cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
'tend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'tends
form: 'tending
form: 'tended
form: 'tended
Etymology: Shortening of attend or hypercorrection of tend to reflect its etymology
Senses: examples: text: Now, ma, I'll 'tend to that.
ref: 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XIII, in Jennie Gerhardt:
glosses: Obsolete form of tend.
'tends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of 'tend
'tending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 'tend
'tended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 'tend
nap-of-the-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: NOE
glosses: Denoting a very low-altitude flight course used by military aircraft to avoid enemy detection and attack in a high-threat environment.
NOE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of nap-of-the-earth.
dependapotamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependapotamuses
Etymology: Blend of dependent + hippopotamus or similar, the second element being a reference to stereotypical obesity (and the popular misconception that hippos are largely made of fat).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: dependa
glosses: A servicemember's partner (especially a SAHM) who behaves in a parasitic manner, especially by taking advantage of their partner's status to demand beneficial treatment.
Derived terms: dependa
dependapotamuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dependapotamus
GPIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of general-purpose interface bus.
khir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kheer (“Asian sweet rice pudding”).
firni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phirni (“Asian sweet rice pudding”).
phirni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firni
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kheer (“Asian sweet rice pudding”).
synonyms: word: kheer
extra: Asian sweet rice pudding
cryosupernatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosupernatants
Etymology: From cryo- + supernatant.
Senses: glosses: The supernatant of blood plasma remaining after cryoprecipitation, which is to say, plasma with cryoprecipitate removed; it is a blood product used to treat certain coagulation disorders.
Coordinate terms: cryoprecipitate
cryosupernatants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryosupernatant
unsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: The more persisting condition, however, — the blueness of months, in which anything from shoe-buttons to hair fillet, from the morning kiss to the struggle in the world's arena, from the half satisfactory day's work to the dreaded night of unsleep, is colored—is not so readily elucidated or relieved; and it certainly leaves the sufferer, not elated, but genrally apprehensive of future attackes.
ref: 1893, Smith Baker, “Ocular Psychalgia”, in The American Journal of Insanity, volume 49, page 598:
text: I hadn't even taken time to wonder what in hell she wanted with me: only the terror after the boy put the note in my hand and I found privacy to open and read it and still (the terror) in the courage, desperation, despair—call it whatever you like and whatever it was and wherever I found it — to cross to the door and open it and think as I always had each time I was near, either to dance with her or merely to challenge and give twenty or thirty pounds to an impugner of her honor: Why, she cant possibly be this small, this little, apparently standing only inches short of my own six feet yet small, little; too small to have displaced enough of my peace to contain this much unsleep, to have disarranged this much of what I had at least thought was peace.
ref: 1957, William Faulkner, The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family:
text: Dreams tend to turn real in flint shadows and squint sunshine at morning when the promising young men appear slack jawed and drunk with unsleep and boredom: the young girls - how often young - are type tip tapping at bright lighted desks escaping, waking, some other kind of whoredom.
ref: 1970, Neon, page 65:
text: And then a scant sleep comes, which is more sleep versus unsleep than true rest, but in which for reasons of proximity to death, I dream, half muse of Clair and our sweet-as-tea-cakes winter's romance, commencing four months after she joined our office and ending three months down the road, when she met the older, dignified Negro lawyer who was perfect for her and made my small excitations excess baggage.
ref: 2012, Richard Ford, Independence Day, page 210:
glosses: Sleeplessness; wakefulness.
examples: text: Deeper than self entirely, made transparent, The dreamer enters unsleep, a new zone, And in so doing, climbs !
ref: 2004, Richard Burns, Richard Berengarten, For the Living: Longer Poems 1965-2000, page 149:
text: Rather than sleeping the sleep of a very drunk man, I sleep the unsleep of a wizzed out partygoer after a couple of gees too many in the company of Uncle Charles.
ref: 2007, Matt Rothwell, Drunk in Charge of a Foreign Language, page 161:
text: In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness. The empty unsleep of Echos.
ref: 2014, Matt Haig, Echo Boy, page 247:
glosses: A sleeplike state that is not true sleep.
unsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsleeps
form: unsleeping
form: unslept
form: unslept
Etymology: From un- + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: In my own way I sleep, without slumber or repose, this vegetative life of imagining, and the distant reflection of the silent street lamps, like the quiet foam of a dirty sea, hovers behind my restless eyebrows. I sleep and unsleep.
ref: 2002, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet:
text: ...the husband has not been able to learn to speak fluently the language ofhis new country; he has created a defense, as it were, against the corruption of his relief-giving memory: he reads “his Russian language newspaper”and wears over his nightgown “the old overcoat with astrakhan collar” which he much prefers to his new bathrobe; the wife unsleeps the night examining old photographs.
ref: 2012, Yuri Leving, Anatomy of a Short Story:
text: Nights in this dark bus ride where I unslept I take my time to think about everything- Because there is a place that I have to go and a thing that I have to accomplish.
ref: 2015, Subi Taba, Dear Bohemian Man:
glosses: To be wakeful.
examples: text: He said: "I are sorry, but Ravager is big strong dog. He will be all right soon." […] I sat with, in case he might unsleep.
ref: 1930 October, Rudyard Kipling, “Toby Dog”, in Thy Servant a Dog […], London: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1931, →OCLC, page 91:
text: And you also would unsleep to this, which is not quite like awakening because you were not quite sleeping yet, neither were you drifting.
ref: 2001, Michael Burkard, Unsleeping: poems, page 80:
glosses: To awaken; to become wakeful.
examples: text: And into this chancy sphere we have come, into playtime of desires that destroy or unsleep us.
ref: 1974, Hugo Manning, This Room Before Sunrise, page 33:
text: I said I wanted what all guys want: to smack the beauty back into you with a light bulb revolver, to call down fire from the holy spirit and watch you incinerate in a cheap party gown, to rip you in two and make you notice how close we are to death when sleeping, to awaken that four-letter beast roaring like a fistfight in your throat that unsleeps the chaos inside you.
ref: 2010, Derrick Brown, Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife:
text: If anyone else was around, especially her father, she unslept her computer the old fashioned way – by pressing any key and typing a password.
ref: 2015, Jeffrey Lee Simons, Spirit In Realtime, page 19:
glosses: To cause someone or something to go from a sleeping state to a wakeful one, or to deprive of sleep.
unsleeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsleep
language nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of language nest
underreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnd.əɹ.ɹiˈæk.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹiˈæktɪv/
Forms: form: more underreactive
form: most underreactive
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently reactive; underreacting.
dipolar ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipolar ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A zwitterion.
protected democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protected democracies
Senses: examples: text: Pinochet, the Times reported, said he is “a lover of liberty, a right to which all men are born.” But he had no confidence “in orthodox democracy. It was too easy to infiltrate and destroy.” (He knew of what he spoke.) So he favored “a protected democracy” with a strong political role for the military. “He has managed to say in power,” the Times reported, “through what even his opponents recognize in political acumen…” (not terror, torture, and death squads.)
ref: 1986, Michael Parenti, chapter 10, in Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: authoritarian democracy
dictatorship of democracy
limited democracy
glosses: An antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.
mockingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mocking + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: derisiveness
glosses: The condition of being mocking; derisiveness.
valvometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valvo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to valvometry
veneroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veneroid
ventroposteriomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ventro- + posteriomedial.
Senses: glosses: ventral and posteriomedial
vibroarthrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vibro- + arthrographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to vibroarthrography
vibroarthrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibroarthrographies
Etymology: From vibro- + arthrography.
Senses: glosses: vibrational arthrography
Related terms: vibroarthrographic
videolaryngostroboscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From video- + laryngostroboscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to videolaryngostroboscopy
videolaryngostroboscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videolaryngostroboscopies
Etymology: From video- + laryngostroboscopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: laryngostroboscopy by means of a video camera
Related terms: videolaryngostroboscopic
videolaryngostroboscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videolaryngostroboscopy
visuoparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visuo- + parietal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: visual and parietal
Derived terms: visuoparietal cortex
visuoparietal lobe
visuotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From visuo- + temporal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: visual and temporal
Derived terms: visuotemporal attention
xenoreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenoreactions
Etymology: From xeno- + reaction.
Senses: glosses: The adverse reaction (rejection) between the body and a xenograft.
xenoreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenoreaction
xenorophid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenorophids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct toothed whale of the family Xenorophidae
xenorophids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenorophid
zeaxanthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeaxanthines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zeaxanthin.
Fenchurch Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A street in the City of London, between Gracechurch Street and Aldgate.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A relatively small railway terminus near the above street, which has train services to southern Essex.
dactylospasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactylospasm
daggerblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daggerblade
daily strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daily strip
Daimlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daimler
dampwood termites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dampwood termite
give the floor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the floor
form: giving the floor
form: gave the floor
form: given the floor
Senses: glosses: To give permission or time to speak at a public meeting.
Related terms: take the floor
have the floor
New Southgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Greater London, England in the borough of Barnet and borough of Enfield (OS grid ref TQ2892).
act of faith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acts of faith
Etymology: Compare Portuguese auto da fé.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: An action that demonstrates one's religious faith.
synonyms: leap of faith
glosses: An action taken based on trust in a positive outcome with no guarantees.
Millerston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Millers + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area partly in the city of Glasgow and partly in North Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6468).
pull up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls up on
form: pulling up on
form: pulled up on
form: pulled up on
Etymology: From pull up + on. The "call out"/"criticise" sense is derived from the analogy of cops (police) pulling up alongside of one's vehicle in order to confront or arrest them for wrongdoing.
Senses: examples: text: Do you mind if I pull up on you in about half an hour?
glosses: To come to, visit.
glosses: To call out or criticise someone for something they have done wrong.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To a do a drive-by on (someone).
up-pulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uppulled
Etymology: From Middle English uppuld, equivalent to up- + pulled.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Lawson turned to refasten an up-pulled tent-peg, and to get a cord, and when he turned round again, the mulatto was gone.
ref: 1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 228:
text: Her handsome leg was exposed by the up-pulled hem of her torn tunic.
ref: 2017, Gardner Fox, Jeffrey K. Gardner, Cleopatra:
glosses: Pulled up.
examples: text: A sympathetic youngster two or three years her senior thereupon came over, and, after persuading her to stop crying, showed her how to bury the roots of the up-pulled sprouts so that they would continue in their growth.
ref: 1911, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American City, volume 4, page 187:
glosses: Uprooted.
raw_tags: of a plant
step into the breach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps into the breach
form: stepping into the breach
form: stepped into the breach
form: stepped into the breach
Senses: synonyms: leap into the breach
jump into the breach
glosses: To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it.
Related terms: bell the cat
take one for the team
once more into the breach
trade press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the trade press
Senses: examples: text: Finally, it also seems that poor performance by TransPennine Express has caught the attention of more than just the trade press, with Burnham even suggesting FirstGroup should be stripped of the TPE deal should delays and cancellations continue.
ref: 2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “All eyes on the PM”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: Printed media that is written and published for a particular industry.
orbital mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Astrodynamics; the study of the movement of vehicles in space.
lose patience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses patience
form: losing patience
form: lost patience
form: lost patience
Senses: info_templates: expansion: [with with ‘someone’]
synonyms: lose one's patience
glosses: To become impatient.
take someone at their word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes someone at their word
form: taking someone at their word
form: took someone at their word
form: taken someone at their word
Senses: glosses: To take someone literally even though they may not have been serious; to take someone seriously even though they were joking; to take up a challenge that was initially meant as a joke.
examples: text: There’s no way to objectively know if a particular alterhuman individual is actually an otherkin, otherkith, or otherlink. As with matters of gender identity, they have to be taken at their word—sometimes quite literally: it might be a word you've never heard before.
ref: 2023, Phil Illy, “Autosexuality Beyond Gender”, in Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex, Houndstooth Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 447:
glosses: To take someone's word for it, to believe someone without having the means to check that what they said is true.
Related terms: on the face of it
take at face value
retention tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retention tanks
Senses: examples: text: Eleven four-coach 'Castles' are on order, with eight delivered. These are former GWR Mk 3s that have been converted by fitting sliding doors, passenger information screens and retention tanks.
ref: 2020 January 2, “Fleet News”, in Rail, page 20:
glosses: A tank for the retention of toilet waste, e.g. on a train.
retention tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retention tank
Penarth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛˈnɑː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)θ
Etymology: From Welsh Penarth, from pennarth (“promontory”).
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1871).
glosses: An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
fabledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fable + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The animals of all fabledom are absessed by human souls. They think man-thoughts, have man-motives, and do man-deeds.
ref: 1898, Contemporary Club Papers:
text: It begins with a paragraph in the now familiar style: "Incola sum Britanniae," and so forth; but almost immediately Britain is left for fabledom, and we have the Wolf and the Lamb, then the names of Latin poets, then Roman camps, another fable, and so on.
ref: 1910, The School World:
text: American readers will meet many fabulous people, including the bold and resourceful Petit Jean, a probable ancestor of our own Paul Bunyon. Here are all the best ingredients of fabledom, the crafty Sultan who almost — but not quite — outwits Petit Jean; the wicked ...
ref: 1958, The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals:
text: Yet Both has not entirely romanticized Italy into fabledom. He clearly has no time for mythological adventures: no Pan or Narcissus peeks out of the undergrowth.
ref: 1999, Wendy Beckett, Patricia Wright, Sister Wendy's one thousand masterpieces:
glosses: All fables, collectively, and the worlds depicted in them.
examples: text: In a time of violent religious excitement the transference was easy from fabledom, Teutonic barbarism, &c., to Christian convents.
ref: 1894, The Tablet - Volume 84, page 5:
text: For the persnickety, spell the month J-u-l-r-y, but the rule about "r" months and oysters has happily passed into fabledom and can be ignored.
ref: 197?, Marketing Memos:
text: Certainly, it would be nice to get it perfect the first time, but that's really the stuff of fabledom.
ref: 1978, Canadian Tax Foundation, Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Tax Conference Convened by the Canadian Tax Foundation:
glosses: Cultural beliefs that are not grounded in fact.
examples: text: That the Seeds were able to parlay their distinctly limited talents as writers, singers and musicians into a rather long and successful career is one of the more miraculous stories in rock fabledom.
ref: 1983, Dave Marsh, John Swenson, The new Rolling stone record guide, page 452:
qualifier: qualified by the name of a subculture
glosses: The legends of a particular subculture.
Ordsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8197).
glosses: A village in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7079).
fabricatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fabricatory
form: most fabricatory
Etymology: From fabricate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are.
ref: 1919, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 304:
text: He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.
ref: 1919, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.
examples: text: As a little child she had been awed into a reverence for people who kept their word, although in those days she was not without contempt for luckless ones who could not escape Mother Meg's strap by reason of a certain lack in their fabricatory regions.
ref: 1892, Jessie A. Norquay Forbes, John Gentleman, Tramp, page 83:
text: Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”
ref: 1948, Editor & Publisher - Volume 81, Issues 15-27, page 7:
text: Those officers whom we have mentioned meeting may perhaps be puzzled over our identity and it would be as well to say that we are nebulous and intangible creatures, with a tendency towards fabricatory embellishment !
ref: 1951, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps - Volumes 96-97, page 146:
text: I pointed out the fabricatory nature of Asokamitran's campaign to the editors and followed it up with a reply to his rejoinder listing some of the distortions, one by one, and bringing out what my stand was and how they appeared in Asokamitran's presentation.
ref: 1972, Thought - Volume 24, Issues 27-53, page 16:
glosses: Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.
examples: text: It should be further noted that in the work of the Committee the term "secondary industries" has been taken to include the so-called processing industries, e.g. tanning and fruit-canning, and fabricatory industries, e.g. textile and paper mills.
ref: 1946, Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 1, page 10:
text: Even so, we do not believe that, again in light of the pertinent decisional background, the fabricatory procedures through which fresh meats may have passed are sufficient to constitute the involved commodities as “processed commodities” within the meaning of the Bilyeu case.
ref: 1973, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases:
text: So, the ultimate test of the reliability of fabricatory science can only be the durability, stability, and efficiency of the structures that can be made by use of the theory.
ref: 1978, Harlan Garnett Wilson, Complexity as a Theoretical Problem - Volume 1, page 119:
glosses: Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.
fabricatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabricatories
Etymology: From fabricate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: It is our purpose to build and improve conditions for the manufacturer, the fabricatory and the public.
ref: 1922, The Southern Lumberman - Volume 108, page 42:
text: Foundries, fabricatories, factories, mills, and more.
ref: 2011, Appleton Schneider, The Infamous Mustang Trial:
text: We believe that he has fabricatories for expensive jewelry and a worldwide scatter of stores where he sells them at the highest prices—but there again the connections are as yet untraced.
ref: 2013, Fritz Leiber, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold:
glosses: A business that handles the fabrication of goods.
fabricatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabricatory
facthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facthoods
Etymology: From fact + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts.
ref: 1999, Dan Bar-On, The Indescribable and the Undiscussable, page 155:
text: There are other evolutionary hypotheses that have not yet garnered sufficient evidence and whose "facthood" is still in question, especially ones having to do with particular pathways of descent or with the relative importance of natural selection versus drift, for example, as the cause of some particular biological feature.
ref: 2000, Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, page 177:
text: The popular press is awash in facthoods. Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.
ref: 2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise:
text: The test is this: formulate schemata with regard to truth, facthood, and representation of the same logical form. Then see whether their substitution instances are at least logically equivalent.
ref: 2011, John Greco, The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism, page 186:
glosses: The quality of being factual; factuality.
facthoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facthood
facultize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facultizes
form: facultizing
form: facultized
form: facultized
form: facultise
Etymology: From faculty + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: And behold, I say unto you, the Supreme Genius doth not facultize ; the glory is not what it does but what it is ; it hath no old nor new, no here nor there ; it stays not to remember, to wonder, to compare ; to the vehm of the patrician Presence, omniscience were an idle labor and delay, and prophecy is forestalled and bootless in the sole sufficiency whose pæan hath no echo.
ref: 1874, Benjamin Paul Blood, The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, page 36:
glosses: To make use of one's faculties; to perform skilled work.
examples: text: Now in Active Orders, more than anywhere else, “facultized" women are a paramount necessity.
ref: 1873, Richard Frederick Littledale, The Religious Education of Women, page 39:
text: The twister saved me from being facultized; while my roommate, because he was in studying, got his neck broken when the building was wrecked — poor fellow!"
ref: 1924, Herbert Quick, The Invisible Woman:
text: Their indifference, however, sharpened to hostility in regard to the Chinese, against whom they seemed to nourish a special grudge. Again and again I heard the most artistic, frugal, and facultized race in the world dismissed as a dirty and ungrateful lot who would be all the better for a touch of the big stick or—ennobling thought!—the big gun.
ref: 1933, Ada Elizabeth Jones Chesterton, Young China and New Japan:
text: The Folgers had a scientific bent, and were known on the island as being "facultized."
ref: 1956, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Of Whales and Women, page 82:
text: Each group, naturally enough, does different things: students study, administrators administer, and faculty "facultize" ...
ref: 1972, College and University - Volume 48, page 38:
glosses: To educate in an academic discipline.
examples: text: Indeed, it is a question not of schools but of civilization, whether mental training, from the three R's to science and philosophy, shall really make men better, as the theory of popular education assumes, and whether the genius and talent of the few who can receive and bear it can be brought to the full maturity of a knowledge fully facultized—a question paramount, even in a republic, to the general education of the many.
ref: 1906, Granville Stanley Hall, Youth: Its Education, Regimen and Hygiene:
text: However, in 2001, it became what I might call a 'facultized' discipline; in other words a faculty was named after it.
ref: 2010, Ranamukalage Chandrasoma, Academic Writing and Interdisciplinarity:
text: Increased intakes were then matched paradoxically by an inescapably homogenizing construction of the student, channeled along certain academic-professional facultized pathways towards domains of study conducive to the priorities of .mushrooming state and imperial bureaucracies and/or the needs of private enterprise for competitive intellectual specialization.
ref: 2018, Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding:
glosses: To develop as an academic discipline.
facultizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facultize
facultizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facultize
facultized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facultize
facultized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facultized
form: most facultized
Senses: examples: text: Huldy was a tailoress by trade; but then she was one o' these 'ere facultized persons that has a gift for most anything, and that was how Mis' Carryl come to set sech store by her, that, when she was sick, nothin' would do for her but she must have Huldy round all the time: and the minister he said he'd make it good to her all the same, and she shouldn't lose nothin' by it.
ref: 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown folks, and Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories:
text: The educational system and conduct of life is based upon a mythical assumption which has been endured all too long. This assumption is that mind is a facultized entity free of the body; that this mind is all-capacious and should be crammed and kept going as long as the owner can wriggle under the lash of whip, tongue or will.
ref: 1905, Philip Henry Erbés, Education Brained; Or, Education from the Standpoint of the Brain and Brain-cells, page 7:
text: It would take me a week to give a list of our other mishaps all along the line and of the incredible methods we had to be "facultized" enough to invent remedies.
ref: 1984, The Dukes County Intelligencer - Volumes 26-28:
glosses: Having many faculties; skillful.
facultise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facultises
form: facultising
form: facultised
form: facultised
Senses: examples: text: One of the new students, Chew, was facultised to-night by some of the Student Faculty.
ref: 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, page 33:
text: Intuitive wisdom even in scientific discovery may precede facultised wisdom.
ref: 1980, George Scott Williamson, Innes Hope Pearse, Science, Synthesis, and Sanity, page 203:
text: The safeguard against the crudity of action of immaturity that might be feared from such conditions, lies in the example of the facultised expression of the more mature.
ref: 2000, Nicholas Deakin, Origins of the Welfare State: The Peckham Experiment, page 222:
text: This results in an “order arising out of the capacity of unintimidated human beings facultised to respond to the total situation”
ref: 2018, David Kuchenbuch, Pioneering Health in London, 1935-2000: The Peckham Experiment:
glosses: Alternative form of facultize.
facultises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facultise
facultising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facultise
facultised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facultise
falconish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more falconish
form: most falconish
Etymology: From falcon + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The visage of the secretary bird is falconish in the extreme ; if possible, more so than that of the actual bird it is compared to.
ref: 1886, Parker Gillmore, The Hunter's Arcadia, page 45:
text: A wholly obscure contest, as was natural ; wherein, however, to all candid eyes the vulturous and falconish character of our Isle fully asserts itself; and the foreign Quack of Quacks, with all his thaumaturgic Hemp-silks, Lottery-numbers, Beauty-waters, Seductions, Phosphorus-boxes, and Wines of Egypt, is seen matched, and nigh throttled, by the natural unassisted cunning of English Attorneys.
ref: 1897, Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays:
text: If I tell you he had bronzed curly hair and a falconish sort of face, bronzed by the sea also, it's not for his sake, I assure you, but for the story; for it was the cause of a very curious coincidence.
ref: 1914, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown:
text: A quick count told him that they had lost more than half of their force and as he watched, the Comanche chief's falconish face lost none of its icy pride as he stared back defiantly at the wagons.
ref: 2000, Jon Sharpe, Aztec Gold, page 184:
glosses: Like a falcon.
dialozite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: minerals
glosses: Rhodochrosite.
Zaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zabas
Etymology: From Polish żaba, Czech žába, or Slovak, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian žaba, all meaning frog.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
king of all one surveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kings of all they survey
form: monarch of all one surveys
Senses: examples: text: Let the world without go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall, so long as he has the wherewithal to pay his bill he is, for the time being, the very monarch of all he surveys.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, “Stratford-on-Avon”, in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:
text: None of the refinements of civilisation enter into the life of an ordinary Boer. […] His happiness is to live alone in the great wilderness, with his children, his men-servants and his maid-servants, his flocks and his herds, the monarch of all he surveys.
ref: 1882, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 1, in Cetywayo and his White Neighbours:
text: "If a man is king of all he surveys, he'd best make sure he has a wide enough view," Big Will had joked to his ten-year-old son while leaning back in his leather chair and puffing on his favorite brand of Havana cigar.
ref: 1990, Joyce Thies, King of the Mountain, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Here again are the Atlanta Braves, kings of all they survey in whatever division they've been in for 11 seasons, swaying to the chant of the tomahawk chop in October, but here again are all those empty blue seats on the far slopes of Turner Field.
ref: 2002 October 4, Dave Anderson, “Sports of The Times: Empty Seats Don't Bother Braves' Bats”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jan 2020:
text: Huw Edwards stands at the top of the circular staircase in the BBC newsroom, king of all he surveys.
ref: 2003 January 20, Simon Hattenstone, “BBC: Simon Hatterstone talks to Huw Edwards”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 09 Jan 2020:
text: He strides around like he's the king of all he surveys through those eyes of his, framed by (okay) wrinkles.
ref: 2009 July 20, Garth Woolsey, “Golden oldie Tom Watson offers one for the aged”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 09 Jan 2020:
glosses: Possessing governing authority over a range of territory; having decisive control or oversight over all major matters within one's ambit of influence; having a satisfying position of respected leadership or comfortable prestige.
Synonyms: king of the castle
king of the hill
lord of all one surveys
lord of the manor
master of all one surveys
monarch of all one surveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monarchs of all they survey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of king of all one surveys.
lord of all one surveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lords of all they survey
Senses: glosses: Synonym of king of all one surveys.
synonyms: word: king of all one surveys
master of all one surveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masters of all they survey
Senses: glosses: Synonym of king of all one surveys.
synonyms: word: king of all one surveys
poodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poodly
form: most poodly
Etymology: From poodle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a poodle (dog).
Tehrangeles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Tehran + Los Angeles.
Senses: examples: text: Some of those immigrants and their descendants became a visible part of the cultural scene in California, in Tehrangeles, the worst of which were depicted in the unflattering reality show Shahs of Sunset.
ref: 2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014:
glosses: A Persian/Iranian-dominated neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Synonyms: Little Persia
Los Angeles
California
USA
Hypernyms: word: Westwood
word: Westside
english: City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
translation: City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
word: Los Angeles
word: California
word: USA
word: Little Persia
word: Little Iran
word: Little Tehran
Spotswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spotswoods
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Spotsylvania
Pittsylvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /-.njə/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌpɪt.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /-.njə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: * (Pittsylvania County): Pitt (“William Pitt the Elder”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”)
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Pittsylvania County.
glosses: A proposed name for a failed colony bid, in what would later become West Virginia.
Synonyms: word: Vandalia
word: Westsylvania
word: West Virginia
Related terms: Pennsylvania
Spotsylvania
Sylvania
Transylvania
as much again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: An additional amount of the same size.
that's a good one
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: good one
Senses: synonyms: that's a laugh
don't make me laugh
yeah, right
glosses: That's funny (often said to indicate that what has just been said is laughably unbelievable.)
Related terms: have a good one
job's a good 'un
pendletonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Norman Pendleton (1901-1995), a mineral collector in Santa Cruz. Name invented by Joseph Murdoch in 1967.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Name for a coronene mineral, later called carpathite.
Yugonostalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yugonostalgic
form: most Yugonostalgic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Yugo-nostalgic.
calmth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calm + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: qualifier: perhaps nonstandard
glosses: The state or condition of being calm; calmness.
jump in with both feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps in with both feet
form: jumping in with both feet
form: jumped in with both feet
form: jumped in with both feet
Senses: glosses: To commit oneself wholeheartedly.
Related terms: take the plunge
dansak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dansaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhansak.
dansaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dansak
baby rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Finely ground rice used as a food for babies.
on the block
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: go on the block
text: put on the block
glosses: Available or for sale at an auction.
Related terms: going, going, gone
what am I bid?
live to regret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives to regret
form: living to regret
form: lived to regret
form: lived to regret
Senses: glosses: to regret doing something.
Related terms: kick oneself
live with oneself
rue the day
microswitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microswitch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more microswitches.
AFAP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of as fast as possible.
out of both sides of one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Compare out of the side of one's mouth.
Senses: examples: text: to speak out of both sides of one's mouth
text: to talk out of both sides of one's mouth
text: If speaking out of both sides of your mouth at the same time were a modern art form, they would be on permanent exhibition at the Tate. Sadly, it is not the only issue where they exhibit that trait, but I shall not go into the subject of vigilantism here.
ref: 2002 April 7, Derek Mooney, “Ireland's future is in Europe”, in The Observer:
text: The lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, said: "They're speaking out of both sides of their mouth," when the company claims its food is healthy but should be eaten in moderation.
ref: 2003 February 21, David Teather, quoting Samuel Hirsch, “‘McFrankenstein’ returns to haunt fast food chain in new court action”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Even to a long-term student of political ventriloquy, the Abbott government’s capacity to speak out of both sides of its mouth on climate policy is astonishing.
ref: 2015 June 19, Lenore Taylor, “The Coalition is engaging in double talk on climate policy – it has no other option”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Indicating contradictory things.
Related terms: double talk
in the same breath
laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
preach water and drink wine
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
speak with a forked tongue
sparkledog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparkledogs
Etymology: From sparkle + dog.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fictional anthropomorphic character, most commonly a canine or wolf, that has strikingly vibrant colors and patterns on its body. Other common features include unnatural combinations of physical traits, such as wings and horns being on a dog; human-styled hair; and excessive jewellery, piercings, and other man-made accessories.
Coordinate terms: punk
street shitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street shitter
sparkledogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparkledog
timetabler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timetablers
Etymology: From timetable + -er.
Senses: examples: text: NR's timetablers would usually deal with these conflicts by adding pathing time to a train's schedule.
ref: 2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in Rail, page 23:
glosses: A person who prepares timetables.
timetablers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timetabler
polac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊlæk/
homophone: Polack
Forms: form: polacs
form: POLAC
Etymology: Blend of police + accident
Senses: examples: text: An accident involving a police car is known as a 'polac', and is investigated 'independently' by the area traffic department rather than by the division to which the driver belongs.
ref: 1990, Robert Chesshyre, Force: Inside the Police, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Before getting out of his van, he sent out a Polac (police accident) bulletin on his radio.
ref: 2001 February 12, John Sutherland, The Guardian:
text: Two weeks in my opinion cant surely be enough.¶ Oh well, whatever saves money. (they way to stop Polacs is apparently to create an initial phase pursuit course (1 to 2 days)! mmmm I think perhaps the way might be to stop decreasing the length of the course and to give drivers some appropriate vehicles, but thats another thread!
ref: 2007 January 2, magoo, “Standard Driving Test for Special Constables”, in Police Community, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2021, Roads Policing:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A road-traffic accident that occurs due to presence of a police vehicle.
POLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POLACs
Etymology: Blend of police + accident
Senses: examples: text: I doubt that the organisation is going to be terribly concerned that you arrive at that call thirty seconds later than you would have done otherwise but can be pretty sure that they would have something to say had you smashed up your police car on the way there. I doubt also that CPS would be satisfied with the defence of '...It was my first night duty … and I was rather tired...' after your high profile POLAC gets splashed all over the national newspapers and television news.
ref: 2019, Darren Moor, How To Survive Your Police Career, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN:
text: And it really brought it home to me when I was involved in my own POLAC (police accident) in March 2012.
ref: 2015 January 14, Jessica Davies, “Pc moved into office role 'after telling bosses blue-flashing lights on police cars don't work'”, in The Telegraph:
text: First, a woman goes missing, and leaves her things and a mysterious note in her car. Now a POLAC with a DCI in the passenger seat.
ref: 2015, Martin Edwards, The Dungeon House, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
text: When you have an at fault POLAC on camera!
ref: 2018 February 1, StopFightingTheDog, “That moment you have a POLAC . . . in the middle of the day in town . . . whilst being recorded for a television programme”, in Reddit, r/PoliceUK:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of polac.
POLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of police + academy
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: The Police Academy of Nigeria.
POLACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POLAC
grade-separated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Potential answers here include remodelling the north junction to be grade-separated, adding an extra platform and track to allow more parallel moves, or by changing services so that trains from Wigan go towards Piccadilly and trains from Bolton head for Victoria.
ref: 2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in RAIL, page 23:
glosses: Having routes that cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level.
raw_tags: of a junction
bar chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar chairs
form: barchair
Senses: examples: text: Past the bar was a little area in an alcove that contained a few tall, round tables and bar chairs.
ref: 2004, Kathy Love, Wanting What You Get, New York: Zebra Books, published by Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, (eBook):
text: He ordered a Corona, stretched and groaned as he lowered himself into a too small bar chair.
ref: 2005, Buff Brazy Given, Simon’s Story: A Novel, [sine loco]: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Bar chairs were heavy with high backs that prevented many a drunk’s reverse gainer.
ref: 2005, R. J. Grubb, Mordray’s Whale, New York/Lincoln/Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 130:
text: The door was guarded by a retired cop named Frankie the Golfer, who sat by the door in an upholstered bar chair that he leaned back against the wall.
ref: 2013, John Dufresne, No Regrets, Coyote, New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, (eBook):
text: Roy pulled his bulk off the bar chair. Joe held it for Megan, who had to step onto the bar rail to lift herself onto the chair.
ref: 2013, Richard Rose, The Lazarus Conspiracies, Honolulu, HI, USA: Savant Books, →ISBN, page 154:
synonyms: bar stool
glosses: A tall chair-like seat usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.
bar chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar chair