cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
geobarometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + barometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geobarometry.
geothermometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to geothermometry.
geobarometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + barometry.
Senses: glosses: The science of measuring the previous pressure history of a metamorphic or intrusive igneous rock.
Related terms: geobarometer
geobarometric
geothermobarometry
geothermometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + thermometry.
Senses: glosses: The science of measuring the previous temperature history of a rock.
Related terms: geothermometer
geothermometric
geothermobarometry
hyobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hyobranchium.
geothermobarometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geothermobarometers
Etymology: From geo- + thermo- + barometer.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for geothermobarometry.
geobarometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geobarometers
Etymology: From geo- + barometer.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for geobarometry.
geobarometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geobarometer
geothermobarometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geothermobarometer
inotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inotrope
geosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + -sophy, introduced by J. K. Wright in 1947.
Senses: glosses: The study of geographical knowledge from any or all points of view, not merely scientifically.
Derived terms: geosophic
geosophical
geosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geosophical
form: most geosophical
Etymology: From geosophy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geosophy.
geosophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geosophy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geosophy.
business case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business cases
Etymology: From business + case.
Senses: examples: text: The business case has been premised on a four trains per hour service from Reading to Heathrow T5, with all trains calling at Slough and alternate ones at Twyford and Maidenhead.
ref: 2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
text: Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line."
ref: 2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35:
topics: business
glosses: A reason for doing something; an explanation of the benefit of some course of action to a business.
business cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business case
geographize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geographizes
form: geographizing
form: geographized
form: geographized
Etymology: From geography + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To study geography.
glosses: To make geographical; to bring into the realm of geography; to map.
geographizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geographize
geographized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geographize
geographizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geographize
Buster Brown suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buster Brown suits
Etymology: Named after the comic strip character Buster Brown, created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault.
Senses: glosses: A belted, double-breasted tunic or jacket worn with a large round collar, floppy bow, and shorts or knickerbockers, popular for young boys in the United States in the early 20th century.
wikipedia: Buster Brown
Buster Brown suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buster Brown suit
circummarginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + marginate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounded by a thin margin; not circumvallate.
civionics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of civil engineering + electronics; compare avionics.
Senses: glosses: The combination of civil engineering with electronics engineering.
comeouters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comeouter
deacon's bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deacon's benches
Senses: glosses: A kind of bench whose hinged seat is also the lid of an enclosed storage compartment.
dramaticomusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dramatico-musical
Etymology: From dramatic + -o- + musical.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a dramatic work, such as an opera, in which music plays an integral part.
mastrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastropes
form: mast-rope
form: mast rope
Etymology: From Middle English *mast-roop, *mastrap, from Old English mæstrāp (“mastrope”), equivalent to mast + rope.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope used in supporting a mast; a stay.
dysrationalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See rational and compare dyslexia.
Senses: glosses: The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.
duppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duppies
Etymology: A Caribbean patois word, of West African origin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duppy.
duppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duppies
Etymology: Blend of depressed + yuppie.
Senses: examples: text: Older Duppies who've lived through previous layoffs seem prepared for the emotional and financial shifts that a protracted job loss can bring.
ref: 2003 June 17, Leslie Haggin Geary, “Here come the 'Duppies'”, in CNN/Money:
text: In recent months, the founder and director of Life Transitions career counseling and life coaching in San Antonio has seen plenty of duppies struggle with escalating debts and depression.
"The reality may be that they might have to take on what we call a 'stop-loss job,'" Lincoln says, referring to a lower-paying position the typical duppie once scoffed at.
ref: 2003 July 18, Rene A. Guzman, “Overeducated and underemployed”, in San Antonio Express-News:
text: In fact, I've seen the term "duppies," which means depressed urban professionals who take jobs at a lower level than their old employment. But, as you recognize, duppies can pass through more hiring portals because they can read.
ref: 2004 April 19, Joyce Lain Kennedy, “Learning To Read Is Essential”, in Sun Sentinel:
glosses: An urban professional suffering from depression, especially one who has lost a high-paying job and been forced to take up lower-paying work.
doomsdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomsday
doomsdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomsdates
Etymology: Blend of doomsday + date
Senses: examples: text: Many articles emphasize some given doomsdate in the future. I cannot agree with these calculations.
ref: 1967, Canadian Fisherman, volumes 54-55, page 21:
text: The next doomsdate is scheduled for March 21, 2014, when an asteroid will hit the earth.
ref: 2011, David A. Levy, James E. Parco, Echoes of Mind: Thinking Deeply about Humanship, page 78:
glosses: The date of doomsday, or some catastrophic and final event.
ionophoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ionophoretic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By ionophoretic means.
date mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date mussel
knock the wind out of someone's sails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks the wind out of someone's sails
form: knocking the wind out of someone's sails
form: knocked the wind out of someone's sails
form: knocked the wind out of someone's sails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the wind out of someone's sails.
geostrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geostrophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
triumphalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more triumphalistically
form: most triumphalistically
Etymology: From triumphalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a triumphalistic manner.
timefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From timeful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And I do not see that the difficulties are avoided by substituting events which are space and time, events which are durations, for spaceless times and timeless spaces, and event-particles for point-instants, however fitly the distinction expresses the timefulness of space and the spacefulness of time.
ref: 1922, May Sinclair, The New Idealism, page 105:
text: Even time itself is part of the creation God makes so that we say that creation did not take place in time but is itself the very condition of possibility for timefulness.
ref: 2008, Criag Hovey, Nietzsche and Theology, page 81:
text: Forgiveness in the Arendtian sense then presupposes visceral timefulness, an encounter where anything can happen in the agonistic play of time.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Tran, The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory: Time and Eternity in the Far Country:
glosses: The quality of being timeful.
Morran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Gabriel's will left "my plantation whereon I now live to my loving wife Elizabeth Morran during her natural life and after her decease to my son John Morran."
ref: 1995, Patrick Edward Moran, Moran Exodus from Offaly, page 16:
glosses: A surname.
femininization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femininizations
Etymology: From feminine + -ization.
Senses: examples: femininization of a masculine noun
glosses: The act or process of making feminine.
femininizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femininization
coalsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalsacks
form: coal-sack
form: coal sack
Etymology: From coal + sack.
Senses: glosses: A sack for carrying coal.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars.
coalsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalsack
geometricize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geometricizes
form: geometricizing
form: geometricized
form: geometricized
Etymology: From geometric + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make geometrical; to bring into the realm of geometry.
geometricizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geometricize
geometricizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geometricize
geometricized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geometricize
geometricization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometricizations
Etymology: From geometric + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of geometricizing.
geometricizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geometricization
Geoffroy's bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geoffroy's bats
Etymology: Named after the French naturalist Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Senses: glosses: Myotis emarginatus, a species of vesper bat.
Synonyms: notch-eared bat
X-ray tetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray tetras
Etymology: Like an X-ray image, the fish's transparent skin allows the bones to be seen.
Senses: synonyms: X-ray fish
glosses: Pristella maxillaris, a fish with a highly transparent body.
X-ray tetras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-ray tetra
cabbage looper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbage loopers
Senses: examples: text: 1948 January, Charles Adolph Weigel, Lynn Garfield Baumhofer, Handbook on Insect Enemies of Flowers and Shrubs, U.S. Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication No. 626, page 3,
The cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni (Hbn.)) is an example of a caterpillar that feeds more or less exposed on the plant, in contrast to cutworms and borers, which are usually not seen.
text: Cabbage looper replaced imported cabbageworm, Pieris rapae (Linnaeus), as the dominant cabbage caterpillar in the 1950s, apparently due to greater susceptibility of the latter to most insecticides. In recent years, diamondback moth has emerged as a more important pest than cabbage looper; nevertheless, T. ni can be a serious problem.[…]Cabbage loopers are leaf feeders, and in the first three instars they confine their feeding to the lower leaf surface, leaving the upper surface intact.
ref: 2001, John L. Capinera, Handbook of Vegetable Pests, page 391:
text: Cabbage looper (family Noctuidae, subfamily Plusiinae) is a rare pest in citrus.[…]A nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) and about two dozen parasite species kill cabbage loopers.
ref: 2012, Steve H. Dreistadt, Integrated Pest Management for Citrus, 3rd edition, page 149:
glosses: Trichoplusia ni, a widespread noctuid moth which in its caterpillar stage is an important crop pest.
Related terms: cabbage moth
cabbage white
cabbage worm
cabbage loopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabbage looper
opera bouffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒp(ə)ɹəˈbuːf/
Forms: form: operas bouffes
form: opéra bouffe
Etymology: From French opéra bouffe.
Senses: examples: text: He sang solos from "La Grande Duchesse," and many other opera-bouffe songs, with great taste and verve.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 144:
text: There was one moment of opéra bouffe when the plump Biaggi and two other plotters were trapped in an antique Parisian lift between floors on the way to a top-level and secret meeting.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 176:
glosses: A type of French comic opera, typified by everyday characters and ludicrous situations.
operas bouffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opera bouffe
opéras bouffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opéra bouffe
fluorographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to fluorography.
Derived terms: cytofluorographic
immunofluorographic
videofluorographic
photofluorographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to photofluorography.
photofluorograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photofluorographs
Senses: glosses: An image produced by means of photofluorography.
fluorograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorographs
Etymology: From fluoro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by means of fluorography
Derived terms: fluorographic
immunofluorograph
photofluorograph
photofluorographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photofluorograph
fluorographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorograph
time-stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time-stretches
form: time-stretching
form: time-stretched
form: time-stretched
Senses: glosses: To change the speed or duration of (an audio signal) without affecting its pitch.
time-stretched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more time-stretched
form: most time-stretched
Senses: glosses: Altered in speed or duration without affecting the original pitch.
raw_tags: of an audio signal
time-stretched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time-stretch
time-stretching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of time-stretch
time-stretches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of time-stretch
cholerigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cholerigenous
form: most cholerigenous
Etymology: From cholera + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Causing cholera.
cholerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cholera + -ization.
Senses: glosses: inoculation with cholera
arcticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arcticizes
form: arcticizing
form: arcticized
form: arcticized
Etymology: From Arctic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Whether the field is in the Far North or close to the Equator, the canvas covering offers full protection, for the material is not only processed against the ravages of fire, mildew and rotting but given an arcticizing treatment which keeps it flexible at 40° below zero.
ref: 1944, Modern Plastics, volume 22, page 109:
text: So far as "arcticizing" man is concerned, clothing is the hardest problem of all.
ref: 1949, Collier's, volume 123, page 42:
text: We have the prefabricated wooden sides and top that we need to arcticize it, plus the bunks and portable stove, but it will take several hours.
ref: 1960, Alistair MacLean, Night Without End, page 65:
text: Fortunately, the RCN carrier Magnificent had been “arcticized,” although this meant only that it had had its working and living quarters prepared for low-temperature operations.
ref: 2015, Adam Lajeunesse, Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada’s Arctic Maritime Sovereignty, page 47:
glosses: To prepare for Arctic weather; to winterize.
Derived terms: arcticization
arcticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arcticize
arcticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arcticize
arcticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arcticize
order of battle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orders of battle
form: battle order
Senses: examples: text: Working for the Resistance, Challe, a regular airman, had skilfully obtained the Luftwaffe order-of-battle on the eve of D-Day and transmitted it to London, for which he was awarded the British D.S.O.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 311:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The arrangement of units or other divisions of the armed forces in combat; specifically, the deployment plans of an enemy, or a written record of this.
plenipotential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplɛnɪpəˈtɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: more plenipotential
form: most plenipotential
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin plenipotens + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, there were few fronts on which de Gaulle was not attacking with vigour and dedication in his first six plenipotential months.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 312:
glosses: Pertaining to a plenipotentiary; having full authority.
Derived terms: plenipotentially
Wanderwörter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒndəˌwətə/
note: more similar to German
ipa: /ˈvɒndəˌvətə/
ipa: /ˈwɑndɚˌwɚtɚ/
note: more similar to German
ipa: /ˈvɒndɚˌvɚtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wanderwörter.
Senses: glosses: plural of Wanderwort
Wanderworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wanderwort
melittophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέλιττα (mélitta, “bee”) + -phily.
Senses: glosses: pollination by bees
psychophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pollination by butterflies
phalaenophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pollination by moths
myophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pollination by flies
Derived terms: sapromyophily
ornithophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ornitho- + -phily.
Senses: glosses: pollination by birds
chiropterophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pollination by bats
cantharophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pollination by beetles.
Related terms: cantharophilic
cantharophilous
dungfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungflies
form: dung fly
form: dung-fly
Etymology: From dung + fly, from its typical food source.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A two-winged fly of the genus Scathophaga.
Synonyms: scatophage
dungflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungfly
mailos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailo
adjuvates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjuvate
adjuvating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjuvate
adjuvated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjuvate
adjutant general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjutant generals
form: adjutants general
Senses: glosses: A military chief administrative officer.
adjutant generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjutant general
adjutant-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjutant-generals
form: adjutants-general
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of adjutant general.
adjutant-generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjutant-general (alternative spelling of adjutant generals).
ratio scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratio scales
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
qualifier: measurement
glosses: A scale of measurement of data having a fixed zero value, which permits the quantitative comparison of differences of values.
Coordinate terms: ordinal scale
interval scale
nominal scale
unserged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + serged.
Senses: examples: an unserged seam or edge
glosses: Not serged.
Nawar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nawars
form: Nawar
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, a subgroup of the itinerant Dom people.
Related terms: Nawari
Nawars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nawar
endwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endwards
form: most endwards
Etymology: From end + -wards.
Senses: glosses: endward
endwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endwards
form: most endwards
Etymology: From end + -wards.
Senses: glosses: endward
dream teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dream team
mgqashiyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recorded in the late '70s, with tough mgqashiyo mbaqanga out of favor among cultural as well as assimilationist blacks, this proves Mahlathini's staunch loyalty to the style he originated, his total lack of alternatives, or both.
ref: 1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 257:
text: […] an orgy of dance and mgqashiyo, which, literally translated, means "the beat that will never die."
ref: 1988, Coda, numbers 223-234, page 39:
text: As a producer and the saxophonist for the band Makgona Tsohle, he shaped the style called sax jive and then the music that grew out of it, called mbaqanga (named after a homemade stew) or mgqashiyo, "the indestructible beat."
ref: 1998, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 29, page 1649:
glosses: A genre of African music, a more danceable style of mbaqanga.
mfr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mfrs
Senses: examples: text: Angus, G., & Co., Ltd., lthr. mfrs., 93, Bridge-st., Deansgate.
ref: 1913, The Universal Electrical Directory (J.A. Berly's) (volume 32, page 805)
synonyms: mfger
glosses: Abbreviation of manufacturer.
microbeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbeers
Etymology: From micro- + beer.
Senses: glosses: beer produced by a microbrewery
microbeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbeer
microtechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtechnology
microtechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + technological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microtechnology.
Derived terms: microtechnologically
methylchloroform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + chloroform.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chloroalkane 1,1,1-trichloroethane, once produced industrially as a solvent, banned due to ozone layer effects.
microtiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtiter
microarcsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microarcsec
microarrayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microarrayer
bordei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bordeis
Etymology: From Romanian bordei.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burdei.
bordeis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordei
penny packet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny packets
Senses: glosses: A small number of things or people; a small group.
penny packet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penny packet
form: most penny packet
Senses: examples: text: Scattered across the four corners of Algeria, it was employed […] like the penny-packet handling of the French armour which had brought such disaster in 1940.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 331:
glosses: Paltry, insignificant.
penny packets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny packet
freeflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + flow.
Senses: glosses: A style of self-service restaurant or cafeteria where customers can select from various food items without waiting in a queue.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: In scuba diving, the situation where the diving regulator continues to supply air instead of cutting off the supply when the diver stops inhaling.
monergism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monergisms
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A Christian position holding that God, through the Holy Spirit, works to bring about effectually the salvation of individuals through spiritual regeneration without cooperation from the individual.
Related terms: monergistic
synergism
library sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: library sorts
Etymology: By analogy with a librarian who leaves gaps between books so that inserting a new book does not require moving so many of the existing books.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of insertion sort that leaves gaps between elements to accelerate subsequent insertions.
out on one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the sport of boxing, referring to fighter who is too stunned to fight effectively, but who does not collapse to the canvas.
Senses: examples: text: Such schedules frequently leave them ragged and unrested. "How good is it for a patient to be treated by an intern who is almost out on his feet?" she asked.
ref: 1998 April 30, Bob Sculley, “Physician Deplores Medical Indifference To America's”, in Ludington Daily News, retrieved 18 May 2013:
text: But several of his teammates later said Toomer was jabbering nonsensically in the huddle and seemed out on his feet.
ref: 2000 November 16, Bill Pennington, “Pro Football: Toomer's Concussion Now a Scary Memory”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 May 2013:
text: We had so many games to cram in such a short space of time, it really stretched our squad and the lads were out on their feet.
ref: 2011 April 8, “Cowdenbeath FC's victory thrills Raith Rovers boss John McGlynn”, in The Courier, UK, retrieved 18 May 2013:
glosses: Standing erect but not consciously aware of one's surroundings, or only minimally aware, and having little or no ability to control one's bodily actions, as a result of physical injury or exhaustion.
examples: text: "Well sir, that girl was simply out on her feet. It wasn't from drinking, either. I'm something of a hypnotist myself and I quickly realized that she was in a real hypnotic trance, brought on by Puffy's staring into her eyes."
ref: 1945 April 9, “Puffy, The Hypnotizing Cat, Named Honorary Feline Society President”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 10 May 2013, page 5:
text: According to Savitt there are many such small concerns who are out on their feet, and still in a state of shock.
ref: 1955 August 31, “Merchants Form Plan To Aid Small Business: Will help those hit by floods”, in The Hartford Courant, retrieved 18 May 2013, page 1:
text: The new leader who will be elected on April 6, becoming Prime Minister shortly thereafter, is likely to be very nearly out on his feet.
ref: 1968 March 23, John Bird, “The new PM: tired before he starts”, in Financial Post, Canada, retrieved 10 May 2013, page 32:
glosses: Stupefied; dazed; nonfunctional.
Synonyms: sense: standing erect but not consciously aware or only minimally aware due to injury or exhaustion
word: out of it
sense: standing erect but not consciously aware or only minimally aware due to injury or exhaustion
word: punch drunk
sense: stupefied, dazed, nonfunctional
word: bewildered
sense: stupefied, dazed, nonfunctional
word: incapacitated
sense: stupefied, dazed, nonfunctional
word: out of it
Related terms: on the ropes
yellow dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow dog.
unnova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unnovae
form: unnovas
form: un-nova
Etymology: From un- + nova. From being similar to a supernova-process collapse, without the bright novalike outburst.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The collapse of a star which cannot explode in a supernova.
Synonyms: failed supernova
Cumberbitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cumberbitches
Etymology: Blend of Cumberbatch + bitch.
Senses: examples: text: But Rik, for the legion of Cumberbitches out there, the sight of Sherlock in his sheet makes up for any plot inconsistencies!
ref: 2012 January 8, Judith Brenan, “Re: New series of Sherlock”, in rec.arts.mystery (Usenet):
text: He [Cumberbatch] was with friends, and we debated going over to congratulate him on his performance but deemed it "too stalkery". How we rue the day. She and I were two of the original Cumberbitches, in what is now a nation of Cumberbitches.
ref: 2012 January 20, Rosamund Urwin, “The Benedict Cumberbatch band wagon”, in London Evening Standard:
text: Sherlock star Cumberbatch – who also appears as villain John Harrison in JJ Abrams' upcoming Star Trek sequel Into Darkness – has a fervent female following but it's possible even the most die hard Cumberbitch will think twice before pinning this photo to her bedroom wall.
ref: 2013 January 22, Paul Jones, “First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate”, in RadioTimes:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A female fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Synonyms: Cumberbabe
Cumberlady
Hypernyms: Cumberfan
Cumberperson
Cumberbitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cumberbitch
Sprachbund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sprachbunds
form: Sprachbünde
Senses: examples: text: The linguist reader will recognize that the Takia/Waskia, Mixe Basque/ Gascon, Romansch/Swiss German and Sauris German/Friulian pairs each form a small Sprachbund ('language alliance'). Probably the best-known Sprachbund consists of modern Greek, Albanian, Romanian, and the southern Slav languages Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian, which through centuries of contact have undergone metatypy to the extent that there are very close semantic and syntactic […]
ref: 1997, Malcolm Ross, “Social Networks and Kinds of Speech-Community Event”, in Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs, editors, Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (One World Archaeology; 27), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 243:
text: This is the type of sociolinguistic situation in which a Sprachbund, or linguistic area, is likely to emerge. This is how the Balkan linguistic area came into being: during the Middle Ages, several linguistic communities were interspersed in an area which was never subjected to strong political centralization.
ref: 2007, Ranko Matasović [author], edited by [Per] Sture Ureland, [R.] Anthony Lodge, and Stefan Pugh, Language Contact and Minority Languages on the Littorals of Europe (Studies in Eurolinguistics; 5), Berlin: Logos, →ISBN:
text: The research program took shape after the Pragian structuralists made public their definition of the concept of Sprachbund. Since then various hypotheses have been put forward as to the subdivision of the continent into a number of distinct areas which are commonly termed Sprachbünde, linguistic areas or contact superposition zones[…].
ref: 2013, Thomas Stolz, “Contemporary Europe”, in Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe (Studia Typologica; 13), [Berlin]: Akademie Verlag, →ISBN, section 5.3.4 (The Internal Geolinguisics of Europe), page 196:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of sprachbund.
onholding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onholding
form: most onholding
Etymology: From on- + holding.
Senses: examples: text: In the work of a waggon-builder or coach-maker, if a man made a whole wheel, the shaving of spokes would come in its turn with other kinds of work that would call the workman into sundry postures, with sundry muscles in action ; whereas, when by a more exact division of labour, one man is confined only to the shaving of spokes, he may have a daily onholding pressure on the stomach that may soon affect his health.
ref: 1859, William Barnes, Views of labour and gold:
text: Since Friday morning police officers of the city of Seoul, Republic of Korea, are experiencing an onholding increase of witnesses of a yet unidentified, possibly hazardous biological phenomenon.
ref: 2009, http://crystalgyro.wordpress.com/,New life in Eastern Asia?
glosses: Continuous; perpetual; lasting.
caboclos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caboclo
misnamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misnaming
regradings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrading
resittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resitting
thelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθiliˌɑn/
Forms: form: thelions
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek θηλή (thēlḗ, “nipple”) + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The tip or peak of a nipple.
Related terms: thelitis
thelium
reaccumulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaccumulate
reaccumulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaccumulate
thelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθi.lɪ.əm/
Forms: form: thelia
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek θηλή (thēlḗ, “nipple”).
Senses: glosses: A nipple or papilla.
Related terms: thelion
thelitis
overshaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overshade
overshades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overshade
overcaution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + caution.
Senses: glosses: excessive caution
overcaution
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcautions
form: overcautioning
form: overcautioned
form: overcautioned
Etymology: From over- + caution.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt.
ref: 1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology, page 219:
glosses: To caution excessively.
billowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billowing
mignardises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mignardise
Qurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quran
Qurʾān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Qurʾān
Senses: examples: text: ḤANNA et al. […] quote some examples of ʾaḍdād from the Qurʾān such as the ‘contronymous’ verb ištarā meaning ‘buy; sell’.
ref: 2017, Yousuf B[sby] AlBader, “Polysemy and Semantic Change in the Arabic Language and Dialects”, in Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, number 66, Wiesbaden, Hesse: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of Qur’an.
pseudoselector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoselectors
Etymology: From pseudo- + selector.
Senses: examples: text: But some elements are not necessarily found in the document markup, such as which links have been visited or the first line of a paragraph. To apply style to these instances in a document, CSS provides several pseudoselectors.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Cascading Style Sheets
glosses: A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.
pseudoselectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoselector
sideseam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideseams
Etymology: From side + seam.
Senses: glosses: A seam running along the side (of a garment, a cigarette, etc.).
sideseams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideseam
pillarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pillar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pillar.
unpillared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pillared.
Senses: glosses: Not pillared.
Buberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Buberian
form: most Buberian
Etymology: From Buber + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Martin Buber (1878–1965), Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher.
Appaloosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Appaloosas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of appaloosa.
Appaloosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Appaloosa
autism spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The range of conditions classified as pervasive developmental disorders, generally held to include autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). Also includes childhood disintegrative disorder and Rett syndrome.
Synonyms: autistic spectrum
Derived terms: word: autism spectrum condition
alt: ASD
word: autism spectrum disorder
word: on the spectrum
word: spectrumy
Related terms: autism
buck-naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buck-naked
form: most buck-naked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buck naked.
maracujas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maracuja
slow belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow bellies
Senses: examples: text: One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Titus 1:12:
glosses: A lazy person; a heavy indolent glutton.
slow bellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slow belly
superplasticizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superplasticizers
form: superplasticiser
Etymology: From super- + plasticizer.
Senses: glosses: A chemical used as an admixture to improve the rheology of a suspension such as concrete, reducing particle aggregation.
garlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garlanders
Etymology: From garland + -er.
Senses: examples: 1939-43, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford
Sometimes the garlanders would forsake the road for stiles and footpaths across buttercup meadows, or go through parks and gardens to call at some big house or secluded farmstead.
glosses: One who makes or bears a garland.
garlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garlander
AGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː.ɡə/
Forms: form: AGAs
form: Aga
Etymology: Genericized trademark of AGA AB. Unadapted borrowing from Swedish AGA; an abbreviation of Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator, meaning "The stock company Gas Accumulator".
Senses: examples: text: He was cooking on an AGA.
glosses: An AGA cooker.
wikipedia: AGA AB
wakeskater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakeskaters
Etymology: From wake + skater.
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes part in wakeskating.
wakeskaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wakeskater
wakeskating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wake + skating, modelled on wakeboarding.
Senses: glosses: A water sport that employs a board like that used for wakeboarding, manufactured from maple or fibreglass.
r/o
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: CXR [chest X-ray] to r/o aspiration, and to identify location if radio-opaque. Consider lateral neck film or abdominal film if unable to locate object in chest. Barium swallow if still uncertain.
ref: 2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Foreign Bodies”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 101:
text: Chest pain, SOB [shortness of breath]—most likely non-cardiac, R/O PE [pulmonary embolism], R/O pneumonia
ref: 2009, Kristen L. Longstreth, “Pulmonary Embolism”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 62:
topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: R/O
glosses: Initialism of rule out: used to indicate that a certain possible diagnosis should be considered, and appropriate tests performed to rule it out.
biromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biromantic
form: most biromantic
Etymology: From bi- + romantic.
Senses: examples: text: Now that he's thought longer about it, Michael also likes to describe himself as "biromantic". He is keen to have a romantic relationship with either a man or a woman.
ref: 2005 April 16, Deborah Smith, “No Sex please, I'm not into it”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: So, for example, it is not unusual for an asexual person to say that he is asexual but bi'''romantic, or that she is asexual but heteroromantic.
ref: 2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2012, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Though some people identify as aromantic, others identify as heteromantic, homoromantic, biromantic and everything in between.
ref: 2013 February 14, Tracey Hickey, “Asexuality should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation”, in The Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh:
glosses: Romantically attracted to both males and females.
biromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biromantics
Etymology: From bi- + romantic.
Senses: examples: text: Within this group of romantic asexuals, orientation varies: heteroromantics only feel romantic attraction to the opposite sex, homoromantics to the same sex, biromantics to both sexes and panromantics without reference to sex or gender.
ref: 2011 August, Mark Carrigan, “There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community”, in Sexualities, volume 14, number 4, page 469:
text: For my part, I decided this year not to mention allies in the laundry list of identities represented (I also didn't mention heteroflexible biromantics), underscoring the Sisyphean task of creating an inclusive list of identities.
ref: 2014 October 8, Nino Testa, “Language, identity and National Coming Out Day”, in The Tufts Daily, volume 68, number 21, Tufts University, page 9:
text: Panromantics, unlike biromantics, will tend to feel that their partner's gender does little to define their relationship.
ref: 2015 February 10, Erinn Williams, “A Different Sexuality”, in The George-Anne, volume 89, number 46, Georgia Southern University, page 7:
glosses: One who is romantically attracted to both males and females.
panromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panromantic
form: most panromantic
Etymology: From pan- + romantic.
Senses: examples: text: As Jessica, a twenty-one year old white woman who self-identifies as a bi- or panromantic asexual describes, […]
ref: 2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5:
text: Neth, a 24-year-old from the West Country, describes herself as a "panromantic asexual".
ref: 2012 February 26, Rosie Swash, “Among the asexuals”, in The Guardian:
text: “I feel like it’s really important to say that anyone can be queer,” said Sonja Lund, a sophomore theatre major and panromantic lesbian on panel at the event.
ref: 2012, Katie Gossen, "Residence Life defies LGBT stereotypes", The Panther (Chapman University), 22 October 2012
topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Romantically attracted to people regardless of sex or gender identity.
panromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panromantics
Etymology: From pan- + romantic.
Senses: glosses: A person who is panromantic.
Related terms: bisexual
EOFYS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Acronym of end-of-financial year sale.
Canadianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Canadianly
form: most Canadianly
Etymology: From Canadian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There was a nervousness under that quick Canadianly-accented talk of his, as if he were working himself up to something.
ref: 1920, Berta Ruck, Sweethearts Unmet, Hodder & Stoughton, published 1920, page 270:
text: […] so that in a minute a burly bearded thoroughly Canadian figure in one of those Canadianly inevitable checked-flannel shirts appears out of the dim light in the shop's back room and wipes its mouth on first one sleeve then the other […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 480:
text: (Apparently, even having a favorite Mountie is an American trait. When I asked the twentieth commissioner of Mounties, Giuliano "Zach" Zaccardelli, who was his favorite RCMP commissioner in history, he answered Canadianly, "Every one of them has contributed tremendously to the legacy of the RCMP, and I hope that during my tenure I will be able to add some value to the legacy that those nineteen who came before me left for this organization.")
ref: 2002, Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: In a Canadian way; in a manner characteristic of Canada or Canadians.
flax bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flax bows
Senses: qualifier: Native American culture
glosses: A large talisman consisting of an arch of woven twigs with flax cord and beads suspended beneath it.
mercy chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercy chairs
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A small, ornately carved wooden protrusion in a cathedral wall, allowing a person to rest against it without actually sitting during long religious services.