cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
PARPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PARP
semi-learned borrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-learned borrowings
Senses: examples: text: Canónigo 'canon' , a semi-learned borrowing from L. canonicus, still shows the suffix -icus with almost no change.
ref: 1960, Paul M. Lloyd, A Linguistic Analysis of Old Spanish Occupational Terms, page 102:
text: Chotzen goes on to consider the possibility of a borrowing from the plural clerc/clers or even a late semi-learned borrowing from clerus.
ref: 1996, Huw M. Edwards, Dafydd Ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues, page 1:
text: The father of Brân and Manawydan is himself often given the epithet Llediaith 'Half-speech': as Rachel Bromwich has observed, 'if Manawydan fab Llŷr is indeed to be regarded as a creation based on a semi-learned borrowing from Ireland to Wales, one is tempted to connect Llŷr's epithet lledieith with his foreign origin'.
ref: 2007, John Carey, Ireland and the Grail, page 64:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: semi-learned loanword
semi-learned loan
coordinate_terms: learned borrowing
glosses: A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.
Related terms: Semi-learned borrowings by language
shedmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shedmasters
Etymology: From shed + master.
Senses: examples: text: It is impossible not to feel sympathy with shedmasters in the difficulty they experience in obtaining cleaners.
ref: 1953 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 686:
text: Much earlier than that, in the small hours, taxis had been sent out to collect key officers, shedmasters and traffic staff for an immediate start on the reorganisation.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 130–131:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The person in charge of an engine shed (or locomotive shed).
nacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nascent.
nanobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobranches
Etymology: From nano- + branch.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale branch, typically of a crystal
nanobranches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobranch
nanobranched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + branched.
Senses: glosses: Having nanobranches
nanodinoflagellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodinoflagellates
Etymology: From nano- + dinoflagellate.
Senses: glosses: Any nanoscale dinoflagellate
nanodinoflagellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanodinoflagellate
shedmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shedmaster
runs someone ragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run someone ragged
running someone ragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run someone ragged
ran someone ragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run someone ragged
brush up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes up to
form: brushing up to
form: brushed up to
form: brushed up to
Senses: glosses: To flatter or suck up to someone
champ up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: champs up
form: champing up
form: champed up
form: champed up
Senses: glosses: To pull upwards, e.g. to pull plants out of the ground.
bruhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bruh.
chaw up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chaws up
form: chawing up
form: chawed up
form: chawed up
Senses: glosses: To do for; to finish or use up.
Finland Swedish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Swedish finlandssvenska
Senses: glosses: the Swedish language as spoken by the Swedish-speaking population in Finland
Finland Swedish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of Swedish finlandssvensk
Senses: examples: text: The Finland Swedish population is concentrated on the coasts.
glosses: Of or pertaining to native Swedish-speakers living in Finland
examples: text: There are many Finland Swedish dialects.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Swedish spoken natively in Finland
veeblefetzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veeblefetzers
Etymology: A nonsense word, popularized by MAD Magazine in 1953. Generally accepted to be a derivation from Yiddish [Term?], from German weben + fetzen.
Senses: glosses: An unspecified object; a thingy or doodad.
wikipedia: MAD Magazine
Helensburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2982).
glosses: A small town in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
goodlookingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That innocent, Johnny Appleseed goodlookingness he had...
ref: 1998, Andy Warhol, a: A Novel, page 431:
glosses: Alternative form of good-lookingness.
Sapala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sapalas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Yaba Department of Nayala Province, Burkina Faso.
Argyll and Bute
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large council area on the west coast of Scotland.
Balloch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village at the foot of Loch Lomond in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3982).
synonyms: Eastfield
glosses: A residential area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7474).
glosses: A residential village east of Inverness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7347).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States, named after the Balloch family.
glosses: A surname.
until the pips squeak
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Originally coined by the First Lord of the Admiralty and Unionist election candidate Eric Geddes in an election promise to "squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeak", made during a speech in Cambridge on 10 December 1918 and reported the next day by the Cambridge Daily News.
Senses: examples: text: Churchill was looking back to a statement made in 1918 by the British politician and businessman Eric Campbell Geddes. A Unionist candidate in the General Election of that year (seen as a 'khaki' election), he was pressed to make clear his position on war reperations to be extracted from Germany. An account of his speech at Cambridge, 10 December 1918, appeared in the Cambridge Daily News of the following day. According to this report, Geddes said: 'The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed - until the pips squeak.
ref: 2006 October 26, Elizabeth Knowles, What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations:
text: Martyrs are desperate to demonstrate their self-flagellatory capabilities in the hope that someone out there actually cares. If they think their peers or bosses really do, then they are seriously deluding themselves; I'm afraid the Martyr will be exploited until the pips squeak.
ref: 2011, Andrew Holmes, Pains in the Office: 50 People You Absolutely, Definitely Must Avoid at Work!:
text: It's also possible that this Dennis is based on the real-life Labour firebrand, Denis Healey (b. 1917), the shadow of Chancellor of the Exchequer 1972-1974. In the run-up to the 1974 general election, Healey was particularly on point, promising that when Labour took back the government ten days later (Febrary 28), he'd “squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak,” as well as “wring the neck of the Housing Finance Act.”
ref: 2015, Darl Larsen, A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, page 101:
text: I’m no fan of the Labour leader, but if you take a look at the supposedly Marxist plans he and John McDonnell have put forward, they’re not exactly planning to tax the rich until the pips squeak.
ref: 2019 May 11, James Moore, “Sod the Rich List, we should be publishing a 'Tax Contributor' list that can be a badge of honour”, in The Independent:
text: In the meantime he will continue to squeeze the Iranian economy until the pips squeak because clearly it is bothering them.
ref: 2019 September 22, Tim Newark, “Trump strikes right tone in necessary face-off with Iran”, in The Express:
glosses: Until the maximum amount has been extracted.
wikipedia: Cambridge Daily News
Eric Geddes
self-flagellatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-flagellatory
form: most self-flagellatory
Senses: examples: text: In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history.
ref: 2005, Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, page 386:
text: There is often a muted mea culpa in these semi-autobiographical musings, a self-flagellatory tone that immediately relieves the reader of any suspicions of romanticism or nostalgia about a bygone age and a lost youth.
ref: 2007, Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, The New Left: Legacy and Continuity, page 15:
text: I spent a good deal of time on it, wrote her a full response and delivered it back – and then heard nothing more for a few weeks, until I had a self-flagellatory letter from her which concentrated entirely on my negative points rather than my positives.
ref: 2011, Alison Baverstock, The Naked Author - A Guide to Self-publishing:
glosses: Characterized by self-flagellation; extremely repentant.
examples: text: In war-time, self-sacrifice would be the obvious appropriate antidote to this depression, and some such mechanism is clearly at work in, for example, Vera Brittain's self-flagellatory dedication to her voluntary nursing, ...
ref: 1993, Franz Karl Stanzel, Martin Löschnigg, Intimate enemies, page 412:
text: Martyrs are desperate to demonstrate their self-flagellatory capabilities in the hope that someone out there actually cares.
ref: 2011, Andrew Holmes, Pains in the Office: 50 People You Absolutely, Definitely Must Avoid at Work!:
text: There is no point, except perhaps a self-flagellatory, religious one, in self-denial, and in a consumer culture, even modest consumption is an almost impossible stance.
ref: 2012, Gillian Bentley, Ruth Mace, Substitute Parents, page 182:
synonyms: word: self-denying
word: abstemious
word: self-abnegatory
word: self-denying
word: self-flagellatory
word: self-sacrificing
glosses: Self-sacrificing.
Coatbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7365).
Related terms: english: Scots
translation: Scots
word: Coatbrig
North Lanarkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
MPDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MPD
stew in one's own gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stews in one's own gravy
form: stewing in one's own gravy
form: stewed in one's own gravy
form: stewed in one's own gravy
Senses: examples: text: In the words of a distinguished man who has himself been the cause of some unexpected changes, the best cure for people who will not be reasoned out of their prejudices is to “stew in their own gravy.”
ref: 1885 December, “The Great Britain Industrial Company”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 138, page 830:
text: He pointed out that it would be a security, that in future French revolutions the people of Paris would be shut up to stew in their own gravy.
ref: 1897, The Spectator - Volume 78, page 238:
text: ...be a far more meaningful punishment to allow him to stew in his own gravy for a while, wondering how I was going to make him pay.
ref: 2010, Larry Bauer-Scandin, Faces on the Clock, page 174:
text: I let Hugo stew in his own gravy, showered, had a minuscule cognac and went to bed with Olivia Manning, another old literary friend.
ref: 2018, Stuart Campbell, An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity:
glosses: Alternative form of stew in one's juices.
stews in one's own gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stew in one's own gravy
stewing in one's own gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stew in one's own gravy
stewed in one's own gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stew in one's own gravy
dandy roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandy rolls
Senses: examples: text: The dandy roll should be placed at the upstream side of the open area so that one-third of this space is between the center line of the dandy and the upstream side of the open area.
ref: 1980, James P. Casey, Pulp and paper: chemistry and chemical technology, page 1038:
text: A raised symbol is placed on the dandy roll of the Fourdrinier machine and makes the paper thinner in that shape.
ref: 2002, Jon Attwood, Graphic Products:
text: A shaded watermark is produced by a dandy roll located at or near the suction box on the Fourdrinier.
ref: 2010, Rose Gonnella, Christopher J. Navetta, Comp It Up: A Studio Skills Foundation, page 2-9:
glosses: Alternative form of dandy roller.
dandy rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandy roll
dandy-roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandy-rolls
Senses: examples: text: Heretofore the manner in which these accumulations have been removed was to take the dandy-roll out of position, causing a stoppage of the machine and a consequent loss of production.
ref: 1886, Charles Thomas Davis, The Manufacture of Paper:
text: According to this invention the bearing of the dandy-roll at each end is carried on a pillar or support on top of an upper plate supported on springs, rubber pads, oil or air cushions or the like fitted between the upper plate and lower plate.
ref: 1918, The Paper-maker and British Paper Trade Journal:
text: The body of the roll was made in much the same way as any dandy-roll is made at the present time.
ref: 2014, R. H. Clapperton, The Paper-making Machine:
glosses: Alternative form of dandy roller.
dandy-rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandy-roll
dandy-roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandy-rollers
Senses: examples: text: The above method of finishing the marks or designs applies only where the device is to be sewn on to the mould or dandy-roller with wire ; but when solder is used, the metal device may — after having been cut, as before mentioned, and cleared from the other parts of the cut plate, card-board, or veneer—be at once affixed by solder to the mould or dandy-roller;
ref: 1852, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences:
text: In the early 19th century the dandy-roller was invented to impart watermarks on machine-made paper.
ref: 1952, Paper Maker and British Paper Trade Journal:
text: The dandy-roller here takes the place of thhe length and breadth of the wire forming a hand-mould, the chief difference eing that the length is "endless."
ref: 1916, Frederick John Melville, Postage Stamps in the Making, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of dandy roller.
dandy-rollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandy-roller
dudgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown. Compare dudgeon.
Senses: examples: text: […] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]
ref: 1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142
glosses: Something worthless; trash.
dudgen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dudgen
form: most dudgen
Etymology: Unknown. Compare dudgeon.
Senses: examples: text: A melancholy boddy is not the kindest nurse for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is soverainly beholding to nature,) but I know not a finer transformation in Ovid then the Metamorphosis of dudgen earnest into sport; of harsh sower into sweet; of losse into gaine; or reproch into credit; of whatsoever badd occurrence into some good.
ref: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, page 21:
text: Gentlemen (according to the laudable custome) I am to court you with a few premisses considered: but a number of you there bee, who consider neigher premisses nor conclusion, but piteouslie torment Title Pages on euerie poast: neuer readidng farther of anie Booke, than Imprinted by Simeon such a signe, and yet with your dudgen iudgement will desperatelie presume to run up to the hard hilts through the whole bulke of it.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night:
text: Think' st thou, my Wit shall keepe the pack- Horse Way , That ev'ry Dudgen low Invention goes?
ref: 1599, Michael Drayton, Idea, page 107:
glosses: Contemptible.
nasolaryngoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasolaryngoscopies
Etymology: From naso- + laryngoscopy.
Senses: glosses: The examination of the nose and throat, typically using a laryngoscope
naviculoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naviculoid
necrophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From necrophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to necrophytes
neoallergen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoallergens
Etymology: From neo- + allergen.
Senses: glosses: A newly-created allergen (typically by cooking)
neoallergens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoallergen
nephrosplenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephro- + splenic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the kidneys and the spleen
neurocardiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + cardiology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the interaction of the nervous system and the heart
Related terms: neurocardiologic
neurocardiological
neuromathematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + mathematical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the nervous system (especially the brain) and mathematics
nondecalcified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + decalcified.
Senses: glosses: Not decalcified
nonhaematopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + haematopoietic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonhematopoietic.
nonnucleosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nucleosomal.
Senses: glosses: Not nucleosomal
nonpsychometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + psychometric.
Senses: glosses: Not psychometric
nonreproducibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + reproducibility.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonreproducible
nonverbalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + verbalizable.
Senses: glosses: Not verbalizable
typing pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typing pools
Senses: glosses: A group or team of typists in an office who do typing work for different people.
typing pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typing pool
test track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test tracks
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A paved track on which road vehicles can be tested.
examples: text: Research would be facilitated if a test track of suitable length and characteristics for coach running tests at speeds up to "90 m.p.h.-plus" were on offer, as there are obvious difficulties in making available a regularly used main line for such purposes; but B.T.C. plans in this respect have apparently suffered under the economy axe.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of Trains: Hunting bogies”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:
text: The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
ref: 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway track for the purpose of testing trains.
test tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test track
multiplatter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + platter.
Senses: examples: text: In more recent times, hard disk drives have come fitted with removable multiplatter disk packs, so that alternative file systems can be loaded in from disk to main memory, as required.
ref: 1989, John Fulcher, An Introduction to Microcomputer Systems:
glosses: Having or relating to more than one platter.
every where
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Clo[wne]. Foolery ſir, does walke about the Orbe like the Sun, it ſhines euery where.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:
text: We have been told that our Struggle has loosened the bands of Government every where.
ref: 1776 April 14, John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams
text: You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments every where, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:
text: Mary had a little lamb, / Its fleece was white as snow, / And every where that Mary went / The lamb was sure to go ;
ref: 1830, Sarah J. Hale, “Mary's Lamb”, in Poems for Our Children, Marsh, Capen & Lyon, pages 6–7:
glosses: Obsolete form of everywhere.
Bo-Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bo-Bos
form: B-B
Senses: examples: text: The Lötschberg had always been in the forefront of electric locomotive development and their 4,000 h.p. Bo-Bo design, introduced in 1944, was the first of its particular type in Europe, if not in the world. Shortly afterwards in 1946, the very successful Swiss Federal Bo-Bo type was introduced and for many years undertook the working of the high speed lightweight trains over the Geneva-Zurich, Geneva-Basle and other main lines.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives signifying that a locomotive has four axles, each powered by a motor, on two bogies.
Related terms: Co-Co
Bo-Bos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bo-Bo
oligophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- (“several”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to several species of plant
Related terms: monophyte
oligosugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosugars
Etymology: From oligo- + sugar.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oligosaccharide.
synonyms: word: oligosaccharide
oligosugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligosugar
bucketization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucketizations
Senses: glosses: The process of bucketizing.
bucketizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucketization
cryodissections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryodissection
cryofibrinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryofibrinogen
cryofixatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryofixative
cryogloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoglove
cryoguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryogun
cryolophosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryolophosaur
cryomicrodissections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryomicrodissection
cryomicrotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryomicrotome
Co-Co
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Co-Cos
form: C-C
Senses: examples: text: With their high horsepower, the new Bo-Bos, of which six are on order for trial purposes, but which should ultimately number 50, will take over most of the Gotthard passenger workings from the 6,000 h.p. Co-Cos, permitting the latter to take a greater share of the steadily increasing freight workings over this route, the aim being to work 1,200-ton freight trains up the long 1 in 38-40 approaches to the Gotthard tunnel with 6,000 h.p. Co-Cos in pairs.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 136–137:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives signifying that a locomotive has six axles, each powered by a motor, on two bogies.
Related terms: Bo-Bo
1Co-Co1
deep-water solo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-water solos
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A climb without safety equipment over water deep enough to provide safety after a fall.
deep-water solo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep-water soloes
form: deep-water soloing
form: deep-water soloed
form: deep-water soloed
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb without safety equipment over water deep enough to provide safety after a fall.
deep-water solos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep-water solo
deep-water soloes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deep-water solo
deep-water soloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep-water solo
deep-water soloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deep-water solo
Co-Cos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Co-Co
submegabit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + megabit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Less than a megabit.
subgigabit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + gigabit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Less than a gigabit.
motor coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor coaches
Senses: examples: text: It will be recalled that the units are formed of three-car sets, with driving trailers on either side of the motor coach. The motor coach, which has a nose-suspended motor on each axle, carries the pantograph above the guard's van.
ref: 1961 March, “Interim report on the Glasgow suburban electric train failures”, in Trains Illustrated, page 175:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: motorcar
english: American English
translation: American English
antonyms: trailer car
glosses: A powered railway vehicle, designed for passenger transport, capable to pull (or push) other railroad cars (compared to a railcar which only consists of a single railway vehicle with a driver's cab at both ends).
glosses: Alternative form of motorcoach (a road vehicle)
motor coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor coach
motor-coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor-coaches
Senses: examples: text: At present certain of these trains, most of which are operated on the push-and-pull principle with up to 12 coaches, are handled by the recent RBe 4/4 type motor-coaches of 2,700 h.p.;- this class also is to be augmented considerably.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 137:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Alternative form of motor coach.
examples: text: Does the passenger travelling along M1 in a shining, brightly liveried motor-coach turn to admire the rake of dull maroon coaches hauled by a drab green diesel locomotive on the adjoining railway line?
ref: 1961 June, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Four”, in Trains Illustrated, page 354:
glosses: Alternative form of motorcoach (road vehicle)
motor-coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor-coach
diesel multiple unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diesel multiple units
Senses: examples: text: On January 23, diesel multiple-units began working some of the Marylebone suburban services.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A multiple-unit train of two or more coaches powered by diesel engines, usually installed underfloor.
Synonyms: DMU
Related terms: electric multiple unit
diesel multiple units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesel multiple unit
power-operated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The colour-light signals and power-operated points at Waterloo are controlled from one cabin which houses three lever frames with a total of 272 working miniature levers.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:
glosses: Electrically (or mechanically) operated.
locomotive shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locomotive sheds
Senses: examples: text: Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
ref: 1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
text: The locomotive shed at Portadown is gradually becoming the principal Great Northern section steam motive power depot.
ref: 1961 March, “The Irish scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:
text: Short form: locoshed
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of engine shed.
synonyms: word: engine shed
locomotive sheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locomotive shed
Haresnape
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sleuth dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleuth dogs
Senses: examples: text: "No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt thou find him out?" / "Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth–If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 238:
text: Three troopers guided by a masked man and a sleuth dog pursued him.
ref: 1991, Michael Brander, Tales of the Borders, page 132:
text: I was told she was the finest sleuth dog on the borders, but thus far she's proven herself useless.
ref: 2002, Jen Holling, Tamed by your desire, page 25:
text: Brought to England by William the Conqueror, the solemn-looking Bloodhound has entered literature and legend as the archetypal sleuth dog, but it never kills its prey.
ref: 2003, Paul McGreevy, Dog lover's companion, page 350:
glosses: Synonym of sleuthhound.
synonyms: word: sleuthhound
sleuth dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleuth dog
sleuth-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleuth-dogs
Senses: examples: text: "No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt thou find him out?" / "Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth–If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 238:
text: At the darkenin' he escaped upon the moss ; three troopers, guided by a muffler and a sleuth-dog, pursued him ; an" as we crossed the bog this mornin', we found ane o' the troopers sunk to the middle in't, an' his horse below him; [...]
ref: 1885, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:
text: He then had a chance to reprise his role as the sleuth-dog in the television version of The Thin Man and won two PATSY (Picture Animal Top Star of the YearI Awards for his performances in 1959 and 1960.
ref: 2005, Sandra Choron, Harry Choron, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of sleuth dog.
sleuth-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleuth-dog
take offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of take off
skittles and beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She was denying herself skittles and beer, and putting up with tea and an old aunt, because she preferred the proprieties of life to its pleasures.
ref: 1865, Anthony Trollope, Miss Mackenzie:
text: The men of the ARA were fond of repeating chief Cyril Quinn's line that life in the Russian mission was not all "skittles and beer."
ref: 2002, Bertrand M. Patenaude, The Big Show in Bololand:
text: It just comes to you that everything isn't corn flakes and skittles and beer.
ref: 2012, Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography:
glosses: Alternative form of beer and skittles.
COLREGS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: COLREG
form: COLREGs
Etymology: Blend of collision + regulations.
Senses: examples: text: The International Regulations for the Prevention of Collision RULE at Sea (COLREGS) apply to all vessels, from kayaks to ocean-liners, on all of the oceans and bodies of water outside the magenta (red) Demarcation Line printed on charts.
ref: 1998, Charles Wing, Boating Magazine's One Minute Guide to the Nautical Rules of the Road:
text: There are no material differences between the COLREGS and Inland Rule.
ref: 2005, Craig H. Allen, Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road, page 14:
text: The proposed algorithm is based on modified velocity obstacle which applies encounter situation judgment and decision-making of autonomy hazard avoidance of ship, which also take COLREGS into account.
ref: 2014, Jing Leng, Jian Liu, Hongli Xu, “Online Collision Avoidance Based on Modified Velocity Obstacle Approach for Unmanned Surface Vehicles”, in International Conference on Electrical, Control and Automation, page 112:
qualifier: international law
glosses: International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, the rules published by the International Maritime Organization to prevent collisions involving boats.
memoiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memoiric
form: most memoiric
Etymology: From memoir + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time. Mystifying, because all references to it found in the memoiric literature are contradictory; likewise, because rumors of a Reichswehr- Red generals conspiracy were floating about simultaneously, possibly as a part of a plot to frame the Red generals with Nazi forgeries, two developments which have their own contradictory literature.
ref: 2003, Gary Kern, A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror, page 104:
text: The Chelsea's basement is also the setting for the climactic scene in Dee Dee Ramone's 2001 novel Chelsea Horror Hotel, a mix of factually-based memoiric anecdotes, paranoid hallucinations and revenge fantasies.
ref: 2013, James Lough, This Ain't No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995, page 262:
text: If the genre of autobiographic or memoiric writing is beset by a certain obsession with veracity, subjects of Refugee and Forced Migration experience know too well a further heightened and acute high-stakes game of authentication.
ref: 2019, Gil Richard Musolf, Conflict and Forced Migration:
glosses: Of or pertaining to anecdotes based on one's own life; autobiographical.
big-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of big shot.
chukka boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭʹkə bo͞ot
ipa: /ˈtʃʌkə buːt/
Forms: form: chukka boots
Etymology: Alteration of chukker; from a similar polo player's boot.
Senses: glosses: An ankle-high leather boot, typically suede, that has open lacing with two or three pairs of eyelets.
Synonyms: chukkas
chukka boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chukka boot
packing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: packing rooms
Senses: examples: text: If the probable highest dew point can be estimated, the corresponding relative humidity in the packing room at any desired temperature may be determined from a humidity chart.
ref: 1944, Vegetable and Fruit Dehydration: A Manual for Plant Operators:
text: In the last few days of the rush, Ida finally dressed and walked up to the packing room to contribute her share of the work.
ref: 2012, Kathy Leonard Czepiel, A Violet Season: A Novel:
text: We take a look in at the packing room, where every inch of wall space is occupied with stacks of photographs, pigeon-holed and alphabetically docketed. Young women, I observe, are in charge of this room, and Miss Hughes tells me that the head of the packing department occupies a post of some responsibility, and must, accordingly, be well paid.
ref: 2012, Margaret Bateson, Professional Women Upon Their Professions: Conversations, page 84:
glosses: A room that a business uses to pack items for subsequent storage or shipping.
examples: text: Three light, airy bedrooms, packing room, bath and closets on third floor. Brick fireplace in living room and master's room; big, broad, livable veranda, newly screened, grounds among most artistic and best cared for in New York's most beautiful siiburb, thoughtfully planted and carefully cultivated, ....
ref: 1914, Country Life - Volume 25, page 158:
text: Above the dining room were two bedrooms; above the pantry, a packing room; and above the kitchen and laundry, two servants' rooms.
ref: 1963, South of Yesterday: The Memoirs of Francis McKelden Smith, page 37:
text: On the second floor are six bedrooms, a sewing room, packing room, and four servants' bedrooms.
ref: 1977, The Presidents:
text: One of these rooms was what they called the "packing room" where they kept the "out of style" dresses, hats, and even hoops.
ref: 1990, Noah H. Bradley, My Mother's Family, page 220:
glosses: A room in a large house that is used for storing unused items; storage room.
packing rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packing room
turkey hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey hens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turkey-hen.
due and payable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Owed to another party and required to be settled straight away.
oncodermatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onco- + dermatology.
Senses: glosses: The study and the treatment of skin disorders that are the result of cancer
ophiuroidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiuroideans
Senses: glosses: Any brittle star of the class Ophiuroidea
ophiuroideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiuroidean
organosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + somatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a body organ and the rest of the body, but especially to the ratio of their weights
Related terms: hepatosomatic
spleenosomatic
osteoarchaeologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From osteo- + archaeologically.
Senses: glosses: In an osteoarchaeological manner
osteoinductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoinductors
Etymology: From osteo- + inductor.
Senses: glosses: Any material that causes osteoinduction
osteoinductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteoinductor
otolithometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement and classification of otoliths
overfactorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + factor + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Shall we stop the process of factoring at this point, or go on to test a third hypothesis? […] The question of when to stop factoring is one of the major points of controversy in factor analysis, and the criticisms which one factorist may direct against the work of another quite commonly deal with charges of overfactorization and underfactorization.
ref: 1959, Solomon Diamond, Information and error, pages 224–225:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The use or consideration of excessive factors in factor analysis.
-aissance
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of renaissance.
Senses: glosses: Signifying the rebirth of one's career.
Derived terms: McConaissance
Keannaissance
Celinaissance
McConaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From McConaughey (“Matthew McConaughey”) + -aissance.
Senses: glosses: The period of rejuvenation of actor Matthew McConaughey's popularity and acting career, in the 2010s.
wikipedia: en:Matthew McConaughey
Related terms: Celinaissance
Keannaissance
Keannaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keanu-ssance
form: Keanussance
Etymology: From Keanu (“Keanu Reeves”) + -aissance.
Senses: glosses: The period of rejuvenation of actor Keanu Reeves' popularity and acting career, since the 2010s.
wikipedia: en:Keanu Reeves
Related terms: Celinaissance
McConaissance
Celinaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Célinaissance
form: Célinessance
form: Celinessance
Etymology: From Celine (“Céline Dion”) + -aissance.
Senses: glosses: The period of rejuvenation of singer Celine Dion's popularity and singing career, since the 2010s.
wikipedia: en:Céline Dion
Related terms: Keannaissance
McConaissance
brandebourg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandebourgs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brandenburg (“decoration for a jacket”).
brandebourgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandebourg
Westinghouse brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Westinghouse brakes
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that the Westinghouse brake has been retained as standard for all passenger trains, and that certain services still afford regular work for some of the survivors of the once-numerous Stroudley "Terrier" tank engines.
ref: 1946 March and April, “Railways of the Isle of Wight”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:
text: All goods vehicles are fitted with the Westinghouse brake, with the exception of those on the isolated railway serving Nelson. However, as some compensation for this deficiency, the four 2-6-4 tanks on this section are fitted with steam smokebox-ash blowers, which are unique, useful, and awe-inspiring pieces of apparatus.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 562:
text: The Westinghouse brake operation is interesting, but unusual if one happens to be used to Westinghouse working in this country. [...] The essence of the use of the Westinghouse brake is confidence and - for want of a better word - dash; the sooner the feeling stage is over the better for all concerned.
ref: 1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A proprietary air brake designed for railway use by George Westinghouse.
Westinghouse brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Westinghouse brake
Westinghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛs.tɪŋ.haʊs/
Senses: glosses: A surname, notably that of George Westinghouse.
Derived terms: Westinghouse brake
mesostructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a mesostructure.
Derived terms: mesostructurally
mesostructurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mesostructural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of mesostructure.
Sophronia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈfɹəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /səˈfɹoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Senses: examples: text: After casting about for some time for a name which should be worthy of her, he decided in favour of Sophronia Sphynx, as being euphonious and genteel, and furthermore indicative of mystery.
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Last”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 220:
text: Crampton. Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.
ref: 1898, George Bernard Shaw, You Never Can Tell, act II:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
anticyanobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticyanobacterial
form: most anticyanobacterial
Etymology: From anti- + cyanobacterial.
Senses: glosses: Active against cyanobacteria.
antilichen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilichen
form: most antilichen
Etymology: From anti- + lichen.
Senses: glosses: Active against lichens.
momentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From momentless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being momentless.
Pauli-Lubanski pseudovector
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pauli-Lubanski pseudovector
Etymology: Named after Wolfgang Pauli and Józef Lubański.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An operator defined from momentum and angular momentum, used in the quantum-relativistic description of angular momentum to describe the spin states of moving particles.
Clebsch-Gordan coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
Etymology: Named after the German mathematicians Alfred Clebsch and Paul Gordan, who encountered an equivalent problem in invariant theory.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis.
Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clebsch-Gordan coefficient
whose ox is gored
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Who is suffering or losing out in a given situation.
Paul Jones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paul Joneses
Senses: examples: text: The orchestra has struck up a "Paul Jones," where two concentric circles of young people march in opposite directions, until the music stops. Then they take whomever is opposite them as their new dance partner.
ref: 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
glosses: Any of various mixer dances that were popular in the early 20th century.
Paul Joneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paul Jones
foxtrotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxtrotters
Senses: glosses: A kind of horse, the Missouri Fox Trotter.
foxtrotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxtrotter