cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Changlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin for 長樂／长乐 (Chánglè).
Senses: examples: text: Ch’en Wei, the notorious bandit leader, used to capture people for ransom and massacre them in the Foochow-Fuching-Changlo border, causing great disturbance to the local community.[...]During the peasants’ revolt at Changlo, he stealthily returned from Shanghai to take command of his old bands and indulge in plundering.[...]On May 27, 1932, a junk, No. 84, was commandeered by the Commander of Navy at Pagoda Anchorage and sailed to Changlo for the transportation of Ch’en Wei’s troops to Pagoda Anchorage on the declaration that he should go with his troops to Amoy, together with Lin Ching’s troops to suppress communists.
ref: 1932 June 3, acquaintance of Ralph Townsend, transl., Ways That Are Dark, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1933, →OCLC, pages 200–201:
text: MORE than forty years ago in the city of Changlo, Fukien Province, China, there lived a man and wife with a large family of children only one of whom was a son.
ref: 1938, A. Katherine Zierdt, “How God Answered the Prayer of a Pagan”, in The Outlook of Missions, volume XXX, number 7, →OCLC, page 207:
text: In my brief hours on Matsu I was asked about Dr. J. E. Skinner, for over fifty years active in a remarkable medical work; about the Congregational missionaries who had been stationed in Changlo, on the coast near Matsu.
ref: 1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:
text: The source said that a secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's branch office in a production unit in Changlo County, Fukien Province, recently convened a meeting with the participation of other party cadres to raise funds for a smuggling operation. The secretary proposed raising the money to purchase smuggled items from Shanghai and re-sell them for a profit.
ref: 1982 March 28, “Smuggling becomes serious”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Changle.
Peasmarsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8823).
glosses: A hamlet in Donyatt parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3312).
glosses: A village in Shalford parish, Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9946).
McBrides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McBride
Donyatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3313).
take someone's arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes someone's arm
form: taking someone's arm
form: took someone's arm
form: taken someone's arm
Senses: examples: text: “Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 269:
text: He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds.
ref: 1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:
glosses: To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
Related terms: arm in arm
ginmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginmills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gin mill.
cleaner-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleaner-uppers
Etymology: From clean up + -er. Compare Australian slang cleaner-upperer.
Senses: examples: text: I want to know how you became a cleaner-upper! A custodian of man's material junk!
ref: 1992, Studies in American Drama, 1945-present - Volumes 7-8, page 86:
text: If we were to consider the role of a parent who is totally responsible during the day for children of varying ages, with no assistance, the job description would read in part: Diaper changer, bottle feeder, bottle washer, rocker, laundress, clothes putter-upper, ironer, dishwasher, meal-planner and cook, grocery shopper, hugger, plaground mate, track star, safety oordinator, sympathizer, story reader, clown, nurse, checker player, artist, tutor, rule maker, disciplinarian, supporter and encourager, teacher, activities chairman, religious educator, car pooler, cheerleader at games, cookie maker, party planner, seamstress, clothes shopper, librarian, transportation director to the doctor, school, soccer, museum, or park, mess cleaner-upper, mediator, friend supervisor, bathroom supervisor, bath supervisor, toothbrush director, medicine giver, manners chairman and reminder, schedule maker, TV critic, pet feeder, taker of pets to vet, judge, arbitrator, role model, gardener, and toilet trainer.
ref: 1996, H. Olivia Kittrell, The Nanny World: Heaven Or H---? : a Nanny Agency's Perception, page 11:
text: This professionalization is a psychological defense of the housewife against being a general “cleaner-upper” and menial servant for her family in a day and age of general work emancipation.
ref: 2011, Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt, The Consumer Society Reader, page 32:
synonyms: cleaner-upperer
glosses: A person responsible for cleaning or tidying up.
Wellow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and two villages, East Wellow and West Wellow, in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England.
glosses: A village in Shalfleet parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ3888).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6766).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7358).
what's-its-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: what's-its-names
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatsitsname.
Three T's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tibet, the Tiananmen Incident, and Taiwan; three topics which are highly monitored by the Chinese government.
Related terms: censorship
one-arm bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-arm bandits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one-armed bandit.
suncolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sun + colored.
Senses: examples: text: When his head nodded, the fire blazed in the blackness of his dreams and sent suncolored streaks racing back and forth between his mind and soul.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 158:
glosses: Having a dazingly bright, yellow-orange color.
on the right foot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This season, the team needs to be on the right foot from the outset.
antonyms: on the wrong foot
glosses: In a strong or advantageous position, or following a successful course of action.
Derived terms: start off on the right foot
pokering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poker
pokered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poker
Shalfleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ4189).
grugru nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grugru nuts
Senses: glosses: The edible kernel from the fruit of the grugru palm, Acrocomia aculeata
grugru nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grugru nut
poker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pokers up
form: pokering up
form: pokered up
form: pokered up
Senses: examples: text: When his mama had ventured in the most amiable way to remark on her occasional free and easy ways, he had pokered up at once and declared that it was her very lack of pretension which he found most engaging.
ref: 1984, Sheila Walsh, The Diamond Waterfall, page 153:
text: Wicked as the devil one minute, and then pokering up like a Methodist minister the next.
ref: 1992, Joan Overfield, The Viscount's Vixen, page 10:
text: After nearly choking, Joe cocked a brow over the edge of his coffee cup. “Me?” He pokered up in affront. “I haven't done a damn thing.”
ref: 2004, Lori Foster, When Bruce Met Cyn:
text: He shut the door behind him and leaned back against it, his face pokering up in that relentlessly neutral expression she recognized as his personal take on stubborn .
ref: 2006, Terry McLaughlin, Make-believe Cowboy, page 164:
text: Oh, no, pokering up won't wash with me! Formality is simply another fence to cower behind.
ref: 2014, Colleen McCullough, Bittersweet, page 366:
text: She pokered up indignantly. He could almost feel the electricity as she searched for a response to his compliment which would put him in his place.
ref: 2014, Jeanne Allan, One Husband Needed:
glosses: To become expressionless; to put on a poker face.
pokers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poker up
pokering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poker up
pokered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poker up
falls apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall apart
falling apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall apart
fallen apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall apart
Chilcompton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6451).
Rudkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rudkins
Etymology: From the surname Rudd + -kin (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
masoncraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masoncrafts
Etymology: From mason + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: The decay of masoncraft in the country generally is one of the things the lover of architecture most mourns, and this decay makes the preservation of the older work a matter of real national concern.
ref: 1939, Oxoniensia - Volumes 4-7, page 88:
text: Thus the second category of practica, which included carpentry and masoncraft, mirrored the theoretical science of mathematics.
ref: 1979, Richard Morris, Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, page 105:
text: Monastic chronicles, building contracts and accounts and other contemporary documents have revealed a good deal of information about the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages.
ref: 2000, Malcolm Hislop, Medieval Masons:
glosses: The skills of a mason; expertise in building with stone, brick, etc.
examples: text: Masoncraft, Freeman well shows, may, combined with writings, be a powerful factor in historic evidence; for the mind of a nation, at successive eras of its existence, is inscribed in its architecture.
ref: 1896, Andrew Taylor, Ancient Towers and Doorways:
text: These two places of the same name are singular in possessing large churches of a masoncraft which seems peculiar to the Carpass, as far as Cyprus is concerned, a masoncraft evidently imitated from the buildings of the Latin Crusaders established in Syria during the XIIth century.
ref: 1918, George Jeffery, A description of the historic monuments of Cyprus:
text: For lightness and delicacy the masoncraft of Gloucester had no rivals at the time.
ref: 1926, Oxfordshire Record Series - Volumes 8-9, page 40:
text: These refined masoncrafts are decorated with motifs or patterns that match the surrounding architectural molding of terraces, the bases of buildings, or the stone railings.
ref: 1988, Frances Ya-sing Tsu, Landscape Design in Chinese Gardens, page 102:
text: The Silverman house was stoutly built, with snug masoncraft and tight joinery, but somehow the sudden storm pressed a vague draft through the dining room.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 191:
glosses: Masonry; the work or output of a mason.
masoncrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masoncraft
megabad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + bad.
Senses: examples: text: In a piece of megabad faith, the author responds that equating administering France at home and France overseas refuses to acknowledge the "interpsychological problems of colonialism."
ref: 2006, Herman Lebovics, Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies, page 20:
text: “Megabad, rilly,” delighted Isaiah crooned.
ref: 2012, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:
text: It's Cheggers Plays Pop and it's really good but she's got to be ready to put it off when she hears Mum's car because Mum doesn't like it and she's in a megabad mood and there's some problems and Drax has been yelling at her down the phone.
ref: 2013, Aline Templeton, Bad Blood:
glosses: Extremely bad.
small arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small arms
Senses: examples: text: […] about break of day, we heard from the Town a small Arm discharged, and after that a Drum beating a travailler.
ref: 1685, Basil Ringrose, Bucaniers of America, London: William Crooke, Volume 2, Part 4, Chapter 3, p. 10:
text: If any Man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be marroon’d, with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm, and Shot.
ref: 1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 17, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 398:
text: “Men are all well drilled, sir,” continued the captain, “and have regular small-arm practice […]”
ref: 1880, George Manville Fenn, chapter 6, in Jack at Sea, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 77:
text: 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 10, p. 541,
[…] the first of Barrios’s transports, one of our own ships at that, steamed right in, and, ranging close alongside, opened a small-arm fire without as much preliminaries as a hail.
glosses: A firearm designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
Related terms: side arm
white arm
fishtail palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishtail palms
Senses: glosses: Any palm in the genus Caryota; their leaflets are reminiscent of the tail-fins of a fish.
Marshfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7873).
glosses: A village and community in the City of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST2682).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Warren County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Scott County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Webster County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small hamlet in Erie County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The former name of Coos Bay, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and village in Washington County, Vermont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Wood County and Marathon County, Wisconsin.
fishtail palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishtail palm
interlibrary loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlibrary loans
Senses: examples: text: Only one university in the country had the book they needed but they were able to get it sent to their local library via interlibrary loan.
text: The Summon discovery service, as implemented at Penn State, prioritizes retrieval of online and locally owned material; therefore, it was not unexpected to observe a reduction in interlibrary loan borrowing requests by undergraduates.
ref: 2016, Linda R. Musser, Barbara M. Coopey, “Impact of a Discovery System on Interlibrary Loan”, in College & Research Libraries, volume 77, number 5, →DOI, page 651:
qualifier: library science
glosses: A loan of an item (such as a book, article, or sound recording) between two library systems or similar institutions.
Synonyms: word: interloan
word: ILL
interlibrary loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlibrary loan
Modis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Μόδης (Módis).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Modis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Pluralization
Senses: glosses: plural of Modi
parlor palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlor palms
form: parlour palm
Senses: synonyms: Neanthe bella palm
glosses: A small palm tree often grown indoors, Chamaedorea elegans
parlour palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlour palms
form: parlor palm
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of parlor palm.
parlour palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlour palm
parlor palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlor palm
unregulatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unregulatedly
form: most unregulatedly
Etymology: From unregulated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly one-fourth indicated, on the other hand, that it was no longer necessary to burn the woods periodically; certainly not unregulatedly.
ref: 1965, Louisiana Bulletin, numbers 588-606, page 27:
text: What one might call the hierarchy of the meal moves in the same direction , namely the fact that people no longer reach indiscriminately and unregulatedly into the dish but are instead constrained to follow a definite order in which each person serves themselves.
ref: 1997, Georg Simmel, David Frisby, Mike Featherstone, Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings, page 131:
text: Men are more likely to be placed in separated settings (from the unregulatedly convivial to the harsh boot camplike) with other men in late adolescence and early adulthood.
ref: 2002, Mary A. Carskadon, Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Biological, Social, and Psychological Influences, page 97:
glosses: In an unregulated manner; demonstrating a lack of regulation.
measures the drapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of measure the drapes
orohypopharynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orohypopharynx
orohypopharynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orohypopharynx
keishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keishi
Etymology: From Japanese 警視.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese police superintendent.
vaccine diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of COVID-19 vaccines to gain diplomatic advantage in international affairs.
touchfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: touch-free
Etymology: From touch + -free.
Senses: glosses: Free of touching.
goes ham
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go ham
went ham
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go ham
going ham
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go ham
gone ham
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go ham
oratoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oratorical.
Tongalese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tongalese
form: most Tongalese
Senses: glosses: Of Tonga; Tongan.
Hollebon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Hollobon
deroach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deroaches
form: deroaching
form: deroached
form: deroached
Etymology: From de- + roach (“noun”).
Senses: glosses: To rid of roaches.
deroached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deroach
deroaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deroach
deroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deroach
bozo filter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bozo filters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kill file.
synonyms: word: kill file
bozo filters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bozo filter
snipe fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snipe flies
Etymology: From the prominent proboscis, resembling the beak of a snipe.
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the family Rhagionidae.
snipe flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snipe fly
dadblame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dad-blamed.
if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
synonyms: word: if wishes were horses
word: beggars would ride
Dimetian Code
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dimetian Code
Senses: glosses: An old Welsh system of laws that defined various units of measure.
oopsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oopsy
oopsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oopsy
Koszul duality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koszul dualities
Etymology: Named after the French mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of various kinds of duality found in representation theory of Lie algebras, abstract algebras, and topology.
Koszul dualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koszul duality
plectrotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The disposition of spurs at the distal ends of leg segments.
Elohistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Elohistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an Elohistic manner.
Galentine's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of gal + Valentine's Day, originally the title and subject of the 16th episode of the second season of the American comedy television series Parks and Recreation, first broadcast in 2010.
Senses: glosses: A day on which women hold a party around the time of Saint Valentine's Day, typically on February 13.
wikipedia: Parks and Recreation
hyperautomation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + automation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Extreme automation; the automating of as many processes as possible.
sweetheart cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetheart cabbages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pointed cabbage.
synonyms: word: pointed cabbage
sweetheart cabbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetheart cabbage
bruh moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruh moment
jihadisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jihadispheres
Etymology: From jihadi + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of jihadists.
jihadispheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jihadisphere
π-system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: π-systems
form: pi-system
Senses: examples: text: To see this, first check that #92;sigma(X#95;0,X#95;1,#92;dots)#61;#92;sigma(#92;mathcalF#95;0), where #92;textstyle#92;mathcalF#95;0#58;#61;#92;bigcup#92;infty#95;#123;k#61;0#125;#92;sigma(X#95;0,#92;dots,X#95;k) is a field and, in particular, a #92;boldsymbol#92;pi-system.
ref: 2007, Rabi Bhattacharya, Edward C. Waymire, A Basic Course in Probability Theory, Springer, page 49:
text: We start with a basis of simple roots #92;Delta of #92;Phi. Then we apply all possible elementary transformations and add the resulting #92;boldsymbol#92;pi-systems to the list. Of course, if #92;Gamma is a #92;boldsymbol#92;pi-system, and #92;Gamma' is a #92;boldsymbol#92;pi-system obtained from it by an elementary transformation and the diagrams of #92;Gamma and #92;Gamma' are the same, the root subsystems they span are the same, and therefore we do not add #92;Gamma'.
ref: 2017, Willem Adriaan de Graaf, Computation with Linear Algebraic Groups, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 221:
text: Clearly the definitions for a #92;boldsymbol#92;pi-system and a #92;lambda-system are both satisfied by a #92;sigma-algebra.[…]
Proposition 4.1.8 Let #92;Omega be a set and B be a collection of subsets of #92;Omega. The collection B is a #92;sigma-algebra if and only if B is a #92;lambda-system and a #92;boldsymbol#92;pi-system.
ref: 2021, Jeremy J. Becnel, Tools for Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press):
topics: mathematics
measure-theory
probability-theory
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A non-empty collection of subsets of a given set Ώ that is closed under non-empty finite intersections.
Hyponyms: sense: collection of subsets
word: filter
sense: collection of subsets
word: topology
sense: collection of subsets
word: σ-algebra
Related terms: word: δ-ring
english: type of chemical bond
translation: type of chemical bond
word: π bond
roman: system involving π bonds
word: π system
word: π-calculus
π-systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of π-system
pin-setter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin-setters
Senses: examples: text: The Backus pin-setter is almost human in its operation.
ref: 1923, Henry Chase Hill, The Wonder Book of Knowledge, page 360:
text: Pins knocked down by a pin or pins coming in contact with the pin-setter ( pin-boy ) shall count as pins down, except should the pin-setter ( pin-boy ) deliberately throw a pin or pins on the alley, then the pins knocked down by such action shall be respotted.
ref: 1954, Jack Weinberg, Duck Pin Bowling, page 62:
text: And there is a bowling alley with an automatic pin-setter.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 242:
glosses: Alternative form of pinsetter.
pin-setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin-setter
pin setter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin setters
Senses: examples: text: The greatest advantage of automatic pin setters is that the individual pin setter frequently desires to cease work at midnight while the automatic pin setter can continue to all hours.
ref: 1958, American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, Real Estate Appraisal Practice: Silver Anniversary Papers, page 632:
text: The pin setter is activated as a result of the bowling ball contacting the cushion at the back of the pit.
ref: 1982, Roscoe Hastings, Let's Go Bowling, page 8:
text: Bowling set has two 5-inch plastic balls and time-saving automatic pin setter that anyone can operate with little effort.
ref: 1997, Thomas W. Holland, Girls' Toys of the Fifties and Sixties:
glosses: Alternative form of pinsetter.
pin setters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin setter
darkfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dark + fall, modelled after nightfall.
Senses: examples: text: They stopped long enough to put on warmer jackets and continued the arduous climb, hoping to find a sheltered spot for the darkfall.
ref: 2005, Kathy Williams, Of Wizards and Stones, page 54:
text: At darkfall I heard only one instrument like a glorified Jew's harp.
ref: 2011, Ella Young, John Matthews, Denise Sallee, At the Gates of Dawn: A Collection of Writings, page 199:
text: But we did catch Turosh skulking around the Shiso last darkfall.
ref: 2014, Margaret Taylor, To Free The Dragon's Soul:
text: Well after darkfall, Jane parked at the head of their long driveway, shielded from the sight of the house by the colonnades of California live oaks.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 433:
glosses: The time of day when it becomes dark.
devil in disguise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devils in disguise
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that appears to be good, honest, or upstanding, but is inherently nasty, evil, or damaging.
Related terms: wolf in sheep's clothing
smooth someone's feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smooths someone's feathers
form: smoothing someone's feathers
form: smoothed someone's feathers
form: smoothed someone's feathers
Etymology: From the expression ruffle someone's feathers.
Senses: examples: text: L'Estrange bowed and offered his arm, while Mr Millis smoothed his ruffled feathers, and went back to the other young men , — smoothed his feathers, because it would never have answered to let others see that Mr Millis had got the worst of an encounter of any kind.
ref: 1882, William George Hamley, Traseaden Hall: "when George the Third was King", page 127:
text: She's mad at me for letting you go; so you help me smooth her feathers tonight.
ref: 2007, Denise A. Bates, House of Bull, page 584:
text: Subsequently, Leslie's two wives smoothed his feathers, deferred to him, bolstered him, allowed him to “say exactly what he thought, however inconvenient, and do exactly what he liked” (page 110).
ref: 2019, Gillian Gill, Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World, page 192:
glosses: To soothe (someone) who has had their feathers ruffled; to pacify (someone) who is upset.
Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞oʹlo͞oʹmo͞oʹchēʹ
rhymes: -uːtʃi
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烏魯木齊 /乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-lu³-mu⁴-chʻi².
Senses: examples: text: It is officially known as the Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region and is also called Chinese Turkistan or Eastern Turkistan. The capital is Wu-lu-mu-ch'i.[...]Sinkiang is now linked to the Chinese rail network, but west and south of Wu-lu-mu-ch'i transportation is still concentrated along two ancient roads: the north road, which skirts the southern edge of the Dzungaria and connects Wu-lu-mu-ch'i with the Soviet Turkistan-Siberia RR, and the south road, which encircles the Tarim basin.
ref: 1979, “Sin·kiang”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 714:
text: Most remote from sea The large town most remote from the sea is Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (formerly Ürümqi) in Xinjiang, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, at a distance of about 1,500 miles from the nearest coastline. Its population was estimated to be 1,060,000 in late 1987.
ref: 1992, “Political and Social”, in Donald McFarlan, editor, The Guinness Book of Records 1992, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204:
text: At the signing of the Treaty of Tarbagatai, the Chinese told the Russians that Muslims had taken Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (Urumchi) and were preparing to move on Tarbagatai and Ili (Kuldja).
ref: 1996, S. C. M. Paine, “Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking”, in Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:
glosses: Alternative form of Wulumuqi (Ürümqi)
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
ashfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashfields
Etymology: From ash + field.
Senses: examples: text: The ashfield of ten square miles above Nicolosi, created by the eruption of 1669, which was entirely barren in 1835, is now planted with vines almost to the summits of Mone Rosso, at a height of three thousand feet.
ref: 1874, George Perkins Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action, page 150:
text: Components of oil-shale ash deposited on ashfields, consumed or ejected with exhaust gases.
ref: 2004, R. Gieré, Peter Stille, Energy, Waste and the Environment: A Geochemical Perspective, page 282:
text: His mind was a field of ashes, most of his hope gone. But there were hot coals of anger under the ashfield, and any indication that she still respected him as an adversary would feed his ego and fan flames from those coals.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 282:
glosses: A field that is covered in ash.
ashfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashfield
Auble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aubles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Auble.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Belches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Belch
Aubles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Auble
Benne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bennes
Etymology: Borrowed from North German Benne, a variant of the surname Benn. Borrowed also from French Benne, a metonymic occupational surname for the maker or driver of a cart.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schwiegers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwieger
Bennes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Benne
dinnerlady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinnerladies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dinner lady.
Shortell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shortells
Etymology: Re-Anglicized form of Irish Seartal, Soirtéil, which are from the English surname Shorthals.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
trans-mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of transmountain.
dinner man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner men
Etymology: Based on dinner lady. This was traditionally a female occupation.
Senses: glosses: A man employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.
Roggenbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roggenbucks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Roggenbuck.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Roggenbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roggenbuck
Shortells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shortell
dung fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dung forks
Senses: examples: text: The boy happened to be in the cow-house when this happened, and when he saw the Nis's leg hanging down, he took up a dung fork, and gave him with it a smart rap on the leg.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 146:
glosses: A manure fork.
manure fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manure forks
Senses: glosses: A pitchfork used or designed for moving manure.
Suas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sua
Ryczeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ryczek
wood chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wood choppers
Senses: glosses: A person who chops wood
glosses: Any tool used to chop wood
glosses: An exercise movement mimicking a swinging action used for cutting wood.
wishing cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wishing caps
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A hat or cap that magically lets the wearer's wishes come true
wind shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind shields
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windshield.
wind gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind gauges
Senses: examples: text: Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
glosses: An anemometer.
wind breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind breakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windbreaker.
whipping post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipping posts
Senses: examples: text: Opposite the almshouses is the bow-fronted post office and shop, while near by, beneath the trees on the green, is the old whipping post and stocks, the latter pierced by five holes.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 54:
text: “Well, I got some brochures here on some very impressive private schools in the area. Here you go.” “Hmm?” “I'm just gonna put it down here.” “Well, you can forget this one. Doesn't have a cricket field. Or even a whipping post.” “Good point.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (6:20 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: A post or pillory to which a criminal is tied, and flagellated.
weather cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather cocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weathercock.
Insell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The two Newport station boxes, East and West, were equipped with the earliest route-setting installations in the country, developed by a former G.W.R. Signal Engineer, R. J. Insell, and brought into service in 1927.
ref: 1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 129:
glosses: A surname.
water supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water supplies
Senses: glosses: The provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.
water thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water thrushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waterthrush.
wash stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash stands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of washstand.
warning sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warning signs
Senses: glosses: A sign that indicates a danger, for example to vehicles on a road or of hazardous chemicals.
examples: text: it is crucial to recognize warning signs of an impending stroke and to get to a hospital quickly for emergency medical intervention.
ref: 1994, Florence Weiner, Mathew H. M. Lee, Harriet Bell, Recovering at Home After a Stroke: A Practical Guide for You and Your Family:
text: If Musk’s tweet doesn’t raise bright red warning signs all over the world about his judgment and character, I don’t know what will[.]
ref: 2022 October 31, Robert Reich, “Elon Musk’s Paul Pelosi tweet proves he has no business running Twitter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An indication that someone or something is in danger or at risk.
Related terms: ⚠
Porzios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Porzio
unused to
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: not accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of; not used to.
Miloses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Milos
Pruner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pruners
Etymology: Possibly an altered spelling of German Prunner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Raible
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raibles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Raible.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Raibles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Raible
Pruners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pruner
McElrath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McElraths
form: McElreath
form: McIlrath
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Riabhaigh (“son of the brindled lad”), the same source of Gallery.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McElraths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McElrath
Joos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jooses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Joos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Joos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Joo
Hauers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hauer
Magor with Undy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Monmouthshire, Wales.
overcommittal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcommittals
form: overcommital
Senses: examples: text: As part of their normal financial operations, U.S. banks monitor their exposure to country risk from an overcommittal to loans or deposits for any one country.
ref: 1979, Changes Needed to Improve Government's Knowledge of OPEC Financial Influence in the United States: Report to the Congress:
glosses: overcommitment
overcommital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcommitals
Senses: examples: text: As skewness determines the position of the peak, and hence the length of the balancing tail, it will increase the overcommital of expensive baseload gas[…]
ref: 2012, “Title Impact of Wind Forecast Error Statistics Upon Unit Commitment”, in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, volume 3, number 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of overcommittal.
Eirish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Eire + -ish. See also the usage note below.
Senses: examples: text: Every Celt under seventy can acquire Eirish ... the supporters of Irish mean to press for the official recognition of Eirish in the schools of Northern and Southern Ireland
ref: 1936, Diarmuid O Murcu, Minstrel of Eirish: being some of the best known hymns and songs done into standard Irish with originals, Waterford:
text: c.1940 Diarmuid O Murcu, Irish made easy (Eirish); a self instructor for the adult
text: 1952 Standard Irish vocabulary: an English-Eirish vocabulary containing about 2,000 of the most useful Irish words, and including the basic English vocabulary (Eirish Society: Dublin)
glosses: A proposed simplified standardised dialect of Irish for use by English-speaking learners
Goulden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gouldens
Etymology: Variant of Golden.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bestwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bestwicks
Etymology: Variant of Beswick.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kingscott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in St Giles in the Wood parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5318).
McBains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McBain
juxtapositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + positive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to juxtaposition.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a grammatical case expressing position beside something.
Wheelans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wheelan
Whelans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Whelan
kabalassou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabalassous
Senses: glosses: The giant armadillo Priodontes gigas
kabalassous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabalassou
kabouri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabouris
Senses: glosses: A black fly of the genus Simulium
kabouris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabouri
Brownlees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brownlee
kahika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌhiːkə/
ipa: /ˈkʌhikə/
ipa: /ˈkɐhiːkɘ/
Forms: form: kahikas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kahika, from Proto-Polynesian *kafika (“Malay apple”), from Proto-Oceanic *kapika.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kahikatea.
synonyms: word: kahikatea
kahikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kahika
St Giles in the Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5319).
Bestwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bestwick
kaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kail + -y.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of kail
kainosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kainosites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cenosite.
synonyms: word: cenosite
cenosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cenosites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrated carbonate/silicate of rare earth elements and calcium present in Scandinavia.
kaitaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaitakas
Senses: glosses: A type of cloak (made from flax) worn by the Maoris of New Zealand
kaitakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaitaka
kalgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalgi
Senses: examples: text: Strong and brave warriors could have concubines from among their kalgi, that is, female war captives. Children, born of such captives were not accounted as kalgi.
ref: 1984, Richard Austin Pierce, Notes on the Islands of the Unalashka District, page 194:
text: When Shelikhov arrived on Kodiak many kalgi, in hope of a better fate, crossed over to the Russians.
ref: 2000, Alaska History: A Publication of the Alaska Historical Society, page 3:
text: When Shelikhov arrived at Kodiak, hoping to receive better treatment, many kalgi turned to the Russians.
ref: 2015, Gwenn A. Miller, Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America:
glosses: A prisoner of war taken by the native Alaskan Alutiiq people and kept as a slave.
examples: text: The kalgi had low roofs, just taller than a man, but they were very wide.
ref: 2008 Spring, Zoe Ho, “The Art of the Pihiq (song)”, in Tusaayaksat, page 15:
glosses: One of a set of conjoined igloos that form an apartment-like arrangement.
kaliborite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaliborites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrous borate of potassium and magnesium
McAuleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McAuley
kalidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλιά (kaliá, “hut”) + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of algal cystocarp
kaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the tumbleweed Kali.
kalimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalimeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of akalimeter.
Related terms: kalimetry
kalimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of akalimetry.
Related terms: kalimeter
akalimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The measurement of the strength of an alkali
Related terms: akalimeter
akalimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A volumetric device used in akalimetry
kalisaccharic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of glucic.
synonyms: word: glucic
kallilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed sulphide of nickel and bismuth.
Funnell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Funnells
Etymology: Variant of Fennell, found predominantly in East Sussex.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
kalloscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalloscopes
Senses: glosses: A form of stereoscope
kalloscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalloscope
kalotypography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kalo- + typography.
Senses: glosses: Typography or printing that is beautiful or visually appealing.
kaluszite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of syngenite.
synonyms: word: syngenite