cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unstandard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstandard
form: most unstandard
Etymology: From un- + standard.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case.
ref: 2001, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science:
text: In particular reference to our own topic, the Drugs Act and Rules can prevent a pharmacist from selling drugs which are not of standard quality but cannot prevent him from selling his commodities at a cheaper rate than that of his fellow pharmacists in his area or from indulging in a cut throat competition, which practice is as undesirable as that of selling unstandard drugs.
ref: 2008, Dr. M. D. Burande, Drug Store And Business Management:
text: So I replayed my '46 scenario and asked another unstandard academic, a charismatic, disenchanted philosophy professor named George Geiger, who had been Lou Gehrig's backup on the Columbia baseball team and John Dewey's last graduate student, what I should do.
ref: 2012, Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics:
glosses: Not standard; not at standard, or at a level other than that which is considered standard
Related terms: substandard
nonstandard
shutterspeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutterspeeds
Etymology: From shutter + speed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shutter speed.
minicup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicups
form: mini-cup
form: mini cup
Etymology: From mini- + cup.
Senses: examples: text: Yarbrough told investigators her minicup suddenly accelerated when she stepped on the brake.
ref: 1990, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 25:
text: The detail and craftsmanship of minicup race cars give them a big-car look.
ref: 2005, Rusty Wallace, How to Get Started in Stock Car Racing, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Because of the cars' size, minicup drivers as young as eight years old race in a youth division. The sport is run by the Miniature Motorsports Racing Association (MMRA).
ref: 2009, Bob Woods, Wild Racers, →ISBN, page 15:
qualifier: car racing
glosses: A miniature version of one of the cars used in NASCAR's Sprint Cup events, used in races run by the Miniature Motorsports Racing Association.
examples: text: A Tupperware minicup was used as a diffusion bottle.
ref: 1986, H. Tsunoda, M.-H. Yu, Fluoride Research 1985, →ISBN:
text: The vertical position of the hole can be adjusted as the minicup is mounted on a vertically-sliding shaft.
ref: 2002, Mu Young Lee, Twinsol:
text: He slid the pie and a minicup of black-as-the-soul-of-midnight coffee into a delivery slot, danced his fingers over the keypad, and sent it on its way.
ref: 2013, J. D. Robb, Thankless in Death, →ISBN, page 37:
text: It is of utmost importance to the detection of glaucoma in eyes with a pseudonormal but glaucomatous minicup in the minidiscs, and it is useful to classify and eye with a psedudoglaucomatous but normal large cup in a large disc as normal.
ref: 2014, Tarek M. Shaarawy, Mark B. Sherwood, Roger A. Hitchings, Glaucoma, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: A cup (any sense) that is extra small.
mini-cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-cups
Senses: examples: text: Getting on the racing circuit wasn't as difficult as some of the fire training that Brechl experienced. Brechl said, " I went to a mini-cup race as a spectator in 1995, and was asked if I could substitute for one of the drivers. I had never raced a miniature-sized car before, but ended up beating the track champion. I've been racing ever since."
ref: 1994, Airstream - Issues 5-12, page 3:
text: ... library managed to get the library logo on a mini-cup race car driven by Shelly Morgan at the Ona Speedway
ref: 1997, West Virginia Libraries - Volumes 50-51:
text: The 24-year-old competed in his first race at MIS in 2016 in the ARCA Racing Series, finishing 17th. His family sold all their dwarf cars, mini-cup cars and go-karts Baird raced in his young career to go after sponsorship to race in the series.
ref: 2017 June 16, Taylor DesOrmeau, “Dark Horse Brewing helps Michigan driver hit track again at MIS”, in Michigan Live:
glosses: Alternative form of minicup.
miniature racecar.
examples: text: This mini-cup ramen is popular as a snack to be given to children between meals. It is also taken for the soup of a casual meal. The demand for the mini-cup is already 10% more than that of the regular cup.
ref: 1986, Diamond's Economic Journal Industria - Volume 16, page 12:
text: The incident light beam was not blocked by the mini-cup, which also facilitates the addition of reagents such as matrix modifiers.
ref: 1990, K. S. Subramanian, Govindaraja V. Iyengar, Kensaku Okamoto, Biological Trace Element Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives:
text: On both sampling occasions, the odour threshold concentration of exhaust air from the house fitted with mini-cup drinkers was substantially less than that from the house equipped with conventional 'bell' drinkers—see Fig. 1. The rationale for fitting mini-cup drinkers was that it was thought that the mini-cup drinkers would reduce water wastage and hence improve the litter conditions.
ref: 2003, V.C. Nielsen, J.H. Voorburg, P. L'Hermite, Odour and Ammonia Emissions from Livestock Farming, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of minicup.
extra-small cup
examples: text: After eliminations in four Southern California areas, the number one teams will race in early February in a mini-cup series.
ref: 1971 March, “Best Test In the West”, in MotorBoating, volume 127, number 3:
text: The pros will instruct you about your position before you set off for the race course in the waters off Phillipsburg for an exciting three-hour mini-cup regatta.
ref: 2000 January-October, “Twelves in St. Maarten”, in Cruising World, volume 26, numbers 1-10, page 131:
qualifier: sailboat racing
glosses: A race that is modeled after, but smaller than, the America's Cup.
mini-cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini-cup
minicups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicup
ethnicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ethnicises
form: ethnicising
form: ethnicised
form: ethnicised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethnicize.
ethnicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ethnicise
ethnicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ethnicise
ethnicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ethnicise
mini cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini cups
Senses: examples: text: Family Harvest Church out of Tinley Park had a table at Race Fan Rally, along with a mini cup race car with the church’s name on it.
ref: 2016 September 14, Bob Okon, “Race Fan Rally brings NASCAR fans to downtown Joliet”, in The Herald-News:
text: Another class for youth returning this year is the Evolution Cup cars, which started at the track last year, Pylypiuk noted. “That's mini cup cars. They're called Evolution Cup cars and what they are is they’re actually a half-scale NASCAR looking car.
ref: 2017 June 1, Logan Clow, “Hythe Motor Speedway season kicks off this weekend”, in Alberta Daily Herald Tribune:
glosses: Alternative form of minicup.
miniature racecar
examples: text: On the other hand, Ride Cymbals are purchased either with big cups (for big band crashing and riding) or with small cups (for sustaining a ride beat) or even with a mini cup or no cup at all.
ref: 1973, Percussive Notes - Volumes 12-15, page 44:
text: They were smaller than regular Chinese dumplings because my mother placed a tiny tea cup (like those used for the Japanese tea ceremony) upside down on each store-bought flour wrap and divided it into little wraps with the same diameter as the mini cup.
ref: 2011, Kai-Fu Lee, Making a World of Difference:
text: She handed a patient the mini cup of medications, and she and Eli watched as he swallowed them down.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Byler Younts, Promise to Cherish: A Novel, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of minicup.
extra-small cup.
mini cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini cup
choreomusicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of choreology + musicology
Senses: glosses: A field of study concerned with the relationship between music and dance.
Derived terms: choreomusicological
choreomusicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choreomusicological
form: most choreomusicological
Etymology: From choreomusicology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to choreomusicology.
formatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin formātrīx.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e see that there may be a very pretty body shap'd and concreeted by Mechanical principles, without the least shew or probability of any other seminal formatrix.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX:
glosses: A formative faculty.
neuroconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + consciousness.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The neurologically defined degrees of consciousness.
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The neuromechanics of consciousness; The brain mechanisms and the systemic interactions that give rise to consciousness.
glosses: Soulless/ametaphysical consciousness; Consciousness without a soul; The encephalological and non-Cartesian spectrum of definitions of consciousness.
raw_tags: from the neurological sense
awesomeosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awesome + -osity.
Senses: glosses: awesomeness, fantasticalness (quality of being awesome).
rare-ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rareripe.
rare-ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rare-ripes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rareripe.
Sozi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sozis
form: sozi
Etymology: From German Sozi.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of socialist.
synonyms: word: socialist
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of social democrat.
synonyms: word: social democrat
bang path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bang paths
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early form of e-mail address with the components separated by exclamation marks, naming the sequence of networked computers that the mail should be routed through.
bang paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bang path
readtable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readtables
Etymology: From read + table.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In Lisp and related languages, a data structure specifying how text characters are to be interpreted syntactically.
readtables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readtable
E-tard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-tards
Etymology: From E (“ecstasy”) + -tard.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes the drug MDMA or ecstasy.
E-tards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E-tard
pink hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink hats
Etymology: From the pink Red Sox hats that became popular after the Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
Senses: examples: text: There's an old tale about a Rooter who was sitting next to a Pink Hat.
ref: 2009, Andy Wasif, Red Sox University: Baseball's Foremost Institution of Higher Learning, →ISBN:
text: Although other fans have waved at NESN cameras, the pink hat fan has been seen doing it more often and usually during important parts of the game.
ref: 2010, Michael Macomber, The Red Sox and Philosophy: Green Monster Meditations, →ISBN:
text: MIRI: When did you start following the Sox? 2004? '07? SETH: I've always kind of followed them. MIRI: “Kind of?” Heh. Oh, yeah. You're a Pink Hat.
ref: 2012, Gregory Crafts, Up All Night, →ISBN, page 61:
text: After much thought and research, she officially adopted the Red Sox as her baseball team and despite what critics of post-2004 fans say, she's no fair-weather pink hat.
ref: 2013, Jon Chattman, Allie Tarantino, How the Red Sox Explain New England, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who only follows a team because it has become fashionable.
pink hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink hat
laws unto themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of law unto oneself
CAATSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.
holistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a holistic approach; holism.
Quammen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pedal car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedal cars
Senses: examples: text: (Bitsy): You know how to find your grandparents' house?
(Marvin): Not exactly. Too bad Mom and Dad were too cheap to install a GPS system in my pedal car!
ref: 2005 September 16, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: A toy car large enough to ride in, typically for small children, which is operated by pedals.
pedal cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedal car
minorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a minor.
backwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From back + work. Compare footwork.
Senses: glosses: Movement or exertion of the back.
armed police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Police, in general.
glosses: A member of the People's Armed Police of China.
unkid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unkid
form: most unkid
Senses: examples: text: I am come to welcome you home; and I have brought my work to sit a bit with you and keep you company, for you must be sadly unkid, all alone.
ref: 1826, “The Motherless Family”, in Christian Gleaner and Domestic Magazine, volume 3, page 159:
text: To his solitary tea he went, his housekeeper remarking of him in confidence to a neighbour, that "really he do get so unkid like, and strange, that I can't tell what have come to he."
ref: 1859, Ebb and Flow, volume 2:
text: An unkid place it be for the laikes of you.
ref: 1900, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, page 59:
text: Aye, this be an unkid palace at the turn o' the world.
ref: 1934, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 8, page 304:
glosses: Alternative form of unked (“lonely, desolate”).
oobit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oobits
form: oubit
form: woobut
form: woubit
Senses: examples: text: Of course, I need scarcely say that the existence of dealers who purvey to the wants of aspiring naturalists, was entirely unknown to me ; and even if I had known, the probability is that my parents would have thought twice before they granted me money in order to purchase accommodation for such vermin as hairy oobits, as the majority of caterpillars were, and are still, indiscriminately termed by the good north-country people.
ref: 1887, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, page 169:
text: I can use some of the children to pick off gooseberry "oobits", and do good in two ways, and if the boys learn to fight wasp nests, they will have got a good way towards fighting Boers. But then comes the difficulty of time tables.
ref: 1922, Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris, Yorkshire Reminiscences (with Others), page 160:
text: I wonder whether this could be a fact; hairy oobits do sting, rather like nettles, if angered. As a child I collected thirty-five once in my hands and they fought, leaving my hands, their battlefield, covered with a rash like measles which lasted for some days.
ref: 1966, Otta F. Swire, The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends, page 100:
text: Another disappearance is the "hairy oobit" — how does one spell it? I've not seen one for a very long time. What kind of a moth or butterfly emerges?
ref: 1971, The Scots Magazine, volume 96:
glosses: A caterpillar.
oobits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oobit
denet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denets
form: denetting
form: denetted
form: denetted
Etymology: From de- + net.
Senses: examples: text: What prompted the demise of the agreement was the action of a number of publishers who 'denetted' the price of their books.
ref: 1993, Joseph Whittaker, Whitaker's Almanack, page 1142:
text: Recent changes in the retail situation now allow denetting of a book six months after publication rather than after a year.
ref: 1994, Cathy Stewart, The European Media Industry: Fragmentation and Convergence in Broadcasting and Publishing:
text: Yet the NBA is still in place, the PA has moved to prevent publishers from supplying BCA's club shops, and the threat from groups such as Costco has diminished. Even Hodder Headline's denetting initiative has not led to the kind of price war among booksellers that many feared.
ref: 1995, Indian Book Industry, volume 24, page 76:
text: In September the Publishers Association announced that it would defend the NBA and the following day Tim Helly Hutchinson — then CEO (chief executive officer) of Hodder Headline — announced that he was going to de-net their books on the day after Christmas.
ref: 2013, John B. Thompson, Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: To reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.
denets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denet
denetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denet
denetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denet
brinkman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brinkmen
Etymology: Back-formation from brinkmanship.
Senses: examples: text: It compels the 'brinkmen' to realise that, if they seek to make war on the Soviet Union, they cannot count on cooperation from Britain or France, and probably not from Western Germany.
ref: 1958, The Labour Monthly, volume 40, page 18:
text: The brinkmen Kennan abhorred were supreme realists, and if "the assumption that state behavior is a fit subject for moral judgment" is baseless, then anything, even the realism of atomic blackmail, would be permissible.
ref: 1970, John W. Coffey, Realist social thought in America: Reinhold Niebuhr and George F. Kennan:
text: The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.
ref: 1970, Time, volume 96:
glosses: One who advocates for brinkmanship.
brinkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brinkman
abbreviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be abbreviated.
Synonyms: abbreviatable
Derived terms: unabbreviable
klepsydrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klepsydra
badmouther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badmouthers
Etymology: From badmouth + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who badmouths somebody or something.
badmouthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badmouther
oculigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bearing an eye or eyes.
oculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: glosses: Bearing an eye or eyes.
prattlebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prattleboxes
Etymology: From prattle + box.
Senses: glosses: A talkative person; a chatterbox.
prattleboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prattlebox
Athole brose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Athol brose
form: Atholl brose
Etymology: Legendarily, the Earl of Athole (variously spelled) incapacitated the rebel Lord of the Isles in 1475 by having these ingredients poured down his well.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of oatmeal brose, whisky and honey, traditionally drunk in Scotland.
glosses: Synonym of cranachan.
synonyms: word: cranachan
legioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of legion
pomtini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑmˈtini/
ipa: /pɒmˈtiːni/
Forms: form: pomtinis
Etymology: Blend of pomegranate + martini
Senses: examples: text: And, boy, after the day I've had with my suppliers, those pomtinis are calling my name.
ref: 2015, Gemma Halliday, Homicide in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #8, Gemma Halliday Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Today so many almost ridiculous versions of this drink exist that some drink menus actually have a special martini page. Varieties include the appletini, hazeltini, cherry martini, Cajun martini, habanero martini, pometini, chocolatini, and even a bacontini! Lest it be buried forever in this avalanche of new "exoticatinis," here is a classic recipe from a very old bartender's manual.
ref: 2015 April 30, Edie Hall, Cooking with Oma: A Link with the Past, a Bridge to the Future, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: And to tell him if I saw her, especially if she ordered a pomtini.
ref: 2018, J. D. Robb, Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A pomegranate martini.
gervao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small medicinal verbenaceous shrub of the West Indies, etc.
ontonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ontonomies
Etymology: From onto- + -nomy.
Senses: examples: text: The alternative has to be elaborated by fostering in an organic way the healthy tendency, noticeable everywhere, of increasing ontonomies, and working a network of multilateral — but not necessarily universal — relationships which allow for a fruitful coexistence.
ref: 1992, James A. Ogilvy, Revisioning Philosophy, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Personal freedom means the recognition, one's own as well as others', of a person's ontonomy. The premise of ontonomy is that the ultimate structure of reality is harmonious, and that consequently the plenitude of one being stands in a relation with the perfection of the totality.
ref: 1995, Raimundo Panikkar, Cultural Disarmament: The Way to Peace, →ISBN, page 68:
text: In the present world of globalisation, ontonomy is the most realistic approach to community co-existence. In ontonomy, unity is not confused with uniformity.
ref: 2004, Simeon Onyewueke Eboh, African Communalism: The Way to Social Harmony and Peaceful Co-existence, page 88:
text: One can easily see how important it could be to teach the principles of ontonomy to our children, during the course of their primary or secondary education, so that as adults they would not have to be quite so clumsy at living as most of us are.
ref: 2015, Emmy van Deurzen, Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy: An Existential Approach, →ISBN:
glosses: A philosophy of existence that emphasizes the harmonious coexistence of nonuniform entities.
Derived terms: ontonomous
ontonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ontonomy
pomtinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomtini
pulpification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpifications
Etymology: From pulp + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process of pulpifying.
constringency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constringencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of constringence.
constringencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constringency
molendinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin molendīna, from molendīnum (“mill, mill-house”) + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a windmill.
molendinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin molendīna, from molendīnum (“mill, mill-house”) + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mills or milling.
knight of industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights of industry
Etymology: Calque of French chevalier d'industrie.
Senses: synonyms: chevalier d'industrie
glosses: A footpad, thief, or sharper.
knights of industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight of industry
ontonomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ontonomous
form: most ontonomous
Etymology: From ontonomy + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Man is a person, a knot in a net of relationships, and not an autonomous individual. Man is an ontonomous being.
ref: 1992, James Ogilvy, Revisioning Philosophy, →ISBN, page 242:
text: Religious-cultural issues are part of that expanded view -- one that sees the relationship between politics and religion as ontonomous.
ref: 2005, The Review of Policy Research - Volume 22, Issues 1-3, page 98:
text: The true Christian ontonomous attitude recognizes the internal hierarchy of values and discovers something very dear to the humanist position, but that humanism alone is incapable of fulfilling.
ref: 2015, Raimon Panikkar, Milena Carrara Pavan, Christianity: Opera Omnia, Volume III, Part 1, The Christian Tradition, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of ontonomy; Involving the harmonious coexistence of disparate entities.
Bukvitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian бу́квица (búkvica).
Senses: examples: text: In the Slavonic it occupies, as jest, the 6th place of the Bukvitsa as well as of the Cyrillic scheme, and has two softening forms as finals (-er, -eri) toward the close of the alphabet.
ref: 1867, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge:
text: Scripts such as Bukvitsa (an adaptation of Glagolitic and Cyrillic), Elbasan, Buthakiikye, Argyrokastron or Veso Bei's script (old Albanian alphabets), Pamphylian and Lydian (Asianic languages), Tagbanua, Mangyan, lloco, Pangasinan, Pampangan and Buhil (Philippine Islands), Passipa and Uighur of Mongolia, the latter a transitional alphabet derived from Nestorian, Sogdian (Eastern Turkestan) and Balti (Tibet) have not been included.
ref: 1950, The languages of the world, ancient and modern:
text: In the Slavic Orthodox tradition, the Glagolitic script and early books preserved in it were perceived as an inalienable part of Orthodox Christianity. Hence, Orthodox churchmen called it 'Bukvitsa,' a name derived from the East Slavic word for 'letter' (bukva).
ref: 2008, T. Kamusella, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, →ISBN:
glosses: An ancient Slavic alphabet (an adaptation of Glagolitic and Cyrillic).
examples: text: The hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church declared Slavic writings (Bukvitsa, Runes, etc.) to be black magic and demonic writings; the result of which was the loss by the Slavic people of the ability to learn the ancestral experience of their Ancestors.
ref: 2016, Dmitriy Kushnir, Slava Rodu Magazine: Issue #1, page 49:
glosses: A pseudohistorical alphabet based on Cyrillic, created by Russian neopagan esoteric A. Yu. Khinevich, founder of Ynglism, but having no connection with historical Slavic writings.
Davenport trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Davenport tricks
Senses: glosses: A feat of escapism in which a person frees themselves from ropes tied around them.
Davenport tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Davenport trick
throat singing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throat-singing
form: throatsinging
Senses: examples: text: Now, throat singing is being carried on by women like Maria and Lois, as well as being re-defined by solo artists like Tanya Tagaq, who is mixing traditional sounds with modern beats, instruments and English vocals.
ref: 2012, Lori Henry, Dancing Through History: In Search of the Stories That Define Canada:
glosses: Synonym of overtone singing.
synonyms: word: overtone singing
Related terms: cantu a tenore
khoomei
Germanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Germanesque
form: most Germanesque
Etymology: From German + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat German, or reminiscent of the Germans or Germany; Germanish.
snowies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowy
polyna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ʊ)ˈlɪnə/
ipa: /pəˈlɪnə/
ipa: /ˌpɑləˈnɑ/
Forms: form: polynas
Senses: examples: text: From Fig. 1 we see that several long N-S leads developed on or about the llth of March and large scale movements were observed in the polyna just NW of Alaska. This pattern remained relatively constant, with considerable movement in the polyna, until 19 March when several more long N-S leads developed.
ref: 1977, Polar Oceans:
text: In addition, a number of smaller areas of the Arctic remain relatively ice-free during a portion of the winter. These ice-free areas or polynas are generally associated with deep ocean currents, wind currents, unique coastline configurations, and/or freshwater drainages.
ref: 2004, Alan J. Osborn, “Poison Hunting Strateges and the Organization of Technology in the Circumpolar Region”, in Amber L. Johnson, editor, Processual Archaeology: Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Polynas play an important role in heat transfer from the oceans to the atmosphere, ice production, the formation of dense shelf water, spring disintegration of sea ice, phytoplankton and zooplankton production, and the distribution of higher trophic animals such as cephalopods, fish, birds, seals, and cetaceans. Within polynas, the oceanic heat loss may be 10–100 times above that of the ice-covered surface.
ref: 2006, George A. Knox, “The Southern Ocean”, in Biology of the Southern Ocean (Marine Biology Series), 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, section 1.6 (Circulation Patterns and Water Masses), page 11, column 1:
text: Researchers now plan to compare their routes with satellite images and see whether the owls stayed around the polynas, where snowy owls have been seen, picking off eiders swimming in the open water.
ref: 2008 June 20, Jane George, “‘We’ve had the biggest surprises and more questions are coming out.’: The secret life of snowy owls”, in Nunatsiaq News, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of polynya.
polynas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyna
flitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fliting
flower of Jove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: Silene flos-jovis (syn. Lychnis flos-jovis), a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.
unregained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + regained.
Senses: glosses: Not regained.
imperceptibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imperceptible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imperceptible.
dungeree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungerees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of dungaree.
dungerees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungeree
kinoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If the heat be increased above 175°, the wine-yellow fluid ignites, burns with a red, vividly flaring, strongly sooty flame, evolving at the same time an odour of kinoyl and of oil of bitter almonds, and leaves behind a voluminous easily combustible charcoal.
ref: 1853, H.G. Leers, “On the chemical composition of quinidine”, in Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, volume XII, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of quinoyl.
rubines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubine
quiet as a grave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very quiet
uncannibalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cannibalized.
Senses: glosses: Not cannibalized.
foudrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foudries
Senses: glosses: The jurisdiction of a foud.
foudries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foudrie
bedlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛd.lɒk/
ipa: /ˈbɛd.lɑk/
Etymology: Blend of bed + wedlock
Senses: examples: text: He wants you an' me to fall dead in love, an' be j'ined in bedlock.
ref: 1882, John Alonzo Clark, A Young Disciple, page 362:
text: Not a single pleasure is risk-free; Who in his own wife's lap now lays a confident head? Neither in wedlock now nor in bedlock can we be.
ref: 2005, David Luke, transl., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Selected Poetry, Penguin Classics, page 30:
text: If Rose is having a tennis party it may make more sense to include Joe's steady tennis partner, Sue (with whom he has never had sex), than either his wife (from whom he has been separated for four months) or Dizzy (a current partner in bedlock whose most outstanding qualities are neither athletic nor intellectual).
ref: 2009, Nicholas Johnson, What Do You Mean and how Do You Know?:
glosses: A relationship where an unmarried couple shares a bed; cohabitation.
pocket clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket clocks
Senses: examples: text: Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…
ref: c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington:
text: We know there may be as much curiosity of contrivance, and excellency of form in a very small Pocket-clock, that takes up not an Inch square of room, as there may be in a Church-clock that fills a whole room […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX:
glosses: A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.
pocket clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocket clock
truckdriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From truck + driving.
Senses: examples: 2002, United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2002-03 Edition
Taking driver-training courses is a desirable method of preparing for truckdriving jobs and for obtaining a commercial driver's license.
glosses: The process or an instance of driving a truck.
plant-animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plant-animals
Etymology: From plant + animal, after French plant-animal (obsolete), from post-classical Latin plantanimal (16th c.), after Hellenistic Ancient Greek ζωόφυτον (zōóphuton, “zoophyte”).
Senses: examples: text: From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII:
text: She had on her slide some special stuff come up from London that day […] she focussed the light on her field, and saw the plant-animal lying shadowy in a boundless light […].
ref: 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 408:
text: There are some three hundred more of such plant-animals and collectively they represent a group called the Flagellates, which is neither plant nor animal, but intermediate.
ref: 1941, Richard Headstrom, Adventures with a Microscope:
glosses: An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant.
plant-animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plant-animal
protolyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: protolyses
form: protolysing
form: protolysed
form: protolysed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protolyze.
go by the name of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes by the name of
form: going by the name of
form: went by the name of
form: gone by the name of
Senses: examples: text: Beside me is an affable young man who goes by the name of Haz.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: To call oneself; to use as a name, especially a moniker or nickname.
vaticinium ex eventu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaticinia ex eventu
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vāticinium ex ēventū.
Senses: glosses: A fictional prophecy that has been written after the supposedly predicted event but is presented as a genuine prediction before the event; a postdiction.
three-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: three-wheeled
form: 3-wheel
form: 3-wheeled
Senses: examples: text: a three-wheel forklift
glosses: having three wheels
Related terms: four-wheel
three-wheeler
joy killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joy killers
form: joy-killer
form: joykiller
Etymology: Compound of joy + killer.
Senses: qualifier: occasionally endearing
glosses: killjoy (Someone or something that hinders fun.)
Synonyms: buzzkill
killjoy
spoilsport
joy killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joy killer
joykiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joykillers
Senses: examples: text: The whole works seemed like a joykiller to us and so we stayed away.
ref: 1923, Frank Hobart Cheley, The Job of Being a Dad, W. A. Wilde Company, page 48:
text: “Hmpf. All right, joykiller. I'm fine, you know. I can close up without being scared. It's still daylight, Brody is next door.”
ref: 2009, Lauren Dane, “Laid Bare”, in A Brown Family Novel, volume 1, Penguin.:
text: The fellow grinned. “You think I'm a joykiller, huh?”
ref: 2009, Monte Schulz, This Side of Jordan, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of joy killer.
joykillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joykiller
conceptismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptism
Etymology: From Spanish conceptismo.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A 16th- and 17th-century literary movement in Spain associated with Francisco de Quevedo and characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, wordplay, and witty metaphors.
danceables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danceable
Tucsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tuˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Tucsonian
form: most Tucsonian
Etymology: From Tucson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Tucsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tuˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Tucsonians
Etymology: From Tucson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Tucsonan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tucsonan
form: most Tucsonan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tucsonian.
Tucsonan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tucsonans
Senses: examples: text: A five-piece band playing modern Top 40 danceables, Hot Pursuit is after Tucsonans not content with toe tapping.
ref: 2015, Robert E. Zucker, Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades: Volume 2: 1986-1989:
glosses: Alternative form of Tucsonian.
Tucsonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tucsonian
Tucsonans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tucsonan
rotaplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotaplanes
Senses: glosses: An aircraft which creates lift by means of rotors
rotaplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotaplane
goujonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goujonettes
Senses: examples: text: Goujonettes should be thin; if your fillet is thicker than ¾ inch, cut it horizontally into 2 layers. You can cut fish into goujonettes several hours in advance and refrigerate them, but don't flour until just before frying.
ref: 2003, James Peterson, Essentials of Cooking, page 6:
glosses: A small fish goujon.
goujonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goujonette
medieval literature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medieval literatures
Senses: glosses: literature of the Middle Ages; all literary works written in the Middle Ages
tabbied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tabby
tabbying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tabby
benumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benumber
roaring game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the roaring game
Senses: glosses: The game of curling.
hamartialogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The part of theology dealing with the nature and effects of sin.
hamartialogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hamartiology.
CLAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: CLAMs
form: clam
form: C.L.A.M.
Senses: examples: text: The CLAM can be 'clipped on' by the rower with little difficulty, so the load can be changed between alternating headwind–tailwind pieces.
ref: 1995, Larry Gluckman, “Rowing News”, in The Independent Rowing News Inc., page 3:
text: Use a clam to make a quick or temporary change to the inboard/outboard...The clam sits against the outer face of the collar.
ref: 2014, Daniela Gomes da Costa, Yihuan Chang, eds., Learn to Row, Fédération internationale des sociétés d'aviron, page 28
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: Acronym of Clip-on Load Adjusting Mechanism, a device that can be fitted onto an oar to adjust the set.
CLAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæmz/
rhymes: -æmz
Senses: glosses: plural of CLAM
systylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + stylous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the styles united into a single body.
gomuto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomuti.
emmuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emmure
emmured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emmure
ugly man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugly men
Senses: glosses: The person who garrottes the victim in a confederacy of three criminals, the others (the fore-stall and back-stall) blocking the victim's escape.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ugly, man.
Synonyms: word: toad
Hypernyms: word: ugly person
word: man
Hyponyms: word: UMOC
Related terms: word: beautiful woman
word: ugly woman
ugly men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugly man
wheel-barrow men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel-barrow man
soldering bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soldering bolts
Senses: glosses: soldering iron
soldering bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soldering bolt
Holocausts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Holocausts.
glosses: plural of Holocaust
of a truth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in truth; truthfully
duddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: duddier
form: more duddy
form: duddiest
form: most duddy
Etymology: From dud + -y.
Senses: glosses: ragged
Related terms: fuddy-duddy
orcheocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumour or inflammation of the testicle.
steelband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steelbands
Etymology: From steel + band.
Senses: examples: text: The steelband movement has always had an attraction for "smartmen" — men who saw the movement as something to be exploited.
ref: 1991, George Goddard, Forty years in the steelbands, 1939-1979, page 120:
text: The steelband movement today remains a vital and influential part of the artistic life of Trinidad and Tobago
ref: 1995, Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad, →ISBN:
text: The Nigerian army has a steelband, as do the Dutch police service and as did, until 1999, the US Navy.
ref: 2004, Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: Culture in Action – The Trinidad Experience, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: A band in which all musicians play steelpans.
steelbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steelband
jeanette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeanettes
Senses: glosses: A coarse jean fabric, used for linings.
antalkali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antalkalis
Etymology: From ant- + alkali.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that counteracts the action of an alkali.
Coordinate terms: antacid
antalkalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antalkali
disulfiram effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unpleasant hypersensitivity to alcohol caused by various medications, including disulfiram.
inky cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inky caps
Senses: synonyms: tippler's bane
hypernyms: inkcap
glosses: The mushroom Coprinopsis atramentaria, edible but poisonous when consumed with alcohol.
inky caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inky cap
entomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entomical
form: most entomical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of entomic.
idiasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiasms
Senses: examples: text: At present he is but lame — we know who has lamed him — but sooner or later those rivets will be undone; that transfixing bolt will be withdrawn; the idiom, idiotisms and, above all, the idiasms of Shakespeare will be thoroughly understood, and so much that now goes by the board in all modern editions will be restored with intelligent reverence.
ref: 1877, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Shakespeare: The Man and the Book:
glosses: A peculiarity of writing that is specific to an author.
Related terms: idiom
idiasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiasm