cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
webbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webbies
form: Webbie
Etymology: From Web + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: This is the lovely, tolerant, and cooperative attitude that so endears Webbies to the rest of the folks on UseNet. Now run along, little boy, until you learn the difference between UseNet and the WWW. Oh, and until you learn how to quote and attribute properly.
ref: 1999, Glen Quarnstrom, “Re: Another Thing Webbies Can't Do”, in alt.fan.art-bell (Usenet):
text: "Even a webbie can attribute" is not missing anything, let alone a noun. Attribute is a verb. Even a webbie can poop. Even a webbie can suck. Even a webbie can think. Hee-hee.
ref: 2002, Jimmy Snibbler, “Re: God's got alzheimer's (HEY SNIBBLER, DOC AND ROVE)”, in alt.fan.art-bell (Usenet):
text: This was what happened when the AOLers, WebTVers, and Google Groupers showed up during the Endless September. We don't need to go through that again! Otherwise, instead of ending up with ex-webbies who have adapted to USENET, USENET might be converted into a vast web-board/social-networking site/blog by webbies […]
ref: 2008, Pinku-Sensei, “Anonymous as a challenge for USENET and an award for Jonah fishing (was Re: Tom Newton and Xena Warrior Princess)”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: A user of WebTV, a service formerly used to connect to the World Wide Web through a television rather than a computer.
Related terms: webby
webbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webbie
Webbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Webbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of webbie.
Webbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Webbie
Jonah fishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Referring to Jonah in the Bible, who was swallowed by a great fish. See Internet and fishing senses at troll.
Senses: glosses: The situation in which a user who has been trolled claims that he/she only posted in order to bait the troll into a response.
Lanczos algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Devised by Cornelius Lanczos.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An iterative algorithm that is an adaptation of power methods to find the most useful eigenvalues and eigenvectors of an nth-order linear system with a limited number of operations, m, where m is much smaller than n.
wikipedia: Cornelius Lanczos
Related terms: Lanczos approximation
Lanczos potential
Lanczos resampling
bitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈtɑnɪk/
ipa: /baɪˈtɒnɪk/
Etymology: From bi- + tonic.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the property x_0≤⋯≤x_k≥⋯≥x_n-1 for some k,0≤k<n, or being a circular shift of such a sequence.
raw_tags: of a sequence
roofed turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roofed turtles
Senses: glosses: Any of the obsolete genus Kachuga of Asian turtles, now placed in Batagur and Pangshura.
roofed turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roofed turtle
Roman brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: Roman bricks
Senses: glosses: A type of brick originating in Ancient Rome and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered.
glosses: A modern type of brick inspired by the ancient prototypes, characteristically longer and flatter than standard bricks.
Roman bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman brick
acute mountain sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: altitude sickness
rosy boa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosy boas
Senses: glosses: Lichanura trivirgata, a snake of the Boidae family.
rosy barb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosy barbs
Senses: glosses: Pethia conchonius, a subtropical freshwater cyprinid fish of southern Asia.
heelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelies
Etymology: From heel + -ie.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: heelflip
scientific romance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientific romances
Senses: examples: text: Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H. G. Wells was boiling over into scientific romance; and old romance was brought to life by the charm of Anthony Hope.
ref: 1921, Stephen McKenna, chapter II, in While I Remember:
glosses: Science fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
glosses: Science fiction written in a deliberately anachronistic style, as an homage to or a pastiche of early science fiction.
Related terms: edisonade
Vernian
Wellsian
drop shadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop shadows
Senses: glosses: A visual effect representing a shadow behind an object, giving the impression that the object is raised from the background.
drop shadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop shadow
pom-pom pullaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pom-pom-pull-away.
DYOFDW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of do your own fucking dirty work.
macro-organism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macro-organisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macroorganism.
blackout lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackout lamp
other backward class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: other backward classes
Senses: glosses: Any of the castes officially recognised by the government as being educationally and socially disadvantaged.
Hyponyms: creamy layer
other backward classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of other backward class
creamy layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The relatively wealthy and well-educated members of the other backward classes, who are ineligible for government benefit programs.
school uniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school uniform
common gender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏm′ən jĕn′dər
ipa: /ˈkɒm.ən ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/
ipa: /ˈkɑm.ən ˈd͡ʒɛn.dəɹ/
Forms: form: common genders
Senses: examples: text: There are two genders: common gender (genus commune, abbreviated: com.) and neuter (genus neutrum, abbreviated: neut.). The common gender combines the masculine and feminine of other Indo-European languages into one.
ref: 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, page 16:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical gender in some languages, formed by the historical merging of masculine and feminine genders.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In some languages (e.g. Latin, Lithuanian), a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine.
Coordinate terms: masculine
feminine
neuter
gardenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gardenish
form: most gardenish
Etymology: From garden + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It is such a joy to see the trees all breaking into green again—you know my view at the back, well it is getting quite gardenish and rural, there is a cherrytree close by me that gladdens me every morning as I go out to look at it.
ref: 1901, John Richard Green, Leslie Stephen, Letters:
text: But I disagree with you about the gardenish landscape. The lowest mountains here terrify me far more than anything I saw in Connemara or Achill.
ref: 2013, Colm Toibin, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families:
glosses: Like, characteristic, or typical of a garden; somewhat gardenlike.
bozo bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bozo bins
Senses: glosses: kill file
bozo bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bozo bin
foreposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-position
Etymology: From fore- + position.
Senses: examples: text: In scientific language we should find more adjectives in the after-position than in the fore-position; in a novel, a play, or in everyday speech, adjectives in the fore-position abound. Scientific language is less emotional than is everyday speech.
ref: 1917, Richard Thayer Holbrook, Living French:
text: From the oil tank the pump forces the oil through the sight feed on the dash, from which it is led into the steam line to the engine. In the oil pump, Fig. 53, the plunger A is set in its extreme foreposition, so that the end will just come to the outlet.
ref: 1920, Automobile Engineering: A General Reference Work
text: One more fact is crucial for this latter interpretation — gestural communication uses the fore-position of the predicate only in the case where this predicate contains both a verb and an object which can then be considered the subject of the sentence. It is not practical with pure verbal predicates.
ref: 1973, Wilhelm Wundt, The Language of Gestures:
text: All these questions and more rotated into the fore-position in Eof's mind one after another, seeking an answer, but moving on unfulfilled.
ref: 2010, Edward Maurer, The Prodigal Planet:
glosses: Position ahead of or in front of; forward position.
foreposition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forepositions
form: forepositioning
form: forepositioned
form: forepositioned
form: fore-position
Etymology: From fore- + position.
Senses: glosses: To position at the front.
samites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samite
caudate nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudate nuclei
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: a nucleus within each hemisphere of the brain, sitting astride the thalamus and located near the center of the brain.
wheatpaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatpastes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wheat paste.
wheatpaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wheatpastes
form: wheatpasting
form: wheatpasted
form: wheatpasted
Senses: examples: text: Politically irreverent lesbian age 25 seeks other lezzie(s) to frolic, argue, and wheatpaste with.
ref: 1990 December 23, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 13:
text: Jen Wofford, a local activist, was arrested and detained last September for wheatpasting Queer Nation posters.
ref: 1991 February 11, Ed Boyce, “Bashers With Badges”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 6:
glosses: To put up posters in public spaces as a form of activism.
wheat paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheat pastes
form: wheatpaste
Senses: synonyms: flour paste
glosses: A gel or liquid adhesive made from wheat flour or wheat starch and water.
Derived terms: wheatpaster
Related terms: pastepot
bubblegummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bubblegummy
form: most bubblegummy
Etymology: From bubblegum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But writer/producer Tony Macauley needed a session singer to bring to life a bubblegummy tune called "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)," so he approached Burrows
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bubblegum pop music.
examples: text: Furthermore, the glaze really tastes like apricots with a hint of Kirsch rather than the bubblegummy taste of lower quality products.
ref: 1998, Tom Neuhaus, The Informed Chef, Neuhaus Features, →ISBN, page 61:
text: A gray fog began to form and thicken, surrounding us in that nauseating bubblegummy smell.
ref: 2010, Melissa Francis, Love Sucks!, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Have you ever walked by hyacinths and detected a sweet, bubblegummy smell?
ref: 2013, Tenaya Darlington, Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese: A Guide to Wedges, Recipes, and Pairings, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: Running Press, →ISBN, page 210, column 1:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bubblegum (the confectionery).
kahu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori kāhu.
Senses: examples: text: Riding along the road near the Whenuakura river, I observed a kahu pursuing a small bird (apparently a ground lark) high in the air.
ref: 1879, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, page 368:
glosses: swamp harrier (Circus approximans)
shii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪ(ː)/
Forms: form: shiis
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of shit. Represents a pronunciation with the final consonant deleted (a possible realization in African-American Vernacular English). Compare bih, ahh.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shit.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shit.
Related terms: shii tree
eddoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eddoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eddo.
eddoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eddoe
groaty pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groaty puddings
form: groaty-pudding
Etymology: From groaty + pudding.
Senses: synonyms: groaty dick
glosses: A traditional dish from the Black Country, made from soaked groats, beef, leeks, onion and beef stock which are baked together.
Maquiritari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Makiritare
form: Maquiritare
Etymology: From Spanish Maquiritare, said to be from an Arawak language, with a meaning “people of the rivers, water people”.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ye'kwana (“Cariban language”).
synonyms: word: Ye'kwana
extra: Cariban language
Maquiritari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maquiritaris
form: Maquiritari
form: Makiritare
form: Maquiritare
Etymology: From Spanish Maquiritare, said to be from an Arawak language, with a meaning “people of the rivers, water people”.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ye'kwana.
synonyms: word: Ye'kwana
menstruators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menstruator
Latinophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latinophobe
Palestinkians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palestinkian
unclefuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unclefucker
matriarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matriarchist
siberite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siberites
Etymology: From Siberia + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A violet form of tourmaline sometimes used as a gemstone.
JKD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Initialism of Jeet Kune Do.
kookology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kook + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: If you're interested in kookology as it's formally known, you'll be wanting to check out alt.usenet.kooks.
ref: 2004 February 23, Doktor DynaSoar, “Re: Spot the Loonie!”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
glosses: The study of kooks (“eccentric or crazy people”).
stefnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stefnists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stfnist.
stefnists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stefnist
Bukusu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous tribe of Kenya.
Bukusu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Bantu language.
scientifictionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientifictionists
Etymology: From scientifiction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I correspond with a great number of scientifictionists, and I know they have remarked to me a number of times that AMAZING STORIES ran letters of theirs nine or ten months after they had been submitted.
ref: 1933 April, Forrest J Ackerman, Amazing Stories, volume 8, number 1, page 88:
text: Professional editors like Palmer call all people who buy their magazines pretty regularly, fans; and indeed the term is so used by the scientifictionists who merely write letters to the editor and collect pro mags, but the fen of fandom have a more restricted meaning in mind.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fan:
text: This is failure and the machine is worthless, except for "psychic research". Why, I can't see! So our hero smashes it and goes off to marry the faithful young woman. Make up your mind whether it is supposed to be a tragedy, but to a scientifictionist it definitely is.
ref: 1945 December, Michael Rosenblum, “What They Are About”, in Chanticleer, number 3, page 23:
text: By inviting authors to write a story around a perfectly meaningless piece of imagery by artist Paul, he discovered several useful contributors, not least among them the lady scientifictionist who, we are somewhat shocked to find, is now a grandmother.
ref: 1947 August-September, Thomas Sheridan, “The Feminine Touch”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 4, page 15:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.
Synonyms: word: science-fictioneer
word: science-fictionist
word: sfnist
sense: science fiction fan only
word: stfan
Derived terms: word: stfnist
word: stefnist
scientifictionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientifictionist
orange-winged amazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange-winged amazons
Senses: glosses: a species of parrot, Amazona amazonica.
orange-winged parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange-winged parrots
Senses: glosses: a species of parrot, Amazona amazonica
startscummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: startscummers
Etymology: From startscum + -er.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A player who startscums.
startscummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of startscummer
flatulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflæt͡ʃəlɪst/
Forms: form: flatulists
Etymology: From flatulence + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An entertainer whose routine consists solely or primarily of farting in a creative, musical, or amusing manner.
Simonette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Fanonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /fəˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Fanonian
form: most Fanonian
Etymology: From Fanon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Frantz Fanon, French-Martiniquais psychologist and philosopher.
Latin@
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtinaʊ/
ipa: /læˈtinaʊ/
other: /ləˈtineɪ/
other: /læˈtineɪ/
Forms: form: Latin@s
Etymology: The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
The pronunciation ending in /-aʊ/ is from how Latinao would be pronounced; the one ending in /-eɪ/ uses (approximately) the sound of Spanish -e, a vowel between a and o.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Latin@.
glosses: Someone of Latin American descent; a Latino or Latina.
Latin@
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtinaʊ/
ipa: /læˈtinaʊ/
other: /ləˈtineɪ/
other: /læˈtineɪ/
Etymology: The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
The pronunciation ending in /-aʊ/ is from how Latinao would be pronounced; the one ending in /-eɪ/ uses (approximately) the sound of Spanish -e, a vowel between a and o.
Senses: glosses: Hispanic; Latino or Latina.
Synonyms: Latine
Latinx
Latina/o
Latino/a
Latin@s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latin@
stupored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stupor
stupored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In a state of stupor.
puss caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puss caterpillars
Senses: glosses: The larva of the puss moth Megalopyge opercularis.
queanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queanies
Etymology: From quean + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A young woman.
queanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queanie
previsualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: previsualizes
form: previsualizing
form: previsualized
form: previsualized
Etymology: From pre- + visualize.
Senses: glosses: To visualize (a scene of a film, etc.) before shooting.
previsualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of previsualize
previsualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of previsualize
previsualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of previsualize
precognizance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + cognizance.
Senses: glosses: Cognizance in advance; precognition.
pregravid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + gravid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Prior to pregnancy.
pre-K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-Ks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of prekindergarten.
pre-Ks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-K
preoperating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + operating.
Senses: examples: preoperating costs for an aircraft
topics: business
glosses: Before the start of operation.
pus-gutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pus-gutted
form: most pus-gutted
Senses: glosses: corpulent; obese
preserved pension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preserved pensions
Senses: glosses: A pension that has been left behind in an occupational pension scheme by people no longer employed by the sponsoring employer, and thus frozen until retirement age.
preserved pensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preserved pension
Cape plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape planes
Etymology: From Cape + plane (Etymology 4 (a tree), unknown which definition).
Senses: glosses: Ochna arborea, an African tree.
Afromontane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: afromontane
Etymology: From Afro- + montane.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Afrotropic subregion and its plant and animal species common to the mountains of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula.
sky island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky islands
form: sky-island
form: skyisland
Etymology: From sky + island.
Senses: glosses: A mountain habitat isolated by surrounding lowlands of a dramatically different environment.
sky islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky island
underrespected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underrespected
form: most underrespected
Etymology: From under- + respected.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently respected.
oversensationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversensationalizes
form: oversensationalizing
form: oversensationalized
form: oversensationalized
Etymology: From over- + sensationalize.
Senses: glosses: To sensationalize too much.
oversensationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversensationalize
oversensationalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversensationalize
oversensationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversensationalize
tunnels of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunnel of love
ready as Freddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ready like Freddy
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme. First use appears c. 1951. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Cinderella seldom got a chance to open the door for callers, so she was ready as Freddy.
ref: 1951, Florida State Prison (Raiford) (contributor), Raiford Record - Volumes 13-14, page 6:
glosses: Entirely ready.
Offenbachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Offenbachian
form: most Offenbachian
Etymology: From Offenbach + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.
reägent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reägents
Senses: examples: text: Test, n.…(Chem.) Reägent.
ref: 1871, Richard Soule, A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, page 406/1 s.v. “Test, n.”
text: The City authorities have made prolonged and numerous experiments on sulphate of alumina, which seemed to present greater practical advantages for the purification of sewage water than quicklime and other reägents already known in France and England.
ref: 1876, Robert Manning, transl., Purification of the Seine, page 25:
text: Dr. Frankland…having submitted to analysis different reägents tried or proposed, has found that on an average they extract from sewage water only 37 per cent. of the organic nitrogen contained in it.
ref: ibidem, page 26
text: The Finns…are being forcibly dissolved in the Muscovite dominion by powerful reägents, by Russian schoolmasters, a Russian priesthood, Russian military service.
ref: 1911, Ellen Churchill Semple, chapter IV, in Influences of Geographic Environment, page 119:
glosses: Rare spelling of reagent.
reägents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:reägents.
glosses: plural of reägent
horsetail pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: horsetail pines
Senses: glosses: A pine tree, Pinus massoniana, native to a wide area of central and southern China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and northern Vietnam.
Synonyms: sense: Pinus massoniana
word: Chinese red pine
sense: Pinus massoniana
word: Masson's pine
not see someone for dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If I got a job offer as good as that, you wouldn't see me for dust.
glosses: To not see someone at all; implying a hasty departure.
coebang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coebangs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of koban, former gold coin.
coebangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coebang
awoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aroo (“howl of a wolf or dog”).
azzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azz
bioastronomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + astronomical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bioastronomy.
dogtooth tuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogtooth tuna
Senses: glosses: Gymnosarda unicolor, a pelagic marine fish of the family Scombridae.
astroecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + ecology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the interactions of biota with space environments.
astroecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroecologists
Etymology: From astro- + ecologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies astroecology.
astroecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroecologist
idiosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idio- (“distinct”) + soma (“body”), from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Senses: glosses: The posterior portion of the body of a mite.
Derived terms: idiosomal
gnathosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathosomas
form: gnathosomata
Etymology: By surface analysis, gnatho- (“jaw”) + -soma (“body”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
synonyms: capitulum
glosses: The anterior portion of the body of a mite.
idiosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idiosoma + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the idiosoma.
jumma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jummas
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?], from Arabic جُمْعَة (jumʕa).
Senses: glosses: The total assessment (for land revenue) from any particular estate, or division of country.
Related terms: jummabundi
crinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crinums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Crinum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κρῐ́νον (krĭ́non, “lily”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any of the genus Crinum of perennial plants with large showy flowers on leafless stems, which develop from bulbs.
crinums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crinum
worlded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Containing worlds.
worlded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of world
mawla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawlas
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A patron or protector.
mawlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawla
droolier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of drooly: more drooly
drooliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of drooly: most drooly
coarse fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coarse fishes
form: coarse fish
Senses: glosses: Any fish that is not a game fish, and thus historically disdained by recreational anglers.
glosses: Any fish dwelling near the surface of the water that is not a salmonid.
Related terms: rough fish
matchpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matchpots
Etymology: From match + pot.
Senses: glosses: A miniature pot of paint, intended to be used as a sample for matching an existing colour.
matchpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matchpot
perispome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.spəʊm/
Etymology: Abbreviation of perispomenon.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having a perispomene on the last syllable.
raw_tags: of a word
perispome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.spəʊm/
Forms: form: perispomes
Etymology: Abbreviation of perispomenon.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word with a perispomene on its last syllable; a perispomenon.
perispome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.spəʊm/
Forms: form: perispomes
form: perispoming
form: perispomed
form: perispomed
Etymology: Abbreviation of perispomenon.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To place a perispomene on the last syllable of (a word).
Related terms: properispome
bundle branch block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bundle branch blocks
Senses: examples: text: The electrocardiogram manifests with a basic second degree conduction block, e.g. a 2:1 ratio associated with a bundle branch block pattern.
ref: 1971, Leo Schamroth, The disorders of cardiac rhythm, page 185:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A heart condition in which the electrical impulses controlling the pace of the heart are not transmitted normally through either of the bundle branches.
Synonyms: word: BBB
Related terms: LBBB
RBBB
foreload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreloads
Etymology: From fore- + load.
Senses: glosses: A load placed on the front or forward part of anything.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The weight that acts on muscle once it begins to contract; increased end-diastolic volume.
Related terms: afterload
foreload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreloads
form: foreloading
form: foreloaded
form: foreloaded
Etymology: From fore- + load.
Senses: examples: text: Manure is not a problem at The Gables, for a local farmer comes weekly, foreloads it by tractor into a trailer and takes it away.
ref: 1961, Poultry Farmer:
glosses: To load beforehand or in advance.
demuslimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demuslimizes
form: demuslimizing
form: demuslimized
form: demuslimized
Senses: examples: text: ... that the educated Egyptian was a demuslimized Muslim and that Great Britain's primary duty in Egypt was to establish a system which would enable the mass of the population ...
ref: 1969, Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot, Egypt and Cromer: a study in Anglo-Egyptian relations, p 63
text: It would have gradually demuslimized Muslim children by subjecting them to the philosophy that Hinduism and Islam were not too different and then exposing them to Hindu social influence and political domination.
ref: 1970, Pakistan Historical Society, A History of the Freedom Movement: Being the Story of Muslim Struggle for the Freedom of Hind-Pakistan, 1707-1947, Volume 4, p 15
text: By one stroke our next generation grew up speaking a few words of English, but it had essentially been demuslimized, and deculturalized.
ref: 1990, The Foundation, Vision: A Publication of Iqbal Shariati Foundation, p 4
text: 2001, Anonymous, Re: Lifting up Afghan women's burquas and fucking them Group: soc.culture.african.american
Now that we have seen the veils get lifted a little have any of you had fantasys of lifting up those muslim veils and demuslimizing some of those hotties?
glosses: To make nonmuslim
Synonyms: Muslimize
Muslimologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muslimologists
Etymology: From Muslimology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The material on the Muslim life comes, again, largely from my own interviewing, 1961 to date, and from other primary sources; Lincoln and Essien-Udom remain the premier Muslimologists.
ref: 1979, Peter Louis Goldman, The Death and Life of Malcolm X, page 446:
text: Poor Zalmay K. (evidently the Busheviki's one and only ideologically correct Muslimologist) can't simultaneouly ^([sic]) be in Ankara preventing THAT and in Kurdistan preventing THIS. BGKB. Happy bombs.
ref: 2003, John H. McCloskey, “Re: Anti-Saddam Officials Rebuke Bush Unilateral Strategy”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):
glosses: One who studies Muslimology
Muslimologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muslimologist
demuslimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demuslimize
demuslimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demuslimize
demuslimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demuslimize
mouthgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthgasm
Pallie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pally.
poodle shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poodle shooter
nilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of nill
sexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexperiments
Etymology: Blend of sex + experiment
Senses: glosses: An instance of sexual experimentation.
sexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sexperiments
form: sexperimenting
form: sexperimented
form: sexperimented
Etymology: Blend of sex + experiment
Senses: glosses: To experiment sexually.
sexperiments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sexperiment
sexperimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sexperiment
sexperimented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sexperiment
sexperimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexperimental
form: most sexperimental
Etymology: Blend of sex + experimental
Senses: examples: text: Get sexperimental in a swimming pool – the buoyancy of the water makes things fun.
ref: 2012, Pam Spurr, Sex Academy:
glosses: Pertaining to sexperimentation.
excuse you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: By analogy with excuse me, which is used to apologize. First appears in the late twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: He raised his brows, 'Excuse me, or should I say, excuse you?'
ref: 1996, Vickie Moore, This Time Forever, page 123:
text: Excuse you, you're in my way.
ref: 2000, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Legally Blonde:
text: Finally, the girl managed to utter, “Well, excuse you,” and turned to leave. George fumbled for words. “Wait. Don't go,” he pleaded. “Please, allow me to apologize. Can I, uh... buy you a Coke, or something?”
ref: 2007, Gary Smiley, Seasons of Liberty, page 19:
glosses: An indignant response to an individual who has behaved rudely or insolently and has failed to apologize.
mai-baap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Literally "mother-father".
Senses: glosses: Applied to a style of government that is a benevolent dictatorship or nanny state.
multistroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + stroke.
Senses: examples: a multistroke character or gesture
glosses: Involving more than one stroke (as of a pen).
astroecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + ecological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astroecology.
lawnless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lawn + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lawn.
Derived terms: lawnlessness
Alcottian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alcottian
form: most Alcottian
Etymology: From Alcott + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist.
nonmenstrual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + menstrual.
Senses: glosses: Not menstrual.
nonmenstruating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + menstruating.
Senses: glosses: Not menstruating.
nonmenstruation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + menstruation.
Senses: glosses: Absence of menstruation; failure to menstruate.
Synonyms: amenorrhoea
sexplore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sexplores
form: sexploring
form: sexplored
form: sexplored
Etymology: Blend of sex + explore
Senses: glosses: To explore sexually
Related terms: sexperiment
sexplores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sexplore
sexploring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sexplore
sexplored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sexplore
unintrusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unintrusively
form: most unintrusively
Etymology: From unintrusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unintrusive manner.
unintrusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unintrusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unintrusive.
normcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːmkɔː/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹmˌkoɹ/
Etymology: From norm(al) (“according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern”) + -core (suffix denoting genres of music and subcultures (often specialized and underground)), coined by the cartoonist Ryan Estrada in a guest comic strip for the webcomic Templar, Arizona on 17 September 2008: see the quotation.
It was popularized in a stylized, tongue-in-cheek trend report produced by the collective K-HOLE in 2013.
Senses: examples: text: That means he's normcore. Dangerously regular. Dresses only in T-shirts an' jeans, uses slang appropriated from other sub cultures, but only 3 years after it's^([sic – meaning its]) first use, an' only after it's been used in a sitcom.
ref: [2008 September 17, Ryan Estrada, “Ryan Estrada Day: Templar, Arizona”, in Templar, Arizona, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015:
text: Clémence would say that his style was normcore before normcore became a thing. She had to admit that she still found him attractive.
ref: 2014, Harper Lin, chapter 3, in Croissant Murder (A Patisserie Mystery with Recipes; book 5), Kingston, Ont.: Harper Lin Books, →ISBN:
text: Normcore is gray sweatpants pretending to be trousers. Normcore is a seen-better-days faun-colored golf knit. Normcore is an unlogo'd sneaker. Normcore is the opposite of wearing a pair of white patent-leather bejeweled Versace assless chaps. Normcore is oblivious to Givenchy shaved-beaver man purses. Normcore knows nothing of fluorescent-studded Louboutin sneakers.
ref: 2014 April 7, Simon Doonan, “Beware of Normcore”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022:
text: Another part of her gift is that she's damn funny. Even if she'd come from the heart of normcore, her tale would be worth telling and well told. But she was raised in Crazytown, and the more foreign her territory, the more delightful—and somehow more relatable—her tale becomes.
ref: 2015 August, Joss Whedon, “Foreword”, in Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page x:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing.
examples: text: "That's normcore painting, and that's what people are buying and trading now," [Deborah] Kass said, along with some slightly more colorful critique she opted to keep off the record.
ref: 2015 December 9, Alexandria Symonds, “Art as social critique — with a little help from The Rolling Stones and Katy Perry”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022:
glosses: Any style that is mainstream or unremarkable.
Derived terms: gorpcore
lunarcore
Naarmcore
Related terms: normal
soda pops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soda pop
fukusas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fukusa
foukousa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foukousas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fukusa.
foukousas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foukousa
Bates method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bates method
Etymology: Named after the physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931), who attributed nearly all sight problems to habitual strain of the eyes, and felt that glasses were harmful and never necessary.
Senses: glosses: An alternative eyesight therapy based on visualization, movement, and imagining visual marks and signs.
Hanafi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanafis
Etymology: From Arabic حَنَفِيّ (ḥanafiyy).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Sunni follower of Hanafism.
Synonyms: Hanafist
Hanafite
Hanafism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hanafi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Sunni school of thought that follows Abu Hanifa.
Related terms: Hanafi
Hanafization
hanafize
Hanafist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanafists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hanafi.
synonyms: word: Hanafi
Hanafite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanafites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hanafi.
synonyms: word: Hanafi
Hanafists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanafist
Hanafites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanafite
Hanafis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanafi
waterwheel plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterwheel plants
Senses: glosses: An endangered carnivorous aquatic plant, Aldrovanda vesiculosa, which is the sole extant species of the genus Aldrovanda.
Centor criteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by R. M. Centor et al in 1981.
Senses: glosses: A set of criteria used to identify the likelihood of a bacterial infection in adult patients complaining of a sore throat.
overexplored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overexplored
form: most overexplored
Etymology: From over- + explored.
Senses: glosses: Excessively explored or investigated.
pretask
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + task.
Senses: glosses: Before commencing a task.
postinstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + instruction.
Senses: glosses: After being instructed or taught.
preinstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + instruction.
Senses: glosses: Before being instructed or taught.
coinfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coinfluences
form: coinfluencing
form: coinfluenced
form: coinfluenced
Etymology: From co- + influence.
Senses: glosses: To influence together; to exert a joint influence upon.
coinfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinfluences
Etymology: From co- + influence.
Senses: glosses: Joint influence.
coinfluenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coinfluence
coinfluencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coinfluence
coinfluences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coinfluence
seq.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: sq.
form: seq
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of et seq.: and following.
seq.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sq.
form: seq
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sequel.
vags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vag
Jüngerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jüngerian
form: most Jüngerian
Etymology: From Jünger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), German writer.
Barojian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Barojian
form: most Barojian
Etymology: From Baroja + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pío Baroja (1872–1956), Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98.
eclectic medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784–1841), a physician who lived among the Native Americans and observed their use of medicinal plants.
Senses: glosses: A branch of American medicine that made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
magnet therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: magnotherapy
heroic medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroic medicines
Senses: examples: text: Heroic medicine included the practices of bloodletting, intestinal purging, and blistering.
glosses: Any of the aggressive medical practices and methods used until the mid-19th century, particularly the dangerous and unproven treatments that were later replaced by scientific approaches.
Related terms: heroic dose
heroics
Alexander technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander in the 1890s.
Senses: examples: text: “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” he read aloud. “What's ‘Alexander Technique?’”
“Theory of standing.”
ref: 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A technique in alternative medicine that attempts to prevent unnecessary levels of muscular and mental tension during everyday activities.
semisupine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + supine.
Senses: glosses: Positioned so that the upper body is tilted (at 45° or variations) and not horizontal.
qualifier: Alexander technique
glosses: Positioned lying on one's back with the knees bent upward while the soles of the feet and the upper body remain in contact with a horizontal surface.
Bowen technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916–1982).
Senses: glosses: A form of bodywork in alternative medicine, involving gentle rolling motions along the muscles, tendons, and fascia.
Synonyms: Bowenwork