cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
folklorismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Folklorismus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of folklorism.
synonyms: word: folklorism
Qingyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青陽 /青阳 (Qīngyáng).
Senses: glosses: A county of Chizhou, Anhui, China.
Qingyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 慶陽 /庆阳 (Qìngyáng).
Senses: examples: text: The privately run school will be closed and a new public school will open at the same location, the Qingyang city government said. The bus, originally a nine-seat van, was carrying 62 children and two adults when it crashed with a truck in Gansu Province on Wednesday.
ref: 2011 November 21, “China: Kindergarten Owner Arrested in Bus Crash”, in The New York Times, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2011, Section A, page 8:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
provisional government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provisional governments
Senses: topics: government
synonyms: interim government
glosses: A temporary government formed to manage a period of transition often following state collapse, revolution, civil war, etc.
interim government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interim governments
Senses: glosses: Synonym of provisional government.
synonyms: word: provisional government
molybdo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: combining form of molybdenum, used to indicate that a substance or compound contains molybdenum
provisional governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provisional government
interim governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interim government
stem-mammal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stem-mammals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stem mammal.
stem-mammals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stem-mammal
Asimoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimov.
Azimov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimov.
Osimov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimov.
Ozimkov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimov.
Ozimov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimov.
Asimova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Azimova
form: Osimova
form: Ozimkova
form: Ozimova
Etymology: From Russian Ази́мова (Azímova).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Azimova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimova.
Osimova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimova.
Ozimkova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimova.
Ozimova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asimova.
Asimovs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Asimov
tskr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Shortening from Japanese 助かる (tasukaru, “to save”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Indicates gratefulness to the livestreamer.
clock the tea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clocks the tea
form: clocking the tea
form: clocked the tea
form: clocked the tea
Etymology: From clock (“to notice”) + the + tea (“information, gossip”).
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday (Dec. 8), Cardi [B] revealed her tips and tricks and praised that no one checked her for them. “It’s the fact that I used to put 2 thick a– tights under my jeans in Highschool to make my a– look fatter and nobody ever clock the tea,” she tweeted.
ref: 2020 December 9, Heran Mamo, “Cardi B Reveals How She Made Her Backside Look More Ample in High School”, in Billboard:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular
glosses: To discover the truth about something.
Three Sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Three Sisters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Orion's Belt.
synonyms: word: Orion's Belt
programmer socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of programming socks.
synonyms: word: programming socks
file descriptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: file descriptors
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A process-unique identifier for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.
see you round
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of see you later.
synonyms: word: see you later
network socket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network sockets
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network.
ciao for now
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of see you later.
synonyms: word: see you later
segment descriptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segment descriptors
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A part of the segmentation unit, used for translating a logical address to a linear address.
ciao bella
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ciao (said to a woman)
logical address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logical addresses
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The address at which an item appears to reside from the perspective of an executing application program.
logical addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logical address
segment descriptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of segment descriptor
network sockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of network socket
file descriptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of file descriptor
check you out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of see you later.
synonyms: word: see you later
3quel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3quels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of threequel.
3-quel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3-quels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of threequel.
three-quel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-quels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of threequel.
scotcht collops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scotched collops.
3-quels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3-quel
3quels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3quel
three-quels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-quel
bus plunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus plunges
Etymology: From bus + plunge.
Senses: examples: ref: 1935 January, “BUS PLUNGE INJURES SIX FROM NEW YORK; Vehicle Goes Over High Embankment in 'the Narrows' at Lewistown, Pa.”, in The New York Times (newspaper), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 30 Sep 2024, page 5
text: “One of them said to me, ‘We’re keeping up the bus plunges in your absence,’ or words to that effect,” says Siegal. Bus plunges had become an inside joke, with editors scouting the wires for new ones.
ref: 2006 November, Jack Shafer, “The Rise and Fall of the “Bus Plunge” Story”, in Slate, The Slate Group, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024:
text: Here's the thing about newspapers: they can't publish blank space. You've gotta put something in there. So editors started putting in lots of "bus plunge" briefs because they were short, simple, and filled space easily.
ref: 2012 October, George Patrick, “Why Buses Always Plunge But Never Fall, Drop, Descend Or Plummet”, in Jalopnik, G/O Media, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A phrase often used in filler story headlines in print newspapers, prior to the adoption of computer-aided typesetting and publishing methods, as it filled out the usual width of a column in the eight-column layout then prevalent in the industry.
examples: text: We ran a bus plunge story on page 6 to fill the empty space so we could make deadline.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A phrase often used in filler story headlines in print newspapers, prior to the adoption of computer-aided typesetting and publishing methods, as it filled out the usual width of a column in the eight-column layout then prevalent in the industry.
A specific instance of such a story.
raw_tags: followed by "story"
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A phrase often used in filler story headlines in print newspapers, prior to the adoption of computer-aided typesetting and publishing methods, as it filled out the usual width of a column in the eight-column layout then prevalent in the industry.
A similar example in other media of a filler story.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bus, plunge. An instance of a bus falling from an elevated place.
Derived terms: bus plunge story
Vaghuhas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Gozlu
glosses: A village in western Azerbaijan.
Gozlu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vaghuhas.
synonyms: word: Vaghuhas
Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Nostell Parish Council, a group of three parishes) in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
zoink out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zoinks out
form: zoinking out
form: zoinked out
form: zoinked out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zonk out.
witch window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch windows
Etymology: From the (probably unserious) suggestion that witches could not fly through them.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the room a witch window hung at an angle in the wall. She smiled. “Witch window. How quaint.” “Vermont is famous for them.[…]"
ref: 2019 April 24, Peggy Chambers, Witches' Cliff, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:
text: "[…] you've also got maybe eight to ten window,s and that's not counting the second floor and the windows in the attic—" / "Witch windows." / "What?" blurted Kenway. "Seriously? Why do they call 'em witch windows?" / "They're not witch windows," said Gendreau. "Witch windows are sashed windows half-rotated to one side. They were designed crooked to confuse witches back in the colonial days, to keep them from getting [inside]."
ref: 2020 September 15, S. A. Hunt, The Hellion, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
text: You might see the oddity of a “witch window” sideways by the peak of the pointy roof. The porch swing moves.
ref: 2021 June 13, Jenay Zapparelli, The Book of Beautiful Feelings: Thee Quintessential Guide to Deliberate Creation, BookonFire Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: A window placed diagonally, with its long edge parallel to the roof, in the gable-end wall of a house (chiefly in Vermont in the United States), where a window oriented vertically or horizontally would not fit.
zoinks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoink out
witch windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch window
zoinking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoink out
zoinked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zoink out
railway crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway crossings
Senses: glosses: A level crossing, a railroad crossing
Muamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mu'ammar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mu'amar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mummar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Muamer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mouamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
forechoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forechoirs
form: fore choir
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antechoir.
synonyms: word: antechoir
forechoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forechoir
fore choir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore choirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forechoir.
fore choirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fore choir
wordfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From word + fast.
Senses: examples: text: Shamefast is one of a group and family of words, in all which fast constitutes the second syllable, thus steadfast (A.S. Staðolfæst), wordfast; and those good old words rootfast and rootfastness, which we have now let go."
ref: 1862, James Gurnhill, The Breeches Bible, Considered as the Basis for Remarks, Critical and Philological, on the English Language, page 31:
text: "Aye, Lord of Deira, I hie back at dawning; Wikhelm is wordfast, Despite of her scorning
ref: 1874, Reid Tranmar, Legends of York and Other Poems, page 6:
text: Thereto said Biorn: " Yea, I know thee now, Allfather! But a wordfast man am I, And pledged to serve the White Christ by my vow.
ref: 1894, Albany Featherstonehaugh Major, Sagas and Songs of the Norsemen, page 26:
glosses: True to one's word, keeping one's word.
hoeroa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoeroas
Senses: glosses: A traditional Maori hand weapon.
hoeroas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoeroa
pickle switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickle switches
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A handheld electronic switch used for releasing bombs.
pickle switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickle switch
paleocytologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleocytologists
Etymology: From paleocytology + -ist
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practices paleocytology.
paleocytologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleocytologist
Roughrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roughriders
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War
glosses: A team member for the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Roughriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roughrider
finger-snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger-snaps
Senses: glosses: A snap or click of the fingers, producing a quick, sharp sound.
finger-snap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finger-snaps
form: finger-snapping
form: finger-snapped
form: finger-snapped
Senses: glosses: To make or produce such a sound with the fingers.
Derived terms: finger-snapper
finger-snapping
finger-snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger-snap
finger-snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finger-snap
finger-snapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to one who finger-snaps.
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
glosses: Of a piece of music or a dance, characterized by the snapping of fingers.
finger-snapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger-snappings
Senses: glosses: The act or habit of one who finger-snaps.
finger-snapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of finger-snap
finger-snapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finger-snap
finger-snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger-snappers
Senses: glosses: One who finger-snaps.
finger-snappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger-snapper
erectores spinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erector spinae
Buddou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Buddha.
finger-snappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger-snapping
inflate-a-date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflate-a-dates
Senses: examples: text: With an appreciative flick of her thick brows, Nikki replied with an emphatic, “Really! But what girl likes to think of herself as some sort of ‘inflate-a-date’? I mean, how cold.”
ref: 1992 January, Kevin Sherrill, chapter 18, in Steel Lightning: Slash and Burn, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 150:
text: “Call a 900 number? Buy an inflate-a-date? A massage parlor? There’s a bunch around here. Rent a porn movie? Hire a stripper?” He rejected each idea, and Danielle remembered Jay.
ref: 2002, Stevi Secret, “Etiquette With Escorts”, in Wrinkling Her Centerfold (Jay & Darrien Mysteries), Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, page 330:
glosses: An inflatable sex doll.
process of green wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act or issue of a server of green wax.
dandee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dandy, Indian boatman, mendicant, or litter.
dandees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandee
hyperfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pə.fɜː/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pəɹ.fɜɹ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)fɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: hyperfurs
form: hyper fur
Etymology: From hyper + fur.
Senses: glosses: A furry with highly exaggerated body parts as the object of paraphilic arousal.
examples: text: I thought I'd get the ball rolling here on some discussions for RPs; I have one idea in particular I'd like to share. One of the most common hyperfur tropes is the farm setting, but you can't exactly make such a setting feel genuine when you have many people joining at once, and continuing to join as it continues.
ref: 2007 December 28, Orbital S, “Brainstorming”, in HyperFurs Messageboard, archived from the original on 10 May 2009:
glosses: A paraphilia involving furries with highly exaggerated body parts.
hyperfurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperfur
-limnion
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λιμνίον (limníon, “small pond”), from λίμνη (límnē, “lake, marsh”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
geography
geology
limnology
natural-sciences
glosses: A part of a stratified lake.
Derived terms: word: limnetic
word: limnic
Headon cum Upton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Headon (cum Upton), Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England.
-mictic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis, “mingling”). First used in holomictic.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
geography
geology
limnology
natural-sciences
glosses: Refers to the manner in which a body of water stratifies.
Related terms: mixis
hyper fur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyper furs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperfur.
hyper furs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyper fur
bakunyū
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bakunyu.
Weishih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 尉氏 Wade–Giles romanization: Wei⁴-shih⁴.
Senses: examples: text: He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County.
ref: 1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 160–161:
text: Chiao Yu-lu used to work in Weishih County, Honan Province. At the Tenth Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party Chairman Mao issued to the Chinese people the great call: “Never forget class struggle.” The regional Party committee decided to send Chiao Yu-lu to Lankao where the class struggle was acute and natural calamities were serious. They gave him the necessary instructions.
ref: 1969, “Chairman Mao's Good Pupil, Chiao Yu-lu”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], number 9, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, Reportage, page 8:
english: 中国文学
translation: 中国文学
glosses: Alternative form of Weishi.
bakunyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakunyū
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 爆(ばく)乳(にゅう) (bakunyū), from 爆(ばく) (baku, “bursting”) + 乳(にゅう) (nyū, “breast”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: A genre of Japanese pornography characterized by featuring women with extremely large breasts; chiefly found in hentai, though also in live-action pink films.
Fengcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fǔngʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 鳳城 /凤城 (Fèngchéng).
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Dandong, Liaoning, China.
Substacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Substackers
Etymology: From Substack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Prominent Substacker Charlotte Clymer compared the news to Michael Jordan’s return to the NBA, and a U.S. senator, Jon Tester, also extended a hand in welcoming [Jon] Stewart back.
ref: 2024 January 24, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Conservatives Are Totally Not Mad About Jon Stewart’s Return to The Daily Show”, in The New Republic:
glosses: A person who writes on the online publishing platform Substack.
extend a hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extends a hand
form: extending a hand
form: extended a hand
form: extended a hand
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extend one's hand.
extend one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extends one's hand
form: extending one's hand
form: extended one's hand
form: extended one's hand
form: extend a hand
Senses: examples: text: Prominent Substacker Charlotte Clymer compared the news to Michael Jordan’s return to the NBA, and a U.S. senator, Jon Tester, also extended a hand in welcoming [Jon] Stewart back.
ref: 2024 January 24, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Conservatives Are Totally Not Mad About Jon Stewart’s Return to The Daily Show”, in The New Republic:
glosses: To make a gesture of welcome or cordiality.
glosses: To offer one's assistance or support.
sunshine and roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But not everyone was sunshine and roses about [Jon] Stewart's new weekly gig, with some on the right complaining that the choice to bring back the show’s former 16-year host would only bring more volatility to American politics.
ref: 2024 January 24, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Conservatives Are Totally Not Mad About Jon Stewart’s Return to The Daily Show”, in The New Republic:
glosses: Synonym of sunshine and rainbows.
synonyms: word: sunshine and rainbows
witches' stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witches' stones
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:witches' stone.
glosses: A small ledge jutting out of the chimney of a house, chiefly in Jersey or Guernsey, originally to stop rain seeping under the joins in a thatched roof, and later reinterpreted in folklore as a place for witches to rest.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:witches' stone.
synonyms: witch stone
glosses: An adder stone, a stone with a (natural) hole in it.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see witch, stone.
witches' stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witches' stone
witch stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch stones
Senses: glosses: An adder stone (witches' stone), a stone with a (natural) hole in it.
witch stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch stone
deunites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deunite
deuniting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deunite
deunited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deunite
strandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strandable
form: most strandable
Etymology: From strand + -able.
Senses: examples: text: My proposed analysis, therefore, makes an interesting prediction in these cases, namely, that the prepositions which are not strandable under regular wh-movement become strandable under sluicing.
ref: 2010, Yosuke Sato, “P-stranding under sluicing at the syntax–phonology interface”, in Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 85:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: unstrandable
glosses: Able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
raw_tags: of a word or phrase
Related terms: strandability
stranding
word sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word sounds
Senses: examples: text: Browning has been called unmusical, and, judged by common rules, I suppose his verse lacks melody; but for me, there is always in it a sort of spiritual harmony, which overrules the mere word-sound, and renders him one of the most musical of poets.
ref: 1852, Grace Greenwood, Greenwood Leaves, A Collection of Sketches and Letters, page 293:
text: Word sound is musical. It is characterized by the two leading essentials of a musical sound, rhythm and melody, while yet the other elements, time and quality of sound, are not excluded.
ref: 1873, I.N. Carleton, W.B. Dwight (editors), The Connecticut School Journal, page 9:
text: Now we know that it is the faculty of recalling the word-picture, aided by remembering the word-sound, which makes the good speller.
ref: 1880, Mrs. R.R. Bird, “On Spelling”, in American Primary Teacher, volume 4, page 5:
text: Hence, whatever may be the sense in which the word sound may be used, there is no doubt of the fact that it is caused by the vibrations of the sounding body.
ref: 1917, Atul Chandra Datta, A Text-Book of Sound, page 1:
text: Many people are able to imagine word-sounds with greater delicacy and discrimination than they can utter them.
ref: 1925, I.A. Richards, Principles of Literay Criticism, page 119:
text: In spite of this, the succession of word sounds leads to the formation of certain phonic formations and sound phenomena or characters of a new type which could not be evoked by individual word sounds.
ref: 1973, Roman Ingarden, The Literary Work of Art, An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Literature: with an Appendix on the Functions of Language in the Theater, page 47:
text: Word sound is that organizing factor which can “extract” the particular sequence (characteristic for the given notion) from the continuous categorical sign series.
ref: 1999, Tatyana Glezerman, Victoria I. Balkoski, Language, Thought, and the Brain, page 45:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A particular essence or quality evoked by a spoken word.
word sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word sound
unstrandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstrandable
form: most unstrandable
Etymology: From un- + strandable.
Senses: examples: text: Unstrandable function words include the determiners and quantifiers that introduce nominal constituents, and the complementisers that introduce clauses.
ref: 2016, Andrew Radford, Analysing English Sentences, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: strandable
glosses: Not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
raw_tags: of a word or phrase
Related terms: strandability
stranding
ad valorems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad valorem
Iong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iongs
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese
Related terms: Yeong
Yeung
Yong
Yoong
Young
Yung
Cyrillic numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cyrillic numerals
form: cyrillic numeral
Senses: glosses: A numeral represented using a Cyrillic system involving the letters.
glosses: The system using such letters.
Related terms: Glagolitic numeral
Roman numeral
Greek numeral
Arabic numeral
Chinese numeral
Cyrillic numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyrillic numerals
Senses: glosses: plural of Cyrillic numeral
Cyrillic numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyrillic numerals
Senses: glosses: the system of numerals using Cyrillic numerals
echoiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echoey + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being echoey.
Bromage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bromages
Senses: glosses: A surname.
senachie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seannachie.
dawnce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dawnces
form: dawncing
form: dawnced
form: dawnced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dance.
Derived terms: dawncer
daucene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aromatic sesquiterpene, C₁₅H₂₄, derived from the essential oils of some species of the carrot family (Apiaceae), especially those from the genus Daucus.
Derived terms: isodaucene
shanachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shanachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seannachie.
shenachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shenachie
sedan-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedan-chairs
Senses: examples: text: 'Sedan-chair! Put your 'ead in a bag. That was a palanquin. Don't yer know a palanquin when you see it?' said Ortheris with great scorn.
ref: 1889 December, Rudyard Kipling, “The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney”, in Macmillan's Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of sedan chair.
sedan-chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedan-chair
kolyva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of koliva.
kolliva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of koliva.
palanchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palanchin
Stokeham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7876).
ABPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
Sith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪθ/
Forms: form: Sith
form: Siths
Senses: examples: text: In him [Garry Cook] was distilled the very essence of the modern football executive – the Nike heritage, the mad expansionism, the sense that a major part of Manchester City's future lay in energy drink retail, and of course the laserlike focus on "the product" that resulted in him occasionally saying Manchester United when he meant Manchester City. He was the Premier League's most bungling Sith.
ref: 2011 September 8, Marina Hyde, “Manchester City's Garry Cook – a man for football's crazy times”, in The Guardian:
text: PAQ is a refreshing example of what “millennial snowflakes” are capable of. At the age of 20, these guys are conscious of their position of influence and they want to use it to enact positive change. “We’re the four musketeers,” says Elias. “The Avengers,” chimes in Shaq. “I would say we’re Jedis,” says Dex. “But I wear black so I can be a sith.”
ref: 2018 April 29, Juliana Piskorz, “‘We’re Top Gear for clothes’: the guys behind PAQ”, in The Guardian:
text: [Sean] Longstaff. [Dan] Burn. Joelinton. Miguel Almirón. Matt Ritchie. This is not, if we’re brutally honest, the stuff of evil empires. This is not a team the Siths would ever have put out, unless the Siths were trying to make a late burst for the Championship playoffs.
ref: 2023 February 26, Jonathan Liew, “Newcastle not yet an evil-empire side but cup final feels like a springboard”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Sith Lord
qualifier: Star Wars
glosses: One of a fictional order of creatures from the Star Wars universe who represent the antithesis and ancient enemies of the Jedi.
barang-barang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɹaŋ ˌbaɹaŋ/
Forms: form: barang barang
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay barang-barang (“stuff”).
Senses: examples: text: Please remove all your barang-barang from the empty space next to you.
ref: 1987, Sylvia Toh Paik Choo, On the Buses, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Landmark Books, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Let me also address concerns about space. Taxis and PHCs [private-hire cars] have to carry whatever barang barang commuters bring. How can they squeeze two child car seats into storage?
ref: 2021 May 11, Louis Ng Kok Kwang, “Providing Child Car Seats in Taxis and Private Hire Cars”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 95:
synonyms: barang
glosses: One's personal belongings; or more broadly, miscellaneous articles or things, paraphernalia.
echoingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: echoing + -ness
Senses: glosses: The quality of something that echoes.
Sockett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glasdegib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed with -degib.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug targeting the smoothened protein of the hedgehog signaling pathway, used for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.
Shawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Shawyers
Senses: glosses: A surname
farmwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: farm + -wash + -ing
Senses: glosses: The practice of supermarkets labelling food products with the names of nonexistent farms, to give a misleading impression of small-scale sustainable production.
Deadly Never-Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deadly never-green
form: Deadly never green
form: Deadly Never Green
form: Deadly Never-green
Etymology: A play on the conceit that the Tyburn tree (the gallows at Tyburn) was a real tree—a lethal one, devoid of greenery.
Senses: examples: text: 64. A view of the The Road to Paddington,^([i.e., Edgware Road]) with a Representation of the Deadly Never Green that bears Fruit all the year round. This is Tyburn, with three felons hanging on it.
ref: 1867, Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten, The History of Signboards, John Camden Hotten, page 518:
text: They made him^([Jack Sheppard, highwayman]) a folk-hero, though eventually even he could not cheat the ‘Deadly Never-green’. After his execution he dangled on the gallows for 15 minutes before a soldier cut him down and the crowd tried in vain to resuscitate him.
ref: 1997, Brian P. Block, John Hostettler, Hanging in the Balance, Waterside Press, page 29:
text: He was too young, of course, to remember Tyburn, although his father might have told him tales of the Deadly Never-Green or Three-legged Mare.
ref: 2016, Howard Engel, Lord High Executioner, Open Road Media, published 1996, unnumbered page:
glosses: Synonym of Tyburn tree.
synonyms: word: Tyburn tree
Gidman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
resexualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resexualizes
form: resexualizing
form: resexualized
form: resexualized
Etymology: From re- + sexualize.
Senses: glosses: To sexualize again.
resexualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resexualizations
Senses: glosses: The process of resexualizing.
resexualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resexualization
resexualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resexualize
resexualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resexualize
resexualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resexualize
Dahieh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in southern Beirut, Lebanon.
postsphenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postsphenoid
Wickhambreaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2258).
Yarkhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish east-north-east of Hereford, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6042).
britshka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪt.ʃkə/
Forms: form: britshkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of britchka.
britshkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of britshka
serozem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serozems
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian серозём (serozjóm, literally “grey soil”).
Senses: examples: text: With progress of soil formation, the position of the soils within the serozem belt becomes less and less significant.
ref: 1968, Elena Vsevolodovna Lobova, Viktor Abramovich Kovda, editors, Geography and Classification of Soils of Asia, Israel Program for Scientific Translations, page 44:
glosses: a grey soil containing a low percentage of humus (around 1% to 3%)
Mouammar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mouammer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Moammar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Moamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Moamer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mo'ammar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Mo'amar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muammar.
Grove Ferry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the hamlet of Grove in Wickhambreaux parish. A ferry used to operate across the Great Stour here, until it was replaced by a bridge.
Senses: glosses: A locality on the River Great Stour in Chislet parish and Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent, England, near the village of Upstreet (OS grid ref TR2363).
Sithlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sithlike
form: most Sithlike
Etymology: From Sith + -like.
Senses: examples: text: When the stardust settles, [Ray] Park’s acting career awaits. And he’ll pursue it with Sithlike tenacity, he promises.
ref: 1999 June 25, Ian Spelling, “Ray Park turns Darth Maul into ‘Phantom Menace’ breakout role”, in The Daily News, volume 143, number 280, West Bend, Wisc., page A10:
text: Matters came to a head in the most striking and Sithlike manner, as Snoke attempted to persuade Kylo Ren to kill Rey. Instead, Kylo Ren carefully guarded his thoughts from his master, engineering events so his lightsaber cut Snoke in two – killing his master in a surprise blow.
ref: 2024 May 13, Thomas Bacon, “Kylo Ren May Not Be A Sith, But He Followed The Rule Of Two Better Than Darth Vader”, in Screen Rant:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the Sith.
kiaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kiap
kiapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kiap
kiapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kiap
mamak shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamak shops
Etymology: From Malay mamak + shop. Compare Tamil மாமா (māmā, “uncle”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mama shop.
mamak shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamak shop
Great Stour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Kent, England, which joins the Little Stour to form the Kentish River Stour.
fugitiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fugitive
fugitived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fugitive
drunken words are sober thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drunk words are sober thoughts.
print newspaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: print newspapers
Etymology: print + newspaper
Senses: glosses: A newspaper produced in print, or the edition of a newspaper so produced.
glosses: Newspapers which are or were produced solely or primarily in printed form.
glosses: Newspapers which are or were produced solely or primarily in printed form.
The historical newspaper industry, in toto, prior to the widespread adoption of online publishing.
qualifier: frequently plural
raw_tags: followed by words such as "industry"
Hypernyms: print media
print journalism
print newspapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of print newspaper
bus plunges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus plunge
Upstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Chislet parish, Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2263).
rabz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑbz/
Forms: form: more rabz
form: most rabz
Etymology: Clipping of rabak (“messed up”) + -z (suffix forming colloquialisms), from Malay rabak (“ragged; in tatters”).
Senses: qualifier: never attributive
glosses: Synonym of rabak (“out of control, messed up”).
synonyms: word: rabak
extra: out of control, messed up
Derived terms: rabz kebabz
Related terms: upz
onz
shermed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shermed.
synonyms: word: shermed
Hospitality State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hospitality State
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Mississippi: a state of the United States.
Wossy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Woss (phonetic respelling of the surname Ross) + -y (diminutive suffix), due to his speech impediment, which causes him to pronounce his surname as [wɒs].
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Jonathan Ross.
MISS.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Mississippi: a state of the United States, as used in case citations.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Senses: glosses: The official name for the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
continuous bags of words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuous bag of words
Champernowne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Derived terms: Champernowne constant
Champernowne word
bandies words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bandy words
bandying words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of bandy words
bandied words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bandy words
worded it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of word it
wording it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of word it
words it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of word it
time-preference theory of interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A theory stating that interest arises when present goods are exchanged for future goods because people prefer present goods over future ones.
Emirate of Ifriqiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Emirate of Ifriqiya
Senses: glosses: A semi-independent emirate that existed from 800–909 in modern-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Sicily, and Tunisia.
Siths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sith
Ifriqiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A medieval historical region comprising modern-day Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania.
Derived terms: Emirate of Ifriqiya
Abbasid Caliphate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Abbasid Caliphate
Senses: glosses: The third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Fatimid Caliphate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fatimid Caliphate
Senses: glosses: A caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shia dynasty.
Ismāʿīlī
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ismāʿīlīs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ismaili.
Ismāʿīlīs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ismāʿīlī
shermed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: shermed out
shermed up
glosses: Under the influence of phencyclidine.
shermed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shermed.
synonyms: word: shermed
dispassionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispassionate
dispassionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispassionate
dispassionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispassionate
🥚
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: Represents an egg, as in a person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender.
Nnamanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nnamani
twetiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twitiquette
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + etiquette
Senses: glosses: The etiquette associated with posting on the Twitter social network.
twitiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twetiquette.
fuck zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck zones
form: fuckzone
Etymology: From fuck + zone, by analogy with friend zone.
Senses: examples: text: If the friend zone is painful, it seems clear that the fuck zone is at least as bad, leaving women feeling used, manipulated and deceived.
ref: 2018 April 10, Madeleine Holden, “Is the ‘Fuck Zone’ Worse Than the ‘Friend Zone’?”, in MEL Magazine:
glosses: The situation where one is treated as a friend but only because of a perceived potential as a romantic partner or sex partner without any romantic attachment.
Related terms: fuck buddy
fuck zone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuck zones
form: fuck zoning
form: fuck zoned
form: fuck zoned
form: fuckzone
Etymology: From fuck + zone, by analogy with friend zone.
Senses: glosses: To classify as a fuck buddy.