cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
metafilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metafilm
metafilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metafilms
Etymology: From meta- + film.
Senses: glosses: A thin film of a metamaterial
microexfoliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-exfoliation
Etymology: From micro- + exfoliation.
Senses: glosses: exfoliation of the skin by the use of very small crystals
microlidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlidar
microlidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + lidar.
Senses: glosses: microwave lidar
multibrane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + brane.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple branes.
multiphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + physics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The simultaneous use of multiple physical models or techniques
multiprocedural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiprocedural
form: most multiprocedural
Etymology: From multi- + procedural.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple procedures
neutrinospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutrinosphere
photodissociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photodissociate
photodissociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photodissociates
form: photodissociating
form: photodissociated
form: photodissociated
Etymology: From photo- + dissociate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo photodissociation
photostrictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photostrictive
form: most photostrictive
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing photostriction
polylinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + linear.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Involving many linear functions
Derived terms: polylinearity
pseudorhombohedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + rhombohedral.
Senses: glosses: Having the external appearance of being rhombohedral
quasicircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + circular.
Senses: glosses: Almost, but not quite circular.
quasimonochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + monochromatic.
Senses: glosses: Almost, but not quite, monochromatic.
sublogic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublogics
Etymology: From sub- + logic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a system of logic
superkick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːpɚkɪk/
Forms: form: superkicks
Etymology: From super- + kick.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An ultrarelativistic interaction between two spinning black holes.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A high side thrust kick attack, which sees the wrestler use the sole of the foot to strike an opponent's head or chin.
examples: text: Thirty minutes later this superkick landed me, when I came crashing back to earth, at the door of the Egyptian tomb.
ref: 1920, The Saturday Evening Post, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, page 129:
text: "Mere you-tickle-me-I-tickle you stuff. No Urge^([sic]) about that sort of thing; no Superkick;—well Starfire, if you know what I mean!"— she said it shyly, being young enough and Anglo-Saxon enough, to dread the language.
ref: 1933, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Arabesque, Harper & Brothers, page 231:
text: Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?
ref: 1980, Berkley Middle School Yearbook, Berkley Public Library, page 29:
text: At the end of the season, in December, they have a competitive and hilarious “superkick,’ a contest measuring accuracy, distance, and style (“style meaning how mongrelly your kicks are”), but that’s generally the extent of formal ceremony, a fact Kelly savors.
ref: 2004, Brian Doyle, Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance, Cowley Publications, →ISBN, page 127:
topics: fantasy
government
hobbies
lifestyle
literature
martial-arts
media
military
politics
publishing
science-fiction
sports
video-games
war
glosses: An extremely strong kick, performed with proficiency, which differs from the common wrestling variation.
superkick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːpɚkɪk/
Forms: form: superkicks
form: superkicking
form: superkicked
form: superkicked
Etymology: From super- + kick.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: to perform a superkick
superkicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superkick
thermocompositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thermo-compositional
Etymology: From thermo- + compositional.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing systems (such as buoyancy) that results from both thermal and compositional (such as salinity) factors
cott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotts
Senses: examples: text: […] where did sit the King in state, at the upper end of such a Place as before was taken notice of, on a Cott, or Bed, strewed with a Quilt.
ref: 1698, John Fryer, A new account of East-India and Persia, page 18:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cot (“simple bed”).
Quinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Quine + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Quinean.
aspick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aspic (“an asp, the snake”).
investient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more investient
form: most investient
Etymology: From Latin investiens, present participle of investire.
Senses: examples: text: That therefore the Shells served as Plasms or Moulds to this Sand ; which , when consolidated , and afterwards in tract of Time by this means freed from its investient Shell , is of the same Shape and Size as is the Cavity of the Shell
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
glosses: Serving to cover or clothe.
intercipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈsɪpi.ənt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin intercipiēns, present participle of intercipiō. See intercept.
Senses: glosses: Intercepting; stopping.
intercipient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈsɪpi.ənt/
Forms: form: intercipients
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin intercipiēns, present participle of intercipiō. See intercept.
Senses: examples: text: I continued the way of dressing , and applied Empl. è bolo, as an Intercipient , about the Ancle and upper part of the Foot
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who, or that which, intercepts or stops anything.
intercident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪdənt/
Etymology: From Latin intercidens, intercedentis, present participle of intercidere (“to fall between”); inter (“between”) + cadere (“to fall”).
Senses: examples: text: But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal.
ref: 1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section VI, page 396:
glosses: Coming or falling between; happening accidentally.
intercident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪdənt/
Forms: form: intercidents
Etymology: From Latin intercidens, intercedentis, present participle of intercidere (“to fall between”); inter (“between”) + cadere (“to fall”).
thrombophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombophilias
Etymology: From thrombo- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: The patient needed to take blood thinners to prevent clots from thrombophilia.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The tendency to develop thrombosis (blood clots) due to an abnormality in the system of coagulation.
Synonyms: hypercoagulability
1.0
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the use of version numbers in computer software.
Senses: examples: text: And did Bush 1.0 really rush the swearing in of Clarence Thomas because the Washington Post was about to publish a story about his extensive porn habit?
ref: 2007 November 9, “Clarence Thomas, Porn Addict?”, in New York, →ISSN:
text: Consider the success of America 1.0 and one of its master architects Benjamin Franklin Franklin's resume reads like a Denny's restaurant menu
ref: 2008 March 14, Andrew Razeghi, “America 2.0: The creative imperative”, in San Francisco Chronicle, →ISSN:
text: Minutes before President Obama was sworn in, the official government Web site was switched from Bush version 2.0 to a snazzy Obama 1.0
ref: 2009 January 21, Ed Robinson with Lukas I. Alpert, “Traffic Tangles Up Web”, in New York Post, →ISSN:
text: On trade and tariffs, however, [US president Joe Biden] broadly followed the Trump 1.0 line, especially with regard to America’s main economic rival, China.
ref: 2024 November 7, Ned Temko, “With Trump, ‘America First’ is back. US allies brace for a shock.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: An initial version of something or, figuratively, of someone.
Derived terms: Web 1.0
2.0
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tu pɔɪnt oʊ/
ipa: [tʰu̟ pʰɔ̃ɪ̃ˈnoʊ]
Etymology: From the ellipsis of (version + ) 2 + . + 0, as used in the identification of product versions, especially in the software industry.
Senses: examples: text: Later that year, Bush 2.0 was launched, when he stood before Congress to reassure a nation unhinged by the terror of Sept. 11
ref: 2007 January 24, Paul West, “Despite Woes, Bush Shows Resolve”, in The Sun, Baltimore, MD:
text: Dubbed “Barack Obama 2.0” by insiders, the plan called for hiring full-time organizers to mobilize the Internet-based grassroots network
ref: 2010, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, New Directions in American Political Parties, page 230:
text: We need a new draft for 2011, because in America 2.0, our national anthem should be almost tweet-able.
ref: 2011 February 7, “Christina Aguilera's anthem not so Super”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: Of course, racism has a long and inglorious history in US politics. But it now has a very new iteration in the nerdy tech-savvy generation of the alt right. Racism 2.0. They don't speak of eugenics but rather of maintaining "human biodiversity". And they have a thing about IQ tests showing that white people are cleverer than others.
ref: 2016 August 25, Giles Fraser, “The alt right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023:
text: The “Greece 2.0” Mr. Mitsotakis promised, it turns out, is just more of the same.
ref: 2022 August 22, Alexander Clapp, “The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023:
text: Implications like this can take over the word or expression's meaning and create either a new meaning or at least an alternative, 2.0 version.
ref: 2023 September 12, John McWhorter, “What Is 'It Is What It Is'?”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2023, retrieved 13 Sep 2023:
glosses: A second major version of something or, figuratively, of someone; a substantial improvement.
Derived terms: Porn 2.0
Web 2.0
intercludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interclude
interdicti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdictum
maternal cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal cousin
maternal grandmothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternal grandmother
paternal grandmothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal grandmother
paternal cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paternal cousin
sororal nephews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sororal nephew
sororal nieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sororal niece
fraternal nieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraternal niece
fraternal nephews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraternal nephew
interponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interponents
Senses: examples: text: Lop downe these interponents that withstand
The passage to our throne
ref: c. 1630, Thomas Heywood, A Challenge for Beauty:
glosses: One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper; an opponent.
matnakash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Armenian մատնաքաշ (matnakʻaš).
Senses: glosses: a type of oval Armenian bread with furrows on it
three hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 300
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after two hundred ninety-nine and before three hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 300.
Related terms: word: three-hundredth
short code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short codes
Senses: glosses: A number of fewer digits than a telephone number, used as an abbreviated telephone number for use only when dialing from a cellular phone.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see short, code.
short codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short code
fire boss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire bosses
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of ascertaining the safety of a mine (excavation).
fire bosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire boss
zip codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip code
body-hugging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more body-hugging
form: most body-hugging
Senses: examples: text: You might think you look great in the full, body-hugging Lycra gimp suit, but chances are your girlfriend disagrees – according to the poll only 7% of the women asked found it a good look.
ref: 2009 October 9, Peter Walker, The Guardian:
text: I headed east toward Broadway and then down again, bobbing along the rushing river of shoppers, past windows behind which mannequins stood silently, posed in body-hugging T-shirts—“Hottie,” “Fabulous,” “Sexy,” written across the bust.
ref: 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Clinging tightly to one's body.
raw_tags: of clothing
Synonyms: skintight
figure-hugging
close-fitting
callaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: water-arum
callat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callats
Senses: examples: text: A callat of boundless tongue.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Obsolete form of callet.
nurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nurls
Etymology: From knurl; related to gnarl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knurl.
nurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nurls
form: nurling
form: nurled
form: nurled
Etymology: From knurl; related to gnarl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knurl.
gulasch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulasches
Etymology: From German Gulasch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goulash.
suds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sudses up
form: sudsing up
form: sudsed up
form: sudsed up
Senses: glosses: To lather; to cover with suds.
Synonyms: lather up
lather up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lathers up
form: lathering up
form: lathered up
form: lathered up
Senses: glosses: To lather; to cover with suds
Synonyms: suds up
undercome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercomes
form: undercoming
form: undercame
form: undercome
Etymology: From Middle English *undercomen, from Old English undercuman (“to come under, submit, assist”), from Proto-Germanic *under (“under”) + *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to under- + come. Cognate with West Frisian ûnderkomme (“to shelter, come under”), Dutch onderkomen (“to shelter, find accommodation”), German unterkommen (“to stay, find accommodation, find a job”), Icelandic undirkoma (“to come under”).
Senses: examples: text: […] that is field dependent, and due to the fact that the beam coming from the guide star and the beam coming from another angular direction cross slightly different parts of the atmosphere medium, therefore undercome slightly different phase perturbations.
ref: 1994, Alloin, Mariotti, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Adaptive optics for astronomy: Volume 1993:
text: After the period of its relative stabilization in the first year of the program, the exchange rate undercame later consecutive devaluations attaining at the end of June 1990 […]
ref: 1992, Kołodko, Gotz-Kozierkiewicz, Skrzeszewska-Paczek, Hyperinflation and stabilization in postsocialist economies:
glosses: To come under; experience or suffer the effects of; be affected by; undergo.
examples: text: A third order time domain approach based on the code SWAN has also been undercome […]
ref: 1997, Naval Studies Board, National Research Council, Twenty-First Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics:
text: The variables of the Greek and the Jew are multiplied and affected by the idempotent reprise of the Jew or of the Messiah, who apparently returns, but who in reality comes for the very-first time, who undercomes or sub-venes (sous-vient).
ref: 2015, François Laruelle, Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem:
glosses: To submit; submit to; subvene
examples: text: So I think we're all on journeys, according to how we're able to travel, overcome, undercome, and share what we have learned.
ref: 2001, Harold Bloom, Maya Angelou:
glosses: To come through.
robber barons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robber baron
invocant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invocants
Senses: synonyms: invoker
glosses: One who invokes.
invocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invocators
Etymology: From Late Latin invocātor. By surface analysis, invocate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The five others nearby likewise made ready to serve as invocators—instruments and voices harrumphing as would a body of minstrels in preparation for some performance.
ref: 2007, Gary Gygax, The Anubis Murders, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The reports of xenoglossic phenomena typically rely on two primary assumptions: first, that the linguistic abilities of the eminent dead remain static (and so stylistically recognisable) in the spheres; and second, that those of their typically working-class invocators were unimprovable in life, so much so that cheating would be impossible.
ref: 2012, Christine Ferguson, Determined Spirits, →ISBN, page 77:
text: The woman who implored Our Lady to help Joan Sampson in her labour Joan spat upon and set away, and at another woman's childbed she 'contumeliously spoke against the invocators.
ref: 2014, Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation, →ISBN:
glosses: One who invocates the spirits of the dead.
tolerants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolerant
everyone and his brother
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
not enough room to swing a cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attested 1665, by which point already in common use; perhaps of naval slang origin.
While it is frequently stated that the phrase is derived from cat-o’-nine-tails (“type of whip”), this latter term is only attested from 1695, and hence this idiom presumably derived from literally swinging a cat around, as by the tail.
Senses: examples: text: 1665, Richard Kephale Medela Pestilentiae
They had not space enough (according to the vulgar saying) to swing a Cat in.
text: My own apartment, to take a case in point, was a sort of hermit's cell in which one would have been hard put to it to swing a cat, even a smaller one than Augustus, not of course that one often wants to do much cat-swinging.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: Very little space (available) (of a very small room).
Related terms: packed like sardines
confined
cramped
tiny
lagenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagena
lagenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagena
lenticulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenticula
lenticulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenticula
liquefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquefacients
Etymology: From Latin liquefaciens, present participle of liquefacere. See liquefy.
Senses: glosses: That which serves to liquefy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any agent, such as mercury, iodine, etc., that promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
liquefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin liquefaciens, present participle of liquefacere. See liquefy.
Senses: glosses: That liquefies.
Southeast Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southeast Asians
Senses: glosses: A person from Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: Southeastern Asian
Hypernyms: Asian
Coordinate terms: Central Asian
East Asian
South Asian
West Asian
char kway teow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɑː ˌkweɪ ˈtjaʊ/
Forms: form: char kueh teow
form: char kuey teow
Etymology: From either or both Teochew 炒粿條 /炒粿条 (ca² guê² diou⁵) or Hokkien 炒粿條 /炒粿条 (chhá-kóe-tiâu). See also kway teow. Compare Malay kuetiau, Indonesian kwetiau, Burmese ကွေ့တီယို (kwe.tiyui), Khmer គុយទាវ (kuy tiəw), Thai ก๋วยเตี๋ยว (gǔai-dtǐao), Vietnamese hủ tiếu.
Senses: glosses: A Southeast Asian noodle dish made from flat rice noodles, soy sauce, chili, prawns and other common stir-fry ingredients.
Related terms: kway teow
kuy teav
hor fun
hofan
osculating orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osculating orbits
Senses: glosses: The orbit that an astronomical body such as a planet, asteroid, comet or satellite would follow if suddenly all perturbing forces other than the gravitational attraction of the Sun or (for a satellite) its planet were to disappear.
I don't eat meat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker does not eat meat.
Related terms: I don't eat pork
I don't eat fish
I'm a vegetarian
I'm a vegan
I'm allergic to nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker has an allergy to nuts.
I'm bisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: coordinate_terms: I'm aromantic
I'm asexual
I'm gay
I'm lesbian
I'm straight
glosses: Indicates that the speaker is bisexual.
laquei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laqueus.
locos tenentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the mean time the independent members (so called) were given to understand, and not in the most courteous manner, that they were mere locos tenentes, (tenants at will) entirely subservient to the power that had given them their visionary elevation.
ref: 1846, The New Zealand Journal, volume 2, page 81:
glosses: plural of locum tenens
latebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latebrae
Etymology: From Latin latebra (“hidden recess”). Doublet of latibulum.
Senses: glosses: The cavity in the foodyolk of a meroblastic ovum.
latissimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latissimi
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of latissimus dorsi.
latissimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latissimus
tailor's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailors'
Senses: glosses: A tailor's shop.
RPattz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of R-Pattz.
JBiebs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪˈbiːbs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪˈbibs/
Etymology: Blend of J(ustin) + Biebs (from Bieber), modelled on other abbreviations such as J-Lo.
Senses: glosses: The Canadian singer Justin Bieber.
travelling salesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travelling salesman
commercial travellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commercial traveller
Chandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chander
form: Shandra
Etymology: * From Sanskrit चन्द्र (candrá, “moon”)
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Sanskrit.
Cheshire cat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtʃɛʃə ˈkat/
ipa: /ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: the Cheshire cat
form: Cheshire cats
Etymology: Term attested since at least the 1780s in the expression grin like a Cheshire cat. The reason why Cheshire was combined with cat is disputed: see here for more information.
Senses: examples: text: CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.
ref: 1788, Francis Grose, A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London:
text: “Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “why your cat grins like that?” “It’s a Cheshire-Cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why.”
ref: 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
text: ‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
examples: text: the Cheshire cat idiom
text: the Cheshire cat technique
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality.
Derived terms: cheshirization
grin like a Cheshire cat
you had to be there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What he did was so hilarious, the way he was dancing... well, you had to be there.
glosses: Used to indicate to the interlocutor that the situation being talked about could only be properly understood if that person had been present.
one-banana problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-banana problem
take that
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: And now I'm going to hit you with my karate chop! Take that!
glosses: Used to accompany a (usually physical) attack by whoever is speaking.
Derived terms: take-that game
Related terms: have at you
addresses of record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of address of record
fencepost problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fencepost problem
computer technicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer technician
average bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of average bear
Baal-gad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew בַּעַל גַּד (bá`al gad, “lord of fortune”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A city noted for Baal-worship, located at the most northern or northwestern point to which Joshua's victories extended.
snarler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snarlers
Etymology: From snarl + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Yeah," snarled the other guy, "well, why don't you write this down: You can't bet more than that $100 chip from now on. You can only play one hand and" — he turned to the dealer — "shuffle up on every couple of rounds, you hear me?"
[...]
"You don't mind if I play craps?" I asked them as I parted. "I'm not going to be hassled at craps, am I?"
"Play craps all you want," said the snarler, triumphant in his knowledge that no one could beat craps.
ref: 2004, Frank Scoblete, The Craps Underground, page 91:
glosses: one who snarls
examples: text: Tecla was neither a snarler nor a crab, but a good simple lady; yet she was a beata — one of the most temperate species.
ref: 1830, The New British novelist: comprising works by the most popular and fashionable writers of the present day, page 123
text: The domestic snarler is felt to be a curse and an ignoble varlet, since for small reasons, or no reasons, he will disturb domestic peace and engender discomfort.
ref: 1847, James Mackay, Joseph Salkeld, editors, The Evergreen, volume IV, page 87:
text: …; his acquaintance with Wordsworth, whose Midas-ears he really persuaded himself to admire ; his intercourse with Godwin ; and his close alliance with that perverse and wrong-headed but brilliant snarler, Hazlitt.
ref: September 1867, Bertie Club Table Talk, "reported by Feuilleton", published in Scott's Monthly Magazine, volume 4, number 3, W. J. Scott (editor), page 695
text: But Ned had a great opinion of Mrs. Badgery's capabilities, and though forced to admit that her unbending manner and her ability to make good use of her tongue when occasion demanded it, justified the appellation of a snarler, …
ref: 1894, Henry Goldsmith, Our Alma: An Australian Story: page 51
text: I was a snarler. I prided myself on being a snarler. I would go to great lengths to avoid stereotypical feminine behaviour. I thought that in being outrageous or out of control, which I viewed as synonymous, I was thumbing my nose at the patriarchy. My biggest fear about AA was that I would lose my edge. Turn into blancmange.
ref: 2010, Kate Jennings, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical: Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 36:
glosses: a person with a disagreeable or antagonistic temperament
glosses: One who uses a snarling iron.
examples: Summer snarler comes up trumps, Manawatu Herald: "A Woodville Beef & Blue Cheese sausage has triumphed over out-of-town rivals in a fry-off."
glosses: A sausage, particularly a barbecued one.
arithmetic spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetic spirals
Etymology: It is a spiral whose equation in polar coordinates is linear, which would thus, when quantized, yield an arithmetic progression.
Senses: examples: text: The Parker spiral is the shape of the Sun's magnetic field as it extends through the solar system. Unlike the familiar shape of the field from a bar magnet, the Sun's extended field is twisted into an arithmetic spiral by the magnetohydrodynamic influence of the solar wind.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Archimedean spiral.
synonyms: word: Archimedean spiral
gig-lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gig-lamp
longissimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longissimi
Etymology: From Latin longissimus.
Senses: examples: text: Bull carcasses have greater longissimus muscle area per unit weight, less trimmable fat, and, consequently, a higher yield of retailable meat than either steer or heifer carcasses.
ref: 1967, University of Missouri - Columbia, Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Bulletin (issues 912-929, page 35)
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.
longissimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longissimus
loricas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorica
bifocaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bifocalled
Etymology: From bifocals + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: What have I got?" the bifocaled, hard-of-hearing Bubbie would inquire of her doctor in one scene. "
ref: 1996 September 13, Craig Keller, “Sister Act”, in Chicago Reader:
text: At their August gig at the Double Door, twentysomething hipsters mingled with the bifocaled, relaxed-fit-dungaree set--in sharp contrast to the lavish shows I've seen Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson put on recently, where the number of fans under 40 was mathematically insignificant.
ref: 2004 October 8, Matt Devens, “I'm in Love With Love”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: wearing bifocals
starven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑːvən/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹvən/
Etymology: With analogical adjustment of stem vowel, from Middle English storven (“dead from lack of food or warmth”), from Old English storfen (“dead”), from Proto-Germanic *sturbanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to die”).
Senses: glosses: past participle of starve
starven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑːvən/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹvən/
Etymology: With analogical adjustment of stem vowel, from Middle English storven (“dead from lack of food or warmth”), from Old English storfen (“dead”), from Proto-Germanic *sturbanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to die”).
Senses: examples: text: CHAPTER XXI.--SEVEN BROKEN MEN. At last there was but one horseman in chase of the six men who were fleeing without a look behind them--a frenzied blackavised trooper on a short-legged garron he rode most clumsily, with arms that swung like wings from the shoulders, his boots keeping time to the canter with grotesque knockings against the gaunt and sweating flanks of his starven animal.
ref: 1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid:
text: So Mr. King, as assistant surgeon, Bandaged, and dosed, and nursed, and dressed, And worked, as he ate and drank, with zest, Until he began to blossom and burgeon To redness of features and fulness of cheek, And his starven hands grew plump and sleek.
ref: 1901, Various, Successful Recitations:
text: Sooner the Heavenly Powers would let them lie Eternally unrising 'neath a sky Arctic and lonely, where death's starven wind Raged full-delighted:--sooner would those kind Serenities man's generation cast Back into nothingness, than heaven should waste With finite anguish infinitely prolonged Until the Eternal Spring were stained and wronged.
ref: 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:
glosses: starved
bedquilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛd.kwɪlt/
Forms: form: bedquilts
form: bed quilt
Etymology: From bed + quilt.
Senses: examples: text: Five hundred years ago, that ugly whirl of muddy surf, 100 square miles in area, was a fruitful field, "50 Villages upon it, one Town, several Monasteries and 50,000 souls:" till on Christmas midnight A.D. 1277, the winds and the storm-rains having got to their height, Ocean and Ems did, "about midnight," undermine the place, folded it over like a friable bedquilt or monstrous doomed griddle-cake, and swallowed it all away.
ref: 1756, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.):
text: We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 2:
text: "Sold!" yelped the auctioneer--"sold to madame the widow Dupuis of Hirondelette," who was now elbowing her broad way through the crowd to her bargain which she struggled out with, red and perspiring, to the mud-smeared lawn, where her eldest daughter shrewdly examined the bedquilt for holes.
ref: 1910, F. Berkeley Smith, A Village of Vagabonds:
glosses: A quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.
municipia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municipium
maturescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more maturescent
form: most maturescent
Etymology: From Latin maturescens, present participle of maturescere (“to become ripe”), verb inchoate from maturus. See mature (adjective).
Senses: glosses: Approaching maturity or ripeness.
from dawn to dusk
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: dawn to dusk
Senses: topics: duration
time
glosses: From sunrise to sunset.
topics: temporal-location
time
glosses: During the daytime.
glosses: All day.
Related terms: dusk to dawn
brindles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brindle
brindles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brindle
wind scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind scale
cestuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cestuys
form: cestuies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cestui.
WEIRD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by American evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich and collaborators in 2010, referring to a bias among respondents and test subjects in psychology studies.
Senses: examples: text: WEIRD societies
text: Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available.
ref: 2009 March 5, Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, Ara Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World”, in University of British Columbia, page 4:
text: Perhaps one of the more striking distinctions between WEIRD societies and non-WEIRD societies (what Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan call small-scale societies in their paper) is a distinction in visual perception processes.
ref: 2016, Joseph V. Cohn, Sae Schatz, Hannah Freeman, David J. Y. Combs, editors, Modeling Sociocultural Influences on Decision Making: Understanding Conflict, Enabling Stability, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Again, it is likely that the majority of researchers in psychology and related fields are themselves members of WEIRD populations, living and working within WEIRD societies.
ref: 2018, Nancy S. Kim, Judgment and Decision-Making: In the Lab and the World, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.
munies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: municipal bonds
munias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: plural of munia
waugh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waugh
form: most waugh
Etymology: From Middle English walh, from Old English wealg. More at wallow (“tasteless, flat”).
Senses: glosses: Insipid; tasteless.
waugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waughs
form: waughing
form: waughed
form: waughed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waff (“to bark”).
orocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oroclines
Etymology: Coined by Carey in 1955. ("The orocline concept in geotectonics", Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 255-288)
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mountain belt whose process of deformation is visible.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any mountain belt with significant curvature.
Derived terms: oroclinal
Related terms: orogenesis
orogenous
orogeny
oroclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orocline
axiosymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: symmetric about an axis
coverability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cover + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being coverable or being able to cover
glosses: The extent to which something will cover or can be covered
heliotomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From helio- + tomography.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The three-dimensional analysis of the structure of the sun, especially of convection currents
nanobarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobarn
nanobarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobarns
Etymology: From nano- + barn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of area equal to 10⁻⁹ barns
nanofin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofins
Etymology: From nano- + fin.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized fin
nanofins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanofin
nanomembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Forms: form: nanomembranes
Etymology: From nano- + membrane.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized membrane
bicrossproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicrossproducts
Etymology: From bi- + cross product.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A group constructed from two subgroups by generalization of the direct and semidirect products.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: knit product
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: Zappa–Szép product
Related terms: crossproduct
noosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːst/
rhymes: -uːst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noose
noosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːst/
rhymes: -uːst
Senses: examples: text: Plate p. 286--A Poto Roo or Kangaroo-Rat. Plate p. 288--Hepoona Roo. Rope, v. tr. to catch a horse or bullock with a noosed rope.
ref: 1898, Edward Morris, A Dictionary of Austral English:
text: In one hand he carried a lantern, in the other a noosed rope, and he felt his way carefully.
ref: 1903, Herbert Hayens, At the Point of the Sword:
text: Having strung a length of noosed cord to a light pole, Constans threw himself flat along the string-piece of the pier and began angling for the prize.
ref: 1906, Van Tassel Sutphen, The Doomsman:
glosses: having a noose
raw_tags: of rope
neotraditionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + traditionalist.
Senses: examples: text: The apocalyptic theology of the Jehovah's Witnesses is not as popular today as other fundamentalist beliefs, but their founding and history are typical of other neotraditionalist sects.
ref: 1988 March 25, Dan Liberty, “Saying NO to Fundamentalism”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Of or pertaining to neotraditionalism.
neotraditionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neotraditionalists
Etymology: From neo- + traditionalist.
Senses: examples: text: He's played the brooding folksinger, the alt-country pioneer, the next Bruce Springsteen, the redneck outlaw, the volatile drug casualty, the neotraditionalist, and the reborn rocker--hell, he's put on more guises than he's put out records.
ref: 1998 February 27, Peter Margasak, “Steve Earle & the Dukes”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A follower or adherent of neotraditionalism.
Related terms: neotraditional
neotraditionalism
neotraditionally
Jediism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛdaɪ.ɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From Jedi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A minor modern religion based on the Jedi of the Star Wars series.
Related terms: Jediist
near-fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of near-field
radianspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiansphere
writeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of writable.
armoursmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armoursmiths
form: armorsmith
Etymology: From armour + smith.
Senses: glosses: A person who forges armour (such as greaves, breastplates, and legplates).
Hypernyms: smith
Derived terms: armoursmithing
Related terms: weaponsmith
armoursmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From armour + smithing.
Senses: glosses: A profession that involves forging armour pieces, such as greaves and helms, out of raw materials like metal or steel.
Related terms: armoursmith
weaponsmithing
weaponsmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weapon + smithing.
Senses: synonyms: weaponsmithy
glosses: A specialized profession that involves the forging of weapons (especially edged weapons such as swords) out of metals.
Related terms: blacksmithing
armoursmithing
weaponsmith
armoursmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armoursmith
armorsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armorsmiths
Etymology: From armor + smith.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of armoursmith.
armorsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armorsmith
armorsmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of armoursmithing.
lacrosstitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrosstitutes
Etymology: Blend of lacrosse + prostitute
Senses: examples: text: At the bar, each group occupies its own place. Lacrosse players (or playas, whichever you prefer) hover on the right side of the bar, near the entrance. If you are lucky (or a lacrosstitute), one of them will order you the Lacrosse Shot, […]
ref: 2006, Natalie Krinsky, Chloe Does Yale, page 38:
text: It was as we waited on line at the outside window, however, that I realized that maybe this had been a mistake. Off to the side, a bunch of the lacrosstitutes were horsing around, arm wrestling, and chewing tobacco.
ref: 2008, J. M. Steele (the undisclosed pseudonym of two authors), The Taker, page 323
text: "Look around you, Westinghouse. This room is filled with opportunities. These are not the people you party with but the people you impress. ‘Puck fuck, lacrosstitute’ — what the hell is that? You are selling yourself short, Westinghouse. Now act your age and sober the fuck up before ADA Katz comes to shake your hand for being the fine upstanding citizen that you are."
ref: 2009, Sydney Bauer, Alibi:
qualifier: generally derogatory
glosses: a person who has sexual relations with one or usually multiple lacrosse player(s)