cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bottom of the barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the bottom of the barrel
Senses: examples: text: He went from being at the bottom of the barrel to being an inch above the bottom of the barrel.
text: Here is the first new collection of Rohmer stories in years, and they are the absolute bottom of the barrel! Detective stories, romances, war stories — everything but the "strange stories" advertised in the title.
ref: 2007, Robert Reginald, Douglas Menville, Forgotten Fantasy: Issue #2, December 1970, page 32:
text: The bottom of the barrel as far as accommodation in the Ville Nouvelle goes.
ref: 2010, Donna Wheeler et al., Tunisia, page 212:
text: I know it’s hard work in our game, and you get to a point, 15 years into a career, where you’re not bringing in much dough. But it’s proper bottom of the barrel, a celebrity Britain’s Got Talent.
ref: 2023 March 5, Miranda Sawyer, quoting Jason Williamson, “Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course – all we’ve got left are landmarks’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The lowest possible level of a person or thing in terms of character or quality; also, a person or thing at such a level.
Derived terms: BOMB
scrape the bottom of the barrel
Related terms: lowest of the low
I-way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At issue is just how the I-way will arrive at your doorstep. Will it be via a telephone line, a coaxial cable like that used for cable television or by a load-intensive fiberoptic cable?
ref: 1994 September, “Wired for the Highway”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 171, number 9, page 36:
text: I don't want to drive around the I-way; I want the I-way to come to me.
ref: 1994 December 19, Jeffrey Henning, “I-Way Needs Service”, in Computerworld, volume 28, number 51, page 41:
glosses: information superhighway
framerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framerates
Senses: examples: text: Game developers are demanding higher fill rates so they can push resolutions to 1024x768, create larger polygon-count models, and add more special effects without slowing framerates to a crawl.
ref: 1999 January, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 1:
text: Higher framerates can increase this bound, since the maximum delay between two cameras capturing an image will decrease.
ref: 2008, Christian Bischof, Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of frame rate.
framerates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framerate
car bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car bras
Senses: glosses: A stretchy vinyl attachment to a vehicle's front bumper to protect it from minor damage.
Synonyms: auto bra
car mask
front-end bra
hood bra
hood mask
car bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car bra
pay spine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay spines
Senses: synonyms: payscale
glosses: A tiered range of salaries for different jobs or for those who have been in a job for differing amounts of time.
pay spines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pay spine
hylopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hylo- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: And this affection of a Spirit we will make bold to call, for more compendiousness, by one Greek term ὑλοπάθεια which, that there may be no suspicion of any fraud or affected foolery in words, we will as plainly as we can define thus, A power in a Spirit of offering so near to a corporeal emanation from the Center of life, that it will so perfectly fill the receptivity of Matter into which it has penetrated, that it is very difficult or impossible for any other Spirit to possess the same, and therefore of becoming hereby so firmly and closely united to a Body, as both to actuate and to be acted upon, to affect and be affected thereby.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Appendix, Chapter 3:
text: Which Faculty of Spirits, in the Appendix to the Antidote against Atheism is called ὑλοπάθεια, the Hylopathy of Spirits, or a Power of affecting, or being affected by the Matter.
ref: 1726, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus trimphatus, page 99:
text: The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, will hardly find defenders today. Rejecting this we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.
ref: 1890, Charles S. Peirce, Architecture of Theories:
glosses: The ability of a spirit to penetrate and affect matter.
click-thru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: click-thrus
Senses: examples: text: Usually a clickthru has rules for how a text link can appear.
ref: 2005, Nadeem Brown, Dirty Little Secret, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: The click-thru measurement is an immensely popular way of rating banners and advertising campaigns.
ref: 2006, Valery A. Petrushin, Latifur Khan, Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer, →ISBN, page 453:
text: Remember Click-thru rate (CTR) is the number of people who click on an ad …
ref: 2008, Jerri L. Ledford, Google AdSense for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: Think of it this way: a website can't get a click-thru without someone first clicking on an ad or a button which leads to a sale.
ref: 2009, Andrew Skelly, The Amazing Millionaire Formula, →ISBN, page 186:
text: And, while things like Web traffic, click-thru rates, retweets-even short-term sales spikes-don't define success, …
ref: 2010 October 18, Michael Brunner, “CMOs: Stake A Claim On A System of Accountability”, in Forbes Magazine, retrieved 07 Sep 2012:
text: - Selections (or Click-thrus) — that is, a user selects a search result …
ref: 2012, B. Smyth, edited by Joaquim Filipe and José Cordeiro, Web Information Systems and Technologies, Springer, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of click-through.
whyja
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: wīʹjə
ipa: /ˈwaɪd͡ʒə/
rhymes: -aɪdʒə
Etymology: "Why d'you" /ˈwaɪdju/ becomes /ˈwaɪdʒə/ ("whyja") by yod-coalescence (whereby /j/ assimilates to /ʒ/) and reduction of the unstressed /u/ (which becomes /ə/).
Senses: examples: text: …whyja afta caws awl these arguments eh? Why can’t ya just, ya know, chill out?
ref: 2000, Niall Griffiths, Grits, Vintage,, →ISBN, page 360:
text: Why is that? ¶ The deeds and titles lady looked at her like she was stupid. ¶ Whyja think?
ref: 2003, Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen, Simon & Schuster,, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Abe heard Julie sleepily call, “Abe, whyja open the door?” He told her he had heard a car start up and take off, looked outside and saw a box on the stoop with a note attached, sitting in the rain.
ref: 2010, Warren J. Luedtke, Stories of Life, Xlibris,, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of why d'you.
langwidge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langwidges
Senses: examples: text: "Such langwidge," he says, "is unbecoming and beneath Me—leastways unless it is remembered in the wages."
ref: 1891, Punch, Vol. 101, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:
text: "Art thou weary, art thou langwidge?" he quoted after a reflective expectoration, which just missed my right foot.
ref: 1901, PT Ross, A Yeoman's Letters, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
text: The soldiers thought they were spies. "As speaking the langwidge," I asked him what the matter was.
ref: 1915, Captain WHL Watson, Adventures of a Despatch Rider, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
text: "Sich langwidge!" cried the girl, with a laugh, covering her ears with her palms.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
text: Grandpa grunted—and belched again. "That old windbag! And his langwidge!"
ref: 1930, Roy Milton Iliff, In the Red, reprint edition, Kessinger, published 2005, →ISBN, page 99:
text: … the boy ran up on deck and went aft to the skipper and complained of Bill's langwidge.
ref: 2003, William Wymark Jacobs, Light Freights, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 25:
text: That is 19 pages, and let us say the longest poem in the English langwidge.
ref: 2005, James Edwin Miller, quoting Pound, 1922, T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 389:
text: But Pitjantjatjara, although it has four declensions and four conjugations, is alleged to be the simplest of all the bloody Australoid langwidges.
ref: 2009 Jun/Jul, Gary Jennings, “Sooner or Later or Never Never”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 116, number 6/7, page 171:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of language.
moving violation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving violations
Senses: examples: text: Under present law, the Department of Public Safety can suspend a license from 30 to 90 days when the holder accumulates three moving violations.
ref: 1959 May 20, Taking Violators Off the Road, St Petersburg Times, p. 8A
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Violation of the law by the driver of a vehicle while in motion.
Liverpool kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Liverpool kiss
Liverpool kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liverpool kisses
form: Liverpool Kiss
Etymology: From Liverpool (“city in England”) + kiss.
Senses: examples: text: 1957, Gerald Kersh, Fowler′s End, 2006, The Olympia Press, page 42,
“This Irisher give ′im a Liverpool Kiss. You know what it is, a Liverpool Kiss? Make a quick grab for the lapels o′ the coat, an′ pull somebody forward. At the same time bunt ′im in the face miv the top o′ your ′ead an′ kick ′im in the balls miv your knee. Naturally ′e falls forward. While ′e′s falling, punch ′im in the jaw miv all your might so he gradually falls dahn senseless. Then, at your leisure, kick ′im in the ′ead. Naturally I don′t want you should do such things.... […] ″
text: 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 157,
There wasn′t room to throw a punch so, grabbing the man by the lapels of his coat, he gave him a Liverpool kiss, his forehead smashing into his assailant′s face connecting with the edge of his brow and the base of his nose.
text: Hamblyn flew into a rage and butted Alec in the face. The old Liverpool kiss!
ref: 1998, Jock Barnes, Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes, page 146:
text: He often told people about the woman who had given him a Liverpool kiss.
‘What′s a Liverpool kiss?’ asked one unsuspecting drinking companion.
‘This,’ said Beer, butting him.
ref: 2001, Vaughan Tucker, Grubby the Eighth Dwarf, page 24:
text: Who would have thought you′d be reading about the classic Liverpool kiss in a game of squash. Poor old Anthony Hill never expected to read about it let alone be the victim of one.
Pakistani squash player Mir Zaman Gul knocked Hill unconscious with his cowardly headbutt in a squash tournament.
ref: 2006, Stephen Hagan, Australia′s Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100, page 354:
glosses: A headbutt.
be careful
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to warn someone to proceed with caution.
Related terms: be careful what you wish for
easy does it
look out
tread lightly
watch out
thingification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology: From thing + -ification, following thingify.
Senses: examples: text: Dictionaries alone aren't responsible for the thingification of natural languages, but they crystallized a peculiar modern view of what it means to have a language.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 99:
text: This is what happens when a country doesn’t see some people as fully human. It’s what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the “thingification of the Negro.”
ref: 2021 September 23, Charles M. Blow, quoting Martin Luther King Jr., “Gwen Ifill Was Right About ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: objectification
reification
glosses: The fact or process of turning something into a thing.
absatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌæbsəˈtɪvli/
/ˈæbsəˌtɪvli/
Forms: form: absitively
form: absotively
Etymology: Blend of absolutely + positively
Senses: examples: text: Any old reels will do, comedies, tragedies, weekly reviews (dating back to the fall of Sumter)—“posalutely absatively” anything will do!
ref: 1917 November, Fitzhugh Green, “Amusing Fifty Thousand Men: Another Avenue for Government Control”, in J. W. Greenslade, editor, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 43, number 11, number 177, page 2538:
text: Worthingham Washington Lewis told me he was absatively, posolutely ready for us: “We've got the scenario, and my men are raring to go, Captain.”
ref: 1994, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL:
text: “No. Absatively out of the question.”
ref: 2005, Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, →ISBN, →OL, page 278:
glosses: Absolutely and positively.
allelicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allelic + -ity.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The degree to which the behaviour of a transcription factor is allele-specific
chromatinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromatin + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formation of chromatin
erythroleukaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroleukaemias
Etymology: From erythro- + leukaemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of erythroleukemia.
footprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From footprint + -ed.
Senses: glosses: That is identified by means of footprinting.
Derived terms: unfootprinted
native title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native titles
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine that recognises Aboriginal people as rightful owners of land that has been colonised.
haplotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haplotype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a haplotype.
helictical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a helix; helical
lncRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lncRNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: long non-coding RNA
monomethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monomethylate
motifless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From motif + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a motif
phosphorylome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorylomes
Etymology: From phosphoryl + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteome of phosphoproteins.
polyadenine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + adenine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A long section of nucleic acid containing only the adenine nucleoside
Related terms: polyuridine
subfragments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfragment
subfragment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfragments
Etymology: From sub- + fragment.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subsection of a fragment (of nucleic acid etc)
subfragment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subfragments
form: subfragmenting
form: subfragmented
form: subfragmented
Etymology: From sub- + fragment.
Senses: glosses: To split into such fragments
hippomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A passion for horses.
Synonyms: english: broadly synonymous
translation: broadly synonymous
word: hippophilia
Related terms: alt: equiphile
word: hippophile
serangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serang
Timbuctoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This national feeling is never more evinced than on the Continent: they herd together after their kind, and Englishman meets Englishman as if they encountered in the deserts round Timbuctoo.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Dated form of Timbuktu.
incense cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incense cedars
Senses: examples: text: Another conifer was met to-day,—incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), a large tree with warm yellow-green foliage in flat plumes like those of arborvitæ, bark cinnamon-colored, and as the boles of the old trees are without limbs they make striking pillars in the woods where the sun chances to shine on them—a worthy companion of the kingly sugar and yellow pines.
ref: 1911, John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra:
glosses: Any of the species of coniferous trees of the genus Calocedrus, with fragrant wood.
incense cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incense cedar
superterrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superterranes
Etymology: From super- + terrane.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of physically connected and related terranes.
superterranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superterrane
gonorynchiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonorynchiforms
Senses: examples: text: The milkfish is a gonorynchiform.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any ray-finned fish of the order Gonorynchiformes
gonorhynchiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gonorynchiform.
penalty corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penalty corner
short corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short corner
ophicalcite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophicalcites
Etymology: See ophio- and calcite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ophite; verd antique
diapiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diapir + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a diapir.
Derived terms: diapirically
diapirically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diapiric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: As a diapir; in a diapiric fashion.
enterotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterotypes
Etymology: From entero- + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A classification of living organisms based on the bacteriological ecosystem in the human gut microbiome
enterotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enterotypes
form: enterotyping
form: enterotyped
form: enterotyped
Etymology: From entero- + -type.
Senses: glosses: To make such a classification
enterotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterotype
blue lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dark grey or indigo form of galena, used as a pigment.
indigoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigo
indigos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigo
rutilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rutilances
Etymology: French?
Senses: examples: text: 1918-22, James Joyce, Ulysses
[…] rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance […]
text: He used vegetal colorings for his works, thus, obtaining the rutilances of Van Dyck and that of Van Der Goss.
ref: 1945, Melitón Salazar Monroy, Santa Monica, museum of religious art in Puebla:
glosses: redness; a red glow; the quality of being rutilant
Related terms: rutilant
rutilation
rutilances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutilance
rutilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rutilations
Etymology: French?
Senses: glosses: A reddening; a red glow.
Related terms: rutilance
rutilant
rutilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutilation
public woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public women
Senses: examples: text: a vivid portraiture of the public women and their clients
ref: 1975, Kamil Zvelebil, Tamil literature: Volume 2, Part 1, page 259:
glosses: A female prostitute.
lucencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucency
lucence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His sister's twitching face […] was naked with the lucence of love's dawn.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: lucency; luminosity
antispillage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spillage.
Senses: glosses: Countering or preventing spillage.
Synonyms: antispill
orsedew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsedine
form: orsedue
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: Dutch metal; bronze leaf used as imitation gold leaf.
justacorps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justacorps
Etymology: French justaucorps, literally "close to the body".
Senses: glosses: A knee-length coat worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Synonyms: word: justico
word: justicoat
whiting-mop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiting-mops
Senses: examples: text: ...his silence must be, that though he beare and understand himselfe wronged, yet he must be as dumbe as a Gudgeon or a Whiting mop: and though his mouth be shut...
ref: 1869 [1620], John Taylor, Works of John Taylor the Water-Poet, The Spenser Society, "Taylors Travels to Prague in Bohemia", page 99:
text: Chartley. Fear not, girl. Though I revel abroad o' days, I'll be with thee to bring o' nights, my little whiting mop.
ref: 1996 [1638], Thomas Heywood, edited by Paul Merchant, Three Marriage Plays, Manchester University Press, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon, act I, scene II, page 48:
text: Bustopha. [Reading.] The thund'ring seas whose wat'ry fire
Washes the whiting-mops,
The gentle whale, whose feet so fell
Flies o'er the mountains' tops—
ref: 1813 [1647], John Fletcher, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, volume Thirteen, Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., Doig and Stirling, w:The Maid in the Mill, act II, scene I, page 199:
glosses: A young whiting.
examples: text: Mistress Birdlime. I see bashful lovers, and young bullocks, are knocked down at a blow. Come, come, drink this draught of cinnamon-water, and pluck up your spirits; up with 'em, up with 'em. Do you hear? the whiting mop has nibbled.
ref: 1830 [1604], Thomas Dekker, John Webster, The Works of John Webster, volume III, London: William Pickering, Westward Ho, act II, scene II, page 37:
text: Camillo. If 'twere a fish-day, though you like it not, I could say I have a stomach, and would content myself With this pretty whiting-mop.
ref: 1813 [1633], Philip Massinger, edited by W. Gifford, The Plays, 2nd edition, volume IV, London: G. & W. Nicol et al., The Guardian, act IV, scene II, page 207:
text: The mightiest Whales are but his Play-fellows: Sharks are bis best Familiars, but (the more His grief) his pretty Whiting Mop's on shore...
ref: 1641, Thomas Jordan, Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affectations, Poetically Deciphered in variety of Characters., London: Robert Wood, A Sea-man.:
glosses: A pretty girl; a young or innocent woman.
tivering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tiver
tivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tiver
decolour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decolours
form: decolouring
form: decoloured
form: decoloured
form: decolor
Etymology: From de- + colour.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of colour; to bleach.
decolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decolour
decolours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decolour
decolors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decolor
decoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decolor
decolored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decolor
blastodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blastoderm + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blastodermic
synonyms: word: blastodermic
Derived terms: postblastodermal
preblastodermal
triseriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + seriate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.
septemvirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septemvir
portass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təs/
Forms: form: portasses
form: portace
form: portas
form: portasse
form: portess
form: portesse
form: portise
form: porthose
form: portos
form: portus
form: portuse
Etymology: From Middle English porthors, from Old French porte-hors (“a kind of portable prayer-book”).
Senses: examples: text: an old Priest in that age, which always read in his Portass, Mumpsimus Domine for Sumpsimus; whereof when he was admonished, he said that he now had used Mumpsimus thirty years, and would not leave his old Mumpsimus for their new Sumpsimus.
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
text: Their portases, bedes, temples, aultars.
ref: 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
text: Boner hath set up again in Paules Salesburi Latin portace.
ref: 1553, [unknown translator], Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia:
text: Let me see your portous, gentle sir John.
ref: 1565, Robert Wever, An Enterlude called lusty Juventus:
text: In his hand his portesse still he bare, That much was worn, but therein little red; For of devotion he had little care.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A breviary; a prayer book.
morphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morpho
tinnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinning
sentiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentiency
binarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binarisms
Etymology: From binary + -ism.
Senses: examples: the binarism of male and female; the binarism of North and South
glosses: A pair of opposites; a specific binary.
examples: text: I am interested in discussing some of the tensions and contradictions of Carey's distinction between the ritual and transmission models of communication and in focusing upon those instances where his binarism breaks down.
ref: 2006, Jeremy Packer, Craig Robertson, Thinking with James Carey: Essays, page 30:
text: While the most popular interpretative scheme in Barthes's book proved to be his binarism between the studium and the punctum (the theme and the informational content of the photograph on the one hand, and its affective impact, on the other) […]
ref: 2015, Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities:
glosses: Belief in, or a mode of thought predicated on, a binary; belief that something (for example, gender) is a binary.
Related terms: binarist
binaristic
binaristically
binarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binarism
Circensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: circensian
Etymology: From Latin circensis (“circus”).
Senses: examples: text: Circensian Games
ref: a. 1661, Barten Holyday, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus:
glosses: Of, relating to, or held in, the Circus Maximus of Ancient Rome
yodless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdləs
Etymology: From yod + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In other contexts, yodless forms made the Roubaix-Tourcoing distinctive from their French and Lille equivalents [kaʀti], [piʀ] and [di] quartier ‘quarter’, ‘neighbourhood’, Pierre ‘Peter’, Dieu ‘God’, cf. [kaʀtje], [pjɛʀ], [djø].
ref: 2002, Tim Pooley, “The Depicardization of the Vernaculars of the Lille Conurbation”, in Mari C. Jones et al., editors, Language Change, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 37:
text: The younger the speaker is, the more yodless is the pronunciation, while the more educated the speaker is, the more yod is used (or retained) in this particular phonological environment.
ref: 2004, Jan Tent, France Mugler, “Fiji English: Phonology”, in Edgar W. Schneider et al., editors, A Handbook of Varieties of English, volume 1, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 776:
text: Hence yod not only does not strengthen word-initially; it also often disappears, yielding yod-ful and yodless variants in the daughter languages, sometimes even in the same language (cf. Cz už - juž).
ref: 2008, László Kristó, “Slavonic”, in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al., editors, Lenition and Fortition, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 312:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Lacking a palatal approximant.
pronunciamientoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronunciamiento
rebused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebus
froises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of froise
encrinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to encrinites.
Synonyms: encrinitic
encrinitical
metropolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metropolite
latifoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latifoliate
form: most latifoliate
Etymology: Latin latifolius.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having broad leaves.
Synonyms: broadleaf
latifolious
clear blue water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by the Conservative Party in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: It was the Conservatives' policy, designed in part to put some clear blue water between themselves and Labour and to refresh Conservative Party ideas.
ref: 2002, Anthony Forster, Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics, page 27:
text: But, Boyle's admission does put clear blue water between CC and the autonomist politics of another notorious commons enthusiast, Peter Linebaugh, who is also included in this chapter.
ref: 2010, Proud To Be Flesh:
text: […] the Conservatives can still create clear blue water between them and Labour by showing how they prioritise the family over the State.
ref: 2011, Martin H. M. Steven, Christianity and Party Politics: Keeping the Faith, page 62:
text: I was of the view that there ought to be clear blue water between us and the Tories on this issue.
ref: 2011, Chris Mullin, A Walk-On Part:
text: Sitting on the bottom of both league tables - with clear blue water between it and the next worst operator - is Avanti West Coast.
ref: 2023 February 8, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: Boom or bust: time to decide”, in RAIL, number 976, page 3:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An obvious, unambiguous divide between the policies of two parties.
Related terms: english: emotional or psychological distance, or disagreement; usually in the expression put daylight between oneself and someone
translation: emotional or psychological distance, or disagreement; usually in the expression put daylight between oneself and someone
word: daylight
technoshamanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of techno-shamanism.
technoshamanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technoshamanic
form: most technoshamanic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of techno-shamanic.
technoshamanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technoshamanistic
form: most technoshamanistic
Etymology: From techno- + shamanistic.
Senses: examples: text: Much more than a fantasy simulacrum, the altered states of consciousness that are part of the technoshamanistic journey are said to heal[…]
ref: 2008, Richard L. Warms, James Garber, R. Jon McGee, Sacred Realms: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion:
glosses: technoshamanic
technoshaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technoshamans
Etymology: From techno- + shaman.
Senses: glosses: One involved in the techno-shamanism movement.
technoshamans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technoshaman
insouciances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insouciance
Essexian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Essexian
form: most Essexian
Etymology: From Essex + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Earl of Essex.
technorock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + rock.
Senses: examples: text: With its mix of European technorock, funk, and rapping, “Planet Rock” was a model of fusion that imagined unity across cultures the same way Bambaataa had created unity across gang lines.
ref: 2011, Sujatha Fernandes, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation:
text: Wynette even dipped to self-parody, recording with the English-based technorock group KLF, scoring a British hit in 1992 with “Justified and Ancient.”
ref: 2005, Richard Carlin, Country, page 221:
glosses: A genre combining elements of techno and rock music.
Hypernyms: rock
technofunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + funk.
Senses: examples: text: Black technofunk articulated black middle-class anxieties toward yet fascination with U.S. "hi-tech" capitalist society.
ref: 1993, Cornel West, Prophetic Fragments:
glosses: A style of electronic dance music influenced by funk.
intransigeances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intransigeance
technoweenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technoweenies
Etymology: From techno- + weenie.
Senses: examples: text: "Pop the lid on a Compaq 25 MHz and you'll see something really strange," said the whizzer. First wiping their hands on their shirts, the InfoWorld technoweenies did just that.
ref: 1988 July 4, InfoWorld, volume 10, number 27, page 74:
text: Soon after, a foghorn-voiced guy stood up and denounced the room as "a bunch of technoweenies whining about who's going to fund their latest fad."
ref: 1991 April, SPIN, volume 7, number 1, page 106:
text: By the way, no animals were harmed, exploited, or even consulted in the quest to bring you this information (although the kids did remember to feed the gerbils periodically throughout the project). One technoweenie got slightly miffed, but I'm sure he'll get over it.
ref: 2003, John Kaufeld, Access 2003 For Dummies:
glosses: An ineffectual or insignificant computer nerd.
technoweenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technoweenie
technojunkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technojunkies
Etymology: From techno- + junkie.
Senses: examples: text: You don't have to be a computer nerd or a technojunkie to take advantage of the power of today's communications technology.
ref: 1992, Don Rittner, EcoLinking: everyone's guide to online environmental information:
text: Then the vicious spiral of technolust occurred — true technojunkies had to buy their Pentium PCs in 1993 or early 1994 because after that, PowerPCs would be out and it would be too late. Only the newest will do.
ref: 1995, Walt Crawford, Michael Gorman, Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and Reality, page 38:
text: The project management team will help you understand the target audience (corporate users? children? senior citizens? technojunkies?) and how the product will be used.
ref: 2003, Lydia Ash, The Web testing companion, page 12:
glosses: One who has an addiction to computer technology.
technojunkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technojunkie
yod coalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yod-coalescence
form: Yod coalescence
form: Yod Coalescence
Senses: examples: text: Some English dialects with /dj/ and /tj/ within a morpheme have gradient amounts of affrication, from [dj] in careful speech to extreme “yod coalescence” approximating [dʒ][…].
ref: 1995, James M. Scobbie, “What Do We Do When Phonology is Powerful Enough to Imitate Phonetics? Comments on Zsiga”, in Bruce Connell, Amalia Arvaniti, editors, Phonology and Phonetic Evidence, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 306:
text: In words such as nature this process is long complete; but there are many other words where this ‘yod coalescence’ is still variable.
ref: 2006, J. C. Wells, “British English Pronunciation Preferences: A Changing Scene”, in Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru, editors, World Englishes, Routledge, →ISBN, page 236:
text: In the sequence would you, the female speaker uses yod coalescence: The alveolar plosive /d/ and the palatal approximant, /j/, merge to form the affricate [dʒ].
ref: 2011, Paul Skandera, Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, 2nd edition, Narr, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A process in English phonology whereby the clusters [dj], [tj], [sj], and [zj] become [dʒ], [tʃ], [ʃ], and [ʒ], respectively, through mutual assimilation.
Related terms: iotation
palatalization
yod dropping
technonerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technonerds
Etymology: From techno- + nerd.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a technonerd about all things that concern airplanes and sailboats.
ref: 1989 March, Flying Magazine, volume 116, number 3, page 104:
text: As the technonerd fearlessly raises his plastic card to the black slot, the bum says, in a slightly aggressive tone: "Spare change?"
ref: 2004, Philip Mirowski, The effortless economy of science?, page 379:
text: Best of all, you don't have to be a technonerd to use all that power!
ref: 2012, Mark L. Chambers, iMac For Dummies:
glosses: A nerd with an interest in technology; technogeek.
technonerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technonerd
technoindustrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technoindustrial
form: most technoindustrial
Etymology: From techno- + industrial.
Senses: examples: text: But at the same time there are growing numbers of people, especially young people, who are willing to face squarely the appalling character of what the technoindustrial system is doing to the world.
ref: 2008, Theodore Kaczynski, The Road to Revolution:
text: Caribbean countries do not have complex production infrastructures, because they have never had capital goods infrastructures, nor do they have capitalists with credible records in technoindustrial innovation.
ref: 2000, Ivelaw L. Griffith, The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean, page 47:
glosses: Of or relating to industry that makes use of high technology.
technofix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technofixes
form: techno-fix
Etymology: From techno- + fix, short for technological fix.
Senses: examples: text: The appeal of a techno-fix is simple: it promises to cure problems without requiring society to change the habits that caused them in the first place.
ref: 1991 May 20, Sharon Begley, “On the Wings of Icarus”, in Newsweek, page 42:
text: It would be unwise, however, to assume that such technofixes will always be available.
ref: 1996, Anthony M. H. Clayton, Nicholas J. Radcliffe, Sustainability: a systems approach, page 66:
text: Much of the effort reflected in the chapters in this book is concerned with going beyond the technofix of designing new, more environmentally friendly cars, to confront the more difficult challenges of institutional, cultural and social change[…]
ref: 2006, Paul Nieuwenhuis, Philip Vergragt, Peter E. Wells, The Business of Sustainable Mobility: From Vision to Reality, page 14:
text: Such huge behavioural change depends on knowledge sharing on a pan-species scale, rather than on fragmentary technofixes.
ref: 2010, Julian Cribb, Tjempaka Sari Hartomo, Open Science: Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century, page 9:
text: The research, published in Nature Climate Change today delivers yet another demonstration that there is so far no feasible “technofix” that would allow humans to go on mining and drilling for coal, oil and gas (known as the “business as usual” scenario), and then geoengineer a solution when climate change becomes calamitous.
ref: 2015 August 3, Tim Radford, “Stop burning fossil fuels now: there is no CO2 ‘technofix’, scientists warn”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A technological solution to a problem.
technofixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technofix
technowizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technowizards
Etymology: From techno- + wizard.
Senses: examples: text: For too many years programming has been the property of 'hackers' and other technowizards.
ref: 2001, Paul McFedries, Special Edition Using JavaScript, page 3:
text: With that said, if you have a close friend who's also a technowizard, you find the utility in Start → All Programs → Maintenance → Windows Remote Assistance.
ref: 2008, Mark L. Chambers, PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, page 194:
glosses: An expert computer user.
technowizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technowizard
Rheingoldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rheingoldian
form: most Rheingoldian
Etymology: From Rheingold + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Howard Rheingold (born 1947), critic, writer, and teacher specializing in the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet.
technosex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: The secondary social effects of technosex are potentially revolutionary. If technology enables you to experience erotic frissons or deep physical, social, emotional communion with another person with no possibility of pregnancy […]
ref: 1991, Howard Rheingold, Virtual reality:
text: Technosex can be divided into sexual conversations, usually accompanied by mutual masturbation, between people communicating via a chat facility, and sexual fantasies played out with a virtual partner, a construction of the computer.
ref: 1998, Rob Kitchin, Cyberspace: the world in the wires:
glosses: cybersex
gazal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ghazal.
gazals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazal
sling psychrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sling psychrometer
Yod Coalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Awareness of the fact that Yod Coalescence is somewhat stigmatized leads to hypercorrection in would-be elegant speech, with the use of [tj, dj] in place of [tʃ, dʒ] in words such as chew, June.
ref: 1982, J. C. Wells, Accents of English 2: The British Isles, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 331:
text: In this investigation, the linguistic context is restricted to /j/ after /t, d/ in stressed syllables within a word (e.g. tune, duke). This is the environment in which Yod Coalescence is not (yet) fully acceptable within RP.
ref: 2003, Ulrike Altendorf, Estuary English, Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 68:
text: EE speakers typically use Yod Coalescence in stressed syllables as in Tuesday [ˈtʃuːzdeɪ] or duke [ˈdʒuːk].
ref: 2011, Dania Jovanna Bonness, Estuary English in Norfampton?, master's thesis, University of Bergen, page 12
glosses: Alternative form of yod coalescence.
yod-coalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yod coalescence.
fish kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish kills
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: An underwater anoxic event, especially one that causes a crash in fish populations
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fish, kill.
vigorishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigorish
DON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: dissolved organic nitrogen
glosses: Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol, a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley.
Synonyms: vomitoxin
cardroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardrooms
Etymology: From card + room.
Senses: glosses: A gaming establishment where card games can be played.
cardrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardroom
hypsographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypsography + -ic.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Of or relating to hypsography (measuring altitude or depth versus area)
Synonyms: hypsometric
Related terms: hypsograph
hypsography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From hypso- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The data present in contour lines; measurement of altitude or depth versus area.
Synonyms: hypsometry
Derived terms: hypsographic
Yod coalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As for the native speakers of English, the only phonostylistic processes all three of them applied…were the following: nasal assimilation in triumph and palatalization (“Yod coalescence”) in Tell me what you want.
ref: 1990, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, “Phonostylistics and Second Language Acquisition”, in Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, volume 25, pages 76–77:
text: London and Southeastern English accents have variable Yod dropping and Yod coalescence.
ref: 2004, Ulrike Altendorf, Dominic Watt, “The Dialects in the South of England: Phonology”, in Edgar W. Schneider et al., editors, A Handbook of Varieties of English, volume 1, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 196:
text: However, what was somewhat surprising was the extended use of Yod coalescence in word-initial positions (e.g., ‘Tuesday’).
ref: 2008, David Levey, Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar, John Benjamins Publishing Company,, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Alternative form of yod coalescence.
semi-auto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Clipping of semi-automatic.
semi-auto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-autos
Senses: glosses: Clipping of semi-automatic.
teleputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleputers
Senses: examples: text: A woman at U. Cal–Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate about what was unentertaining in Himself's work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, most of which, in the teleputer age of home-only entertainment, […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 947:
text: The new system will be the telecomputer, or "teleputer," a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiber-optic threads to other teleputers all around the world.
ref: 1999, Christopher Harper, And That's the Way It Will Be, page 195:
text: Some of the children are painting a mural of undersea life, and others are working at their teleputers, researching and producing multimedia reports on various marine topics.
ref: 2000, Marianne Williamson, Imagine: What America Could be in the 21st Century, page 90:
glosses: Telecomputer.
teleputers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleputer
teledemocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teledemocracies
Etymology: From tele- + democracy.
Senses: glosses: e-democracy
teledemocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teledemocracy
metalimnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalimnions
form: metalimnia
Etymology: From meta- + -limnion.
Senses: glosses: A thermocline.
raw_tags: in lakes
Derived terms: metalimnetic
metalimnions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalimnion