cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tunisianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tunisian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Tunisian.
Turkmenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turkmen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Turkmen.
Ugandanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ugandan + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I look at Mulungi, my daughter, how she takes everything for granted, her entitlement to Britain, how my Ugandanness embarrasses her, her indifference to Uganda, and wonder whether to tell her the brutal truth.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Manchester Happened”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 70:
glosses: Quality of being Ugandan.
Uruguayanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Uruguayan + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Uruguayan.
Uzbekness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Uzbek + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Uzbek.
Venezuelanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Venezuelan + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Venezuelan.
Yugoslavianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yugoslavian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Yugoslavian.
Yugoslavness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yugoslav + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Yugoslav.
Zambianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zambian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Zambian.
Zimbabweanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zimbabwean + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: However, in the very worst times, the MDC was particularly successful in projecting its own version of Zimbabweanness.
ref: 2013, Stephen Chan, Why Mugabe Won: The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe and their Aftermath:
glosses: The quality of being Zimbabwean.
colitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colita
surety bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surety bond
GIGN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the French GIGN.
Senses: glosses: the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group of France (French: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale)
Related terms: sense: National Gendarmerie Intervention Group on Wikipedia.
word: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale
R-R
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Rolls-Royce.
R-R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R-Rs
form: RR
form: R.R.
form: R. R.
form: R.-R.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Rolls-Royce.
copitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copita
hemocathartic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemocathartic
form: most hemocathartic
form: haemocathartic
Etymology: From hemo- + cathartic.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from the fact that a hemocathartic or detoxicating influence of bloodletting has never been fully demonstrated, the suddenness of the relief afforded in uremia stamps depletion as a mechanical or physical therapeutic agent.
ref: 1910, Heinrich Stern, “Bloodletting in Children”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 55, number 21, page 1783:
text: As a blood treatment apparatus for the treatment of an HIV-infected disease, an external circulation apparatus composed in combination of a direct haemoperfusion column (capacity: about 335 ml) packed with cellulose acetate beads (220 g; diameter: 2 mm) and an adsorption-type haemocathartic apparatus (“ADAMONITOR MM6-P”, tradename; manufactured by Otsuka Denshi K.K.) was used [clinical Study on Use of Granulocyte-Removing Apparatus (G-1) for Chronic Rheumatism”, Ensho (Inflammation), 17(1), 57-80 (1997)].
ref: 2002, M Adachi, Methods of treatment of disease using adsorbent carriers, US Patent 6,498,007 (PDF version):
text: A hemocathartic column and apparatus, in which a column containing an adsorber capable of adsorbing and removing impurity components in blood […]
ref: 2003, S. Masuko, Hemocathartic column for purifying blood, US Patent 6,659,289 (PDF version):
glosses: That serves to cleanse the blood.
Related terms: hemocatharsis
SSOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SSO
PSOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PSO
doraditos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doradito
erythrocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of erythromycin.
synonyms: word: erythromycin
cuatros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuatro
homeported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homeport
homeporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homeport
non-mimetic fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the nineteenth century, the sustained metaphors of sf—non-mimetic fiction—were reconceived with the aid of science, the same science that Arthur Miller quails before today.
ref: 1976, Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin, “The World Beyond the Hill”, in SF in Dimension: A Book of Explorations, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Instead of requiring to be persuaded that the heterocosmic construction is as perfect a simulacrum of the primary world as can reasonably be contrived, the readers of non-mimetic fiction require to be persuaded that world within a text is plausible and interesting in spite of its marked differences from the primary world: differences that might pertain, as a set, uniquely to the world within a particular text.
ref: 2007, Brian Stableford, Heterocosms, →ISBN, page 195:
text: The first magazine solely devoted to horror was the long-running pulp Weird Tales (1923–54), where Lovecraft and his disciples published much of their work. their very appearance in this magazine has been held as a mark against them, but it was at this juncture that the supernatural (even in the form of the innocuous Christmas ghost story) became generally banished from mainstream periodicals, so that these writers had no other markets to peddle their wares. Whether the existence of the pulp magazines engendered this banishment, or whether changes in literary fashion triggered the scorning of non-mimetic fiction from mainstream magazines, is a question that has not been satisfactorily answered.
ref: 2009, Sunand Tryambak Joshi, Junk Fiction, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: Fiction not based on reality; fiction set in a fictional fantasy world that does not exist.
Synonyms: speculative fiction
Hyponyms: fantasy
horror
science fiction
Related terms: genre fiction
pyrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyram
lirae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lira
postmedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + median.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to the median
postdiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + discal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an area of an insect's wing or elytron beyond the discal part
subdorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From sub- + dorsal.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the dorsal region
airstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airstaffs
Etymology: From air + staff.
Senses: examples: text: And, in general, programmers are counselling their colleagues to look beyond the usual suspects for funny additions to their airstaffs: local comedy clubs, theater groups, supermarkets, whatever!
ref: 1987 December 26, Kim Freeman, “Humor on the Airwaves: What's So Funny About Comedy Radio?”, in Billboard, page C-10:
text: He also credits the airstaff, which he proudly describes as among the best in the nation.
ref: 1993 August 14, Phyllis Stark, “Billboard's PD of the Week”, in Billboard, page 71:
text: The second most common reason for an airstaff to seek union representation is the overall treatment by the station, especially in terms of scheduling.
ref: 1996, Eric G Norberg, Radio Programming: Tactics and Strategy, page 46:
text: While there was a great spirit of community and cooperation between the airstaffs, the top management was willing to break wiretapping laws to get a competitive edge.
ref: 2003, Mike Olszewski, Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars, page 64:
text: Seeing an opportunity in our ratings improvement, I sent Fisher and JC a memo noting that the airstaff had been having problems with two turntables for well over a week.
ref: 2007, John Gorman, The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio--a Memoir, page 40:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The staff of a radio station whose voices are broadcast.
airstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airstaff
triangularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triangularizes
form: triangularizing
form: triangularized
form: triangularized
Etymology: From triangular + -ize.
Senses: examples: to triangularize a matrix
glosses: To make triangular.
glosses: To make (a division, a military formation) into a triangular division.
triangularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of triangularize
triangularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of triangularize
triangularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of triangularize
xanthopurpurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: purpuroxanthin
cyclohexanediones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclohexanedione
aryloxyphenoxypropionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aryloxyphenoxypropionate
tralkoxydim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular cyclohexanedione herbicide.
alloxydim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular herbicide.
fluazifop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular herbicide.
diclofop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular herbicide.
haloxyfop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular herbicide.
lineaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lineage + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A peasant youth had won the heart / Of that high-lineaged maiden.
ref: a. 1889, William Tidd Matson, Coralie:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) lineage.
japannery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japanneries
Etymology: From japan + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where japanning is carried out.
japanneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of japannery
phisicke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phisickes
Senses: examples: text: Harke yee Lords, you ſee I haue giuen her Phiſicke, / And you muſt needs beſtovv her Funerall, […]
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], signature [G4], recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of physic.
phisickes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phisicke
blooperball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: 16-inch softball: a variant of the game of softball, played with a larger, softer ball and no gloves or mitts.
stuccoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuccoists
Etymology: From stucco + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who applies stucco.
stuccoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuccoist
supraspinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supraspinal + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the spine.
radioastronomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioastronomers
Etymology: From radio- + astronomer.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out radio astronomy.
radioastronomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioastronomer
uncometary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncometary
form: most uncometary
Etymology: From un- + cometary.
Senses: examples: text: The failure to see the comet previous to its sudden apparition near the Andromeda Nebula, its uncometary appearance, its peculiar freaks, and final utter disappearance from the heavens […]
ref: 1899, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society:
text: The neon lines were fairly intense and are quite uncometary. It has been suggested to me that the cyanogen might have been generated during the fall of the meteorites by a reaction between atmospheric nitrogen and cohenite or carbon.
ref: 1940, American journal of science, volume 238, page 571:
glosses: Unlike a comet.
pyramidwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyramid + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a pyramid.
pyramidwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyramid + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a pyramid.
unmonetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmonetary
form: most unmonetary
Etymology: From un- + monetary.
Senses: examples: text: The other kind of having leads to mutual giving, to creating life, to riches of a nature quite unmonetary.
ref: 1966, Norman Norwood Holland, Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare, page 330:
glosses: not pertaining to money; without reference to money
poetastery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetasteries
Etymology: From poetaster + -y.
Senses: examples: text: As Poetry is totally distinct from Poetastery, so is Criticism not to be confounded with Criticastricism.
ref: 1860, The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Society, Vol. 1, p. 129 (Google preview)
text: We rarely sentimentalized consciously, and still more seldom openly, about the present state of Venice as contrasted with her past glory. I am glad to say that we despised the conventional poetastery about her.
ref: 1867, William Dean Howells, chapter 22, in Venetian Life:
text: Compare but the northern poets — and they were all improvisers — with the lamentable poetastery of the Roman emperors which Suetonius quotes.
ref: 1896, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age, Volume 211, page 685:
glosses: Inferior poetry.
poetasteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poetastery
zoophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoophysiologists
Etymology: From zoo- + physiologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies zoophysiology.
zoophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to zoophysiology.
zoophysiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoophysiologist
narcotised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: narcotized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of narcotise
narcotised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narcotised
form: most narcotised
form: narcotized
Senses: examples: text: But her self-reproach became actualised by the dream voice of Max as he guided her through the asanas, forcing her to take them slowly, and at each stage to pin-point the nothingness-quotient of her mind, half narcotised now by the drug.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1075:
glosses: Drowsy or insensible from narcotics.
non-mimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mimetic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonmimetic.
Derived terms: non-mimetic fiction
criminalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪm.ɪ.nəˈlɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more criminalistic
form: most criminalistic
Etymology: From criminal + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Tending to criminal behavior.
fire grate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire grates
form: firegrate
form: fire-grate
Senses: glosses: A grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.
video cassette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video cassettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of videocassette.
firegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firegrates
Etymology: From fire + grate.
Senses: examples: text: The firegrate has an area of 28.5 sq. ft.
ref: 1941 April, “British Locomotive Developmentts”, in Railway Magazine, page 175:
text: The MR and GNR both delivered hundreds of thousands of tons of coal destined for London's domestic and commercial firegrates into their depots at St Pancras and King's Cross.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of fire grate.
fire-grate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-grates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire grate.
low fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low fantasies
Senses: examples: text: Fantasy fiction has been categorized and described in different ways. One classification divides fantasy into two major types: low fantasy, which takes place in the primary world (our world); high fantasy, which takes place in alternative worlds.
ref: 2008, Nikki Gamble, Sally Yates, “Fantasy and Realism”, in Exploring Children's Literature, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: A subgenre of fantasy fiction set in the primary or real world as opposed to a secondary or fantasy world.
glosses: A subgenre of fantasy fiction that focuses on more grounded and realistic fantasy with more focus on the daily lives and practical goals of the characters.
glosses: A work in this subgenre.
low fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low fantasy
form: most low fantasy
Senses: examples: text: Jerome Singer (1973) divided a group of children aged six to nine years into high-fantasy and low-fantasy groups on the basis of their frequency of playing pretend games as contrasted with other kinds of play
ref: 2014, Candida Clifford Peterson, “Preschoolers”, in Looking Forward Through the Lifespan, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Having a poor fantasy life, such as not having imaginary companions nor playing pretend games.
high fantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high fantasy
low fantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low fantasy
Saeed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Said.
Sayeed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sayeeds
Etymology: Variant spelling of Sayyid or Said.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Sayeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sayeeds
Etymology: Variant spelling of Sayyid or Said.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Sayid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
Sayid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sayids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
Sayyad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
Sayyad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sayyads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Syed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
Syed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sayyid.
Saïd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Said.
unmeetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unmeeting
Susanowo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 須佐之男(すさのを) (Susanowo) as spelled according to the historical kana orthography.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Susanoo.
wikipedia: historical kana orthography
long-tailed macaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-tailed macaques
Senses: glosses: A primate of the species Macaca fascicularis, native to Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Macaca fascicularis
word: crab-eating macaque
sense: Macaca fascicularis
word: cynomolgus
sense: Macaca fascicularis
word: cynomolgus monkey
lipoaspirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipoaspirate
channel catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channel catfishes
form: channel catfish
Senses: glosses: A fish of the species Ictalurus punctatus, native to eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Ictalurus punctatus
word: channel cat
upstays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upstay
upstaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upstay
upstayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upstay
Tolkiendili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolkiendil
one man's trash is another man's treasure
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: one man's meat is another man's poison
form: one man's loss is another man's gain
Etymology: One early use is in Hector Urquhart's Popular Tales of the West Highlands (1860s) where he wrote "one man's rubbish may be another's treasure".http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60429/ddg#60472
Senses: glosses: What is useless to one person is valuable to another.
Related terms: there's no accounting for taste
it's not a bug, it's a feature
gingerliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gingerly + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: gingerness
glosses: A gingerly state, attitude, or behavior.
eyes on the prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Abbas's] tenure would be taken as an opportunity by various Young Turks to cement their own claims. Men such as Gaza security chieftain Mohammed Dahlan and his former West Bank counterpart Jibril Rajoub may have their eyes on the prize.
ref: 2004 October 28, Tony Karon, “Mideast Braces for Life After Arafat”, in Time, retrieved 21 Jan 2018:
text: We like to think of ourselves as walking face forward into the future, eyes on the prize.
ref: 2006 January 15, David Colman, “Three Cheers for the Same Old Thing”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jan 2018:
text: "It was an honor to watch the determination and focus as Sydney locked her eyes on the prize and shot a 5-under par 31," Cavaliers' coach Lee Smith said.
ref: 2015 May 4, “Athletes of the Week: Chris Navarro and Sydney Mills”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 21 Jan 2018:
text: Clinton must weigh up the excitement of a rule-breaking all-female ticket against the cold, hard political calculation of how best to win the presidential race. She's a realist who has her eyes on the prize, and winning the White House will likely trump all other considerations.
ref: 2016 April 25, Sophy Ridge, “US election: Meet the savvy women vying to be Hillary Clinton's running mate”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 21 Jan 2018:
glosses: Concentration on one's goal; mindfulness of the desired outcome.
Derived terms: keep one's eyes on the prize
aloe vera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌləʊ.i ˈvɛ.ɹə/
ipa: /əˌləʊ.i ˈvɪə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˌæ.ləʊ ˈvɛ.ɹə/
ipa: /ˌæ.ləʊ ˈvɪə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈæ.loʊ ˈvɛ.ɹə/
ipa: /ˌæ.loʊ ˈvɪ.ɹə/
Forms: form: aloe veras
form: Aloe Vera
form: aloë vera
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin aloē vēra (“true aloe”).
Senses: examples: text: Some other trees like the cactus and aloe veras, have other means of protection or feel no need for it and they grow much faster and easier that way.
ref: 2001, White Eagle, chapter 2, in The Medicine Way, page 71:
text: Another excellent cleanser and toner is aloe gel or fresh aloe vera cactus pulp. Cut off 1 inch of aloe vera rib, slit open and rub yellowish pulp directly on the skin.
ref: 2003, Patricia Bragg, Paul C Bragg, Apple Cider Vinegar Miracle Health System, page 22:
text: Further, scientists have learned that certain houseplants reduce pollutants, especially philodendrons (formaldehyde, benzene, and carbon monoxide), spider plants (carbon monoxide), aloe veras (formaldehyde), and gerbera daisies and chrysanthemums (benzene).
ref: 2005, Richard H. Pitcairn, Susan Hubble Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats, page 139:
text: Every morning and evening I drink half a tumbler of pure aloe vera jelly, which also strengthens my immune system. I believe that these generous portions of aloe vera above all have led to an improvement in my blood-test results after seven months of chemotherapy—in fact they are better than they were before.
ref: 2006, Wolfgang Heinemann, Surviving Brain Cancer: A Personal Memoir, page 147:
text: An orange cat rubbed against it and then threaded through the aloe veras, meowing lazily as Jessica opened the screen door.
ref: 2009, Gwendolyn Zepeda, Houston, We Have a Problema, unnumbered page:
text: In ayurveda, aloe vera is sometimes called kumari or "princess with the gel" or ghrit kumari ("ghee of the princess").[…]Alternatively, try this recipe created by the staff at Six Senses Spas. It is made with cooling lavender and aloe vera as well as nourishing milk.
ref: 2013, Judy Chapman, Ultimate Spa: Asia's Best Spas and Spa Treatments, page 196:
glosses: A plant of the species Aloe vera, grown as an ornamental, thought to have medicinal value; an extract, often a gel, made from the plant.
Synonyms: sense: Plant of the species Aloe vera
word: Barbados aloe
black-throated loons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-throated loon
secondary world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary worlds
Etymology: Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1947 essay "On Fairy-Stories".
Senses: examples: text: What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.
ref: 1947, J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”, in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, page 60:
text: From beginning to end of the fiction we are in the secondary world.
ref: 1982, Frederick M. Burelbach, “An Introduction to Naming in the Literature of Fantasy”, in Literary Onomastics Studies, volume 9, number 11, archived from the original on 16 May 2021, page 133:
text: The girls stress the internal logic of the Secondary World as the crucial point for fantasy pleasure. Mastering the elaborate structure of the Secondary World is part and parcel of the reader's quest to experience a text such as Harry Potter, although the central hero would identify the text as masculine.
ref: 2004, Holly Virginia Blackford, “It's Like a Fantasy World”, in Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls, Teachers College Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: The world to which the protagonist belongs is the 'primary' or 'domestic' world. The secondary world is often a binary opposite of the primary world; an inverse, or mirror-image of the consensual reality of the text.
ref: 2012, Jane Suzanne Carroll, “The Sanctuary Topos”, in Landscape in Children's Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: fantasy
glosses: An internally consistent, fictional, fantasy world or setting that is different from the real "primary world".
wikipedia: J. R. R. Tolkien
On Fairy-Stories
Synonyms: fantasy world
imaginary world
Related terms: high fantasy
primary world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary worlds
Etymology: Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1947 essay "On Fairy-Stories".
Senses: examples: text: What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.
ref: 1947, J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”, in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, page 60:
text: Now, this secondary world can be made to stand entirely on its own, so that there is no primary world in the fiction and the only reference points to the real world are those the reader brings with him or forges for himself. This is generally the case with what is commonly called "high" fantasy, such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
ref: 1982, Frederick M. Burelbach, “An Introduction to Naming in the Literature of Fantasy”, in Literary Onomastics Studies, volume 9, number 11, archived from the original on 16 May 2021, page 132:
text: Fantasy fiction has been categorized and described in different ways. One classification divides fantasy into two major types:¶ low fantasy, which takes place in the primary world (our world);¶ high fantasy, which takes place in alternative worlds.
ref: 2008, Nikki Gamble, Sally Yates, “Fantasy and Realism”, in Exploring Children's Literature, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: fantasy
glosses: The real world of the reader or viewer, as opposed to the imaginary "secondary world" of a work of fiction.
wikipedia: J. R. R. Tolkien
On Fairy-Stories
Related terms: low fantasy
secondary worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary world
primary worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary world
anaphylactic shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anaphylactic shock
baroque pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of pop music that incorporates elements of classical music.
shiny cowbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiny cowbirds
Senses: glosses: A passerine bird (Molothrus bonariensis) of the Icteridae family.
shiny cowbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiny cowbird
machinegunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinegunners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of machine-gunner.
semi-weeklies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-weekly
sideart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From side + art.
Senses: glosses: artwork on the side of an arcade game cabinet.
upperside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uppersides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upper side.
timeshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of timeshift
blocksize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blocksizes
form: block size
Etymology: From block + size.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The size of a block of data (in a file or a transmission)
occupiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more occupiable
form: most occupiable
Etymology: From occupy + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being occupied
glosses: Suitable for occupancy
Derived terms: unoccupiable
electrohydraulically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrohydraulic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an electrohydraulic manner
overmantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmantles
Etymology: From over- + mantle.
Senses: glosses: The region above a mantlepiece.
cinematographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cinematograph
aristolene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic sesquiterpene (7R,7aR,7bS)-1,1,7,7a-tetramethyl-2,3,5,6,7,7b-hexahydro-1aH-cyclopropa[a]naphthalene
orthoplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoplexes
Etymology: Coined in 1991 by John Horton Conway and Neil Sloane. Blend of orthant + complex, since it has one facet for each orthant.
Senses: examples: text: We made use of another way of considering the 120 cells, starting with the eight at the vertices of an orthoplex, that is, in the cells of a hypercube.
ref: 1990, Mathematica Journal, volumes 1-2, page 84:
text: It is remarkable that the four-dimensional orthoplex is the same polytope as the four-dimensional hemicube.
ref: 1991, J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane, “The Cell Structures of Certain Lattices”, in Peter Hilton, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Reinhold Remmert, editors, Miscellanea Mathematica, page 90:
text: The combinatorics of this case apply to all members of the Gosset series; in every case, their cells are simplexes and orthoplexes, the latter appearing with only half symmetry.
ref: 2008, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things, page 412:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A convex polytope analogous to an octahedron (3 dimensions) or 16-cell (4 dimensions).
wikipedia: John Horton Conway
Neil Sloane
Synonyms: sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: cocube
sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: cross-polytope
sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: hyperoctahedron
Hyponyms: sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: 16-cell
sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: 4-orthoplex
sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: hexadecachoron
sense: polytope analogous to an octahedron
word: octahedron
Derived terms: 4-orthoplex
Related terms: simplex
hypercube
Turán graph
orthoplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: plural of orthoplex
Synonyms: orthoplices
battery acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battery acids
Senses: glosses: Acid used as electrolyte in a battery, usually sulphuric acid.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Coffee.
stone-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stone wall.
chinovnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinovniks
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чиновник (činovnik).
Senses: examples: text: Ivan Antonych was probably the only one of the Russian chinovniks in Byeltsy who spoke with the Jewish representatives in a humane way and did not show any favoritism toward the Russian element.
ref: 1998, Nikolai Bukharin, How It All Began: The Prison Novel, page 50:
glosses: A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
Tsarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tsarist
form: most Tsarist
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsarist.
enurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enure + -ment.
Senses: glosses: use, practice, action, execution
examples: text: Att'y Gen'l Black, in his opinion, holds that the United States having subsequently acquired the Indian right, the title would enure to the state under the grant made to it, and therefore the treaty stipulation could only apply to such lands as would not pass by enurement, and which the United States might lawfully and consistently with its former grant sell and dispose of, as the even numbered sections.
ref: 1866, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, page 164:
text: If it is forgoing interest, or if it has the chance of paying someone a guaranteed amount even through ^([sic]) they have not earned it, it is all a form of giving up a part of income that could be enurement.
ref: 1983, Bonnie B. Katz, Proceedings of the National Health Lawyers Association's Eighth Annual Program on Health Law Update, page 149:
text: If the agreement is assigned, an enurement clause ensures that the assignee will be bound by the terms of the agreement.
ref: 2018, James M. Klotz, International Sales Agreements:
topics: law
glosses: One's right to have or control an asset.
Related terms: inurement
what are you waiting for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: What is the delay? Why are you not acting or proceeding?
Wusong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹso͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Woosung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 吳淞 /吴淞 (Wúsōng).
Senses: glosses: A subdistrict of Baoshan District in Shanghai, China.
glosses: A former name of the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.
glosses: A former name of the Wenzaobang in Shanghai.
examples: text: Brown's last official discussions took place yesterday at a base of the East China fleet at Wusong, where Shanghai's Huangpu River meets the mighty Yangtze River near the East China Sea.
ref: 1980 January 13, Jay Mathews, “Brown Ends China Visit That Improved Military Ties”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2020:
text: If you sail a dozen miles to Wusong where the Huangpu converges with the Yangtze, you will see another side of Shanghai: a major port clogged with sleek steamers, rusty freighters, warships, barges and sailing junks.
ref: 1984 March 4, Christopher S. Wren, “What's Doing in Shanghai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2011, Section 10, page 10:
text: The first mill to send its Chinese workers home was the Nikka Number 8 Mill down the Huangp’u River from Shanghai at its Wusung entry to the vast Yangtze. The neighboring Wing On mill under Chinese owners continued to hum. There at Wusung Port was also the Chinese fortress guarding both the entrance to Shanghai’s waterway and the arterial Yangtze.
ref: [2001, Donald A. Jordan, “The Last Straw at Shanghai”, in China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: A port city on the lower Huangpu River near its confluence with the Yangtze, since merged with Shanghai.
Woosung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 吳淞 /吴淞 (Wúsōng).
Senses: examples: text: Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.
ref: 1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator, number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2:
text: THE C. M. S. Kwangtah, which arrived here last Friday from Hongkong reports: Left Hongkong at 7 p.m. on the 15th instant. Anchored in Amoy Harbour for shelter 13 hours. Anchored again at Matsu Island for 10 hours and arrived at Woosung on the 18th instant.
ref: 1904 August 26, North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LXXIII, number 1933, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 455, column 3:
text: In 1864, Sir McDonald Stephenson, an eminent British engineer, arrived in China to impress the advantages of railways on China, but his scheme was pigeonholed. The next scheme was the Woosung Railway, from Shanghai on the Huangpu river to Woosung at its mouth, a distance of 12 miles.
ref: 1915 October 1, Charles Davis Jameson, “The Status of Chinese Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 59, number 14, New York, page 602, column 1:
text: The dashing lad — twenty-nine at the time — had used rockets to drive the Chinese off the hilltops of Tzekee and Segoan, used rockets again to drive them out of Chapoo, fought ashore at the Battle of Woosung, and returned to his expertise with rockets during the capture of Ching-Kiang-Fu.
ref: 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror (Fiction), Little, Brown and Company, published 2009, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 300:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Wusong.
how the mighty have fallen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The phrase originates in the Old Testament, 2 Samuel 1:19. The earliest version in English is found in the Great Bible, (1539): Oh howe are the myghtie ouerthrowen. The modern word fallen version is found in the King James Version, (1611) and is an expression of David's lament over Saul and Jonathan: The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Senses: glosses: Used to imply the decline of a once-great person or entity.
Related terms: the bigger they are, the harder they fall
Firestone layaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Firestone layaways
Etymology: Derived from the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a manufacturer of rubber products, in reference to rubber check.
Senses: examples: text: Detective LaRue showed me his gratitude by paying me off on the Firestone layaway.
ref: 1985, Mr. Beckman, Hill Street Blues television program, Season 5, Episode 9
glosses: The practice of issuing a check on insufficient funds.
shelf fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf fungi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bracket fungus.
synonyms: word: bracket fungus
shelf fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelf fungus
Faroe Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faroe Islanders
form: Faeroe Islander
Senses: glosses: an inhabitant of the Faroe Islands (Faroes)
Synonyms: Faroese
Faeroese
Faeroe Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faeroe Islanders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Faroe Islander.
outrovert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Modelled on introvert, replacing in with its opposite, out.
Senses: examples: text: This also conforms to the theory that outrovert people are not having better share of success.
ref: 1996 May 10, Phil C.J. Lin, “Re: Kansai vs. Kantou?”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 10 Jan 2015:
text: He is experiencing the switch between an outrovert and introvert attention/focus.
ref: 1996, Inge Nygaard Pedersen, Lars Ole Bonde, Music Therapy Within Multi-Disciplinary Teams, page 117:
text: The introvert facade consists of a number of different materials, […] The outrovert facade, facing the park[,] is designed to seem more homogenuos^([sic]).
ref: 2009, Krads (Architecture Project Magazine), page 130:
glosses: Extrovert.
apocrisarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəkɹɪˈsɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌæpəkɹəˈsɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: apocrisarii
form: apocrisiarius
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A high-ranking ecclesiastical deputy or other official
clarissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clarissas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.
Senses: examples: text: […] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.
ref: 2020, Richardo Ferreira de Almeida et al., “Popular Sweets in Douro Valley”, in Advances in Tourism, Technology, and Systems, page 188:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
autoschediasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoschediasms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοσχεδίασμα (autoskhedíasma), from αὐτοσχεδόν (autoskhedón, “hand-to-hand, on the spot”).
Senses: glosses: Anything done with little forethought or preparation.
united we stand, divided we fall
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: People are more successful as a group than as individuals.
Synonyms: sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
break the cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks the cycle
form: breaking the cycle
form: broke the cycle
form: broken the cycle
Senses: glosses: To act so as to end a repeating pattern of harmful or otherwise negative behavior.
Related terms: break the wheel
kick the habit
slow one's roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slows one's roll
form: slowing one's roll
form: slowed one's roll
form: slowed one's roll
Senses: glosses: To calm down.
Synonyms: cool one's jets
keep one's pants on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's pants on
form: keeping one's pants on
form: kept one's pants on
form: kept one's pants on
Senses: examples: text: All right, okay! Keep your pants on, I'm coming!
glosses: To stay calm.
Synonyms: keep one's hair on
keep one's knickers on
Related terms: keep it in one's pants
leapin' lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Popularised by the comic strip Little Orphan Annie
Senses: glosses: Used to express shock or dismay.
wikipedia: Little Orphan Annie
tear glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear gland
slows down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slow down
slowing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slow down
slowed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slow down
concordaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concordaunce
PoA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Prisoner of Azkaban.
cowcod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowcods
Senses: glosses: A fish of species Sebastes levis, found off the coasts of California and northern Mexico.
jacopever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacopevers
Senses: glosses: Any of certain species of marine fish in the genus Sebastes.
autonomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of self-correcting software systems that automatically detect and fix certain types of error without intervention by a software engineer.
Related terms: autonomic
autonomous
autonomy
Chinese mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese miles
Etymology: By analogy with the similar Roman and English unit, although the li was somewhat shorter.
Senses: glosses: A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 Chinese feet or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
Chinese miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese mile
zhangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zhang
anba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amba (“type of mango pickle”).
chih
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chihs
form: ch'ih
Etymology: From an irregular romanization of Mandarin 尺 (chǐ).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chi.
chihs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chih
ch'ih
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ch'ihs
form: chih
Etymology: From Mandarin 尺 (chǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: chʻih³.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chi.
ch'ihs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ch'ih
zu-infinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zu-infinitives
Etymology: From German zu + infinitive.
Senses: examples: abgeben → abzugeben
vorbereiten → vorzubereiten
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a German infinitive form created by adding or infixing the particle zu and used in subordinate clauses