cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
liparocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liparoceles
Senses: examples: text: The liparocele, which Morgagni calls steatocele, a fatty swelling of the cellular membrane which surrounds the scrotum and testes; and the lipomphalus, a fatty hernia of the umbilicus, are of this kind.
ref: 1809, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary:
text: On the exterior of the serous membranes their figure is generally ovoid, one of their extremities being attached to the membrane, the other to the skin; outside the peritoneum this tumour constitutes the fatty hernia or liparocele.
ref: 1830, Pierre Auguste Béclard, Elements of General Anatomy:
text: For example, on the neck and face of anencephalous monsters, from great flow of blood into the carotis facialis, with diminution or closure of the carotis cerebralis—in the belly—in the spermatic cord (the so called liparocele,)—in the cellular tissue under the skin, (compare below lipomata,)—-near cancerous tumours, &c.
ref: 1831, Adolph Wilhelm Otto, A Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fatty tumor or cyst.
liparoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liparocele
PPIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PPI
cousiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousinesses
Etymology: From Middle English cosynes, cosyness; equivalent to cousin + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female cousin.
glosses: A kinswoman.
lipoidemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmiə
Etymology: From lipoid + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: It is undoubtedly of greater significance than is the lipoidemia of diabetes.
ref: 1922 February 24, Albert A. Epstein, “Further observations on the nature and treatment of chronic nephrosis”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, volume 163, page 175:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of lipoids in the blood.
cousinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cousiness
loimology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: M. Vien, secretary of the college of medicine, published a very complete Loimology.
ref: 1802, W. Tooke, The Life of Catharine II, Empress of All the Russias, volume 2:
text: The loimology of the future had for its object to discover what places and what times were favorable to each epidemic disease and what unfavorable, either continuously or for a time […]
ref: 1914, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, volume 8:
text: Zeiss also elaborated on the connections between the collection of live cultures and his own epidemiological theories, especially his notions of geomedicine and loimology.
ref: 2006, Susan Gross Solomon, Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia Between the Wars:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).
synonyms: word: epidemiology
extra: the study of infectious diseases
loasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loiasis.
nettle-rashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His hands were red-raw, his body nettle-rashed, and his leg throbbed.
ref: 1952, Frank Clune, Somewhere in New Guinea, Philosophical Library, page 39:
text: Therefore Gilbert felt no particular qualm when he received the note summoning him to the meeting in camera. Rather he poured a little ointment on his prickly, nettle-rashed vanity, and concluded they were going to consult him, privately, upon some matter connected with the school […]
ref: 1985, D. H. Lawrence, edited by Lindeth Vasey, Mr Noon, New York: Viking, page 67:
glosses: Affected by or covered with nettle-rash.
nitromannite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + mannite.
Senses: glosses: The explosive mannitol hexanitrate.
hexanitromannitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + nitro- + mannitol.
Senses: glosses: The explosive mannitol hexanitrate.
mannitol hexanitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A powerful explosive formed by the nitration of mannitol, also used in medicine as a vasodilator.
Synonyms: hexanitromannitol
nitromannite
nitromannitol
hexanitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexanitrate
trinitroglycerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trinitroglycerin.
hexanitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexanitrates
Etymology: From hexa- + nitrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing six nitrate groups.
Derived terms: mannitol hexanitrate
pixel peepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pixel peeper
New Zealand sassafras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pukatea.
synonyms: word: pukatea
bihemispherically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bihemispheric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In or by both hemispheres of the brain
glosses: In a bihemispherical manner
event-related potential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: event-related potentials
Senses: glosses: The measurable brain response to a specific sensory, cognitive, or motor event.
Synonyms: ERP
gunny-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunny-bags
form: gunnybag
Senses: examples: text: They lie—some face downwards, arms folded, in the dust; some with clasped hands flung up above their heads; some curled up dog-wise; some thrown like limp gunny-bags over the side of grain carts; and some bowed with their brows on their knees in the full glare of the Moon.
ref: 1885, Rudyard Kipling, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The Works of Rudyard Kipling, Delphi Classics, published 2013:
text: 1920, F. B. Bradley-Birt, Bengal Fairy Tales, London: John Lane, Part I, Chapter IV, p. 19, https://archive.org/details/bengalfairytale00bradgoog
Returning home, he collected the charcoal, and, putting it into two large gunny-bags, which he placed on the back of one of his cows, one bag on each side, he started for the market for the ostensible purpose of selling their contents.
text: Some years ago, when I set out from Calcutta on my voyage to Japan, the first thing that shocked me, with a sense of personal injury, was the ruthless intrusion of the factories for making gunny-bags on both banks of the Ganges.
ref: 1922, Rabindranath Tagore, Creative Unity, London: Macmillan & Co., page 115:
text: […] when Peter had reasoned out the fact that it was better to live in a native camp where there was little food than on one's own plantation where there was none, that careless fellow and his lubra and his wife filled a gunny-bag with their possessions and followed in the track of their relatives.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 188:
text: There was one article of Galilean homespun, at the bottom of his gunny-bag, that Justus must not see!
ref: 1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 12, in The Robe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin:
glosses: Gunny sack.
snowdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snowdrop
snowdropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snowdrop
snowdropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowdroppers
Etymology: From snowdrop + -er.
According to Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the term was originally used in 19th-century Britain to refer to people stealing clothes from poverty, rather than for fetishistic purposes.
Senses: glosses: One who snowdrops (one who steals clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
Synonyms: underwear thief
Hypernyms: fetishist
dog rough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dog rough
form: most dog rough
Senses: examples: text: Back in the days when Cork City was dog rough, where to take a night-time stroll was an act of madness comparable to forcing long deadly skewers into your eyeballs, Cork was a jungle back then.
ref: 2007, Enda Walsh, The Walworth Farce, page 48:
text: But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough...
ref: 2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, →ISBN, page 59:
text: These pubs: dog rough, if you ask me, but there you go.
ref: 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Very rowdy, disorderly, and dangerous.
examples: text: “Ach, life was dog rough back there, Tom, that it was.
ref: 2007, John Malone, Heading Home, →ISBN, page 46:
text: The prison breakfast was dog rough.
ref: 2010, John Lonergan, The Governor, →ISBN:
text: “It was dog rough,” admits one Ahern supporter. A constituency delegate remembers: “The old traditional Fianna Fáil people were getting on. They were outflanked and there was often little or no resistance.”
ref: 2012, Shane Coleman, Michael Clifford, Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia, →ISBN:
glosses: Very difficult and unpleasant.
examples: text: “I felt dog rough on Thursday evening,” I say.
ref: 2011, Dan Tunstall, Big and Clever, →ISBN:
text: Cath Staincliffe sat down to plan an interview strategy for Sean Broughton the next morning she felt dog rough. Damned if she'd let it show though.
ref: 2012, Cath Staincliffe, Dead to Me, →ISBN, page 137:
text: I shake my head, rendered mute by paralysing fear and the unwillingness to admit that I feel dog rough, and would most likely toss my cookies over her nice clean floors if I open my mouth now.
ref: 2013, Corri Lee, All My Demons, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Suffering the effects of stress or excess.
snowdroppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowdropper
principle of charity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the principle of charity
Etymology: Named by Neil L. Wilson in the late 1950s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The principle according to which an argument should be evaluated in light of its best, strongest possible interpretation.
Related terms: word: charitable
word: overcharitable
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: cooperative principle
word: sanewashing
word: steelman
staplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stapling
unparkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kəbəl
Forms: form: more unparkable
form: most unparkable
Etymology: From un- + parkable.
Senses: glosses: Of a vehicle: difficult or impossible to park.
glosses: Of a street or other physical location: difficult or impossible to park a vehicle in.
savagess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savagesses
Etymology: From savage + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female savage; a woman from an uncivilized society.
sparkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kəbəl
Forms: form: more sparkable
form: most sparkable
Etymology: From spark + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sparked.
savagesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savagess
misappreciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misappreciates
form: misappreciating
form: misappreciated
form: misappreciated
Etymology: From mis- + appreciate.
Senses: glosses: To appreciate improperly; to fail to understand in the right way.
misappreciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misappreciate
misappreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misappreciate
misappreciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misappreciate
ballaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballache
Argavand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Արգավանդ (Argavand).
Senses: glosses: A village in Ararat, Armenia.
glosses: A village in Armavir, Armenia.
Stockman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stockwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stockwells
Etymology: From Old English stocc (“tree trunk, stump”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A suburb in the borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3076).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Bradninch parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9702).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Birdlip parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9414).
glosses: A placename:
A town in Barossa council area and Light Regional Council area, South Australia, named after Samuel Stockwell.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
nonsomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + somatic.
Senses: glosses: Not somatic.
Heiderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heiderian
form: most Heiderian
Etymology: From Heider + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Fritz Heider (1896–1988), Austrian psychologist.
preattachment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + attachment.
Senses: glosses: Prior to an attachment, especially (psychology) before an infant has formed a particular bond with its caregiver.
antipluralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + pluralism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Opposition to sociological pluralism.
pluralistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluralistical
form: most pluralistical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pluralistic.
synonyms: word: pluralistic
ringer T-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringer T-shirts
Senses: glosses: A T-shirt with thin bands of contrasting color around the collar and the lower edges of the sleeves.
SFM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: According to Valve’s SFM website, users “can think of the SFM as a virtual movie set with lights, actors, props and cameras.”
ref: 2012 June 27, Carol Pinchefsky, “Valve's New Animation Tool Gives Filmmakers Their Own (Free) Studio”, in Forbes:
text: Easily one of the best directed SFM movies out there, mixing Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and a fine sense of timing.
ref: 2012 October 13, Richard Cobbett, “Top 10 Source Filmmaker Movies”, in PC Gamer Magazine:
text: The barrier to entry in game development and design is now lower than ever before, and with Fuse having Garry's Mod and SFM compatibility, it now means that gamers can mess around and create their own characters for their favorite Valve properties easier than ever before.
ref: 2014 November 7, William Usher, “Garry's Mod, SFM Get Mod Support For Mixamo's Fuse”, in Cinema Blend:
glosses: Abbreviation of Source Filmmaker, a software tool for video capture and editing, often used to create animations.
glosses: Abbreviation of Scarboro Foreign Missions, a Catholic order.
glosses: Abbreviation of Structure from motion, a photogrammetric range imaging technique for estimating three-dimensional structures from two-dimensional image sequences.
SFM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFM
Senses: glosses: Synonym of SFPM (“surface feet per minute”).
synonyms: word: SFPM
extra: surface feet per minute
SFM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of simple face mask.
MMD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of molar mass distribution.
glosses: Initialism of mass median diameter.
glosses: Initialism of murder mystery dinner.
MMD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Movement for Multi-Party Democracy: a Zambian political party.
examples: text: Using MMD, PC users can easily program how a 3-D model moves its hands, arms, legs, lips, and so on. To make a music video, users simply add a song and sync the model’s movements to the beat and lyrics. Although MMD lacks versatility compared to expensive commercial tools, it has the essential advantage that the 3-D model immediately moves according to whatever movements you specify, making it very easy to use.
ref: 2013 February 19, Akky Akimoto, “Freeware has animators dancing to the Hatsune Miku beat”, in The Japan Times:
text: When the creator came across the characters, created by an animator who specializes in MMD styling, MMDSatoshi, they decided to make the video.
ref: 2016 August 24, Julia Alexander, “Dancing Pokémon are all over Twitter — here's who to thank”, in Polygon:
text: The video was created using the freeware program MikuMikuDance, or MMD, which was originally created for the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku.
ref: 2016 August 25, Amanda Whalen, “Psyduck Shows Off Dance Moves in Fan-Created Animated Video”, in Anime News Network:
glosses: Initialism of MikuMikuDance, a freeware animation tool for creating dancing cartoons.
Your Highnessness
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From Your Highness + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Your Highness.
synonyms: word: Your Highness
laserbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laserbrains
Etymology: From laser + brain.
Senses: glosses: idiot, stupid person
nerfherder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜːfˌhɜːdə/
ipa: /ˈnɝfˌhɝːdɚ/
Forms: form: nerfherders
Etymology: Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back.
Senses: examples: text: How can you think that loser has anything od^([sic]) value to say? He's a misinformed, slimey looking nerfherder, which doesn't belong anywhere on that side of a camera.
ref: 2000 March 9, Dion Turner, “Re: the panel”, in aus.tv (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2017, message-ID <38C7686B.8B5B3177@uq.net.au>:
text: First of all, Ducttape^([sic]) is not an acceptable substitute for electrical tape you DB! I'd rather you didn't use electrical tape either. QUIT CUTTING WIRES!! And seriously, is this a LAMP CORD running the length of my pretty black and blue nighthawk??? Wtf man? You couldn't do any better than a frapping lamp cord? What a real nerfherder! And if you're going to splice into a wire, why do it after the connector? You just disabled the purpose of the quick disconnect you inbred monkey hugger! Now I gotta unducttape^([sic]) and unwrap the mess you made to get the blinker off!
ref: 2010 August 18, Kyle Munz, “[Nighthawk Lovers] Group rules regarding profanity.”, in nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2017, message-ID <AANLkTinf9kz8X299POXzbKkXTB5jJfVwZ623zCXF2zPX@mail.gmail.com>:
text: Like when Aragorn starts on the paths of the dead bookwise he and his Dunedain are regarded, despite their small size, among the most powerful companies in the area. And then with the dead, he defeats armies in southern Gondor _and_ rallies those people to fight at his command, showing his ability as a king. When he gets to Minas Tirith he is leading an army as great as Rohan instead of a handful and a ship of vapours that would have been laughed at by orcs and ringwraiths. Moviewise he's never more than a nerfherder with ideas above his station stealing Arwen and betraying Elrond.
ref: 2016 October 30, Siri Cruise, “Re: Ye olde burbs & rural mythology”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2017, message-ID <chine.bleu-371DA6.12162630102016@news.eternal-september.org>:
text: Hey nerfherder, yeah you! I'm gonna need those for the B-wings!
ref: 2017, Rowan's sis, “Trouble on Tibalt”, in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, season 2, episode 2:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A term of abuse.
wikipedia: 20th Century Fox
Carrie Fisher
Lawrence Kasdan
Leigh Brackett
Lucasfilm
Princess Leia
The Empire Strikes Back
chronoamperogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronoamperograms
Senses: glosses: The graphical output of chronoamperometry.
chronoamperograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Figs 6(b) and 7(b) show the best theoretical fit (O) to the experimental double potential step chronoamperograms (-) for the Fc/Fc + and Cc + /Cc redox couples at 293, 298, 303, 308, 313, and 318 K in DES1.
ref: 2015 December 8, “The Effect of Temperature on Kinetics and Diffusion Coefficients of Metallocene Derivatives in Polyol-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of chronoamperogram
circumlinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + linear.
Senses: examples: text: The shunt endplate was identified as a low-intensity circumlinear structure in scanning images located adjacent to the sclera in the inferotemporal, superotemporal, or inferonasal quadrant of the eyeball.
ref: 2015 December 8, “Assessment of Filtration Bleb and Endplate Positioning Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Eyes Implanted with Long-Tube Glaucoma Drainage Devices”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Composed of encircling lines (such as contours)
clavicipitaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Clavicipitaceae + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Fungal endophytes may be mycorrhizal or non-mycorrhizal, the latter are primarily formed up by Ascomycota and include the clavicipitaceous endophytes of grasses and the more heterogeneous group of the nonclavicipitaceous (NC) endophytes [2 ].
ref: 2015 December 8, “In Vitro Morphogenesis of Arabidopsis to Search for Novel Endophytic Fungi Modulating Plant Growth”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to fungi of the family Clavicipitaceae
Derived terms: nonclavicipitaceous
corticotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticotherapies
Etymology: From cortico- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: We systematically reviewed the risks and benefits of adjunctive corticotherapy in the management of patients with CAP. / Methods / We systematically searched Pubmed,^([sic]) Embase and the Cochrane Library for randomized controlled trials comparing adjunctive corticotherapy and antimicrobial therapy with antimicrobial therapy alone in patients with CAP. The primary outcome was 30-day mortality.
ref: 2015 December 8, “Adjunctive Corticotherapy for Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of corticoids (especially glucocorticoids)
glazing bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glazing bars
Senses: glosses: A muntin.
cuminoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuminosides
Senses: examples: text: Major secondary metabolites isolated from cumin seed are 1-O-β-D-glucopyranoside [77 ], β-D-glucopyranoside [78 ] and cuminoside A and B [77 ] etc.
ref: 2015 December 8, “Physio-Biochemical Composition and Untargeted Metabolomics of Cumin ( Cuminum cyminum L.) Make It Promising Functional Food and Help in Mitigating Salinity Stress”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of secondary metabolites found in cumin (Cuminum cyminum)
cuminosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuminoside
galinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galanin + -ergic.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, we found that brain galr1b mRNA levels showed signs of suppression by LL. These results together with this receptor’s androgen sensitivity in the testes of pre-pubertal fish [30 ] suggests a role in reproduction for the galinergic system acting in the brain and in peripheral tissues (i.e. testes).
ref: 2015 December 8, “Photoperiodic Modulation of Circadian Clock and Reproductive Axis Gene Expression in the Pre-Pubertal European Sea Bass Brain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Activated by galanin
gamogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gamo- + -gony.
Senses: examples: text: The life cycle of Eimeria consists of three stages sporogony (exogenous stage), gamogony, and merogony (endogenous stages).
ref: 2015 December 8, “From the Macro to the Micro: Gel Mapping to Differentiate between Sporozoites of Two Immunologically Distinct Strains of Eimeria maxima (Strains M6 and Guelph)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of gametogony.
synonyms: word: gametogony
gametogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gametogonies
Etymology: From gamete + -gony.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stage in the life cycle of sporozoans in which gametes are formed
ringer T-shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringer T-shirt
dorkazoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorkazoid
smart meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart meters
Senses: glosses: An electronic meter, usually for measuring electricity or gas consumption, which is able to send readings back to the supply company at predetermined intervals.
Related terms: electricity meter
gas meter
make free of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes free of
form: making free of
form: made free of
form: made free of
Senses: examples: text: The chickens and dogs were making free of the galleries, and the hogs wallowed in peaceful immunity underneath.
ref: 1892, Grace E. King, “Bayou L'Ombre”, in S. T. Joshi, editor, Civil War Memories: Lost Tales of the Civil War, Thomas Nelson, published 2000:
text: 1967, Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Fables of a Jewish Aesop, translated by Moses Hadas, Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2001, p. 110 https://books.google.ca/books?id=s6EjsopJmp4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
There she saw many mice making free of wheat and barley; six measures of barley they meted out to themselves to bring to their holes, until they had enough and to spare.
text: […] a young woman curtsied to him. "Please make free of my home," said she.
ref: 1979, Tanith Lee, Death's Master, New York: Daw Books, p. 23, Book 1, Part 1:
text: He did not know everyone knew he had a gun; that the children who made free of every hut as the cockroaches knew everything and chattered all.
ref: 1981, Nadine Gordimer, July's People, Penguin:
glosses: To use something that belongs to another person (often with permission)
Related terms: make free with
fauxgressives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxgressive
gas meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas meters
Senses: glosses: A meter which measures the amount of gas supplied to a property via a gas main. In rented properties, it may be coin-operated.
Derived terms: gas meter bandit
Related terms: gasometer
LN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: LN2
glosses: Initialism of liquid nitrogen.
LN
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Hailey Bieber stepped out for the launch of her skincare brand, Rhode, in Canada last night, wearing a powder blue bandeau top, mini skirt, and matching oversized jacket from LaQuan Smith FW23 RTW […] [see title]
ref: 2023 March 31, Mehera Bonner, “Hailey Bieber Wore a Bandeau Top and Micromini Skirt to a Milestone Event LN”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Initialism of last night.
LN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LNs
Etymology: From Japanese LN (エルエヌ, eruenu), from ライトノベル (raito noberu), from English light+novel.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of light novel.
hydrolox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + lox.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of binary rocket fuel composed of liquid oxygen (lox) oxidizer and liquid hydrogen combustible.
Related terms: kerolox
methalox
Wernicke's command
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wernicke's commands
Senses: qualifier: Synergistic Kinesiology
glosses: A negative, suppressive command knowingly or unknowingly installed by a second person in the right Wernicke's area of a person's brain. It is worded from the point of view of the second person, who originally said it.
Vorotan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Որոտան (Orotan).
Senses: glosses: A river in Armenia, the left tributary of the Araks.
pump car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump cars
form: pump-car
Senses: examples: text: Down from Black Adder came Tim O'Cannon and his gang, pumping a pump-car for all they were worth, trailing behind them a flat-top trolley packed with Tim's Blossom and his six quadroons.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 191:
text: To reach their destination, the group had to go down from camp on pump cars, four miles by rail to Deep River; here they took boats to Svenson's Landing, two miles down the river and then walked the remaining six miles with the musicians carrying their instruments.
ref: 1986, Carlton E. Appelo, A Pioneer Scrapbook of the Columbia River North-Shore Communities: Wahkiakum and Pacific Counties, Washington, 1900-1985, self-published, page 105:
glosses: A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism; a handcar.
examples: text: There's no reason why junior can't have a pump car due to metal priorities because you can make an all-wood model.
ref: 1944 April, Popular Mechanics, page 89:
glosses: A child's tricycle operated by similar action.
Synonyms: sense: railroad car
word: handcar
sense: railroad car
word: jigger
sense: railroad car
word: Kalamazoo
sense: railroad car
word: pump trolley
pump-car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump-cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pump car.
pump-trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump-trolleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pump trolley.
watchful waiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchful waitings
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: watch and wait
glosses: An approach to a medical problem in which time is allowed to pass before medical intervention or therapy is used; during this time, repeated testing may be performed.
watchful waitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchful waiting
captureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more captureless
form: most captureless
Etymology: From capture + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse.
ref: 2013, Anthony Howe, Byron and the Forms of Thought:
glosses: That captures or captured nothing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.
traineress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traineresses
Etymology: From trainer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female trainer.
lawyeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawyeresses
Etymology: From lawyer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female lawyer.
revengeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revenger + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female revenger.
patriarchess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriarchesses
Etymology: From patriarch + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female patriarch; a woman with the role of patriarch.
glosses: The wife of a patriarch.
bearded clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded clam
patriarchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriarchess
pump cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump car
lawyeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawyeress
usies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usie
proselytess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proselytesses
Etymology: From proselyte + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female proselyte; a female gentile who has converted to Judaism.
hypothyroxinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypothyroxinemic
form: most hypothyroxinemic
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to hypothyroxinemia.
endemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endemia
endarterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From end- + arterial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within an artery; relating to the intima of an artery.
proselytesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proselytess
endocarditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endocarditis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to endocarditis.
carditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to carditis.
Derived terms: myocarditic
myocarditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + carditic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to myocarditis.
Derived terms: amyocarditic
nonmyocarditic
nonmyocarditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + myocarditic.
Senses: glosses: Not myocarditic.
hyaloiditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyaloid + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hyalitis.
synonyms: word: hyalitis
hyalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyalo- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of the hyaloid membrane.
Synonyms: hyaloiditis
horse-pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horsepox.
hooping cough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooping coughs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whooping cough.
synonyms: word: whooping cough
first flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first flush
water-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-bags
Senses: examples: text: […] he went off alone with his family, and, watched by the day's red baleful eye, pumped the pump-car homeward, pausing at the summit of every bank to drink with greed from the water-bag and nurse his head.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 194:
text: Before long we had, willy-nilly, to replenish the water in our radiator from our water-bag, a canvas sack holding a few quarts, in which, thanks to evaporation through the canvas, the water remains cool even on the hottest day.
ref: 1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of waterbag.
water bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water bags
Senses: examples: 1979, Rumi, Poem 268 in Mystical Poems of Rumi, translated by A. J. Arberry, University of Chicago Press, 2009, p. 271,
My heart is burning with envy for Him, my eyes have become His water bags: how should He be wet with tears, while the sea is up to His knees?
glosses: Alternative form of waterbag.
antiordinance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiordinance
form: most antiordinance
Etymology: From anti- + ordinance.
Senses: glosses: Opposing an ordinance.
threepeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threepeaters
Etymology: From threepeat + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who threepeats.
threepeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threepeater
cyclopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyclopian
form: most cyclopian
Etymology: From cyclops + -ian.
Senses: examples: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VIII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
They soon found that the entire place was composed of the finest rock crystals, or rather it appeared to have been cut out of one gigantic crystal by some cyclopian lapidary.
glosses: Alternative form of cyclopean.
mono-fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono-fractures
Etymology: From mono- + fracture.
Senses: examples: text: ... high confining pressure is associated with the closed short joint type, occuring ^([sic]) as a disperse cataclasm, whereas low confining pressure will cause the single closed extensive cleavage joint (mono-fracture).
ref: 1967, International Society for Rock Mechanics, Proceedings of the First Congress:
text: The Joints occur in sets either as single mono-fractures or as groups of fractures located within zones of high and low intensity.
ref: 1982, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne Conference, page 87:
text: On a section, a mono-fracture appears planar, listric and ramp-flat; and multi-fractures may be in a combined pattern of grabenuhorst ^([sic]) or domino, showing a consistent distribution with the growth normal faults in the region.
ref: 1997, Z Lianbo, T Chonglu, “Distribution Characteristics of Fractures in Low Permeable Reservoirs in an Extensional Structural Region”, in Experimental Petroleum Geology, volume 4:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A joint or fracture that represents a single line or plane of slippage.
examples: text: To a much greater degree than Roman slavery, the specialism of mechanized industry and market organization has faced Western man with the challenge of manufacture by mono-fracture, or the tackling of all things and operations one-bit-at-a-time.
ref: 1966, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: Extensions Man, page 73:
text: Mechanization of any process is achieved by fragmentation, beginning with the mechanization of writing by movable types, which has been called the “mono-fracture of manufacture.”
ref: 2011, Rick Wilber, Future Media, →ISBN, page 422:
glosses: The process of breaking down a complex process or entity into multiple repeatable steps or units.
mono-fractures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mono-fracture
hand wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand wedges
Etymology: Blend of hand + sand wedge
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf player's hand, when used to cheat by surreptitiously moving the ball to a more advantageous position.
one-armed bandits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-armed bandit
sex-limited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Occurring, or active, in only one sex.
you're a long time dead
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Be merry, man, for a minute, for you'll be a long time dead!
ref: 1968, Sean O'Casey, The Sean O'Casey Reader, page 259:
text: When opportunity knocks, take it. You're a long time dead you know!
ref: 2011, Sophie Boswell, The Power of Feng Shui, →ISBN, page 103:
text: 'You're a long time dead,' my mother used to shout at the neighbours when they complained about the noise, and for once I agree.
ref: 2015, Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair, →ISBN:
glosses: A reminder that we are all mortal, as a justification for enjoying life while one can.
Sigd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ge'ez ሰግድ (sägd, “prostration”).
Senses: glosses: A holiday of the Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews, celebrated on the 29th day of Cheshvan.
Musnad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), from Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 (ms³nd).
Senses: examples: text: With a stretch of imagination, some Nabataean shapes can be made to resemble those of Jazm, but so do many Musnad shapes. Still, as stated earlier, shape's similarity is not the only indication of a script origin, especially since Nabataean, Aramaic, and Musnad, share the same roots.
ref: 2011, Saad D. Abulhab, DeArabizing Arabia, →ISBN:
text: But he wrote a message in the Himyar script (Musnad) with his knife on the saddle of a passing camel, and the message eventually reached his tribe in Hadhramaut.
ref: 2011, Freya Stark, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut, →ISBN, page 203:
text: Since the characteristics of Musnad handwriting is not famous, and some of the readers may be unfamiliar with these scripts, a brief description of the important aspects of Musnad will be presented in this section.
ref: 2011, Mohammed A. Qatran, Template matching method for recognition Musnad characters based on correlation analysis:
glosses: The Ancient South Arabian alphabet, which branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC.
Related terms: Kufic
musnad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mus.nɑd/
Forms: form: musnads
Etymology: Arabic مُسْنَد (musnad), passive participle of أَسْنَدَ (ʔasnada, “support, evidence”).
Senses: examples: text: Mahmud al-Khwarazmi (593/ 1197-655/1257), a well-travelled Hanafite scholar who ended his career as a teacher in Baghdad, composed a kind of super-musnad of Abu Hanifa.
ref: 1996 July-September, Eerik Dickinson, “Ahmad B. al-Salt and his biography of Abu Hanifa”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 116, number 2:
text: In these cases, the musnad was a scholarly exercise undertaken by some later admirer who would cull all of the hadīth a particular figure quotes in his works and elsewhere and place them in a single book.
ref: 2001, Eerik Dickinson, The Development of Early Sunnite Ḥadīth Criticism, →ISBN:
text: The type of hadīṯ collection called musnad is one in which compilers brought together reports whose chains of transmission go back to a particular Companion of the Prophet.
ref: 2002 July, R. Marston Speight, “Some Formal Characteristics of the Musnad Type of Ḥadīṯ Collection”, in Arabica:
text: Such works were called musnads, the most famous of which is the Musnad of Ibn Hanbal (d. 855).
ref: 2013, Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Mahan Mirza, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, →ISBN, page 211:
topics: science
sciences
glosses: A collection of hadith arranged according to the Companion who transmitted them from Muhammad.
raw_tags: of hadith
glosses: Alternative form of musnud (ceremonial seat or throne)
musnads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musnad
Zarphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew צָרְפַת (tsar'fát, “France”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Romance language, formerly spoken among the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central Germany.
Synonyms: Judeo-French
plumber's box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumber's boxes
Senses: glosses: a method of transferring load between joists to enable a cutout of a joist to allow for a plumbing run, by having doubled-up cross-joists to run between the two adjacent joists of the severed joist at each side of the cut
amelanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to amelanism.
anerythristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to anerythrism.
anerythrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + erythr- + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Absence of red pigment; applied to certain snakes.
unhearty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhearty
form: most unhearty
Etymology: From un- + hearty.
Senses: glosses: Not hearty.
Gable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪbəl/
Etymology: * As an English surname, related to the noun gable.
* As a German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Gabel. Also see Göbel and Goebel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bavarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bavarian
Chinooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinook
Ayaan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Clevelander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clevelanders
Etymology: From Cleveland + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Clevelander took offense to his city being referred to as the "Mistake by the Lake".
glosses: Someone from Cleveland.
Clevelanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clevelander
Jenson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jensons
Etymology: From Jensen, from Danish Jensen.
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Jensen.
glosses: A surname.
genocidist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genocidists
Etymology: From genocide + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You call this fool, this criminal, this genocidist, this perfect idiot, a president, Mother of God?’
ref: 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 100:
glosses: Someone who advocates for or is responsible for enacting genocide.
Gethin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gethins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæzəm/
rhymes: -æzəm
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رَسْم (rasm).
Senses: examples: text: Higher layers flesh out rasm; they provide body, specificity, and personality. Milo labels these shapes “archigraphemes,” the foundational structures on which graphemes are built. Although the Arabic abjad consists of twenty-eight letters, […]
ref: 2017, J. R. Osborn, Letters of Light:
glosses: The base shape of an Arabic-script letter, without dots that distinguish it from other letters.
glosses: A style of Arabic writing that omits these dots, often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th–11th centuries).
Florida scrub jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Florida scrub jays
Senses: glosses: Aphelocoma coerulescens, native to central Florida.
undye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: undyes
form: undyeing
form: undyed
form: undyed
Etymology: From Middle English undien, equivalent to un- + dye.
Senses: glosses: To remove dye from.
undyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undye
undyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undye
food tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food trees
Senses: examples: text: Only the main food tree crops - coconut, sago, breadfruit, pandanus, and banana - are discussed here; ...
ref: 2000 Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, eds., "V.E.3/The Pacific Islands, Tree Crops," The Cambridge World History of Food, Cambridge University Press. p. 1355
text: We examine the potential role of perennial woody food-producing species ("food trees") in cities in the context of urban sustainable development...
ref: 2013 July, Kyle H. Clark, Kimberly A. Nicholas, “Introducing urban food forestry: a multifunctional approach to increase food security and provide ecosystem services”, in Landscape Ecology:
text: 2015 Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian, Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes, Open Book Publishers. pp. 54, 260.
Research should support food tree domestication options appropriate for meeting smallholders' needs
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tree cultivated or managed for edible products (such as leaves, seeds) that are used for human consumption (term either including or used in opposition to "fruit tree")
examples: text: Because several trails from various directions lead into that food tree, you may not be certain where to place your treestand.
ref: 1992, John E. Phillips, The Science of Deer Hunting, Larsen's Outdoor Publishing, page 104:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tree whose products are consumed by animals or wildlife.
examples: text: The overhauling of special apparatus and the making of fresh "food-trees" is in order.
ref: 1911 December 1, Julia E. Rogers, “A Better and More Efficient Method than Scattering Crumbs on the Ground - Some Successful German Devices that are Available Here”, in Country Life, volume 21:
glosses: An apparatus in or on which food for animals or wildlife is arranged.
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: food crop
fruit tree
nut tree
piano wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a type of stiff but relatively thin solid wire that is used for piano strings.