cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dolly zoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolly zooms
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: zolly
glosses: A camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception, achieved by using the setting of a zoom lens to adjust the field of view while the camera dollies towards or away from the subject in such a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout.
dolly zooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolly zoom
crayonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crayoning
Zazao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A near-extinct Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands.
Zabana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands.
Capetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Capetian
sketchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sketching
tainteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: taint + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of taint
attainteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: attaint + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attaint
distraineth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: distrain + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distrain
switched on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of switch on
switched on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more switched on
form: most switched on
Senses: examples: text: There was a lot to take in and everyone had to be totally switched on during the handover phase.
ref: 2013, James Glasse, Andrew Rawson, Baghdad Operators: Ex Special Forces in Iraq, page 70:
text: She has always been really switched on academically but she has really come on in the last year with [teacher]. We're happy that she is in his class again this year.
ref: 2015, Karl Brettig, Building Stronger Communities with Children and Families, page 119:
antonyms: switched off
glosses: Highly attentive and mentally engaged.
raw_tags: of a person
digiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of digit
underprivilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + privilege.
Senses: examples: 2021, 23 June, The Daily Telegraph (p. 19): David Goodhart, Has wokeism crushed the working class?
Not that our poorest white groups would claim to feel any such privilege. Indeed, the simple fact of their underprivilege and how bad they are doing is being ignored by the national conversation […]
glosses: A lack of opportunities or advantages enjoyed by others.
unblurry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblurry
form: most unblurry
Etymology: From un- + blurry.
Senses: glosses: Not blurry.
unhazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhazy
form: most unhazy
Etymology: From un- + hazy.
Senses: glosses: Not hazy.
unfoggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfoggy
form: most unfoggy
Etymology: From un- + foggy.
Senses: glosses: Not foggy.
smogless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smog + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The wind nipped, hard, and though the air up high was smogless, it was cheerless, too.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 9:
glosses: Free from smog.
antibicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibicycle
form: most antibicycle
Etymology: From anti- + bicycle.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the use of bicycles.
Synonyms: antibike
triple fault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple faults
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to handle a double fault, typically resulting in immediate rebooting.
triple fault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triple faults
form: triple faulting
form: triple faulted
form: triple faulted
form: triple-fault
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause a triple fault to happen.
queen snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen snakes
Senses: glosses: Regina septemvittata, a non-venomous colubrid snake, endemic to North America.
queen snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queen snake
treens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treen
disjunctive syllogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disjunctive syllogisms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A logical argument of the form that if there are only two possibilities, and one of them is ruled out, then the other must take place. In symbols: P∨Q,¬P⊢Q
Coeur d'Alene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜɹdəˈleɪn/
Forms: form: Coeur d'Alêne
form: Cœur d'Alene
form: Cœur d'Alêne
Etymology: From French cœur (“heart”) + d’ (“of”) + alêne (“awl”).
Senses: glosses: An Indigenous Native American ethnic group of northern Idaho.
Coeur d'Alene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜɹdəˈleɪn/
Forms: form: Coeur d'Alêne
form: Cœur d'Alene
form: Cœur d'Alêne
Etymology: From French cœur (“heart”) + d’ (“of”) + alêne (“awl”).
Senses: glosses: The Salishan language spoken by these people.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States.
Coeur d'Alene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜɹdəˈleɪn/
Forms: form: Coeur d'Alêne
form: Cœur d'Alene
form: Cœur d'Alêne
Etymology: From French cœur (“heart”) + d’ (“of”) + alêne (“awl”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Coeur d'Alene people or language.
unjeopardized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jeopardized.
Senses: glosses: Not jeopardized.
unjeoparded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jeoparded.
Senses: glosses: Not jeoparded.
parbuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parbuckle
parbuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parbuckle
parbuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parbuckle
parbuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parbuckle
unthwartable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthwartable
form: most unthwartable
Etymology: From un- + thwartable.
Senses: glosses: Not thwartable.
thwartable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thwartable
form: most thwartable
Etymology: From thwart + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being thwarted.
intermeddlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intermeddle + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Act of intermeddling.
encloseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enclose + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enclose
engorgeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: engorge + -eth
Senses: examples: text: That is the Gulfe of Greedinesse, they say, That deepe engorgeth all this worldes pray...
ref: 1590, Spenser, “II.xii”, in The Faerie Queene:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engorge
filliped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fillip
filliping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fillip
saccading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saccade
saccaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saccade
microthermoforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + thermoforming.
Senses: glosses: microscale thermoforming
grossnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grossness
princessipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princessipalities
Etymology: Blend of princess + principality.
Senses: examples: text: Bill Cosby will eye spy Philadelphia, his hometown, on a new TV tour, and Grace Kelly, who also grew up in Philadelphia, is ready with a razzle tour of her Princessipality.
ref: 1976, Bryan Holme, The Journal of the Century, Viking Press, page 328:
text: We are all the subjects of time, my princesa, even you, whose principality, or should I say, whose princessipality, resides, by necessity, within it.
ref: 2000, Kathleen Alcalá, Treasures in Heaven, Chronicle Books, page 168:
text: Princess Syleen commandeered one of the King's Generals from his admin office and set him up as her regent over Star Point Five. She kidded with several close friends about changing it to a 'Princessipality' verses a Principality but decided to leave well enough alone.
ref: 2011, Max Hobby, Oshgomshee and the Princess Syleen, Trafford Publishing, page 353:
text: Whatever the story of the moment happened to be, Princess Heidrophobia is always the lead babe while Lady Maxipad is the fastmouthed soubrette, the heavy lifter, the practical elf who comes while the Princess is sleeping or, more typically, distracted, and gets the real work of the princessipality done.
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Penguin Press, page 25:
glosses: A political entity ruled by a princess.
Related terms: principality
howffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howff
ceilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceili
brushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From brushing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.
ref: 1958, The Bedside "Guardian":
glosses: With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.
offtakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offtake
palpometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpometers
Senses: examples: text: To determine the reliability of ordinary digital palpation we devised a pressure gage, or palpometer, set at a previously determined amount of weight (or pressure), to permit the application of measure palpation simulating the force generally used.
ref: 1948, American Practitioner, volumes 3-4, page 723:
text: However, the use of graduated pressure machines (palpometers, dolorimeters) has never gained widespread acceptance in clinical practice.
ref: 1979, Dudley Cohen Dumonde, Laboratory tests in the rheumatic diseases: standardization in clinical-laboratory investigation:
text: At baseline pretreatment examination and at each follow-up visit, the investigator assessed each subjects pain by palpation of the affected heel using a device called a palpometer.
ref: 2002, Foot & Ankle International, page 199:
glosses: An instrument that uses ultrasound and computer technology to automate the physician's technique of palpation to determine sensitivity of some part of the patient's body.
Synonyms: algometer
dolorimeter
palpometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpometer
algesimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algesimeters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of algometer.
synonyms: word: algometer
algesimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algesimeter
algesimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A study of this effect of drugs needed the evolution of a reliable and reproducible method of algesimetry, and the pressure method eventually chosen was evaluated in over 1,000 subjects in order to determine the patient and operator variation,
ref: 1965, James E. Eckenhoff, Science & Practice in Anesthesia:
text: In attempts to quantify pain (algesimetry), most experimental observations have been made on acute pain elicited from easily accessible, mostly cutaneous, structures.
ref: 1986, Floyd E. Bloom, Handbook of physiology, page 582:
text: This has spawned efforts to establish an 'objective' algesimetry, which does not require the report of subjective states but primarily assesses responses to noxious stimuli in the motor, autonomic, endocrine and central nervous systems.
ref: 2009, Maria Adele Giamberardino, Visceral Pain:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The measurement of sensitivity to pain.
examples: text: The dilemma of experimental algesimetry can be characterized as follows. The more reproducible and quantifiable a method of experimental pain induction is, the more inadequate it appears as a model of clinical pain.
ref: 1986, Kay Brune, Agents and Actions Supplements, page 35:
text: Experimental algesimetry is a rapidly expanding field of research, which can be expected to provide fundamental information about the nature of pain.
ref: 2012, Robert F. Schmidt, Gerhard Thews, Human Physiology, page 227:
text: In Chapter 1 we sought to move the field of algesimetry past the categorical approach toward a dynamic, contextual model consistent with the pioneering work of Melzack and Wall (1965), Sternbach (1968), Fordyce (1976), and others.
ref: 2013, Paul Karoly, Mark P. Jensen, Arnold P. Goldstein, Multimethod Assessment of Chronic Pain, page 116:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of responses to painful stimuli.
Turkey oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkey oaks
Etymology: From its native habitat in Turkey.
Senses: synonyms: word: cerrial oak
glosses: Quercus cerris, native to Asia Minor and southeastern Europe.
steatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steatosis
valleyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valley + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without valleys.
villageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From village + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without villages.
soaprock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soaprocks
Etymology: From soap + rock.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of soapstone.
synonyms: word: soapstone
soaprocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soaprock
soapstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soapstone
soapstones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soapstone
soapstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soapstone
soapstoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soapstone
hadada ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadada ibises
Etymology: Onomatopoeic from the call. "Ha Ha Hadeda".
Senses: glosses: Bostrychia hagedash, an ibis found in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Synonyms: hadeda
glossy ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossy ibises
Senses: glosses: Plegadis falcinellus, a medium-sized wading bird with a long, decurved bill.
Claddagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Galway.
Claddagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Claddaghs
Senses: examples: text: The rings were golden Claddaghs with a garnet in the center. A Claddagh represented friendship, honor, and love.
ref: 2010, Angelina Elias, Renata: The Beginning, page 274:
text: "You can't tell that the rings they're wearing are Claddaghs," Gerard said, "but they are." He handed the picture to Regan. "People don't really use the Claddagh rings as wedding bands anymore."
ref: 2008, Carol Higgins Clark, Laced: A Regan Reilly Mystery, page 218:
glosses: Ellipsis of Claddagh ring.
Tati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tat.
Senses: glosses: A group of northwestern Iranian dialects which are closely related to the Talysh language, spoken by the Tat people of Iran.
Synonyms: Tat
Siduri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient Babylonian goddess of wisdom, fermentation and merrymaking.
little bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little bitterns
Etymology: From little + bittern (“a bird in the heron family Ardeidae”).
Senses: glosses: A bittern of the genus Ixobrychus.
glosses: A bittern of the genus Ixobrychus.
A bittern of the species Ixobrychus minutus.
night heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night herons
Senses: glosses: Any of the nocturnal species of herons of the genera Nycticorax, Nyctanassa, and Gorsachius.
wikipedia: night heron
Derived terms: Ascension night heron
black-crowned night heron
Japanese night heron
Malayan night heron
Malaysian night heron
Mauritius night heron
nankeen night heron
Niue night heron
rufous night heron
white-backed night heron
gadfly petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadfly petrels
Senses: examples: text: The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61:
glosses: A petrel of the genus Pterodroma.
Foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fox
Foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fox
chowrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chowry.
Germanification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making something German.
Germanify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Germanifies
form: Germanifying
form: Germanified
form: Germanified
Etymology: From German + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make German.
Germanifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Germanify
Germanifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Germanify
Germanified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Germanify
duckism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duck + -ism.
Senses: examples: lame-duckism (lame duck + -ism)
odd-duckism (odd duck + -ism)
glosses: Occurring in compounds, especially nonce-compounds.
for a start
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He can't be staring at you. For a start, he's asleep.
glosses: For one thing; as one rebutting factor among many.
Related terms: to start with
netburp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netburps
Etymology: From net + burp.
Senses: glosses: A netsplit (type of technical glitch on IRC).
netburps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netburp
squitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squit
squitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squit
Verlet list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Verlet lists
Etymology: Named after Loup Verlet.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data structure in molecular dynamics simulations that can efficiently maintain a list of all particles within a given cut-off distance of each other.
wikipedia: Loup Verlet
potamogeton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potamogetons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the plants of the genus Potamogeton.
claweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: claw + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of claw
drummeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drum + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drum
Pythagorean trigonometric identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pythagorean trigonometric identities
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: The equality sin (x)²+ cos (x)²=1, holding for all real and complex x, equivalent to the application of the Pythagorean theorem to the unit circle.
blighteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blight + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blight
Brabantians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brabantian
Brabanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brabanters
Etymology: From Brabant + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood
ref: 1660, Joseph Hall, Observations of some Specialities of Divine Providence in the Life of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, Written with his own hand:
glosses: Somebody from Brabant; a Brabantian.
Brabanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brabanter
unevacuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + evacuated.
Senses: glosses: Not evacuated.
Synonyms: nonevacuated
oathtaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oath + taking.
Senses: glosses: The taking of an oath, or vow.
destaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destage
destages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destage
destaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destage
pigs in pokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig in a poke
Thatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thatters
Etymology: From that + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As the diehards pitted themselves against the public for precious seats, one Thatter warmly congratulates another on scoring tickets for the Wembley show, adding: “And congrats on becoming a grandmother too!”
ref: 2010 November 3, Helen Brown, “Take That: still adored, a million love songs later”, in The Telegraph:
text: They greet visitors to the website by saying Take That Appreciation Pages has been running since 1st April 1996, and is dedicated to Thatters all over the world!
ref: 2011, James MacCarthey, Take That: Uncensored On The Record, Coda Books, →ISBN:
text: Me and my friend, a fellow Thatter from the back in the day, had tickets for the opening night of Take That’s spectacular Progress Tour over the summer, at the Stadium of Light.
ref: 2011 December 31, Diane Bourne, “Girls' weekend in County Durham”, in Manchester Evening News:
glosses: A fan of Take That, an English boy band popular in the 1990s.
Related terms: Take Thatter
Thatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thatter
chimneyscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimneyscapes
Etymology: From chimney + -scape.
Senses: examples: a black industrial chimneyscape
glosses: A landscape dominated by chimneys.
chimneyscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimneyscape
Alabama wind chime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alabama wind chimes
Senses: examples: text: If anyone in our
organization were to "come out" they would be banished within seconds.
They would also be very lucky escaping without joining some niggers as
part of a set of ALABAMA WIND CHIMES!!!!!!!!!
ref: 1999 June 11, Harry rhe Hardhat Sez, “Yes, I AM Gay!”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. I thought you were part of
an Alabama windchime by now.
ref: 2004 December 12, wendy, “Boy am I GLAD”, in alt.adoption.searching (Usenet):
text: I don't know Johnny, my co-workers are still laughing their hillbilly asses off
about the Alabama wind chime ;o) (what you call 9 negros hanging from a tree)
ref: 2004 December 5, Sjhamina, “OT- Do people like Johnny, LouAnne, SJHamina, and Bush Intend To Dominate The Whole World By Force and destroy the non-white world? I say yes indeedy! They will probably destroy the human race in trying as Hitler did.”, in alt.adoption.searching (Usenet):
text: Lol. Would those "Alabama Wind Chimes" look nice on the patio, do you think?
ref: 2017 February 25, Dental River, “Gini Woolfolk, folk singer & poet (playlist)”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet):
synonyms: Mississippi wind chime
glosses: A hanged black person or a set thereof.
Mississippi wind chime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mississippi wind chimes
form: Mississippi windchime
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mississippi wind chime.
synonyms: Alabama wind chime
glosses: A hanged black person.
unperplext
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperplext
form: most unperplext
Etymology: From un- + perplext.
Senses: examples: text: And who did neither time nor study spare / To keep this book untainted, unperplext, / Let in gross errors to corrupt the text […]
ref: 1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of unperplexed.
Adamsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adamsian
form: most Adamsian
Etymology: From Adams + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In the Adamsian worldview the legendary four horsemen, were they to arrive at all, would be far more worried about whether they ought to stop off for a hamburger before getting on with the job than anything to do with their actual work[…]
ref: 1995, Brian M. Stableford, Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances:
text: one of the greatest pieces of Adamsian whimsy in existence
ref: 2005, Douglas Adams, Dirk Maggs, Bruce Hyman, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts, page 222:
text: Other Adamsian enthusiasms included: fast cars; restaurants; Bach, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits; […]
ref: 2012, Nicholas Joll, Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 23:
glosses: Of or relating to Douglas Adams (1952–2001), English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
semimodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + modal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having only some of the characteristics of the major modal verbs.
semimodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimodals
Etymology: From semi- + modal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb having only some of the characteristics of the major modal verbs.
semimodals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semimodal
autorefrigeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + refrigeration.
Senses: glosses: refrigeration by storing a liquid at its boiling point for the pressure at which it is stored, so that, as vapour boils off, heat for the phase change cools the remaining liquid
Related terms: autorefrigerant
autorefrigerated
autorefrigerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + refrigerated.
Senses: glosses: refrigerated by means of autorefrigeration
Sahlinsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sahlinsian
form: most Sahlinsian
Etymology: From Sahlins + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Marshall Sahlins (1930–2021), prominent American anthropologist.
Zerzanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zerzanian
form: most Zerzanian
Etymology: From Zerzan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Zerzan.
nonaided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aided.
Senses: glosses: Not aided.
multiniche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + niche.
Senses: examples: text: In all of these groups tropical species are characterized by multiniche adaptation, or polyspecialization, associated with specialized adaptation and speciation following an episode of habitat contraction and isolation.
ref: 2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution:
text: They fare far better when they pursue a multiniche strategy. Multiniche players create an interesting and rare subspecies in the market map. In the extreme case, niche mastery skills can be extended to multiple niche markets in the outer circle.
ref: 2004, Bill Davidson, Breakthrough:
glosses: Relating to more than one niche.
packetisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packetisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of packetization.
packetisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packetisation
pseudodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodomains
Etymology: From pseudo- + domain.
Senses: examples: text: The anonymity network Tor has a top-level pseudodomain .onion for hidden services, which can only be reached with a Tor client.
glosses: A nonexistent top-level domain that is assigned a meaning in certain specialized contexts.
pseudodomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodomain
pseudowords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoword
reliabilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reliabilism
reliabilistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reliabilistic
form: most reliabilistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to reliabilism.
verificationistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verificationistic
form: most verificationistic
Etymology: From verification + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to verificationism.
telished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of telish
telishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of telish
telishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telishment
sunyatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunyata
purgatorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purgatories
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of purgatory.
pustulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustulose
form: most pustulose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pustulous.
chimneying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chimney
ECAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Civil Aviation Conference.
glosses: Initialism of Eastern College Athletic Conference.
touch the hem of someone's garment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches the hem of someone's garment
form: touching the hem of someone's garment
form: touched the hem of someone's garment
form: touched the hem of someone's garment
form: kiss someone's hem
form: kiss the hem of someone's garment
form: touch someone's hem
form: touch someone's robe
form: touch the hem of someone's robe
Etymology: An allusion to the Biblical tale (Matthew 9:20) of the woman who was cured of disease when she touched the hem of Christ's garment.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, at peace with God and the world, the farmer of Grand-Pré
Lived on his sunny farm, and Evangeline governed his household.
Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal,
Fixed his eyes upon her, as the saint of his deepest devotion;
Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment!
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter 1, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I:
text: "I do love you," he said with a strong effort to control himself, "but I am not worthy to touch the hem of your garment."
ref: 1903, Irving Bacheller, chapter 29, in Darrel of the Blessed Isles:
text: President Clinton is due at Brooklyn College. . . . "If he just wants to cut a ribbon or let us touch the hem of his garment, we don't need that."
ref: 1994 March 9, Todd S. Purdum, “Clinton's Coming to New York, But Mayor May Skip Invitation”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Sep 2013:
text: Nelson Mandela . . . can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring by in a motorcade.
ref: 2001 June 24, Richard Lacayo, “A Hero's Welcome”, in Time, retrieved 17 Sep 2013:
glosses: To give respect or reverence to someone; to express servitude to someone; to draw strength or comfort from someone who is superior.
Related terms: kiss someone's ring
Ismailis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ismaili
Sevener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seveners
Etymology: From seven + -er.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of a branch of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims who believe that Isma'il ibn Jafar was the seventh and last imam (hereditary leader of the Muslim community).
Synonyms: Aga Khanite
Sevener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Seveners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sevener
kiss someone's hem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses someone's hem
form: kissing someone's hem
form: kissed someone's hem
form: kissed someone's hem
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch the hem of someone's garment.
NTU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NTU
Senses: examples: The turbidity of Primo Water is 0.6 NTU which is well under the FDA's MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) of 5 NTU, according to Primo Water's 2009 Water Quality Analysis.
glosses: Initialism of nephelometric turbidity unit.
NTU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: NTU
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Nanyang Technological University.
glosses: Initialism of National Taiwan University.
touch someone's hem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches someone's hem
form: touching someone's hem
form: touched someone's hem
form: touched someone's hem
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch the hem of someone's garment.
touch someone's robe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches someone's robe
form: touching someone's robe
form: touched someone's robe
form: touched someone's robe
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch the hem of someone's garment.
touch the hem of someone's robe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches the hem of someone's robe
form: touching the hem of someone's robe
form: touched the hem of someone's robe
form: touched the hem of someone's robe
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch the hem of someone's garment.
kiss the hem of someone's garment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses the hem of someone's garment
form: kissing the hem of someone's garment
form: kissed the hem of someone's garment
form: kissed the hem of someone's garment
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch the hem of someone's garment.
harvestfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvestfishes
form: harvestfish
Etymology: From harvest + fish.
Senses: glosses: Peprilus paru, a kind of butterfish.
harvestfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harvestfish
jeju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jejus
Etymology: From Tupian.
Senses: examples: text: Finally he sent the jeju (Erythrinus unitaeniatus; these fish are covered with a slippery phlegm), which pushed the man out ...
ref: 1946, Curt Nimuendajú, The Eastern Timbira:
text: In the jeju, the swim bladder has a respiratory function, while in the aruana it is an hydrostatic organ. Both are physostomes, and the swim bladder is divided into 2 chambers whose walls are made up of 3 enveloping membranes or mantles.
ref: 1981, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts:
text: The jeju (Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus) is a facultative air-breathing fish that utilizes a modified swim bladder as an ...
ref: 2005, Adalberto Luis Val, Vera Maria Fonseca de Almeida e Val, David J. Randall, Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Tropical Fishes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: A South American (Amazonian) erythrinid fish, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (formerly sometimes Erythrinus unitaeniatus).
furnisheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: furnish + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of furnish
flouteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: flout + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flout
stanchest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The knight needed no second command: he ordered a band of his stanchest followers to horse—men who had fought by his side in Flanders, and there learnt more reverence for Sir Captain than Sir Priest.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 205:
text: When the mainland of China fell, one of America's stanchest personal allies was driven, with what forces he had left, across the Formosa Straits to that island which is now the remaining remnant of Free China.
ref: 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: superlative form of stanch: most stanch
noncommutative geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncommutative geometries
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A version of C*-algebra which does away with commutativity, and the geometry which would be generated by/associated with such a modified algebra.
sympathizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sympathizable
form: most sympathizable
Etymology: From sympathize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Sympathizable more or less is every person and indeed every animal.
ref: 2005, Denton Jaques Snider, Feeling Psychologically Treated, and Prolegomena to Psychology, page 276:
text: But the stakes are higher for McCain as a presidential candidate; what might play as endearingly sympathizable ignorance in your home state becomes more problematic at the national scale, with another 49 state treasuries under your watch.
ref: 2009, Michael E. Ross, American Bandwidth: Weblogs and Essays, page 184:
text: This is in part quite simply because civilizations are conceived as such grand, encompassing entities that it becomes difficult to demonstrate the connections between group belonging and tangible, communicable, sympathizable suffering.
ref: 2010, Ronald Niezen, Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law, page 138:
text: Indeed, his opera Yoake presents itself as a clear example of musical and textual actions unfolding in a linear narrative, whereby characters would appear reasonable, convincing, and (if necessary) sympathizable.
ref: 2013, Christian Utz, Frederick Lau, Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Music, page 117:
glosses: Able to be sympathized with; meriting sympathy.
traumatic brain injury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traumatic brain injuries
Senses: examples: text: Almost three dozen US service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the Iranian missile attack earlier this month, the Pentagon said Friday.
ref: 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A traumatic injury to the brain caused by an external force.
Synonyms: word: TBI
Hypernyms: neurotrauma
Derived terms: word: TBI
Related terms: alt: ABI
word: acquired brain injury
Christopaganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christo- + paganism.
Senses: glosses: A form of neopaganism influenced by Christianity.
Related terms: Christopagan
multiamp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + amp.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one amplifier.
chuck-farthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They presently fell to pitch and toss, chuck-farthing, odd or even, dog-fighting, and other Protestant recreations.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:
glosses: An old English game resembling pitchpenny.
suddenest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sudden: most sudden
darkeningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more darkeningly
form: most darkeningly
Etymology: From darkening + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, he wore […] a soft black hat that hung darkeningly over his eyes.
ref: 1919, Theodore Dreiser, Twelve Men:
text: Up from the floor, from the depths of the corners, […] along the tin-pipe reaching into the ceiling, crept the summer darkness. Only at a blotch of sunlight did it hesitate, tentative as a leaf-flicker on the whitewashed plaster, then moment by long moment it seeped in darkeningly.
ref: 1962, Rudy Wiebe, Peace Shall Destroy Many:
glosses: So as to darken.
biquaternionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biquaternion + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biquaternions.
biquaternion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biquaternions
Etymology: From bi- + quaternion.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the numbers w+xi+yj+zk! where w, x, y, and z are complex numbers and the elements of {1, i, j, k} multiply as in the quaternion group.
Derived terms: biquaternionic
biquaternions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biquaternion
Hilbertian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hilbertian
form: most Hilbertian
Etymology: From Hilbert + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to David Hilbert (1862–1943), German mathematician.
chaptering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chapter
chaptered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chapter
chaptered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Not many people in France bought the little five-chaptered book, but a number of copies were sold in Germany.
ref: 1964, Dorothy Shipley White, Seeds of Discord: De Gaulle, Free France, and the Allies, page 27:
glosses: Having chapters of a specified number or kind.
Derived terms: unchaptered
reclear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclears
form: reclearing
form: recleared
form: recleared
Etymology: From re- + clear.
Senses: examples: text: To reclear of brush and young trees, land that has once been cultivated, often is less expensive in labor and materials than to clear the original heavy forest.
ref: 1927, Miscellaneous Publication, number 663, page 39:
text: Mrs. Humphrey has not yet curbed her husband's habit of fiddling with his glasses when he is being interviewed on camera, but Attorney General Brownell stopped clearing and reclearing his throat as soon as his wife mentioned the habit […]
ref: 1957, Newsweek, volume 49, numbers 1-12, page 33:
glosses: To clear (free from obstructions) again.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To grant reclearance to.
recleared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclear
reclearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclear
reclears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclear
reclass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclasses
form: reclassing
form: reclassed
form: reclassed
Etymology: From re- + class.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reclassify.
synonyms: word: reclassify
reclassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclass
reclassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclass
hand-code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand-codes
form: hand-coding
form: hand-coded
form: hand-coded
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To develop (software, web pages, etc.) by writing source code or markup directly, without the use of tools allowing higher-level representations.
allegorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the doctrinal allegorics of the poem's narrative
ref: 2006, Seth Lehrer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII, page 83:
glosses: allegorical techniques
enquireth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enquire + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enquire
nonsiliceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + siliceous.
Senses: glosses: Not siliceous.
quinquefolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: On the same footing as of other astringents, we can readily admit of this; but the sensible qualities of the quinquefolium do not lead us to think that it is to be preferred, or that it is even equal to other plants of the same order.
ref: 1812, William Cullen, Benjamin Smith Barton, Professor Cullen's Treatise of the Materia Medica:
glosses: cinquefoil (i.e. fiveleaf)
raming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rame + -ing
Etymology tree
English rame
English -ing
English raming
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rame
raimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raim
raims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raim
raiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raim
Kachruvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kachruvian
form: most Kachruvian
Etymology: From Kachru + -v- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Braj Kachru (1932-2016), Kashmiri scholar and linguist.
microcalorimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From microcalorimetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of microcalorimetry.
turbidimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From turbidimetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of turbidimetry.
nativize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nativizes
form: nativizing
form: nativized
form: nativized
form: nativise
Etymology: From native + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: India has nativized the English language.
glosses: To make native; to incorporate into native culture.
nativized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nativize
nativizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nativize
nativizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nativize
radicose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radicose
form: most radicose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a large root.
Burkinabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burkinabe
Carolingian cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolingian crosses
Senses: glosses: A cross composed of four triquetrae which meet at the crux by their vertices.
Hongkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hongkies
Etymology: From Hong Kong + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Somebody from Hong Kong; a Hong Konger, Hongkongese.
raw_tags: in Singapore
Synonyms: Hongkonger
Related terms: Argie
Aussie
Paki
Sinkie
Hongkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hongkie
I-Kiribati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I-Kiribati
Senses: synonyms: Kiribatian
Gilbertese
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kiribati.
taarab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili taarab, from Arabic طَرَب (ṭarab, “entertainment with music”).
Senses: glosses: A genre of music popular in Tanzania and Kenya, influenced by the music of cultures with a historical presence in East Africa.
Shimaore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maore Comorian shiMaore.
Senses: glosses: Maore Comorian, one of the two indigenous languages spoken in Mayotte.
Maore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maore Comorian Maore.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mayotte.
synonyms: word: Mayotte