cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pseudo-history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-histories
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudohistory.
pseudo-histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-history
Bozüyük
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Bilecik Province, Marmara region, Turkey.
Febrezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Febreze
Febrezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of Febreze
Febrezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Febreze
minaretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A torrent ran down the floor of the valley below, bordered by poplars; and tucked in thick trees lay a series of picturesque minaretted villages.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 437:
glosses: Alternative form of minareted.
prepayment penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepayment penalties
form: pre-payment penalty
Senses: examples: text: Prepayment penalties can be viewed as a necessary supplement to the escalating-payments feature: If borrowers prepay before the end of the low-rate introductory period and thus avoid the high post-reset rates, then the escalating-payments feature becomes moot.
ref: 2012, Oren Bar-Gill, Seduction by Contract:
glosses: An additional fee charged for paying off part of or the entirety of a loan ahead of the scheduled due date in order to compensate for the loss of interest income suffered by the creditor in such case.
prairie banana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prairie bananas
Senses: examples: text: At this annual Albany festival visitors can enjoy treats from the pawpaw fruit, including “prairie banana” ice cream.
ref: 2015, Gabrielle Balkan, The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!, Wide Eyed Editions, →ISBN, page 72:
text: If you’ve ever sampled an American custard apple, a prairie banana or a hillbilly mango, then you’ve eaten a pawpaw.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
VKSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VKS
prairie bananas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie banana
prepayment penalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepayment penalty
mechanic's grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanic's grip
mechanic's lien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanic's liens
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A security interest in the title to property for the benefit of those who have supplied labor or materials that improve the property.
mechanic's liens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanic's lien
theorycel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theorycels
Etymology: From theory + -cel.
Senses: examples: text: theorycels trying not to use the word bourgeois in a tweet
ref: 2020 November 10, @Martposting, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2023:
text: Theorycels in Trumpworld
ref: 2021 January 5, Geoff Shullenberger, “(post title)”, in Outsider Theory, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023:
text: You can understand a "wordcel" to be an individual with significant training and expertise in the humanities, particularly reading and writing — a "theorycel" being the most heightened version, the cloistered pedant studying literally everything that pertains to their area of interest, yet unable to convert those ideas into practical realities.
ref: 2022 January 24, Miles Klee, “The Depressing Rise of 'Wordcels' and 'Numbercels'”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023:
text: rhythm footwork and timing at 230lbs because according to twitter training theorycels, i lack 'endurance and agility'
ref: 2022 September 1, @grecian_the, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2023:
text: Every sophisticatard thought basic jobs would automated so they could focus on useless art and theorycel ramblings no one was gonna read
ref: 2023 March 31, u/shangumdee, “Anon explains the technology behind AI”, in Reddit, r/4chan, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2023:
text: Your favourite twitter theorycel is, at best, half as well-read as you think he is. Probably more like 1/10th in most cases. Read old books, not tweets by 22-year-olds who read old books.
ref: 2023 July 17, @Wired73813850, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2023:
glosses: Someone (not necessarily an incel) interested in extremely academic and abstract ideas, but having little to no practical skills.
theorycels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theorycel
hypodermic syringes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypodermic syringe
hillbilly mango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillbilly mangoes
form: hillbilly mangos
Senses: examples: text: If you’ve ever sampled an American custard apple, a prairie banana or a hillbilly mango, then you’ve eaten a pawpaw.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
rigging monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigging monkeys
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A crewmember of a sailing vessel whose primary responsibility is to climb the mast, usually with the assistance of a boatswain's chair, in order to work on the rigging of the ship.
rigging monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigging monkey
Ulukışla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Ulukışla, from Turkish ulu (“supreme, great, holy”) + Turkish kışla (“barracks”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Niğde Province, Turkey.
glosses: A village in Aksaray district, Aksaray Province, Turkey.
Central Anatolia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large geographical region in central Turkey.
Meyer lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meyer lemon
madeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From made + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Or, as the atheists say: 'It's just there, a given, brute fact.' Well, is that what we are saying? No, we say, because though 'not out of' anything, still, it is made. And there, in that dark, opaque thought which is not a thought, in that sense of the 'madeness' of things which is beyond the grasp of all sense, a thought beyond thought which yet penetrates all our thought and experience of the world with a glimpse of its mystery, of its reality and truth lying beyond both it and beyond us, is the first, primitive, opaque awareness of a meaning we can attach to the name which is not a name, 'God', that name which Moses sought and was given, which named the face which Moses begged to see and was denied the sight of, because it was wrapped in a cloud, 'for no one may see my face and live'.
ref: 2002, Denys Turner, Faith Seeking, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 31:
text: As both a scholar of the novel and a practitioner, Thirlwell revels in the artificiality of text and language, the sheer madeness of books, and part of the pleasure of reading him is to see him take pleasure in the process of making.
ref: 2015 April, Adam Kirsch, “Such a Nice Monster”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of having been made (by someone or something)
Related terms: handmadeness
handmadeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-madeness
Etymology: From handmade + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Ladouceur is one of a group of Canadian artists, including former members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, whose primary medium is drawing and whose work is marked by "lowbrow" sensibilities, a Dadaistic fondness for absurdity, small-scale handmadeness, and imagery that seems to spring, surreal and unfettered, directly from the unconscious. Such work stands in pendulum-swing opposition to the large-scale, theory-driven, photo-based work of the previous generation.
ref: 2018 July 6, Robin Laurence, “At the Burnaby Art Gallery, Jeff Ladouceur: Pearl Path takes cartoonish characters into surreal, amusing realms”, in The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C.: Overstory Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2020:
text: My first thought was of Paul Klee, that kind of love-at-first-sight allure, seductive hand-madeness and unfiltered accessibility, only bigger and stronger.
ref: 2020 June 26, Roberta Smith, “The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023:
glosses: The quality of being handmade.
Related terms: madeness
hand-madeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handmadeness.
bandango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandangoes
form: bandangos
Etymology: Blend of banana + mango.
Senses: glosses: A pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
sheisties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheisty
shiesties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiesty
dayooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dayouth.
thold
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of the old.
crack rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack rock
self-privatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-privatizes
form: self-privatizing
form: self-privatized
form: self-privatized
Senses: glosses: To privatize by oneself or at one's own initiative or direction.
Derived terms: self-privatization
self-privatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-privatize
self-privatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of self-privatize
self-privatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-privatize
self-privatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The privatization by oneself or at one's own initiative or direction.
crosses one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross one's heart
crossing one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross one's heart
crossed one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross one's heart
crosses my heart and hopes to die
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross my heart and hope to die
crossing my heart and hoping to die
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross my heart and hope to die
crossed my heart and hoped to die
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross my heart and hope to die
Farther India
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Southeast Asia, as seen during colonial days.
India matting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Canton matting
China matting
glosses: Floor matting manufactured in China or India, consisting of grass and reeds.
Canton matting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of India matting.
synonyms: word: India matting
China matting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of India matting.
synonyms: word: India matting
palm kernel oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm kernel oils
form: palm-kernel oil
form: palmkernel oil
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
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vegetable oil
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oil
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glosses: An edible plant oil derived from the kernel of the oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis).
devil's walking sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's walking stick
palm kernel oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palm kernel oil
oil baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil barons
Senses: synonyms: oil tycoon
glosses: A magnate or powerful individual in the oil business.
oil barons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil baron
oil tycoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil tycoons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oil baron.
synonyms: word: oil baron
oil tycoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil tycoon
power kerosene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tractor vaporising oil.
synonyms: word: tractor vaporising oil
Elamo-Dravidian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Elamo- + Dravidian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A hypothesized language family that links the Dravidian languages to the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam.
peekaboo tank tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peekaboo tank top
signalless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From signal + -less.
Senses: examples: text: At 6 p.m. the train left and ran quickly across the north-east corner of Syria, with few stops on this isolated 40-mile stretch of signalless railway.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 439:
glosses: Without any signals.
new-country project
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new-country projects
Senses: examples: text: We will look at this question in the context of five approaches to new-country projects that are viable in the world today:
ref: 1999 [1979], Erwin S. Strauss, How to Start Your Own Country, 3rd edition, Paladin Press, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of new country project.
model-country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model-countries
Senses: examples: text: By micronations, are you referring to the model-country sort of things like Talossa, etc., or "real" nations that are small, like Monaco?
ref: 1997 October 14, |#426| Ishmael, alt.politics.micronations (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of model country.
model-countries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plural of model-country.
McDonoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McDonough
L-complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: L-complexes
Senses: examples: text: If on the other hand there are speech varieties in the group which are not mutually intelligible with some other members ― like A and C in the example above ― then the group is defined as an L-complex.
ref: 1981, Curtis McFarland, A linguistic atlas of the Philippines, page 9:
text: !Xun can be described as an L-complex, that is, as a cluster of speech forms that are linked by a chain of mutual intelligibility, but speakers at the extreme ends of the chain do not understand one another.
ref: 2013, Rainer Vossen, The Khoesan Languages, page 9:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of dialect continuum.
synonyms: word: dialect continuum
L-complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of L-complex
consecutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consecute
consecuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consecute
consecuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consecute
scissors-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissors-glasses
form: scissors glasses
Etymology: From scissors + glasses.
Senses: glosses: eyeglasses with scissoring stems, used for distance vision
Synonyms: binocles-ciseaux
binocles-ciseaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binocles-ciseaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French binocles-ciseaux (literally “scissors-glasses”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scissors-glasses
synonyms: word: scissors-glasses
flag on the play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here we go at last. It's Iona's ball on their own 10 yard line; they are in punt formation — wait — there's a flag on the play.
ref: 1955, Natalie E. White, The Billion Dollar Saint: A Farce in Three Acts, Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, page 29:
text: In the modern game there is perhaps no phrase more familiar than "Flag on the play!" It is an instant and unmistakable signal to every player, to the benches, and to the fans, that a penalty is about to be enforced by a game official.
ref: 2012, Robert J. Scott, Myles A. Pocta, Honor on the Line: The Fifth Down and the Spectacular 1940 College Football Season, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 146:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A penalty flag.
examples: text: Flag on the play, I thought we were going to the mall on Sunday?
glosses: Used to indicate a problem or issue.
Synonyms: laundry
demagnifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demagnify
demagnifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demagnify
prepayability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being prepayable.
derusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derust
derusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derust
derusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: it's something completely different yeah, no hold + one preview + different rotation rules makes it so you pretty much have to learn a lot about this game specifically. kinda like if you were trying NES tetris yet this is also different from that. i do have a headstart because i used to play tgm on emulator like 5 years ago, and i was happy to see that after a few days of derusting i was doing good still
ref: 2022 December 5, u/Oshisaure, “With TGM1 being on the switch now I got a GM on an official release”, in Reddit, r/Tetris, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023:
glosses: The act of derusting (in various senses).
derusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derust
derusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derust
APIDAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APIDA
AANHPIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AANHPI
AA/NH/PI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AA/NH/PIs
form: AA/NH/PI
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AANHPI.
AA/NH/PIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AA/NH/PI
Asian American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian Americans
Senses: glosses: An American of Asian ancestry.
Hypernyms: AAPI
AANHPI
Asian Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian American
Native Hawaiian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Native Hawaiians
Senses: glosses: An indigenous Polynesian individual of the Hawaiian Islands.
Native Hawaiians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Native Hawaiian
Pacific Islander American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific Islander Americans
Senses: glosses: An American who is of Pacific Islander ancestry, or is a descendant of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent.
Pacific Islander Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacific Islander American
cock blocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock blockers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cockblocker.
cock blockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock blocker
cock blocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of cock block
cock blocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cock block
taxidrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxidriver
taxidriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxidrivers
Senses: examples: text: Then you become the real taxidriver who understands just one sign of the whole sign language – it’s the one that yells I WANNA TAXI! TAXI! STOP! […] A taxidriver like that learns to get to know one gesture only but every form of it: The uppity-mellow lifting of the left arm of little Madison Avenue ladies whose right hand is holding a leash with a choking lap-sized dog; […]
ref: 2000, Iva Pekárková, translated by Raymond Johnston and Iva Pekárková, Gimme the Money, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 47:
text: When I was your age, we didn’t have gyms. Or, there were a few. But they were for—boxers, taxidrivers. Men, anyway.
ref: 2015, Sophie McManus, The Unfortunates, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Pickets came and went for the shortest shifts before resuming their work as teachers, taxidrivers or minders of other newspapers’ machinery.
ref: 2016, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of taxi driver.
tenji blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenji block
setup block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setup blocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of 1-2-3 block.
synonyms: word: 1-2-3 block
machinist block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinist blocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of 1-2-3 block.
synonyms: word: 1-2-3 block
machinist blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machinist block
setup blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setup block
tactile paving slab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactile paving slabs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenji block.
synonyms: word: tenji block
bumpy pavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumpy pavements
Senses: glosses: A pavement marked with tenji blocks.
tactile ground surface indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactile ground surface indicators
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenji block.
synonyms: word: tenji block
tactile walking surface indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactile walking surface indicators
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenji block.
synonyms: word: tenji block
detectable warning surface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detectable warning surfaces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenji block.
synonyms: word: tenji block
braille block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braille blocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenji block.
synonyms: word: tenji block
buxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baksheesh.
bachshish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bachshishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baksheesh.
backsishe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baksheesh.
bacshish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacshishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baksheesh.
bakhshîsh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakhshîshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baksheesh.
lovestory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovestories
Senses: examples: text: It had a lovestory in it, and his face would get bright red, reading parts of it, he’d laugh and shake his head in the middle of a sentence he thought was a little too true and tender for a football-coach to be sharing with his writing class. […] Real lovestories never have endings. The only way to find what happens in happily-ever-after with a perfect mate is to live it for ourselves. […] That’s why lovestories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end!
ref: 1984, Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 83, 245, and 246:
text: But Mam ignored him, skimming her reading finger down the leaf of her lovestory. […] She loosened her grip on the lovestory and it rewound into its watertight case. […] “I heard her tell you. And that all I read are lovestories.” […] There were never aliens in the kinds of lovestories Mam liked to read.
ref: 1998 June, James Patrick Kelly, “Lovestory”, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 22, number 6 (whole 270), New York, N.Y.: Dell Magazines, pages 28, 29, and 31:
text: But this lovestory was to have a happy ending, for there, coming out of the darkness, paddling into shore, was an exhausted but alive young brave. The Ong was dead, killed by the poison arrows, and the Chief of course had no hesitation in granting the heroic young brave the hand of his daughter. And so ended an early day Tahoe lovestory. […] Movies that ran the gauntlet of themes from high adventure, psycho-thrillers, to contemporary lovestories and comedies. All with Lake Tahoe, or the Truckee River, or the majestic scenery of the Sierras in the background. The classic Tahoe movie is generally considered to be the 1935 adventure-lovestory “Rose Marie.”
ref: 2004, Don Lane, Tahoe Tales of Bygone Days and Memorable Pioneers, Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 65 and 236:
glosses: Rare form of love story.
lovestories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovestory
oyster grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kelp.
synonyms: word: kelp
oyster parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster parlors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oyster bar.
synonyms: word: oyster bar
oyster parlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster parlor
tactile paving slabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactile paving slab
bumpy pavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumpy pavement
tactile ground surface indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactile ground surface indicator
tactile walking surface indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactile walking surface indicator
detectable warning surfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detectable warning surface
braille blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braille block
truncated domes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of raised bumps, often yellow in color, located on a pathway or platform, to convey route information to visually impaired people.
Chanslor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
weigh boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weigh boats
Senses: glosses: A container used to weigh small amounts of substances.
weighboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighboats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weigh boat.
Kleopatras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kleopatra
Pop Tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pop Tarts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pop tart.
contra proferentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of contra proferentem.
Pop Tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pop Tart
intellectual prostitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intellectual prostitutes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zombie (“An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement”).
synonyms: word: zombie
extra: An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement
fire hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire hazards
Senses: glosses: Any action, material, or condition that may increase the size or severity of a fire or that might cause a fire to start.
fire hazards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire hazard
intellectual prostitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intellectual prostitute
grind the corn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grinds the corn
form: grinding the corn
form: ground the corn
form: ground the corn
Senses: glosses: To perform the coital alignment technique
St Elmo's fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St Elmo's fires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of St. Elmo's fire.
St Elmo's fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of St Elmo's fire
zombie computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie computers
Etymology: From zombie + computer. First use appears c. 1999. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: The danger is manifested in this version because the hackers are gaining control of as many as thousands of vulnerable zombie computers in order to magnify and direct their full-scale assault against a single victim from all directions.
ref: 1999, Brian Fonseca, “"Denial-of-service attacks employ zombie PCs to hit networks"”, in Infoworld Daily News:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: zombie host
glosses: A computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker by means of a computer virus, computer worm, or Trojan horse program and can be used to perform malicious tasks under the remote direction of the hacker.
Related terms: zombie client
zombie computers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie computer
zombie network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie networks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network or collection of compromised computers or hosts that are connected to the Internet.
Related terms: zombie client
zombie computer
zombie networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie network
zombie company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie companies
Senses: examples: text: Mostly, though, the people in a zombie company will be blissfully unaware that they are in the middle of a major business disaster until after it has unfolded.·
ref: 2004, Sydney Finkelstein, Why Smart Executives Fail:
text: Pure zombie companies satisfy all the criteria to be considered zombi companies after adjusting the ICR and CLR ratios for the connected legal entities' financial expenses and short-term financial liabilitites.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Branko Radulović, Stefan Dragutinović, “Did COVID-19 Relief Programs Reanimate Zombie Companies?”, in Marko Mihić, Sandra Jednak, Gordana Savić, editor, Proceedings of the XVIII International symposium Symorg 2022, page 211:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: zombie business
glosses: A company that requires bailouts in order to operate, or an indebted company that is able to repay the interest on its debts but not repay the principal.
Related terms: zombie bank
zombie economy
corporate welfare
zombie companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie company
femic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more femic
form: most femic
Etymology: From Fe (for iron) + m + (for magnesium) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Containing essential iron and magnesium (of rocks or minerals).
undercover car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercover cars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ghost car.
synonyms: word: ghost car
zombie car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie cars
Senses: glosses: A vehicle that has been commercially discontinued, yet continues to accrue sales.
glosses: A vehicle that has missing parts or is generally falling apart due to neglect.
zombie cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie car
zombie business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie businesses
Senses: examples: text: What makes these zombie businesses so deceptive is that they are usually happy zombies.
ref: 2004, Sydney Finkelstein, Why Smart Executives Fail:
glosses: Synonym of zombie company.
synonyms: word: zombie company
zombie businesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie business
zombie debtor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie debtors
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A company or individual holding a zombie debt.
zombie debtors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie debtor
CDWM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There is something distinctly British about CDWM. There was a running joke that you could have predicted how Britain was going to vote in the EU referendum by watching old episodes of the show.
ref: 2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Come Dine with Me, a British reality show where participants have to score the experience of eating at each others' houses.
quarter-wavelength film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-wavelength films
Senses: glosses: Synonym of λ/4 film.
synonyms: word: λ/4 film
λ/4 plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: λ/4 plates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of λ/4 film.
synonyms: word: λ/4 film
on film
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Appearing in the form of a movie or video.
λ/4 plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of λ/4 plate
quarter-wavelength films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-wavelength film
re-enactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-enactors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reenactor.
re-enactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-enactor
petrol engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrol engines
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An internal combustion engine designed to run on petrol (gasoline).
Synonyms: english: in the less common sense of that term
translation: in the less common sense of that term
word: gas engine
Coordinate terms: word: diesel engine
english: in the more common sense of that term
translation: in the more common sense of that term
word: gas engine
word: gas turbine
word: steam engine
word: steam turbine
petrol engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrol engine
intellectual honesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An applied method of problem-solving characterized by an unbiased, honest attitude.
problem-solvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problem-solving
problem-solves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of problem-solve
problem-solved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of problem-solve
problem solve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: problem solves
form: problem solving
form: problem solved
form: problem solved
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of problem-solve.
problem solves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of problem solve
problem solving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of problem solve
problem solving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problem solvings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of problem-solving.
problem solved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of problem solve
problem solvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problem solving
drug problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug problems
Senses: coordinate_terms: drinking problem
glosses: Drug addiction or substance abuse.
drug problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug problem
Prouhet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem
care and attention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Attentiveness.
absiemens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of abmho.
synonyms: word: abmho
Krymchak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krymchaks
Senses: glosses: A member of the Krymchak people, a Jewish ethnic group who historically lived in Crimea but now live mostly in Israel.
Krymchak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language that is part of the Turkic language family.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Krymchak terms
grizette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grizettes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of grisette (“type of woman”).
grizettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grizette
ECN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Explicit Congestion Notification.
Krymchaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Krymchak
Tolly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
glosses: A surname
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Limit
Etymology: From the surnames of the three physicists who proposed this limitation on the long distance travel of energetic particles. From Greisen + Zatsepin + Kuzmin. Named after the American physicist Kenneth Greisen, and the Soviet physicists Georgiy Zatsepin, and Vadim Kuzmin. The Soviet and the American teams each discovered the limit separately in the 1960s, being independently computed in 1966.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic ray protons travelling from other galaxies through the intergalactic medium to the Milky Way.
wikipedia: en:Georgiy Zatsepin
en:Kenneth Greisen
en:Vadim Kuzmin (physicist)
Synonyms: sense: abbreviated form
word: GZK
sense: abbreviated form
word: GZK Limit
sense: abbreviated form
word: GZK limit
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cut-off
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cut-Off
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut off
word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cut Off
word: GZK cutoff
word: GZK Cut-off
word: GZK Cut-Off
word: GZK Cutoff
word: GZK cut-off
word: GZK cut off
word: GZK Cut Off
Coordinate terms: word: EECR
raw_tags: of particles over this limit
english: the most energetic EECR discovered so far
translation: the most energetic EECR discovered so far
word: OMG particle
english: placeholder name for that which accelerates particles above this limit
translation: placeholder name for that which accelerates particles above this limit
word: zevatron
Related terms: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin horizon
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin mechanism
GZK
GZK horizon
GZK mechanism
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut off
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cut-off
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cut-Off
form: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cut Off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit.
synonyms: word: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
Derived terms: GZK cutoff
GZK Cut-off
GZK Cut-Off
GZK Cutoff
GZK cut-off
GZK cut off
GZK Cut Off
Sakar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain in southeast Bulgaria.
mandreling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mandrel
mandrelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mandrel
mandreled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mandrel
mandrelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mandrel
Kadhimain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kadhimiya and Kadhimayn, Iraq.
rijksmonument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rijksmonuments
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch rijksmonument (“state monument”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Protests against the proposal were large enough to not only prevent demolition, but also get the bridge protected as a Rijksmonument, a listed national monument.'
ref: 2022 July 8, Ryan Erik King, “Rotterdam Won't Dismantle Historic Bridge to Let Jeff Bezos' $500 Million Superyacht Pass”, in Jalopnik:
glosses: a national heritage site of the Netherlands
rijksmonuments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rijksmonument
anti-greenmail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Preventing greenmail.
Kadhimayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kadhimiya and Kadhimain, Iraq.
split bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split bathrooms
Senses: glosses: A bathroom having a separate lockable subroom that typically contains the bath and toilet.
split bathrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split bathroom
neoflavene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoflavenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A neoflavonoid having the 4-phenylchromen backbone (C₁₅H₁₀O₂).
neoflavenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoflavene
Kadhimiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: .
synonyms: Kadhimain
Kadhimayn
glosses: A northern neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
turkeyhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkeyhens
Senses: examples: text: It would be too great an undertaking to describe all the extraordinary birds that inhabit this country; but I cannot refrain from noticing that to which they give the name of gallinazo, from the resemblance it has to the turkeyhen. This bird is of the size of a peahen, but its head and neck are something larger.
ref: 1831, Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, edited by Robert Jameson, American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, volume I, Edinburgh: […] Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Chance, and Co. London, page 14:
text: The Madison, 1843, edition, from which the following paragraph is taken, differs slightly from the later texts: […] I told the old woman more ’n twenty times that mother’s old turkeyhen was settin on fourteen eggs.
ref: 1843, “William Tappan Thompson”, in Jay B[roadus] Hubbell, The South in American Literature, 1607-1900, [Durham, N.C.]: Duke University Press, published 1954, →LCCN, page 672:
text: The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings, I see in them and myself the same old law.
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 21:
text: Here and there among the great gathering could be seen odd couples of brave-appearing young gobblers and neat little turkeyhens who talked in quieter tones and spoke of the end which faced them on the morrow.
ref: 1917 November 29, Ralph Jones, “Old-Time Turkeys Bemoan Expensive Fashions of Today: Materialistic Tendencies of Young Gobblers Bring Regret for More Idealistic Days of Yore”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume L, number 167, Atlanta, Ga., page nine, column 4:
text: Turkeys moved fairly well with turkeyhens bringing 25@28c per pound, and toms 20@22c.
ref: 1931 December 19, R. W. R., “Produce Market Review”, in Pennsylvania Farmer, volume 105, number 25, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Capper-Hapman-Slocum, Inc., page 18 (436), columns 3–4:
text: In the center is tribute, consisting of two blankets, perfumes, a copper axe, a basket of tamales, a stewed turkeyhen and a cup of chocolate.
ref: 1990, Manuel Lucena Salmoral, America 1492: Portrait of a Continent 500 Years Ago, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxon: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of turkey-hen.
turkeyhens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkeyhen
horizontal standards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horizontal standard
granulosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granulosity
graphic tees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphic tee
grass rakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass rake
Grazers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grazer
grammatical aspects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatical aspect
grainflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grainflow
standard dialects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard dialect
standard roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard rose
tauroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tauros
glacial troughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacial trough
glass chins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass chin
hydroselenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroselenide
neurosecretomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosecretome
proseparatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proseparatist
sea primroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea primrose
sea states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea state
sea hibiscuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea hibiscus
sea-grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-ground
sea-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-piece
seating charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seating chart
seating plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seating plan
explanifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explanification
exterior derivatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exterior derivative
external obliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of external oblique
lipotransplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipotransplant
liposugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liposugar
lipozymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipozyme
literary executors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literary executor
nuke plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuke plant
planktophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planktophyte
Planoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Planoite
placentographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placentography
radiculographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiculography
radical prostatectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical prostatectomy
radical mastectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical mastectomy