
MCQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCQs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of multiple-choice question.
Coordinate terms: DBQ
FRQ
spondei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondeus
stay up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays up
form: staying up
form: stayed up
form: stayed up
Senses: examples: text: These trousers are too big around the waist. They won't stay up.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, up.
examples: text: My plane leaves at 6:00 in the morning, so I plan to stay up until then and sleep on the plane.
text: She stayed up past her bedtime.
text: Some nights, I stay up cashing in my bad luck
Some nights, I call it a draw
ref: 2012, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, “Some Nights”, in Some Nights), performed by fun.:
glosses: To remain awake; to not go to bed.
examples: text: He told his lover he has a problem staying up.
glosses: To maintain an erection.
Derived terms: stay up late
stay-lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stay-laces
Senses: examples: text: The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled dropped onto her chair when she advanced to us; and as she turned to resume her seat, we could not help noticing that her dress didn't nearly meet up the back and that the open space was railed across with a lattice-work of stay-lace—like a summer-house.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace ?
ref: 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, section vi:
glosses: Alternative form of staylace.
staymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staymakers
Etymology: From stay + maker.
Senses: examples: text: The author of these Memoirs informs us, that Miss Reay was the daughter of a staymaker near Leicester-Fields; and at the age of fourteen was placed as an apprentice to Mrs. Silver, a mantua-maker, in George's Court, Clerkenwell […]
ref: 1779, The critical review, or annals of literature, volume 48, page 80:
text: Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America....
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: The young man bowed, and very politely led the way to a little back parlour, where the staymaker took a seat, and in a very slow and stately manner gave him numberless recommendations concerning the size, colour, and shape of her chaussure.
ref: 1847, “A soirée in a porter's lodge”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 8, page 90:
text: This entry from the diary of Richard Viney, Staymaker, is one of many in which he mentions the physicality of staymaking in the same breath with sociability with his clients.
ref: 2009, Lynn Sorge-English, “Constructing Identity: The Staymaker Forms the Lady in Eighteenth-Century Britain”, in Historical Perspectives on Social Identities, page 79:
glosses: Someone who makes stays.
Related terms: staymaking
staymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staymaker
jump for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps for joy
form: jumping for joy
form: jumped for joy
form: jumped for joy
Senses: examples: text: The whole of England held its breath as [David] Beckham stepped back, looked up, paused, and, well, bent it like Beckham into the top corner. The nation's roofs lifted off. […] I too leapt into the air and jumped for joy when Beckham's shot hit the back of the net.
ref: 2002, John [Peter] Sugden, “Five Past One, September 2001”, in Scum Airways: Inside Football’s Underground Economy, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: To exult, rejoice, or feel elation.
Synonyms: leap for joy
United States of North America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The United States of North America in Congress Assembled […] have appointed the honble. John Adams […] to be their Minister Plenipotentiary
ref: 1781 (1977), John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor, Gregg L. Lint, Celeste Walker, Papers of John Adams, page xxxv:
text: Communists of the entire Western Hemisphere are living in Havana […] attacking and discrediting the United States of North America.
ref: 1959, United States Congress, Communist threat to the United States through the Caribbean: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session […] , page 438:
glosses: The United States.
Derived terms: Usona
Usonian
xenoglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌziːnəˈɡlɒsi.ə/
/ˌzɛnəˈɡlɒsi.ə/
Etymology: From xeno- + -glossia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of xenoglossy (“knowledge of a language one has never learned”).
synonyms: word: xenoglossy
extra: knowledge of a language one has never learned
Related terms: xenoglossophobia
cybernation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.bɚˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: Blend of cybernetic + automation
Senses: examples: text: And the mechanization of a task is done by segmentation of each part of an action in a series of uniform, repeatable, and moveable parts. The exact opposite characterizes cybernation (or automation), which has been described as a way of thinking, as much as a way of doing. Instead of being concerned with separate machines, cybernation looks at the production problem as an integrated system of information handling.
ref: 1964, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, Routledge, published 2008, page 269:
glosses: The control of an industrial operation or task through processing of information with a computer.
cybernation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.bɚˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cybernations
Etymology: From cyber- + nation.
Senses: examples: text: Some cybernations also sell licences for setting up banks, corporations and raising debt bonds. Kingdom of Kerguelon offers bank, corporates and church charters for up to $50,000.
ref: 2002, India Today, volume 27, page 75:
glosses: A large online community that operates like a nation, or state.
Related terms: cybernationalism
cybernationalist
vernine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vernal + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
deuce coupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuce coupes
Senses: glosses: The 1932 Ford Model B coupe.
drive-in movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-in movies
Senses: glosses: A type of cinema where people watch films on a large public outdoor screen from their automobiles
maindrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maindrags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of main drag.
dump on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumps on
form: dumping on
form: dumped on
form: dumped on
Senses: synonyms: dump
jilt
glosses: To finish a romantic relationship with (someone).
examples: text: I came home and dumped on him about everything that was going on at work.
glosses: To complain to (someone) extensively; to (figuratively) transfer one's problems to (someone) by complaining to them.
synonyms: shit on
cack on
piss on
kak on
glosses: To treat (someone) badly.
bomb around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bombs around
form: bombing around
form: bombed around
form: bombed around
Senses: glosses: To drive around.
canonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canonists
Etymology: From canon + -ist.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An expert in canon law; canon lawyer
Derived terms: noncanonization
lay rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays rubber
form: laying rubber
form: laid rubber
form: laid rubber
Senses: glosses: Synonym of burn rubber.
synonyms: word: burn rubber
burn rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns rubber
form: burning rubber
form: burned rubber
form: burned rubber
form: burnt rubber
form: burnt rubber
Senses: examples: text: “We’re rammed to the gills with foreigners doing mad shit. You can’t do this to Irish people. I’m getting out of this country, I’m burning rubber. It’s not safe to walk around here.”
ref: 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: lay rubber
peel rubber
glosses: To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire.
Related terms: peel out
hub cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hub caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hubcap.
bricole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈkəʊl/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪkəl/
homophone: brickle
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: bricoles
Etymology: From French bricole, from Late Latin briccola, bricola, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: The Bricole, pierced for 60, mounting 44 guns, twenty four and eighteen pounders, ſunk, her captain, officers, and company priſoners.
ref: 1780, “A list of the rebel ship of war taken or destroyed in the harbour of Charles-Town”, in Henry Mayo, editor, The London Magazine, volume XLIX, page 295:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used.
examples: text: And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible—as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers.
ref: 1893, Lew Wallace, The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell, volume II, Books on Demand, published 2018, page 296:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An ancient kind of military catapult.
examples: text: Let Ill Conſequences be never ſo Remote, ’tis good however, with the Frogs here in the Fable, to have the Reaſon of Things at Hand. The Deſign of many Actions looks one way, and the Event works another ; as a Young Gameſter’s Couzen’d with a Bricole at Tennis.
ref: 1699, “The Frogs and the Bulls: Reflexion”, in Sir Robert L’Estrange, transl., Fables, of Æsop And Other Eminent Mythologists, 3rd edition, London: R. Sare, page 376:
qualifier: real tennis
glosses: the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall
glosses: an indirect action or stroke.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion.
bug out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bugs out
form: bugging out
form: bugged out
form: bugged out
Etymology: Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, the Prophet is bugging out. Request permission to engage!
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Julie Benz), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Metropolis:
text: It's time I bugged out of this town: it ain't safe no more.
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
examples: I'm not gonna bug out on you, I promise.
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
To abandon someone without warning.
examples: I go to Stockton High, but normally I bug out.
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
To miss school, play truant, play hooky.
examples: When it all goes down, you're gonna want to bug out.
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
To leave civilization to live off the grid; to escape an apocalypse or emergency by leaving the area.
antonyms: bug in
examples: text: Kim Goodman holds the world record for bugging out her eyes.
glosses: To cause to bulge.
raw_tags: of one's eyes
examples: text: The 3D imagery will make your eyes bug out.
glosses: To bulge; to protrude.
raw_tags: of eyes
examples: text: She gets her nails done every Friday, so I know she's bugging out by now because her polish has moved up from the cuticle just a tiny bit, indicating that her nails ain't fresh. “Mickey, how the hell I'm just gone walk up to someone and[…]
ref: 2006 September 26, L. Divine, Drama High: The Fight, Dafina Young Adult, →ISBN:
text: "That's 'cause I'm taking the train into the city right now," I said, "and she's bugging out about my missing it."
ref: 2012 November 13, 50 Cent, Laura Moser, Playground, Penguin, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: To freak out, to go crazy, e.g. from worry.
examples: text: My PC keeps bugging out and rebooting for no reason.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To crash or glitch.
Derived terms: bug-out bag
bug out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug outs
Etymology: Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A rapid retreat, a rout.
Synonyms: retreat
bricoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bricole
colorature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coloratures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coloratura.
oy gewalt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oy gevalt.
OCB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OCBs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of oligoclonal band.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Initialism of opposite-colored bishop.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of organized crime bureau.
misoperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misoperates
form: misoperating
form: misoperated
form: misoperated
Etymology: From mis- + operate.
Senses: examples: text: Our research suggests that many signals could mis-operate during the [solar] storm, but at present we can't say precisely which signals are going to be affected or when the faults would occur.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 31:
glosses: To operate incorrectly.
Synonyms: sense: operate incorrectly
word: malfunction
sense: operate incorrectly
word: misbehave
autochanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autochangers
Etymology: From auto- + changer.
Senses: examples: text: Cedric [...] opened the record player and showed him the revolving disc and the others poised above it on the auto-changer.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 71:
glosses: A device for playing multiple music media of a certain kind (gramophone records, compact discs, etc.) in a predetermined sequence without user intervention.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An automatic tape loader, for switching automatically between several computer backup tapes.
encephalophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From encephalo- + -phagy.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, by brain-eating in this article is meant cannibalistic encephalophagy, in other words consuming the brain of fellow men.
ref: 1972, Archæology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania, University of Sydney:
synonyms: cerebrophagy
glosses: The custom of eating brains as food.
homeokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homeo- + kinetics.
Senses: glosses: The study of complex systems.
keystone pricing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A pricing method where the price is doubled at each level of distribution.
Synonyms: key pricing
terrestial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrestials
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of terrestrial.
terrestial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrestial
form: most terrestial
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of terrestrial.
funemployed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Etymology: Blend of fun + unemployed.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime?
ref: 2009 May 15, Bryce Longton, “Not another travel deal site”, in BlackBook, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2016:
text: Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.
ref: 2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 07 May 2016:
text: And the so-called millennial generation's "weirdly upbeat" word "speaks volumes" about how this well-fed, well-organized age group is dealing with the worst downturn since the 1930s—the "young and funemployed" are taking the time to relax and "find themselves," but many also volunteer or self-educate.
ref: 2009 June 5, “The recession and ‘funemployment’”, in The Week, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2016:
text: A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness. Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”
ref: 2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Instead of being employed and lamenting over the loss of employment, money, and opportunity, we're now expected to be “funemployed”!
ref: 2022, Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: In a state of enjoyable unemployment.
Related terms: funemployment
antihypertensives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihypertensive
denominationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denominationalisms
Etymology: From denominational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations.
Derived terms: nondenominationalism
undenominationalism
VGC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: classified ads
glosses: Initialism of very good condition.
Meroitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Meroic
form: Merotic
Etymology: From Meroite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written.
glosses: Pertaining to Meroe, or its kingdom, or the era of Meroe's dominance of Kush (Nubia)
Meroitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meroic
form: Merotic
Etymology: From Meroite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Meroitic script.
glosses: Ellipsis of Meroitic language.
laughing heir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing heirs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of inheritance, an heir who is legally entitled to inherit the property of a person who has died, even though that heir is only distantly related to the deceased, and therefore has no reason to feel bereaved over the death.
Derived terms: laughing heir statute
laughing heirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing heir
laughing heir statute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing heir statutes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A statute that prohibits inheritance from passing to an heir who is too distantly removed from the deceased.
laughing heir statutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing heir statute
jelly roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly rolls
form: jellyroll
Etymology: From jelly + roll.
Senses: synonyms: Swiss roll
glosses: A cylindrical cake containing jelly (jam).
glosses: An overweight person.
glosses: The female genitalia, sexual intercourse, or a lover.
glosses: a male hairstyle, common in the 1950s USA, a roll of greased hair longitudinally aligned front to back at the middle of the head
topics: business
finance
glosses: An options position consisting of two calls and two puts, which can be seen as a combination of synthetic long and short positions with different expiries, or a combination of a put time spread and a call time spread.
Derived terms: jelly roll pan
jelly rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly roll (alternative spelling of jellyrolls).
jelly roll pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly roll pans
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A wide, flat pan similar to a cookie sheet but with deeper sides.
jelly roll pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly roll pan
cookie sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookie sheets
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A wide, flat metal pan suitable for baking in an oven.
Related terms: baking tray
jelly roll pan
cookie sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookie sheet
edu-babble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edubabble
Etymology: Blend of education + babble
Senses: examples: text: Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.
ref: 1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
text: Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives
ref: 1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change, page 412:
text: These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.
ref: 2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, page 3:
topics: education
glosses: Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.
edubabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of edu-babble.
Kumanovo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern North Macedonia.
Prilep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in southern North Macedonia.
Tetovo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northwestern North Macedonia.
TSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TSSs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of toxic shock syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of total suspended solids: a measure of water quality.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of total sum of squares.
hippotigrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippotigrine
form: most hippotigrine
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + τῐ́γρῐς (tĭ́grĭs, “tiger”) + -ine, describing an equine with tigerlike stripes.
Senses: examples: text: Hippotigrine black and white stripe patterns are fairly popular on cushions and furniture
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the zebra.
Synonyms: zebrine
ro-ro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ro-ros
form: roro
form: ro/ro
form: Ro-Ro
form: RoRo
form: Ro/Ro
form: RO-RO
form: RORO
form: RO/RO
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of roll-on roll-off.
glosses: An individual vehicle of this kind.
Related terms: lo-lo
roll-on roll-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: roll-on/roll-off
Senses: examples: text: Stranraer Harbour station was the traditional connection for ferry services. But as competition from roll-on/roll-off traffic intensified P&O Ferries started a new service from Cairnryan in 1973, which reduced the shipping distance.
ref: 2020 November 18, “Industry Insider: Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: ro-ro
RORO
coordinate_terms: float-on float-off
FLO/FLO
glosses: Of a form of marine vessel which allows wheeled vehicles to be driven on and off.
Related terms: word: rolloff
word: roll-on
sense: landing ship, tank
word: LST
without loss of generality
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We wish to prove two ellipses in the plane intersect in an even number of points or are tangent. Without loss of generality, assume one of them has the equation x²#43;y²#61;1.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: With a constraining assumption that, however, makes it clear how to apply the proof performed under this assumption to the general case unconstrained by the assumption.
Synonyms: word: w.l.o.g.
word: wlog
word: wolog
littorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tropane alkaloid found in a variety of plants including Datura and Atropa belladonna.
TSH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But I had my blood levels taken at the laboratory about a month ago, and I had an unusually high concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)—about ten times the normal amount—which means that the lithium is wreaking havoc on my glands, which means that I could end up in a really bad physical state.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of thyroid-stimulating hormone.
cardias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardia
restringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of restringe
baches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bach
compensation culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compensation cultures
Senses: glosses: A culture (set of social customs) based on a sense of entitlement to legal compensation for one's own or others' mistakes.