cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Misako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese みさこ (Misako).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
career fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of career fair
career expos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of career expo
Belly of the Whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly of the whale
Etymology: Coined by Joseph Campbell in 1949. Probably an allusion to the book of Jonah in the Bible, in which Jonah was swallowed by a great fish.
Senses: glosses: A story element which represents the final separation from a hero's known world and self.
wikipedia: Joseph Campbell
Related terms: monomyth
belly of the whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Belly of the Whale.
Tsuguko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese つぐこ (Tsuguko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Toshiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Toshiyo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
negative Nancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative Nancy
Reep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reeps
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”). Compare Roper, Reeb.
Also an English metonymic occupational surname for a porter or a basket maker, from Middle English hrip (“basket”), from Old Norse hrip, from Proto-Germanic *hrepaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend”).
Also as an English surname, from the verb reap. Compare Ripper.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Teacher Appreciation Week
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A special week in many schools, especially in the United States, which is dedicated to the appreciation of teachers, especially by the students of the schools, usually celebrated in early May.
Synonyms: National Teacher Appreciation Week
Related terms: Teachers' Day
National Teacher Appreciation Week
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Teacher Appreciation Week.
synonyms: word: Teacher Appreciation Week
EOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EOCs
Senses: topics: education
hypernyms: test#Noun
exam#Noun
examination#Noun
glosses: Initialism of end-of-course test.
examples: text: “At this time EOC (Emergency Operations Center) has shut down. Crowds [have] subsided and it’s just being monitored,” D’Agostino said.
ref: 2023 March 12, Rosa Flores and Joe Sutton, “Large group in Mexico attempted mass entry into US at El Paso, Texas, border crossing, officials say”, in CNN:
hypernyms: center#Noun
facility#Noun
<
site#Noun
place#Noun
glosses: Initialism of emergency operations center.
topics: literature
media
publishing
sciences
scientific
hypernyms: caveat#Noun
notice#Noun
coordinate_terms: erratum
corrigendum
;
retraction
glosses: Initialism of expression of concern.
EOCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EOC
school-wide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schoolwide.
openning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of opening.
openning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of opening.
Yadava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit यादव (yādava).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Indian people who believed themselves to be descended from Yadu.
church giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But I couldn't help myself Something struck me as awfully funny that day—the hushed reverence, my starched white dress, I cannot say for sure. My church giggles grew louder and louder, and the more I tried to tame them, the worse they got, until the Church of England must have had doubts about my prospects for salvation.
ref: 2010, Sarah Ferguson, What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way:
text: My Jews lost control of their church giggles and started busting out laughing to the point of losing oxygen. I'm glad they weren't wearing a skirt like I was because I didn't want to witness any pee trickles that were happening.
ref: 2012, Jenny McCarthy, Bad Habits: A Book of Confessions about Confession:
text: Choir music can also make you burst into the church giggles, which strike when the minister quotes a verse of scripture that's accidentally funny, like the one about the talking mule, or pretty much anything from Zechariah, 5.1–2: [...]
ref: 2013, Paula Young Lee, Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat:
text: Rusty, LaClaire and I had many memories growing up in this church, not the least of which was getting the church giggles more times than we could count.
ref: 2015, Angela W. Williams, Hush Now, Baby:
glosses: Uncontrollable laughter or giggling that occurs inappropriately in an inappropriate place and time, as when in church.
Shalya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit शल्य (śalya, “dart, javelin, lance, spear, iron-headed weapon, arrow”).
Senses: glosses: The brother of Madri (mother of Nakula and Sahadeva), as well as the ruler of the Madra kingdom in the Mahabharata.
pl0x
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɔks/
rhymes: -ɔks
Forms: form: plox
Senses: examples: text: Phr33 st00f pl0x?
ref: 2008 September 8, TehNoobWorld, Runescape - Bob Is a Gangsta (Phr33 St00f Pl0x) (Youtube), archived from the original on 18 Dec 2023:
glosses: please
toothpastey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothpastey
form: most toothpastey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toothpasty.
Colgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colgates
Etymology: The toothpaste brand was named after the company founder, William Colgate. The surname derives from the place name, which is probably from Old English col (“coal”) and ġeat (“gate”).
The Philippine sense is a genericized trademark from the toothpaste brand, Colgate. Compare Cebuano kulgit.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2332).
examples: text: Poirot's lips moved. Inspector Colgate leaned forward. Poirot was murmuring, "It's so difficult to know which pieces are part of the fur rug and which are the cat's tail."
ref: 1941, Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun:
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
examples: text: The base of her electric toothbrush fell onto its side as she yanked a little too hard and squirted on a blob of Colgate. As the bristles met her front teeth, she savored the mint flavor on her tongue like peppermint candy.
ref: 2012, Linda Joffe Hull, The Big Bang, page 13:
glosses: A particular brand of toothpaste.
Colgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The toothpaste brand was named after the company founder, William Colgate. The surname derives from the place name, which is probably from Old English col (“coal”) and ġeat (“gate”).
The Philippine sense is a genericized trademark from the toothpaste brand, Colgate. Compare Cebuano kulgit.
Senses: glosses: toothpaste
gaffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaffing
sewerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewering
Reddings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lobing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobings
Etymology: From lobe + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The decoration found on the stems are perpendicular ribbings, ordinary rounded mouldings, and perpendicular lobings.
ref: 1919, MacIver Percival, The Glass Collector: A Guide to Old English Glass, page 31:
text: Nevertheless there are curious points to be investigated in the earlier stages of development, such as the vascular supply and the chalazal lobings.
ref: 1976, Edred John Henry Corner, The Seeds of Dicotyledons, page 119:
glosses: A rounded projection; a lobe.
lobings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobing
huttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hutting
daggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dags; dangling locks of sheep wool matted with dung
spallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spalling
speldring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speldrings
form: spelding
form: speldrin
form: speldron
Etymology: From Scots speld (“to spread out”); compare German spalten (“to split”).
Senses: glosses: A split dried haddock or other small fish.
speldrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speldring
tasseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasselings
Etymology: From tassel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A decorative fringe of tassels.
tasseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tassel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tassel
tassellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasselling
tasselings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasseling
twaddlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twaddling
claptrappery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From claptrap + -ery.
Senses: glosses: claptrap; nonsense
twanglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twangling
Hallings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
consuetudinarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consuetudinarily
form: most consuetudinarily
Etymology: From consuetudinary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So that the mode consuetudinarily now adopted for assessing poor's rates for the real poor, is borrowed from that part of the Scots acts which relates solely to the provision to be made for sending idle vagrants, able to work, to those correction-houses where they were to have been compelled to labour.
ref: 1802, The Great Britain Board of Agriculture - The Reverend Mr. Charles Findlater: Minister of the Parish of Newlands, in the Country of Peebles, General View of the Agriculture of the Country of Peebles with Various Suggestions as to the Means both of the Local and General Improvement of Agriculture, Princeton University Press, page 230
text: If a practice which conformed with those three requirements had been conducted consuetudinarily, the court was authorised to infer from this practice the common conviction of the people.
ref: 2007, Amanda Perreau-Saussine & James Bernard Murphy, The Nature of Customary Law: Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, page 136
text: Affirmative as consuetudinarily, now shoo!
ref: 1949, Paul J. Phelan, A Time to Laugh: A Risible Reader by Catholic Writers, Longmans Green Publishing, page 274
text: Consuetudinarily, the term May Fourth Movement is used by scholars as synonym for the New Cultural Movement, New Poetry Movement or Literary Revolution.
ref: 1991,國立臺灣師範大學文學院, 敎學與硏究 - Issues 13-15, The University of California Press, page 284
text: The number of variables studied in urine and plasma, exceeding what is usual in similar investigations resulted from increasing awareness that the actions of diuretics upon variables other than those consuetudinarily considered may be of clinical importance or have characteristics which are helpful in explaining the mechanisms of action of diuretics.
ref: 1985, A. J Reyes • M Velasco • L Alcocer, Progress in Pharmacology - Volume 6, Fischer Publishing, page 93
text: The first occasion in which the status distinction between the free and unfree was introduced to Japan but rather as that in which that institution already existing consuetudinarily in the pie-ritsuryo age was codified for the first time.
ref: 1976, Tōhō Gakkai, Acta Asiatica: Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture - Volumes 30-31, Indiana University Press, page 95
text: To use the more picturesque term from Dr. Woods' paper, consuetudinarily I admitted that one may smoke without being despicable, and that compared with the comfort, the soothing and solacing influence balmily spread over the world at large.
ref: 1899, American Medical Association, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 32, The Michigan University Press, page 870
glosses: In a manner that pertains to consuetude; customarily; traditionally.
teamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teaming
ARI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Arizona.
cieling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cielings
Senses: examples: text: This moral kind of painting for the stage has been often compared to the painting for cupolas and cielings, where the colours are over-charged, and every part is drawn excessively large, and beyond nature.
ref: 1741, David Hume, Of Avarice:
glosses: Obsolete form of ceiling.
cielings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cieling
MGU-K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MGU-Ks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of motor generator unit, kinetic (“KERS, the kinetic energy recovery system; a motor generator unit which harvests kinetic energy through engine braking”).
Coordinate terms: english: kinetic energy recovery system
translation: kinetic energy recovery system
word: KERS
english: energy recovery system
translation: energy recovery system
word: ERS
Related terms: english: motor generator unit
translation: motor generator unit
word: MGU
english: motor generator unit - heat
translation: motor generator unit - heat
word: MGU-H
word: regenerative braking
morphoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morphoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to morphoscopy
Derived terms: macromorphoscopic
morphoscopically
morphoscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to morphoscopy.
morphoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morphoscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, morphoscopy.
morphoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific examination of the shape of small particles or objects.
Derived terms: morphoscopic
MGU-H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MGU-Hs
form: MGUH
form: MGU H
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of motor generator unit, heat (“an energy recovery system; a motor generator unit which harvests thermal energy from the exhaust via the turbocharger”).
Coordinate terms: KERS
ERS
Related terms: MGU
MGU-K
morita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moritas
Senses: glosses: A reddish-brown variety of chipotle.
moritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morita
morrhuate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morrhuates
Etymology: From morrhuic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of morrhuic acid.
morrhuates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morrhuate
MGU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MGUs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of motor generator unit (“a power deployment, and energy recovery system; a system that may harvest kinetic energy from various sources, and provide kinetic energy / rotational energy (shaft power)”).
Coordinate terms: sense: motorsport
word: ERS
sense: motorsport
word: KERS
Derived terms: sense: motorsport
word: MGU-H
sense: motorsport
word: MGU-K
Related terms: sense: motorsport
word: electrical generator
sense: motorsport
word: electric generator
sense: motorsport
word: electric motor
sense: motorsport
word: generator
sense: motorsport
word: motor
sense: motorsport
word: motor-generator
sense: motorsport
word: unit
sense: motorsport
word: alternator
sense: motorsport
word: hybrid
sense: motorsport
word: hybrid engine
sense: motorsport
word: hybrid motor
sense: motorsport
word: starter
sense: motorsport
word: starter motor
TPMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of tire pressure monitoring system.
Morita therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by Shoma Morita (1874-1938), Japanese psychiatrist and philosopher.
Senses: glosses: An ecologically-based form of therapy involving four stages: isolation and rest, light occupational therapy, heavy occupational therapy, and complicated activity.
MIN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Mississippi: a state of the United States.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Minneapolis: a city in Minnesota, United States.
Morita-equivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting Morita equivalence.
Morita equivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Japanese mathematician Kiiti Morita, who defined equivalence and a similar notion of duality in 1958.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain relationship defined between algebraic rings that preserves many ring-theoretic properties.
wikipedia: Kiiti Morita
motorcross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of motocross.
monoplanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoplanists
Etymology: From monoplane + -ist.
Senses: glosses: The pilot of a monoplane.
monoplanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoplanist
monopolarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monopolar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Slow wave phase reversals between two zygomatic leads used monopolarly are often seen as such artifacts.
ref: 1947, Journal of Neurosurgery, volume 4, page 354:
text: Cortical evoked responses are commonly recorded monopolarly by placing a single electrode wire, ball, or wick on the surface of the cortex and measuring against a distant indifferent such as an alligator clip on the cut skin edge.
ref: 1966, Joseph B. Sidowski, Experimental methods and instrumentation in psychology, page 136:
text: It is usually recorded from electrodes on the scalp. It can be recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed over the same part of the cortex, or monopolarly with one “active” electrode over the cortex and a second “reference” electrode on some other part of the head.
ref: 2013, Leslie B. Cohen, Infant Perception: from Sensation to Cognition: Basic Visual Processes:
glosses: In a monopolar fashion.
Related terms: bipolarly
monopolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + polarity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monopolar.
monotonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monotonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a monotonal fashion.
moon moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon moths
Senses: glosses: Any of various moths of the subfamily Saturniinae.
moon moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon moth
moranhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moran + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a moran.
mosaic virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosaic viruses
Senses: glosses: Any plant virus that causes the leaves to have a speckled appearance.
Derived terms: cucumber mosaic virus
pumpkin yellow mosaic virus
sugarcane mosaic virus
mosaic viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosaic virus
ozoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ozone
ozoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ozone
anomalad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomalads
Etymology: From anomaly + -ad. Compare ecad and variad.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A primary malformation together with its subsequently derived structural changes.
anomalads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomalad
craniostenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to craniostenosis.
craniostenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of craniosynostosis.
synonyms: word: craniosynostosis
craniosynostotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + synostotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to craniosynostosis.
wheelslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wheel + slip.
Senses: examples: text: The traction motors are connected in three parallel groups of two in series, and the mid-points of each pair of motors are connected together; the mid-point connection is used in conjunction with relays to form a device which is sensitive to wheelslip, thus leading to an improvement in adhesion.
ref: 1960 April, “English Electric diesels for the Sudan Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 218:
text: Minor changes to control gear include the provision of automatic wheelslip protection, since these units will be operated on lines with ruling gradients of 1 in 60 or 1 in 80. Wheelslip automatically causes the main generator field excitation to be reduced; the load regulator is forced back to minimum excitation and, if operating in one of the two stages of traction motor field divert, causes reversion to full field.
ref: 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 385:
text: Daily diagramming involves the single-heading of 1400-tonne trains over the northern banks, where wheelslip can be experienced when the rails are wet.
ref: 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A problem in starting or running a locomotive or train, where excess power supplied to the driven wheels causes them to turn against the rail, especially when the rails are slippery, without moving the train forward.
Related terms: wheelslide
antitouristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitouristic
form: most antitouristic
Etymology: From anti- + touristic.
Senses: examples: text: The more ethical, more authentic, slower, antitouristic, unusual way of travelling that Terzani advocates brings him into contact with a humanity that he had almost lost, with the individual travellees^([sic]) whom he encounters on his journey.
ref: 2015, Catharine Mee, Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing:
glosses: Opposed to what is touristic.
Anglophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglophobic
form: most Anglophobic
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Having an aversion to England or the English.
Related terms: Anglophobe
Anglophobia
Americophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Americophilic
form: most Americophilic
Etymology: From Americo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Fond of the United States.
snotties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snotty
glosses: plural of snottie
hair jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair jellies
Senses: glosses: The lion's mane jellyfish.
hair jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair jelly
lion's mane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cyanea capillata, a large jellyfish that uses stinging tentacles to capture its prey.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lion, mane.
Synonyms: sense: jellyfish
word: lion's mane jellyfish
sense: jellyfish
word: hair jelly
sense: jellyfish
word: snotty
sense: jellyfish
word: snottie
sense: jellyfish
word: arctic red jellyfish
sense: jellyfish
word: sea blubber
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hericium erinaceus
word: lion's mane mushroom
taboo deformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taboo deformations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A modification of a word or phrase by way of euphemism to avoid a taboo (as in the case of a minced oath or due to the belief that mentioning a dangerous creature's name may cause that creature to appear).
Related terms: taboo avoidance
taboo deformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taboo deformation
village sign language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: village sign languages
Senses: glosses: A local indigenous sign language in an area with a high incidence of congenital deafness.
Synonyms: village sign
village sign languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of village sign language
evil geniuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evil genius
evil genii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evil genius
virgin territories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgin territory
cooperative principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the cooperative principle
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: The idea that listeners and speakers need to cooperate in order to communicate effectively.
examples: text: Our talk exchanges do not normally consist of a succession of disconnected remarks, and would not be rational if they did. They are characteristically, to some degree at least, cooperative efforts [...] One might label this the Cooperative Principle.
ref: 1975, H. Paul Grice, “Logic and conversation”, in Peter Cole, Jerry Morgan, editors, Speech Acts, New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: A theory of how listeners and speakers cooperate to communicate with language.
Related terms: topics: philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: principle of charity
unobstreperous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobstreperous
form: most unobstreperous
Etymology: From un- + obstreperous.
Senses: glosses: Not obstreperous.
Morita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moritas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 森田 (Morita).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Morita-equivalent
Morita equivalence
Morita therapy
chilpotle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilpotles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chipotle.
chilpotles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilpotle
unlights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlight
WebRTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: An open source technology that enables real-time communication (RTC) such as data, voice or video, directly from a Web browser.
Hyponyms: RTC
sticky wickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticky wicket
home child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home children
Senses: examples: text: […] orphanages sent tens of thousands of children to start new lives in the overseas dominions, particularly Australia and Canada. Some 100,000 children were sent to Canada alone, and about a quarter of all Canadians have a home child on their family tree.
ref: 2011, Simon Fowler, Family History: Digging Deeper:
glosses: A person who was sent as a child from the United Kingdom to one of its colonies, under a migration scheme founded in 1869.
home children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home child
Space Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Space Coast
Senses: examples: text: Here on what Floridians call the Space Coast, where Route A1A changes into Astronaut Boulevard, a new spirit of hope has landed at the Moon Hut, home of the moonburger.
ref: 1994 July 18, “On the Space Nostalgia Frontier in Florida”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A region in the US state of Florida around Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Related terms: First Coast
Treasure Coast
Space City
Meyerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Meyer + -land, after the surname of the family who acquired the land in sections from about 1885.
Senses: glosses: A 6,000-acre (9 sq mi) community in southwest Houston, Texas, United States.
Fireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From fire + -land, calque of Spanish Tierra del Fuego (literally “Land of Fire”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tierra del Fuego.
synonyms: word: Tierra del Fuego
Related terms: the Firelands
fireland
Hao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Hao, from Tuamotuan.
Senses: glosses: An atoll in Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia.
Synonyms: Haorangi
Harp Island
Bow Island
Hao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hou
Etymology: From atonal romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鎬 /镐 (Hào).
Senses: glosses: A former capital of China under the Zhou Dynasty, now within Xi'an, Shaanxi.
Synonyms: Haojing
Hypernyms: Fenghao
Zongzhou
Coordinate terms: Feng
Fengxi
Fengjing
Hao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hou
Forms: form: Haos
Etymology: From atonal romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 郝 (Hǎo).
Senses: examples: text: Former Premier Hao Pei-tsun (郝柏村), who was the most powerful man in Taiwan's military during the rule of the late President Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), yesterday revealed that Taiwan had long ago acquired the ability to produce nuclear weapons, without actually having launched any test explosions.
"Following the success of [Taiwan's] nuclear program, President Chiang openly declared that Taiwan had become a nuclear-capable country, but that it would not bring the research results into production," Hao said, speaking to reporters at a book launch for his two-volume work published under the title of Eight-year's diary as the Chief of the General Staff.
ref: 2000 January 8, Brian Hsu, “Ex-military chief confirms nuclear weapons program”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2024, Local News, page 2:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
Hao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hou
Forms: form: Haos
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯍꯥꯎ (hāʼu).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haobam, a surname from Manipuri.
glosses: Alternative form of Haobijam, a surname from Manipuri.
Harp Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A calque of French Île de la Harpe, named by Louis Antoine de Bougainville for its shape's supposed resemblance to a harp.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hao, an atoll in Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia.
synonyms: word: Hao
extra: an atoll in Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia
wikipedia: Louis Antoine de Bougainville
plough one's own furrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ploughs one's own furrow
form: ploughing one's own furrow
form: ploughed one's own furrow
form: ploughed one's own furrow
Senses: examples: text: Distinctiveness and individuality are not the same as individualism, in which the determination to plough one's own furrow regardless can be a threat to unity.
ref: 2001, Pamela Evans, The Overcommitted Christian: Serving God Without Wearing Out:
synonyms: forge one's own path
glosses: To go one's own way; to proceed independently, without regard to other people.
Related terms: plough a lonely furrow
metasyntaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasyntax
Texas-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Texas is the second-largest state of the United States by both area and population.
Senses: examples: text: Her parents had sent a Texas-sized belt and buckle for a Texas-sized man, Brian.
ref: 2012, Naomi Kryske, The Witness, page 189:
glosses: Very large for its type.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Texas, sized.
antidictator
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidictator
form: most antidictator
Etymology: From anti- + dictator.
Senses: glosses: Opposing political dictatorship.
antidictatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidictatorial
form: most antidictatorial
Etymology: From anti- + dictatorial.
Senses: glosses: Opposing political dictatorship.
Fokker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fokkers
Etymology: From Dutch Fokker
* (aeroplanes): From the company name, Fokker, after its founder, Anthony Fokker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch
Derived terms: Euler-Fokker genus
Fokker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fokkers
Etymology: From Dutch Fokker
* (aeroplanes): From the company name, Fokker, after its founder, Anthony Fokker.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of aeroplanes produced by the Fokker company, used by Germany in World War I.
Fokkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fokker
newcomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)uːkəm/
Forms: form: Newcomb
Etymology: Named after Sophie Newcomb College, where it was invented.
Senses: synonyms: catchball
Newcomb ball
glosses: A sport that is a variation of volleyball, but in which one may catch the ball.
wikipedia: Sophie Newcomb College
catchball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From catch + ball.
Senses: glosses: newcomb
genetic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic disorders
Senses: examples: text: A female and two males, all young, all fertile, two afflicted with the genetic disorder.
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:
glosses: Any medical condition that is directly caused by an abnormality in the genes.
plannism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planism.
planned economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planned economy
planism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plannism
Etymology: From plan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for the idea of a planned economy.
planomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plan + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: enthusiastic planism
planist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planists
Etymology: From plan + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of planism.
planists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planist
boggo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bog + -o, from bog-standard.
Senses: examples: text: What's more, it's deeply treaded and should last nearly as long as a boggo P-Zero.
ref: 2003, Autocar, volume 236, numbers 6-9, page 47:
glosses: bog-standard; ordinary; unexceptional
removal van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: removal vans
Senses: synonyms: moving van
moving truck
pantechnicon
glosses: An enclosed vehicle which is used for moving furniture and other belongings when moving house.
enterostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entero- + stasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Intestinal stasis; the stoppage of the food in its passage through the intestine.
removal vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of removal van
gastrostaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slow haemorrhage from the stomach, not explained by ulceration or erosion.
Related terms: enterostaxis
enterostaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slow haemorrhage through the intestinal mucous membrane.
Related terms: gastrostaxis
epiploitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the omentum; omental peritonitis.
Marcusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marcusian
form: most Marcusian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Marcusean.
Marcusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marcusians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Marcusean.
Marcusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marcusian
form: most Marcusian
Etymology: From Marcus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Greil Marcus (born 1945), American author, music journalist and cultural critic.
erythropsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + -opsia.
Senses: glosses: An abnormality of vision causing objects to appear red.
double salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double salt
Tutton's salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tutton's salts
Etymology: Named after the chemist A. E. H. Tutton.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of double salts with the chemical formula M₂M'(SO₄)₂(H₂O)₆ (sulfates) or M₂M'(SeO₄)₂(H₂O)₆ (selenates).
Tutton's salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tutton's salt
gauchoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaucho
Alaskas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alaskas
Senses: glosses: plural of Alaska (baked Alaska).
alaskas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alaska (“baked Alaska”)
chronic myeloid leukemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronic myeloid leukemias
Senses: glosses: a cancerous proliferation of mature granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils) and their precursors in blood and bone marrow associated with the Philadelphia chromosome.
Synonyms: word: Chronic myelogenous
alt: CML
word: myelocytic leukemia
alt: CGL
word: chronic granulocytic leukemia
Hypernyms: myeloproliferative disease
mud slide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud slides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mudslide which is more properly a mudflow.
work platform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work platforms
Senses: glosses: An elevated or elevating platform, usually portable, used for carrying out work in normally unreachable locations.
Derived terms: aerial work platform
elevating work platform
island platform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island platforms
Senses: examples: text: From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:
text: In the new layout, it is proposed to provide three island platforms with six platform faces varying from 1,075 to 1,290 ft. in length and including bays.
ref: 1960 February, “The modernisation of Peterborough”, in Trains Illustrated, page 108:
text: This time I disembark at Dumbarton Central, a station with two island platforms blessed with yellow brick buildings and iron canopies dating from 1896, and listed Grade A.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway platform which has tracks on both sides.
drainage system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainage systems
Senses: topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin
Synonyms: river system
perijove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perijoves
Etymology: From peri- + Jove.
Senses: examples: text: It results, however, from what has been proved, that if the perijove be in conjunction, the disturbing force of s" will render the apsides of s' regressive, and if the apojove be in conjunction, it will render that motion progressive. But since the motion of the apsides of s' is regressive, the perijove must be in conjunction.
ref: 1854, Dionysius Lardner, Hand-books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy:
text: It is interesting to integrate the orbit solutions backward to the 1992 perijove to see how closely the fragments come together.
ref: 2006, Keith S. Noll, Harold A. Weaver, Paul D. Feldman, The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter: IAU Colloquium 156, →ISBN:
text: Flybys that change the orbital period also rotate the line of apsides and change the perijove distance.
ref: 2012, Christopher Russell, The Galileo Mission, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Periapsis around Jupiter.
Related terms: apojove
periapsis
tiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: tiddies
Senses: glosses: The European wren.
tiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: tiddier
form: tiddiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diddy (“very small, tiny”).
tiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: tiddies
Etymology: From English dialects with the flapping phenomenon.
Senses: examples: text: big tiddy goth GF
glosses: Alternative spelling of titty (“breast”).
Related terms: tiddy oggy
tiddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiddy
aponigricon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + Latin niger (“black”) + -icon, alternative form of -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the speed of, say, S2 at perinigricon is as large as 2.6 per cent of the speed of light, while at aponigricon it is 0.1 per cent of c.
ref: 2011 September, Lorenzo Iorio, “Long-term classical and general relativistic effects on the radial velocities of the stars orbiting Sgr A*”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society:
text: Fig. 1 indicates that close encounters are negligible at aponigricon and for inclinations in the range 60–90° in both prograde and retrograde orbits.
ref: 2013 June, R de la Fuente Marcos, C de la Fuente Marcos, “Colliding with G2 near the Galactic Centre: a geometrical approach”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Apoapsis around a black hole.
Related terms: apoapsis
apohermion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + hermeo- + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: MESSENGER is in an orbit of 80° inclination, with apohermion occurring in the southern hemisphere at 7.1 R_M (R_M is the radius of Mercury) and perihermion in the northern hemisphere at 1.1 R_M, and the orbital period is 12h.
ref: 2013 June, Guan Le, Peter J Chi, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Scott Boardsen, James A Slavin, Brian J Anderson, Haje Korth, “Upstream ultra‐low frequency waves in Mercury's foreshock region: MESSENGER magnetic field observations”, in Journal of Geophysical Resarch, volume 118, number 6:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Apoapsis around Mercury.
Related terms: apoapsis
apozene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apozenes
Senses: examples: text: Make this Apozene, and give two or three Ounces three or four times in a day.
ref: 1691, Thomas Willis, A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the Infection of the Plague or any Contagious Distemper:
text: We may picture Vesal's impatience waiting the end of these divagating sessions, the final cautions against mistaking a julep for an apozene!
ref: 1944, The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, page 122:
text: Hall was a firm believer in the powers of scurvy grass, and also of watercress (Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum sens. lat.) and brooklime (Veronica beccabunga sens. lat.), which his notes show were made either into an apozene (infusion) or were brewed with beer and flavoured with sugar, cinnamon, juniper berries, fennel roots and ...
ref: 1986, Social Biology and Human Affairs - Volumes 51-55, page 15:
glosses: A medicinal herbal infusion.
aposelene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aposelenes
Senses: examples: text: At its aposelene the Projectile's velocity would have reached its minimum; at the periselene, its maximum.
ref: 1870, Jules Verne, All Around the Moon:
text: It was injected smoothly into a translunar trajectory and when it reached the moon on 10th April it went into a moon orbit with a periselene of 160km, aposelene of 870km, inclination of 42 degrees and period of orbit of 2 hours and 40 minutes.
ref: 1979, Julian Popescu, Russian space exploration: the first 21 years, page 26:
text: The satellite was placed in an elliptical orbit that passed over the polar regions of the Moon, with 7502 km aposelene (point farthest away from the Moon) and 504 km periselene (nearest to the Moon).
ref: 2007, India Space Programs and Exploration Handbook, →ISBN, page 116:
synonyms: apoapsis
apocynthion
apolune
glosses: Apoapsis around the moon.
Related terms: apoapsis
apoareion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + areo- + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Taking advantage of the highly elliptical orbit (~400 km periareion' and ~70,000 km apoareion) of MOM, the scientific objective of MENCA is to radially profile the composition of the neutral exosphere of Mars starting from the MOM periareion.
ref: 2015 September, Anil Bhardwaj, S.V. Mohankumar, Tirtha Pratim Das, P. Pradeepkumar, P. Sreelatha, B. Sundar, Amarnath Nandi, Dinakar Prasad Vajja, M.B. Dhanya, Neha Naik, G. Supriya, R. Satheesh Thampi, G. Padma Padmanabhan, Vipin K. Yadav, A.V. Aliyas, “MENCA experiment aboard India's Mars Orbiter Mission”, in Current Science, volume 109, number 6:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Apoapsis around Mars.
Related terms: apoapsis
apokrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apokrones
Senses: examples: text: The original plan in the primary mission to look for the existence of an internal liquid layer called for four flybys to measure the Love number k₂: two equatorial passes -- one when Titan was at perikrone and one at apokrone, and two inclined passes – also at perikrone and apokrone.
ref: 2009, Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, →ISBN, page 459:
text: In order to obtain the value of k₂ with high accuracy, four flybys of the Cassini spacecraft will be devoted to measuring Titan's gravity field near both apokrone and perikrone (Castillo et al., 2002).
ref: 2010, Tilman Spohn, Planets and Moons: Treatise on Geophysics, →ISBN, page 531:
glosses: Apoapsis around the planet Saturn.
Related terms: apoapsis
apokron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both passes are inclined to the ring plane so that they are in the northern hemisphere near periapsis, or perikron, and in the southern hemisphere at apoapsis, or apokron.
ref: 2005 June, J.S. Leisner, C.T. Russell, K.K. Khurana, M.K. Dougherty, N. André, “Warm flux tubes in the E‐ring plasma torus: Initial Cassini magnetometer observations”, in Geophysical Research Letters:
glosses: Alternative form of apokrone.
aposaturnium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + Saturn + -ium, Latin form of -ion.
Senses: examples: text: If they were exactly following such a periodic solution, then, at a conjunction of the two satellites, that is, when φ = 0, we would have l₁= 0, that is, Enceladus, which is on the inner of the two orbits, would be at perisaturnium, and alsol₂= π, so that Dione, which is on the outer of the two orbits, would be at aposaturnium.
ref: 2013, B.A. Steves, Archie E. Roy, The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System, →ISBN:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Apoapsis around Saturn
Related terms: apoapsis
predicate noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predicate nouns
Senses: examples: text: Harner pointed out that "Colwell was almost entirely concerned with the question whether anarthrous predicate nouns were definite or indefinite, and he did not discuss at any length the problem of their qualitative significance."
ref: 1996, Daniel B. Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, →ISBN:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun used in the predicate of a sentence with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and that refers to the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb. For example "He is a fireman" or "They made him chief".
predicate nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predicate noun