cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Michelson interferometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Michelson interferometers
Etymology: Invented by Albert Abraham Michelson.
Senses: glosses: An optical interferometer that uses a beam splitter to split a light source into two arms, each of which is reflected back toward the beam splitter which then combines their amplitudes using the superposition principle. The resulting interference pattern is typically directed to a photoelectric detector or camera.
Michelson interferometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Michelson interferometer
Michelson-Morley experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Michelson-Morley experiment
Etymology: Named after American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley, who performed the experiment.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An attempt in 1887 to detect the existence of the luminiferous aether by comparing the speed of light in perpendicular directions.
what goes on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I pulled a flashlight out of my pocket and stooped to flash it under the front wheels. The owner of the lot rushed up. "Hey, what goes on?" he yelled. "I don't want any spies around here. Get going. […]
ref: 1941, The American Magazine, volume 131, page 43:
glosses: Dated form of what's going on (“expression of concern, asking for an explanation”).
Alamogordo glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trinitite.
synonyms: word: trinitite
Jamaicanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Jamaicanize
Jamaicanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Jamaicanize
Jamaicanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Jamaicanize
Bethe formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bethe formula
Etymology: Named after Hans Bethe, who found the non-relativistic version in 1930.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A formula describing the mean energy loss per distance travelled of swift charged particles traversing matter (or alternatively the stopping power of the material).
wikipedia: Hans Bethe
ansatze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ansatz
bald as a billiard ball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely bald; having no hair at all.
dudevorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudevorces
Etymology: Blend of dude + divorce
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes they even come right out and ask for a dudevorce by taking back the video game system they were keeping at your house.
ref: 2009, Daniel Maurer, Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk, page 17:
text: “I was about to file for a dudevorce if you didn't show, J.” He grins over at Jake wearing a similar knowing smile as Liv.
ref: 2020, E. S. Carter, Twenty One:
glosses: The breakup of a casual friendship between men.
dudevorces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudevorce
extinction level events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extinction level event
carbon detonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon detonations
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The explosive ignition of thermonuclear fusion within a carbon-oxygen white dwarf star that occurs when its mass exceeds approximately 1.4 times that of the Sun (due to accretion of material or merger with another star), producing a supernova which completely destroys the star.
Coordinate terms: helium flash
carbon detonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon detonation
sustaining program
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustaining programs
form: sustaining programme
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A radio or television program that airs on a commercial station but does not have commercial sponsorship or advertising.
sustaining programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustaining program
Biefeld-Brown effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown after himself and astronomy professor Paul Alfred Biefeld, his former teacher and possibly co-experimenter.
Senses: glosses: An electrical phenomenon that produces an ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, observed on an asymmetric capacitor when high voltage is applied to the electrodes.
ionic winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionic wind
ion winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion wind
lend-lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lend-Lease
Senses: glosses: A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
Sand Hutton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Claxton and Sand Hutton Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE6958).
herald patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herald patches
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A red scaly area of skin that indicates the onset of pityriasis rosea.
herald patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herald patch
pityriasis rosea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A skin rash consisting of round or oval lesions, mainly on the trunk and upper limbs, often preceded by a herald patch.
p'in-yin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 拼音 (pīnyīn) Wade–Giles romanization: pʻin¹-yin¹.
Senses: examples: text: There is no hurry about resolving the question of whether p'īn-yīn will in the future replace characters. This is absolutely the case.
ref: [1973, Language Planning in Mainland China, →OCLC, page 163:
text: Concrete evaluations of, for example, the p'in-yin movement in China and the expansion of the [redacted] were well covered.
ref: 1979 September, Annual Historical Review US Army Intelligence and Security Command Fiscal Year 1979, published 2018, page 142:
text: The more serious non-Sinological specialists, "intelligent readers", etc. will have on their bookshelves copies of Cheng Te-k'un's "Archaeology of China" series, Chang Kwang-chih's The Archaeology of China (1st - 3rd editions), Joseph Needham's multi-volume Science and Civilization in China, etc. Can one image the authors of these three valuable publications changing horses midstream, either in succeeding volume or in succeeding editions, and adopting p'in-yin?
ref: 1983, Reports on Visits to Mainland China, Taiwan, and the USA : Participation in Conferences in These Countries, and Some Notes and Impressions, →OCLC, page 121:
text: Despite increasing use, over the last decade, of the mainland Chinese p'in-yin system, the Wade-Giles system remains the standard by sheer weight of accumulated publication over the last century, and by virtue of its continuing use in current and forthcoming publications in English (including Chang Kwang-chi, 1986).
ref: 1999, “Preface and Acknowledgements”, in Ian Shaw, Robert Jameson, editors, A Dictionary of Archaeology, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xii:
text: A small minority who might well have disguised their origins by romanising their names in p'in-yin or Cantonese dialect have deliberately kept old Dutch-inspired spellings in the phone book and on business cards and signs .
ref: 2002, Charles A. Coppel, Studying Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 364:
text: This paper follows the Wade-Giles system of transliteration, not the p'in-yin method.
ref: 2004, Ultimate Reality and Meaning, volume 27, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:
text: Chinese titles are transcribed according to the Wade-Giles system, which is the "classical" way of cataloguing Chinese works especially in European libraries; titles in p'in-yin are automatically converted.
ref: 2005, Giovanni Stary, "What's Where" in Manchu Literature, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Pinyin
red flags to bulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red flag to a bull
atomsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atom + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trinitite.
synonyms: word: trinitite
Gowers norm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gowers norms
Etymology: Named after Timothy Gowers, who introduced the concept in his work on Szemerédi's theorem.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the field of additive combinatorics, a class of norms on functions on a finite group or group-like object which quantify the amount of structure or randomness present.
Gowers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Gowers norm
Gowers norms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gowers norm
who whom
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He noted various indications that a somewhat more moderate view had emerged of the basic "who-whom" problem that Lenin had so starkly formulated […]
ref: 1971, Erik P. Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron, The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy, page 186:
text: The Bolsheviks may have held the commanding political heights, but in social terms the daunting question of "who — whom?" — as Lenin had put it — was still conspicuously unresolved.
ref: 1984, Max Hayward, Patricia Blake, Writers in Russia, 1917-1978, page 58:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Who will defeat or dominate whom? A Bolshevist principle or slogan, urging action against the capitalists.
Szemerédi's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Endre Szemerédi proved the conjecture in 1975.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A result in combinatorics, stating that every set of integers with positive natural density contains a k-term arithmetic progression for every k.
JMI
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of junior mixed infant (“designating a school that teaches both infant and junior age ranges”).
Bowdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village near Altrincham, Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7586).
glosses: A city in Carroll County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Wells County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Bowden
Theban alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Theban alphabet
Etymology: It was first published in Johannes Trithemius's Polygraphia (1518), in which it was attributed to Honorius of Thebes.
Senses: glosses: A substitution cipher of the Latin alphabet, used by early modern occultists.
stick-slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The spontaneous jerking motion that can occur as two objects slide over each other.
policy keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policy keyboards
Etymology: Apparently by analogy with the playing of notes on a musical keyboard.
Senses: examples: text: They are, in effect, a policy keyboard in which each policy has a primary rationale different from that of fostering technological innovations. Taxation does not serve primarily to encourage invention, for example, but to generate revenue […]
ref: 1974, Australian Institute of Political Science, Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for Change, page 50:
text: These foreign policy goals are not seen as potential contradictions, but as different tunes that can be played on the foreign policy keyboard in any order.
ref: 2017, Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, Mélissa Levaillant, Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy, page 62:
glosses: A range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.
policy keyboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of policy keyboard
Honorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Honorius of Thebes or to the so-called Theban alphabet attributed to him.
infinity shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infinity shots
Senses: examples: text: […] opaque infra-red filters may be conveniently focused by pointing at a bright sun when using them for infinity shots.
ref: 1935, American Photography, page 173:
text: The lens was a macro, capable of everything from an “infinity shot” to a close-up in which a single fingerprint filled the entire frame.
ref: 2008, Richard Satterlie, Agnes Hahn:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photograph with the focus in the far distance.
infinity shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinity shot
vulcan palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcan palms
Senses: glosses: The Hawaiian lobelioid Brighamia insignis.
vulcan palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulcan palm
Thebanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Theban + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being Theban.
Sodens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soden
Bucksburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8909).
Shabbat mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sabbath mode.
Maddens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Madden
Shabbat lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shabbat lamps
form: sabbath lamp
form: Sabbath lamp
form: shabbat lamp
Senses: glosses: A lamp with movable parts to expose or block its light, so that it can be lit or dimmed without using electrical power and thus (by some interpretations) without violating Jewish prohibitions against work on the Sabbath.
Shabbat lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shabbat lamp
know A from B
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows A from B
form: knowing A from B
form: knew A from B
form: known A from B
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know B from a battledore (“to know anything at all; to have the most basic common sense or intelligence”).
synonyms: word: know B from a battledore
extra: to know anything at all; to have the most basic common sense or intelligence
backup beeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backup beepers
Senses: glosses: An alarm that sounds when a vehicle is moving in reverse, to warn pedestrians.
backup beepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backup beeper
pay someone's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: pays someone's way
form: paying someone's way
form: paid someone's way
form: paid someone's way
Senses: glosses: To cover someone's expenses; to pay for someone.
Related terms: pay one's way
no question
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Compare Middle English it is noo questyon (“there is no doubt”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, I'll be there, no question.
glosses: Without a doubt; certainly.
Related terms: no questions asked
piyutim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piyut
piyuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piyut
piyyut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piyyuts
form: piyyutim
form: piyut
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew פִּיּוּט (piyút). Doublet of poet.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish liturgical poem.
Related terms: paytan
piyyutim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piyyut
piyyuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piyyut
plant-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Popularized by American biochemist T. Colin Campbell as an alternative to ideologically connoted terms such as vegan.
Senses: examples: text: I only drink plant-based beers.
text: So, what is my prescription for good health? In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming whole, plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy, and eggs.
ref: 2016, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study, revised and expanded edition, BenBella Books, Inc.:
text: “We’re positive on the future for plant-based meat, but this is a 20- to 25-year story,” he said. “It’s not going to happen in three to five to 10 years.”
ref: 2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, quoting John Baumgartner, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Based on plants; especially, of a diet, consisting mostly or wholly of foods derived from plants; vegan.
examples: text: I found a great deal on plant-based rice.
glosses: Made from plants other than the traditional source.
Related terms: english: whole food, plant-based
translation: whole food, plant-based
word: WFPB
precivilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + civilized.
Senses: examples: a precivilized society
glosses: Before civilization.
rock wallabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock wallaby
octonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: octonary
octonarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.təˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɑk.təˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Composed of eight metrical feet
octoped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octopeds
form: octopede
Etymology: From octo- + -ped.
Senses: glosses: octopod
Derived terms: octopedal
octopodan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Octopoda + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cephalopod molluscs of the order Octopoda.
Related terms: octopodian
parciante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parciantes
Senses: glosses: An irrigator with the right to use an acequia.
parciantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parciante
ring the devil's doorbell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings the devil's doorbell
form: ringing the devil's doorbell
form: rang the devil's doorbell
form: rung the devil's doorbell
Senses: examples: text: “Because we talked about it on the playground,” Molly quipped, “right after we discussed what happens when you ring the devil's doorbell.”
ref: 2017, Robert J. Crane, Unearthed (Ostiagard Press)
text: Along similar, filthy lines, gratitude for Claire 'Hells Belles' who informed us she can't answer Instagram messages because she's too busy 'ringing the Devil's doorbell'.
ref: 2020, James Anderson, Paul Anderson, Twochubbycubs The Cookbook:
text: “The only thing worse than premarital relations is a woman ringing the devil's doorbell.”
ref: 2021, Carly Bloom, Must Love Cowboys:
glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's clitoris.
rant and rave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rants and raves
form: ranting and raving
form: ranted and raved
form: ranted and raved
Senses: glosses: To express furious anger.
sagala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagalas
Senses: glosses: A girl taking part in the Santacruzan pageant on the last day of the Flores de Mayo festival.
sagalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagala
spa cuisine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Meals served at health clubs, designed with input from nutritionists to promote dietary health.
self-controlling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-control
self-controls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-control
self-controls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-control
solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly solid, firm, or reliable.
self-attention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + attention.
Senses: antonyms: cross-attention
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A form of attention (machine learning method) where input sequence is compared with itself, i.e. the keys and queries are the same.
examples: text: According to self-attention theory in general, it can be predicted that heightened self-attention leads to a closer fit between observed behavior and some underlying salient standard.
ref: 1986, Ralf Schwarzer, editor, Self-related Cognitions in Anxiety and Motivation, Psychology Press, →ISBN:
text: Interest in the consequences of self-attention spread fairly quickly from social to personality psychologists.
ref: 2012, C. S. Carver, M. F. Scheier, Attention and Self-Regulation, page 45:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Conscious attention to one's own physiological and emotional state and behavior.
Related terms: transformer
Langmuir-Blodgett film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Langmuir-Blodgett films
Etymology: Named after Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett, who invented the technique at General Electric Co.
Senses: examples: text: The photoluminescence of the CdS nanoclusters formed in the matrix of a Langmuir-Blodgett film is studied in the temperature range 5–300 K.
ref: 2006, Semiconductors, volume 40, page 1188:
glosses: A nanostructured system formed when monolayers are transferred from a liquid-gas interface to solid supports during the vertical passage of the support through the monolayers.
Menkes kinky hair syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Menkes disease
copper transport disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Menkes disease
surf torture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A training exercise for Navy SEALs that involves exercising in cold seawater on the beach.
Barton-under-Needwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1818).
sociolx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sociolinguistics.
sociomedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sociomedical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In sociomedical terms.
hyperdiversities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperdiversity
superdiversities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdiversity
Miliband
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Milibands
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Milibandian
Milifandom
that'll be the frosty Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌðætl̩ biː‿ðə ˌfɹɒsti ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/
ipa: /-di/
ipa: /ˌðætl̩ bi‿ðə ˌfɹɔsti ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/
ipa: /-ˈfɹɑsti-/
ipa: /-ˌdi/
rhymes: -aɪdeɪ
rhymes: -aɪdi
Etymology: Probably a humorous elaboration of that’ll be the day, with frosty and Friday chosen for the alliteration; probably also implicitly evoking a cold day in Hell, referring to when Hell freezes over.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of that'll be the day (“said in reply to something that one believes will never happen”).
synonyms: word: that'll be the day
extra: said in reply to something that one believes will never happen
look at oneself in the mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks at oneself in the mirror
form: looking at oneself in the mirror
form: looked at oneself in the mirror
form: looked at oneself in the mirror
Senses: glosses: To reflect and think critically about oneself and one's actions, especially when considered negative or harmful.
Related terms: man in the mirror
soul-searching
guddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guddlers
Etymology: From guddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who guddles.
guddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guddler
cable radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Radio received through coaxial cables.
Related terms: cable television
scheduleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schedule + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a schedule.
Fire Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Perhaps from a misinterpretation of Dutch vijf (“five”) or vier (“four”), referring to the number of islands.
Senses: examples: text: He stole his first Fire Island commission from another architect by seducing the clients, with whom he briefly formed a throuple. […] As Fire Island’s reputation grew, so did the fame of its residents. In 1977, after divorcing his first wife, Calvin Klein bought one of Gifford’s beachfront homes.
ref: 2025 June 11, Oliver Wainwright, “‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the south shore of Long Island, New York, United States.
greasy kid's stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Try not to nick yourself or rub too much of that "greasy kid's stuff" in your hair as you comb through these hair teasers.
ref: 1978, Bruce M. Nash, Whatever happened to blue suede shoes?, page 64:
text: His scraggly hair was swathed in so much “greasy kid's stuff” it actually looked wet.
ref: 2015, Carol Duracka, Sam, the Hot Dog Man:
glosses: Greasy hair oil.
examples: text: Until recently, developers looked down on the games realm, viewing it as greasy kid's stuff — and most of it still is.
ref: 1994, Newmedia, volume 4, page 50:
text: If Ginna and Morgan were into anything, I was thinking, it would be designer drugs. Something like China White. Certainly not any greasy kid's stuff.
ref: 1997, Katherine E. Kreuter, The Cloud 9 Affair, page 25:
glosses: Something puerile or not worth bothering with.
higherness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From higher + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If this is sound, the pleasantness of pleasure can no longer be our guide; the higherness of the higher pleasure must have the decisive word — hedonism has committed suicide.
ref: 1929, Robert Mackintosh, Values, a Bird's Eye Survey, page 40:
text: And because in this article and others he didn't make his obeisances to the higherness of the traditional arts, he ran into the sort of disapproval that movies get.
ref: 1973, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker:
glosses: The state or quality of being higher.
kedoshim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qedoshim
Etymology: From Hebrew קדושים (“holy ones; saints and martyrs”).
Senses: glosses: The victims of the Holocaust.
qedoshim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kedoshim (“the victims of the Holocaust”).
vetocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vetocracies
Etymology: From veto + -cracy; coined by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama.
Senses: glosses: A dysfunctional system of governance whereby no single entity can acquire enough power to make decisions and take effective charge.
vetocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetocracy
LMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lack of moral fibre.
desert lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert lilies
Senses: qualifier: RAF
glosses: A urinal improvised from a tin can (metal container).
glosses: A plant found in the deserts of southwestern North America, Hesperocallis undulata
desert lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert lily
vowelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vowelists
Etymology: From vowel + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: One who maintains that the vowel points in Hebrew Scripture are part of the original text and thus of divine rather than human origin.
vowelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vowelist
mottoware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motto + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Pottery decorated with inspirational or humorous text.
taungya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taungyas
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A Burmese agricultural technique in which the spaces between small, widely-spaced trees are used to plant a seasonal crop.
taungyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taungya
tripundra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripundras
Etymology: From Sanskrit त्रिपुण्ड्र (tripuṇḍra, “three marks”).
Senses: glosses: A tilak consisting of three horizontal lines on the forehead, usually with a dot made from sacred ash.
tripundras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripundra
vagueblogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vagueblog
vagueblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vagueblog
vagueblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vagueblog
wonder of wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Tear it up, and put a fragment under the microscope, and, wonder of wonders! see the maze of geometric forms exhibited in the bones of the creature; for who can help regarding the spicules as bones, even though a sponge be invertebrate?
ref: 1860, Recreative Science, page 110:
glosses: Expressing astonished admiration.
mazdur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazdurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mazdoor (“a laborer”).
mazdurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazdur
hapticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hapticity (“property of being haptic; relation to sense of touch”).
synonyms: word: hapticity
extra: property of being haptic; relation to sense of touch
threadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thread + -ly, on the model of weekly, monthly, etc.
Senses: examples: a threadly reminder
glosses: Occurring on every thread of discussion.
threadlockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threadlocker
V-Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Victory Day.
examples: text: The truth is he knows he will have to spend time with his real woman on V-Day.
ref: 2012, Maxwell Billieon, Ray J, Death of the Cheating Man, page 207:
glosses: Abbreviation of Valentine's Day.
v-fibbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of v-fib
pimp stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimp sticks
Senses: examples: text: And I'mma get her pimpin', it's like throwin a 2 by 4 up in the air / And turn it into a pimp stick before it hits the ground and hit her with it
ref: 2013, “Me and You”, in Drugstore Cowboy, performed by Berner:
glosses: A cane or coat hanger etc. used by a pimp to beat a prostitute.
pimp sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimp stick
ritzy-glitzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ritzy-glitzy
form: most ritzy-glitzy
Senses: glosses: Showily elegant and luxurious.
Rydberg-Ritz combination principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rydberg-Ritz combination principle
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of Ritz's combination principle.
synonyms: word: Ritz's combination principle
Rydberg state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rydberg states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of those electronically excited states of an atom or molecule with energies that follow the Rydberg formula as they converge on an ionic state with an ionization energy.
Rydberg states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rydberg state
Pleiadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pleiadean.
Pleiadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pleiadians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pleiadean.
Pleiadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pleiadian
holophrasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being holophrastic.
in a bad way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We have seen that the Delhi empire was in a pretty bad way. Indeed, one could almost say that, as an empire, it was in no way at all.
ref: 1934-5, Jawaharlal Nehru, Glimpses of World History, Penguin (2004), p. 372
glosses: Doing badly; in a state of ill health or misfortune.
it's a jungle out there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The world, or some other specified environment, is a harsh and dangerous place.
inside story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside stories
Senses: glosses: The true state of affairs, known only to privileged insiders.
inside stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside story
light breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light bread
Hungry Thirties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hungry Thirties
Senses: glosses: The 1930s, regarded as a period of poverty in Britain.
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heavy-footed moas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy-footed moa
hem and hah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hems and hahs
form: hemming and hahing
form: hemmed and hahed
form: hemmed and hahed
Senses: glosses: Dated form of hem and haw.
hemming and hahing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hem and hah
Darbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːbiɪst/
Forms: form: Darbyists
Etymology: From Darby + -ist, after John Darby (evangelist) (1800-1882).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Darbyite.
synonyms: word: Darbyite
wikipedia: John Darby (evangelist)
Darbyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darbyist
Jerry Lynch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is now about the foulest specimen extant of that kind of backslum or alley where, a generation back, according to Hood, pigs and Irish were wont to rally. The pigs, except in the form of hocks, "Jerry Lynch" heads, and other portions of bacon, have been removed by Act of Parliament […]
ref: 1875, Henry Sampson, A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, page 392:
glosses: A pickled pig's head.
in a brace of shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in two shakes (“very quickly; without delay”).
synonyms: word: in two shakes
extra: very quickly; without delay
lump the lighter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lumps the lighter
form: lumping the lighter
form: lumped the lighter
form: lumped the lighter
Senses: glosses: To be transported as a felon.
fair shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair shake
pantile shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantile shops
Etymology: In reference to the steeple-crowned or "pantile" hats of the attendees.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of meetinghouse (“building where Quakers assemble for worship”).
synonyms: word: meetinghouse
extra: building where Quakers assemble for worship
pantile shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantile shop
mud student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud students
Senses: examples: text: This dog was bred by a “mud student” in the Coldstream or Cornhill district, and had for his sire a dog Dandie, bred by Mr. Frain of Trows.
ref: 1865, Henry Hall Dixon, Field and Fern: Or, Scottish Flocks & Herds (South), page 188:
text: “Is he a new mud student?”
“He is not the cut of a mud student.”
ref: 1894, Rhoda Broughton, A Beginner, page 20:
glosses: A student of agriculture.
mud students
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud student
lashins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] potatoes, bacon, cabbage, and lashins of whiskey, […]
ref: 1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, page 603:
text: […] and gave him a rousin' wake into the bargain, with lashins of whiskey, stout beer, and ale; […]
ref: 1868, William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, volume 1, page 10:
glosses: Archaic form of lashings (“lots; a great amount”).
wobble shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wobble shops
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells beer without a licence.
wobble shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wobble shop
letting in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let in
lets in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let in
liquoring up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liquor up
liquors up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liquor up
blue Billy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The refuse ammoniacal lime from gas factories.
Essex stile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Essex stiles
Senses: glosses: A ditch.
Essex stiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Essex stile
dead wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead wagons
Senses: glosses: A hearse.
dead wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead wagon
Queen's tobacco-pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Queen's tobacco-pipe
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Queen's pipe (“furnace in which contraband tobacco is burned”).
synonyms: word: Queen's pipe
extra: furnace in which contraband tobacco is burned
a quid for a quod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A good turn to repay another.
charity boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charity boys
Senses: glosses: A boy who attended school supported by a grant or scholarship.
charity boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charity boy
deaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaners
Etymology: From French denier (“old French coin”).
Senses: glosses: A shilling.
deaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deaner
psalm-smiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psalm-smiters
Senses: glosses: A Ranter; one who sings at a conventicle.
psalm-smiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalm-smiter
red lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red lanes
Senses: examples: text: Now this Malvoisie has a body, and slips down the red lane with an unctuous savour; but the very sweetness which would recommend it to the fancy of a raw drinker, does it damage […]
ref: 1852, The Royalist and the Republican, volume 1, page 108:
text: When you mean to save, begin with your mouth; many thieves pass down the red lane. The ale jug is a great waste.
ref: 1884, The Universal Household Assistant, page 128:
glosses: The throat.
meliorbiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meliorbioses
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A positive deviation from eubiosis
Related terms: meliorbiotic
meliorbiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to meliorbiosis
multirank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + rank.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Relating to multiple ranks
myeloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myeloid
streptactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic oligopeptide that has properties similar to streptavidin
trypacidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxin, methyl 4,5'-dimethoxy-6-methyl-3,3'-dioxospiro[1-benzofuran-2,6'-cyclohexa-1,4-diene]-1'-carboxylate, produced by Aspergillus fumigatus.
ultramer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of synthetic DNA sequences
ultramers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramer
oculism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ophthalmology; optometry
Related terms: oculist
ocydrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocydromes
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the genus Ocydromus.
ocydromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocydrome
ocypodan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocypodans
Senses: glosses: Any crab of the family Ocypodidae
ocypodans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocypodan
malefactee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malefactees
Etymology: From malefact(or) + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.
ref: 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
glosses: Synonym of maleficiary.
synonyms: word: maleficiary
benefactee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefactees
Etymology: From benefact + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.
ref: 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
glosses: Synonym of beneficiary.
synonyms: word: beneficiary
malefactees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malefactee
benefactees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefactee
Jacob's Ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacob's Ladders
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jacob's ladder.
Grendalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grendall
Haldanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haldane
Howsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Howson
haptophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haptophyte + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to haptophytes
megaphage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaphages
Etymology: From mega- + phage.
Senses: glosses: A large form of bacteriophage
megaphages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaphage
reexcitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːɛksaɪˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: reexcitations
form: re-excitation
Etymology: From re- + excitation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent excitation
reexcitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reexcitation
Ghaffari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ghaffaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian غفاری.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Persian.
Flath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flaths
Etymology: Borrowed from German Flath.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Flaths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flath
Ghaffaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ghaffari
Garthwaites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garthwaite
Filla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Filla.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Cheon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cheons
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 천 (Cheon).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Cheons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheon
Fillas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Filla
Carrig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carrigs
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Carraig, a topographic surname from carraig (“rock”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Dioguardi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dioguardis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Dioguardi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dioguardis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dioguardi
Carrigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carrig
Doughman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doughmans
Etymology: Possibly an altered spelling of Dowman or an occupational surname for a baker, from dough + -man.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Doughmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doughman
Dubases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dubas
Dadamo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dadamos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian D'Adamo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dadamos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dadamo
Darner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Darners
Etymology: Respelling of German Dörner or Derner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Delorbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delorbes
form: DelOrbe
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Del Orbe. This surname is mostly found in the Dominican Republic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Delorbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Delorbe
Darners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Darner
McGann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGanns
Etymology: Variant of McCann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Eders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eder
McGanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGann
Manriques
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manrique
McGradys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGrady