cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mutual aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mutual + aid. Popularised by the anarcho-communist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n all these scenes of animal life which passed before my eyes, I saw mutual aid and mutual support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species, and its further evolution.
ref: 1902, Peter Kropotkin, “Introduction”, in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution:
topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The state of cooperation, as opposed to competition, as a factor in evolution and social development.
topics: anarchism
communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An agreement among emergency responders to lend assistance across jurisdictional boundaries.
qualifier: social work
glosses: A social work practice model in which members of a group both provide and receive help.
Derived terms: mutual aid network
mutual aid society
mutualism
mutualist
Allbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Allbutts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
time lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time lags
form: time-lag
Senses: examples: text: Owing to the time lag which must occur between the dates of closing for press and publication, it sometimes happens that items of news are out of date, or inaccurate, by the time they reach readers.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Steamer Services on the Clyde”, in Railway Magazine, page 50:
text: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
ref: 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581:
glosses: A period of time between one event and another; a delay.
hate strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate strikes
Senses: examples: text: In the auto industry (which was the heart of war production) the "hate strikes" started in October, 1941. There were twelve major such strikes in auto plants just in the first six months of 1943. Dodge, Hudson, Packard, Curtis-Wright, Timken Axle and many other plants witnessed these settler working class offensives.
ref: 2014 July 1, J. Sakai, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern, PM Press, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A strike with the goal of pressuring the employer into not employing or serving members of a specific racial or religious group.
time lags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time lag
delete character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delete characters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape
Hyponyms: bell character
carriage return
line feed
null character
tab
delete characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delete character
one-and-a-half-spaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Formatted so that there is one half of a blank line between each line of text.
doublespaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-spaced.
Morse alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morse alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Morse code.
synonyms: word: Morse code
Morse alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morse alphabet
cinéma du look
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French cinéma du look, coined by French film critic Raphaël Bassan.
Senses: examples: text: Ginette Vincendeau describes the cinéma du look as a typical example of ‘mainstream co-optation’ of ‘avant-garde, artisanal, or auteur’ cinema (1996: 14).
ref: 2008, Rosanna Maule, Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 90:
text: However, the 1980s also saw the development of cinéma du look, a “hip” movement in French film that features “cool,” sometimes surreal, cinematography, a high-speed montage style, and visual effects influenced by the technical virtuosity of advertising.
ref: 2011, Martha P. Nochimson, World on Film: An Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
coordinate_terms: nouvelle vague
glosses: A French film movement of the 1980s and 1990s, characterized by its spectacular visual style (“le look”).
quercetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quercetin + -amide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide obtained from quercetin in the form of an amorphous orange-yellow powder.
gametoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gametoid
zygophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygophore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a zygophore.
double-space
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-spaces
form: double-spacing
form: double-spaced
form: double-spaced
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To type (or format) text by leaving a blank line between each line of text.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To type (or format) text with two spaces between consecutive sentences.
Related terms: single-space
double-spacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-space
double-spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double-space
reclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclists
Senses: glosses: A list of recommendations.
moqaddem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moqaddems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muqaddam.
moqaddems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moqaddem
zemmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemmis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhimmi.
zemmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The blind mole rat (genus Spalax).
zemmis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zemmi
Inlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Inlos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dorson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorsons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
zaphara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zaffre.
Montell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Montells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
zabti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zabt (“Indian land revenue system”).
Legman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Legmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fenady
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fenadys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
zabt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zabti
form: jupti
form: zapti
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani ज़ब्त (zabt)/ضَبْط (zabt), from Classical Persian ضبط (zabt), from Arabic ضَبْط (ḍabṭ).
Senses: synonyms: dahsala
glosses: A Mughal land revenue system that replaced the earlier tribute system with a monetary tax system based on a uniform currency.
Turtledove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turtledoves
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Saintsbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saintsburys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Keillor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keillors
Senses: glosses: A surname.
zenocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zenocentric
form: most zenocentric
Etymology: From zeno- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: a zenocentric coordinate system
text: a zenocentric orbit
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: jovicentric
hypernyms: planetocentric
glosses: Having Jupiter at the center.
Related terms: english: the Sun
translation: the Sun
word: heliocentric
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeocentric
english: Venus
translation: Venus
word: cytherocentric
english: the Earth
translation: the Earth
word: geocentric
english: the Moon
translation: the Moon
word: selenocentric
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areocentric
english: Saturn
translation: Saturn
word: cronocentric
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: uranocentric
english: a planet
translation: a planet
word: planetocentric
english: a star
translation: a star
word: astrocentric
english: a galaxy
translation: a galaxy
word: galactocentric
Ruthven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruthvens
Etymology: Possibly from Scottish Gaelic ruadh (“red”) + mhaighin (“place”). Some places with this name may be from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh rhudd (“red”) + Welsh maen (“stone”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in the committee area of Marr, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5046).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Angus, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2848).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Badenoch district, Highland, Scotland (OS grid ref NH8133).
glosses: A placename:
A city in Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Deerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deermans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mowat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mowats
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Galloway-Mowat syndrome
Mowat-Wilson syndrome
single-sided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the "West Coast Postal" of the L.M.R., the Western Region TPO train is not turned at each end of its journey, and as the coaches with pick-up/set-down apparatus are single-sided, one coach serves the mail exchange points on the down journey, a second coach marshalled the other way round serving the up exchange points.
ref: 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581:
coordinate_terms: double-sided
glosses: Having something on one side only.
Leviton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Levitons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Parins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parinses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Druitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Druitts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Mount Druitt
Timbs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timbses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
vratas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vrata
Millerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Millersons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
vrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vrat
vamphorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vamphorns
Senses: examples: text: If we want to hear the full symphony of English church music, we have to include in our imaginings the sound of a Christmas anthem, sung through a vamphorn, accompanied by instruments strung with whipcord and twine.
ref: 2017, Andrew Gant, O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music, page 252:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A horn without holes or keys, used to amplify the voice in singing.
vamphorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vamphorn
vaporingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vaporingly
form: most vaporingly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vapouringly.
vaporary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaporaries
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of vaporarium (“a steam bath”).
synonyms: word: vaporarium
extra: a steam bath
vaporaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaporary
vatmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatmakers
Etymology: From vat + maker.
Senses: examples: text: […] would reduce the vatmaker to his vat, the winemaker to his wine.
ref: 2010, Avi Erlich, Ancient Zionism: The Biblical Origins of the National Idea, page 123:
glosses: Someone who makes vats.
vatmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vatmaker
VATmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VATman
vaseygrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vasey grass.
Vasey's grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vasey grass.
Sakelaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sakelarises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Antoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antouns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Chesneau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chesneaus
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wendig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wendigs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Greven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grevens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Labov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ləˈboʊv/
Forms: form: Labovs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Racster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Racsters
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gansser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ganssers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gansser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Deeping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deepings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Deeping St James
Deeping St Nicholas
Market Deeping
West Deeping
Paneth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paneths
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Paneth cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paneth cells
Etymology: Named after 19th-century pathologist Joseph Paneth.
Senses: glosses: A type of epithelial cell found in the small intestine.
cat tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat towers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cat tree (“structure for a cat to play on”).
synonyms: word: cat tree
extra: structure for a cat to play on
variolovaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A vaccine against smallpox.
Betjeman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betjemans
Senses: examples: text: It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:
glosses: A surname.
Brookner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brookners
Etymology: Probably an Americanized spelling of the German surnames Brockner and Bruckner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
snackie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snackies
Etymology: From snack + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of snack.
Verly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Verlys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Thimmesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thimmeshes
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ತಿಮ್ಮೇಶ್ (timmēś).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kannada.
Geikie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geikies
Etymology: Variant of Geekie.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
BSDE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSDEs
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of backward stochastic differential equation.
BSDEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSDE
veineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veinery
velal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: (Kaaf) or velal (k), pronounced very far back in the throat […]
ref: 1866, Walter Gregor, The Dialect of Banffshire, page 18:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: velar
Veneralia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman festival celebrated on 1 April in honour of Venus Verticordia ("Venus the changer of hearts") and Fortuna Virilis ("virile Fortune").
venerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: veneration
versettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versette
vermicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to vermiculture.
vermiculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermiculturists
Senses: glosses: One who carries out vermiculture.
vermiculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermiculturist
vermiformous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vermiform
verminicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verminicide
verminicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills vermin.
in hindsight
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: In hindsight, I should have quit that job sooner.
synonyms: in retrospect
glosses: Denoting coming to an understanding of the full nature of an event after it has already occurred.
Related terms: hindsight is 20/20
twenty-twenty hindsight
companies registers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companies register
villaget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villagets
Etymology: From village + -et.
Senses: examples: text: The mountains approach nearer to each other, and are, for some distance, so close to the river as scarcely to leave room for even a villaget.
ref: 1887, Thomas Twining, Richard Twining, Selections from Papers of the Twining Family, page 81:
glosses: A little village.
villagets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villaget
vitascopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the vitascope.
volumometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volumetric.
volumometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volumetric.
volumometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volumetry.
Bathist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bathist
form: most Bathist
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baathist.
Bathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bathists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baathist.
Bathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baathism.
de-Ba'thification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of de-Baathification.
de-Baʻthification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + Baʻth + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of de-Baathification.
Iranun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌiɹɑˈnun/
Forms: form: Ilanun
form: Illanun
Senses: glosses: A Moro ethnic group native to Mindanao, Philippines, and the west coast of Sabah, Malaysia.
Iranun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌiɹɑˈnun/
Forms: form: Ilanun
form: Illanun
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Mindanao of the southern Philippines and western Sabah in Malaysia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Iranun terms
estrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From estro- + genesis.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. PINCUS : […] I wish I could give you some information about estrogens, but as Dr. Dorfman will testify our attempts thus far have not led to the finding of much estrogen in adrenal perfusates. We cannot therefore tell you really about any influences on estrogenesis except that occasionally you get estrogen produced by the ...
ref: 1954, Council on Drugs (American Medical Association), Conference on Comparison of the Biological Properties of Steroids and Hormones, October, 1954, page 43:
text: Patterns of fetal ovarian estrogenesis and events associated with feminization of genital primordia are not obviously related. […] days 50 to 59 suggests a causal relationship between this event and onset of ovarian estrogen production (21).
ref: 1996, Society for Theriogenology, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 103:
glosses: Production of estrogen.
tornado watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornado watches
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An indication that atmospheric conditions observed in and close to the watch area have created a significant risk for the development of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.
Related terms: tornado warning
tornado warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornado warnings
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An indication that a tornado has been sighted in a viewing area.
Related terms: tornado watch
tornado shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornado shelters
Senses: glosses: A generic underground cellar designed for protection from tornadoes.
glosses: A space in one's home that offers protection from tornadoes.
Related terms: tornado warning
tornado watch
tornado shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tornado shelter
tornado warnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tornado warning
tornado watches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tornado watch
health farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of health farm
slide into the DMs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slides into the DMs
form: sliding into the DMs
form: slid into the DMs
form: slid into the DMs
form: slide into someone's DMs
Etymology: First appears c. 2013-2014, particularly on Twitter, which allowed users to send private messages known as direct messages. The word slide suggests a smooth, confident, or subtle approach to initiating a conversation.
Senses: glosses: To confidently and coolly send a direct message to someone by means of social media, especially with romantic or sexual intentions.
Mikulov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Mikulov.
Senses: examples: text: It is said that the Swedes tried to win Mikulov in southern Moravia by trickery. The Swedish soldiers had already pillaged and burnt all the villages around Mikulov, Mikulov alone resisted.
ref: 1995, Eduard Petiška, translated by Norah Hronkovà, Tales of Castles in the Land of Moravia, Martin, page 45:
text: By foot , it is possible to navigate the old city of Mikulov (which is to say, the Nikolsburg part) in twenty minutes, circumambulating the entire citadel. There is more to modern Mikulov (which is to say, the real Mikulov part), but it lies some kilometers from the center:[…].
Mikulov′s Jewish history is impressive indeed. For centuries it was the seat of Jewish administration for Moravia, home of the legislative councils ruled by the Landesrabbiner, Moravia's chief rabbis.
ref: 2000, Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, Martha Lampland, editors, Altering States, University of Michigan Press, page 49:
text: Fourth, although there are interest groups which have pushed for the road construction in both variants, the Mikulov variant has been, since the early stages, preferred by regional political authorities.
ref: 2016, Davide Torsello, The New Environmentalism?, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 89:
synonyms: Nikolsburg
glosses: A town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic; formerly an important centre for Moravian Jewry.
one-way tickets to Palookaville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-way ticket to Palookaville
Paneths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paneth
Thimmeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thimmesh
Brookners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brookner
Ganssers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gansser
hyperbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)biːm/
Forms: form: hyperbeams
form: hyper beam
form: hyper-beam
Etymology: From hyper- + beam.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm not saying that, Vil. I only say what you hear me say and you haven't heard me say that. But, Vil, to get out we're depending on you. I can't call for help because I can't aim a hyperbeam without knowing where we are: I can't find out where we are because I can't pinpoint any stars—"
ref: 1972, Robert Silverberg, New Dimensions II: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 122:
text: "Unless that fellow was lying, they do have some combat-worthy units. And hyperbeams must be flying from end to end of their fleet."
ref: 1990, Isaac Asimov, The Diplomacy Guild, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Wasting no time, Crossfire aims her hyperbeam cannon and fires her spatial blast which engulfs Charlemagne and punches a hole in the ground.
ref: 2018, Xavier J. Fulwood, Knighthood: The Dangerous Adventures, Page Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
video-games
glosses: An extraordinarily intense beam of any size (of energy or matter); a superbeam.
auteur theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Popularized by American film critic Andrew Sarris (1928–2012).
Senses: examples: text: The intense degree of controversy that surrounds a discussion of the auteur theory as formulated by Truffaut and that has affected every level of “movie talk” from cocktail party gatherings to doctoral reviews can be partly assuaged in considering Bazin's role in the evolution of the politique des auteurs.
ref: 1986, Aaron Sultanik, Film, a Modern Art, Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 83:
text: At this point, it is necessary to say something about the auteur theory since this has often been seen as a way of introducing the idea of the creative personality into the Hollywood cinema.
ref: 2019, Peter Wollen, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The view of film as an art form with an original and personal stylistic vision, especially in contrast to collective authorship in the studio system.
wikipedia: Andrew Sarris
phylopattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylopatterns
Etymology: From phylo- + pattern.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A phylogenetic pattern
phylopatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylopattern
studio system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.
ref: 2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A method of filmmaking wherein the production and distribution of films is dominated by a small number of large movie studios (the majors).
nephroprotector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephroprotectors
Etymology: From nephro- + protector.
Senses: glosses: A nephroprotective agent
nephroprotectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephroprotector
Fosbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fosbrokes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Senses: examples: text: Heard the fetty ain't shit in Alabama
42 for the bammer
ref: 2021 August 27, 42 Dugg, “Free RIC” (track 3), in Free Dem Boyz (Deluxe):
glosses: Fentanyl.
fetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fetti (“money”).
bammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: We smoke dank, not the bammer shit
Damn, that bammer ain't no good
You might as well smoke some rolled up wood
And you laughed and said those rhymes was funny
But trip on the sense that i'm stressin, you punk-ass dummy
Get with the program
Can't you see bammer ain't nothin but a scammer
ref: 1992, “Don't Give Me No Bammer Weed”, performed by RBL Posse:
text: Heard the fetty ain't shit in Alabama
42 for the bammer
ref: 2021 August 27, 42 Dugg, “Free RIC” (track 3), in Free Dem Boyz (Deluxe):
glosses: The lowest-quality marijuana available.
Bewick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bewicks
Etymology: From Old English beo (“bee”) + wīc (“village; farm”), hence a farm for the production of honey.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A deserted medieval village in Aldbrough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
glosses: A placename:
A civil parish in Northumberland, England, which includes the villages of Old and New Bewick.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Bewick's swan
Bewick's wren
New Bewick
Old Bewick
Tusser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tussers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
handboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handboards
form: handboarding
form: handboarded
form: handboarded
Etymology: From hand + board.
Senses: glosses: To bodysurf using a handboard.
examples: text: This is obtained by a method of handboarding instead of the usual process of embossing.
ref: 1902, Luggage and Leather Goods, page 50:
text: Comber and gill box apron leather is soft, mellow, and tough, tanned from steer hides, heavily stuffed, and usually handboarded or otherwise softened.
ref: 1941, “Leather Terminology”, in Establishing and Operating a Shoe Repair Business (Industrial Series; No. 17), page 166:
text: It is slightly handboarded to remove the dried-up chemicals.
ref: 1984, Changing Villages, page 39:
glosses: To finish leather using a handboard.
Boutell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boutells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ashmole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashmoles
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Me Decade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Me Decade
Etymology: Coined by American author and journalist Tom Wolfe in 1976.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to some of the pop gurus of the "Me Decade," Starhawk and Margot Adler are both political activists, very much aware off the need to push for political change.
ref: 1986 April 12, R. W. Murray, “One Solution: Neo-Paganism”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
text: The prevailing concept of the Seventies remains the idea of the “Me Decade”—an era of narcissism, selfishness, personal rather than political awareness. […] Pundits and historians portrayed the Me Decade as the antidote to or repudiation of the activist, altruistic 1960s.
ref: 2001, Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: The 1970s characterized by a rise of self-indulgence and narcissism in American society.
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Kwantlen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Halkomelem kʷikʷəƛ̓əm.
Senses: examples: text: She and 24 other educators in the MEd cohort spent only one day in the classroom during the two-year program. The rest of their classes were held in natural settings off-campus that included q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie) and q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen) First Nations lands where they learned from Indigenous elders and experts about the land and land stewardship. They also learned about the long-term impacts of colonial practices such as overfishing.
ref: 2019 October 1, Diane Lucow, “MEd grad ready to reinvent her approach to teaching”, in Faculty of Education - Simon Fraser University:
glosses: Any member of a branch of the Sto꞉lo people living in the Fort Langley and McMillan Island area of British Columbia.
Sto꞉lo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stó꞉lō
form: Stó:lô
form: Stó:lõ
form: Staulo
form: Stahlo
Senses: glosses: A group of Salish First Nations peoples inhabiting the Fraser Valley and lower Fraser Canyon of British Columbia.
Wasney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wasneys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sandcorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandcorn
Holtzapffel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holtzapffels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lukin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lukins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hitti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hittis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jerdan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jerdans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Guillim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guillims
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Druckerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Druckermans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Minford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Minfords
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in Scioto County, Ohio, United States.
Opler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oplers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Weyman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weymans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hoyland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoylands
Etymology: From Old English hoh (“hill spur”) + land (“(cultivated) land”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE372003).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Hoyland Common
Wasserstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wassersteins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wasserstein, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kitzinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kitzingers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ellerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ellertons
Etymology: The name of the village in the East Riding of Yorkshire derives from the Old English personal name Æþelheard + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), while the hamlet in Shropshire is from Old English alor (“alder”) + tūn.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE704398).
glosses: A hamlet in Cheswardine parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ715258).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Ellerton-on-Swale
pair of trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of trousers
Senses: glosses: trousers
Synonyms: trousers
wokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woker
wokeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wōʹkĭsh
ipa: /ˈwəʊ.kɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈwoʊ.kɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈwəʉ.kɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈwɐʉ.kɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈwɐʉ.kəʃ/
ipa: /ˈwo.kɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈwoː.kiʃ/
rhymes: -əʊkɪʃ
Forms: form: more wokeish
form: most wokeish
form: woke-ish
Etymology: From woke + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Reclaim Party leader called the control of the Greater London Authority ‘wasteful and wokeish’
glosses: Characteristic of wokeism.
glosses: Somewhat woke.
Ardmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Ard Mór (or Aird Mhór) and Scottish Gaelic Aird Mhòr, meaning "great height". See further Old Irish - and Old Irish -.
Senses: glosses: A promontory on the Firth of Clyde, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, between Helensburgh and Cardross (OS grid ref NS3178)
glosses: A hamlet in Ross-shire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7086).
glosses: A hamlet and ferry port on Barra, Western Isles council area, Scotland, otherwise named Àird Mhòr (OS grid ref NF7203).
glosses: A locality on South Uist, Western Isles council area, otherwise Àird Mhôr (OS grid ref NF7946).
glosses: A number of points and bays in Highland and Argyll and Bute council areas.
glosses: A village and seaside resort in County Waterford, Ireland, otherwise named Aird Mhór.
glosses: A townland in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland.
glosses: A village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
glosses: Townlands in County Antrim, County Fermanagh and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
glosses: A hamlet in the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood in North Saanich, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Limestone County, Alabama, bordering onto Ardmore, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in St. Joseph County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A historical district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, named after Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Haverford Township, Delaware County and Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fall River County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Giles County and Lincoln County, Tennessee, bordering onto Ardmore, Alabama.
glosses: A rural locality with an airfield south-east of Auckland, New Zealand.
transition altitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition altitudes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The altitude (which varies by country) above which an aircraft's barometric altimeters are set as if the sea-level atmospheric pressure were equal to 1013.25 hectopascals (regardless of the actual atmospheric conditions) and altitudes are reported as flight levels.
Coordinate terms: transition level
Related terms: transition layer
transition level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition levels
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The lowest flight level above the transition altitude; depends on the transition altitude and the measured or calculated sea-level atmospheric pressure. The flight level at which a descending aircraft's barometric altimeters are reset from a constant setting of 1013.25 hectopascals to the setting corresponding to the actual measured or calculated atmospheric pressure at mean sea level.
Coordinate terms: transition altitude
Related terms: transition layer
transition layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition layers
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The airspace above the transition altitude but below the transition level.
Related terms: transition altitude
transition level
LATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LAT
United Nations Organization
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the United Nations Organization
form: United Nations Organisation
form: UNO
Senses: glosses: Synonym of United Nations.
synonyms: word: United Nations
street ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street apes
Senses: examples: text: >[…]On the other hand... Samuel L. Jackson is a foul
>mouthed street ape who is best known for the ability to portray
>Typical Nigger Behavior and his mastery of the word "muthafucker".
ref: 1999 May 28, Whiteman, “Question about Mace Windu”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: Better than the street ape your mother had, Scumbucket.
ref: 2001 August 3, rightw...@stupid.com, “What Would Jane Goodall Say?”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):
text: Before anybody panics it WAS NOT Al Sharpton!!
It was just an ordinary career-criminal street-ape.
ref: 2007 October 11, Patriot Games, “man shoots ape”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: That worked out really well. The liberal geniuses took 100%
black schools and diluted them by 15% so the street apes could
have some white people to beat on instead of each other.
Overall, grades rose by phenominal amounts when the non-blacks
showed up, so the liberal idiots called it a success. The
street apes couldn't progess any further because of their
limited intellect however, and continued on to their lives of
drug dealing, liquor store robberies, car theft, rape, etc.
ref: 2009 August 29, George Orwell, “Re: Newsweek: America’s War on the Overweight”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: why they do this? no street apes want a black woman anyway. they like
the white pussy...the sick aryan girls, or even jew sluts, who get off on
dark meat.
ref: 2010 October 26, good grief, “pack of jiggaboos bash white guy for dating ho negress”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):
text: The conservatives here in Dallas don't like big government tax bills
so the number of police in Dallas County is horribly low given the
number of knuckle-dragging street apes roaming around. The cops are
pretty much at 100% utilization of their time and other resources so
they generally only concentrate on making busts that increase violent
crime statistics.
ref: 2012 December 6, Jason Todd!!!, “This Could Possibly Be The Most Racist "Tourist" Advice Ever...”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: And check out the millennial street ape that spray-canned a $70K Audi Quattro.
That animal needs to be jerked up and thrown in the clinker.
ref: 2016 November 21, Jimmy knows crooked Sammie Ervin IV, “Here's a Mob of Millennials that Want to Wilston Trump”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of pavement ape.
synonyms: word: pavement ape
street apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street ape
sea potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea potatoes
Senses: glosses: The sea urchin Echinocardium cordatum
screamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more screamable
form: most screamable
Etymology: From scream + -able.
Senses: glosses: Of a bit of language, able to be screamed.
glosses: Able to be screamed about.
howlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more howlable
form: most howlable
Etymology: From howl + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be howled about, or howled at.
Ellertons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ellerton
South Uist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Outer Hebrides, Western Isles council area, Scotland.
Wassersteins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wasserstein
Hoylands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoyland
Oplers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Opler
Minfords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Minford
Druckermans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Druckerman
Rugoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rugoffs
Etymology: Probably a variant of Rogoff.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Rugoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rugoff
Laposky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laposkys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Laposkys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laposky
takes one's half out of the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take one's half out of the middle
taking one's half out of the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take one's half out of the middle
took one's half out of the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take one's half out of the middle
taken one's half out of the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take one's half out of the middle
minds one's language
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mind one's language
minding one's language
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mind one's language
Roiphe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roiphes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
minded one's language
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mind one's language
Axler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Axlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Axler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Devanny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Devannys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Easterhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the east of the City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6765).
Postman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Postmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stallybrass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stallybrasses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Caulfeild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caulfeilds
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rudler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rudlers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hemmerly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hemmerlys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Steyermark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Steyermarks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
overbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overburst
Hailstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hailstones
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Krollmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krollmanns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Taormino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taorminos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kaldera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalderas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zirin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zirins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pulsford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pulsfords
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lydekker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lydekkers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Meteyard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meteyards
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Froomkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Froomkins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Faley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Faleys
Etymology: Probably a variant of Fawley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
panisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panisse
Neen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /niːn/
Etymology: Coined by Miltos Manetas in 2000, in his so-called “Neen Manifesto”
Senses: examples: text: While Neen is about feeling the experience, Telic is about the tools.
glosses: A digital art movement promoting storytelling through digital art.
wikipedia: Miltos Manetas