cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sirwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirwals
form: serwal
Etymology: From Arabic سروال.
Senses: examples: text: You dropped your serwal thus, under cover of the encircling boubou, you squatted thus and, having attended to your affairs, you concealed all traces by scuffing the mess over with sand.
ref: 1974, Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Fearful Void:
text: ‘These,’ Bahiyaa said, pointing at the loose-fitting trousers, ‘we call sirwal.’
ref: 2009, Natasha Oakley, Cinderella and the Sheikh, page 58:
glosses: A form of baggy trousers worn in North Africa, the Arab world, and parts of the Balkans.
hex edit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hex edits
form: hex editing
form: hex edited
form: hex edited
form: hexedit
form: hex-edit
Etymology: Back-formation from hex editor.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To manipulate the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file using a hex editor, which displays the data in hexadecimal format.
hex edits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hex edit
hex editing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hex edit
hex edited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hex edit
Atlasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Atlas + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Atlas Mountains or the region of North Africa that they are in
hot as Hades
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: extremely hot; hot as hell; hot as blazes
happy as a sandboy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very happy.
Synonyms: happy
emetophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɛtəˌfəʊb/
Forms: form: emetophobes
Etymology: As emeto- + -phobe, From emetophobia
Senses: examples: text: Is there anyone sitting wrapped in a towel holding a bowl? If there is you can bet your life an emetophobe will not stay.
ref: 2007, Nicolette Heaton-Harris, “Illness”, in Living with Emetophobia: Coping with Extreme Fear of Vomiting, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 61:
text: For those of you who are not familiar, I will try to outline the nature of emetophobia, at least the way I experience it. It stems ultimately from a fear of losing control of one's body. Vomiting is unavoidable, violent, and sometimes unpredictable. It isn't fun for anyone (well, almost anyone), but for an emetophobe it becomes a life or death situation.
ref: 2011 September 26, Michelle Clement, “My experience with emetophobia, and some questions for the blogosphere”, in Scientific American:
text: A lot of emetophobes are particularly terrified of vomiting in public – many cite a fear of losing control and of others finding them repulsive.
ref: 2015 January 26, Katie Grant, “How I beat my fear of vomiting: ‘Eating frightens me’”, in The Independent:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: One who fears vomit or regurgitation; one suffering from emetophobia.
gynæcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynæcoid
form: most gynæcoid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynaecoid.
gynæcomast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynæcomasts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecomast.
gynæcomasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecomasty.
gynæcomastia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecomastia.
gynæcomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynæcomorphous
form: most gynæcomorphous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of gynaecomorphous.
gynaecomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynaecomorphous
form: most gynaecomorphous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gynecomorphous.
keeps it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep it together
keeping it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep it together
kept it together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep it together
street corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: street corners
form: streetcorner
Senses: glosses: The corner of a street, usually where two streets meet at an intersection.
street corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street corner
neat as a new pin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clean as a new pin
form: neat as a pin
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very clean or tidy
Synonyms: clean as a hound's tooth
clean as a new penny
clean as a whistle
coolened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coolen
coolens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coolen
coolens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolen
coolening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coolen
Sierra plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sierra plums
Senses: glosses: A shrub or small tree native to northern California and southern Oregon, Prunus subcordata, sometimes grown for its edible fruit.
Synonyms: Pacific plum
Klamath plum
California plum
Oregon plum
western plum
Modoc plum
Sierra plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sierra plum
Pacific plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific plums
Senses: glosses: A Sierra plum (Prunus subcordata).
Pacific plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacific plum
Klamath plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klamath plums
Senses: glosses: The Sierra plum, Prunus subcordata.
Klamath plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klamath plum
California plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California plums
Senses: glosses: A Sierra plum (Prunus subcordata).
Oregon plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oregon plums
Senses: glosses: A Sierra plum (Prunus subcordata).
western plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western plums
Senses: glosses: The Sierra plum (Prunus subcordata).
Modoc plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Modoc plums
Senses: glosses: A Sierra plum tree (Prunus subcordata).
California plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of California plum
Oregon plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oregon plum
western plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western plum
Modoc plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Modoc plum
valleyside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valley + -side.
Senses: examples: text: The valleyside grasses sprout in April.
glosses: Next to or beside a valley.
valleyside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valleysides
Etymology: From valley + -side.
Senses: examples: text: We walked a path along the valleyside.
glosses: The area beside a valley.
Synonyms: daleside
giant hyssop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant hyssops
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Agastache, aromatic herbs in the mint family.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Agastache mexicana
word: Mexican giant hyssop
taxonomic: Agastache urticifolia
word: nettle-leaf giant hyssop
taxonomic: Agastache pallidiflora
word: New Mexico giant hyssop
taxonomic: Agastache nepetoides
word: yellow giant hyssop
giant hyssops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant hyssop
nettle-leaved horsemint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nettle-leaved horsemints
Senses: glosses: An aromatic herb of the western US in the mint family, Agastache urticifolia, used medicinally by the American Indians.
Synonyms: sense: Agastache urticifolia
word: nettle-leaf giant hyssop
sense: Agastache urticifolia
word: horsemint
nettle-leaved horsemints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nettle-leaved horsemint
nettle-leaf giant hyssop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nettle-leaf giant hyssops
Senses: glosses: An aromatic herb of the western US in the mint family (Agastache urticifolia), used medicinally by the American Indians.
Synonyms: sense: Agastache urticifolia
word: nettle-leaved horsemint
sense: Agastache urticifolia
word: horsemint
nettle-leaf giant hyssops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nettle-leaf giant hyssop
words failing someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of words fail someone
words failed someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of words fail someone
nettle-leaf horsemint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nettle-leaf horsemints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nettle-leaved horsemint.
nettle-leaf horsemints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nettle-leaf horsemint
basa fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basa fish
form: basa fishes
Etymology: From Vietnamese cá ba sa.
Senses: glosses: A shark catfish native to southeast Asia, of species Pangasius bocourti.
glosses: Other species in family Pangasiidae.
beroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beroids
Senses: glosses: Any animal in the family Beroidae, sole family of order Beroida and of class Nuda, distinguished from other ctenophores by lacking tentacles.
beroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beroid
sea-gooseberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-gooseberry
DONSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DONSAs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of day of no scheduled activities.
centillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centillionaires
Etymology: From centillion + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: Their frequent opponents include CBS chairman Laurence Tisch and centillionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes.
ref: 1990, Time - Volume 135, page 110:
text: The only centillionaire, Heinrich snorted cocaine.
ref: 2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood, →ISBN, page 137:
text: I want you to feel like a Centillionaire!!
ref: 2015, Lisa Lee Hairston, The Infinite Rules To Money - Part 1, →ISBN:
glosses: Somebody whose wealth is greater than one centillion (10³⁰³) units of the local currency; an extremely rich person.
Related terms: centillion
millionaire
billionaire
trillionaire
centillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centillionaire
cheesen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Equivalent to cheese + -en (plural ending).
Senses: examples: text: Stap hather, cozen Magery, a lite, and tern these cheesen.
ref: 1746, anonymous author, “An Exmoor Courtship”, in George Laurence Gomme, editor, Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore, published 1886, page 50:
text: This was the poorer sort of Dorset cheese, made of milk skimmed once, and sometimes twice; but the richer kind of mouldy cheesen, into which a portion of cream entered, was almost equal to Stilton, holding a place midway between that and the fashionable foreign makes known as Roquefort and Gorgonzola, but it is little made nowadays, and may be deemed extinct, as are also those thin cheeses which used to be made in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, and known as single Gloucester, or toasting-cheese.
ref: 1893, Anne Walbank Buckland, Our Viands, Applewood Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 123:
text: we always had to eat the lake pinder in the baskets; orange cheesen from the cowlies and bloonberries in every hillside hatch; […]
ref: 2016, Andrea Wyatt, “The Cowlies”, in G. F. Boyer, editor, Clementine Unbound, volume 1, →ISBN, page 42:
qualifier: Dorset
glosses: plural of cheese
cheesen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheesen
form: most cheesen
Etymology: From cheese + -en (“made of”).
Senses: examples: text: News of the cheese provoked similar reactions from other Federalists, whose sharp pronouncements mirrored the fervor with which Republicans praised Leland's gesture. One writer, prior to the departure from Cheshire of the “enormous” tribute, claimed to have witnessed in that town “a ludicrous procession, in honor of a cheesen God.”
ref: 2016, Robert M. S. McDonald, Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time, →ISBN:
glosses: Made of cheese
quadrillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrillionaire
quintillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintillionaires
Etymology: From quintillion + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: He favors letting the gentleman establish the trusts because he's quite sure that by 2961, $89 quadrillion dollars probably won't buy one box of good cigars. By then, he adds, everyone will be a quintillionaire, struggling to make ends meet.
ref: 1961, General Practitioner - Volume 24, page 80:
text: The constellation Norma had Normaesque constellations . . . the world's richest man was the first quintillionaire, formerly a decillionaire, after losing a lot of his money, and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump.
ref: 2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood, →ISBN, page 48:
text: If Heth could have motivated assembly line workers to move that fast, he'd be a quintillionaire.
ref: 2015, Edward Stasheff, Marcus Johnston, Predatory Practices, →ISBN:
text: There are no more trillionaires, quadrillionaires, or quintillionaires in Zimbabwe. This followed the slashing of 10 zeros from the Zimbabwean currency by the central bank.
ref: 2020, Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, International management: An institutional perspective, The Open University:
glosses: Somebody whose wealth is at least one quintillion (10¹⁸) currency units.
Related terms: quintillion
millionaire
billionaire
trillionaire
quadrillionaire
dress for the slide, not the ride
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: There's merit to the saying, "Dress for the slide, not the ride." Even at a modest 30 miles per hour this is.
ref: 2005, Pat Hahn, How to Ride a Motorcycle, →ISBN:
text: Moto pants are probably the trickiest aspect of my riding getup. I don't like any gear that really shouts “I RIDE A MOTORCYCLE,” but I also want to make sure I'm protected. Dress for the slide, not the ride, right?
ref: 2016 June 24, Morgan Gales, “UglyBros Motorpool Jeans Reviewed”, in Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine:
text: Riders are told to “dress for the slide, not the ride.” This means you should be completely outfitted to improve your chances of surviving a crash.
ref: 2017 July 16, Amanda Smith, “Investigative Reporter Amanda Smith learns what it takes to get a motercycle license”, in WKBN News:
text: “Dress for the slide, not the ride," said Florida State University Police Officer Sheffield. “Doesn't always look cool it's not always I was just going down the street. But if you get hit by a car and your head hits the asphalt or if you just simply fall over and it wipes out from underneath you. That's where a lot of the damage comes from. A lot of the injury comes from. Its traumatic brain injury."
ref: 2017 December 11, Taylor Knight, “Some Question How Safe Mopeds And Motorcycles Are For College Students”, in WUSF News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: When choosing clothing for riding a motorcycle, priority should be given to protective gear that helps one survive an accident.
metallosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, although a metal splinter is present in the bulb, there are reasons to believe that metallosis is not bound to develop.
ref: 1958, Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom:
text: Clinical effects stem from metallosis in tissues around the corroding implant.
ref: 1981, Simon Sevitt, Bone Repair and Fracture Healing in Man, page 285:
text: Buchert et al reported metallosis associated with the failure of two undersized, porous-coated Austin Moore prostheses and suggested that the metallosis occurred because of fretting between the substrate and the loose beads.
ref: 1987, James Alan Rand, Total Arthroplasty of the Knee:
text: Intercellular and intracellular deposition of corrosion products is referred to as metallosis.
ref: 2006, Arne Ernst, Head and Neck Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Approach, page 213:
text: Serial electroretinograms should be considered for retained metallic foreign bodies to evaluate for toxic metallosis.
ref: 2003, Allen Ho, Retina: Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal buildup of metallic debris in the body occurring when metallic components in medical implants undergo corrosion.
Gaia hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by American scientist James Lovelock in reference to the Greek goddess Gaia.
Senses: antonyms: Medea hypothesis
glosses: The idea that both the biosphere and the inorganic components of Earth interact to form a coherent, complex system that allows for life to persist.
wikipedia: James Lovelock
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Etymology: Named after two researchers, Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf, who observed that linguistic differences have consequences in human cognition and behavior.
Senses: examples: text: Newspeak sets the scene of linguistic determinism, where language is hypothesised to influence or control a people group’s thought processes. In popular terms, this has been referred to as part of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or an aspect of linguistic relativity, where individuals perceive the world based on the structure of their habitually-used language.
ref: 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothesis that the structure of a language affects its speakers' worldview or cognition.
wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
Edward Sapir
pitch-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 投壺／投壶 (tóuhú)
Senses: glosses: A traditional East Asian game that requires players to throw sticks from a set distance into a large, sometimes ornate, canister.
gorpcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorp-core
Etymology: Originally coined by New York Magazine’s The Cut in late May 2017 as blend of gorp (“trail mix”) + normcore.
Senses: examples: text: It might be the Vetements effect of ‘wear what you want, we just don’t care’ but designers have more than embraced gorpcore, whose key elements have been seen on runways for seasons now.
ref: 2017 June 1, Francesca Wallace, “Gorpcore is the new normcore: everything you need to know about fashion's newest phase.”, in Vogue Australia:
text: These days, fanny packs are being worn by rappers. By models. And soon, no doubt, by you. Why? Because gorpcore has brought them back into fashion.
ref: 2017 May 29, “'Gorpcore' is the new 'Normcore' and it's bringing bum bags back”, in Metro:
text: We scoured the site for things that are not often on sale, and stumbled on this great nubby Patagonia fleece that’s perfect for living out your gorpcore dreams in.
ref: 2017 November 27, Alexis Swerdloff, “If You're Going to Buy One Thing Today, Make It This Patagonia Fleece”, in New York Magazine:
text: A recent New York Times headline about warcore, the gorier sequel to gorpcore, squealed: “If you can get killed doing it, fashion wants it”.
ref: 2019 October 30, Priya Elan, “Gorpcore: why people who rarely go outside are wearing hiking gear”, in The Guardian:
text: And in this Milan show, some of the most extreme iterations of gorpcore felt like a step too far.
ref: 2020 January 13, “Giorgio goes gorpcore: Armani channels The Matrix in Milan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A style of fashion characterized by functional outdoor wear such as fleece jackets, parkas, Gore-Tex jackets and pants, and many other utilitarian styles.
mentorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mentorly
form: most mentorly
Etymology: From mentor + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This probably wasn't the mentorly encouragement she was hoping for, but it actually was what I most wanted to say.
ref: 2011, Chris Knopf, Bad Bird: A Mystery:
glosses: Of, befitting, or characteristic of a mentor; mentorlike.
drug-addled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drug-addled
form: most drug-addled
Etymology: From drug + addled.
Senses: examples: text: When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
ref: 2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN:
glosses: mentally mixed-up or confused due to the usage of mind-bending drugs.
raw_tags: of a person
Twin Peaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twin Peakers
Etymology: From Twin Peaks + -er.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the television series Twin Peaks.
adiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adiate
adiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adiate
adiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adiate
Schwarzschild's method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarzschild method
Etymology: Named after German-American astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997).
Senses: examples: text: This is because in Schwarzschild's method we seek to match the distribution of matter only in configuration space but we ignore the velocity distribution which is an outcome of the method for any particular solution w#95;o.
ref: 2008, Daniel Benest, Topics in Gravitational Dynamics:
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
glosses: A method to develop triaxial equilibrium kinematic models of actual galaxies (without knowledge of the motions of the component elements of the actual galaxies) using a grid and assigning masses and orbits, simulating gravitational evolution with the resulting estimated distributions, to compare with the actual galaxy, until a model results in similarity with the actual galaxy.
Derived terms: english: a model built by using the Schwarzschild's method
translation: a model built by using the Schwarzschild's method
word: Schwarzschild model
Schwarzschild method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Schwarzschild's method.
Schwarzschild model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarzschild models
Etymology: From Schwarzschild + model, from being a model developed using Schwarzschild's method.
Senses: topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
glosses: A triaxial equilibrium kinematic model of an actual galaxy built using Schwarzschild's method.
Related terms: sense: galaxy model
word: Schwarzschild's method
Cygnus X-1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cygnus + X + 1. From being the first discovered discrete astronomical X-ray source (an X-ray star) located in the constellation of Cygnus.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A placename.
The first generally accepted and confirmed black hole. A black hole in a high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) with a blue supergiant companion (HD 226868), located in the constellation Cygnus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A placename.
The high-mass X-ray binary star system containing this black hole and blue supergiant star.
Synonyms: word: Cyg X-1
Derived terms: word: Cyg X-1
Einstein cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Einstein crosses
Etymology: From Einstein (“Albert Einstein”) + cross. From the shape of a cross, of four points at roughly square angles around a central object, caused by distortions in the path of light's travel due to Einsteinian relativity (Albert Einstein's general relativity) creating four points out of a single light source behind the off-center central object. (An on-center central object results in an Einstein ring.).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gravitational lens configuration resulting in four duplicated images of the back ground image around the central gravitationally lensing object, in a cross configuration.
wikipedia: en:Albert Einstein
Derived terms: alt: the first discovered gravitationally-lensed quasar in this configuration
word: Einstein Cross
Related terms: Einstein ring
bifocus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + focus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bifocal.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Produced by stereoscopic lenses
raw_tags: of an image
clusterwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cluster + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout the whole of a cluster
Einstein Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Capitalization of Einstein cross.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A quadruply replicated image of a quasar, in the configuration of a cross, surrounding a central foreground galaxy which caused the replication through gravitational lensing.
equichiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + chiral.
Senses: glosses: Having the same chirality
fillability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being fillable
gyrogravitomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + gravitomagnetic.
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: Describing a system of two or more gravitomagnetic fields that rotate about each other
intermodule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + module.
Senses: glosses: Between modules
kapton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kapton.
premarginalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + marginalization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: marginalization prior to some other procedure
submartingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submartingales
Etymology: From sub- + martingale.
Senses: examples: If a gambler repeatedly plays a game with positive expectation, his payoff over time is a submartingale.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A stochastic process for which the conditional expectation of future values given the sequence of all prior values is superior or equal to its current value.
submartingales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submartingale
triangularisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangularisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triangularization.
fish ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish balls
Senses: examples: text: "I know. You have to look for cheap things when you're poor. Father and I took meals out a lot. We had beans and fish balls most generally. We used to say how glad we were we liked beans—that is, we said it specially when we were looking at the roast turkey place, you know, that was sixty cents. Does Mr. Pendleton like beans?"
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fishball.
Chrzan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chrzans
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Chrzan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
auriculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a small ear
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a small ear
obovate with rounded basal lobes
obtusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obtuse.
obtused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obtuse.
Futura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A particular sans-serif typeface
aurific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɹɪfɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From aur- + -ific or aurify + -ic.
Senses: glosses: That produces gold
Related terms: aurify
aurification
pi font
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pi fonts
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Symbol or dingbat font; font that is composed of non-alphabetic characters.
Related terms: pi character
paocai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 泡菜 (pàocài).
Senses: examples: text: Paocai that is eaten in two days is obviously more about flavor than preserving.
ref: 2011, Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History:
glosses: A type of Chinese pickled vegetable.
pretzel style
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Indian style.
synonyms: word: Indian style
tunables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunable
Insta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.stɐ/
ipa: /ˈɪn.stə/
rhymes: -ɪnstə
homophone: insta-
homophone: insta
Senses: examples: text: These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.
ref: 2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of Instagram.
Derived terms: Insta-perfect
Insta story
Insta-story
Insta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.stɐ/
ipa: /ˈɪn.stə/
rhymes: -ɪnstə
homophone: insta-
homophone: insta
Forms: form: Instas
form: Insta's
form: Insta-ing
form: Insta'ing
form: Insta-ed
form: Insta-ed
form: Insta'd
form: Insta'd
form: Insta'ed
form: Insta'ed
Senses: examples: text: Patrick Dempsey, who played Dr. Derek Shepherd for 11 seasons, Insta-ed a close-up of his masked face, captioning it with one of his catchphrases. "It’s a Beautiful Day to Save Lives," he wrote. "#WearAMask."
ref: 2020 July 23, Jelisa Castrodale, “‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Gears Up for Pandemic Storyline in Upcoming 60,000th Season”, in Vice:
glosses: Clipping of Instagram.
crag-fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crag-fast
form: most crag-fast
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cragfast.
memory B cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory B cells
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A B cell, formed during primary infection, that provides an accelerated immune response during re-infection
Related terms: memory T cell
memory T cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛl
Forms: form: memory T cells
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A T cell that has previously encountered an antigen and thus provides a stronger immune response to re-infection
self-extinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That extinguishes a fire in the material that it is a part of
autofictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + fictional or autofiction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autofiction.
autoinoculable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + inoculable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of autoinoculation
bastard toadflax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard toadflaxes
Senses: glosses: Any of several related hemiparasitic plants in the family Santalaceae.
Any plant in the genus Thesium.
glosses: Any of several related hemiparasitic plants in the family Santalaceae.
Comandra umbellata.
synonyms: umbellate bastard toadflax, common comandra
glosses: Any of several related hemiparasitic plants in the family Santalaceae.
Geocaulon lividum.
synonyms: northern comandra, false toadflax
Derived terms: taxonomic: Thesium alpinium
word: Alpine bastard toadflax
word: Pyrenean bastard toadflax
taxonomic: Comandra umbellata
word: umbellate bastard toadflax
Caesaraugusta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsi(ː)zəɹɔ(ː)ˈɡʌstə/
ipa: /ˌkaɪzɑ(ː)ɹaʊˈɡʊstə/
Etymology: Directly borrowed from Latin Caesaraugusta. Doublet of Zaragoza.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] We are off to Caesaraugusta at first light,” Paul explained. “I fear we were not allowed much time in the province to conduct our business.”
ref: 2017, Jim Tallmon, Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Shortly after, a provincial council in Caesaraugusta stressed that a close watch should be kept on whether former Arian clerics were adhering to Catholic structures.
ref: 2020, Santiago Castellanos, The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia: Construction and Invention, →ISBN, page 100:
text: The legend is that after his early visit up the Iber and contact in Caesaraugusta by the Virgin Mary, James returned to Jerusalem where he was executed in 44 AD.
ref: 2022, Lawrence J. McCrank, The Tarragona Vortex: Conquest and Reconquest, Liberation and Restoration of Christendom in the Frontiers of Aragó-Catalunya, →ISBN, page 494:
text: In Pelosi’s view, it is entirely plausible that Prudentius wrote the poem and circulated it in Caesaraugusta, where local readers, possibly clerics, “reminded the poet that he had forgotten these two martyrs,” which impelled them to promptly add them to the poem.
ref: 2023, Diane Shane Fruchtman, Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom, →ISBN:
glosses: An ancient city in Roman Spain, now Zaragoza.
self-lacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: self-tying
glosses: Whose laces tighten automatically without having to be tied
raw_tags: of shoes
Edsel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The automobile marque is named after Edsel Ford (1893–1943), son of Henry Ford. Compare German Etzel.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Etzel.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An automobile marque that was planned, manufactured, and launched with great advertising hype by the Ford Motor Company in September 1957, but was a notorious failure.
Edsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Edsels
Etymology: The automobile marque is named after Edsel Ford (1893–1943), son of Henry Ford. Compare German Etzel.
Senses: examples: text: Tom Paris: Harry… I think we built an Edsel.
Harry Kim: A what?
Tom Paris: A lemon. A disaster waiting to happen.
ref: 1998, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, “Timeless”, in Star Trek: Voyager, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Tom Paris:
synonyms: flop
lead balloon
lemon
glosses: Any unwanted product or commercial failure, especially one given much publicity.
Perfecto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Perfectos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Perfecto. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Ruperto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rupertos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Ruperto. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
shit fire
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Shit fire, said Harrogate, scurrying down the path with one hand over his head.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree (set in the 1950s)
glosses: Alternative spelling of shitfire.
pro-martyr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-martyrs
Etymology: From pro- + martyr.
Senses: examples: text: Such a man was John Brown. He was strong in his moral and mental nature, as well as in his physical nature. He was born to lead; and he led, and made himself the pro-martyr of a cause rapidly perfecting.
ref: 1882, George Washington Williams, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880:
text: John was a son, probably the younger son, of Zebedee and Salome and a brother of the elder James who became the pro-martyr of the apostles.
ref: 1926, Relief Society Magazine:
text: We have a tragic instance of baneful clericalism in the death of Patrick Hamilton, the pro-martyr of the Scottish Reformation
ref: 1952, John Arnold Fleming, The medieval Scots scholar in France, page 94:
text: Among the scholars at Douai, men were being prepared to serve as priests and some showed themselves eager to cross over to England immediately rather than wait upon events. Cuthbert Mayne was captured and executed in 1577 and is regarded as the pro-martyr of the seminary priests.
ref: 1996, Thomas M. McCoog, The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits, →ISBN:
glosses: The first martyr to die for a particular cause.
pro-martyr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-martyr
form: most pro-martyr
Etymology: From pro- + martyr.
Senses: examples: text: Though not hearing the tellers' full stories in these passages, we are nonetheless reminded that neutrality was not a quality of storytelling. The pro-martyr stance of the statements above will only have been more dramatized in their story form.
ref: 2002, Antoinette Clark Wire, Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers:
text: If we now turn to another lustily pro-martyr work we can open up some more key themes and problems.
ref: 2004, Lucy Grig, Making martyrs in late antiquity, page 18:
text: Why should they cease suicide bombings if Israel withdraws from the West Bank and Gaza, when pro-martyr Hezbollah terrorists continue to attack Israel two years after it withdrew from Southern Lebanon?
ref: 2008, M. A. Khan, The culture of martyrdom, page 4:
glosses: In favor of or supporting martyrdom or a group of martyrs.
pro-martyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro-martyr
empty words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty word
Senses: glosses: Any type of talk with little meaning; a message that seems to contain meaningful content but is actually vapid.
empty words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty word
leasurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leasurely
form: most leasurely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of leisurely.
leasurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leasurely
form: most leasurely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of leisurely.
archaicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.si/
Etymology: From archaic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With the discovery of an older frescoe representing Christ Antifonitos archaicy on the north-west pilaster, the latest excavations prove that before the restoration of the church and its being entirely frescoed there was another layer of paintings which were executed in the manner of the third quarter of the 13 the^([sic]) century.
ref: 1971, Antonie Nikolovski, Dimitar Ḱornakov, Kosta Balabanov, The Cultural Monuments of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia:
text: […] which are known on the other walks of life of Ukrainian-linguistic dialectal continuum although they have differences in the phonetic and word-formation filling that testifies to the general progress of the dialectal adverbial system trends and archaicy of this layer of vocabulary.
ref: 2016, H. Hyrmashevych, “The adverbs of time denotation of parts of the day in middle Polissian dialects of Zhytomyr area”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: archaicity
archaicness
glosses: The condition of being archaic.
griffinfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griffinflies
Etymology: From griffin + fly.
Senses: synonyms: meganisopteran
glosses: Any of various dragonfly-like insects of the order Meganisoptera that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian period.
day-trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day-trip
day-trips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of day-trip
day-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of day-trip
day-tripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of day-trip
pochismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pochismos
Etymology: From Spanish pochismo.
Senses: glosses: An anglicism in Spanish taken from U.S. English.
pochismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pochismo
chullpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chullpa
aljamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aljama
jacobitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacobita
facelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facelock
gaming console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaming consoles
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of video game console.
synonyms: word: video game console
cell count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell counts
Etymology: Compound of cell + count. Attested since the nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: When examined early in the course of the disease, there was usually some change, such as an increased cell count, an increase in the globulin content and increased pressure.
ref: 1875, Transactions of the American Neurological Association, volume 47, page 50:
glosses: The number of cells in a volume of liquid.
The concentration of various blood cells in a patient's blood.
glosses: The number of cells in a volume of liquid.
The number of bacteria cells in a particular volume of liquid such as blood, milk, etc.
Related terms: complete blood count
seagoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seageese
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea goose.
Tungusologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tungusologists
Etymology: From Tungusology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As the handwriting is quite good, the photogravured reproduction made under the auspices of the Minzokugaku Kyökai (Ethnological Society), in Tokyo, in 1944, with the title "A Tungus Dictionary, Tungus-Russian and Russian-Tungus, photogravured from the Manuscripts, by the Late Prof. S. M. Shirokogoroff is an extremely valuable aid to the Tungusologist […]
ref: 1970, Ural-Altaic yearbook, page 266:
text: Today, when the entire Tungusic territory is accessible to scholars from all over the world, it is possible and, in fact, necessary for all Tungusologists, domestic or foreign, to collect and exchange fresh field information.
ref: 1997, Hiroshi Shōji, Juha Janhunen, Northern minority languages: problems of survival, page 184:
text: They were taken down by V. A. Avrorin, a distinguished Tungusologist and linguist, during an expedition in 1948.
ref: 2000, Lauri Honko, Textualization of Oral Epics, page 145:
glosses: One who studies the Tungusic languages.
Related terms: Tungusology
Tungusological
Tungusologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tungusologist
Tungusology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From Tungus + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Ligeti himself has mainly studied questions of Mongolology and Tungusology (including Manchu).
ref: 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics: Soviet and East European linguistics:
text: On the other hand, at Ramstedt's time vast Siberian linguistic territories were still white spots on the map; thus linguistic geography, especially in Tungusology, was hardly possible until quite recently.
ref: 1985, Language research, volume 21, page 135:
text: The Evenki volume of Castren's materials [Castren 1856] is generally considered to form the foundation of modern Tungusology.
ref: 1997, Hiroshi Shōji, Juha Janhunen, Northern minority languages: problems of survival, page 111:
glosses: The study of the Tungusic languages.
Hyponyms: Manjuristics
Derived terms: Tungusologist
Related terms: Tungusological
autophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autophages
Etymology: From auto- + -phage.
Senses: examples: text: Racism's link to the franchise makes democracy an autophage that threatens to eat itself because citizens generally become anxious about losing their right to vote.
ref: 2023, Adebowale Akande, Politics Between Nations: Power, Peace, and Diplomacy, page 30:
glosses: One who or that which eats itself.
glosses: A rocket that consumes parts of its own structure as fuel.
Related terms: autophagous
autophagy
autophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autophage
piskie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piskies
Senses: examples: text: The farmer slunk away unperceived, and went to bed, where he lay a long while awake, thinking in what way he could best shew his gratitude to the piskie for such an important Service.
ref: 1865, Popular Romances of the West of England:
text: The piskie was in the shape of a man — very dark, black-haired, and cross-eyed.
ref: 1906, J. Henry Harris, Cornish Saints & Sinners:
text: Glister was determined to prove the wizened piskie wrong, but its taunts were well founded.
ref: 2017, Andi Watson, Glister:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
qualifier: fairy tales
glosses: Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being): A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
auxinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From auxin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of, auxins.
Battambang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Khmer បាត់ដំបង (batdɑmbɑɑng).
Senses: glosses: A city in Cambodia.
glosses: A province of Cambodia, where the city of the same name is located in.
Sihanoukville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sihanouk + -ville. From Khmer សីហនុ (səyhnuʼ, “Seih-nou”), a Khmer given name. Named after Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk (1922–2012).
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
synonyms: Preah Sihanouk
glosses: A province of Cambodia. Capital: Sihanoukville.
glosses: A port in Sihanoukville, Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
Related terms: Sihanouk
Sihanoukism
Sihanoukist
acromesomelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Characterized by the presence of both acromelia and mesomelia
acromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acromelias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A shortening of the bones of the hands and feet.
Related terms: acromelic
acromesomelia
acromesomelic
mesomelia
mesomelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesomelias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A shortening of the bones of the forearms and lower legs.
Derived terms: mesomelic
Related terms: acromelia
acromelic
acromesomelia
acromesomelic
take too far
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes too far
form: taking too far
form: took too far
form: taken too far
form: carry too far
Senses: glosses: To apply some idea, course of action, or line of thought to contexts where it was not meant to be applied.
Related terms: go overboard
go too far
get carried away
overdo
back room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backroom.
wild pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild pigs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wild boar.
synonyms: word: wild boar