cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nimiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nimiously
form: most nimiously
Etymology: From nimious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 94. An offer to take an applicant for relief into a poors' house is in general a sufficient offer of relief, though the Court would probably exercise a control if made nimiously ;
ref: 1854, Alexander Murray Dunlop, “Of Relief and Recourse” (chapter IV), in The Law of Scotland Regarding the Poor, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 68:
text: In such a case the salmon fisher has no right to complain of the trout fisher (so far as angling is concerned), nor the trout fisher of the salmon fisher for fishing at any particular point, except where one purposely acts, not in the exercise of his legal right, but in order to obstruct his neighbour in the exercise of his ; or as it is technically called in Scotland, except he acts nimiously.
ref: 1873, James Paterson, “The Laws of Angling” (chapter V), in A Treatise on the Fishery Laws of the United Kingdom, […], 2nd edition, London: Shaw and Sons, page 228:
text: Indeed such a settlement was inevitable from the first ; and had it not been for the long endurance of the anxiously fortified liferent possession bestowed (no doubt nimiously) by James II.
ref: 1880, Mark Napier, The Lennox of Auld. An Epistolary Review of "The Lennox, by William Fraser", Edinburgh: David Douglas, page 77:
glosses: Excessively; extravagantly; inordinate.
HFD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HFDs
Senses: examples: text: We investigated the anti-hyperlipidemic effect and the underlying mechanism of wedelolactone, a plant-derived coumestan, in HepG2 cells and high-fat diet (HFD)−induced hyperlipidemic hamsters.
ref: 2015 July 14, “Wedelolactone Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Improves Hepatic Steatosis Partly by AMPK Activation and Up-Regulation of Expression of PPARα/LPL and LDLR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Initialism of high-fat diet.
HFDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HFD
hat town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat towns
Senses: examples: text: I was born in a hat town....the locals pass the hat around and pull each other through.
ref: 1998, Lee Kernaghan, “Hat Town”, in Hat Town:
text: Lucy Cooper, interviewer: In times of need Georgetown shines because, Barry says, Georgetown [QLD - AU] is a 'hat town'. Barry Hughes, interviewee: The ethos that emanates from a hat town is you don't walk past anyone that is in need.
ref: 2024 November 25 (last accessed), “25-Nov-2024” (0:06:40 from the start), in A Big Country radio program, ABC Radio - Radio National, AU:
glosses: A small country town where everyone helps out each other when needed, for example by passing the hat around in the pub to raise funds, as the town is small enough for everyone to know each other.
botched job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botched jobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of botch job.
non-free software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Software that cannot be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: free software
glosses: Any software that is not free, such as payware.
wine-blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine-blue
botched jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botched job
certificates of conduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificate of conduct
blepharipodid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blepharipodids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sand crab in the family Blepharipodidae
unhorrendous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhorrendous
form: most unhorrendous
Etymology: From un- + horrendous.
Senses: glosses: Not horrendous.
certificate of clean criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificates of clean criminal record
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
certificate of criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificates of criminal record
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
certificate of good conduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificate of good conducts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
certificate of no criminal conviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificates of no criminal conviction
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
criminal record certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal record certificates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
enhanced check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enhanced checks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
enhanced criminal record certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enhanced criminal record certificates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
excerpt from police record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excerpts from police record
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
Steady Eddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From steady + Eddie.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Fidel Ramos, 12ᵗʰ President of the Philippines.
extract from the criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extracts from the criminal record
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
extract from the judicial record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extracts from the judicial record
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
police clearance certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police clearance certificates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of certificate of conduct.
synonyms: word: certificate of conduct
certificates of clean criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificate of clean criminal record
certificates of criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificate of criminal record
certificates of no criminal conviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certificate of no criminal conviction
criminal record certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal record certificate
enhanced criminal record certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enhanced criminal record certificate
excerpts from police record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excerpt from police record
extracts from the criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extract from the criminal record
extracts from the judicial record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extract from the judicial record
police clearance certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police clearance certificate
tetrafurcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrafurcations
Senses: glosses: Quadrifurcation.
pentafurcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentafurcations
Senses: glosses: A division into five branches.
radiculomyelitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to radiculomyelitis.
Iloilo City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An independent city, the provincial capital of Iloilo, Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.
Is.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of is. (“abbreviation of Islands”).
INDOPACOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: USINDOPACOM
coordinate_terms: DHS
USDHS
NORAD
SOUTHCOM
CENTCOM
AFRICOM
EUCOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
glosses: Acronym of Indo-Pacific Command.
USAFRICOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: AFRICOM
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Africa Command.
Related terms: CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
SOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
USCENTCOM
USEUCOM
USINDOPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USPACOM
USSOUTHCOM
USSPACECOM
N.Y.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of NYC: Initialism of New York City: a city in New York, United States.
V-E Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VE Day.
V-J Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VJ Day.
clubmember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubmembers
Etymology: From club + member.
Senses: examples: text: There is scarce a reviewer, scarce a clubmember, never a Tory in these United States who cannot (if he would) improve upon the work of Mr. Upton Sinclair—and this despite the fact that our clubmembers and Tories spend all of their time in thinking of themselves, while Mr. Sinclair devotes his enormous energies to puzzling out the problems they dismiss so glibly—despite the fact that Mr. Sinclair is highly regarded in Europe, where they are unknown.
ref: 1924, Charles C[rittenton] Baldwin, “Upton Sinclair”, in The Men Who Make Our Novels (Essay Index Reprint Series), revised edition, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1967, section I, page 450:
text: At a meeting of the club in the spring devoted to the program for the following year, clubmembers make suggestions about what they will want to study. […] It is possible, too, to incorporate the interests of several clubmembers into one general subject.
ref: 1942, Irene B. Munro, Winthrop M. Munro, “Building the Program”, in Handbook for Clubwomen, Clinton, S.C.: Jacobs Press, part IV (Club Program Techniques), chapter XIV (Program and Yearbook), page 178:
text: As clubmember Maugras laid forth the Besançon women’s plan to enlighten consciences and propagate liberty, she stated simply, ‘Raised to the heights of the Revolution, we prefer liberty and equality to all the platitudes of love.’ […] Many clubmembers and authors expressly rejected the notion that since wives had potent, seductive sway over their husbands, they had no need for legal rights within marriage.
ref: 2005, Suzanne Desan, “The Politics of Intimacy: Marriage and Citizenship in the French Revolution”, in Sarah Knott, Barbara Taylor, editors, Women, Gender and Enlightenment, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y., →ISBN, section 9 (Women and Revolutionary Citizenship: Enlightenment Legacies?), pages 641–642:
synonyms: clubster
glosses: A member of a club.
clubmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubmember
enantiotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiotropes
Senses: examples: text: Since α-carbamazepine is a monotrope of γ-carbamazepine, and γ-carbamazepine is an enantiotrope of β-carbamazepine, the physical stability hierarchy depends on the transition temperature of β- and γ-carbamazepine.
ref: 2004, Peter York, Uday B. Kompella, Boris Y. Shekunov, Supercritical Fluid Technology for Drug Product Development, page 288:
text: Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.
ref: 2011, Gautam R. Desiraju, Jagadese J. Vittal, Arunachalam Ramanan, Crystal Engineering, page 112:
text: These can be differentiated on a thermal scan where an endothermic transition indicates enantiotropes and an exothermic transition indicates monotropes .
ref: 2014, William J. Brock, Barbara Mounho, Lijie Fu, The Role of the Study Director in Nonclinical Studies, page 174:
glosses: A crystal that can undergo a reversible transformation when heated above, or cooled below, a transition-point temperature.
Coordinate terms: monotrope
Derived terms: enantiotropism
enarrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enarrable
form: most enarrable
Etymology: Back-formation from inenarrable
Senses: examples: text: It has been rather surprising to discover, since I began to summon up remembrance of these long-past times, how much more enarrable Maurice is than my other contemporaries.
ref: 1939, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, A Number of People: A Book of Reminiscences, page 77:
text: But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?
ref: 2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:
text: The "Renaissance" occurs wherever there are "no fixed parites, no exclusions" and apparently whenever there are no fixed enarrable outlines in theory or in life—when narrative reason is shown to be itself a limitation.
ref: 2015, Robert L. Caserio, Plot, Story, and the Novel:
glosses: That can be told or narrated; expressible or describable.
encephalometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalometries
Etymology: From encephalo- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: One subdivision in encephalometry alone deserves especial study, that of the speech-centers,—receptive, emissive and associative,—a problem first essayed by Rüdinger in 1882.
ref: 1902, Edward Anthony Spitzka, “Contributions to the Encephalic Anatomy of the Races”, in American Journal of Anatomy, volume 2, page 25:
text: We need samples of about 25 to 50 brains of each race, and it should not be too hard to get them, particularly when it is borne in mind that the brains are not destroyed for other uses by encephalometry.
ref: 1955, Franklin Hollander, The Regulation of Hunger and Appetite, page 507:
text: For practical reasons the isotope encephalometry does not seem to be the method of choice in subdural haematomas.
ref: 1965, Olof Gilland, Technical Progress in Neurological Diagnostics, page 40:
glosses: The measurement of the brain or its regions.
Derived terms: encephalometric
Stickling Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Clavering parish, Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL4732).
encephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalies
Senses: examples: text: The treated speciments were severely stunted and had pronounced encephaly, cleft palate, harelip, retarded and clubbed fore and rear appendages, and retarded tail.
ref: 1963, Cancer Chemotherapy Reports - Volumes 31-40, page 2:
text: Now, I was asked to talk about what happened and how we got involved with encephaly.
ref: 1993, Threads of of^([sic]) Diversity: The Fabric of Unity, page 66:
text: A "positive" result (high AFP in blood may indicate spina bifida or encephaly; low may indicate Downs) does not mean the defect really is there!
ref: 2001, Rozella Floranz Kennedy, BecomingMom.com, page 93:
glosses: Abnormal brain development; congenital encephalopathy.
Derived terms: anencephaly
exencephaly
hemimegalencephaly
holoprosencephaly
hydranencephaly
lissencephaly
macroencephaly
megalencephaly
microencephaly
porencephaly
syntelencephaly
avascularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From avascular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an avascular form or manner.
East Claydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7325).
Related terms: Botolph Claydon
Middle Claydon
Steeple Claydon
Botolph Claydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in East Claydon parish, Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7324).
Related terms: East Claydon
Middle Claydon
Steeple Claydon
Clee St Margaret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Located on the Clee Brook on the edge of the Clee Hills. Its church is dedicated to St Margaret.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in southern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5684).
wikipedia: Clee Hills
gigawatt-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigawatt-hours
Etymology: By surface analysis, gigawatt + hour, or, by surface analysis, giga- + watt-hour.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
text: Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < gram calorie (4.184 J) < microwatt-year (31.536 J) < kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < British thermal unit (1.05506e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < kilogram calorie (4.184e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J) < megawatt-hour (3.600e9 J) < kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J)
text: Both [solar photovoltaic] panel and battery imports from China [to Pakistan] are on the rise. […] The nation also purchased about 1.25 gigawatt-hours[' worth] of batteries in 2024 [=1.25 gigawatt-hours' worth of battery capacity], according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. By 2030, that could increase to 8.75 gigawatt-hours by 2030, increasing financial pressure on the grid, the analysts said.
ref: 2025 October 1, Faseeh Mangi, Tooba Khan, “Pakistan's Solar Boom Faces Ire From Debt-Strapped Government”, in BloombergNEF, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025:
related: word: mul:GW·h
word: mul:GW h
word: mul:GWh
word: ;
word: gigawatt hour
glosses: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one gigawatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10¹² joules).
gigawatt-hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigawatt-hour
boat-race
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boat-races
form: boat-racing
form: boat-raced
form: boat-raced
form: boat race
Etymology: By figurative analogy with the large margin of victory formerly common in America's Cup yacht races.
Senses: examples: ref: 2024 May 5, Hayden Hundley, “#5 Virginia lacrosse gets boat-raced by #1 Notre Dame 18-9 in ACC semifinal”, in Streaking The Lawn:
text: On Friday night, the Golden State Warriors boat raced the Utah Jazz by a score of 127-86. ... The game was decided so early that Steph Curry didn’t even play in the fourth quarter.
ref: 2024 October 26, Alex White, “Jazz Taste Harsh Reality in Early Season Loss to Warriors”, in Sports Illustrated:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to defeat by a wide margin, especially after establishing and sustaining an early lead
cushion spurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cushion spurges
Senses: examples: text: Nice spurges include Euphorbia polychrma (cushion spurge), E. amygdaloides (purple wood spurge), and several other minor species, all of which are lovely, pest-resistant perennials.
ref: 1996 January 1, Barbara Pleasant, The Gardener's Weed Book: Earth-safe Controls, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Euphorbias can be left alone for decades, but you can dig and divide cushion spurge as often as every 3 years to propagate it.
ref: 2002, Reader's Digest Association, Care Free Plants: A Guide to Growing the 200 Hardiest, Low-maintenance, Long-living Beauties, Readers Digest, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Cushion spurge is in full bloom when most other species are just starting to emerge from winter dormancy.
ref: 2008 January 1, Anthony W. Kahtz, Perennials for Midwestern Gardens: Proven Plants for the Heartland, Timber Press, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A perennial spurge forming small clumps of bright yellow flowers, native to Central and Southeast Europe, of species Euphorbia epithymoides (previously known as Euphorbia polychroma).
Clifton upon Teme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7161).
CPEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia.
soul knell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul knells
form: soule knell
Senses: examples: text: The rich Churle enlarging his Barnes proportionably to his deſires, had his Night ; hee heard that ſoule-knell , Thou foole, this Night ſhall they fetch away thy ſoule.
ref: 1614, Thomas Adams, The Gallants Burden, London: […] T. S. for Clement Knight, page 40:
text: The firſt dead 19. hours, or there about
The ſoul knell-towld, then paſſing-peal rang out,
All things appointed to convey him thence,
His ſoul return's and gives his body ſence;
ref: 1678, An Alarm to Judgement, or An aſſay to rouſe up all, of all ſorts, (before it be too late) to prepare to meet the Bridegroom, page 216:
text: And the Wolf going down met the Fox half way; Reynard, " glad and blithe " that the Wolf was a true penitent and in clean living, promised to have his soul-knell rung and masses said for him.
ref: 1912, W. P. Ker, “Comic Poetry” (chapter VI), in English Literature; Medieval, London: Williams and Norgate, page 170:
glosses: Synonym of passing bell.
synonyms: word: passing bell
soul knells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soul knell
Clunton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village by the River Clun in Clunbury parish, south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3381).
Finneas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Finneas O'Connell, b. 1997
glosses: A male given name.
button quail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button quails
Senses: glosses: A small quail, especially of species Turnix sylvaticus (common buttonquail), found from Spain to Indonesia.
gran'ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gran'mas
Senses: examples: text: What a lovely gran’ma you have! Isn’t God good to give little boys gran’mas?
ref: 1892 July 9, Grace E. Denison, “A Reformed Primary Class”, in The Sunday School Times, volume XXXIV, number 28, Philadelphia, Pa.: John D. Wattles, page 436, column 3:
text: “The darling! What a great girl she has grown! So she has come to see her gran’ma?” / “Yes, gran’ma,” said the child.
ref: 1904, Hall Caine, chapter XIII, in The Prodigal Son, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, page 300:
text: The rest was stories, told before his bedtime, of the dark deeds of night, remembered from her own childhood, told to her by her own mama, and her gran’pa and gran’ma, the things a black child in the South needed to know, and luridly colored, in Flora’s telling, as warning to her boy.
ref: 1997, Alex Haley, David Stevens, Mama Flora’s Family: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A Lisa Drew Book / Scribner, published 1998, →ISBN, page 16:
text: A porter was a fine thing to be back then. A society of gentlemen, is what my gran’ma said.
ref: 2014, Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford; 10), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: Alternative form of grandma.
gran'mas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gran'ma
coalworker's pneumoconiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal worker's pneumoconiosis
Senses: glosses: Synonym of black lung.
synonyms: word: black lung
cushion spurges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion spurge
Clynnog Fawr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village near the coast in Clynnog community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH4149).
Clynnog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Gwynedd, Wales.
Derived terms: Clynnog Fawr
Dease Lake Post
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Dease Lake (town).
Dease Landing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dease Lake (town)
synonyms: word: Dease Lake
extra: town
Lake House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Dease Lake (town).
Landing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Dease Lake (town).
glosses: A barangay of Limay, Bataan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Pilar, Bataan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Tagkawayan, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Baliangao, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Roxbury, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
CD4+
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD4+s
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A helper T cell.
CD4+s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CD4+
immune cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immune cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A white blood cell that assists the body in fighting off infections and diseases.
immune cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immune cell
letter bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter bonds
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: letter security
glosses: A bond that is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cannot be sold to the public.
letter bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter bond
letter of guarantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of guarantee
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
synonyms: guarantee letter
standby loan
glosses: A document issued by a bank that ensures a beneficiary is paid if a bank customer defaults on a payment or obligation.
letters of guarantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter of guarantee
guarantee letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guarantee letters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letter of guarantee.
synonyms: word: of guarantee
standby loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standby loans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letter of guarantee.
synonyms: word: of guarantee
standby loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standby loan
guarantee letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guarantee letter
letter of marque and reprisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of marque and reprisal
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letter of marque.
synonyms: word: of marque
letters of marque and reprisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter of marque and reprisal
letter of administration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of administration
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A document issued by a court that grants an individual the authority to act as the estate administrator.
letters of administration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter of administration
reference letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reference letters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letter of recommendation.
synonyms: word: of recommendation
waffleyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From waffley + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Funny, but there’s summat of her father in her. A kind of spiritual and mental ‘waffleyness’. It’s all he had to leave and by God, poor little ’Nanda got it. It’s a sort of ‘come day, go day, God send Sunday’ attitude towards life. Whenever she didn’t want to face up to things, she shrugged her shoulders—it’s a trick that’s stuck to her all her life.
ref: 1937, Naomi Jacob, Fade Out, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 6, section I, pages 148–149:
glosses: Alternative spelling of waffliness.
allevation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allevations
Etymology: From Latin allevātiō.
Senses: examples: text: When infirmities are grown habitual and remedileſſe,all we can do is to give them ſome Reſpite and a little Allevation, that we may be leſſe ſenſible of the ſmart and ſting they ſmite us with.
ref: 1661, Owen Feltham, “The Miſery of being old and ignorant” (chapter XXXI), in Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, London: […] E. Cotes for A. Seile, page 250:
text: is it any allevation of your grief and horror that all your Family is together?
ref: 1683, Thomas Vincent, Christ's Certain and Sudden Appearance to Judgement, 6th edition, London: […] George Calvert, page 85:
text: Tho' his Drunkenneſs was rather an aggravation, than an Excuſe of his Crime, yet this was what he inſiſted on, in allevation of it.
ref: 1739, James Guthrie, The Ordinary of Newgate, […], number IV, London: […] John Applebee, page 7:
glosses: Alleviation.
Colsterworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Colsterworth and District Parish Council) in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9324).
Derived terms: Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
SCIWORA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCIWORA
form: SCIWORAs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality.
self-stims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-stim
self-stims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-stim
SCIWORAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCIWORA
self-stimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-stim
self-stimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-stim
Smite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Nottinghamshire, with its headwaters in Leicestershire, England, which joins the River Devon, near Shelton.
enantiotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiotrope
discustom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discustoms
form: discustoming
form: discustomed
form: discustomed
Etymology: From dis- + custom.
Senses: examples: text: If now no more my ſacred rimes diſtil
With Art-leſs eaſe from my diſcuſtom'd quill : […]
ref: 1605, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Bartes: Devine Weekes and Workes, London, page 313:
text: […] I ſhould haue thoght it had bin quite diſcuſtomed;long before Anſelme, but that it was held in life by ſome after Councels: […]
ref: 1618, John Buckeridge, A Sermon Preached before His Maieſty At Whitehall, March 22. 1617., London: […] Iohn Bill, page 161:
text: World to live upon, and content our ſelves with: to live upon God, and make him our content and ſtay, as if we had no other life nor livelyhood but in him; we are very apt in ſuch a caſe to contract a carnal frame, let go our hold of God, diſcuſtom our ſelves to the exerciſe of Faith, abate and eſtrange our affections from God.
ref: 1671, “Of the Cauſe of Inward Trouble, and how a Chriſtian ſhould behave himſelf when Inward and Outward Troubles meet”, in Samuel Annesley, compiler, The Morning-Exercise at Cripple-Gate, 3rd edition, London: […] T. Milbourn, page 357:
glosses: Obsolete form of disaccustom.
Colwall Stone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Colwall Stone, a large piece of limestone, stands in the centre of this big and sprawling village set on the wooded western slopes of the Malvern Hills. According to one legend a giant who lived in a cave beneath the nearby Herefordshire Beacon hurled the stone at his beautiful but faithless wife, killing her on the spot. Another version says that the stone was put there by the Devil, and that each midnight the stone turns around. No one, however, has seen this happen.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 130:
glosses: A village in Colwall parish, east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7542).
Great Comberton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9542).
Related terms: Little Comberton
Little Comberton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9643).
Related terms: Great Comberton
huggie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more huggie
form: most huggie
Etymology: From hug + -ie (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She wasn't really a huggie person but thought this moment called for one.
ref: 2013, Dalyne Micerry, Playing For Keeps, page 119:
text: We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
ref: 2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:
text: Toni shared that she tipped the delivery boy with a stack of cookies and got a wrestler's hug in return. My mother commented that it was a “huggie group.”
ref: 2019, June Lowenberg, Clear Colors:
text: This was such a huggie family.
ref: 2020, Ginny Baird, The Duplicate Bride:
glosses: Alternative spelling of huggy.
huggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huggies
Etymology: From hug + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Tib who had been upon the point of offering comfort in the shape of a huggie and a kiss, thought better of it and refrained.
ref: 1892, Stella Austin, Tib and Sib: A Story for Children, page 48:
text: "Oh, huggie, huggie, kissie, kissie ! " Larry sneered, kicking sideways and giving Jamie a painful thrust in the leg.
ref: 1986, Elaine Bissell, The Kendall Women, page 112:
text: He shrugged, not having an answer, put his other arm round Jimi, and the three of them had a huggie.
ref: 2014, M. Gilliland, The Free:
glosses: A hug.
examples: text: The preferred Dexter-style drinkholders (which accommodate a can or bottle with or without a huggie) […]
ref: 1989 Feburary-June, Allen D. Berrien, “Spirit of America”, in Boating, volume 62, page 126:
text: He went in further and found a red drink huggie lodged in her intestine.
ref: 1996 April, Julia Spalding, “Sick as a Dog”, in Indianapolis Monthly, volume 19, number 9, page 107:
text: "See this?" he asked, unfolding a green huggie (thermal drink holder) made of rubber, he announced: " I got this for being the grand marshal in a St. Patrick's Day parade. And I am one lucky man."
ref: 2013, Buddy Martin, The Boys from Old Florida:
glosses: A thermal sleeve that fits around a cup, can, or bottle.
huggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huggie
drinkholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinkholders
Etymology: From drink + holder.
Senses: examples: text: The preferred Dexter-style drinkholders (which accommodate a can or bottle with or without a huggie) […]
ref: 1989 Feburary-June, Allen D. Berrien, “Spirit of America”, in Boating, volume 62, page 126:
text: An apple trembles in the drinkholder.
ref: 2010, Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River, page 11:
text: Fine, but let's keep it brief, said Starx, and from the drinkholder scooped the walkie-talkie, told Griggs what was happening.
ref: 2014, Pasha Malla, People Park, page 166:
glosses: A receptacle for holding a cup, can, or bottle; cupholder.
examples: text: He carried a drinkholder which held a half-dozen disposable cups with plastic lids (much like those in the Academy cafeteria).
ref: 2013, Kevin Hardman, Mutation, page 146:
glosses: A cardboard box with several holes in the top, used by fast food sellers to hold multiple disposable cups; drink caddy.
drinkholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinkholder
encephalometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalometry
USPACOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Pacific Command.
Related terms: CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
SOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
USAFRICOM
USCENTCOM
USEUCOM
USINDOPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USSOUTHCOM
USSPACECOM
USCENTCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: CENTCOM
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Central Command.
Related terms: AFRICOM
CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
SOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
USAFRICOM
USEUCOM
USINDOPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USPACOM
USSOUTHCOM
USSPACECOM
USSPACECOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: SPACECOM
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Space Command.
Related terms: AFRICOM
CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
SOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
USAFRICOM
USCENTCOM
USEUCOM
USINDOPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USPACOM
USSOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: USSPACECOM
glosses: Abbreviation of Space Command.
Related terms: AFRICOM
CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
PACOM
SOUTHCOM
USAFRICOM
USCENTCOM
USEUCOM
USINDOPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USPACOM
USSOUTHCOM
PACOM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Pacific Command.
Related terms: AFRICOM
CENTCOM
EUCOM
INDOPACOM
NORTHCOM
SOUTHCOM
SPACECOM
USAFRICOM
USCENTCOM
USEUCOM
USINDOPACOM
USNORTHCOM
USPACOM
USSOUTHCOM
USSPACECOM
overarrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overarrests
form: overarresting
form: overarrested
form: overarrested
Etymology: From over- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: The emphasis on prosecution and conviction as metrics of success leads police and prosecutors to overarrest, overprosecute, and overpunish low-level drug and other crimes in many cases.
ref: 2017, Sharon Dolovich, Alexandra Natapoff, The New Criminal Justice Thinking, page 61:
text: Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?
ref: 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
text: Criminal justice reform has become a national topic of discussion given recent police killings of Black men, and Jones points out that he's been a longtime activist on this issue, with his experience in Palo Alto and as an NAACP youth organizer. Also, he notes, as a Black man, "People like me are overpoliced, overarrested, overprosecuted."
ref: 2020 June 22, Trudy Ring, “Mondaire Jones Could Be the Nation's First Black Gay Congressman”, in The Advocate:
text: So if you live in a zip code that has been overpoliced historically, you are going to have overarresting. And we know that the overpolicing and the overarresting happens in Black and Latino communities. That's just a fact.
ref: 2023 July 19, Brianna Scott, Ailsa Chang, Jeanette Woods, “How AI could perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases in society”, in NPR:
glosses: To arrest at a disproportionately high rate.
overarrests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overarrest
overarresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overarrest
overarrested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overarrest
underarrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underarrests
form: underarresting
form: underarrested
form: underarrested
Etymology: From under- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?
ref: 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
glosses: To arrest at a disproportionately low rate.
prevention is better than a cure
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prevention is better than cure.
synonyms: word: prevention is better than cure
underpolice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpolices
form: underpolicing
form: underpoliced
form: underpoliced
Etymology: From under- + police.
Senses: examples: text: They don’t differ in terms of arrests for violent crime and property crime. However, we find that Black officers make less arrests related to drug offenses. There is this underpolicing argument that you’re making for drug offenses.
ref: 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
glosses: To police too little.
overenforce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overenforces
form: overenforcing
form: overenforced
form: overenforced
Etymology: From over- + enforce.
Senses: examples: text: The application of substantive canons typically overenforces the Constitution. But because overenforcement in the context of statutory interpretation clips congressional prerogatives much less than overenforcement in the context of judicial review, the application of substantive canons is not in direct conflict with the limitations upon judicial review.
ref: 2010, Amy Coney Barrett, “SUBSTANTIVE CANONS AND FAITHFUL AGENCY”, in Boston University Law Review, volume 90, number 109, page 176:
text: I don’t know if it’s underenforcing or overenforcing the law. But, at least in the data, we see that Black officers are less likely to make a drug arrest than the others.
ref: 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
text: By way of example, she has called the Miranda doctrine, the principle that all criminal suspects must be advised of their rights upon arrest, an example of “the court’s choice to overenforce a constitutional norm” that goes beyond constitutional meaning and claimed that this canon “inevitably excludes from evidence even some confessions freely given.”
ref: 2020 September 26, “Amy Coney Barrett a perfect choice for half of America”, in CNN:
text: A series of cases limited the power of the state to express a religious point of view. But then state and local governments overcorrected. They overenforced the establishment clause and violated the free speech and free exercise clauses by taking aim at private religious expression.
ref: 2024 August 25, David French, “The Christian Persecution Narrative Rings Hollow”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To enforce excessively.
Related terms: overenforcement
overenforcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overenforce
underpolicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpolice
graph minor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graph minors
Senses: examples: text: Tutte conjectured that all snarks have the Petersen graph as a graph minor.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph which can be formed from some specified graph by performing vertex deletions, edge deletions, and edge contractions on the specified graph.
edge contraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edge contractions
Senses: examples: text: Performing an edge contraction on an edge in a path graph results in a path graph with one fewer vertex.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operation performed on an edge in a graph which deletes the edge, replaces its endpoints with a single new vertex, and replaces edges incident to either endpoint with an edge incident to the new vertex.
supertelephoto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + telephoto.
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, I don't take these supertelephoto skyline shots because I want to set new records in long-distance photography, but simply because the same exciting views cannot be taken closer to Manhattan, since interfering ridges would hide more and more of the towers.
ref: 1945 September, “Photographic Imagination”, in Popular Photography, page 65:
text: Professional sports and wildlife photographershave been waiting and hoping for Canon’s optical image Stabilizer technology to make an appearance in fast EF supertelephoto lenses.
ref: 1999 November/December, Russel Hart, “Great Glass”, in American Photo, page 94:
text: Besides, I needed an excuse to test out the new birthday gift my stepdad had just given me: an X-1000 camera with special surveillance features, like a supertelephoto lens, autofocus, and an infrared filter for night photography.
ref: 2023 October 31, Chris Archer, Out of Time, Open Road Media, page ??:
glosses: A type of camera lens that can capture distant subjects with extreme magnification, typically with a focal length of at least 300mm.
holds space
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold space
held space
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold space
overenforces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overenforce
overenforced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overenforce
degreenify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degreenifies
form: degreenifying
form: degreenified
form: degreenified
Etymology: From de- + green + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: And since folks here to an absurd degree / seem fixated on your verdigris / would it be all right by you / if I de-greenify you?
ref: 2004, Stephen Schwartz, “The Wizard and I”, in Wicked: The Soundtrack:
text: It's the gross lighting. Her skin degreenifies as soon as she enters the doorway.
ref: 2023, 1stLtObvious, Reddit:
glosses: To cause something to no longer be green.
degreenifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degreenify
degreenifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degreenify
degreenified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degreenify
through-ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkɪt
Forms: form: through-tickets
Senses: examples: text: On a through-ticket you're legally entitled to later onward travel if a delay means a missed connection, but with separate train-specific tickets the risk is yours.
glosses: A ticket that is a single contract for a multileg journey (e.g. on multiple transport networks) that guarantees passenger rights and protections in case of disruptions on one leg of the journey, e.g. a missed train.