cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subchanneled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + channeled.
Senses: topics: biology
broadcasting
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
radio
zoology
glosses: Divided into subchannels.
heteroechoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteroechoic
form: most heteroechoic
form: hetero-echoic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In ultrasonography, returning mixed levels of echos, mixed echogenicity.
Willsy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wills + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Wills.
Brooksy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brooks + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Brooks.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Brooks.
Bakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Baker + -s.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Baker.
wooden language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French langue de bois.
Senses: examples: text: Of more consequence is the emergence of a phenomen which is perhaps peculiar to the modern world: the phenomenon which the French and Russians call “wooden language,” and which we might call, in honor of Orwell's satire, newspeak.
ref: [1990, Roger Scruton, “Ideologically Speaking”, in Christopher Ricks, Leonard Michaels, editors, The State of the Language, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Life behind the iron curtain was an education in a certain kind of humour: dark, unsentimental and absurd. It understood that jokes had become shortcuts to the truth – apart from the bonus of laughter, they turned the wooden language of the regime against itself in ways that sincerity could not.
ref: 2022 May 20, Patrick McGuinness, “Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov review – the dangers of dwelling in the past”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Speech or writing that is overly abstract, vague, metaphorical or pretentious in order to avoid addressing salient issues.
Filipinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Filipinizations
form: Filipinisation
Etymology: From Filipino + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The Dominican missionaries in the Philippines were not blind to the Filipinization movements gripping every sector of the society.
ref: 1990, Rolando V. De la Rosa, Beginnings of the Filipino Dominicans, →ISBN:
text: Filipinization echoed the liberal policy adopted by the Democrat U.S. administration, headed by President Woodrow Wilson, from 1913 to 1921.
ref: 2004, Keat Gin Ooi, Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, →ISBN:
text: “Asia for the Asians” can be said to have taken a religious turn in the post-war period with the campaign for the Filipinization of the religious orders instigated in mid-1957 by rebel priests Fr Ambrosio Manaligod of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and the Jesuit Hilario Lim.
ref: 2007, David Koh Wee Hock, Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia, →ISBN, page 88:
text: The most plausible answer is the onslaught of Filipinization that swept the country at this time, smoldering in the mid-1960s, flaring in the 1970s, and then set ablaze in the eighties to weaken the colonial apparatus in the larger society.
ref: 2016, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Judy Celine Ick, Poonam Trivedi, Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys, →ISBN:
glosses: A nationalist movement and policy of local control in the Philippines; a policy of embracing native Philippine culture and control.
examples: text: The dance was imitated by the natives, often with the introduction of some comical Filipinizations amid laughter and merry-making in the barrios.
ref: 1971, Elizabeth Durack, Seeing through the Philippines, page 64:
text: Essentially, this mass movement of people and culture from the Philippines constitutes a form of reverse colonization, where American political, social, and economic institutions and spaces experience varying degrees of Filipinization.
ref: 2009, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Joaquin Jay Gonzalez, Kevin M. Chun, Hien Duc Do, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities, →ISBN, page 287:
text: Infusing their own brand of Catholicism in Canada or elsewhere has brought the so-called Filipinization of Christianity in North America (Gonzalez III 2002).
ref: 2010, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Vivienne S. M. Angeles, Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration, →ISBN, page 265:
text: Filipinization results from Philippine diaspora diplomacy in global cities.
ref: 2018, Mark R. Thompson, Eric Vincent C. Batalla, Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines, →ISBN:
glosses: Conversion to a form that reflects Filipino cultural influences; The spread of Philippine influence around the world.
glosses: Tagalization
Filipinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Filipinization
Zan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Scott, this is Zan Adams.” […]
“Her name's Suzanne,” Jon corrected.
“Hello, Scott. You can call me Zan or Suzanne . . . whichever you prefer.”
ref: 1984, Lyn Ducoty, A Pocketful of Dreams, Toronto: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 161:
text: 6:00 a.m. My husband, Bruce, is perky, ready to start his, er, our vacation. While we wake up and get ready to head out of the Comfort Inn, we're watching that horrible HBO documentary […]
Susan “Zan” Meigs, 40, Austin, Texas; English instructor
ref: 2005, Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, B. K. Rakhra, editors, This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America, New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 306:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, or Susanna.
Zan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian ზანური (zanuri).
Senses: glosses: A branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Mingrelian and Laz languages.
guyascutis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guyascutises
Senses: examples: text: “An' hyar you behol' de great Guyascutis, de unknown monster of Central Mexico, wen he foresee he's wictim.”—here he expanded his mouth hideously and uttered a deep roar.
ref: 1879, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 55, page 229:
text: The President touched the button, there was a deep reverberation from a cannon placed in front of the house, rockets were exploded, chains began to rattle, the gas went out, the "guyascutis" howled and the " whangdoodle " mourned.
ref: 1889, The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review - Volume 3, page 382:
text: Eye of mortal man had never looked on Artemus's guyascutis; it was only heard of, like Madame Benoiton.
ref: 1892, The New Review - Volume 7, page 124:
text: But to resume : I started out to say that it is better to be fish, flesh, or fowl, that pickled guyascutis.
ref: 1902, The Free Thought Magazine - Volume 20, page 281:
text: Now I rise to say that if there is anywhere in these United States any old dunghill, scaly-legged, blear-eyed, frosted-combed, roach-backed, crooked-breasted, twisted-toed apology for a hen, that with relative good care won't pay an annual profit on her market value of more than 33 per cent then she ought to be exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition along with the “rara avis” and the “guyascutis” as the biggest curiosity in the show.
ref: 1904, Herbert Winslow Collingwood, The Business Hen: (a New Brood)., page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of guyascutus.
guyascutises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guyascutis
guyascutus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guyascutuses
form: guyascutis
form: gyascutus
form: guyanosa
Senses: examples: text: Agassis has raised, they say, over a million, for his great work on natural philosophy—but what catalogue of snakes, bugs, lame ducks, and guyascutuses, can be compared to a philosophy of female fascinations.
ref: 1858, George R. Graham, Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion:
text: The story of the guyanosa or guyascutus (see Knickerbocker Mag. XXVIII. 36-38 and Harper's Mag. VII. 708-709) tells of somesharpers who sold tickets to the public to see this strange and savage animal.
ref: 1951, Mitford McLeod Mathews, A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles:
text: One person says that there is more to it: "The guyascutus Ieadeth the wangdoodle wheresoever he willeth."
ref: 1953, New York Folklore Quarterly - Volume 9, page 75:
text: The sky was filled with steam; a horrible outcry arose, and the shape of the Guyascutus became dimly visible.
ref: 1968, Albert Raymond Kitzhaber, Language/Rhetoric:
text: The guyascutus was a ferocious, man-eating beast which, after much fanfare and sensational publicity, was exhibited in small antebellum Southern towns.
ref: 1979, American Humor - Volume 6, page 15:
text: No matter the appearance of the chimerical guyascutus what remained consistent was the legs on one side of its body were shorter than the others but had the ability to telescope to a desired length; by use of these unique legs and its prehensile tail the guyascutus was said to be able to maneuver about the steeply sloped mountains with ease.
ref: 2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: An imaginary four-legged monster of varying descriptions, usually with two legs on one side of its body longer than the two on the other.
guyascutuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guyascutus
gyascutus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyascutuses
Senses: examples: text: The howling gyascutus, ladies and gentlemen!” calls one of the junior managers from a stage at the upper end of the hall,—“ the howling gyascutus l " he proclaims, leading out what seems to be a hairy quadruped, with very thick and long hind legs and very short fore ones.
ref: 1871, Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics; Volume 27, page 299:
text: Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.
ref: 1907, John Ames Mitchell, Life - Volume 50, page 270:
text: DURING my boyhood on a Vermont farm the gyascutus or cute cuss, was not a rare barnyard animal.
ref: 1965, Benjamin Albert Botkin, A treasury of New England folklore:
text: The Gyascutus came in three-toed and five-toed varieties; a cloven-hoofed edition was even known to exist in some regions of the South.
ref: 1978, James L. W. West, Gyascutus: Studies in Antebellum Southern Humorous and Sporting Writing, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of guyascutus.
gyascutuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyascutus
guyanosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guyanosas
Senses: examples: text: There were two moose, three black bears, one 'woolly horse,' some twenty deer, seven panthers, two foxes, four gaunt wolves, one 'prock', one 'guyanosa,' and a young Penobscot ice-breaker.
ref: 1849, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:
text: Before proceeding to exhibit the animals, the lecturer dwelt at some length upon the characteristics of each; and describing, especially, the ravenous nature of the Guyanosa, and his enormous strength.
ref: 1853, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 7, page 709:
text: The story of the guyanosa or guyascutus (see Knickerbocker Mag. XXVIII. 36-38 and Harper's Mag. VII. 708-709) tells of somesharpers who sold tickets to the public to see this strange and savage animal.
ref: 1951, Mitford McLeod Mathews, A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles:
text: In Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1853, from the Editor's Drawer, appeared a particularly impressive version that joined the Guyanosa with another favorite American myth-beast, here called the Prock.
ref: 1982 -, Richard Mercer Dorson, Man and Beast in American Comic Legend, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of guyascutus.
guyanosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guyanosa
straitened circumstances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They had been living in straitened circumstances after John was made redundant.
text: The throne speech’s relative timidity is a reflection of the government’s straitened financial circumstances.
ref: 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:
glosses: Reduced (financial) circumstances; poverty, austerity.
Coordinate terms: straitened times
Songshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: so͝ongʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Sungshan
Etymology: From Mandarin 松山 (Sōngshān).
Senses: glosses: A district of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
examples: text: "We're a different style than they are," said Karen Wu, 37, owner of the Fruit Park juice stand in Taipei's bustling Songshan district, which sells as many as 200 cups of juice on a hot day. "They'll probably go more for the shopping-mall crowd."
ref: 2014 December 17, Michael Gold, “Smoothie maker Jamba counts on Taiwan's thirst for fruit juice”, in Tony Tharakan, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024, Business:
text: Following violent scenes in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan on Friday (May 17), an internet celebrity organized a demonstration outside of a prominent Kuomintang (KMT) lawmaker’s home in Taipei’s Songshan District on Saturday (May 18).
ref: 2024 May 18, Duncan DeAeth, “Internet personality's protest draws 100s to home of KMT lawmaker in Taipei”, in Taiwan News, sourced from Taipei, archived from the original on 20 May 2024, Politics:
glosses: A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
deorganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deorganizes
form: deorganizing
form: deorganized
form: deorganized
Etymology: From de- + organize.
Senses: glosses: To disband or rearrange.
Derived terms: deorganization
Dibba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal area at the northern tip of the Arabian Peninsula
Foa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Tonga.
Unesco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This year’s festival will mark 10 years since Unesco designated Dundee a design city, alongside Berlin, Montreal, Istanbul and others.
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of UNESCO.
aspect-oriented programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: AOP
glosses: A programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.
Brenta Canal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A navigable waterway between the Brenta and Bacchiglione rivers in northern Italy
deorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deorganize
Azzurrini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Azzurrini.
Senses: glosses: the Italian national under 21 football team
falcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin falx (“sickle”) + -oid (“like”).
Senses: examples: text: Falcoid: The ribs form a clear wave with no or a weak wave through
ref: 2016, Sreepat Jain, Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils, pages 66–67:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: In reference to ribs on shells, in the shape of a wave but initially straight, spoon shaped.
proconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + concave.
Senses: examples: ref: 2016, Sreepat Jain, Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils, pages 66–67:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: In reference to ribs on shells, with the shape of a concave bend towards the aperture, but initially straight.
cimelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmiːlɪə/
rhymes: -iːliə
Forms: form: cimilia
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cimelia, cimilia, from Ancient Greek κειμήλῐᾰ (keimḗlĭă), plural of κειμήλῐον (keimḗlĭon, “something stored or saved up; treasure; heirloom”), from κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie; to be laid up”).
Senses: examples: text: My sincere thanks are due […] to dott.essa Laura Desideri of the Gabinetto Scientifico Vieusseux/Florence (cf. note on Henry Crabb Robinson in the "Gazetteer of Travellers") for opening up to me the riches of this library, including the cimelia of the Fondo "Fiametta Olschki"; […]
ref: 1996, “Introduction: Thanks and Acknowledgements”, in Manfred Pfister, editor, The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers: An Annotated Anthology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Treasures; things considered valuable.
neophilics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neophilic
porrectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more porrectly
form: most porrectly
Etymology: From porrect + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a porrect manner, straight forward way.
nullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuller
depped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dep
mano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μανός (manós).
Senses: glosses: rare, sparse, thin
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: manosphere
Canfranc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aragonese, from Latin Campus Franci (literally “field of the Franks”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Aragon, Spain in the Pyrenees that is the site of an abandoned railway station.
wikipedia: + International railway station
Canfranc
Hersee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
quiets down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quiet down
quieting down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quiet down
quieted down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quiet down
quietens down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quieten down
quietening down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quieten down
quietened down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quieten down
Territoire de Belfort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Belfort.
misspellt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of misspelt.
tridem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪdəm/
Forms: form: tridems
Etymology: Blend of tri- + tandem.
Senses: examples: text: Four-axle trucks with a conventional 9-ft overall spacing for the tridem axle would have a maximum GVW of 64,000 lb (limited by 44,000 lb on the tridem).
ref: 1990, Truck Weight Limits: Issues and Options, Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, page 187:
text: The State bridge formula allows 42,000 lbs. on a tridem axle on non-Interstate highways.
ref: 2015 May 24, “Appendix A: State Truck Size and Weight Laws”, in Anthony R. Foxx, editor, Compilation of Existing State Truck Size and Weight Limit Laws, Washington, D.C.: Federal Highway Administration, retrieved 25 Jun 2019:
glosses: An arrangement of three objects arranged one behind the other.
Synonyms: triple
Derived terms: tridem axle
burelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burelle
archeolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The living culture was all but strangled by an obsessive archeolatry, and by the systematic attempt to create an artificial, 'pure' language (the so-called katharevousa) that, cleansed of all 'non-Greek' pollution, closely resembled its long-dead classical forebear.
ref: 1992, Nicos P. Mouzelis, Post-Marxist Alternatives: The Construction of Social Orders, →ISBN, page 112:
text: I also consider as defensive compartmentalization the obsessive archeolatry that has marked the Greek educational system from its very inception, and which often leads students to believe that anything worth knowing has already been discovered by their illustrious ancestors thousands of years ago.
ref: 1998, Dimitris Keridis, Chryssostomos Sfatos, Greek Higher Education: Prospects for Reform, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Fortunately, few scholars could be accused of such archeolatry, for they knew all too well that funding, security and, above all, interest on the part of the general public were lacking.
ref: 2015, Michael Greenhalgh, Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-century France, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of archæolatry.
herbalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herbalized
form: most herbalized
Senses: glosses: Infused with herbs.
herbalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of herbalize
dog tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog tents
Etymology: Compound of dog + tent, for its resemblance to a kennel. Attested from the middle 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The men now had their rifles and 100 rounds of ammunition, one blanket, one shelter-half (one-half a dog tent), one rubber poncho, one coffee-tin, one knife, fork, and spoon, one tin cooking-pan and cover, one canteen and haversack containing three day’s provisions
ref: 1898, T.P. Conneff, “Campaigning with the 12th U.S. Infantry”, in The Holy Cross Purple, volume 7, page 72:
text: Under best circumstances, the shelter tent, also called a "dog" tent, afforded only minimal protection to its inhabitants
ref: 1982, Dean Nelson, “‘Right Nice Little House[s]’: Impermanent Camp Architecture of the American Civil War”, in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, volume 1, →DOI, page 80:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small shelter tent, especially a tent composed of two shelter-halves.
Related terms: pup tent
Bettin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bettins
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Bettin.
* Borrowed from Italian Bettin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tamna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sino-Korean 탐라(耽羅) (Tamna).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Korean kingdom who ruled Jeju Island.
Bossi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bossis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bossi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
dog tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog tent
Crawf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Apocopic form of Crawford (“a surname”).
sugar out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sugars out
form: sugaring out
form: sugared out
form: sugared out
Etymology: Likely from the process of boiling maple sap to make maple syrup.
Senses: examples: text: We have done everything we can, we will have to wait and see how it all sugars out in the end.
synonyms: come to pass
shake out
work out
qualifier: Vermont
glosses: To transpire or result.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To use a method of chemical extraction that requires sugar, ACN and water.
sugars out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sugar out
sugaring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sugar out
sugared out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sugar out
Callegari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Callegaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Callegari.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cibin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cibin.
Senses: glosses: A river in Sibiu County, Romania.
every day of the week
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any day.
synonyms: word: any day
every day of the week and twice on Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any day.
synonyms: word: any day
every day of the week and twice on Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any day.
synonyms: word: any day
any day of the week and twice on Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any day.
synonyms: word: any day
any day of the week and twice on Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any day.
synonyms: word: any day
-toin
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊ.ɪn/
ipa: /toʊ.ɪn/
Etymology: From hydantoin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of hydantoin derivatives used as antiepileptics.
noguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊɡə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊɡəɹ/
Forms: form: noguers
Etymology: Blend of no + voguer
Senses: glosses: A person who practices voguing with little understanding of or respect to its history or culture.
noguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noguer
prepatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prepatches
form: prepatching
form: prepatched
form: prepatched
Etymology: From pre- + patch.
Senses: glosses: To patch in advance.
prepatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prepatch
prepatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prepatch
prepatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prepatch
bavined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bavin
bavining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bavin
myelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myelin
McCambridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCambridges
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Ambróis (“son of Ambrose”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
gankings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganking
space dockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space docking
FPCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FPC
natremias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natremia
LNWIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LNWI
megalopas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalopa
net worths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of net worth
EMFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EMF
acouasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acouasm
dulcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dulce
dulced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dulce
lesbicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Examination of limited but important documentation indicates the historical practice of lesbicide, that is, the killing of women because of their lesbianism. Studies document cases of lesbicide and the existence of laws mandating the death penalty for lesbianism in various parts of Europe such as ancient Rome […]
ref: 2004, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge:
text: Verbal and physical abuse, rape, torture, prostitution, incest, unnecessary operations, forced heterosexuality or pregnancy or motherhood, cosmetic surgery, pornography, female infanticide, lesbicide, witch hunts, slavery, sexual abuse, […]
ref: 2009, Sheryl J. Grana, Women and justice, page 175:
glosses: The killing of a person because of their lesbian orientation.
Lewis's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Frederic T. Lewis.
Senses: glosses: A fundamental law describing the topology of two-dimensional structures such as biological cells.
oicho-kabu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔɪ.t͡ʃoʊˈkɑː.buː/
rhymes: -ɑːbuː
Forms: form: oichokabu
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese おいちょかぶ (oicho-kabu). Compound of オイチョ (oicho, “the 8 card”) + カブ (kabu, “the 9 card”), borrowed from Portuguese oito (“eight”) and Portuguese cabo (“end”, for being the highest card) respectively.
Senses: examples: text: In the history of speculative amusements ranging from a sort of roulette gambling in the streets (densuke gambling), oicho kabu (a type of gambling), down to Pachinko, horse races, and bicycle races, new developments such as motor-boat races and automobile races appeared in the early 1950s.
ref: 1965, Studies of Broadcasting, number 3, Theoretical Research Center, Radio & TV Culture Research Institute, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, page 125:
text: Their game is oicho-kabu, played with hanafuda, or flower cards.
ref: 2010, Mark Hersberger, chapter 9, in Tokyo Lives, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 68:
text: The term Yakuza is derived from a Japanese card game, Oicho-Kabu, which is played similarly to the American card game of blackjack.
ref: 2011, Stephen L. Mallory, “The Yakuza” (chapter 8), in Understanding Organized Crime, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 139:
text: Couldn't we play with hanafuda cards instead? I asked. I had a decent amount of experience with oichokabu or koi koi thanks to playing with my mom's family in the countryside.
ref: 2013, Nagaru Tanigawa, translated by Paul Tuttle Starr, The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, volume 2, Yen Press, →ISBN:
text: He'd won the hat from a city boy in a game of oicho-kabu three days ago and he was terribly proud of it, strutting in front of her like an emerald crane in a courting dance, laughing as hard as split lips would let him.
ref: 2013, Jay Kristoff, “Crescendo” (chapter 47), in Kinslayer, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A traditional Japanese gambling game similar to baccarat and the Korean game seotda, played with kabufuda or hanafuda cards, where the goal is to achieve a hand scoring as close to 9 points as possible.
note job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: note jobs
Senses: glosses: A bank robbery in which the robber hands the teller a note demanding cash.
note jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of note job
bring to naught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to naught
form: bringing to naught
form: brought to naught
form: brought to naught
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bring to nought.
bring to nought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to nought
form: bringing to nought
form: brought to nought
form: brought to nought
form: bring to naught
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Rattray remarks on the fine spirit of the men, even when faced with the disappointment of seeing their efforts brought to nought by subsequent storms.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 178:
glosses: To mar; to thwart.
Related terms: come to nought
sea greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea green
quick-write
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick-writes
Senses: examples: text: My students enjoyed doing a quick-write using this excerpt from Eve Bunting's novel SOS Titanic.
ref: 2001, Lola M. Schaefer, Teaching Narrative Writing, page 43:
topics: education
glosses: A short piece of writing, typically a few sentences long, assigned to students to help them to summarize a concept.
quick-writes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quick-write
varveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of varvelled.
cauker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caukers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caulker (“alcoholic drink”).
glosses: Archaic form of corker (“something large or remarkable, a whopper”).
caukers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauker
sugar baker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar bakers
Senses: glosses: A person who refines sugar.
sugar bakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar baker
sugar mite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar mites
Senses: glosses: A mite that infests unrefined sugar, such as those of genus Glycyphagus.
sugar mites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar mite
working beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working beams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of walking beam.
working beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working beam
cross-division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-divisions
Etymology: From cross- + division.
Senses: glosses: The division of any group into divisions that cut across each other and produce confusion.
cross-divisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-division
cross-tining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A method of harrowing crosswise.
cross-banded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cross- + banded.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crossbanded.
plarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Portmanteau of plastic and yarn.
Senses: examples: text: Collect plastic bags and sort and store them by color until needed, then make plarn from the sorted pile.
ref: 2013, Leslie B. Preddy, School Library Makerspaces: Grades 6–12, page 50:
text: The loops are then tied together, forming a long, double string of plarn.
ref: 2018, Jenny Baker, Use It, Wear It, page 13:
glosses: Plastic yarn made from strips of plastic bags.
TURP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TURPs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of transurethral resection of the prostate.
have one's pockets on swole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's pockets on swole
form: having one's pockets on swole
form: had one's pockets on swole
form: had one's pockets on swole
Senses: examples: text: So I guess you could say I was hood rich, but the money never mattered to me. I make a couple of moves for nigga‟s in the streets to keep my pockets on swole.
ref: 2014, Simone Majors, Tears of a True Hustler:
text: His pockets were on swole and that caught the money hungry MJ attention ASAP.
ref: 2014, Tammy Wright, Goin HAM. Halsey Street Do or Die 2: Seven Goes 2 Hell & Back, →ISBN:
glosses: To have a lot of money.
nomophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nomophobic
form: most nomophobic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nomophobia.
transmux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transmuxes
form: transmuxing
form: transmuxed
form: transmuxed
Etymology: Portmanteau of transcode and multiplex
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Convert in realtime one telecommunications signal format to another, eg from SONET to DS3.
glosses: Transcode some of the data streams in a multimedia file, while keeping some streams unchanged.
transmuxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transmux
thuthse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an Angami-Pochuri language; compare Angami zhūtsē (“vessel for brewing rice beer”).
Senses: examples: text: She started to use dansberg blue (beer), gin, honey bee, country made alcohol (Zutho, Thutse), Mc Dowell, royal stag, signature and vodka. She is a heavy drinker.
ref: 2014, Velhou Koza, Consequences of Drug Addiction and Alcoholism in Naga Society: A Case Study of Kohima, Dimapur and Phek Districts (Ph.D. dissertation), archived from the original on 20 Dec 2021, page 127:
text: The carnivalesque nature of the festival (this is the only time in this dry state that Thutse or local rice beer is openly sold and liberally consumed with the consent of the government) has resulted in a strong reaction from, in particular, the Baptist Church (the largest and predominant in the state).
ref: 2014, Theyiesinuo Keditsu, “Prohibition and Naga Cultural Identity: Cultural Politics of Hornbill Festival, Nagaland”, in Sub\versions: A Journal of Emerging Research in Media and Cultural Studies (2.2), archived from the original on 13 Jul 2020:
text: Drinks include zutho and thutse, beers made with sticky rice.
ref: c. 2020, Nagaland Current Affairs Yearbook 2020:
glosses: A beer made from rice in Nagaland; similar to zutho.
trianionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + anionic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of an ion, having three negative charges.
trianion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trianions
Etymology: From tri- + anion.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, very little of the phosphate trianion,P0₄⁻³, is produced in the simple ionization process.
ref: 1974, John H. Block, Inorganic medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, Lea & Febiger, page 127:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anion that has three negative charges
Derived terms: trianionic
slangify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slangifies
form: slangifying
form: slangified
form: slangified
Etymology: From slang + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To convert into slang; to add slang lexis; to make slangish.
slangifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slangify
slangifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slangify
slangified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slangify
Babati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Tanzania.
heirs and successors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The people who will legitimately inherit the throne in the future.
glosses: The people who will inherit an estate or title.
TERFy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.fi/
ipa: /ˈtɜɹ.fi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
homophone: turfy
Forms: form: TERFier
form: TERFiest
form: TERF-y
form: terfy
Etymology: From TERF + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Usually when I jump into the conversation it’s me defending trans* women against cis women who are acting a little bit TERF-y […]
ref: 2016, "Peter", quoted in T. J. Jourian, "'My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself': Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities", dissertation submitted to Loyola University, page 238
text: I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.
ref: 2018 October 18, Tori Truscheit, “The Rage of All Women”, in Slate:
text: After years of being shamed for their bodies, is celebrating their monthly moons and the power of their uterus inherently TERF-y?
ref: 2020, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, "Heterosexist Suspicion of a Queer Outsider", thesis submitted to the University of Guelph, page 46
glosses: Resembling, characteristic of, or relating to trans-exclusionary feminism or those who hold such views.
terfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: terfier
form: terfiest
Etymology: From terf + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TERFy.
trifine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of insect wings: three-veined.
quadrifine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: etymology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of insect wings, four veined.
Northern Triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Latin American migrants, mostly from the “Northern Triangle” of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, are attempting to cross the border from Mexico to the United States in ever higher numbers.
ref: 2021 June 17, “Many Central American migrants are staying in Mexico”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: A region of Central America consisting of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
Related terms: Bermuda Triangle
Devil's Triangle
Dragon's Triangle
Golden Triangle
Lithium Triangle
T-Can
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: TCH
glosses: Abbreviation of Trans-Canada Highway.
decadienoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decadienoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a decadienoic acid
multipartiteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multipartite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multipartite.
decaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decaoses
Etymology: From deca- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide that has ten sugar groups
decaoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaose
demicytoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demicytoplasts
Etymology: From demi- + cytoplast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A halved cytoplast (typically of an oocyte)
demicytoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demicytoplast
desoxyadenosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desoxy- + adenosine.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deoxyadenosine.
diaforase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diaphorase.
dicistronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bicistronically.
diketoacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diketoacids
Etymology: From di- + ketoacid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diketo acid.
diketo acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diketo acids
Etymology: From di- + keto acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any keto acid that has two carbonyl groups
disautonomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dysautonomia.
disterane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diasterane.
distocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disto- + caudal.
Senses: glosses: Both distal and caudal
dripperline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dripperlines
Etymology: From dripper + line.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drip line (“pipe used to irrigate crops”).
synonyms: word: drip line
extra: pipe used to irrigate crops
dripperlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dripperline
dysimmunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + immunity.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being dysimmune
fluxity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flux + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The fluxity of life requires one to be flexible and adapt to change readily.
text: In India a missionary has to draw the plan and make the estimate as best he can, but with the best of intentions owing to the fluxity of the prices it will remain forever incorrect.
ref: 1911, Augustana Journal, page 11:
text: But recycling his own photographs does more than note the fluxity of vision; it points toward the artifice of all images.
ref: 1998, Western American Literature, volume 33, page 49:
text: The fluxity of motion in bringing about perpetual movement posits a change that makes sure that there is never a dull moment. The change brings about and resolves itself in permanence; […]
ref: 2002, Wilson Moneme, Reflections in tranquility, page 44:
synonyms: changeability
changeableness
flux
glosses: The state or quality of experiencing constant changes.
electrodialyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodialyzers
Etymology: From electro- + dialyzer.
Senses: glosses: A dialyzer used in electrodialysis
electrodialyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodialyzer
eutunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutunicates
Etymology: From eu- + tunicate.
Senses: glosses: A true tunicate
eutunicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutunicate
excitorepellency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From excito- + repellency.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being excitorepellent
excitorepellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From excito- + repellent.
Senses: glosses: That generates a repulsive reaction
Related terms: excitorepellency
mentholate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mentholates
Etymology: From menthol + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ion derived from menthol.
mentholate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mentholates
form: mentholating
form: mentholated
form: mentholated
Etymology: From menthol + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To add menthol (to something), particularly for flavouring.
mentholates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentholate
mentholates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mentholate Adds menthol.
memeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meme
anarchese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anarchist + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used by anarchists.
Irula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irulas
form: Irula
Senses: glosses: A member of a Dravidian ethnic group living around the Nilgiri mountains in India.
Irula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language, written in the Tamil script.
Irulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irula
Seleucid Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The protracted dynastic struggles completely exhausted the military and financial power of the remnants of the Seleucid Empire and left Syria powerless against the dangers that threatened it from outside and the ferment that weakened it internally.
ref: 1976, Abraham Malamat, A History of the Jewish People, Harvard University Press, page 217:
text: Based in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia, the Seleucid Empire was one of the largest and most powerful Hellenistic kingdoms created after the death of Alexander the Great.
ref: 2008, Monte L. Pearson, Perils of Empire: The Roman Republic and the American Republic, Algora Publishing, page 110:
text: 2012, Robert Johns, The Visions of Daniel the Hebrew Prophet, Thomas Nelson (WestBow Press), page 63,
Rome terminated the tiny, impotent remnant of the Seleucid Empire in 64 BCE.
glosses: A Greek-Macedonian empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great and ruled by the Seleucid dynasty (312–63 BCE).
bread sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A sandwich made from slices of bread (rather than a roll).
fetotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetotomies
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: The dissection of a dead unborn calf as an alternative to Caesarean section.
Related terms: embryotomy
fetotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetotomy