cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Akkadocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Akkadocentric
form: most Akkadocentric
Etymology: From Akkado- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The two main distorting factors are the ethnocentric approach and the Akkadocentric approach. […] By the Akkadocentric approach I mean the procedure that stops the semantic investigation of a Sumerian word as soon as its Akkadian equivalent is determined.
ref: 1976, M. Civil, “Lexicography”, in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture […]
ref: 2015, Leonid Kogan, Genealogical Classification of Semitic, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).
Hellenocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hellenocentric
form: most Hellenocentric
Etymology: From Helleno- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Emphasizing the Greeks or their culture or language.
Related terms: Hellenocentrism
cobweb brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobweb brushes
Senses: glosses: A kind of brush with soft bristles, used for removing cobwebs
polykatoikia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek πολυκατοικία (polykatoikía).
Senses: examples: text: Although architects and historians have voiced a profound sense of failure with regard to the polykatoikia, I want to argue for its positive aspects.
ref: 2005, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, in Heynen & Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge 2005, p. 68
text: This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:
topics: architecture
glosses: A type of concrete urban housing block in postwar Greece.
EOKA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the eyes of the British, EOKA was a terrorist organization. To its supporters its members were freedom fighters engaged in a struggle for national liberation.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 315:
glosses: The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston ("National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters"), a paramilitary group fighting for the end of British rule in Cyprus and for union with Greece.
green whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green whistles
Etymology: From the green color and whistle-like appearance of its applicator.
Senses: glosses: Penthrox, an analgesic used to administer emergency pain relief.
Roycrofts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roycroft
winnowing shovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winnowing shovel
eriochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eriochromes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of indicators used in complexometric titrations
eucyperoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucyperoids
Senses: glosses: Any sedge of the genus Eucyperus
levelwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From level + -wise.
Senses: glosses: With regard to a level
persicarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavonoid sulfate 4′,5,7-trihydroxy-3′-methoxy-4-oxoflav-2-en-3-yl hydrogen sulfate
Girvans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Girvan
proapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + apical.
Senses: glosses: Towards an apex
prodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From pro- + dorsal.
Senses: glosses: Towards the back (of an organism)
puncticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punctulate.
Sărata-Galbenă
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Sărata-Galbenă.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Hîncești, Romania.
Berringtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Berrington
Melua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian მელუა (melua), from Mingrelian მელუა (melua), from მელა (mela, “fox”) + -უა (-ua).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Georgian.
subinterest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subinterests
Etymology: From sub- + interest.
Senses: glosses: subsidiary interest
table tennis table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table tennis tables
Senses: glosses: A specially dimensioned table with a low net across it, on which the game of table tennis is played.
table tennis tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table tennis table
Zangari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zangaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Zangari.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Andrist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Andrists
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Andrist.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Andrists
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Andrist
Zangaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zangari
Vandeveer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vandeveers
Etymology: Variant of Vanderveer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Vandeveers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vandeveer
Almarios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Almario
Weatherholtz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weatherholtzes
Etymology: Americanized form of German Wiederhold.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Volden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Voldens
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Volden.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Voldens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Volden
Weatherholtzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weatherholtz
Walski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Walskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Walski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Woldemariam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woldemariams
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ወልደ ማርያም (wäldä maryam).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Amharic.
Woldemariams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woldemariam
Walskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Walski
Velie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Velies
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Alwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alwans
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَلْوَان (ʕalwān).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Alwans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alwan
Velies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Velie
Ahlborn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ahlborns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ahlborn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zollicoffer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zollicoffers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Swiss German Zollikofer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Yung-chi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 永濟 /永济 (Yǒngjì) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-chi⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Two figures from Yung-chi near the south-western border between Shansi and Shensi have stylistic features which place them at some point in the 13th century (PI. X).
ref: 1969, Bishop White Gallery, Shansi Wall Paintings and Sculptures from the Chin and Yüan dynasties, Charles J. Musson, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:
text: P'u-chou, also known as Ho-chung in T’ang times, was under the jurisdiction of Chiang-chou. It is modern Yung-chi County in Shansi Province, located east-northeast of Ch’ang-an.
ref: 1978, “The Story of Ying-ying”, in James R. Hightower, transl., edited by Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau, Traditional Chinese Stories, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 139, column 1:
text: Two other bronze fittings of the simpler type were unearthed in 1954 in a cache at Yung-chi, Shansi Province
ref: 1982, Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:
glosses: Alternative form of Yongji.
Zollicoffers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zollicoffer
Ahlborns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ahlborn
Yün-ch'eng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 運城 /运城 (Yùnchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün⁴-chʻêng².
Senses: examples: text: Confining his activities primarily to the important salt trading city of Yün-ch'eng, Yen proved himself a conscientious supervisor of relief.
ref: 1972, Paul Richard Bohr, Famine in China and the Missionary; Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: Since the state of Chao sent troops to Shih-men to the assistance of the state of Wei in the year in question, the other suggestion, that Shih-men was located to the southwest of today’s Yün-ch'eng 運城 in Shansi, should be taken as the correct one.
ref: 1977, Yang K'uan, “The Age in Which Shang Yang Was Born”, in Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:
text: Again, in Ho-tung, the yün-shang paid tax to the salt controller at Yun-ch'eng before he obtained his salt at the lake.
ref: [1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:
glosses: Alternative form of Yuncheng.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
FGly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of C-alpha-formylglycine.
McGirr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGirrs
form: McGarr
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac an Gheairr The Gaelic word gearr translates to "short" or "sharp," suggesting the name was a nickname for someone of short stature or possessed a sharp wit.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.
Starkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Starkeses
Etymology: Patronymic from Stark.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Urbach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Urbachs
form: Urbaches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Urbach.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Urbachs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Urbach
Starkeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Starkes
McGirrs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGirr
Yasudas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yasuda
Ortsgruppenleiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ortsgruppenleiters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ortsgruppenleiter.
Senses: glosses: a Nazi party political rank and title which existed between 1930 and 1945.
Ortsgruppenleiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ortsgruppenleiter
Engteng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ěngʹděngʹ
Etymology: From Hokkien 永定 (Éng-tēng).
Senses: examples: text: It is learned from a merchant of Engteng in southwestern Fukien who recently arrived in Swatow that Liu Yung-sheng (劉永生), former commander of the Communist Fukien-Kwangtung Border Column who had plotted to overthrow Yeh Chien-ying, Communist governor of Kwangtung, was publicly tried in Engteng, Liu's native place, on June 24.
ref: 1952, “Ringleader of Plot to Overthrow Yeh Chien-ying”, in Review of Hong Kong Chinese Press, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Another distinctive crop is tobacco, which is produced in the Engteng area. Engteng is situated in the upper reaches of the Han Kiang, here known as the Ting Kiang. The tobacco, which provides the livelihood for virtually the entire hsien of Engteng, is shipped to Swatow in Kwangtung.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 176–177:
text: Foley’s crew landed near Engteng and were contacted by Chinese army forces, who escorted them to Kukong.
ref: 1990, Carl Molesworth, Steve Moseley, Wing to Wing: Air Combat in China, 1943-45, New York: Orion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:
glosses: Synonym of Yongding.
synonyms: word: Yongding
Ciobanovca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciobanovca.
Senses: glosses: A village in Ciobanovca, Anenii Noi Raion, Moldova.
glosses: A village in Grinăuți, Rîșcani Raion, Moldova.
glosses: A commune of Anenii Noi Raion, Moldova.
filepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filepaths
Etymology: From file + path.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: filespec, pathname
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: filename
glosses: The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative.
Related terms: basename
compulsory purchase order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsory purchase orders
Senses: examples: text: The plans also required several Compulsory Purchase Orders to acquire nearby land.
ref: 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 57:
topics: law
glosses: An order made, usually for the purchase of land required for a construction project.
Yung-ting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 永定 (Yǒngdìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-ting⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Photographs of a circular walled village in Yung-ting, Fukien, at the present time will be found in plates 131 and 132 in Andrew Boyd, Chinese Architecture and Town Planning, 1500 B.C.–A.D. 1911, Chicago, 1962.
ref: 1966, Maurice Freedman, Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung, Athlone Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:
text: Chang was born in Chin-sha village, Yung-ting hsien, a rural area in southwest Fukien not far from the Kwangtung border.[…]Again the record is obscure, but it suggests that he returned to southwest Fukien during the year 1925 to teach again in a primary school. This was a primary school in Feng-lang village in Shang-hang hsien, the neighboring county to Yung-ting. The latter information is drawn from a biography of Liu Yung-sheng, a fellow radical from Shang-hang hsien who later commanded local forces in Yung-ting belonging to the army of Chang Ting-ch’eng.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Chang Ting-ch’eng”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55, column 1:
text: But Wang Hai-yang, pursued by Fang Yao's Kwangtung provincial troops, reentered Fukien and laid siege to Yung-ting on May 15th. Wang and his fellow commanders launched a massive attack with 70,000 men on K’ang Kuo-ch’i’s army May 19th but were repulsed. Two days later, after a fierce counterattack on Chien-t'an that cost the Taipings over 6,000 casualties, the siege of Yung-ting was raised and Wang led a retreat to the northwest.
ref: 1973, Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 540–541:
glosses: Alternative form of Yongding.
compulsory purchase orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsory purchase order
pseudodihedral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodihedrals
Etymology: From pseudo- + dihedral.
Senses: glosses: The angle between successive alpha helices of a protein chain
pseudodihedrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodihedral
unratcheted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ratcheted.
Senses: glosses: Not ratcheted
Stainland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Stainland and District parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0719).
quark-gluon plasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quark-gluon plasma
base tunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base tunnel
made head or tail of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make head or tail of
making head or tail of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make head or tail of
Charlottean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɑɹ.ləˈti.ən/
Forms: form: Charlotteans
Etymology: From Charlotte + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: 1963 August 9, "Charlottean Named to Court Job", headline in the Charlotte News, quoted in 2012, Davison M. Douglas, Reading, Writing and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools, UNC Press Books (→ISBN), page 293
text: For classic Charlottean high fashion, you can't go wrong at The Carriage, 6401 Morrison Blvd. (364-0474) and 601 Providence Rd. (334-8672). Owned by Charlottean Jean Gaskin, the shop offers anything the well-dressed woman [might want].
ref: 1991, Robin A. Smith, M. S. Van Hecke, The Insiders' Guide to Charlotte, →ISBN:
text: You know the typical Charlottean doesn't exist very much. So when you actually hear it, when somebody says this is a typical Charlottean accent, you go, […]
ref: 2014, Walt Wolfram, Jeffrey Reaser, Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Evolution of a Charlottean Landmark Building: Phase 1: Southern Life Insurance Company (Charlotte Branch, 1868 – 1880)
ref: 2019, Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed., William Johnston: Carolina Railroad King, Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed., →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States.
Charlotteans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charlottean
Holywell Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Stainland parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0819).
alligator clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligator clamps
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of alligator clip.
synonyms: word: alligator clip
alligator clamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alligator clamp
Raleighan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raleighans
Etymology: From Raleigh + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, Jonathan Daniels, Truman's secretary and Yergan's fellow Raleighan, told a White House staffer that he knew the NNC president well, ...
ref: 2006, David Henry Anthony, III, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, NYU Press, →ISBN:
text: In the morning, like other wide-eyed Raleighans I crept out of my door and surveyed the devastation [of Hurricane Fran]. No street was passable; trees crossed every road, ...
ref: 2007, Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry, Crown, →ISBN, page 3:
text: It's a long story, plausibly true, and beloved by Raleighans. After the Revolution, legislators of the new state needed to plant their capital somewhere ...
ref: 2010, Scott Huler, On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work, Rodale Books, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
examples: text: […] Baconians proper, Raleighans, Stanleyites, Rutlanders, Marlowites, etc., have made it a strong argument against the Stratfordean's claim to […]
ref: 1916, The Dial, page 456:
text: ... the letter is replete with Raleighan echoes notwithstanding such rhetoric as "Woe, woe, woe.... Oh God.... Oh, what will my poor servants think."
ref: 2015, Willard Mosher Wallace, Sir Walter Raleigh, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A follower, imitator or scholar of Walter Raleigh.
Raleighans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Raleighan
Yung-ch'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 永昌 (Yǒngchāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-chʻang¹.
Senses: examples: text: In 1856 Tu Wen-hsiu rose up in rebellion and occupied Ta-li.[…]"The conflict between the Han Chinese and the Moslems began over trifles. It has developed into a tragedy of mutual bloodletting because of poor management by the civil and military officials at Yung-ch’ang county and of Yunnan province. As a result, the mutual killing spread throughout Yunnan. The fault lies not with the people but with the officials."
ref: 1981, “Mid-Century Rebels”, in Jeh-hang Lai, transl., edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook, New York: The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230, column 2:
text: The following year ten thosuand Hsiung-nu cavalry invaded Shang-ku,⁹⁶ but in 121 B.C. General Huo Ch’ü-ping, at the head of ten thousand cavalry, setting off from Lung-hsi⁹⁷ marched for over one thousand li, crossed the Yen-chih Mountains,⁹⁸ and attacked the Hsiung-nu.
ref: 2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, “From Peace to War: China's Shift from Appeasement to Military Engagement”, in Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239:
text: In March 1647, three years after the Manchus had first occupied Beijing, Chang Shang, the governor of Kansu Province, was on an inspection tour. By March 4 he had reached Yung-ch'ang, a county lying just within the Great Wall.
ref: 2019, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, “Mandate of Heaven”, in The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 209:
glosses: Alternative form of Yongchang.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Ripponden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0319).
Rishworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rishworths
form: Rushworth
Etymology: From Old English rysċ (“rushes”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Ripponden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0318).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Mexican noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: Mexican dry soup
glosses: A Mexican dish consisting of vermicelli stewed in a sauce of puréed vegetables and chilis.
lophocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lophocyte
Mexican dry soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mexican noodles.
synonyms: word: Mexican noodles
wean off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weans off
form: weaning off
form: weaned off
form: weaned off
Senses: glosses: to get (someone) off (an addiction), to rid (someone) of a habit
rawky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rawk (“fog, mist”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And here are nameless flowers, / Culled in cold and rawky hours / For my Mary's happy home. / They grew in murky blea, / Rush fields and naked lea, / But suns will shine and pleasing / Spring will come.
ref: 1873, John Clare, John Law Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare: The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, page 227:
text: 'Tis bloody rawky weather! Farewell ta Indian summer! 'Tis as bad as Ireland! But just right fer th' hard task I've set for me self an' th' lad this day!
ref: 2019, William Grace, Omniverse: Book II of the Omniverse Chronicles, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Foggy, misty (and dreary).
kombonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of komboni
haary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft / A haary mist and forms a ceaseleser shovs.
ref: 1769, Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, Les saisons ; Oeuvres diverses, page 69, quoting Thompson
text: The night was dark, I had no knowledge of the coast, and the usual haary surf which prevails along this whole shore was rolling on the beach ...
ref: 1831, Basil Hall, Fragments of Voyages and Travels: Including Anecdotes of a Naval Life : Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons, page 237:
text: Past yin o ' clock, and a dark, haary moarnin' : I recalled the bull voice of the watchman as he had called it on the night of our escape from the Castle — […] In the thickening envelope of sea fog I felt like a squirrel in a rotatory cage.
ref: 1898, Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England, page 252:
text: Having now children of my own, though not so highly favoured, for they live in the "haary" regions of the East Coast, I thought I ought to be able to help them with their geography lessons by describing to them in detail the features of these […]
ref: 1899, Scottish Mountaineering Club, Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, page 298:
glosses: Marked by the presence of haar (“coastal fog”); foggy.
Apefrica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪp.fɹɪ.kə/
Forms: form: Apefreaka
Etymology: Blend of ape + Africa.
Senses: examples: text: An FDNY EMT has been arrested for allegedly choking and raping a 10-year-old girl in Queens, cops said. Frantz Petion was busted around 3:20 a.m. Sunday and accused of strangling and sexually assaulting the girl. This is just a remnant from its ancestors' days in Apefrica where muh dik was used to cure a range of maladies.
ref: 2017 March 16, Dindu Nuffin, “Rape Ape EMT Frantz Petion Muh Diks 10-year old”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
glosses: Africa.
Derived terms: Apefrican
Audetto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Bata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batas
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Hungarian Bata, a patronymic surname.
* Borrowed from Czech Baťa, a nickname for a good-natured man.
* Borrowed from Tagalog Bata, a nickname from bata (“child”).
* Borrowed from Arabic بَطَّة (baṭṭa, “duck”), probably used as a nickname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Bata.
Senses: examples: text: Several days on, residents of Bata are still coming to grips with the full scale of a tragedy that has killed at least 105 people and injured more than 600 others.
ref: 2021 March 11, Reuters, “Satellite and drone images show extent of damage from Equatorial Guinea blast”, in CNN:
glosses: A city in Litoral, Equatorial Guinea; the largest city in Equatorial Guinea.
Bazna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bazna.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Sibiu County, Romania.
glosses: A river in Romania.
Berea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈriːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Etymology: From Latin Beroea, from Ancient Greek Βέροια (Béroia).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beroea.
glosses: A district of Lesotho.
glosses: A city in Madison County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
An unincorporated community in Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States, named for the Ohio city.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Granville County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Giles County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Warren County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Stafford County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: A former unincorporated community in Adair County, Iowa, United States.
Bereni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bereni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Mureș County, Romania.
Bătarci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bătarci.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Satu Mare County, Romania.
Shahqoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Iranian Persian شاهقلی (šâhqoli), from شاهقلی (šāhqulī), from Old Anatolian Turkish.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name شاهقلی (šâhqoli)
Audett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Audetts
form: Audet
form: Audette
Etymology: From French Audett.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Audetto
closest to the vest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of close to the vest: most close to the vest
Damems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From earlier Dam Elms and Dam Ems.
Senses: glosses: A village near Keighley, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0538).
Watchet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A harbour town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0743).
Liu-an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 六安 (Liù'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Liu⁴-an¹.
Senses: examples: text: On the third day, after covering some seventy li through the southern part of Shang-ch’eng, I arrived at Chin-chia-chai, which was a market town in Liu-an County of Anhwei Province, in the neighborhood of Shang-ch’eng, of Honan Province. The southern district of Shang-ch’eng and the Chin-chia-chai district of Liu-an were relatively old Soviet regions, which took Chin-chia-chai as their center.
ref: 1972, Chang Kuo-t’ao, The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party 1928-1938, volume II, University Press of Kansas, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 226:
text: Square stamped sheets of gold money found in 1969 and 1970 at Liu-an and Fu-nan in Anhui testify to the prosperity of Ch’u in the late Chou period.
ref: 1973, Michael Sullivan, Chinese Art: Recent Discoveries, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of Liu'an (Lu'an)
Washminster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒʃmɪnstə/
Etymology: Blend of Washington + Westminster. Coined by political scientist Elaine Thompson in 1980.
Senses: examples: text: Having read Graham Maddox I can no longer complacently describe the Australian system as a Washminster mutation, nor as a successful system of representative democracy government, as I have in the past.
ref: 2005, A Passion for Politics: Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox:
text: This has caused speculation that New Zealand is moving from a classic Westminster parliamentary system to a more parliamentary-congressional 'Washminster' hybrid.
ref: 2007, Stephen I. Levine, Nigel S. Roberts, The Baubles of Office: The New Zealand General Election of 2005:
text: The move toward the "Washminster" model identified in the early 1980s may be measured by shifts in several of these indicators.
ref: 2017, Jong S. Jun, Development in the Asia Pacific: A Public Policiy Perspective, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 479:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political system which has elements of both the Westminster system and the United States' political system ("Washington").
Wassen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wassens
Etymology: From Germanic
* From Dutch Wassen
* From Swedish Wassén
* From German Waßen
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Uri canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from Swedish.
glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from German.
glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from Dutch.
Dunc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Duncan.
Senses: examples: text: I love to have a beer with Duncan / I love to have a beer with Dunc
ref: 1980, Pat Alexander, “Duncan”, performed by Slim Dusty:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Duncan.
ultradestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradestructive
form: most ultradestructive
form: ultra-destructive
Etymology: From ultra- + destructive.
Senses: examples: text: When at last just one sporting journal in America shall come out and refuse to print the advertisements of the ultradestructive contrivances for killing fish and game, there are some of us who will feel that we have not lived wholly in vain.
ref: 1921, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 194, Saturday Evening Post Company, page 28:
text: Add an ultradestructive countrywide bush war — and low-intensity conflict strategy specifically, according to its critics, "strikes at the very heart of the development process." — and the problems can begin to seem insuparable.
ref: 1992, Gerald Hammond, A Complicated War, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 242:
text: The rise of ultradestructive weapons (biological and chemical as well as nuclear) has jeopardized life.
ref: 1986, United States. Air Force, Military Planning in the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the Eleventh Military History Symposium, 10-12 October 1984, Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, page 412:
glosses: Exceedingly destructive; of utmost destructiveness.
superdivine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdivine
form: most superdivine
form: super-divine
Etymology: From super- + divine.
Senses: examples: text: Triad above all substance, super-divine and above the good, guide of the Christians into the Divine Wisdom, conducting us to that above agnosy, i.e., the unknowable, to the highest clearness and the super-eminent height.
ref: 1893, Theosophical Review - Volume 12, page 461:
glosses: Exceptionally divine.
examples: text: Superhuman power is not strong enough. Superdivine strength is the only way, the one way out. By it alone we can pass through all these intricacies, through these showers of miseries, unscathed. We may be cut to pieces, torn asunder, yet our hearts must grow nobler and nobler all the time.
ref: 1900 January 4, Swami Vivekananda, “Work and Its Secret”, in ramakrishnavivekananda.info:
text: Zimmer observes that Titans are not only superhuman, but they, as we have just seen, are superdivine; and as such, they are involved in a supergodly task. Even the gods accrue karma, so the human savior will also become the redeemer of the gods.
ref: 2012, By Nicholas F. Gier, Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: This difference between popular and tragic religion arises in part because poets are more inclined to attribute evil to their gods, but also because poets, when they assumed their "superdivine" narrative posture, are in a better position than ordinary people to proffer detailed explanations of individual deaths.
ref: 2014, Jon D. Mikalson, Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Beyond simply divine; greater than or transcending what is typically divine.
superquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superquakes
form: super-quake
Etymology: From super- + quake.
Senses: examples: text: In January 1973, Newsweek magazine reported an earthquake somewhere in the world , and added: "It was not a superquake as earth tremors go."
ref: 1978, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, Volumes 11-12, A. Ross Eckler, page 104:
text: Others have suggested that, since this creeping section separates the two segments that have produced great earthquakes, that it is unlikely a "superquake" that ruptured all three sections could occur at one time.
ref: 1984, Guidebook for the San Andreas Fault, Cajon Pass to Wrightwood, Volume 55, Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologist, page 9:
text: This "superquake" may have been the largest in a series of earthquakes, thus marking the end of what's known as a supercycle: a sequence of several large earthquakes.
ref: 2015 May 6, Astrid Tomczak-Plewka, “Supercycles in subduction zones”, in phys.org:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: An extremely destructive, large-scale quake, often an earthquake of such magnitude; megaseism; megaquake
superquakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superquake
super-quake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-quakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superquake.
super-quakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-quake
arvie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arvies
Etymology: Likely a clipping of afternoon, or from arvo + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Compare arvo.
Senses: glosses: Afternoon.
no-height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-heights
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A score of 0 in height, where an athlete fails to make a valid jump, in high jump or pole vault, and faults out of competition.
no-height
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: no-heights
form: no-heighting
form: no-heighted
form: no-heighted
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To fail to record a valid score, and produce a score of 0 or no-height, by failing to make a valid jump in high jump or pole vault, and faulting out of competition.
Derived terms: NH
Related terms: NM
no-mark
TRNC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Elections in the TRNC at the end of the year brought to power a more moderate leader than the veteran Denktash.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 371:
glosses: Initialism of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
ultimate disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Avoiding the trademark Frisbee in the term ultimate frisbee by replacing frisbee with its generic name "disc".
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ultimate frisbee.
synonyms: word: ultimate frisbee
flying disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying discs
Etymology: Generic name for a frisbee, avoiding the trademark Frisbee. Coined as a descriptive name for what a frisbee is, a disc-shaped object designed to fly through the air.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frisbee (“the object”).
synonyms: word: frisbee
extra: the object
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of frisbee (“the sport”).
synonyms: word: frisbee
extra: the sport
Derived terms: word: disc
Related terms: flying saucer
ngmi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of NGMI.
petronell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of petronel.
Cavadinești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cavadinești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Galați County, Romania.
Natalievca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Natalievca.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Fălești Raion, Moldova.
eldercide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eldercides
Etymology: From elder + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of senicide.
synonyms: word: senicide
histoimmunochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histo- + immunochemical.
Senses: glosses: histological and immunochemical
Hammertons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hammerton
Binsteads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Binstead
Cogealac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cogealac.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Constanța County, Romania.
Lipnița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Lipnița.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Constanța County, Romania.
Pecineaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Pecineaga.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Constanța County, Romania.
Strunga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Strunga.
Senses: glosses: A village in Oltina, Constanța County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Iași County, Romania.
teleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemen
Etymology: From tele- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The classification is for graduates of a class A teleman school with no significant experience and for other personnel who are not qualified for a specialized classification.
ref: 1949, Manual of Navy Enlisted Manpower and Personnel Classifications and Occupational Standards, United States Bureau of Naval Personnel:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A petty officer in the US Navy who performs clerical, coding and communications duties.
Adelaide Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Adelaide Hills form the eastern boundary of the Adelaide Plains, separating them from the extensive plains that surround the Murray River and stretch eastwards to Victoria.
glosses: The portion of the southern Mount Lofty Ranges that is east of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: A local government area in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia; in full, Adelaide Hills Council .
Crowcombe Heathfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Crowcombe parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1334).
Crowcombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1436).
Derived terms: Crowcombe Heathfield
Beckinsale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beckinsales
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Becconsall, in Lancashire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Becconsall
Rycroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rycrofts
form: Rowcroft
form: Roycroft
Etymology: Topographic surname, from Old English ryġe (“rye”) + croft (“enclosed field”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Rycrofts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rycroft
Beckinsales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beckinsale
Braniff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Braniffs
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Branduibh (“descendant of Brandubh”), a personal name composed of the elements bran (“raven”) + dubh (“black”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Boxx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boxxes
Etymology: Variant of Box.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Boxxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boxx
Braniffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Braniff
Brightling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6821).
Bhattacharjee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bhattacharjees
Etymology: Variant of Bhattacharya.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Bengali.
Bhattacharjees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bhattacharjee
Bennettses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bennetts
kapheneion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapheneions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kafenio.
Betker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betkers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Betker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Betkers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Betker
Stahnke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stahnkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stahnke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sonoras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sonora
Stahnkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stahnke
Thibert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thiberts
Etymology: Borrowed from French Thibert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Tallmadge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tallmadges
Etymology: Variant of Talmadge.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A township and unincorporated community therein, in Ottawa County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A city in Summit County, Ohio, United States.
Rolvenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8431).
Tallmadges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tallmadge
Thiberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thibert
Robola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He began to notice that a large amount of Robola was accumulating, and he expostulated to himself, ‘What? Do they all think I'm a drunk?’
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 38:
glosses: A variety of grape, chiefly grown on the island of Cephalonia, or the white wine which is made from it.
Robar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Robars
Etymology: Borrowed from French Robar or Slovene Robar.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Robars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Robar
Rosols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosol
Wittersham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8927).
McIsaac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McIsaacs
form: McKissack
form: McKissic
form: McKissick
Etymology: From the Scottish Gaelic patronymic from the personal name Isaac.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Delsignore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delsignores
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Del Signore.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cundell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Delsignores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Delsignore
Marchis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marchi
McIsaacs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McIsaac
Machian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Machian
form: most Machian
Etymology: From Mach + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He had long ago abandoned his religion in favour of a Machian variety of materialism, but he felt nonetheless that he could not break the prohibition.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 40:
glosses: Pertaining to the work or philosophical ideas of Ernst Mach, characterised by a system of mechanics based on extreme empiricism.