cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
isobiflavonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobiflavonoids
Etymology: From iso- + biflavonoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of a biflavonoid that contains one or two isoflavones
isobiflavonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isobiflavonoid
web scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web scraping
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The scraping of data from websites
Synonyms: web harvesting
Hypernyms: data scraping
isocatechin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + catechin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of catechin
web harvesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of web scraping.
synonyms: word: web scraping
data scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data scrapings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.
examples: text: OpenCorporates collects corporate data from public open data sources, official APIs, and data scrapings, and transforms it all into a standard form.
ref: 2019, Jack Lord, “Corporate Ownership”, in Tim Davies et al., editors, The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An application of this technique.
Hyponyms: web scraping
isohemispheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + hemispheric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the same hemisphere (side of the cerebrum)
screen scraping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.
isokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: calisthenics
coordinate_terms: isometrics
isotonics
plyometrics
glosses: Isokinetic exercises.
Longhope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋhəʊp/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6818).
glosses: A coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND3090).
isoverbascoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + verbascoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyphenolic glycoside [6-[2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethoxy]-3,5-dihydroxy-4-(3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl)oxyoxan-2-yl]methyl (E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate
jararhagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hemorrhagic metalloproteinase in the venom of the snake Bothrops jararaca
keratometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratometry
well-thought-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-thought-out
form: more well-thought-out
form: best-thought-out
form: most well-thought-out
Etymology: From well + thought-out.
Senses: examples: text: That was really a well-thought-out answer.
glosses: Well-planned; with much forethought.
Related terms: planned
Cialis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /siˈæl.ɪs/
rhymes: -ælɪs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A preparation for tadalafil.
uncovetously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncovetously
form: most uncovetously
Etymology: From uncovetous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not covetous.
uncovetousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncovetous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being covetous.
Tezze sul Brenta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.
Monterovere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy; a frazione of Caldonazzo.
Fratte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Salerno, Campania, Italy; a suburb of the city of Salerno.
glosses: A village in Padua, Veneto, Italy; a frazione of Santa Giustina in Colle.
glosses: A village in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy; a frazione of Telve di Sopra.
scrap car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrap cars
Senses: glosses: A car which is sold to a scrap metal dealer for the purpose of recycling the metal; often cars where the value of metal exceeds the value of the actual car on the secondary market.
stim board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stim boards
form: stimboard
Senses: glosses: A digital mood board composed of video fragments (usually in the form of animated gifs) conveying pleasant or satisfying physical sensation.
Santa Giustina in Colle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Padua, Veneto, Italy.
Telve di Sopra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.
enthymema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthymemas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enthymeme.
enthymemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enthymema
a-spec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.spɛk/
Forms: form: aspec
Etymology: From a- (from asexual and aromantic) + spec, a clipping of spectrum.
Senses: examples: text: A segment of Core could have been about solely the trans community, or the exclusion of bi, pan, and a-spec people from queer spaces […]
ref: 2017 December 7, Hayley Van Allen, "Where is the LGBTQ+ representation in Scripps core?", in The Scripps Voice, volume XXI, issue 04, page 4
text: However, this article isn’t about what it means, or how it feels to be a-spec: it’s about the erasure (A-rasure?) of a-spec identities.
ref: 2018 June 2, “A is Not for Ally: Spare a Thought for Invisible Identities this Pride Month”, in The Panoptic, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2020:
text: Jughead means a lot to aspec people
ref: 2017 March 31, “Jughead, Bughead, And The Need For Asexual & Aromantic Heroes In Comics”, in Comics Alliance, retrieved 06 Apr 2020:
text: We can and should recognize that there is plenty of room for a multitude of reactions from a-spec folks because, like any other identity, we are not a monolith and we carry with us a multitude of experiences, desires, limitations, and perspectives.
ref: 2020 March 12, “‘It’s Not You, It’s Not Me’ Centers Allosexual Feelings And Fails Asexual People”, in wearyourvoicemag.com, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2020:
text: In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.
ref: 2020 February 4, “Asexuality, Explained Through Cake”, in The Link, retrieved 06 Apr 2020:
text: While the SAM was initially created by a-spec people, it can easily be used by people who are not asexual or aromantic.
ref: 2018 October 27, “Explore the spectrum: Guide to finding your ace community”, in GLAAD, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2020:
text: Asexual representation in games is so sparse as to be virtually non-existent, and some of the few examples that there are reinforce incorrect beliefs about a-spec people.
ref: 2018 February 15, “Ace Jam created a space for games with asexual characters”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun, retrieved 06 Apr 2020:
glosses: On, or relating to, the asexual spectrum and/or aromantic spectrum.
a-spec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.spɛk/
Forms: form: a-specs
form: aspec
Etymology: From a- (from asexual and aromantic) + spec, a clipping of spectrum.
Senses: examples: text: “Aspecs [those on the asexual spectrum]^([sic]) can have relationships with anyone. We’re not limited to being exclusively with other aspecs…. There always needs to be communication and establishing boundaries regardless of the relationship. […]” – M
ref: 2022 April 15, Timaree Schmit, “Reader question: Asexual dating”, in Philadelphia Weekly:
text: This is why events like the Indigenous Aces panel and articles by a-specs from marginalised backgrounds are so important within the larger conversation around a-spec issues.
ref: 2023, Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: A person on the asexual spectrum and/or aromantic spectrum.
in accordance with
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: synonyms: IAW
as per
per#Preposition
glosses: According to: following the rules or standards of; in a way consistent with; in a way not discordant with.
Related terms: in keeping with
scrape someone off the ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes someone off the ceiling
form: scraping someone off the ceiling
form: scraped someone off the ceiling
form: scraped someone off the ceiling
Senses: examples: text: He would come over to my office at least once a week and explode because somebody had been after him. And I would scrape him off the ceiling and send him back until the next week.
ref: 1979, A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971:
text: Occasionally, however, they will get a real thriller, and when the horn goes off at a particularly suspenseful point, they say you can scrape the pilots off the ceiling.
ref: 1983, Michael Skinner, USAFE, a primer of modern air combat in Europe, page 8:
text: Do you think you could scrape yourself off the ceiling long enough for us to get some sleep?
ref: 1992, Jasmine Cresswell, Nowhere to Hide, page 200:
text: It made my inner self so excited I had to think of baseball or they'd be scraping me off the ceiling.
ref: 2001, G.C. Rosenquist, The Opening And Closing Of The Moon, page 9:
text: No, you'd have to scrape me off the ceiling.
ref: 2007, James Kirkwood, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead:
text: I spoke with Kip the other day, and you could scrape him off the ceiling with the obvious pride and excitement he shares with Kinsley.
ref: 2007, Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin:
text: Barbara Johnson of Melodyland wrote to me about her Spatula Club. "You need a bit of humor. Parents have to be scraped off the ceiling when they first find out. So we make these little spatulas. . . . "
ref: 2011, John White, Parents in Pain, page 64:
text: Expose a pulp or so called “nerve” of an adult tooth accidently,^([sic]) without an anaesthetic, and you will have to scrape your patient off the ceiling.
ref: 2012, Dr. Brian La Trobe, Of Diamonds and Dentistry, page 368:
text: Chapman, you could have scraped me off the ceiling.
ref: 2018, Written Off, page Paul Carroll:
glosses: Used to describe the response to someone who is either experiencing great pain, who is very frightened, or is very elated.
Related terms: hit the roof
scrapes someone off the ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrape someone off the ceiling
scraping someone off the ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrape someone off the ceiling
scraped someone off the ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrape someone off the ceiling
look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlʊk‿əz‿ɪf ˈwʌn həz bɪn ˈdɹæɡd θɹuː‿ə hɛd͡ʒ ˈbækwɜːdz/
ipa: /ˌlʊk‿əz‿ɪf ˈwʌn həz bɪn ˈdɹæɡd θɹu‿ə hɛd͡ʒ ˈbækwɝdz/
Forms: form: looks as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
form: looking as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
form: looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards
form: looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards
Senses: examples: text: Bill is right, for I heard him say myself she [a racehorse] couldn't stay; he'd eat her if she won: drawn too fine; was on the go; done too much work; had a bad night, and looked as if she was dragged through a hedge backwards, and hadn't eaten a feed of corn for a month.
ref: 1865, R. H. Copperthwaite, “Turf Topics”, in The Turf and the Racehorse […], London: Day and Son, […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:
text: "Papa wants you in the library," she said, coldly; "but I advise you not to go downstairs till you have smoothed your hair. You look as if you had been dragged through a hedge backwards."
ref: 1875, Mary Neville, “[A Little Heiress.] Chapter VI. Leaves from an Old Diary.”, in Alice Godolphin and A Little Heiress. Two Stories. […], volume II, London: Samuel Tinsley, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: "I want the waist to be narrow," I told the tailor at Huntsmans, "I don't want to look as if I've been dragged through a hedge backwards."
ref: 2004, Harry Turner, “High Fashion 1947 Style”, in Growing Up in Fulham: Memories of SW6 1940–1953, London: Janus Publishing Company, published 2006, →ISBN, page 215:
text: Fasten that top button, Kosh. […] And tidy up that bearskin! You look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards.
ref: [2018, Brian Luff, Jack and the Magical Beanstalk: A Traditional Family Pantomime, [London]: Fit2Fill, →ISBN, act I, scene ii, page 22:
text: A nail technician was mortified after splurging £500 on 'princess hair' only to end up looking like she'd been "dragged through a hedge backwards" – after getting in a hot tub. […] The teen confesses that advice is to avoid chlorinated water, wearing your hair in a bun or sleeping with wet hair after having extensions fitted – and she managed to do all three in one night.
ref: [2021 August 18, Martha Cliff, “Hair scare: I spent £500 on ‘princess hair’ – but as soon as I got it wet I looked like I’d been ‘dragged through a hedge backwards’”, in The Sun, London: News Group Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2021:
synonyms: look like something the cat dragged in
qualifier: simile
glosses: To look extremely dishevelled.
Campolongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Treviso, Veneto, Italy; a frazione of Conegliano.
glosses: A town in Belluno, Veneto, Italy; a frazione of Santo Stefano di Cadore.
specularising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of specularise
specularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of specularise
Santo Stefano di Cadore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Belluno, Veneto, Italy.
specularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: specularises
form: specularising
form: specularised
form: specularised
Senses: examples: text: We cannot specularise ourselves in this estranged space
ref: 2003, Jean Fisher, Vampire in the Text: Narratives of Contemporary Art, page 64:
text: They crane their neck to specularise the gory event with sadistic pleasure.
ref: 2004, Chioma Carol Opara, Her Mother's Daughter: The African Writer as Woman, page 191:
text: Minstrelsy's conventions that figure race in black and white specularise the wider discourses, but they are also performative.
ref: 2013, Dr Alison Ravenscroft, The Postcolonial Eye:
glosses: Alternative form of specularize.
specularises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of specularise
hold a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds a mirror to
form: holding a mirror to
form: held a mirror to
form: held a mirror to
form: hold up a mirror to
Senses: examples: text: Or, as Dr. Gregory Stevenson suggests, do the supernatural trials and tribulations of the Winchesters appeal because they merely hold a mirror to the more mundane terrors we all face every day?
ref: 2009, Leah Wilson, In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural, page 39:
text: Such representations, which hold a mirror to the oppressed person's reality, arise from problem posing and dialogues that allow the meek to grasp the dimensions of their oppression.
ref: 2010, J. P. Singh, Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity:
text: If these children have been their parents' gifts and teachers, then these stories shared by struggling but resilient parents is a gift to all of us. They hold a mirror to our own perceptions and to the influence—good and bad—that we can have on those we are trying to help.
ref: 2011, Reginald Nettles, Rochelle Balter, Multiple Minority Identities, page 44:
text: Bradley points towards this modern renaissance in history because he sees that history does not hold a mirror to the past, but embraces it through the critical understanding of the historian.
ref: 2012, Peter Johnson, Collingwood's The Idea of History:
text: They must be natural as theatre is meant to hold a mirror to reality and represent it.
ref: 2013, Making Sense of Hamlet!:
glosses: To reflect; to represent and by resemblance provide insight into.
examples: text: To speak "truth to power" should not be considered negative: to hold a mirror to society, even a mirror that embodies the biases and anguish of its creator, is not a negative act.
ref: 2005, Omar Swartz, In Defense of Partisan Criticism, page 55:
text: My daughter Valerie, who has a unique ability to hold a mirror to my behavior, helped me see reality.
ref: 2009, Miriam Neff, From One Widow to Another: Conversations on the New You, page 38:
text: All a facilitator can do is hold a mirror to the group.
ref: 2012, Merianne Liteman, Sheila Campbell, Jeffrey Liteman, Retreats That Work, page 143:
text: In defining its media role, according to Hugh Greene, director-general of the BBC, the channel should continue to strive “to hold a mirror to what was going on in contemporary British society.”
ref: 2013, Gillian I. Leitch, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III, Doctor Who in Time and Space:
glosses: To elucidate; to make explicit some aspect of.
examples: text: Hold a mirror to the pet's nose. If no condensation appears, the animal is probably dead.
ref: 2011, David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven, Ben H. Winters, The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Man Skills:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, mirror.
holds a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold a mirror to
Canso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.soʊ/
rhymes: -ænsəʊ
Etymology: From French Canseau, from Mi'kmaq gamso'q (literally “the place beyond the cliffs”), a seasonal Mikmaq fishing camp at what is now Canso, NS, Canada.
Senses: glosses: A community in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: Ellipsis of Cape Canso: a cape in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: Ellipsis of Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia.
glosses: Ellipsis of Canso Rocks: an islets of Antarctica, near the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula; named after the PBY Canso WWII-era amphibious flying boat, itself named after the town of Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada
glosses: Ellipsis of Canso Crater (“a crater on Mars, named after the town of Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada”).
holding a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold a mirror to
TikToker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TikTokers
form: TikTok-er
form: TikTokker
Etymology: From TikTok + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “TikTok has brought a younger group of creators. That energy is kind of pushing on a lot of older creators,” said Josh Sadowski, 19, a TikToker with nearly four million followers who lived in another TikTok collab house.
ref: 2020 January 3, Taylor Lorenz, “Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush”, in The New York Times (newspaper), retrieved 06 Apr 2020:
text: When a young TikToker called @idrinkurmilkshake winkingly identified herself as a member of the “Pfizer Gang,” she kicked off a joking rivalry that tore ebulliently through the internet.
ref: 2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: From arguing in the comments section over the best way to work your glutes to critiquing someone's deadlift skills, there's always some kind of disagreement brewing between gym-going TikTokers.
ref: 2022 January 14, Jade Biggs, “This TikTok of a woman squatting in the gym is dividing people”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2023:
text: Here TikTokers are finding that they've failed the 'unspoken rizz' test with hilarious outcomes.
ref: 2022 May 20, Dave Deiley, “What does "unspoken rizz" mean on TikTok?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A user of the video-sharing app TikTok, especially one who creates videos.
held a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold a mirror to
TikTokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TikToker
hold up a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds up a mirror to
form: holding up a mirror to
form: held up a mirror to
form: held up a mirror to
Senses: examples: text: We have always to interpret, to provide the meaning for what we see, and for that we can only draw upon human values, emotions and interpretations. When we gaze at animals we hold up a mirror to ourselves.
ref: 1999, Adrian Franklin, Animals and Modern Cultures:
text: Through meditation we can learn to function in the capacity of a detached observer and hold up a mirror to our own behaviour.
ref: 2011, Naomi Ozaniec, Find Peace with Meditation: Flash:
text: Let him hold up a mirror to himself and realize that he is the devil's numero uno servant.
ref: 2014, Nndy Nenty, Observing What Is Not Happening: Second Autobiography, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of hold a mirror to.
holds up a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold up a mirror to
holding up a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold up a mirror to
held up a mirror to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold up a mirror to
Vallarsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.
TikTok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪkˌtɒk/
ipa: /ˈtɪkˌtɑk/
Etymology: From tick-tock.
Senses: glosses: A video-sharing social media platform.
Derived terms: TikToker
TikTokification
TikTokky
-Tok
Twit-Tok
TikTok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪkˌtɒk/
ipa: /ˈtɪkˌtɑk/
Forms: form: TikToks
Etymology: From tick-tock.
Senses: examples: text: How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?
text: Imagine The Smiths or Joy Division making TikToks to promote their music. Think about Nick Cave or Joni Mitchell, and just imagine them negotiating with this bullshit.
ref: 2025 June 14, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, quoting James Blake, “James Blake's fight against ‘free music’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 12:
glosses: A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on TikTok.
examples: text: “Are there any volunteers who would like to make their first video in front of everybody?” The first person who raised his hand was a dad in his late forties who had been a participant in our training school. I remember this guy because earlier in the training he had told me that his son had told him, “Dad, whatever you do, don’t start a TikTok.”
ref: 2022, Brian Barcelona, Don’t Scroll: Evangelism in the Digital Age, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Chosen Books, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: If you’ve never been on TikTok, we don’t recommend you start a TikTok just to promote your campaign.
ref: 2022, Carol Pinchefsky, quoting Oriana Leckert, Turn Your Fandom into Cash: A Geeky Guide to Turn Your Passion into a Business (or at Least a Side Hustle), Newburyport, Mass.: Career Press, Red Wheel/Weiser, llc, →ISBN:
text: Start a TikTok and share your ideas, join a club or group, or audition for the play, etc.
ref: 2022, Stefanie Caponi, Guided Tarot for Teens: A Beginner’s Guide to Card Meanings, Spreads, and Trust in Your Intuition, New York, N.Y.: Zeitgeist Young Adult, Penguin Random House LLC, →ISBN:
text: If you look at the podcasting sphere, which was a way of voices that had been pushed to the margins to carve out a space, now it’s just a content farm and one more space people have to participate in, like how brands have to have a TikTok, a presence in all these different mediums.
ref: 2023, Claudia B. Manley with Abi Slone, Fashion Writing: A Primer, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
text: So, instead of just trusting that Spotify is always gonna do right by you, have a Spotify, have an Apple Music, Instagram, have a Facebook, have a TikTok, have a YouTube, have a merch site, have a Patreon.
ref: 2024, Hannah Trigwell, quoting Jack Conte, “Distributing Music Digitally”, in Making It Happen: How to Create a Sustainable Career in the Music Industry, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Focal Press, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:
text: We should start a TikTok for the drama department. […] We can do educational videos. Like, about the Poor Theatre, but with the dancing.
ref: 2024, Philippa Lawford, Cold Water, Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN:
text: We wanted some press so we started a TikTok and other social media.
ref: 2024, Sinclair Jayne, The Cowboy Charm (The Coyote Cowboys of Montana), Tule Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A TikTok account.
TikTok
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪkˌtɒk/
ipa: /ˈtɪkˌtɑk/
Forms: form: TikToks
form: TikToking
form: TikTokking
form: TikTok-ing
form: TikToked
form: TikToked
form: TikTokked
form: TikTokked
Etymology: From tick-tock.
Senses: examples: text: There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.
ref: 2019 November 29, Jonathan Heaf, “Confessions of a hypedad”, in ES Magazine, London, page 56, column 2:
text: He got up and performed the first verse, and then walked through the door of the rotating, dioramic set — part Michel Gondry music video; part high school musical — and: It was BTS! Off they went: this black American whiz kid and these seven South Korean superstars TikTokked together.
ref: 2020 March 11, Wesley Morris, “Lil Nas X Is the King of the Crossover”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: It’s not often that one sees a mayor TikTok-ing and Instagramming such random activities, ranging from ice-cream making, to exercising, to a mini magic show.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Kauai mayor takes to TikTok”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Honolulu, Hi., page A8, column 1:
text: Despite some unfortunate mixed messaging so far, government officials say they are well aware that there is an information war they need to win in order to beat Covid — and like these TikTok-ing doctors, they believe that social media is the key.
ref: 2020 November 24, Libby Galvin, “Misinformation and fear is vaccine’s ticking time bomb”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:
text: But thanks to pandemic-shuttered TikTok-ing teens, the anthem with an urgent pulse and message of longing for closeness reignited the Liverpool export’s profile.
ref: 2020 December 25, Melissa Ruggieri, “12 of the best songs of 2020”, in The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Tex., section “Banners, “Someone to You”, page B3, column 5:
glosses: To upload a video of something to TikTok.
glosses: To search for and view on TikTok.
Derived terms: TikToker
Related terms: Douyin
Tokkuzak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Toqquzaq
Etymology: From Uyghur توققۇزاق (toqquzaq).
Senses: examples: text: In Tokkuzak town of Kashgar, over hundred students and teachers were arrested for performing collective prayer.
ref: 2005 July 20, Rebiya Kadeer, “Letter from Rebiya Kadeer, Human Rights Activist, to the Congress of the United States”, in Falun Gong and China's Continuing War on Human Rights, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) poses for a group photo with pupils and teachers of the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 28, 2014. Xi made an inspection tour in Xinjiang from April 27 to 30.
ref: 2014 May 4, “President Xi Jinping makes inspection tour in Xinjiang (4)”, in People's Daily, archived from the original on 02 May 2021:
text: A teacher instructs a student in calligraphy at the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
ref: 2017, Jia Zhao, Huang Xiaoxi, “Clapper talk, calligraphy changing Uygur life”, in Shanghai Daily:
text: The official could not say which of Gulnisa’s poems got her arrested, what crime Gulnisa had been charged with, or whether she had a trial. But he did confirm that she is serving her sentence in Mush Women’s prison in Tokkuzak (Toukezhake) township in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture.
ref: 2021 December 15, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur poet imprisoned on separatism charges in China’s Xinjiang”, in Roseanne Gerin, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2021:
glosses: A town in Shufu, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Tuokezhake
direct registering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... constantly sharing in her li[e since I had moved there the previous October. On this glorious morning, every track in her eastward trail was perfect. She moved in her natural rhythm, a direct registering trot, and I envisioned her gliding through ...
ref: 2003, Mark Elbroch, Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 1:
text: All the canines use this gait, but it tends to be for short sections of trail and most often is a transition from a direct-registering trot to a side trot. However, Gray Foxes use this gait very often, as do Mule Deer and several shrew species.
ref: 2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, Univ of California Press, page 53
text: If you see consistent direct registering in an alternating track pattern, the track pattern will have been made almost always by a wild member of the cat family (bobcat, mountain lion, lynx) or a fox (kit fox, red fox, gray fox).
ref: 2013, James Lowery, Tracker's Field Guide: A Comprehensive Manual for Animal Tracking, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The practice, of cats and some other animals, of placing their hindfeet in the same place as (i.e. in the prints left by) their forefeet.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see direct, registering.
Synonyms: perfect stepping
septentrigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Senses: qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10¹¹⁴.
Related terms: Previous: sextrigintillion: short scale 10111
long scale 10216
Next: octotrigintillion: short scale 10117
long scale 10228
octotrigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Senses: qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10¹¹⁷.
Related terms: Previous: septentrigintillion: short scale 10114
long scale 10222
Next: novemtrigintillion: short scale 10120
long scale 10234
novemtrigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Senses: qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10¹²⁰.
Related terms: Previous: octotrigintillion: short scale 10117
long scale 10228
Next: quadragintillion: short scale 10123
long scale 10240
criothyrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cricothyrotomy.
WeChat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːt͡ʃæt/
Etymology: Entered English no later than 2012 when the app was re-branded "WeChat" for the international market. "We" corresponds to the first character in the original Chinese name 微信 (Wēixìn, literally “micro message”).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app.
Derived terms: WeChatter
WeChat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːt͡ʃæt/
Forms: form: WeChats
form: WeChatting
form: WeChatted
form: WeChatted
Etymology: Entered English no later than 2012 when the app was re-branded "WeChat" for the international market. "We" corresponds to the first character in the original Chinese name 微信 (Wēixìn, literally “micro message”).
Senses: examples: text: The "heads bowed down" (to look at cell phones), those obsessed with cell phones, virtual chat, the Internet, and excessive WeChatting, which we see as a phenomenon everywhere, reflect attempts to overcome the loneliness and disinterest this generation feels, and to make up for their empty spiritual world through newly available technologies.
ref: 2017 April 5, Huidi Ma, Er Liu, Traditional Chinese Leisure Culture and Economic Development: A Conflict of Forces, Springer:
text: With the development of social platforms such as micro blogging and wechatting, Chinese short text classification has great impact on public opinion analysis and sentiment mining.
ref: 2018 October 20, Leong Hou U, Haoran Xie, Web and Big Data: APWeb-WAIM 2018 International Workshops: MWDA, BAH, KGMA, DMMOOC, DS, Macau, China, July 23–25, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Springer:
text: Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media
ref: 2019 November 5, Andy Ng, Tina Burrett, Jeffrey Kingston, Routledge:
text: I WeChatted a seller calling herself Linda — a name that, amid others like Aadi, Aooko, Mr. Bao and Zippy, made her seem the least likely to scam me and/or get me placed on a C.I.A. watch list — and instantly she sent me photos of a dozen possible Triomphes.
ref: 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To use the app WeChat; to use the app WeChat to contact (someone).
WeChats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of WeChat
WeChatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of WeChat
WeChatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of WeChat
J. Arthur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J. Arthurs
Etymology: Clipping of J. Arthur Rank
Senses: glosses: A wank.
indigoberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigoberries
Etymology: From indigo + berry.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Randia of shrubs and small trees.
lacrimiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lachrymiform.
ethnographize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ethnographizes
form: ethnographizing
form: ethnographized
form: ethnographized
form: ethnographise
Etymology: From ethnography + -ize.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To carry out ethnography.
Derived terms: ethnographization
lactitiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lactitol.
ethnographizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ethnographize
ethnographizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ethnographize
lamellogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of lamellae
ethnographized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ethnographize
laterolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From latero- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: lateral and lingual
laterolingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From latero- + lingually.
Senses: glosses: In a laterolingual manner or direction
leachant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leachants
Etymology: From leach + -ant.
Senses: coordinate_terms: leachate
leach#Noun
glosses: A liquid used in leaching.
Related terms: diffusant
diffusate
filtrand
filtrate
solute
solvent
leachants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leachant
leucocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills leucocytes
leucocytozoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to parasitic alveolates of the genus Leucocytozoon
lichesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sterol (3S,10S,13R,14R,17R)-17-[(E,2R,5R)-5,6-dimethylhept-3-en-2-yl]-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,11,12,14,15,16,17-decahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol present in some lichen
lignotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignotoxins
Etymology: From ligno- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of toxins produced in the manufacture of lignocellulose as a fuel
lignotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lignotoxin
lockchamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockchambers
form: lock chamber
Etymology: From lock + chamber.
Senses: glosses: A section of a canal used to raise or lower vessels.
lockchambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockchamber
lymphogenously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a lymphogenous manner
lymphoplasmocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lymphoplasmacellular.
Siculo-Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Siculo- + Arabic.
Senses: glosses: A variety of Arabic that was spoken in the Emirate of Sicily.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Siculo-Arabic terms
Papenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpæpənˌbɜːɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Papenburg.
Senses: glosses: A town in Emsland district, Lower Saxony, Germany.
dedolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedolations
Etymology: From Latin dēdolāre (“to hew away”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slicing wound made by a sharp instrument grazing the surface.
dedolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedolation
decussorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument for depressing the dura after trephining.
dentate nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentate nucleus
derivants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivant
depositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thus a coal stratum found in one locality may not be exactly on the same stratigraphic level as another found not far distant, but both were laid down during a period when the general depositive conditions were the same; […]
ref: 1916, Wilber Stout, Geology of Southern Ohio:
glosses: Involving or relating to the process of depositing.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing a condition in which lymph is exuded into the derma, forming papules.
dermalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermalgias
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dermatalgia.
synonyms: word: dermatalgia
dermatalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatalgia
dermalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermalgia
dermasurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From derma- + surgical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dermasurgery.
dermatodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dermato- + -dynia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dermatalgia.
synonyms: word: dermatalgia
dermitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dermatitis.
synonyms: word: dermatitis
desmopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmopathies
Etymology: From desmo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: disease of the ligaments
desmopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmopathy
antrum of Highmore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antrums of Highmore
form: antra of Highmore
Etymology: Named after Nathaniel Highmore (1613–1685), British surgeon and anatomist who described it in detail in his 1651 treatise.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The maxillary sinus.
wikipedia: Nathaniel Highmore (surgeon)
antrums of Highmore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antrum of Highmore
antra of Highmore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antrum of Highmore
dioptrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The measurement of the accommodative and refractive states of the eye.
Related terms: dioptroscopy
heptadeca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: heptadec-
Etymology: From hepta- + deca-.
Senses: glosses: seventeen
wikipedia: number prefix
Related terms: number
octadeca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: octadec-
Etymology: From octa- + deca-.
Senses: glosses: eighteen
wikipedia: number prefix
Related terms: number
trideca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: tridec-
Etymology: From tri- + deca-.
Senses: glosses: thirteen
wikipedia: number prefix
Synonyms: triskaideka-
Related terms: number
prestreak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + streak.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Prior to the formation of the primitive streak.
nonadeca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: nonadec-
form: enneadeca-
Etymology: From nona- + deca-.
Senses: glosses: nineteen
duplicitas anterior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: coordinate_terms: duplicitas posterior
glosses: A fetal abnormality in which the cephalic end is doubled.
duplicitas posterior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: coordinate_terms: duplicitas anterior
glosses: A fetal abnormality in which the pelvic end is doubled.
lesser-known
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsəˈnəʊn/
ipa: /ˈlɛsɚˈnoʊn/
Etymology: From lesser + known.
Senses: examples: text: It's those lesser-known boxers you gotta watch out for.
text: To celebrate the centenary next month of the opening of the first section (Forest Gate to Tilbury) of the former London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Stephenson Locomotive Society is organising a special rail tour over that route and other lesser-known L.T.S.R. lines.
ref: 1954 March, “Notes and News: S.L.S. Tour of Tilbury Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 215:
glosses: Not as well-known or widely known as others of the same kind.
synonyms: less-known
littler-known
glosses: comparative form of little-known: more little-known
distrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “apart”) + θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The splitting of the distal ends of the hair.
Related terms: split end
diabrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διάβρωσις (diábrōsis), from βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: corrosion, erosion, or ulceration
Related terms: diabrotic
Berden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dən/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL4629).
diabrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing or relating to diabrosis; corrosive or ulcerating.
take ten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes ten
form: taking ten
form: took ten
form: taken ten
Senses: glosses: To take a short, typically ten-minute, break from some activity.
Related terms: take five
look like a bomb has hit it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks like a bomb has hit it
form: looking like a bomb has hit it
form: looked like a bomb had hit it
form: looked like a bomb had hit it
form: look like a bomb's hit it
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: to be very messy.
raw_tags: of a place
Related terms: look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
diaphemetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through”) + ἁφή (haphḗ, “sense of touch”) + -metric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the measurement of tactile sensibility.
FSSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FSSWs
form: fssw
Senses: glosses: Initialism of full-service sex work.
glosses: Initialism of full-service sex worker.
HTMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of His Thai Majesty's Ship, a ship prefix for the Royal Thai Navy.
Coordinate terms: english: His/Her Britannic Majesty's Ship; dated American English
translation: His/Her Britannic Majesty's Ship; dated American English
word: HBMS
english: His/Her Danish Majesty's Ship
translation: His/Her Danish Majesty's Ship
word: HDMS
english: His/Her Dutch Majesty's Ship
translation: His/Her Dutch Majesty's Ship
word: HNLMS
english: His/Her "N" Majesty's Ship; Netherlands or Norway
translation: His/Her "N" Majesty's Ship; Netherlands or Norway
word: HNMS
english: His/Her Norwegian Majesty's Ship
translation: His/Her Norwegian Majesty's Ship
word: HNoMS
english: His/Her Swedish Majesty's Ship
translation: His/Her Swedish Majesty's Ship
word: HSwMS
english: His/Her Majesty's Ship; non-specific use
translation: His/Her Majesty's Ship; non-specific use
word: HMS
english: His/Her Majesty's Australian Ship
translation: His/Her Majesty's Australian Ship
word: HMAS
english: His/Her Majesty's Canadian Ship
translation: His/Her Majesty's Canadian Ship
word: HMCS
english: His/Her Majesty's Indian Ship
translation: His/Her Majesty's Indian Ship
word: HMIS
english: His/Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship
translation: His/Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship
word: HMNZS
english: His/Her Majesty's South African Ship
translation: His/Her Majesty's South African Ship
word: HMSAS
word: HMS
english: Imperial Japanese Navy; WWII and before
translation: Imperial Japanese Navy; WWII and before
word: IJN
english: Republic of Singapore Ship
translation: Republic of Singapore Ship
word: RSS
english: United States Ship
translation: United States Ship
word: USS
diploneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diplo- + neural.
Senses: examples: a diploneural muscle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Furnished with two nerves that origin at different points.
dipsopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to dipsopathy.
dipsopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dipso- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Alcoholism.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The treatment of disease by abstaining from liquids; a thirst cure.
Related terms: dipsopathic
theobromin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of theobromine.