cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
AADE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of Dental Editors.
glosses: Initialism of American Association of Dental Examiners.
AADGB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Association of District Governing Boards.
Bozo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bozos
form: Bozo
Etymology: Thought to derive from the Bambara language, meaning "bamboo house".
Senses: glosses: A member of a West African ethnic group located predominantly along the Niger River in Mali, famous for their fishing
Bozo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Thought to derive from the Bambara language, meaning "bamboo house".
Senses: glosses: The Mande language of these people.
Bozos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bozo
invocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invocate
invocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invocate
invocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of invocate
longlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of longline
truckstop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckstops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of truck stop.
truckstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckstop
mibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mib
examples: The rest of the day he heard the children playing kick-the-can, hide-and-seek, Over-Annie-Over, jacks, tops, mibs, and the sound of the little monsters in every shrub and shadow would not let him rest.
glosses: A game of marbles.
intercase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + case.
Senses: glosses: Between cases.
intralake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + lake.
Senses: glosses: Within a single lake.
interlake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + lake.
Senses: glosses: Between lakes.
freshwater pearl mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freshwater pearl mussel
steinkern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steinkerns
Etymology: From German Steinkern, from Stein (“stone”) + Kern (“kernel, nucleus”).
Senses: glosses: A fossil formed from sediment that filled a hollow structure such as a shell.
steinkerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steinkern
ovalocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovalocytes
Etymology: From oval + -o- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: elliptocyte
Derived terms: ovalocytic
ovalocytosis
elliptocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elliptocytes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An elliptical cell, in particular an elliptical RBC.
Synonyms: ovalocyte
Derived terms: elliptocytic
Related terms: elliptocytosis
ovalocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovalocyte
elliptocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elliptocyte
superelevate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superelevates
form: superelevating
form: superelevated
form: superelevated
Etymology: From super- + elevate.
Senses: glosses: To give a superelevation to (a railway track).
superelevating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superelevate
superelevates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superelevate
superelevated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The higher rail on superelevated curves were the most vulnerable, due to the higher contact stresses at the wheel-rail interface.
ref: 2020 October 7, Greg Morse, “Hatfield: the lessons continue...”, in Rail, page 53:
glosses: simple past and past participle of superelevate
superforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + forming.
Senses: glosses: A hot metal forming process that uses similar principles to thermoforming plastics, where a sheet of material is heated and forced onto a male or female superform using air pressure.
thermoformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermoform + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being thermoformed.
morphomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphome
unplastered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + plastered.
Senses: examples: an unplastered wall
glosses: Not plastered.
unplastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unplaster
plasterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plaster + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for having plaster applied.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a particular type of cone in a Banach space.
Derived terms: unplasterable
Liebig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Liebig condenser
Liebig's extract
liebigite
unscoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scoured.
Senses: glosses: Not scoured.
unexplainedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ʌnɪkˈspleɪnədli/
Forms: form: more unexplainedly
form: most unexplainedly
Etymology: From unexplained + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without explanation.
subsegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a subsegment or subsegments.
squareneck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From square + neck.
Senses: examples: a squareneck bolt
a squareneck tunic
glosses: Having a square-shaped neck.
serjeanties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serjeanty
sergeanties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeanty
sergeanty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeanties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of serjeanty.
Related terms: grand sergeanty
petit sergeanty
Euxine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːksɪn/
ipa: /ˈjuːkˌsaɪn/
rhymes: -uːksɪn
rhymes: -uːksaɪn
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὔξεινος Πόντος (Eúxeinos Póntos, “Hospitable Sea”), from εὔξεινος (eúxeinos, “hospitable”) + πόντος (póntos, “sea”). See also Πόντος (Póntos), with the first letter capitalized.
Senses: glosses: Black Sea
at the time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
text: Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.
glosses: Back then, at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past.
Related terms: at that time
back in the day
tiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tiddles
form: tiddling
form: tiddled
form: tiddled
Etymology: From a variant of tidder. See tid.
Senses: synonyms: dawt
faddle
grope
pettle
glosses: To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.
glosses: To potter about; to do something idly.
examples: text: Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle?
A wandering wombat who needed to widdle?
A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?
ref: 2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?:
synonyms: piddle
widdle
glosses: To urinate.
tiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiddle
tiddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tiddle
peroxysome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxysomes
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peroxisome.
peroxysomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peroxysome
Moyamoya disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted, blocking blood flow.
Synonyms: Moyamoya syndrome
Moyamoya syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Moyamoya disease
melocoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛləkəˈtɒn/
Forms: form: melocotons
form: malacatoon
form: malacotoon
form: malacotune
form: malakatoon
form: melocotoon
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion)calq.
Latin mālum cotōnium
Spanish melóninflu.
Spanish melocotónbor.
English melocoton
Borrowed from Spanish melocotón (“peach tree and its fruit”), from Latin mālum cotōnium (“quince, or quince tree”, literally “apple of Cydonia”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of yellow-fleshed peach having red skin
glosses: A quince.
melocotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melocoton
oxidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxide + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In general, the hydroxamates are used for flotation of oxidic minerals (pyrochlore, cassiterite and ilmenite), rare-earth oxides and oxide copper minerals.
ref: 2007, Srdjan M. Bulatovic, Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an oxide.
undertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertides
form: underntide
Etymology: From Old English underntid, equivalent to undern + tide.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of undern: originally terce and the morning, later (UK dialect obsolete) noon and the early afternoon.
synonyms: word: undern
extra: originally terce and the morning, later (UK dialect obsolete) noon and the early afternoon
Synonyms: word: 9 a.m.
sense: morning
word: morn
word: matin
word: morning
sense: noon
word: meridian
word: sext
word: midday
sense: early afternoon
word: arvo
word: afternoon
undertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertides
Etymology: From under- + tide.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of undercurrent.
synonyms: word: undercurrent
undertides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertide
carrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹəl/
rhymes: -æɹəl
Forms: form: carrols
Etymology: See carol.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of carol.
carrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹəl/
rhymes: -æɹəl
Forms: form: carrols
form: carroling
form: carrolling
form: carroled
form: carroled
form: carrolled
form: carrolled
Etymology: See carol.
Senses: examples: text: As the lark with vary'd tune, / Carrols to the evening loud; / Mark the mild reſplendent moon, / Breaking through a parted cloud!
ref: 1766 April, “Day: A Pastoral. From Cunningham’s Poems. [Evening.]”, in The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXXV, London: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, page 207, column 2:
text: […] Ye villagers rejoice; / And ye who cultivate the fertile glebe / Carrol the gladſome ſong. For you the plain / Shall wave with wheaten harveſts; and the gale / From blooming bean-fields ſhall diffuſe perfume.
ref: 1774, William Richardson, “Runny Mead”, in Poems, Chiefly Rural, Glasgow: Printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: Archaic form of carol.
carrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹəl/
rhymes: -æɹəl
Forms: form: carrols
Etymology: See carrel.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Archaic form of carrel.
carrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrol; alternative form of carols.
carrols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carrol (alternative form of carols)
supplejacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supplejack
pad stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pad stitch
murries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murry
murry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murries
Senses: glosses: moray eel
murry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug mari, maray (“great, very”). First attested in 1818.
Senses: glosses: very, extremely
murry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug mari, maray (“great, very”). First attested in 1818.
Senses: glosses: great
pindal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pindals
Etymology: From Dutch piendel, ultimately cognate to pinder, which see.
Senses: glosses: The peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
Related terms: english: peanut
translation: peanut
word: pinder, pindar, pinda
pindals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pindal
pindar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pindars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinder or pindal ("peanut").
pindars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pindar
pelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peliomata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πελῐός (pelĭós, “livid”) + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A livid bruise.
peliomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelioma
photospectrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + spectrometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to photospectrometry
Derived terms: photospectrometrically
photospectrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + spectrometry.
Senses: glosses: spectrometry, especially that which uses visible light
bath towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath towels
form: bath-towel
form: bathtowel
Senses: glosses: A towel used to dry the body after bathing.
Related terms: beach towel
beach towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach towels
Senses: glosses: A towel for use at the beach, typically larger than a normal household towel so that a person can use it to lie on the sand.
Related terms: bath towel
Friendsgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Friendsgivings
Etymology: Blend of friends + Thanksgiving
Senses: examples: text: That means a holiday traditionally celebrated with family could be a very lonely affair. But, never fear, this year discover the joy of a “Friendsgiving”—a Thanksgiving with friends.
ref: 2011 November 22, Alyce Gilligan, “Happy Friendsgiving”, in Relevant, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2013:
text: I would like to thank my friends, who make Friendsgiving the best holiday of the year.
ref: 2012, Cash Costello, Elgg 1.8 Social Networking, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Palardy, who has a learning disability and deals with medical challenges, was one of more than two dozen from the Best Buddies club — or about four tables full — who came together for a special "Friendsgiving" Italian meal in Lenox at Trottoria Il Vesuvio in a special acknowledgment of thanks to friendship shortly before Thanksgiving.
ref: 2012 November 18, John Sakata, “'Friendsgiving' celebrates friends with Pittsfield students”, in The Berkshire Eagle, →ISSN:
glosses: A Thanksgiving feast held by and for someone's friends.
doradito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doraditos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish doradito (diminutive of “golden”).
Senses: hyponyms: crested doradito
Dinelli's doradito
subtropical doradito
ticking doradito
warbling doradito
glosses: any of several passerine birds with yellow underparts in the genus Pseudocolopteryx, found in South America
rallying point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rallying points
Senses: examples: text: At last, 'Ali, perceiving that her camel was the rallying-point of the enemy, sent one of his captains to hamstring, and thus disable it. With a loud cry the animal fell to the ground.
ref: 1924, William Muir, “chapter 35”, in The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline and Fall:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A designated area for troops to concentrate upon; a sign marking such an area.
examples: text: "We have always some reigning mania," said the Chevalier de Joinville, when, in common with others of the court, he came in to Madame de Mercœur's, on his way to a fête given by Madame de Soissons, whose hôtel was more than ever the rallying point of the court. "Every body now is making what they call portraits of themselves and of their friends. ...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 63:
text: The proposition that James had ceased to be King had been the rallying point of the two parties which had made up the majority. But from that point their path diverged.
ref: 1848, The History Of England From the Accession of James II, Macaulay, chapter 10:
text: This proclamation was issued as a rallying point for those loyal or penitent elements which were believed to exist in many of the insurgent states, and which, in the confusion of plans for reconstruction, were lying dormant, and without practical advantage to the states themselves and to the government.
ref: 1866, Josiah Gilbert Holland, “chapter 26”, in The Life of Abraham Lincoln:
text: She perceived what is one of Boston's chief charms,—that the Common and its surrounding streets make a natural centre and rallying-point for the whole city; as the heart is the centre of the body and keeps up a quick correspondence and regulates the life of all its extremities.
ref: 1886, Sarah Woolsey, “chapter 3”, in What Katy Did Next:
text: 1900, James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Adams, John Quincy
He came to serve as the rallying-point in congress for the ever-growing anti-slavery sentiment, and may be regarded, in a certain sense, as the first founder of the new republican party.
text: In the midst of this Babylon I found myself a rallying-point; every one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger.
ref: 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 1”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes:
text: In 1970 at West Point, Vice President Agnew said "some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most of those misfits abuse" and this was used as a rallying point for our effort in Vietnam.
ref: 1971, John Kerry, John Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
glosses: A cause, symbol, or a place that may unite a fragmented group or persons opposing each over in other matters.
Related terms: rallying cry
mitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micher.
ammo'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Man I just got ammo'd, so I feel sad.
text: Even if I keep every ship ammo'd, we're going to get tired. We have to start killing them!
ref: 2007, John R Heninger, Eyes in the Stone:
text: Beyond that it was too dark for details. jacqueline Delon, flanked by two armed goons (ammo'd with what? wooden bullets?), appeared at the top of the steps in a pale dress to meet them. “
ref: 2012, Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising:
glosses: Alternative form of ammoed; simple past and past participle of ammo
ammoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.oʊd/
rhymes: -æməʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ammo
mouthsore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthsores
form: mouth sore
Etymology: From Middle English *mouthsor, *muthsar, from Old English mūþsār (“mouthsore”), equivalent to mouth + sore.
Senses: examples: text: OVA (Sclerocarya birrea) The bark is pounded and added to lukewarm water which is taken as a remedy for mouthsore.
ref: 1987, Kamoji K. Wachiira, Women's use of off-farm and boundary lands:
text: Then there was Betty who was constantly in a fit when she invariably became speechless. Not to mention, Sally's mouthsore and the severe dog-bites suffered by Maria.
ref: 2008, Eddie Donoghue, Black Breeding Machines:
glosses: A sore in or of the mouth.
lumber room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumber rooms
Senses: glosses: storeroom in a house where odds and ends, especially furniture, can be stored
Schwimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwimmer
subtiler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of subtile: more subtile
titanium group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Group 4 of the periodic table, comprising titanium, zirconium, hafnium and rutherfordium
Nork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norks
Etymology: Clipping of North Korean.
Senses: examples: text: Norks just kept coming, running out of the smoke and fire like demons, come to drag all us sinners to hell.
ref: 2016, unnamed journalist, Homefront: The Revolution:
glosses: A North Korean.
Coordinate terms: orc
Nork
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England.
glosses: A surname.
Norks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nork
pharmacoeconomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pharmacoeconomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: pharmacoeconomically motivated studies
pharmacoeconomically favorable end products
glosses: In a pharmacoeconomic manner or context.
human shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human shields
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Civilians which a military group has deliberately placed combat targets near to deter an enemy from attacking those targets.
examples: text: And after the past few days, in which a fleet of Republicans and the president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: Third parties used cynically to divert attention away from accusations against oneself.
Hyponyms: white shield
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A polity within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
touch-tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-tone
touchtone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From touch + tone.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch-tone.
touchtone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchtones
Etymology: From touch + tone.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch-tone.
touchtones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touchtone
Ahle-Quran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ahle Quran.
Ahl al-Quran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَهْل الْقُرْآن (ʔahl al-qurʔān)
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ahle Quran.
Ahli Quran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ahle Quran.
Ahle Qur'an
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ahle Quran.
autorelease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + release.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: automatic release (of previously allocated resources)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former official name of Yugoslavia: a former country in Southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula; in use in the interwar period (1929–1943), after the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929).
unheedily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unheedily
form: most unheedily
Etymology: From un- + heedily.
Senses: examples: text: some lost great hope unheedily, / Which never they recover might againe […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Heedlessly.
ammonium polyvanadate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A highly toxic, orange powder that is used in the manufacture of paints, inks and dyes.
forslowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forslow
polyvanadate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvanadates
Etymology: From poly- + vanadate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymeric form of the orthovanadate anion; and salt containing this anion
Derived terms: ammonium polyvanadate
exceedingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exceeding + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed that this complaint of Agelastus had awaked the spirits of the Arcadians, astonished before with the exceedingness of sorrow.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: The quality of exceeding.
polyvanadates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyvanadate
CIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CID
disloigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disloigned
form: most disloigned
Senses: examples: text: High reared mounts, the lands about to vew; / Low looking dales, disloignd from common gaze […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Set off, at a distance; remote.
reference implementations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reference implementation
JAX-RS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Java API for RESTful Web Services.
Related terms: JAX-WS
sosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊʃ/
ipa: /soʊʃ/
rhymes: -əʊʃ
homophone: soc
Forms: form: soshes
Senses: examples: text: In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh" short for Socialist.
ref: 1928, Will Irwin, Herbert Hoover A Reminiscent Biography, The Century Company, page 50:
text: This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh.” The teeth-baring sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.
ref: 1981, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Simon and Schuster, page 43:
text: Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department […] “Sosh,” as the academic department was called […]
ref: 2009, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Political Ducks: Lucky, Lame, and Dead, Xlibris, page 241:
text: In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election […]
ref: 2009, Sean Scalmer, “‘for the sake of a straight out fight’: The Free Traders and the Puzzle of the Fusion”, in Paul Strangio, Nicholas Dyrenfurth, editors, Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System, Melbourne University Press, page 87:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.
glosses: Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.
examples: text: He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh." His social security number.
ref: 2003, Michael Allen Dymmoch, The Feline Friendship, Macmillan, page 33:
glosses: Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.
A social security number.
examples: text: “I mean he's crazy about me . Whoa - h - h !” She lowed like a cow in heat . “ “How do you know ?” “Well , in sosh class — you know , social studies —” Mr . Kurland goes , “Today we're having a surprise QQ .”
ref: 1986, Marilyn Gould, The Twelfth of June, Lippincott, page 10:
text: She'd let him think it was over for a while, but I knew she'd be on him again at noon, or spreading the word in the back of Social Studies; Mrs. Lehmann, the Sosh teacher, couldn't see the back of the room very well.
ref: 1995, Bernice Friesen, The Seasons are Horses, Thistledown Press, page 37:
glosses: Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.
Social studies.
Derived terms: sosh meed
sosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊʃ/
ipa: /soʊʃ/
rhymes: -əʊʃ
homophone: soc
Forms: form: soshes
Etymology: Short for association store.
Senses: examples: text: Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh," was back in a moment with a handful of small change.
Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.
ref: 1888, J. M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls, Hodder and Stoughton, page 77:
text: An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.
ref: 1896, Alick Blair, Rantin Robin & Marget: With Other Scottish Sketches & Homely Rhymes, Arbroath: T. Buncle & Company, page 82:
text: Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.
ref: 1897, Fergus Mackenzie, Sprays of Northern Pine, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, page 110:
text: In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]”
ref: 1900, Sir John Alexander Hammerton, J. M. Barrie and his books: biographical and critical studies, Horace Marshall and Sons, page 248:
glosses: A co-op.
tow the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tows the line
form: towing the line
form: towed the line
form: towed the line
Senses: examples: text: Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line.
ref: [1946 April, George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, in Cyril Connolly, editor, Horizon, volume 13, number 76, London: Horizon, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 255:
text: This isn't the first time this week where Cheney has slammed Republicans for towing the line for Trump.
ref: 2024 February 6, Brad Reed, “'Inexcusable betrayal': Liz Cheney buries her party for following 'Trump's orders'”, in MSN, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024, Politics:
glosses: Eggcorn of toe the line.
electron capture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron captures
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nuclear reaction in which an electron (either free, or from the shell of the atom itself) is absorbed into a nucleus, a proton being converted into a neutron in the process
orujo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orujos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish orujo.
Senses: glosses: A brandy from northern Spain, made from grapes.
lunisolar calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunisolar calendars
Senses: examples: text: We adopted the Babylonian lunisolar calendar in order to make sure that Pesaḥ fell in the spring, Shavuot at the first fruits, and Sukkot at harvest time.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “What Is The Purpose And History Of Adar II”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 88:
glosses: A calendar based on the movement of the Earth and the Moon around the Sun, which defines the year.
Hyponyms: Chinese calendar
Hebrew calendar
Julian calendar
Coordinate terms: lunar calendar
solar calendar
chargemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chargemasters
Etymology: From charge + master.
Senses: examples: text: The patient faced bankruptcy because she couldn't pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars accrued from her hospital bill, including a price from the chargemaster for a single acetaminophen pill at ten times the cost for the same pill over-the-counter at a pharmacy.
text: Much ink has been spilt bemoaning that incomprehensible foundation of hospital cost accounting and prices, the redoubtable chargemaster.
ref: 2007, James C. Robinson, “Price Transparency Begins at Home”, in Frontiers of Health Services Management, volume 23, number 3, American College of Healthcare Executives, archived from the original on 21 May 2013, pages 25–28:
text: The higher the chargemaster markup over cost, the greater the potential for profit.
ref: 2008, T. Neil Davis, Mired in the Health Care Morass, Ester Republic Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: What a hospital is actually paid by an MCO, Medicare, or Medicaid is rarely even close to what is listed on the chargemaster. In fact, only the uninsured are subject to those charges.
ref: 2009, Peter Kongstvedt, Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 212:
text: Of particular importance, other than in Maryland, hospitals are generally free to charge whatever they want in their chargemaster.
ref: 2012, Peter Reid Kongstvedt, Essentials of Managed Health Care, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, pages 114–115:
text: California is a unique state in that all hospitals are required to submit a copy of their chargemasters, which the state then posts online for all consumers and patients to see.
ref: 2012 July 16, Bob Herman, “Report: Surgery Prices Vary Wildly at California Hospitals”, in Becker's Hospital Review, ASC Communications, retrieved 04 Mar 2013:
text: However, I quickly found that although every hospital has a chargemaster, officials treat it as if it were an eccentric uncle living in the attic. Whenever I asked, they deflected all conversation away from it. They even argued that it is irrelevant. I soon found that they have good reason to hope that outsiders pay no attention to the chargemaster or the process that produces it. For there seems to be no process, no rationale, behind the core document that is the basis for hundreds of billions of dollars in health care bills.
ref: 2013 February 20, Steven Brill, “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us”, in Time, Time Warner, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2013:
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: A comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.
Related terms: healthcare
hospital
multipayer
chargemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chargemaster
autodecrement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autodecrements
form: autodecrementing
form: autodecremented
form: autodecremented
form: auto-decrement
Etymology: From auto- + decrement.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To decrement automatically.
autodecrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autodecrements
form: auto-decrement
Etymology: From auto- + decrement.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An automatic decrement.
Related terms: autoincrement
autodecrementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autodecrement
autodecrements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autodecrement
autodecremented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autodecrement
autograts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autograt
autodiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + diagnostic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or carrying out, autodiagnosis; self-diagnosing.
autoploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoploid
autoencoding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + encoding.
Senses: glosses: Operating as an autoencoder; carrying out automatic encoding.
Huffman coding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huffman codings
Etymology: Named after its inventor David A. Huffman (1925–1999).
Senses: examples: text: In Huffman coding, shorter code-words are assigned to more frequent symbols so that the average code-length is reduced.
ref: 2018, Keshab K. Parhi, Takao Nishitami, editors, Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated probability of occurrence of each symbol (so that more frequent symbols take less space to store).
Hypernyms: prefix coding
Huffman codings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Huffman coding
autoethnographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autoethnographical + -ly or autoethnographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, autoethnography.
charge-master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge-masters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chargemaster.
charge-masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charge-master
chargehands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chargehand
chargees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chargee
autoproteolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + proteolytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autoproteolysis.
Derived terms: autoproteolytically
autoproteolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autoproteolytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, autoproteolysis.
automethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of automethylate
automictically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From automictic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of automixis.
autoregisters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoregister
autoinjections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoinjection
unsocialistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsocialistically
form: most unsocialistically
Etymology: From unsocialistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unsocialistic way; contrary to socialism.
windowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From window + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being displayed in a window.
autoflow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoflows
form: autoflowing
form: autoflowed
form: autoflowed
Etymology: From auto- + flow.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To flow (text) automatically.
autoflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + flow.
Senses: glosses: automatic flow
autoflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoflow
autoflows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoflow
autoflowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoflow
autoionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + ionic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autoions.
autotheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotheists
Etymology: From auto- + theist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to autotheism; a self-worshipper.
autotheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotheist
autotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autotoxic
form: most autotoxic
Etymology: From auto- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: toxic to itself; having the nature of an autotoxin
autotransformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotransformation
Münchner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Münchners
Etymology: From German Münchner.
Senses: examples: text: […] especially in regard to hotels and eating-houses, to which Münchners without families resorted for their meals.
ref: 1916, Daily Review of the Foreign Press, page 14:
text: “Zu streng” was the comment of the Münchners, and doubly strenuous it was for an American boy, quite ignorant of German, and held, from the moment of his entrance, responsible for obeying all the elaborate regulations of the school.
ref: 1922, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, volume III, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, page 422:
text: […] a thousand heathenish Münchners who drank up five thousand bottles of wine.
ref: 1928, The Century Monthly Magazine, volume 116, page 603:
text: There followed a great commotion and uprising, the Münchners saying that their beer was absolutely necessary to them and that nothing dare be done to make it more difficult of attainment.
ref: 1929, World Traveler, volume 21, page 60:
text: They rolled dice between “Münchners” keeping score on the back of a cardboard “Brauerei Hameln” coaster.
ref: 1931, Henry Albert Phillips, Meet the Germans: In Which an American Sees the New Germany Through Its People, Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 174:
text: Whenever in Munich you admire the way the Münchners decorate their houses and lampstands with flower boxes, think kindly and proudly of Count Rumford.
ref: 1933, House & Garden, volume 64, page 25:
text: THE PRACTICAL MÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL
ref: 1936, German Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, Schurz, Carl, National Association, page 228:
text: I have worked in Munich as a reporter for an international news service, covering a horrible plane crash that also incinerated a streetcar full of Münchners.
ref: 2005, William Bridges, Five-Mountain Morning, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 12:
text: The Starkbierzeit is celebrated by most Munich beer halls. Münchners refer to it as the city's "fifth season."
ref: 2005, Larry Hawthorne, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, 5th edition, Freizeit Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:
text: Augustiner Beer Garden, a true under-the-leaves beer garden packed with Münchners, is a delight. In fact, most Münchners consider Augustiner the best beer garden in town—which may be why it has 5,000 seats.
ref: 2016, Rick Steves, Best of Germany, Avalon Travel, Perseus Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: Munichite
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany.
autotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autotherapeutic
form: most autotherapeutic
Etymology: From auto- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: therapeutic to the self; of or relating to autotherapy
lysophosphatidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phospholipid derivative that can act as a signalling molecule.
lysophosphatidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysophosphatidates
Etymology: From lysophosphatidic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of lysophosphatidic acid.
lysophosphatidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysophosphatidate
lysoglycosphingolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lysoglycosphingolipid
automimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automimics
Etymology: From auto- + mimic.
Senses: examples: text: Many butterflies are automimics.
glosses: Any creature that engages in automimicry.
automimics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automimic
high-quality
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-quality
form: highest-quality
Senses: examples: text: She always wears high-quality clothes.
text: We use only the highest-quality materials.
text: The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:
text: These knobs are generally mounted behind a cover of some sort, to prevent someone from leaning up against them or putting a philodendron on top of them, because (1) that aforementioned geyser can represent thousands to tens of thousands of dollars of helium these days, and (2) quenching is Not Good for the integrity of the magnet, and in the worse^([sic]) case you might find yourself with a lot of high-quality scrap metal.
ref: 2015 May 15, Derek Lowe, “Quenching NMRs, Accidentally and On Purpose”, in In the Pipeline, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2022:
text: A template of what could be done was provided by the TransPennine Express (TPE) franchise, with a higher-quality rail product offered as part of a separation of services from the earlier Northern franchise.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Industry Insider: Blame the policymakers”, in Rail, page 76:
synonyms: fancy
choice
dainty
antonyms: low-quality
poor-quality
medium-quality
glosses: Of very good quality; superior.
playtext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playtexts
Etymology: From play + text.
Senses: glosses: The text of a play (dramatic work).
playtexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playtext
unsocialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + socialism.
Senses: glosses: A view or practice that opposes socialism.
examples: text: Behind all his assumed unsocialism there lay a true warm heart; nor could anything be kindlier than the welcome which, whenever they did come to him, any of his Scotch relatives received.
ref: 1801, William Hanna, Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers, page 422:
glosses: An unsociable attitude.
autorotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autorotation
autorotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autorotates
form: autorotating
form: autorotated
form: autorotated
Etymology: From auto- + rotate.
Senses: glosses: To undergo autorotation.
autorotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autorotate
autorotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autorotate
autorotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autorotate
autoshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + shaped.
Senses: glosses: Conditioned by an autoshaping process.
autoinfect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoinfects
form: autoinfecting
form: autoinfected
form: autoinfected
Etymology: From auto- + infect.
Senses: glosses: To infect via autoinfection.
autoinfected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoinfect
autoinfecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoinfect
autoinfects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoinfect
undenatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + denatured.
Senses: glosses: Not denatured.