cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overlimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlimited
form: most overlimited
Etymology: From over- + limited.
Senses: glosses: Excessively limited; too restricted.
glosses: Having too many limits placed upon it.
Haiku-Pauwela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Kapalua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Kapalua.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Kaunakakai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Kaunakakai.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Keokea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Kēōkea.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Lanai City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Launiupoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Mahinahina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Makawao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Makawao.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
3x3 basketball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From 3 (“three”) + X (“cross, by, against”) + 3 + basketball.
From being a form of basketball with three players facing three players on the two sides.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A coach-less (no in-game coaching) form of basketball, with 2 opposing sides of 3 on-court players at a time on a side, on a court with a single basket, half the size of a regular basketball court, where defenders and attackers switch during play.
Synonyms: 3-a-side basketball
3-on-3 basketball
3x3
3X3
3X3 basketball
basketball 3's
basketball 3s
basketball threes
three-a-side basketball
three-on-three basketball
Hypernyms: ballsport
basketball
Olympic sport
team basketball
Coordinate terms: 1-on-1 basketball
5-a-side basketball
Makena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Maunaloa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaʊnəˈloʊə/
ipa: /ˌmɔnəˈloʊə/
ipa: /ˌmaʊnəˈləʊə/
rhymes: -əʊə
homophone: Mauna Loa
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Hawaiian Maunaloa, from mauna loa (“long mountain”). Doublet of Mauna Loa.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Napili-Honokowai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Olowalu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Paia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Pāʻia.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Pukalani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Waihee-Waiehu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
3X3 basketball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 3x3 basketball.
overcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcross
overcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcrossings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overcross.
synonyms: word: overcross
overcrossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcross
overcrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcross
overcrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcross
omnichromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + chromatic.
Senses: examples: text: This supports the idea that all colored objects are omnichromatic, that is they contain all of the elements of the spectrum.
ref: 1977, Subtractive Color Mixtures and Their Dental Applications, Jelenko, page 8:
text: This new theory uses an omnichromatic approach instead of the classical trichromatic approach.
ref: 1979, Optical Spectra, Volume 13, Optical Publishing Company:
text: In theory all colored objects are omnichromatic.
ref: 1985, Robert Waltke, Color in the Human Dentition, J.F. Jelenko, page 8:
glosses: Panchromatic; of or having all colors.
overblooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbloom
overblooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbloom
overbloomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbloom
cistem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəm/
Forms: form: cistems
Etymology: Blend of cis + system.
Senses: examples: text: It is this toilet cistem that served to cement the spatially constructed division between man and woman that is still present today.
ref: 2017, Nigel Patel, “Violent cistems: Trans experiences of bathroom space”, in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, volume 31, number 1, page 52:
text: I can think of no better role model for a transgender individual, particularly one looking to tackle the "cistem" of health care.
ref: 2019, Kyan Lynch, “The Trans Man and the Warrior Women”, in Transgender Health, volume 4, number 1, page 278:
text: Capital High’s school culture is seemingly accepting to the LGBTQIA+ population, yet it is also one saturated by a white heteropatriarchal cistem, and continued education and activism are required to combat this.
ref: 2022, Kenan Omercajic, “'Basement Boys' in the All-Gender Bathroom: Investigating Student-Inspired Trans-Activism and White Cisgenderist Barriers to Supporting Trans Students in School”, in Teacher College Record, volume 124, number 8, page 229:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people.
Derived terms: cistemic
cistems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cistem
t4t
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of T4T.
t4t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t4ts
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of T4T.
dizdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dizdars
form: disdar
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish, borrowed from Persian دزدار.
Senses: examples: text: In 1645, the stores in the Propylaia were struck by lightning, killing the disdar’s family as well as seriously damaging the building.
ref: 2002, Mary Beard, The Parthenon, Profile Books, published 2010, page 77:
glosses: The commander of a castle or fortress in the Ottoman Empire.
disdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disdars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dizdar.
premaxillary agenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rare anomaly consisting of a midline vertical cleft through the upper lip.
adjective pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjective pronouns
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective used as a pronoun, such as each, either, and neither, which relate to objects taken singly.
Lykois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lykoi
bald dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bald dick
Cheetohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheetoh
take several seats
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have several seats.
Citrini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Citrinis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Citirini
Citrine
supermissile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermissiles
form: super missile
form: super-missile
Etymology: From super- + missile.
Senses: glosses: Any massive object used as a superweapon by being thrown or fired through the air.
examples: text: An interview with Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations in which he describes the Navy's role in an era of H-bombs and supermissiles.
ref: 1956, Army Library (U.S.), Special Bibliographies, United States Department of the Army, Army Library, page 91:
text: For example, the details of the new Soviet SS9 supermissile, which apparently was not thought to be a proper subject to include in a formal “posture statement” were abruptly declassified and trotted out as Exhibit A in the case for Soviet aggressiveness as it was presented live for all to see and hear.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Organization and Disarmament Affairs, Strategic and Foreign Policy Implications of ABM Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 316:
text: “It’s a bomber! It’s a supermissile! No — it’s a dove.”
ref: 1981 November 20, Herbert Lawrence Block, “‘It’s a Dove”, in coldwar.unc.edu:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An extremelypowerful, self-propelled projectile whose trajectory is adjustable after it is launched.
Related terms: projectile
rocket
supermissiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermissile
superformidably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superformidably
form: most superformidably
Etymology: From superformidable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superformidable manner.
overpartial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpartial
form: most overpartial
form: over-partial
Etymology: From over- + partial.
Senses: glosses: Being overly partial; unduly partial.
over-partial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-partial
form: most over-partial
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overpartial.
superanimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superanimal
form: most superanimal
form: super-animal
Etymology: From super- + animal.
Senses: glosses: Of human attributes, faculties, etc.; in regards to the intellectual, moral, or spiritual side of humans, in contrast to both the physical and instinctive.
glosses: Of animals or their characteristics, transcending those that are typical of animals.
superfortress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfortresses
Etymology: From super- + fortress.
Senses: glosses: A massive and heavily protected fortress.
examples: text: These women flew fighter planes and B-29 superfortresses as test pilots as well as ferry pilots.
ref: 1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: A bomber aeroplane that is larger than and superior to by being technically advanced compared to the Boeing B-17 "flying fortress", specifically the Boeing B-29 long-range heavy bomber aeroplane that was developed during the early 1940s.
superfortresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfortress
overinfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overinfusion
superinfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinfusions
form: super-infusion
Etymology: From super- + infusion.
Senses: examples: text: His Majesty's Answer was, that he would have him stay, and that he would take it into his Care, he should receive no Prejudice thereby. Thus it stands for the present, but what Superinfusions may be made, and how far the importunate Soli citations of such as have espoused his Interests may prevail to incline his Majesty to his present Departure, I know not, but fear it may be compassed, if some Repercussives be not speedily used by way of Prevention.
ref: 1739, Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford, Sir George Radcliffe, The Earl of Strafforde's Letters and Dispatches: With an Essay Towards His Life, Volume 2, page 4:
text: It represents in Basso Relievo an huge caldron, or vessel, in which are a king and a queen, and a man standing by it pours water upon the head of the king, who is praying with his hands joined. This he supposes to describe the baptism of some prince, performed by immersion immersion^([sic]) and superinfusion.
ref: 1805, Jorin John, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Lackington, Allen; Edinburgh, T. Turnbull, pages 291–292:
text: I do not here contend, with much strenuousness, whether he has those supernatural endowments from the act of creation or from another act of superinfusion, but leave this without decision, as neither useful or injurious to my cause.
ref: 1853, James Nichols, William R. Bagnall, The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden, Volume 3, Derby and Miller, page 117:
text: It would obviously be in vain to look for the purely Buddhistic originals of this work and others of the same description, all of which now show a superinfusion of Hivaitic ideas, anywhere in India.
ref: 1866, Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art 1866-06: Volume, 3 Issue 6, Open Court Publishing Company, page 776:
text: Hurricanes are supercyclones, their rains and winds intensified far beyond those of most middle-latitude cyclones (tornadoes excepted) by the superinfusions of heat and moisture they get from moving over the oceans for days at a time.
ref: 2001, William Kenneth Stevens, The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate, Dell Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 116–117:
glosses: An extra, extensive, and/or excessive infusion of something; a particular instance of such an infusion.
megamachines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamachine
megatherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatherm
megacolossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mega-colossal.
ultracrispy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracrispy
form: most ultracrispy
Etymology: From ultra- + crispy.
Senses: glosses: Extremely crispy; of utmost crispiness.
superancient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superancient
form: most superancient
form: super ancient
form: super-ancient
Etymology: From super- + ancient.
Senses: examples: text: Those four books contain the inscriptions that Itzamna found in a superancient ruin near the Mayan city of Izapa.
ref: 2003, M. G. Harris, The Joshua Files: Zero Moment, Walker, →ISBN, page 28:
text: He mentioned an arcane superancient scripture preserved in central Asia.
ref: 2016, Robert Ellwood, Harry Partin, Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 28:
text: "My postulation," Mae said, "is that our gods of old---from Zeus to Poseidon, to Anubis and Isis---were all royal benificiaries of the superancient civilization that built the Machine.
ref: 2017, Matthew Reilly, The Four Legendary Kingdoms, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: Exceedingly ancient.
super-ancient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more super-ancient
form: most super-ancient
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superancient.
superpersonalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpersonality
superinstantaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /suːpɚˌɪnstənˈteɪni.əs/
Forms: form: super-instantaneous
Etymology: From super- + instantaneous.
Senses: examples: text: Among fuzes, instantaneous, superinstantaneous, without delay, short delay, long delay, low velocity, reinforced spring time, anti-aircraft.
ref: 1920, Antiaircraft Journal, Volume 53, United States Coast Artillery Association, page 11:
text: This means that which happen fast now will be happening so much faster tomorrow that the "superinstantaneous" reaction of electronics can hope to with the most commonplace problems of flying.
ref: 1955, National Industrial Conference Board, The Conference Board Business Record, Volume 12, National Industrial Conference Board, page 176:
text: Textures have been rendered uniform, so that the sand slips into the sea and the sea merges imperceptibly into the shadow of the pier suspended above its surface. A veil of timelessness has been slipped across, encapsulating each scene in a soft vacuum and sucking the spectator into a state of limbo. Like the contents of a tomb which crumble on contact with the outside air, each painting is held together only by the artist’s remarkable aesthetic control. The glossy reality of photographs has been filtered through into a slender realm, whieh operates under precepts which are diametrically opposed to their superinstantaneous impact.
ref: 1975, Documenta, Art International 1975-02-20: Volume 19, Issue 2, Art International, page 34:
text: While in Bangkok, Rhino meets a couple of SACIDs, people modified to have "superinstantaneous cognition", basically the ability to "… evade before you shoot; … [correct] before you evade." They are almost superhuman in their ability to take on any opponent and win.
ref: 1998, Jack Dann and Janeen Webb, Dreaming Down-Under, reviewed by Simon Brown https://web.archive.org/web/20210120042009/https://eidolon.net/?review=shortfiction3&pagetitle=Short+Fiction+Reviews+3
text: We have components that are promising. And there’s other research we need to do. You've seen Paul’s capability. It’s the only one we can consistently engineer for: superinstantaneous cognition.
ref: 1999, Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science fiction, Tor, →ISBN, page 399:
glosses: Beyond instantaneous; occurring, arising, or functioning in such manner, that it is transcending what is usually instantaneous.
super-instantaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superinstantaneous.
Villaviciosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in central eastern Asturias, Spain.
glosses: A municipality of Abra, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines.
hypercalcifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercalcification
Volksrust
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Afrikaans volk + -s- + rust (“people's rest”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Seeheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German.
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.
Upington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Thomas Upington.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
wikipedia: Thomas Upington
overphilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overphilosophical
form: most overphilosophical
Etymology: From over- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Excessively philosophical.
unfeeble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeeble
form: most unfeeble
Etymology: From un- + feeble.
Senses: examples: text: This, I feel, is the key to my unfeeble longevity: more than twenty-five thousand days on this earth and no complaints.
ref: 2002, Eartha Kitt, Rejuvenate! (It's Never Too Late), page 18:
glosses: Not feeble.
midshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the actors quit in midshoot over a pay dispute.
glosses: A point in time during filming.
midshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: The director died midshoot.
glosses: During filming.
Kakamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
brakeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brakefuls
Etymology: From brake + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Once she had been like some spirited young horse, dragging a brakeful of people to happiness. But of late she had felt their weight.
ref: 1913, Lady Lawrence, Tess Harcourt, page 239:
synonyms: brakeload
glosses: Enough to fill a brake (type of carriage).
brakefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brakeful
brakeload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brakeloads
Etymology: From brake + load.
Senses: examples: text: When it was a village or a country town that he visited, all the countryside sent its brakeloads of eager hearers.
ref: 1906, Denis Crane, James Flanagan: The Story of a Remarkable Career, page 176:
synonyms: brakeful
glosses: Enough to fill a brake (type of carriage).
brakeloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brakeload
gutta perchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gutta percha
hickory golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variation of golf played with hickory-shafted clubs.
unevangelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + evangelized.
Senses: glosses: Not evangelized.
Usakos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Erongo Region of Namibia.
multichains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multichain
Ninas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nina
Grootfontein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Afrikaans groot fontein.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.
Marchands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marchand
pingdemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: Blend of ping + pandemic, coined in 2021.
Senses: examples: text: The Metropolitan Line was forced to close on July 17 because so many workers were self-isolating that insufficient control room staff remained to run the service.
ref: 2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “Network News: COVID 'pingdemic' forces Metropolitan Line closure”, in RAIL, number 936, page 10:
text: Output in consumer-facing services fell 0.3 per cent in July, the first decline since January, mainly because of a 2.5 per cent drop in retail sales during bad weather and a spike in cases in mid-July that caused the so-called "pingdemic", after the NHS Covid-19 app ordered hundreds of thousands to self-isolate.
ref: 2021 September 11, Valentina Romei, “Recovery slows as 'pingdemic' dents growth: Delta variant”, in Financial Times, London, page 3:
text: To that end, testing should be used to keep society open not shut it down, which is what is happening now despite Mr Johnson's intentions. That lesson should have been learnt with the "pingdemic" last summer but apparently was not.
ref: 2022 January 5, “‘Pingdemic’ lessons: established 1855”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, page 17:
text: The NHS Covid-19 app behind the controversial “pingdemic” is to be shut down next month. The digital contact tracing service, which crippled businesses and forced millions of workers into quarantine, will stop working on April 27 for lack of use.
ref: 2023 March 29, “‘Pingdemic’ Covid app to be locked down forever”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 2:
glosses: The rapid rise in self-isolation resulting from many people being sent advisory alerts ("pings") by the National Health Service’s COVID-19 test and trace app for mobile phones.
Amirault
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amiraults
Etymology: Borrowed from French Amirault.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Wannemacher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wannemachers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wannemacher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wannemachers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wannemacher
Amiraults
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Amirault
unrebuking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rebuking.
Senses: glosses: Not rebuking.
trollees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trollee
Vogelpohl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vogelpohls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Vogelpohl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Weider
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weiders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weider.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Weiders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weider
Vogelpohls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vogelpohl
Turowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Turowski
man-bots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-bot
Treml
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tremles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Treml.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
gyrokite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrokites
Etymology: From gyro- + kite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rotor kite.
synonyms: word: rotor kite
gyrokites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrokite
rotor kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotor kites
Senses: synonyms: gyroglider
gyrokite
glosses: An unpowered rotary-wing aircraft.
Related terms: autogyro
gyrocopter
helicopter
rotor kites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotor kite
eclectica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "It's a Mecca of eclectica. One of Melrose Avenue's oldest."
ref: 1996 September 24, Los Angeles Magazine, page 63:
glosses: Eclectic items considered as a whole.
Trow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trows
form: Trew
Etymology: Various origins:
* A nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English trewe (“faithful, loyal”).
* A topographic surname for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from Middle English trow (“trough”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
glosses: A ghost town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
gyroglider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrogliders
Etymology: From gyro- + glider.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rotor kite.
synonyms: word: rotor kite
gyrogliders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroglider
Trows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trow
Tremles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Treml
rose-crowned fruit-dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose-crowned fruit-doves
Senses: glosses: A species of fruit dove, Ptilinopus regina, of Wallacea and northern and eastern Australia, the males of which have a pink forecrown.
rose-crowned fruit-doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose-crowned fruit-dove
fruit-dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit-doves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fruit dove.
fruit-doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit-dove
Vanacore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanacores
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Vanacore.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Jeppestown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jeppe + -s- + town; named after Julius Jeppe.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Synonyms: Jeppe
Alamin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alamins
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الْأَمِين (al-ʔamīn). This surname is mostly found in Sudan and Bangladesh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Alamins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alamin
Vanacores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanacore
Zaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zayas
Etymology: Perhaps from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian Зая (Zaja).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Bazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bazzles
Etymology: Altered spelling of Basil.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bazzles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bazzle
Zayas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zayases
Etymology: Borrowed from the Spanish habitational surname Zayas, which is from Basque zai (“watchman, guard”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zayas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaya
Stief
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stiefs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stief.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stuteville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stutevilles
Etymology: From the Norman habitational surname, from the town of Estouteville, in Normandy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
wikipedia: Estouteville
Stutevilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stuteville
Stiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stief
steenstrupine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Steenstrup + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: It is a remarkable fact that the most fresh steenstrupine in lujavrites and veins is found in rocks carrying albite (and ussingite).
ref: 1963, Bent Eske Koch, E. I. Hamilton, William E Davies, Meddelelser Om Grønland, page 31:
text: In most of the Ilímaussaq rocks, Th and U are concentrated in eudialyte, but in the final lujavrites they are largely held by steenstrupine.
ref: 1979, Rapport, numbers 95-103, page 110:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare dark brown mineral, (La,Ca,Na)(Al,Fe,Mn)(Si,P)(O,OH,F)₄, found in Greenland, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive formations.
Related terms: steenstrupite
Ussing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ussings
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Ussing.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Derived terms: Ussing chamber
ussingite
Germiston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Following the health department’s findings, the company temporarily closed the factory, located in the city of Polokwane north of Johannesburg, as well as two other sites in Germiston and Pretoria. It also recalled its ready-to-eat meat products, pledging to address any “valid claims which may be made against it in due course.”
ref: 2025 January 25, Hanna Ziady, “‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’”, in CNN:
glosses: A city in Gauteng, South Africa.
glosses: A neighbourhood in the city of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6166).
glosses: A settlement in the Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY3411).
Ussings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ussing
McSpadden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McSpaddens
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Spáidín (“son of Spáidín”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of spád (“spade”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
call someone everything but a child of God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls someone everything but a child of God
form: calling someone everything but a child of God
form: called someone everything but a child of God
form: called someone everything but a child of God
Senses: examples: text: That I have been called everything but a child of God; from witch to rebel to Jezebel and the list goes on God, and to make matters worse, I am a woman!
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Derry, Lucifer Is Not Satan (book 1, page 161)
text: And her cursing was not helping the situation at all. Willie didn't think it was an image a lady should have. But she'd gotten it off her chest doing so. Sam had been called everything but a child of God in the process.
ref: 2011, Grady Abrams, Conscience of the Company, page 100:
text: He would call me everything but a child of God. I was broken down in so many ways.
ref: 2015, Shell Matlock, Test and Trials of a Tired Woman:
glosses: To call someone many abusive names.
Related terms: call names
call someone every name in the book
name-calling
Charmyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Ragusas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ragusa
McSpaddens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McSpadden
clued in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clued in
form: most clued in
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clued up (“knowledgeable about a topic or situation; possessing the facts”).
synonyms: word: clued up
extra: knowledgeable about a topic or situation; possessing the facts
Carnian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karnian
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic epoch), which lasted from 237 to 227 million years ago and was preceded by the Ladinian and followed by the Norian.
Derived terms: Carnian pluvial episode
Carnian pluvial event
Karnian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Carnian.
clanspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæn.spiːk/
Etymology: From clan + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Carl understood clanspeak, of course, but only someone with two independent sets of vocal chords could speak it fluently.
ref: 2010, Edward M. Lerner, InterstellarNet: New Order:
text: He spoke the grymjek, the clanspeak, better than Anna's own father.
ref: 2018, James Wolanyk, Scribes:
text: National Geographic: The hidden world of whale culture https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-hidden-world-of-whale-culture-feature
CLANSPEAK
Members of a sperm whale family near the Caribbean island of Dominica are part of a clan that's culturally distinct from others. Each clan communicates in its own dialect of click patterns, like Morse code.
topics: fantasy
glosses: The language or dialect of a certain clan.
Sindens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sinden
as the man says
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as the man said
form: like the man said
form: like the man says
Senses: examples: text: It is estimated that his income from extra-curricular duties (including book royalties) at least tripled the pay he received from the AMA ($24,000 per year). That, as the man says, ain't hay.
ref: 1956, Harry M. Hoxsey, You Don't Have to Die, page 122:
text: As the man says, the more you know the less the better.
ref: 2014, William McIlvanney, The Big Man:
synonyms: as the fella says
glosses: Used to introduce (what is supposedly) a famous quotation.
Cholmondeleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cholmondeley
Zuni bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zuni bowls
Senses: glosses: A structure used to stabilize a headcut by means of rock-lined falls and plunge pools.
Zuni bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zuni bowl
headcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headcuts
Etymology: From head + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores.
ref: 2007, Susan L. Woodward, “Modern Vegetation of the Murray Springs Area and the Upper San Pedro Valley”, in Caleb Vance Haynes, Bruce B. Huckell, editor, Murray Springs, page 58:
glosses: An erosional feature of some intermittent and perennial streams with an abrupt vertical drop (knickpoint) in the stream bed.
headcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headcut
ever-varying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Always varying.
ever-moving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Always moving.
exophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + -phony.
Senses: examples: text: The translingual/transnational writers described here can be called specular border writers, to use Abdul JanMohamed's term, or writers of exophony, to use Tawada's term.
ref: 2021, Steven G. Kellman, Natasha Lvovich, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 341:
glosses: The quality of being exophonic.
electoralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electoralist
Machac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Machač or Slovak Macháč.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
darn right
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: damn right
chapparvovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapparvoviruses
Etymology: From Chaphamaparvovirus.
Senses: examples: text: Based on the BLASTx results, one of the three pools showed the presence of viral sequences most closely related to different chapparvoviruses reported from […]
ref: 2020, Giorgio Gallinella, New Insights into Parvovirus Research, page 81:
text: Murine chapparvovirus (MuCPV).
ref: 2021, P. Nagarajan, Ramachandra Gudde, Ramesh Srinivasan, Essentials of Laboratory Animal Science, page 94:
glosses: murine chapparvovirus or similar parvoviruses.
Synonyms: mouse kidney parvovirus
chapparvoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapparvovirus
split test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split tests
Senses: hyponyms: A/B test
glosses: A test in which different users or consumers are presented with different versions of something, to measure the success rate of each one.
split tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split test
Shimonoseki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 下関.
Senses: glosses: A city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.
Related terms: Shimonoseki Strait
nasopharyngeal tonsil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasopharyngeal tonsils
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of adenoid.
synonyms: word: adenoid
Hamamatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 浜松.
Senses: glosses: A city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
hypermasculinist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypermasculine.
cold fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold fires
Senses: synonyms: cool fire
cool flame
cold flame
glosses: A low-temperature flame, that is unlikely to set furnishings alight or burn flesh in incidental contacts; frequently used for indoor pyrotechnic entertainment devices.
glosses: Fuel laid ready for lighting.
Tokuyama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese.
Senses: glosses: A merged city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, now part of Shūnan.
Chu-ma-tien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 駐馬店 /驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu⁴-ma³-tien⁴.
Senses: examples: text: And what, meanwhile, of General Feng and his army? They were ordered to go to Chu-ma-tien in Honan.
ref: 1921, E. G. Kemp, Chinese Mettle, Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, →OL, page 171:
text: And he did even better than his word, wiring ahead to the nights' stopping-places, Chu-ma-tien and Chang-te-ho, and when the train pulled in at each place, I was charmingly welcomed by the division superintendent with an invitation from his wife to put up with them;[...]
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kendall, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 224:
text: The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.
ref: 2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhumadian.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Ninomiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese.
Senses: glosses: A town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A merged town in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, now part of Mooka.
stick like shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks like shit
form: sticking like shit
form: stuck like shit
form: stuck like shit
Senses: examples: text: 'But you know what a nickname is like – it sticks like shit.'
ref: 2011, Howard Jacobson, In the Land of Oz, page 191:
synonyms: stick like shit to a blanket
qualifier: simile
glosses: To be very tenacious, or be very difficult to get rid of.
stick like shit to a blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks like shit to a blanket
form: sticking like shit to a blanket
form: stuck like shit to a blanket
form: stuck like shit to a blanket
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of stick like shit.
synonyms: word: stick like shit
Pará grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Para grass.
Chu-ch'eng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 諸城 /诸城 (Zhūchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chu¹-chʻêng².
Senses: examples: text: At eighteen she married Chao Ming-ch’eng, a student of the Imperial Academy and a well-known epigraphist. He was a native of Chu-ch’eng in Shantung Province.
ref: 1966, Pin-ching Hu, “The Life of Li Ch'ing-chao”, in Li Ch'ing-chao, Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: It was in these confused circumstances, when the issue between the provincial government in Tsinan and the revolutionaries scattered through the province must still have seemed in doubt, that the uprising in Chu-ch’eng took place.
ref: 1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei, New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Her first home was in Chu-ch'eng, a city of some 80,000 persons on the south bank of the Wei River, about fifty miles from the cosmopolitan port city of Tsingtao in Shantung province.
ref: 1977, Roxane Witke, “Escape from Childhood”, in Comrade Chiang Chʻing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhucheng.
Avansian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Ավանիսյան (Avanisyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Chou-chih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chou¹-chih⁴, the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì).
Senses: examples: text: Li Yung was a native of Chou-chih County in Shensi.
ref: 1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 280:
text: He was fatally wounded on 30 March 1864 during the siege of Chou-chih, Shensi, which had been occupied by the rebel leader Lan Ta-shun 藍大順.
ref: 1963, RBS, volume 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 145:
text: They defeated the Wei-pei Troop Commissioner Lü Jih-kuang 呂日光 in Chou-chih County 盩厔縣 on 4/10/763 and again 20 kilometers further east in Chung-nan County[...]
ref: 1982, Terrence Douglas O'Byrne, Civil-Military Relations During the Middle T'ang: The Career of Kuo Tzu-I, Urbana, Ill., →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhouzhi.
Winnington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6473)
glosses: A hamlet in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7238).
glosses: A surname.
silence is consent
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: A lack of response to an action is a tacit approval of that action.
zero fucks given
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Extending the concept of give a fuck.
Senses: glosses: Used to emphasize that one does not care about something at all.
Rușii-Munți
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Rușii-Munți.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Mureș County, Romania.
Sacoșu Turcesc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Sacoșu Turcesc.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Timiș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Sacoșu Turcesc, Timiș County, Romania.
Olten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Solothurn canton, Switzerland.
gall-nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gall-nuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gallnut.
gall-nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gall-nut
defensive industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensive industries
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Any industry that fulfils a basic need, such as supplying food, and is thus not greatly affected by market fluctuations.
defensive industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defensive industry
degrade gracefully
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degrades gracefully
form: degrading gracefully
form: degraded gracefully
form: degraded gracefully
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a system: to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
Related terms: graceful degradation
distress sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distress sales
form: distressed sale
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A sale that takes place during adverse market conditions for the seller, and thus raises less money than might have been expected.
Related terms: distress selling
distressed selling
distressed sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distressed sales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of distress sale.
distress sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distress sale
distressed sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distressed sale
Pfäffikon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Zürich canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A town in Freienbach, Schwyz canton, Switzerland.
on the district
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Midwives working on the district rarely saw women die because, on the whole, they would transfer to hospital any women with severe problems.
ref: 2013, Nicky Leap, Billie Hunter, The Midwife's Tale:
text: Pethidine, a synthetic opioid developed in Germany during the war, was used in 75 per cent of hospital labours by 1948. In contrast midwives working on the district were not able to offer it to their women until 1951.
ref: 2013, Tania McIntosh, A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth, page 96:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a midwife: associated with a particular hospital, and travelling to attend patients in the nearby area.
dameish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dameish
form: most dameish
Etymology: From dame + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] I suppose tomorrow we must call on that very dameish woman, Mrs Warburton, with Miss Talbot?"
ref: 1854, Harriet Parr, Maude Talbot, by Holme Lee, volume 1, page 188:
text: It would have been much more sensible and old-dameish to have kept you, but I have whims as well as other people; […]
ref: 1880, Julie P. Smith, The Married Belle, Or Our Red Cottage at Merry Bank:
text: The voice on the other end was scared all right, but definitely dameish and definitely flirty.
ref: 2011, Diane Miller, Carolyn Hennesy, The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli:
glosses: Characteristic of a dame.
predicament bondage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A form of bondage in which a person is restrained and forced to experience opposing sensory forces.
trough shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trough shells
Senses: glosses: Any clam of the family Mactridae.
duck clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck clams
Senses: glosses: Any clam of the family Mactridae.
trough shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trough shell
duck clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck clam