cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
petrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɛtɹəˈfɪlɪk/
Forms: form: more petrophilic
form: most petrophilic
Etymology: From petro- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Thriving in rocky environments.
examples: text: One of the larger organisations, CoRenewal, has been conducting reserach into the ability of fungi to detoxify the poisonous byproducts of crude oil estraction left behind by Chevron's twenty-six-year operation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In partnership with Ecuador's National Institute for Agricultural Research, scientists are doing basic research into local 'petrophilic' fungal strains and training local communities in mycological techniques.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 207:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to digest petroleum byproducts.
petrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrophile
petrophysically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From petrophysical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of petrophysics.
lumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbs
Senses: examples: text: Now, by this time, the ſun begins to leam, / An' litt the hill-heads, wi' his morning beam, / An' birds, and beaſts, and fouk to be aſteer, / And ſtreams o' reek frae lumb heads to appear; […]
ref: 1768, Alexander Ross, “Canto I”, in The Fortunate Shepherdess, a Pastoral Tale; in Three Cantos, in the Scotish Dialect. […], Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire: […] Francis Douglas, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lum (“chimney”).
lumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumb
cottah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”).
cottahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottah
katthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kattha
dhoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhoors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhur (“unit of area”).
dhoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhoor
dhurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhur
dhurki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhurkis
form: dhoorki
Senses: glosses: A unit of area in parts of Asia, one twentieth of a dhur.
dhoorki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhoorkis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhurki.
dhurkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhurki
dhoorkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dhoorki
Llandaff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: An urban area in the city and county of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1578).
pay-triots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pay-triot
paytriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paytriot
Bavington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A civil parish in central Northumberland, England.
Derived terms: Great Bavington
Little Bavington
Donghak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 동학 (donghak, literally “Eastern learning”).
Senses: glosses: An academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism, founded in 1860 by Choe Je-u, that arose as a reaction to seohak (西學, "Western learning") and gradually evolved into the religion known as Cheondoism.
Kendler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pinular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a pinulus.
pinulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinuli
Senses: glosses: A pentact or hexact in which one ray bears oblique lateral teeth or prickles.
Related terms: pinular
pinuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinulus
apple-knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-knockers
Etymology: From apple + knocker, suggesting a person who knocks apples from the trees to harvest them.
Senses: glosses: rustic; yokel; rube
apple-knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-knocker
row echelon forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of row echelon form
withthrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withthrow
withthrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of withthrow
windsnap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windsnaps
Etymology: From wind + snap.
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: The breaking of the bole of a tree by the wind.
glosses: Trees broken in this manner.
Related terms: windthrow
windsnaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windsnap
psychological moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychological moments
Etymology: Derived from a misunderstanding of German psychologische Moment, where Moment actually means momentum.
Senses: examples: text: At length the psychological moment arrived, and the sorcerer called upon her to deliver the child[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 41:
glosses: The best time to do something, when those involved are in the most workable state of mind.
Related terms: window of opportunity
psychological moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychological moment
paradrogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradrogues
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of drogue (“conical device for aerial refuelling”).
synonyms: word: drogue
extra: conical device for aerial refuelling
paradrogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradrogue
Haddenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7408).
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4675).
Petts Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The wood (wooded area) of the Pett family.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4467).
glosses: An area of woodland nearby in Greater London, England.
Long-Evans rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Long-Evans rats
Etymology: Developed by Drs. Long and Evans in 1915 by crossing Wistar females with a wild gray male.
Senses: glosses: An outbred rat used in medical research, white with a black or brown hood.
Long-Evans rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Long-Evans rat
Lewis rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lewis rats
Etymology: Bred by Margaret Lewis from Wistar stock in the early 1950s.
Senses: glosses: A kind of albino rat used in medical research, exhibiting docile behavior and low fertility, and suffering from high incidences of neoplasms and other pathology.
Lewis rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lewis rat
RCS rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCS rats
Etymology: Named after the Royal College of Surgeons.
Senses: glosses: A kind of rat with inherited retinal degeneration, used in medical research.
RCS rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RCS rat
Brattleboro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brattleborough
Etymology: From Brattle + -boro, named after Major-General William Brattle.
Senses: glosses: A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
Brattleboro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brattleboros
Etymology: The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.
Senses: examples: text: Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.
ref: 1978, M. A. Corner, International Summer School of Brain Research, Maturation of the Nervous System: Proceedings (page 329)
glosses: A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
Brattleboros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brattleboro
biobreeding rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biobreeding rats
Senses: glosses: A kind of inbred rat, used in medical research, that spontaneously develops autoimmune type 1 diabetes.
biobreeding rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biobreeding rat
Rowett nude rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rowett nude rats
Senses: glosses: A kind of rat with no thymus and thus a severely compromised immune system, used in medical research.
Rowett nude rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rowett nude rat
Sprague Dawley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sprague Dawleys
Etymology: First produced by the Sprague-Dawley farms in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1925.
Senses: glosses: A kind of outbred albino rat used in medical and nutritional research.
Sprague Dawleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sprague Dawley
electrocatalyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrocatalyzes
form: electrocatalyzing
form: electrocatalyzed
form: electrocatalyzed
Etymology: From electro- + catalyze.
Senses: glosses: To subject to electrocatalysis.
electrocatalyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrocatalyze
electrocatalyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrocatalyze
electrocatalyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electrocatalyze
Hashimoto's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
synonyms: word: Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Seaford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seafords
form: Safford
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Seford, Sevord, from Old English *Sǣford, from Old English sǣ (“sea”) + ford (“ford”); equivalent to sea + ford.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TV4899).
glosses: A placename:
A city in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in York County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Golton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
quasieconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + economic.
Senses: examples: text: Decisions about participation, staying, or moving are presumed to be based on a quasieconomic form of reasoning about the costs of desired ends (e.g., Fischer, 1982; Fischer et al., 1977, esp. pp. 139-186; Rossi, 1956).
ref: 2011, Kristine Nelson, Paul Adams, Reinventing Human Services: Community- and Family-Centered Practice:
glosses: Having certain economic aspects.
Tottenham Hale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3489).
lalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lallas
Senses: glosses: In Persia, a kind of domestic tutor.
glosses: In Persia, a male nurse.
glosses: A native clerk who writes the vernacular.
examples: text: Where there are no tigers, the Lalla (scribe) becomes a shikaree.
ref: 1841, Society in India, ii. 176:
text: There were Hindu lallas from the piece-goods market of Bulandshahr, smartly dressed in silks; there were Kashmiri Muhammadans from the local carpet factories, immaculately clad in white cotton; […]
ref: 1935, Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable:
glosses: A respectable merchant.
Marholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1402).
cut down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts down to size
form: cutting down to size
form: cut down to size
form: cut down to size
Senses: examples: text: The war was seen by the Foreign Office as a golden opportunity to undo the UN Partition Resolution and cut Israel down to size'.
ref: 2000, Efraim Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History: The "new Historians", page 152:
text: The system cut everybody down to size. I felt small and vulnerable.
ref: 2003, Gordon Donnell, Starliner, page 10:
text: If Arthur Oliphant's aim had been to cut them down to size, it worked: photographs taken at Somerville College in 1888 show Bamba and her sister looking diffident.
ref: 2015, Anita Anand, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, page 87:
synonyms: bring down to size
knock down to size
trim down to size
whittle down to size
glosses: To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud.
examples: text: There is, however, another general approach to cutting the potential client population down to size: establish criteria, grounded in the Bank's basic strategy, that restrict the range of enterprises that the Bank tries to reach.
ref: 1995, Sidney Winter, Small and Medium-size Enterprises in Economic Development:
text: As the plastic moves between the stationary and rotating blades it is cut down to size.
ref: 2007, Vannessa Goodship, Introduction to Plastics Recycling, page 55:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, down, size.
Related terms: bring low
cuts down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut down to size
cutting down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut down to size
bring down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings down to size
form: bringing down to size
form: brought down to size
form: brought down to size
Senses: examples: text: It's part of his control-freak sickness, his let's-play-get-the-girl. Let's tell her she's great, beautiful, sexy, fun ... then let's bring her down to size. All the way down until she's somewhere way beneath him, leaving Marcus on top and in a very superior position.
ref: 2005, Elizabeth Adler, Invitation to Provence:
text: For the comic text there is obviously much to enjoy and celebrate in bringing the male predator down to size even though this is achieved precisely by exaggerating his considerable size.
ref: 2012, Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, A Companion to Film Comedy, page 187:
text: One could almost think that this was a case of arson—where some of the locals felt that shopkeepers were earning too much money and needed to be brought down to size!
ref: 2012, James Marsh, Water Covers All Sins, page 57:
glosses: Synonym of cut down to size.
synonyms: word: cut down to size
brings down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring down to size
bringing down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring down to size
brought down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring down to size
knock down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks down to size
form: knocking down to size
form: knocked down to size
form: knocked down to size
Senses: examples: text: “Watch it with the delirious power trips, pal,” she warned him. “Keep it up, and I'll have to knock you back down to size."
ref: 2006, Shannon McKenna, Out Of Control:
text: The world is untamed and untameable. Wind, rain, and lightning knock us down to size.
ref: 2013, Jerry Dennis, It's Raining Frogs and Fishes:
text: My experience as a minister for twenty-five years has informed me that most people have inherited from their faith tradition a gigantic Jesus of epic proportions. I am almost hesitant to knock him down to size, and if I thought he truly was coming back as a 5'1" man with unlimited powers, I would probably keep my mouth shut.
ref: 2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 49:
glosses: Synonym of cut down to size.
synonyms: word: cut down to size
knocks down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knock down to size
knocking down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knock down to size
knocked down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock down to size
trim down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trims down to size
form: trimming down to size
form: trimmed down to size
form: trimmed down to size
Senses: examples: text: If parents try to trim a 7-year-old egoist down to size with sarcastic quips or disparaging comments, they only add to his sense of inferiority and thereby agitate his continued construction of a defensive front.
ref: 1962, W. Cleon Skousen, So You Want to Raise a Boy?, page 106:
text: I seen him trim Ollie Burdette down to size and run him out of town.
ref: 2005, Louis L'Amour, To Tame a Land, page 102:
text: Someone may have wanted to trim a local dandy down to size.
ref: 2012, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image, page 296:
glosses: Synonym of cut down to size.
synonyms: word: cut down to size
trims down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trim down to size
trimming down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trim down to size
trimmed down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trim down to size
prison gay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This activity was mainly the domain of, but not limited to, those who identified themselves as gay, bisexual or transgender: If you are in prison for a long time then you will become prison gay or someone will get a blowjob off of someone.
ref: 2019, Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith, Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 419:
text: "Yeah, and there's prison-gay, you know, when guys get attracted to other guys cause they haven't been around women for so long, right?
ref: 2015, Conner Addicott, Post Apocalypse, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of gay for the stay.
synonyms: word: gay for the stay
Herzeg-Bosnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Herzeg-Bosnian
form: most Herzeg-Bosnian
Etymology: From Herzeg-Bosnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Herzeg-Bosnia, the Herzeg-Bosnian people or their culture.
whittle down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whittles down to size
form: whittling down to size
form: whittled down to size
form: whittled down to size
Senses: examples: text: If he starts playing the big, tough hombre on the southside, those boys are just liable to whittle him down to size."
ref: 1999, Matt Braun, El Paso, page 14:
text: She seldom suffered fools. With one withering glance, she could whittle my father, who was a big man, down to size.
ref: 2012, Sonny Collins, Anasazi Dreams: In Search of Coyote People, page 75:
text: And also, they're scared that the girls are going to realize what a hottie you are (which they will, if you ever talk to 'em), so they're trying to whittle you down to size before you steal all the women.
ref: 2014, Peggy Nicholson, The Baby Bargain:
glosses: Synonym of cut down to size.
synonyms: word: cut down to size
whittles down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whittle down to size
whittling down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whittle down to size
whittled down to size
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whittle down to size
downstreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downstream
downstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downstream
downstreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downstream
wet mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet masses
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: dry mass
glosses: The mass of a rocket including its contents and propellant.
dry mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry masses
Etymology: From dry + mass. In the liturgical sense, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin missa sicca.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: wet mass
glosses: The mass of a rocket including its contents but without propellant.
examples: text: Alongside the mass as a means of providing access to the consecrated elements, there is the oddity of the holding of masses without any consecration. These ‘dry masses’ are one of the more shadowy elements of medieval devotion, ill-documented and little considered.
ref: 1995, Robert N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515, page 139:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A demonstrative celebration of most of the liturgy of the Mass, omitting the consecration of the elements.
wet masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet mass
dry masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry mass
teaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: more teaky
form: most teaky
Etymology: From teak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond the Unit and Unicorn exhibit stood some planks of a teaky quality, beautifully polished, and showing numbers of small dark knots, and wavy patterns, which gave a walnuty appearance to the wood.
ref: 2019, Henry M. Stanley, Through South Africa:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of teak.
tough as teak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First use appears c. 1842. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: We could not find that she had sustained any material damage, for thanks to the Hindostane builder, the old Brougham is as tough as teak and nails can make her.
ref: 1842, H.H. Chambers (publisher), The New Zealand Journal, Volume 3, page 282:
text: Big Salvo was up there with the greatest front rowers of the 90's. Like O'Doherty he had it all. He was as tough as teak, made the hard yards, was a punishing defender, and had amazing ball skills for a man his size. Injury and suspension unfortunately dampened his career, he was somewhat inexplicably dropped as the incumbent test prop after 91. He along with Geyer, Bella, Meninga, etc slaughtered the Kiwi's in that series.
ref: 1999 August 25, Dr Who, “Most Under Rated Players - This Decade”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):
text: Sammy knew Johnny was as tough as teak and he carried a punch like a sledgehammer blow. Sammy had never forgotten how Johnny had once handled a punk who had tried to pick a quarrel.
ref: 2000, James Hadley Chase, Knock, Knock! Who's There?, page 4:
text: "beneath their Golden State polish these records are as tough as teak, with a swagger imparted by as good a phrasemaker as ever made rock and roll records."
ref: 2003 October 11, Helen Cushion, “Uncut Magazine Uk November issue”, in alt.music.zevon (Usenet):
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very tough.
subcolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌb.kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
Etymology: From sub- + colonial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a subcolony.
semiapocryphal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + apocryphal.
Senses: glosses: Partly apocryphal.
semidried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + dried.
Senses: glosses: Partly dried.
buttplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttplates
Etymology: From butt + plate.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: heelplate
glosses: The plate affixed to the rear end of a rifle stock.
buttplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttplate
full-course yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full-course yellow
underspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + speak.
Senses: examples: text: But that really is a piece of marketing underspeak for this fantastic fetid backplot.
ref: 2003, Kate Fowle, Deborah Smith, To be Continued: Artists' Interventions Into the Public Realm, page 55:
text: For some people growing up then, Coward was a bit of a mystery: his later plays were not very good; his pose as a model of cool manners was regarded as effete or snobbish; and the well-intentioned determination to get down to the nitty-gritty left little room for Coward. He and the underspeak of Brief Encounter (45, David Lean) had become dated, and I daresay that hurt him, for a part of him was terribly anxious to be up-to-date (even if he once, à la Wilde, said that no pursuit left you looking more old-fashioned).
ref: 2014, David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 6th Edition:
text: Even the British government's Official History describes Aitken's battle plan uncharitably, "founded on an infantry drill and tactics not yet modified by fresh war experience." Translation from official British underspeak: a disaster brought on by the sclerotic military brain of a general who'd never fought a real battle.
ref: 2017, Robert Gaudi, African Kaiser:
glosses: Speech that is characterized by understatement.
underspeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underspeak
underspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underspeak
underspoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of underspeak
underspoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underspokes
Etymology: From under- + spoke.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, let him take a 5ft. wheel with 3in. dish, and put the underside of his arm at right angles to a perpendicular underspoke, he will find it simply impossible with any ordinary arm.
ref: 1880, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder - Volume 7:
text: The fact of the spindle of the Collinge axle being parallel necessarily causes the dropping of the outer ends many degrees below the horizontal to accommodate the dish of the wheel and produce a vertical underspoke.
ref: 1891, The Automotive Manufacturer - Volume 32, page 200:
text: The underspoke pointing squarely toward the floor on which the vehicle stands should be plumb when loaded.
ref: 1907, Motor Body, Paint and Trim - Volume 43, page 42:
glosses: A spoke that is positioned on the underside.
underspokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underspoke
pug and pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of wattle and daub used in the early colonization of South Australia, involving light vertical timbers driven into the ground, the gaps being stopped with a kneaded mixture of clay and grass.
mud and stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A process similar to wattle and daub, once common in Lincolnshire, involving a simple frame of upright studs joined by cross rails at the tops and bottoms, then having thin staves of ash attached, and daubed with a mixture of mud, straw, hair and dung.
pierrotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French pierrotage.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of clay and small stones used in French Vernacular architecture of the Southern United States to infill between half-timbering with diagonal braces.
Related terms: bousillage
bouzillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bousillage.
bousillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouzillage
Etymology: From French bousillage.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of clay and moss or grass, used in construction as a simpler substitute for pierrotage.
Related terms: pierrotage
fairy ballet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy ballets
Etymology: Calque of French ballet-féerie.
Senses: glosses: A genre of ballet that developed in the 19th century, featuring fantasy characters and often employing technical effects.
glosses: An individual ballet in this genre.
Related terms: fairy opera
Longport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area within the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8549).
glosses: A borough on Absecon Island, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. Derived from the surname Long.
geonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geon + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a geon.
geoparse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geoparses
form: geoparsing
form: geoparsed
form: geoparsed
Etymology: From geo- + parse.
Senses: glosses: To parse (text identifying a place) into an unambiguous geographic reference.
geoparsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geoparse
geoparses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geoparse
fairy opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy operas
Etymology: Calque of French opéra-féerie.
Senses: glosses: A genre of opera, often with magical elements.
glosses: An individual opera in this genre.
Related terms: fairy ballet
cummerbunded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cummerbund + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a cummerbund.
fairy operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy opera
gonodactyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonodactyloids
Senses: examples: text: The posterolateral margins are usually broadly rounded, but in Harpiosquillidae Manning, 1980, the posterolateral margins are deeply excavate, and in several gonodactyloids, the posterolateral margin is squared.
ref: 2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 610:
text: It is possible that in the coral-dwelling gonodactyloids the accumulation of muscle tension and sudden release of the pendulum-like 'hammer' would impose too much stress on the muscles and skeleton of the appendage if animals were larger […]
ref: 2017, Robert H. Gore, Crustacean Biogeography:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea
gonodactyloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonodactyloid
fairy ballets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy ballet
gonoforcipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonoforceps
Percilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
squilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squilloids
Senses: examples: text: Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.
ref: 2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia:
text: In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]
ref: 2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of that taxonomic family Squillidae.
parasquilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasquilloids
Senses: examples: text: Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.
ref: 2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia:
text: In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]
ref: 2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Parasquilloidea.
eurysquilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurysquilloids
Senses: examples: text: Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.
ref: 2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia:
text: In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]
ref: 2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Eurysquilloidea
parasquilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasquilloid
eurysquilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurysquilloid
squilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squilloid
bathysquilloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathysquilloids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Bathysquilloidea
Senses: examples: text: Among the synapomorphies of the bathysquilloids is the elaborate ornamentation of the female gonopore, described in detail by Bruce (1988). This gonopore ornamentation is unique to the bathysquilloids, […]
ref: 2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, numbers 4-6, page 625:
text: The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.
ref: 2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
bathysquilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathysquilloid
Z-pinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z-pinches
Etymology: Z refers to the direction of the current in the devices, the z-axis on a normal three-dimensional graph.
Senses: synonyms: zeta pinch
glosses: A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.
Z-pinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z-pinch
zeta pinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeta pinches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Z-pinch.
synonyms: word: Z-pinch
zeta pinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeta pinch
Turing tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing tapes
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The infinitely long memory tape on which a Turing machine would operate, consisting of individual cells that can be read or written.
Turing tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turing tape
Eta Carinae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: η-Carinae
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stellar system in the constellation of Carina.
dwarfened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dwarfen
dwarfening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dwarfen
dwarfens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dwarfen
glowsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glowsome
form: most glowsome
Etymology: From glow + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by glowing.
sundrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sundrous
form: most sundrous
Etymology: Apparently from sunder + -ous, modelled after wondrous.
Senses: examples: text: For the reaction constants, where the concentrations enter in sundrous powers, it would be still more diffecult^([sic]) to keep the corresponding changes in mind.
ref: 1968, Chemisch weekblad, volume 64, page xlii:
text: We recall the sundrous efforts by well-meaning African leaders to resolve the unwarranted crisis in the sub-region.
ref: 1980, Nigeria, Bulletin on Foreign Affairs - Volume 10, Issues 6-7, page 201:
text: I have since visited sundrous establishments.
ref: 2012, Paul Quarrington, The Life Of Hope:
text: Accused of stealing 29 bottles of wine and sundrous [sic] other items
ref: 2016, M.S. James, A Superior Body of Men:
glosses: Various, sundry.
hermitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)mɪti/
Forms: form: more hermitty
form: most hermitty
Etymology: From hermit + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In this Lourdes of independent movies, hermitty young auteurs will schmooze with Hollywood's BlackBerry set. From the ferment of high art and hype art will emerge new faces, new voices and, I can almost guarantee, at least one film […]
ref: 2007, Time, volume 169, numbers 3-16, page 131:
text: “I've seen everything now,” Gen said. “I thought teenagers were a bunch of hermitty online gamers. Couch potatoes.”
ref: 2014, Molly Greene, A Thousand Tombs:
glosses: Like, resembling, or characteristic of a hermit.
hermitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hermit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a hermit.
Synonyms: hermitude
hermitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hermit + -tude.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hermitness.
synonyms: word: hermitness
sacrotuberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sacro- + tuberal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sacrotuberous.
semidesertic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + desertic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a semidesert
septomaxillae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septomaxilla
seroindeterminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + indeterminate.
Senses: glosses: Having an indeterminate HIV status
raw_tags: of blood serum
shearography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The visualisation of surface strain by means of optical interference
silification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silifications
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of silicification.
spiroundecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiroundecanes
Etymology: From spiro- + undecane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any spiran that has eleven carbon atoms
spiroundecanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiroundecane
spliceopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spliceopathy
spurline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurlines
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of microwave filter
spurlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurline
Ronstadt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ronstadts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
flyability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyabilities
Etymology: From flyable + -ity or fly + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flyable
The quality of being capable of flight or able to be flown; airworthiness.
raw_tags: of aircraft
glosses: The quality of being flyable
The quality of being passable or traversable by flight.
raw_tags: of a route or distance
flyabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyability
warp end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warp ends
Senses: glosses: An individual warp thread in a fabric.
ballet master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballet masters
form: balletmaster
Senses: coordinate_terms: ballet mistress
glosses: An employee of a ballet company who is charged with maintaining the skill of the company's dancers.
ballet masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballet master
Tyndell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Tynedale.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Tyndall
Armitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Armit
chamber opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber operas
Senses: glosses: A genre of opera written to be performed with a chamber ensemble.
glosses: An individual opera in this genre.
geo-imputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + imputation.
Senses: examples: text: If a person's census tract is known but no other address information is available, then geo-imputation may be used to assign that person to a smaller geographic area, such as a census block group.
glosses: The process of replacing missing values for exact geographical locations with approximate locations derived from associated data.
theta pinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theta pinch
flag-waver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag-wavers
form: flag waver
form: flagwaver
Etymology: From flag + waver.
Senses: examples: text: In every organization exists a number of so-called flagwavers. Their principal stock in trade is a boisterous verbal display of loyalty to the cause […]
ref: 1910, George A. Donnelly, The Union Postal Clerk, volume 6, page 102:
text: And the hardcore group of some fifty North Viet flagwavers, they're toting the yellow-star standard as if they owned it! And does General Giap know his battles are being won with the aid of every last boy and girl fluttering their flags […]
ref: 1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies, page 39:
text: These kinds of empirical studies might seem like the best way of countering the claims of post-bureaucracy's flag-wavers. They certainly act as an antidote to the extravagant and self-serving claims […]
ref: 2016, Chris Grey, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations, 4th edition:
glosses: A highly vocal and visible supporter of a cause.
Related terms: flag-waving
flagwavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagwaver
flag-waving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag waving
form: flagwaving
Etymology: From flag + waving.
Senses: glosses: Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
examples: text: They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.
ref: 1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:
text: The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.
ref: 1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in a video signal.
Related terms: flag-waver
NGCI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no gluten-containing ingredients.
kandys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kandyes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάνδυς (kándus).
Senses: glosses: A kind of three-quarter-length Persian coat, originally a leather cloak with sleeves worn by men, but later a garment worn by Athenian women.
kandyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kandys
conceptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conceptismo.
vendables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vendable
sick to the back teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Passengers are sick to their back teeth of paying for boardroom largesse and eye-watering fares."
ref: 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Rail fares to rise by an average of 2.7% in January”, in Rail, page 17:
synonyms: fed up to the back teeth
glosses: Extremely annoyed about, fed up, tired of.
invisible minority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invisible minorities
Senses: examples: February 2019 Greece's invisible minority - the Macedonian Slavs
August 2019 Southern Pride: LGBTQ athletes in Kentucky face challenges as an 'invisible minority' Courier Journal
maybe someday LGBTQ athletes will no longer feel they are America's invisible minority.
June 2019 Looking at the invisible minority Penn Today
December 2019 Letters: Boulder’s demographic stagnation; Republicans are funny; an invisible minority Boulder Daily Camera
Yet there is an invisible minority of those with these disorders who, unlike those poster children we think of, pass, for lack of a better word, undetected in our daily lives. It’s likely everyone knows at least one person with autism, dyslexia, or another disorder without knowing it, and because they are an invisible minority, our daily actions affect them far more dramatically.
glosses: A minority group that is not visually recognizable
Related terms: visible minority
track plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track plans
form: trackplan
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A diagram of the track layout at a particular place.
wikipedia: Hornsby railway station
track plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track plan
trackplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackplans
Etymology: From track + plan.
Senses: examples: text: A New Illustrated History of Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate from 1840 includes more than 280 photographs, illustrations, graphics and trackplans - many of which have never been published before.
ref: 2019 December 18, “A 'labour of love' as illustrated history of HMRI launches”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of track plan.
trackplans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackplan
day-dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-dawns
Senses: examples: text: 1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52,
[…] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath.
text: At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 247:
text: For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,
ref: 1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XII, stanza 41, page 13:
text: Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er
Of day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—
ref: 1850 May, Jonathan Freke Slingsby, “Welcome as Flowers in May”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 35, number 209, page 557:
text: Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford: American Publishing Company, page 250:
synonyms: dawn
glosses: The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises.