cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
arcticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arcticize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of arcticizing.
Yokutsan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an endangered language family spoken by the Yokut people in and around the San Joaquin Valley in California.
Molly Mormon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Molly Mormons
Senses: glosses: A stereotypical or idealized female member of the LDS Church.
Molly Mormons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Molly Mormon
Kentucky windages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kentucky windage
longrifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longrifles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of long rifle.
longrifles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longrifle
long rifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long rifles
form: longrifle
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An American style of rifle with an unusually long barrel, used in hunting and warfare.
Synonyms: Kentucky rifle
Pennsylvania rifle
long rifles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long rifle
Pennsylvania rifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pennsylvania rifles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kentucky rifle.
synonyms: word: Kentucky rifle
Pennsylvania rifles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pennsylvania rifle
ghostened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ghosten
ghostening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghosten
ghostens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghosten
ghost flathead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost flatheads
Senses: glosses: Any of various fishes in the genus Hoplichthys.
ghost flatheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost flathead
Ghost Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 鬼節 /鬼节 (Guǐjié).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival in Asia, when ghosts and spirits are said to emerge from the lower realm, and deceased ancestors are venerated.
Synonyms: Hungry Ghost Festival
Zhongyuan
refunctionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refunctionalizes
form: refunctionalizing
form: refunctionalized
form: refunctionalized
Etymology: From re- + functionalize.
Senses: glosses: To modify the function or purpose of; to repurpose.
Related terms: refunction
refunctionalization
refunctionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refunctionalize
refunctionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refunctionalize
refunctionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refunctionalize
refunctionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refunctionalizations
Etymology: From re- + functionalization.
Senses: glosses: The process of refunctionalizing.
refunctionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refunctionalization
ghost detainee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost detainees
Senses: glosses: A person held in a detention center whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous.
ghost detainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost detainee
ghost condensates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost condensate
ghost condensate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost condensates
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The proposed situation in which a ghost (an excitation of a field with a wrong sign of the kinetic term) acquires a vacuum expectation value, spontaneously breaking Lorentz invariance.
ghost chili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost chilis
form: ghost pepper
form: ghost chili pepper
Etymology: Calque of Assamese ভোট-জলকীয়া (bhüt-zolokia, literally “Bhutanese chili”). The first element bhüt, meaning Bhutanese, was mistakenly confused for near-homonym ভূত (bhut) meaning ghost, thus producing the English (mis-)translation “ghost pepper”.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bhut jolokia.
synonyms: word: bhut jolokia
ghost chilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost chili
Scoville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scovilles
form: Scovil
form: Scovill
Etymology: English surname of Norman origin, from the town of Escoville, in Normandy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
Derived terms: Scoville heat unit
Scoville scale
Scoville unit
Scoville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scovilles
form: Scovil
form: Scovill
Etymology: English surname of Norman origin, from the town of Escoville, in Normandy.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Scoville heat unit.
Scovilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scoville
Scoville unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scoville units
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Scoville heat unit.
Scoville units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scoville unit
Scoville heat unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scoville heat units
Etymology: From Scoville + heat + unit. From Wilbur Scoville, who invented the unit and its scale. From being a unit of measure of the perceived heat or burning from the spiciness engendered by the capsaicin content.
Senses: examples: text: There is the Ghost Chili (Bhut Jolokia) which sits at a scorching 1,001,304 Scoville heat units.
ref: 2013, Mike Lee, Vegan Mexican Food For Chowhounds!, page i:
glosses: The unit in which the Scoville scale is measured.
wikipedia: en:Wilbur Scoville
Synonyms: SHU
Scoville
Scoville unit
Scoville heat units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scoville heat unit
ghost catshark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost catsharks
Senses: glosses: Apristurus manis, a catshark of the family Pentanchidae.
ghost catsharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost catshark
ghost bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost bats
Etymology: Named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings, giving a ghostly appearance at night.
Senses: examples: text: The Ghost Bat is the only AUstralian member of a small family that is otherwise widespread in Africa and Asia.
ref: 1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 59:
glosses: An Australian bat, Macroderma gigas, with grey to white fur, long narrow wings, and sharp teeth.
glosses: A bat of any of the species of genus Diclidurus of the tropical Americas.
Synonyms: false vampire bat
ghost bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost bat
ghost note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played, sometimes represented by an X in musical notation.
ghost notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost note
ghost ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost ramps
Senses: glosses: A highway ramp that is inaccessible to traffic, either because the construction work was never completed, or because it has been taken out of use.
ghost ramps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost ramp
wild pitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild pitch
ghost runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost runner
invisible runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invisible runners
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In informal baseball and stickball games, a baserunner who cannot steal a base but can, depending on the rules, advance on a wild pitch, and who usually travels at the rate of the current batter.
Synonyms: ghost runner
ghost runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost runners
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of invisible runner.
synonyms: word: invisible runner
invisible runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invisible runner
ghost shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost shrimps
form: ghost shrimp
Senses: glosses: Any of various aquatic crustaceans of the infraorder Thalassinidea, the genus Palaemonetes, or the family Caprellidae.
Hyponyms: caprellid
skeleton shrimp
glass shrimp
thalassinid
ghost shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost shrimp
ghost sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost signs
Senses: glosses: A handpainted advertising sign that has been preserved on a building for an extended period of time and has thus begun to fade.
ghost signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost sign
medievalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medievalises
form: medievalising
form: medievalised
form: medievalised
Senses: examples: text: Censure is also laid upon what is termed the prevailing fashion of medievalising modern school-rooms, where only a small portion of the window is made to open partially, and the greater portion of the glass is cemented into grooves in the jambs and mullions.
ref: 1860 July 6, The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 6, page 528:
text: The Monthly Review charged him with the style "of a sexton;" with outdoing even the Germans in tales of horror; with being full of platonic, metaphysical incomprehensibilities; they complained that his æsthetic lectures had had a pernicious effect; had held up the golden age of Pope to contempt, and contributed more than any cause to "medievalise" the taste of his countrymen.
ref: 1887, Alois Brandl, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School, page 353:
text: It could have been from this poem that Geoffrey derived Avalon and the magical sword Caliburn, and Robert de Boron took his idea for the Holy Grail; both writers making attempts to medievalise ancient, mythological concepts.
ref: 1993, Graham Phillips, King Arthur: The True Story, page 25:
text: Based partly on the Border ballad 'Gilpin Horner', Scott's poem is on the whole a medievalising concoction set in an Ossianic zone of lastness, fading and death.
ref: 2014, Robert Crawford, Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and the Literary Imagination, 1314-2014, page 102:
glosses: Alternative form of medievalize.
medievalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medievalise
medievalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medievalise
medievalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medievalise
ghost deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost deer
Senses: glosses: A cryptid said to live in the canyons of Mount Eddy in northern California, resembling a large elk, that is immune to bullets and able to disappear without a trace.
ghost nudibranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost nudibranchs
Senses: glosses: Lecithophorus capensis, a translucent dorid nudibranch found in South Africa.
ghost nudibranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost nudibranch
ghost nippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost nipper
ghost nipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost nippers
Senses: glosses: A marine yabby; a species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait.
pseudoinnocence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sjuːdəʊˈɪnəsəns/
ipa: /suːdoʊˈɪnəsəns/
Etymology: From pseudo- + innocence.
Senses: glosses: False innocence; what appears to be innocent but is in fact not.
Related terms: pseudoinnocent
medievalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medievalize
medievalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medievalize
medievalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medievalize
pseudoinnocent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + innocent.
Senses: glosses: Having a false appearance of innocence.
Related terms: pseudoinnocence
pseudoinnocent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoinnocents
Etymology: From pseudo- + innocent.
Senses: examples: text: I will not play Giono's game or that of some country literary aristocrat or that of the pseudoinnocents who dance their attendance upon the Academy as they would upon an aged wealthy aunt […]
ref: 1996, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence:
glosses: A person who conveys a false air of innocence.
CFOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CFO
cottage food operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage food operations
Senses: glosses: A small business that produces homemade foods and is partially exempt from the regulations governing larger commercial food operations.
Synonyms: CFO
cottage food operations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottage food operation
ghost catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætfɪʃ
Forms: form: ghost catfish
Senses: glosses: Kryptopterus vitreolus, a small catfish endemic to Thailand and popular in the aquarium trade.
Synonyms: glass catfish
phantom catfish
ghost ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost ants
Senses: glosses: An ant of species Tapinoma melanocephalum, with a dark head and pale or translucent legs and gaster, widespread in tropical and semitropical environments.
ghost ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost ant
pseudoinnocents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoinnocent
ghost rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost rocket
zebra danio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebra danios
Senses: glosses: A zebrafish (Danio rerio).
zebra danios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebra danio
ghost skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rajella dissimilis, a rajid fish of Namibia and South Africa.
ecclesially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ecclesially
form: most ecclesially
Etymology: From ecclesial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: ecclesiastically
ghost station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost stations
Etymology: Calque of German Geisterbahnhöfe, originally describing stations in Berlin that were closed during the Cold War.
Senses: glosses: A disused metro station that is passed through, but not stopped at, by passenger trains.
ghost stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost station
ghost voter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost voters
Senses: glosses: An invented voter in an election, used as a fraudulent means to cast additional votes under assumed names.
Related terms: ghost vote
ghost voters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost voter
ghost voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fraudulent practice of using ghost voters in an election.
flowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flowes
form: flowing
form: flowed
form: flowed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flow.
flowes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flowe
ghost marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost mark
ghost mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost marks
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A trademark that is registered without the intent of using it for a product or service, but in an attempt to obstruct the registration of other similar trademarks.
knifefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪfɪʃ/
Forms: form: knifefishes
form: knifefish
Etymology: From knife + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous fish with knife-shaped bodies, from several different families.
Derived terms: word: African brown knifefish
alt: Xenomystus nigri
word: African knifefish
english: family Gymnotidae spp.
translation: family Gymnotidae spp.
word: banded knifefish
word: black ghost knifefish
english: family Kyphosidae
translation: family Kyphosidae
taxonomic: Labracoglossa nitida
word: blue knifefish
english: family Hypopomidae spp.
translation: family Hypopomidae spp.
word: bluntnose knifefish
taxonomic: Labracoglossa argenteiventris
word: bright knifefish
taxonomic: Apteronotus leptorhynchus
word: brown ghost knifefish
alt: Steatogenys duidae
word: centipede knifefish
english: family Sternopygidae spp.
translation: family Sternopygidae spp.
taxonomic: Chitala ornata
word: clown knifefish
english: family Labridae
translation: family Labridae
taxonomic: Cymolutes torquatus
word: collared knifefish
taxonomic: Papyrocranus congoensis
word: Congo marble knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus coropinae
word: Coropina knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus cylindricus
word: cylindrical knifefish
taxonomic: Parapteronotus hasemani
word: duckbill knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus javari
word: false tiger knifefish
word: featherfin knifefish Notopteridae spp.}
english: family Labridae
translation: family Labridae
taxonomic: Cymolutes torquatus
word: finscale razorfish
english: family Apteronotidae spp.
translation: family Apteronotidae spp.
word: ghost knifefish
english: family Sternopygidae spp.
translation: family Sternopygidae spp.
word: glass knifefish
taxonomic: Eigenmannia virescens
word: green knifefish
english: family Kyphosidae
translation: family Kyphosidae
taxonomic: Bathystethus cultratus
word: grey knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus henni
word: Henn's knifefish
taxonomic: Cymolutes praetextatus
word: Indo-Pacific knifefish
alt: Eques lanceolatus, family Sciaenidae
word: jack-knifefish
alt: Sternopygus macrurus
word: longtail knifefish
taxonomic: Eigenmannia meeki
word: Meek's knifefish
english: famaily Gymnotidae spp.
translation: famaily Gymnotidae spp.
word: nakedback knifefish
taxonomic: Brachyhypopomus occidentalis
word: occidental bluntnose knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus pantherinus
word: panther knifefish
english: family Sternopygidae spp.
translation: family Sternopygidae spp.
word: rat-tail knifefish
taxonomic: Papyrocranus afer
word: reticulated knifefish
taxonomic: Chitala blanci
word: royal knifefish
english: family Rhamphichthyidae spp.
translation: family Rhamphichthyidae spp.
word: sand knifefish
taxonomic: Bathystethus orientalis
word: silver knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus maculosus
word: spotted knifefish
taxonomic: Orthosternarchus tamandua
word: Tamandua knifefish
taxonomic: Gymnotus tigre
word: tiger knifefish
Related terms: alt: Eques lanceolatus
word: jackknife fish
knifefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knifefish
ghost knifefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost knifefishes
form: ghost knifefish
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Apteronotidae of ray-finned fishes in the order Gymnotiformes.
ghost knifefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost knifefish
gymnotiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnotiform
ghost fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost fungi
Senses: glosses: Omphalotus nidiformis, a gilled basidiomycete mushroom with bioluminescent properties, found mainly in Australia.
ghost fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost fungus
ghost insect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost insects
Senses: glosses: Any of various stick insects of the order Phasmida.
ghost insects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost insect
Faddeev-Popov ghost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faddeev-Popov ghosts
Etymology: Named after Ludvig Faddeev and Victor Popov.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An extraneous field introduced into gauge quantum field theories to maintain the consistency of the path integral formulation.
Synonyms: gauge ghost
ghost field
bitchzillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchzilla
gauge ghost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauge ghosts
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of Faddeev-Popov ghost.
synonyms: word: Faddeev-Popov ghost
ghost field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost fields
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of Faddeev-Popov ghost.
synonyms: word: Faddeev-Popov ghost
gauge ghosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauge ghost
ghost fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost field
offshorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offshorers
Etymology: From offshore + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Is the offshorer's management committed to send the development offshore? If the offshorer is a software company developing the system for a customer, the customer might object to offshoring.
ref: 2008, Karl E. Kurbel, The Making of Information Systems:
glosses: An organization that sends work abroad, hiring foreign labour as a substitute for local labour.
examples: text: HPI practitioners can help identify the cultural norms and traditions and can provide training in the work processes that will be shared. We can study any breakdowns that occur between the organization and the offshorer, to determine their root causes and propose solutions to those issues. We can establish measures that can be used to evaluate the performance of the offshorer.
ref: 2012, William J. Rothwell, Carolyn K. Hohne, Stephen B. King, Human Performance Improvement, page 193:
glosses: An organization that accepts offshored work from others.
offshorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offshorer
BigLaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From big + law.
Senses: glosses: Large-scale law firms and their work, specializing in multiple areas of legal practice.
MRAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MRA
pomeloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomelo
pomellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomello
anonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anona
sugar-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar-apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sugar apple.
sugar-apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar-apple
pomoloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomolo
pomolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomolo
pudding bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudding bowls
form: pudding-bowl
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bowl cut.
synonyms: word: bowl cut
pudding bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudding bowl
Lorrainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lorrainer
states of being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state of being
moronity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moronities
Etymology: From moron + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The blonde women were in a frenzy of excitement, their faces transformed from dull moronity to living evil; they shouted like wild animals at the kill.
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 100:
glosses: The quality of being moronic.
Related terms: imbecility
Gülenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡjulənɪst/
Forms: form: Gülenists
form: Gulenist
Etymology: From Gülen + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The military, which opposes the AKP and the Gülenists because it sees itself as the virtual guardian of Turkey’s secular polity à la Ataturk’s vision, serving as a bulwark against religion’s domination over politics and government, has become the primary target of this round of politically motivated arrests.
ref: 2010 February 25, Soner Cagaptay, “What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?”, in Foreign Policy:
text: Their main function is to coordinate the global charity and investment activities of Gülenist businessmen and other participants, many of them teachers and students.
ref: 2014, Jenny White, Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, page 37:
text: The movement is known to have colonized the police force as a Gülenist enclave together with some parts of the judiciary.
ref: 2016, Umit Cizre, The Turkish AK Party and Its Leader: Criticism, Opposition and Dissent, page 113:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: Turkey
glosses: A supporter of the social movement led by Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen.
Related terms: Gülenism
Gülenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gülenist
declarations of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declaration of war
state of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: states of war
Senses: examples: text: I ask that the Congress declare, that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
ref: 1941 December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 6:42 from the start, in Day of Infamy Speech, Washington, D.C.:
text: In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
glosses: A state of armed conflict between states, irrespective of a declaration of war.
Related terms: act of war
chemical genomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In this article, we will provide a detailed analysis of the current state of chemical genomics and its potential impact on biological and medical research, and pharmaceutical development.
ref: 2012, Zheng XFS, Chan T-F, “Chemical genomics: a systematic approach in biological research and drug discovery”, in Cell, page 33:
text: Such obstacles prompted the development of small chemical inhibitors to dissect biological pathways in an approach popularly known as chemical genomics.
ref: 2015, Baral A, Bhalerao RP, “Exploring exocytosis using chemical genomics”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, page 14:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a research method using small molecule inhibitors known to target specific proteins to examine the role of those specific proteins in biological (typically biochemical) processes
pseudo-innocently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pseudo- + innocently.
Senses: examples: text: There's Controllable who pseudo-innocently waits to be told what to do
ref: 2014, Ed Conrad, Heart Power: Inspiring the Courage to Heal and Love Yourself One Day at a Time:
glosses: In a pseudoinnocent manner.
choka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choka
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 長歌, literally "long poem".
Senses: glosses: A Japanese poem, a form of waka that consists of 5 to 7 on phrases repeated at least twice, and concludes with a 5-7-7 ending.
sedoka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedoka
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 旋頭歌.
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of Japanese poem, composed of two sets of 5-7-7 syllables.
katauta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katautas
form: katauta
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 片歌.
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of Japanese poem, having a 5-7-7 meter and forming half of an exchange of two poems.
generals' coup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generals' coups
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A military coup d'état instigated by the military establishment (or a majority of it), not just a faction of the military.
Coordinate terms: military coup
colonels' coup
colonels' coup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonels' coups
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A military coup d'état instigated by a group of unit commanders, a faction of the military, and not the military establishment.
Coordinate terms: military coup
generals' coup
racqueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of racquet
racqueted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of racquet
racqueted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes one finds oneself in the domain of the Motmots, which look at you from their thickets, swinging their curious racqueted tails from right to left after the manner of a clock's pendulum, and uttering bubbling notes...
ref: 1922, The Avicultural Magazine, page 163:
text: All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata.
ref: 2010, Bruce Campbell, Elizabeth Lack, A Dictionary of Birds, →ISBN, page 516:
text: C. spatulata agrees with abyssinica in its pale blue underparts, but it has a long, forked, racqueted tail which is rather different in pattern, and it has rufous brown (not pale blue) greater wing-coverts.
ref: 1978, David William Snow, An atlas of speciation in African non-passerine birds, page 312:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having a spatulate endpart beyond the main tail section.
araneocenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin arānea (“spider”) + cenosis.
Senses: examples: text: This species is among the one of the flagship species for conservation activities and nature protection efforts aimed on araneocenosis in the condition of the Central Europe.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Impact of Canopy Openness on Spider Communities: Implications for Conservation Management of Formerly Coppiced Oak Forests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the spiders that live in a particular habitat
pin-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a pintail, a thin pointed tail
Derived terms: pin-tailed green pigeon
pin-tailed manakin
pin-tailed parrotfinch
pin-tailed sandgrouse
pin-tailed snipe
pin-tailed whydah
pintail snipe
Related terms: pintail
Euler line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euler lines
form: Euler's line
Etymology: Named for Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.
Senses: examples: text: Since the line joining the circumcenter and orthocenter of a triangle is its Euler line, we see that this parabola is the envelope of the Euler lines of the triangles Aᵢ.
ref: 1983, The American Mathematical Monthly, volume 40, page 199:
text: The Euler line in the preceding figure is OH. N, the center of the nine-point circle, not only lies on the Euler line, but is also its midpoint.
ref: 2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Geometry Come Alive: Student Activities and Teacher Notes, page 147:
text: 2011, Derek Allan Holton, A Second Step to Mathematical Olympiad Problems, World Scientific Publishing, Mathematical Olympiad Series, Volume 7, page 57,
Show that the perpendicular bisector of LM in Figure 2.5 meets the Euler line halfway between the orthocentre and the circumcentre of ΔABC.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line that, for a given triangle, passes through several important points, including the circumcentre, orthocentre and centroid; an analogous line for certain other 2- and 3-dimensional geometric figures.
examples: text: Theorem 2.1 A connected graph with even local degrees has an Euler line.
ref: 1961, Yale University, Graphs and Their Uses, page 25:
text: In defining an Euler graph, some authors drop the requirement that the Euler line be closed.
ref: 2009, J. P. Chauhan, Krishna's Applied Discrete Mathematics, page 279:
text: Euler lines mainly deal with the nature of connectivity in graphs. The concept of an Euler line is used to solve several puzzles and games.[…]A closed walk running through every edge of the graph G exactly once is called an Euler line.
ref: 2013, Bhavanari Satyanarayana, Kuncham Syam Prasad, Near Rings, Fuzzy Ideals, and Graph Theory, page 372:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Eulerian path, a looped path through a graph that passes along every edge exactly once.
Related terms: Hamiltonian path
Euler lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euler line
Old Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The earliest attested stage of the Arabic language, beginning with the first attestation of personal names in the 9th century BC, and culminating in the codification of Classical Arabic beginning in the 7th century AD.
Taymanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtaɪ.məˈnɪ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Etymology: From Taymanite + -ic.
Senses: hypernyms: Thamudic
Ancient North Arabian
glosses: The dialect and script of the oasis of Tayma in northwestern Arabia, attested starting in the 6th century BCE, though references to the existence of an indigenous script in Tayma are attested in outside sources from the 8th century BCE.
Tayma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tema
Etymology: From Arabic تيماء, from Taymanitic 𐪉𐪃𐪑 (tmʾ).
Senses: glosses: A large oasis located in northwestern Saudi Arabia.
Tema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tayma.
Semitology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Semite + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples.
Synonyms: Semitic studies
Derived terms: Semitological
Semitological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Semitology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Semitology.
blackstart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackstarts
form: black start
Etymology: From black + start; in the sense of a bird, due to the analogy of redstart.
Senses: glosses: A bird (Oenanthe melanura) in the chat family, found in desert regions of the Middle East and North Africa.
glosses: A restart of a power station without the use of power from the external electricity network.
Assyriologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Assyriologist
blackstarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackstart
test-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: test-fires
form: test-firing
form: test-fired
form: test-fired
Etymology: From test + fire.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of testfire.
indiscriminatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indiscriminatorily
form: most indiscriminatorily
Etymology: From indiscriminatory + -ly. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: glosses: Without discrimination; in an indiscriminatory way.
octoradiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octo- + radiant.
Senses: examples: text: He affixed to his breast the octoradiant star, so much larger and more lustrous than any actual star in heaven.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: There you will see seated at a long narrow table some thirty men, each betopped with a halo denoting Boston, each having affixed on his breast an octoradiant star upon which is superimposed the numerals 1926 […].
ref: 1926, Technology Review, volume 29, page 259:
glosses: Having eight rays.
Hunte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A river in Lower Saxony, Germany, a tributary of the Weser.
bring down the hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings down the hammer
form: bringing down the hammer
form: brought down the hammer
form: brought down the hammer
Senses: glosses: To treat very harshly.
hyliota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyliotas
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of passerine birds in the genus Hyliota, found in Africa.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hyliota australis
word: southern hyliota
taxonomic: Hyliota usambara
word: usambara hyliota
taxonomic: Hyliota violacea
word: violet-backed hyliota
taxonomic: Hyliota flavigaster
word: yellow-bellied hyliota
hyliotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyliota
split shorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of shorts for running, typically shorter than half upper leg and with a seam cut up the side of each leg to enable freer movement.
ixnays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ixnay
ixnaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ixnay
ixnayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ixnay
Exeter point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Exeter points
Etymology: Named for the Phillips Exeter Academy (in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire), where it was discovered during a computers-in-mathematics workshop in 1986.
Senses: examples: text: It ^([the Euler line]) passes through the centroid, the Exeter point and the center of the nine-point circle of the triangle.
ref: 2015, Gerard Venema, Just the Facts 101: Foundations of Geometry, Cram101 Textbook Reviews, unnumbered page:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: B and C such that D; E and F are respectively opposite A; B and C; B and C such that D; E and F are respectively opposite A; B and C
glosses: The point of concurrence of the rays DA’, EB’ and FC’.
wikipedia: Clark Kimberling
Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers
Exeter, New Hampshire
Phillips Exeter Academy
Exeter points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Exeter point
crisp breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crisp bread
egg breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg bread
toyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog toyo, from Hokkien 豆油 (tāu-iû, “soy sauce”).
Senses: glosses: soy sauce
hæm-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haem-.
rake-hells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rake-hell
shal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of shall.
gilli-danda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gilli-danda
form: Gilli-Danda
form: gilli danda
form: Gilli Danda
form: gillidanda
form: guli danda
Etymology: Ultimately from Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍa).
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Instructor, Volume 80, Instructor Publications
It is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!
text: Bhuvan the hero of the film to understand 'cricket', relates it to his understanding of their native folk game of Gilli Danda. He says: ball (image of the silli thing) is gola-gola-ball, bat-phalli-phalli-bat.
ref: 2004, Triveni: Journal of Indian Renaissance, Volume 73, Triveni Publishers:
text: The indigenous games like gilli-danda, goli, kabaddi, tash, kabootar urana (pigeon flying), erhi koodna (long jump), surra, cheel jhapatna, tahat etc., were commonly played by both children and adults of the village[...]
ref: 2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, Concept Publishing Company, page 110:
text: This happens because the hero of the film asserts that cricket is only a poor copy of their own age-old children's game of gilli-danda. So this mockery inverts the colonizing mission of civilizing the childlike natives on its head and also 'desecrates the "purity" of cricket roots' asserted by the British.
ref: 2013, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, page 156:
text: Also called guli danda, Gilli Danda is a sport for an amateur which is very popular among rural youth. It is known as Danguli in Bengali, Kuttiyam Kolum in Malayalam, Kitti-Pullu in Tamil, Chinni-Dandu in Kannada, Gooti-Billa in Telugu and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto. It follows the structure of cricket or baseball, only it is played with sticks.
ref: 2013, Hachette India, Indiapedia: The All-India Factfinder:
text: A game of gilli-danda continues until all players have had a turn at being on strike. The winning team is the side that records the most danda lengths and thus scores the most points.
ref: 2015, Victoria Williams Ph.D., Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing, ABC-CLIO, page 122:
glosses: A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket.
Gilli Danda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Instructor, Volume 80, Instructor Publications
It is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!
text: Bhuvan the hero of the film to understand 'cricket', relates it to his understanding of their native folk game of Gilli Danda. He says: ball (image of the silli thing) is gola-gola-ball, bat-phalli-phalli-bat.
ref: 2004, Triveni: Journal of Indian Renaissance, Volume 73, Triveni Publishers:
text: Also called guli danda, Gilli Danda is a sport for an amateur which is very popular among rural youth. It is known as Danguli in Bengali, Kuttiyam Kolum in Malayalam, Kitti-Pullu in Tamil, Chinni-Dandu in Kannada, Gooti-Billa in Telugu and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto. It follows the structure of cricket or baseball, only it is played with sticks.
ref: 2013, Hachette India, Indiapedia: The All-India Factfinder:
glosses: Alternative form of gilli-danda.
ups sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up sticks
upping sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of up sticks
upped sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of up sticks
hæmato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemato-.
PGO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PGOs
Etymology: Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.
Senses: examples: text: Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation.
ref: 2010, Robert Stickgold, Matthew P. Walker, The Neuroscience of Sleep, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The result is consistent with the idea that PGO is interacting with an amino acid residue that lies in the vicinity of the phosphorylation site, Aspas.
ref: 2012, Shoichi Imai, Makoto Endo, Iwao Ohtsuki, Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 172:
text: The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology.
ref: 2013, Leslie Iversen, Drugs, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior, →ISBN, page 265:
glosses: A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.
California quail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California quails
Senses: glosses: A quail native to California and areas of neighboring states, but introduced elsewhere (Callipepla californica).
Synonyms: valley quail
California valley quail
arginylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arginyl + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: More precisely, this work scrutinizes the relevance of the tRNA nucleotides at position 20, 35 and 36 in the yeast arginylation reaction.
ref: 2016 February 5, “The Enzymatic Paradox of Yeast Arginyl-tRNA Synthetase: Exclusive Arginine Transfer Controlled by a Flexible Mechanism of tRNA Recognition”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of an arginyl group to a compound.
colisepticemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coli + septicemia.
Senses: examples: text: It was always associated with other VGs. Comparing these results with those originating from poultry, the percentage of malX-positive isolates in frigates can be considered high because strains from birds with colisepticemia and the cloacal microbiota of healthy birds have showed lower malX frequencies [14 ,34 ,39 ].
ref: 2016 February 5, “Free-Ranging Frigates ( Fregata magnificens ) of the Southeast Coast of Brazil Harbor Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli Resistant to Antimicrobials”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: septicemia as a result of infection by Escherichia coli
colposuspension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colposuspensions
Etymology: From colpo- + suspension.
Senses: examples: text: Noe et al. generally uses two single “interrupted” sutures or, in case of a colposuspension, a “continuous” type suture.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Laparoscopic Pectopexy: A Biomechanical Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The use of sutures to support the neck of the bladder in order to reduce stress incontinence in women
stress incontinence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: leakage of urine or involuntary urination (induced by coughing, sneezing, laughing, or exercising) caused by weakness in the support of the female urethra and neck of the bladder
cosubstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosubstitutions
Etymology: From co- + substitution.
Senses: glosses: Any of a series of related substitutions
cosubstitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For example, V139I, K191E, V511I, M535L, N559T, M570I, I647V, and M676V each had cosubstitutions ranging from 8 to 21 instances with respect to K627E. Although S286G, R340K, M473V, K526R, T569A, and A588V were observed (Table 3 ), their association with K627E was seen in four or fewer instances.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Genomic Signatures for Avian H7N9 Viruses Adapting to Humans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of cosubstitution
euryvalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eury- + valent.
Senses: examples: text: In our study locations, habitat structures in the changeover from open stands to dense stands included spider species expanding from both extremes but likely maintaining a suitable environment only for common and euryvalent species, while the presence of conservationally important species rose by a significant 65% with higher canopy openness.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Impact of Canopy Openness on Spider Communities: Implications for Conservation Management of Formerly Coppiced Oak Forests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: That adapts well to changing environmental conditions
raw_tags: of an organism
exportome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exportomes
Etymology: From export + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: Molecular chaperones of the heat shock protein (Hsp) family are prominent members of the exportome, including a number of Hsp40s and a Hsp70.
ref: 2016 February 5, “The Malarial Exported PFA0660w Is an Hsp40 Co-Chaperone of PfHsp70-x”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: All the proteins exported from one specified organism to another
Related terms: exportomer