cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ticket-porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket-porters
form: ticket porter
Senses: examples: text: [H]is servant put in his hand a packet, which had been delivered by a ticket-porter at the door.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 83, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: [T]he production of a certificate to the governor of the said society of tackle-house and ticket-porters for the time being, from the clerk of the company to which such porter belongs, of such bond having been duly entered into by such porter, should be deemed and taken to be fully sufficient.
ref: 1843, John Scott, Scott's New Reports in the Court of Common Pleas, page 47:
text: You could hear the ticket-porter, who lolls about Shepherd’s Inn, as he passed on the flags under the archway: the clink of his boot-heels was noted by everybody.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 49, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: [H]e, the plaintiff was on the said wharf with divers, to wit, three servants, then being ticket-porters of the said city duly and regularly admitted, and then was ready and willing and offered to unship, land, and carry the said casks of olive oil, and no other tackle-porter belonging to the said city then was present to unship, land, or carry the said casks of olive oil […].
ref: 1884, Report of cases argued and determined in the English courts:
text: Around 2,000 or more ticket porters, their names stamped on a metal ticket hung from their belts, were authorised to ply for hire at one of ninety-two stands about the quays and in the streets.
ref: 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 223:
glosses: A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.
Related terms: tackle-porter
ticket-porters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket-porter
-lyn
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the given name Lynn.
Senses: examples: text: Laura + -lyn → Laurelyn
text: Cheryl + -lyn → Cherilyn
glosses: Suffix forming female given names.
-leigh
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -ley
form: -ly
form: -lee
Etymology: From Old English lēah (“meadow, pasture, field, clearing”) (modern English lea, leigh), used in various compound names, especially place-names.
Senses: glosses: A suffix meaning “meadow” present in various given names and toponyms of Old English origin
slap together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slaps together
form: slapping together
form: slapped together
form: slapped together
Senses: glosses: Synonym of knock together (assemble hastily).
synonyms: word: knock together
extra: assemble hastily
phyllobothriid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllobothriids
Senses: glosses: Any tapeworm of the family Phyllobothriidae
phyllobothriids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllobothriid
phylloxerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylloxerids
Senses: glosses: Any hemipteran of the family Phylloxeridae
phylloxerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylloxerid
phylobiogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phylo- + biogeography.
Senses: glosses: phylogeography of plants, animals and ecosystems
Related terms: phylobiogeographical
phylometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phylogenetic metrics
phylotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From phylo- + temporal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to changes in species over time
primum mobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primum mobile
sweins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swein
Swahilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Swahilizes
form: Swahilizing
form: Swahilized
form: Swahilized
Etymology: From Swahili + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert or adapt to Swahili.
Related terms: Swahilization
Swahilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Swahilize
Swahilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Swahilize
Swahilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Swahilize
Chilean bellflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean bellflowers
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Lapageria rosea, found in Chile.
Chilean bellflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean bellflower
Guanay cormorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guanay cormorants
Senses: glosses: A species of bird, Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum, found in South America.
Synonyms: guanay
Guanay shag
Magellan cormorant
Guanay cormorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guanay cormorant
monkey puzzle tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey puzzle trees
Senses: glosses: A monkey puzzle (tree).
monkey tail tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey tail trees
Senses: glosses: monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana)
monkey tail trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey tail tree
monkey puzzle trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey puzzle tree
prima mobilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹaɪ.mə məʊˈbɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ˌpriː-/
ipa: /ˌpɹaɪ.mə ˌmoʊˈbɪ.li.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of primum mobile
Andean hairy armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Andean hairy armadillos
Senses: glosses: A species of armadillo, Chaetophractus nationi, found in western Bolivia and adjacent areas of South America.
Andean hairy armadillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andean hairy armadillo
Americansky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americanskies
Etymology: Likely borrowed from a Slavic language, e.g. Russian америка́нский (amerikánskij). Equivalent to American + -sky.
Senses: glosses: Yank, Yankee (stereotypical Slavic term of abuse for a U.S. American, e.g. used by or attributed to Soviets).
Related terms: english: stereotypes of Russians in American pop culture
translation: stereotypes of Russians in American pop culture
word: klyukva
Americanskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Americansky
Darwin's fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darwin's foxes
Etymology: Named after Charles Darwin.
Senses: glosses: A fox-like South American canid of species Lycalopex fulvipes, found predominantly on Chiloé.
Synonyms: Chiloe fox
Darwin's zorro
Darwin's foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darwin's fox
Chiloé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilean Spanish Chiloé, from Mapudungun.
Senses: glosses: An archipelago and large island in the Los Lagos region in southern Chile.
glosses: A province of the Los Lagos region, Chile.
Los Lagos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Los Lagos (literally “the lakes”).
Senses: glosses: A region in southern Chile.
glosses: A city and commune in Valdivia province, Los Ríos region, Chile.
glosses: A department in Neuquén province, Argentina.
haroun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harouns
Etymology: From Somali xarunta.
Senses: qualifier: usually preceded by "the"
glosses: The headquarters or government of a post-medieval Horn African state, particularly the Daraawiish.
The leading figures of the Daraawiish (i.e. commanders, governors, representatives, judges etc.) considered collectively.
qualifier: usually preceded by "the"
glosses: The headquarters or government of a post-medieval Horn African state, particularly the Daraawiish.
The Daraawiish government.
Wavertree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3889).
Sampul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur سامپۇل (sampul).
Senses: examples: text: East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula).
ref: 2000, J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
text: A remarkably Greek- looking male portrait, from a third- or second- century BC woollen wall-hanging found at Sampul
ref: 2002, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, University of California Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
text: At the site of Sampul (or Shanpula), near the southwestern Tarim Basin oasis of Luopu, a Saka grave has yielded a piece of woven woolen cloth [Fig. 2] that shows Hellenistic and Persian inspiration in the depictions of a centaur and a lance-bearing warrior (Xinjiang weiwu'er 2001).
ref: 2009, Robert A. Jones, “Centaurs on the Silk Road: Recent Discoveries of Hellenistic Textiles in Western China”, in The Silk Road, Saratoga, CA: Silk Road Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 2:
text: Like nearly all of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cemeteries encircling the Tarim Basin, the complex at Sampul lies on the gravelly tableland or terrace that is located between the desert floor and the foothills of the mountains beyond, the source of the meltwater from the glaciers that sustains life in the oases.
ref: 2010, Victor Mair, “The Mummies of East Central Asia”, in Expedition, volume 52, number 3, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2015:
text: A source with ties to Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that Sampul township head Ablikim Mettursun and Sampul township United Front Work Department employee Memet’eziz Mettohti had been convicted and sent to prison in Hotan’s Keriye (Yutian) county in 2015.
[...]RFA spoke with a Lop county government employee who said they did not have any information on either Mettursun or Mettohti, and referred further questions to higher-level officials, as well as a staffer with the Lop County Justice Department, who also said they did not know anything about the two men.
However, when asked whether any cadres from Sampul township had been sent to internment camps, an employee with a legal work unit in Lop county told RFA that “there's no one in the camps, they’re in prison.”
When asked who had been sent to prison, the employee responded, “Oh, you know, Memet’eziz Mettohti… he worked for the party in Sampul township.”
ref: 2020 January 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Two Uyghur Cadres Jailed Over Failure to Confiscate ‘Illegal Religious Text’”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2020:
glosses: A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Shanpulu
Wheathampstead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in City of St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1713).
Quainton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English *Cwēntūn, from cwēn (“queen”) + tūn (“town”). Doublet of Queenstown and Queenston.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7420).
Hawkhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, (OS grid ref TQ7630).
Allhallows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough.
glosses: A village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8377).
Derived terms: Allhallows-on-Sea
like stink
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: very hard
Related terms: like stink on shit
Fairford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛə(ɹ)fə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From Old English fæġer (“beautiful”) + ford.
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1501).
glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Washington County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A former settlement in Marin County, California, United States.
Maunsell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænsəl/
rhymes: -ænsəl
Senses: glosses: A surname.
win one's spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins one's spurs
form: winning one's spurs
form: won one's spurs
form: won one's spurs
form: earn one's spurs
form: gain one's spurs
Senses: glosses: To achieve recognition.
Related terms: earn one's stripes
earn one's wings
Grimesthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3790).
Related terms: Grimethorpe
Burton-on-Trent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Burton upon Trent.
currentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From current + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Currentless deposition is an autocatalytic process in which metal precipitates out of a solution the composition of which depends on the material to be coated.
ref: 1988, Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek, New Applications of Materials, Dolf Elsevier v Griethuysen, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Cutting off electrolysis at this moment, gives monotonous increase of currentless potential - without delays (Fig 2).
ref: 2003, Karim Zaghib, C. M. Julien, J. Prakash, Electrochemical Society. Battery Division, Electrochemical Society. Energy Technology Division, New Trends in Intercalation Compounds for Energy Storage and Conversion: Proceedings of the International Symposium, The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 214:
text: The pretreatment is followed by the activation with nuclei of noble metals like palladium and the currentless deposition of the metals like copper, silver, or others.
ref: 2018, Boris Mahltig, Yordan Kyosev, Inorganic and Composite Fibers: Production, Properties, and Applications, Woodhead Publishing, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: without an electric current
hyperkinetic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A developmental disorder in which a person has a persistent and pervasive pattern of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Synonyms: hyperkinesis
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
ADHD
Related terms: attention deficit disorder
ADD
tit up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tits up
form: titting up
form: titted up
form: titted up
Senses: examples: text: She let me tit her up over her jumper.
text: Top Spot was here. Here somewhere. Giant ballroom with chandeliers and red velvet curtains. We'd snog and kiss, be fingered, titted up.
ref: 2004, Tracey Emin, Top Spot, Tracey Emin (actor), BBC Three:
text: You had to tit the girl up for about a year! You had to tit her up round the flats! [...] You titted her up over the jumper, over the jumper. Then you got under the jumper!
ref: 2011, Micky Flanagan Live: The Out Out Tour, Micky Flanagan (actor), Channel 4 DVD:
text: [...] I knew modern feminism and myself were deeply estranged during last month’s outcry over young women being ‘groped at gigs’, as my first thought was that when I was sixteen, getting titted up wildly in the melee at the Glasgow Barrowlands really was the best part.
ref: 2016 May 16, Grace Dent, “You won't part me from my high heels - if this is millennial feminism, I’m joining the patriarchy”, in The Independent:
glosses: To fondle or grope the breasts of.
mackerel snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mackerel snappers
Etymology: From the Roman Catholic practice of avoiding meat except fish on Fridays.
Senses: glosses: A Roman Catholic.
mackerel snappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mackerel snapper
Syrian Desert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Syrian Desert
Senses: glosses: A region of desert, semi-desert and steppe in West Asia, covering 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles), including parts of south-eastern Syria, northeastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq.
crossbar hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbar hotels
Senses: synonyms: graybar hotel
glosses: jail, prison
crossbar hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbar hotel
vapor locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapor lock
vapour locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapour lock
glasspack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glasspacks
Etymology: From glass + pack.
Senses: examples: text: That's an illegal muffler, Alan thought. A glasspack. I could cite him for that.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A kind of automobile muffler in which the exhaust gas passes straight through the center of the muffler. It consists of a smaller tube centered inside a larger tube that is enlarged or swollen in the middle, the gap between tubes being filled with fiberglass.
glasspacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glasspack
hula-hulaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hula-hula
hula-hulaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hula-hula
Closeburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8992).
glosses: A location near Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand.
African American Vernacular English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of African-American Vernacular English.
cover the waterfront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers the waterfront
form: covering the waterfront
form: covered the waterfront
form: covered the waterfront
Senses: examples: text: But on the other hand, we continue to see huge sales of teacher-oriented textbooks that cover the waterfront of the major facts, laws, and theories in each and every domain of science.
ref: 1975, J. W. George Ivany, Today's Science:
text: "I hear you," Polly said. "I do feel better, I can't help it, and I'm very grateful for it. Does that about cover the waterfront?"
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
text: For another, whereas the pairing of “foreign” and “domestic” often covers the waterfront,... the dissent’s hypothetical pairings do not have that same effect. And unlike animals (which need not be small or doglike) or ice creams (which need not be chocolate or vanilla), every government must be foreign or domestic to some degree; the question is just where on the spectrum it falls.
ref: 2023, Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin (U.S. Supreme Court No. 22–227), Justice Jackson (majority opinion)
glosses: To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.
Margetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Luopu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lo-p'u
form: Lohpu
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洛浦 (Luòpǔ).
Senses: examples: text: An outbreak of viral hepatitis occurred in Duolu Township, Luopu County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, between August 1986 and May 1987.
ref: 1988 March 22 [1987 December], Wang Mingyi, “Investigation of Outbreak of Epidemic Non-A, Non-B Heaptitis in Duolu Township, Luopu County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region”, in Science & Technology, China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:
text: Rawak Temple Ruins, located in the Taklamakan Desert in northwest Luopu County in Hotan, was once a representative Buddhist temple in the Khotan Kingdom.
ref: 2011 November 4, “Rawak Temple Ruins for Buddhist history”, in Beijing Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:
text: A starkly different reality emerges in Luopu, also known as Lop County, where interviews with current and former residents, and analysis of public documents revealed new details about the government’s continuing campaign in one of the worst-affected areas of Xinjiang.
ref: 2019, Lily Kuo, “‘If you enter a camp, you never come out’: inside China’s war on Islam”, in Taipei Times:
glosses: Synonym of Lop: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Lop
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
son-of-a-bitching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But that was the really crazy thought. There was money waiting for him out there in the night. Maybe a lot of it. Maybe a son-of-a-bitching fortune.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
Long Melford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The main street through Long Melford stretches 3 miles along the route of a former Roman highway.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 268:
glosses: A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL8645).
Lo-p'u
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 洛浦 (Lo⁴-pʻu³).
Senses: examples: text: Chinese sources of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries refer to carpet production in east Turkestan with centres at Khotan, Yü Tien, Lo-p'u and Pi-shan, with an annual capacity of about 5,000 carpets for export to Andiyan/Kokand (about eighty per cent), British India and Afghanistan (H. Bidder: Teppiche aus Ost-Turkestan). The oases on the southern border of the Tarim basin - less subject to unrest through political events and migrations - were able to lead a relatively undisturbed and independent life and formed a focus round which the development of art and craft could crystallise.
ref: 1970 [1964], Reinhard G. Hubel, “The carpets of East Turkestan”, in Katherine Watson, transl., The Book of Carpets, West Germany: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 270:
text: The oasis of Khotan, the largest of these, includes Mo-yü (Kara Kash), to the northwest, and Lo-p'u, to the east.
ref: 1974, Khotan (Encyclopædia Britannica), volume V, →ISBN, page 793:
glosses: Alternative form of Luopu (Lop)
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Wakes Colne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wake family.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8928).
Aqqik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Achchiq
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur ئاچچىق (achchiq).
Senses: examples: text: Within the Tarim Basin, they reach to the Aqqik area, and Magartag in the central region.[...]the Tarim gulf was very wide, and seawater extended northward to Yingan of Akesu, and Xiaokuzibai of Wensu and possibly eastward to Aqqik of Luopu.
ref: 1991, Tamio Kotaka, Shallow Tethys 3: Proceedings of the International Symposium, →OCLC, pages 235, 236:
text: In the course of marine incursion and sedimentation, the sea only reached the Wuqia area during the late Eocene, but in Palaeocene - middle Eocene, marine conditions extended eastwards into the desert of the Mazartag area, and southwards, probably into the Aqqik area of Lop.
ref: 1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, editors, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China, Beijing: Science Press, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A township in Yopurga, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Aqike
word: A-ch’i-k’o
Denedeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an alternative name for the Northwest Territories
glosses: the homeland of the Dene peoples
Birdbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7041).
Arrien-en-Bethmale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French Arrien-en-Bethmale.
Senses: glosses: Arrien-en-Bethmale (a village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France).
elective mutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Dated form of selective mutism (“A severe anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak in some social settings”).
Lidlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Lytel + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9939).
Northwood Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in southeastern Northwood, borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1090).
glosses: A neighborhood in northern Dallas, Texas, United States.
Moor Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential estate in Batchworth parish, Three Rivers district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ0893).
glosses: A park and surrounding area in Blackpool borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3239).
glosses: A park and electoral ward in Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5431).
glosses: A residential area of Crosby, Sefton borough, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3200).
vacabond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacabonds
Senses: examples: text: That everie Souldier or Mariner that shalbe taken beginge in any place within this Realme after the Feaste of Easter nexte, or any that shall counterfeite any Certificate in this Acte expressed, shall for ever lose his Annuitie or Pension, and shalbe taken deemed and adjudged as a common Rogue or Vacabond person, and shall have and sustayne the same, and the like Paynes Imprisonment and Punyshment as is appointed and provided for common rogues and vacabond persons.
ref: 1601, Acte for the necessarie Releife of Souldiers and Mariners:
text: And if any such Manniske, Scottish, or Irish rogue, vacabond or begger, be already, or shall at any time hereafter be set on land, or shall come into any part or England or Wales, the same, after hee or shee shall be punished as aforesaid, shall be conueyed to the next Port or Parish in or neere which ley were landed or first came, in such sort as rogues are appointed to be by this present act, & from thence to be transported at the common charge of the countrey where they were set on land into those parts from whence they came or were brought.
ref: 1766, Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta:
text: Such "masterless men," decoyed into the tippling-houses, soon learnt to love idleness rather than honest labour, and helped to swell the crowd of rogues and "vacabonds" which infested the suburbs of London, to the terror of honest folk.
ref: 1860 June, “Some Illustrations of the Sixteenth Century From the Records of the County of Middlesex”, in Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume 8, page 576:
glosses: Alternative form of vagabond.
vacabonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacabond
vacciolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vacciolous
form: most vacciolous
Etymology: From Latin vacca (“cow”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Cow-pox, or, as I have proposed to name them, the Vacciola scutellata and leprosa, as nothing within my sphere of observation has tended to retard the progress of the new inoculation so much as the difficulty which inexperienced inoculators find in learning to distinguish the two diseases, which unhappily the vacciolous virus is capable of producing.
ref: 1801, Jonathan Stokes, “Letters to the Editor”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 6, page 386:
text: In the year 1801, a gentleman inoculated his own two boys and two of his servants with vacciolous matter, that was sent by Dr. Pearson; on the eighth, tenth, and twelfth days I Saw their arms, and was well satisfied that vacciolation had taken place.
ref: 1804, Frederic Thackeray, “Letters to the Editor”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, page 331:
text: The object of this society is the total extermination of the small pox, by substituting in its stead the vacciolous.
ref: 1804, John Feltham, The Picture of London, for 1804, page 216:
text: … on the fore parts of each labium were three or four very distinct and well formed circular pustules, evidently of the genuine vacciolous kind?
ref: 1804, Mr. Coley, “A Case of Inoculated Cow-Pock Succeeded by a Confluent Eruption of Genuine Vaccine Vesicles on the Labia Pudendi; Occasioned by an Act of the Patient Herself”, in The Medical and Physical Journal:
glosses: Pertaining to the cowpox virus.
vacciolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacciolates
form: vacciolating
form: vacciolated
form: vacciolated
Etymology: Coined in 1802 by Dr. John Walker, from vacciolous + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Where I now vacciolate tens, I could easily do the same for hundreds.
ref: 1802, published in 1831, Dr. John Walker, in a letter of the 29th of december to the Jenerian Society quoted from The Life of John Walker (by John Epps), volume IV. 77:
text: As the objects of attention had both been vacciolated at the Small-Pox Hospital, a correct copy of the particulars respecting their inoculation was obtained from the register of that Institution, and is given in the Report.
ref: 1804 December, M. Wigham, “Medical and Physical Intelligence”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, number 70, page 573:
text: May I offer to you my services, in this way : during the infancy of your institution, you cannot do me a greater pleasure than to increase my number of patients ; for, where I now vacciolate tens, I could easily do the same for hundreds.
ref: 1831, John Epps, The life of John Walker, M. D., page 77:
glosses: To innoculate with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to produce immunity to smallpox.
wikipedia: John Walker (vaccinator)
vacciolates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacciolate
vacciolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacciolate
vacciolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacciolate
vacciolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacciolations
Etymology: Coined by Dr. John Walker in 1802 from vacciolate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: I presume the author means by 'after vaccination,' what I should express by after insertion of vacciolous matter, or after the attempt to vacciolate; and yet, when he mentions that zealots on one side have called the eruptions after it by one name, and those on the other by another; I am at a loss to comprehend him; because, if it were only after the attempt, the advocates of vacciolation would have no cause of surprize or disappointment in finding small-pox; the opponents no triumph.
ref: 1804, The Medical and Physical Journal - Volume 12, page 334:
text: (see title)
ref: 1804., Samuel Hill, Experiments proving Vacciolation, or Cow-pock Inoculation, to be a permanent Security against small-pox, with facts and remarks.:
text: In the year 1801, a gentleman inoculated his own two boys and two of his servants with vacciolous matter, that was sent by Dr. Pearson; on the eighth, tenth, and twelfth days I Saw their arms, and was well satisfied that vacciolation had taken place.
ref: 1804, Frederic Thackeray, “Letters to the Editor”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 12, page 331:
text: In 1802 he set up as a vaccinator at the house of a Friend, Joseph Fox, a dentist in Lombard Street, and shortly afterwards, chiefly through the interest of Friends, he was appointed resident inoculator to the Royal Jennerian Society, with a salary of £200 a year, coal and candles, and liberty to take fees for private " vacciolation".
ref: 1895, Quakeriana - Volumes 2-3, page 6:
glosses: Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.
vacciolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacciolation
class tourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From the beginning, professional photography typically meant the broader kind of class tourism, with most photographers combining surveys of social abjection with portraits of celebrities or commodities (high fashion, advertising) or studies of the nude.
ref: 1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Picador, published 2001, page 57:
text: 2002, R. M. Vaughan, interview transcribed in Michelle Berry and Natalee Caple (editors), The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers, Anchor Canada, p. 439,
I despise those books. They’re nothing but the worst sort of class tourism. The idea that Atlantic Canadians are the colourful peasantry of the nation enrages me.
text: As working-class neighborhoods drew curious tourists, so too did the factories where immigrants labored. The novelist and journalist Howard Vincent O’Brien turned the experience of class tourism into reformist literature.
ref: 2009, Daniel E. Bender, chapter 5, in American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry,, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, page 135:
synonyms: slumming
glosses: The practice by members of the middle class of visiting working class areas or slums out of curiosity or for entertainment.
examples: text: The matter of whether Hawaii is to be given over to “mass” or “class” tourism will obviously have been settled by then, and in favor of the former, for the early 1970s will see the 500-passenger “Jumbo” jets come winging in.
ref: 1968, Richard Austin Smith, chapter 8, in The Frontier States: Alaska, Hawaii,, New York: Time-Life Books, page 151:
text: 1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, “A Sibylline Interlude,” p. 284,
I feared you might be one of those snobs who distinguish between class tourism and mass tourism.
text: The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which opened Washington’s home as a national shrine in 1860, reacted ambivalently toward later proposals for electric streetcar service between Washington and Mount Vernon. They worried that the “wrong sort” of people would flood their property. Indeed, they felt that mass tourism as opposed to class tourism could compromise the diffusion of Washington’s legacy.
ref: 2011, Daniel Bluestone, chapter 10, in Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, New York: W.W. Norton, page 242:
synonyms: high-class tourism
luxury tourism
glosses: Tourism catering to a wealthy elite (contrasted with mass tourism).
Related terms: class tourist
account man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: account men
Etymology: From account + -man.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A male account manager.
wordnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wûrd′nĭk
ipa: /ˈwɜːd.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈwɜɹd.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈwøːd.nək/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹd.nɪk/
ipa: /ˈwəːʳɖ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dnɪk
Forms: form: wordniks
Etymology: Blend of word + beatnik. By surface analysis, word + -nik.
Senses: glosses: A person who is highly interested in using and knowing the meanings of neologisms.
vacuum pack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacuum packs
form: vacuum packing
form: vacuum packed
form: vacuum packed
form: vacuum-pack
Senses: examples: text: Most suppliers charge 3 cents per pound to vacuum pack product.
ref: 1975, Edward M. Harwell, Herman Friedman, Sam Feig, Meat management and operations, page 158:
text: Packaging can be tricky as you need to be able to vacuum pack chips.
ref: 2009, Cheryl Kimball, 55 Surefire Food-Related Businesses You Can Start for Under $5000.:
text: Tofu is a very difficult product to vacuum pack, though firm tofu is easier than soft.
ref: 2010, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, page 320:
text: How you store your dried herbs and flowers depends on how you intend to use them. Once dehydrated, they are very fragile. If you vacuum pack them, the leaves/flowers will be crushed.
ref: 2014, The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook:
glosses: To pack something in an airtight container from which some or all of the air is removed, creating a partial vacuum.
vacuum pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuum packs
form: vacuum-pack
Senses: examples: text: The simplest form of MAP is to remove air from the system and hold the meat in a vacuum pack.
ref: 1999, B. A. Blakistone, Principles and Applications of Modified Atmosphere Packaging:
text: Yet the water that surrounds the tofu inside the vacuum pack detracts from its appearance.
ref: 2010, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, page 320:
text: When purchased in the grocery store, frozen lobster tails packed in special vacuum packs can have an extended shelf life of twenty-four months.
ref: 2010, Michael T. Murray, Joseph Pizzorno, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, page 552:
glosses: An airtight container in which something has been vacuum packed.
examples: text: Because of the high complication rate under these circumstances, an aggressive approach to early fascial closure in the post-traumatic open abdomen is suggested, using a combination of the vacuum pack, vacuum-assisted closure technique (KCI VAC, KCI USA, Inc, San Antonio, TX), and a biologic material, human acellular tissue, matrix (Alloderm, LifeCell Corp, Branchburg, NJ) to bridge the gap in the abdominal fascia.
ref: 2008, Juan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care:
text: The abdominal vacuum pack and commercial vacuum-assisted abdominal dresssings both allow for rapid, easy reentry into the peritoneal cavity, control and quantification of effluent, and preservation of the facia for later definitive closure.
ref: 2012, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Lewis J. Kaplan, Management of Peri-operative Complications, page 252:
text: Bouts of diarrhea had forced the medical team to perform a surgical procedure to remove the vacuum pack on her leg, clean the wound and reattach the pack dressing.
ref: 2013, Timothy N. Cole, Every Day for My Daughter, page 203:
glosses: A device which becomes rigid when suction is applied to it, used to pack a wound.
Coordinate terms: vacuum packing
vacuum sealer
vacuum packs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuum pack
vacuum packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum pack
vacuum packing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacuum pack
vacuum packed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacuum pack
vacuum-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacuum-packs
form: vacuum-packing
form: vacuum-packed
form: vacuum-packed
Senses: examples: text: The majority of such establishments will, at a small cost, vacuum-pack smoked fowl, from quail to turkeys and various smoked meats, for the home smoker.
ref: 2012, Keith Erlandson, Home Smoking and Curing:
text: At the end of the process, they vacuum-pack the money in cellophane to make it easier to transport.
ref: 2013, Roger Hobbs, Ghostman, page 31:
text: I let them cool, then vacuum-pack and freeze them.
ref: 2014, Fred Thompson, The Kamado Grill Cookbook:
glosses: Alternative form of vacuum pack.
vacuum-packs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuum-pack
vacuum-packing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacuum-pack
Kimjongilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kimjongilist
FOOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Onomatopoeic (see foof), in reference to its explosive properties, and as a play on its chemical structure (F = fluorine, O = oxygen).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dioxygen difluoride
trialectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of tri- + dialectics, as though the latter came from di- (“two”). The term was proposed by Edward Soja.
Senses: glosses: A form of dialectical reasoning with a spatial basis rather than a temporal one.
wikipedia: Edward Soja
piloerect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piloerects
form: piloerecting
form: piloerected
form: piloerected
Etymology: From pilo- + erect.
Senses: examples: text: The ability of some humans to consciously piloerect suggests even more similarity between humans and non-human animals.
ref: 2022 September 24, Jonathon McPhetres, Janis H. Zickfeld, “The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide for future research”, in International Journal of Psychophysiology, volume 179, →DOI, page 6:
glosses: To produce piloerection.
piloerected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piloerect
cityness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From city + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being or resembling a city.
plagiotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of plagiotropy.
plagiotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being plagiotropic
plantarolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plantaro- + lateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: plantar and lateral
plectenchymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plectenchymatous.
Somaliphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somalophobia
Etymology: From Somali- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Somalophobia.
synonyms: Somalophobia
glosses: The hatred or fear of Somalis.
pluricarpellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluri- + carpellate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many carpels
exopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exopolises
Etymology: Coined by Edward Soja.
Senses: glosses: A region of urban sprawl without the traditional qualities of a city.
wikipedia: Edward Soja
exopolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exopolis
polyallyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + allyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: composed of, or derived from, many allyl groups
polyphalangism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polyphalange; having supernumerary phalanges in a digit.
polyphalangy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -phalangy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyphalangism.
carcereal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carceral.
carcerally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From carceral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of imprisonment.
poolfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poolfish
form: poolfishes
Etymology: From pool + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any fish that inhabits a pool or pond
Derived terms: Pahrump poolfish
poolfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poolfish
reworldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reworlding
flexicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexicities
Etymology: Coined by Edward Soja.
Senses: glosses: A kind of postindustrial city.
wikipedia: Edward Soja
flexicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexicity
pooled funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooled fund
metropolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metropolarities
Etymology: Coined by Edward Soja.
Senses: glosses: Any new form of social inequality associated with modern cities.
wikipedia: Edward Soja
metropolarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metropolarity
heatiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heaty + -ness. A translation of Chinese 熱 /热 (rè).
Senses: qualifier: Asian English
glosses: The quality of being heaty.
hystriciasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hystricism
paranucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the paranucleolus.
gantried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gantry + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a gantry.
baptizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptizees
Etymology: From baptize + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who undergoes baptism.
baptizees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baptizee
dragon curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragon curves
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of self-similar fractal curves that can be approximated by recursive methods.
Derived terms: twindragon
dragon curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragon curve
twindragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twindragons
Etymology: From twin + dragon.
Senses: glosses: A form of dragon curve, constructed by placing two Heighway dragon curves back to back.
twindragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twindragon
Californization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Californianization.
billetee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billetees
form: billettee
Etymology: From billet + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is billeted.
billettee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billettees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of billetee.
billetees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billetee
billettees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billettee
contestee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contestees
Etymology: From contest + -ee.
Senses: coordinate_terms: contestant
glosses: The party against whom a legal challenge is brought.
contestees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contestee
civilizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civilizees
Etymology: From civilize + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who becomes civilized, or is brought into civilization from barbarity.
civilizees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civilizee
chikee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chikees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chickee.
cheekee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheekees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chickee.
cheekees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheekee
chikees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chikee
confessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessees
Etymology: From confess + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who undergoes religious confession.
confessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessee
consecratee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consecratees
Etymology: From consecrate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is consecrated.
consecratees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consecratee
cottonee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonees
Senses: glosses: A Turkish fabric of cotton and silk satinet.
cottonees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottonee