cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
deoxyuridylic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyuridylic acid
DEPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DEP
dephosphonylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dephosphonylation
dephytinisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dephytinisation
dephytinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dephytinization
depressive disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depressive disorder
deprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deprotectant
found literature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cohen embraced the clipping as a kind of found literature-an indigenous comic genre. "An Elder of Zion," a persona Cohen assumed in the journal in 1929, was also addicted to cutting tidbits out of the Jewish press,[…]
ref: 1981, Jacob Rader Marcus, Abraham Joseph Peck, Studies in the American Jewish Experience: Contributions from the Fellowship Programs of the American Jewish Archives:
text: French leadership in found literature has shifted to found music, musique concrete, in which natural sounds are introduced into musical compositions, often to the exclusion of traditional instrumentation.
ref: 2005, John Robert Colombo, All the poems of John Robert Colombo:
text: Insertions of found literature reinforce this record of ephemerality: intermingling passages from advertisements, newspaper clippings, and songs within the narrators' musings, Dos Passos imitates how subjects moving through Manhattan might […]
ref: 2008, Journal of Narrative Theory: JNT, page 354:
glosses: Literature created by taking words, phrases, or passages from other sources and combining or editing them so as to impart new meaning.
found poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Brett Dillingham, author and storyteller, advocates integrating content reading, note taking, poetry writing, and performance in the following found-poetry activity (Workshop, 1998).
1. Read examples of found poetry and explore with students […]
ref: 2004, Nile Stanley, Creating Readers with Poetry, Maupin House Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 89:
text: You may have already used Owl Moon (Yolen), Snow Comes to the Farm (Tripp), The Whales' Song (Sheldon), or The Seashore Book (Zolotow) for found poetry. Mentor texts work well here because students are already familiar with [them].
ref: 2007, Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli, Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Poetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.
found music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Undaunted, Quinn has just finished a movie on stone carving in collaboration with the composer Roger Doyle, who specialises in found music. "I wanted to define prosaic images with strange and unusual sounds."
ref: 1995, Ciaran Carty, Confessions of a Sewer Rat: A Personal History of Censorship & the Irish Cinema, →ISBN:
text: French leadership in found literature has shifted to found music, musique concrete, in which natural sounds are introduced into musical compositions, often to the exclusion of traditional instrumentation.
ref: 2005, John Robert Colombo, All the poems of John Robert Colombo:
text: It was nearly two decades since the composer had attended Peggy's New York parties and been awed by the stature of her guests. Now he was becoming eminent in his own right, his Duchamp-inspired experiments in found music and his signature silent score 4' 33" gaining recognition as milestone achievements of the international avant-garde.
ref: 2017, Judith Mackrell, The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice: The Stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN:
glosses: Music created by taking natural or non-musical (non-instrumental/non-singing) sounds and combining them into, or as, a musical composition.
Crosse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English and Irish surname, variant of Cross.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shannon's maxim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Claude Shannon.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: "The enemy knows the system" — a restatement of Kerckhoffs's principle.
wikipedia: Claude Shannon
Synonyms: Kerckhoffs's principle
Old Oak Common
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commercial and industrial area in Greater London, England, on the boundary between the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham (OS grid ref TQ2182).
Elk Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
glosses: A town and unincorporated community therein, in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, United States.
Arden-Arcade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Upper Poppleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5554).
Related terms: Nether Poppleton
Citrus Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Rancho Cordova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
North Highlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Orangevale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Foothill Farms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Fair Oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
Rosemont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosemount.
glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Rosemont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Rosemont.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosemount.
glosses: Alternative form of Rosemount.
A district of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Rio Linda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Parkway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place name:
A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, named after two roads with Parkway in their name.
glosses: A place name:
A village in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Wainuiomata, Wellington region, New Zealand, presumably named after a road in the area.
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Ledbury parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7135).
glosses: A place name:
A northern suburb (housing estate) in Haverhill, West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL6646).
Lemon Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
La Riviera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Gold River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Fruitridge Pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Elverta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Rancho Murieta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Poppleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poppletons
Etymology: Habitational surname from the villages of Nether and Upper Poppleton, in North Yorkshire, from Old English *popel (“pebble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Derived terms: Nether Poppleton
Upper Poppleton
Walnut Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Isleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
McClellan Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Spittal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See spital.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet near Fangfoss, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7652).
glosses: A coastal village in Berwick-upon-Tweed parish, near Tweedmouth, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU0051).
glosses: A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX3657).
glosses: A small village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4677).
glosses: A place near Cardenden, Fife council area, Scotland, possibly a farm (OS grid ref NT2194).
glosses: A hamlet in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND1654).
glosses: A small suburb of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6060).
glosses: A suburban area of Killearn, Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5186).
glosses: A village in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9723).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Spittal of Glenshee
Related terms: Spital
nonsensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonsensely
form: most nonsensely
Etymology: From nonsense + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise some will speak well as it were by chance ; others in one discourse speak mixtly, now rational, then nonsensely, at least weakly or obstructedly.
ref: 1667, Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Charles Harding, The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle:
text: But I must not miss a mail in order to make clear this mysterious sentence which is perhaps non-sense. |nonsensely yours in gᵗ haste | A. Marshall
ref: a. 1924, Alfred Marshall, John K. Whitaker, The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist, published 1996, page 174:
text: Another absurdity regarding the false religions is the fact that instead of teaching us how to really practice what is said in the Bible (in other words, instead of teaching us how to love each other as described in this holy book), drug dealers are rather encouraging us to traumatize our own sisters and brothers by accusing them blindly and nonsensely of being sorcerersl
ref: 2004, Mfumukanda Masembo, To Change The Mentalities, page 169:
glosses: Synonym of nonsensically.
synonyms: word: nonsensically
Related terms: no-nonsensely
no-nonsensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more no-nonsensely
form: most no-nonsensely
Etymology: From no-nonsense + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The work was illustrated by the author and no-nonsensely entitled Pictures Cast by the Projector of the Human Heart (Jinshin-kyo no utsushi-e).
ref: 2002, Timon Screech, The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan, page 115:
text: "Doesn't she look nice?" was the refrain of the day, wherever we went, wherever the shiny ducktails would bob no-nonsensely past.
ref: 2006, Jean Godfrey-June, Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup:
text: But as the steady-eyed Canteen worker checked the time and briskly beckoned the next in line, he pressed no-nonsensely forward: "Two sausage rolls, please."
ref: 2020, Steven Sater, Alice By Heart, page 261:
glosses: In a no-nonsense manner; practically or seriously.
noodleism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noodleisms
Etymology: From noodle + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This writer, however, with all his blunders and noodleisms, has picked up some truths, too, we must do him the justice to say: and we hope his countrymen will fructify thereupon.
ref: 1828 May, “Diary for the Month of April”, in The London Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 272:
text: The intolerable humbug of our public writers as to all matters concerning the Philosophy of Nature, founded on observed facts, shall be unflinchingly exposed ; and the niaseries and noodleisms of many so-called philosophers shall be held up to the world for its scorn, contempt, or ridicule, as they may severally deserve.
ref: 1849 January, “Address”, in Zadkiel's magazine, volume 1, number 1:
text: This proposition was not, like the Resurrection, a noodleism originating from simplicity and honest error, but a deliberate and fraudulent fabrication constructed to play upon the simplicity and ignorance of the multitude.
ref: 1901, P. C. Sense, A Critical and Historical Enquiry Into the Origin of the Third Gospel, page 22:
glosses: A misguided or foolish act or idea.
examples: text: You may direct your discourse to him, but he will merely answer you with monosyllables and exclamations; of if he is far gone in noodleism, he will content himself with shrugging his shoulders, or waving his hand, or peradventure he will nod his head in such a solemn and mysterious manner as will impress you with an idea that he is a perfect Solon. It is only after he opens his mouth you discover he is merely a solan goose.
ref: 1845 August 30, “Noodles”, in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, volume 2, number 27, page 1:
text: Again, all Snivelling hypocrisy in speculation, such as that which, when discoursing of the world's evils, delights to call Man's sin God's providence,—all boisterous noodleism in reform, whose champions would take society on their knee, as a Yankee takes a stick, and whittle it into shape; —to these satire gravitates by a natural law.
ref: 1850, Edwin Percy Whipple, Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life, page 109:
text: Every lad in his teens knows what a simpering noodle a woman can be if she wants his attention or courts his admiration, and he generally starts life by answering the noodle according to her noodleism.
ref: 1995, Marie Mulvey Roberts, Tamae Mizuta, The Oppenents: The Anti-suffragists, page 21:
glosses: Misguidedness or foolishness.
noodleisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noodleism
noonlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noon + light.
Senses: examples: text: My starlight, my moonlight, my midnight, my noonlight, Unveil not, unveil not, or millions must pine.
ref: 1838 March, “To Mihri, By Rahiki, Native of Constantinople”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 11, number 63, page 300:
text: The shadows showed up what brilliant noonlight couldn't see.
ref: 2008, Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men:
text: The bull stepped around the crumpled body like a dainty lady avoiding a mud puddle, its tail swishing at heat and all the greenflies gathering in its wake, their own bodies flashing in the noonlight like a shattered gemstone tossed up in the heavy harbour air that would be Sam's last breath of Ceylon for ten years.
ref: 2011, Randy Boyagoda, Beggar's Feast:
glosses: The full sunlight that occurs at noon.
backing track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backing tracks
Senses: glosses: A prerecorded piece of music used to accompany a musician who sings live.
Normanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Normanises
form: Normanising
form: Normanised
form: Normanised
Senses: examples: text: His principal fault was apparently too great nationality (it might not be unalloyed with ambition) in resisting Edward's efforts to Normanise this land, and throw all his influence into the hands of Norman nobles.
ref: 1845, Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer, The Church History of Britain, page 380:
text: The Norman element thus formed in the episcopate was not dominant, can scarcely be conceived as amounting to an attempt to Normanise the Old English Church, and was matched by the other 'foreign' element of Lotharingian bishops within this period.
ref: 1985, R. Allen Brown, The Normans and the Norman Conquest, page 102:
text: It was of passing interest to Bruce that this Highlander chose to Normanise his name thus.
ref: 2011, Nigel Tranter, The Bruce Trilogy:
glosses: Alternative form of Normanize.
Normanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Normanise
Normanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Normanise
Normanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Normanise
Normanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Normanizes
form: Normanizing
form: Normanized
form: Normanized
form: Normanise
Etymology: From Norman + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Out of gratitude for this large inheritance, or in compliance with the fashion of that day to Normanize, the Saxon lords of Ruby thence assumed the appellation of Nevill.
ref: 1825, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Annual Report of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries, page 29:
text: Self-interest led the Saxon to Normanize his language, and the French to Anglicize his speech.
ref: 1853, A Hand-book of engrafted words of the English language, page 24:
text: Raised among the Normans in France, Edward spoke French and attempted to Normanize the English court.
ref: 2008, John M. Riddle, A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500, page 219:
glosses: To convert to the language or culture of Normandy.
Derived terms: Normanization
Normanizer
Normanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Normanize
Normanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Normanize
Normanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Normanize
Normanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By 1460 the name Donogh was dropped from the Ossory Line and the building of Cullahill Castle about this time by Fineen as H.Q. was actually a big move towards Normanisation.
ref: 1977 -, Old Kilkenny Review, page 262:
text: Most of Wales had already been conquered by Anglo-Norman barons; Edward I had only the north-west to subdue, and in doing so he completed the final stage of the Normanisation of Wales.
ref: 1997, Rosalind Mitchison, G. W. S. Barrow, Why Scottish History Matters, page 33:
text: Normanisation also affected the Scottish Church, leading to new monastic foundations and stronger continental links.
ref: 2016, Jeremy Black, A History of the British Isles:
glosses: Alternative form of Normanization.
Normanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Normanisation
Etymology: From Normanize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The only effective barrier to the full Normanization of England was Earl Godwin, who lived to regret his choice of Edward for the throne.
ref: 1986, Robert Tarbell Oliver, The Influence of Rhetoric in the Shaping of Great Britain, page 43:
text: By c. 1200, therefore, Clydesdale was predominantly a land of 'French' local lordship; it is a remarkably clear-cut case of 'Normanization'.
ref: 2007, Huw Pryce, John Watts, R. R. Davies, Power and Identity in the Middle Ages, page 105:
text: Yet despite the ways in which Normanization also entailed anglicization, David was also determined to maintain the traditional independence of the Scottish Church.
ref: 2011, David Allan, The History of Scotland, page 1282:
glosses: The process of Normanizing, especially in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Appalonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Apollonia.
Senses: examples: text: Another daughter, Appalonia, may have died between 1821, when she was named as a distributee, and the actual transfer in 1824, […]
ref: 1984, The Genealogist:
text: "My mother and Appalonia were stepsisters. Appalonia's mother died when she was twelve, and my grandfather remarried a much younger woman. Appalonia was sixteen and almost ready to leave the house when my mother was born,[…]"
ref: 1993, Holly S. McClure, Island Magic, Thomas Bouregy & Company, →ISBN:
text: Sister Appalonia was the Mother Superior. She was maybe five foot two but she was sturdy and strong.
ref: 2016, Joe A. Creath, Sister Mildred Hit Harder, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name.
El Dorado Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
South Lake Tahoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Cameron Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Diamond Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Pollock Pines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Shingle Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Auburn Lake Trails
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Grizzly Flats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
Alizé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ælɪzeɪ/
Etymology: From French Alizé, from alizé.
Senses: examples: text: […] mother who can really pass for Alizé's older sister, that Alizé is extremely hyper and has a problem keeping quiet in class. […] "I realized that talking to Alizé's mother would get me nowhere, […] [Alizé's grandmother] went into great detail about how young she was when she had Brandy, Alizé's mother, […]"
ref: 2008, Nikita Lynette Nichols, A Man's Worth, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 223:
text: And then she rushed inside to find the office suite of Ms. Alizé Stone. Alizé was already in the lobby when Alle arrived. “Could you be Ms. Alle Rednic?” Alizé asked as she reached out to shake her hand. “I am,” Alle replied ...
ref: 2016, Margie Woods, Alle Rednic, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name.
examples: Alizé Mack
glosses: A male given name.
Alize
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈliz/
Etymology: A variant of Alizé.
Senses: examples: text: Alize Lily Mounter
text: I rarely had birthday parties, so I leached onto other people's parties, especially Alize's. Alize's birthday is perfect because it is at the beginning of June. We were still in school, but it was close enough to summer that you could have a good party […]
ref: 2019, Chloelia Salome, While I'm Young, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Paris didn't flinch as Alize moved within an inch of her mouth and began caressing the side of her face. "You just don't know how good I could make you feel." The feel of Alize's hand on her breast shocked Paris out of her standoff.
ref: 2006, Christal Jordan-Mims, Under the Cherry Moon, page 143:
glosses: A female given name.
examples: text: Alize Johnson
text: […] the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered […] The bodies of Alize Smith and Jarron Moreland, both 21, were found […]
ref: 2018 May 7, Remains of 2 men found dismembered, chained to cinder blocks in pond, CBS News
glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: alt: which many occurrences of Alize are typos of
word: Alice
leprechauness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leprechaunesses
Etymology: From leprechaun + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: I picture Declan's mother as a kind of female Barry Fitzgerald, a leprechauness!
ref: 1993, Barbara Field, Boundary Waters: A Pastoral Farce, page 9:
text: Joanne Demster was a regular leprechauness at many early Irish Fests.
ref: 2003, Martin Hintz, Irish Milwaukee, page 112:
text: I tried saying the word leprechauness at least ten times, but she didn't understand until I explained that a leprechauness was a female leprechaun.
ref: 2016, Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144:
glosses: A female leprechaun.
elfette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfettes
Etymology: From elf + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: For as the girls pass by in this very pure phase of their lives, flamingo-limbed with that articulation of the true elfette, I most sadly recall the fact that in every interview I've read every allu- meuse without exception has wanted one thing more than any other in life
ref: 1968, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Elegy for Corsica, page 118:
text: At forty, after a bad illness, the Secretary of the Bank entangles himself with a girl - decidedly - of thirty-seven, half courted, half parried by him in letters of the most glucose baby talk. She is an elfette, an elfin art-adorer, who had been a little girl
ref: 1974, Geoffrey Grigson, The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold, page 18:
text: An elfette wearing thigh garters and a derby and not much else took my order. People were packing into the place for the designer hamburgers and avant-garde soups and an array of purported Mexican food.
ref: 1988, Raymond H. Ring, Telluride Smile, page 74:
text: I'd like to look in my stocking and find a shapely elfette eager to scrub me under a hot shower.
ref: 1989, Charles Nelson, Panthers in the Skins of Men, page 17:
text: I hardly wanted my elfette laid up for the rest of her stay.
ref: 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion, page 93:
text: He reached for something generic and the elfette gave a little gasp
ref: 2011, Sheila Roberts, The Nine Lives of Christmas, page 17:
text: Before I know it, my time with Santa is over, and the diminutive, green, elfette lady is lifting me down off Santa's expansive knees.
ref: 2014, Revolving Doors: The True Account of the Full Spectrum of Fostering Abuses, page 170:
text: Curator Rosemary Wells, Ph.D., of the Northwestern University Dental School, has collected over 500 tooth fairy figurines and portraits along with a library of books about the ethereal elfette.
ref: 2015, James Wynbrandt, The Excruciating History of Dentistry, page 273:
text: Mom dropped me off at Liz's house for the final fitting of the elf costume and the make-up job. Liz told me that the costumes would be green because her elfette costume was really a pregnant leprechauness outfit that her older sister had used in a school play.
ref: 2016, Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144:
text: the Elf who was now starting to resemble recently getting out of the shower elfette, and not clean and dry elfette.
ref: 2019, Lani Lynn Vale, Quit Your Pitchin, page 109:
glosses: A female elf.
Synonyms: elfess
halldorophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halldorophones
Etymology: Named according to the inventor, Halldór Úlfarsson from Iceland, who developed the instrument in late 2000s while studying at University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Senses: examples: text: Continua is a duet for cellist and live coder, each playing a hybrid instrument based on the Halldorophone, an electroacoustic instrument in which electromagnetically-controlled feedback can be induced independently on each string.
ref: 2016, Alice Eldridge, Chris Kiefer, “Continua: a resonator-feedback-cello duet for live coder and cellist”, in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, page 399:
text: Following the design of the halldorophone, the self-resonating behaviour of the Feedback Cello is induced by acoustic and vibrational actuation: the signals from pickups under each string are sent to a speaker built into the back of the instrument, and a vibrational transducer fixed on the front.
ref: 2017, Alice Eldridge, Chris Kiefer, “The self-resonating feedback cello: interfacing gestural and generative processes in improvised performance”, in Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression:
text: One recent example is the 'Halldorophone', a range of adapted string instruments built by Halldór Úlfarsson that combine acoustic, electronic and digital functions within a single instrument (Figure 8.3).
ref: 2018, Andrew Hugill, The Digital Musician, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: After ten years of use, the halldorophone has a growing repertoire of works by prominent composers and performers.
ref: 2018, Halldór Úlfarsson, “The halldorophone: The ongoing innovation of a cello-like drone instrument”, in Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression:
text: Influential works were the Overtone Fiddle [3], the Self-Resonating Feedback Cello [4, 5], the feral cello [6], the Magnetic Resonating Piano [7], the Feedback Resonance Guitar [2], Half-Closed loop [8] as well as the ongoing work of Halldór Úlfarsson, halldorophone[9] a cello-like feedback instrument.
ref: 2018, Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris, “Low Frequency Feedback Drones: A non-invasive augmentation of the double bass”, in Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electroacoustic string instrument, the sound of which makes use of electro acoustic feedback to produce drones and otherwise resembles a cello.
wikipedia: University of Art and Design Helsinki
SARS-CoV-2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːz ˈkəʊviː ˈtuː/
ipa: /ˈsɑɹz ˈkoʊvi ˈtu/
Senses: examples: text: Becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 can trigger a potentially deadly respiratory disease called Covid-19, an illness which presents with three main acute symptoms: fever, a deep, dry cough and a shortness of breath which can become quickly life-threatening.
ref: 2020 March 31, Sandee LaMotte, “What is coronavirus and Covid-19? An explainer”, in CNN:
text: As of March 10, 2020, the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been responsible for more than 110,000 infections and 4000 deaths worldwide, but data regarding the epidemiologic characteristics and clinical features of infected children are limited.
ref: 2020 April, Lu, Xiaoxia, Liqiong Zhang, Hui Du, Jingjing Zhang, Yuan Y. Li, Jingyu Qu, Wenxin Zhang et al., “SARS-CoV-2 infection in children”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 382, number 17, →DOI:
text: In addition to continuing to track the emergence of new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there are four major priorities for the global response to variants of concern.
ref: 2021 June, Krause, Philip R., Thomas R. Fleming, Ira M. Longini, Richard Peto, Sylvie Briand, David L. Heymann, Valerie Beral, Matthew D. Snape, Helen Rees, Alba-Maria Ropero, Ran D. Balicer, Jakob P. Cramer, et al., “SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines”, in New England Journal of Medicine, →DOI:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: SARS-CoV-2; SARS-related coronavirus 2
Synonyms: Chinese virus
COVID-19 virus
novel coronavirus 2019
Wuhan coronavirus
Wuhan virus
Hypernyms: coronavirus
virus
Coordinate terms: influenza
MERS-related coronavirus
Related terms: SARS-related coronavirus
multiple orgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple orgasms
Senses: glosses: Two or more orgasms occurring in quick succession.
Related terms: multiorgasm
multiple orgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multiple orgasms
form: multiple orgasming
form: multiple orgasmed
form: multiple orgasmed
Senses: examples: text: Lucy wraps her bare legs around Mickey's ass & pulls her cunt tight into her for hard clit contact as she is multiple-orgasming.
ref: 2014, Red Jordan Arobateau, Lucy & Mickey:
glosses: To have a multiple orgasm
Lafontainian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lafontainian
form: most Lafontainian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Jean de La Fontaine.
electric bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric buses
Etymology: From electric + bus.
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: A passenger bus powered by electricity via an electric motor, with the source of power either from rechargeable batteries or by drawing power from overhead wires. The latter form is generally called a trolleybus.
Synonyms: word: autostage
word: e-bus
word: electrobus
jagged array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jagged arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: ragged array
glosses: An array of arrays in which the component arrays are of varying lengths.
Hypernyms: array
jagged arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jagged array
ragged array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragged arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: jagged array
glosses: An array of arrays in which the component arrays are of varying lengths.
Hypernyms: array
ragged arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragged array
bit array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: bit map
bit set
bit string
bit vector
glosses: An array structure which store bit (0,1) values.
Hypernyms: array
bit arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit array
bit string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit strings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bit array.
synonyms: word: bit array
electric buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric bus
sparse array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparse arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: dense array
glosses: An array in which most of the values are zero.
Hypernyms: array
sparse arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparse array
dense array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dense arrays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: sparse array
glosses: An array in which most of the values are non-zero.
Hypernyms: array
dense arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dense array
barin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barins
Etymology: From Russian ба́рин (bárin).
Senses: examples: text: Do not take him away, for he is a Barin, and yet he seeks to understand the mujik, and that also is a new thing.
ref: 1927, Theodore Acland Harper with Winifred Harper, “Under the Water Tower”, in Siberian Gold, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 326:
text: As a matter of "education (or re-education)" of his farmers, a landlord (barin) was demonstrating them a new plough he has purchased in Germany. The farmers (mouzhiki) watched silently and attentively. Then one of them said: - Barin, is this plough from Germany? - Yes. - That Germany which buys grain in Russia? - Yes. - Where are they going to buy grain, once we'll have started ploughing their way?
ref: 1992 September 6, Mark Markish x2799, “Organic Russia”, in soc.culture.soviet (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2025:
text: There is Russian saying - Muzhik was angry at barin but barin did not even know about that
ref: 2010 January 5, daniloff, “Has Russia to demand compensation from Latvia?”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2025:
glosses: Synonym of boyar.
synonyms: word: boyar
Trowse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Norwich in Trowse with Newton parish, South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2406).
Synonyms: Trowse Newton
Somerleyton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4897).
in chief
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn t͡ʃiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Senses: glosses: Executive, the highest in command.
raw_tags: after a noun
examples: text: No, it can't be Bill who gets assigned to this task. That dude is the slacker in chief around here.
glosses: The chief example; the worst offender.
raw_tags: after a noun
examples: text: Erm. a fesse betw. two demi lions in chief and three mascles in base gu.
ref: 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, page 375:
text: Arg. a saltire betw. a cross-gate in chief and in base and a crescent in each flank gu. / HEGENS, Scotland. Arg. a saltire engr. betw. a mullet in chief two crescents in flanks and a cross crosslet fitchy in base gu.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials : Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 1070:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, chief. In the chief of the escutcheon.
Derived terms: colonel-in-chief
commander in chief
editor in chief
Related terms: chief of staff
Eastfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A northern suburb of Bristol (OS grid ref ST5777).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2099).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb in Cramlington parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ2777).
glosses: A place in England:
A town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA0484).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Thurgoland parish, Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE2902).
glosses: A place in Scotland:
An outer suburb in north-east Edinburgh (OS grid ref NT3273).
glosses: A place in Scotland:
A village near Harthill, North Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS8964)
glosses: A place in Scotland:
Synonym of Balloch, near Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire.
synonyms: word: Balloch
word: near Cumbernauld
word: North Lanarkshire
glosses: A place in Scotland:
A hamlet south-west of Bowden, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT5428)
glosses: A place in Scotland:
A suburb of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS6261).
Dyce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dyces
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of Aberdeen, Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8912).
glosses: A surname.
Kennethmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5328).
Huntly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5240).
glosses: A town in the Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, and situated on the Waikato River.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States.
Clachnaharry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: According to Roddy Maclean, from Scottish Gaelic clach na h-Aithrigh (“stone of repentance”) (see aithríoch), despite the popular derivation from clach na faire (“watchman's stone”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Inverness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH6446).
smell like a tart's handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells like a tart's handbag
form: smelling like a tart's handbag
form: smelt like a tart's handbag
form: smelt like a tart's handbag
form: smelled like a tart's handbag
form: smelled like a tart's handbag
form: smell like a tart's boudoir
form: smell like a tart's bedroom
form: smell like a tart's handkerchief
Senses: examples: text: I dropped a perfume bottle on the floor and now the house smells like a tart's handbag.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To smell strongly of perfume.
Criccieth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH4937/5038).
Anguish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The given name, most famously borne by the character of King Anguish of Ireland, is thought to be a variant of Aengus/Angus, from Irish. The surname is probably also a variant of Angus.
Senses: examples: text: Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton
ref: 1698 December 29, record from Thorington, printed in 1884 Thomas Smythe Hill, The registers of the parish of Thorington, page 56
text: By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber. […]
ref: 1907, Canadian Bee Journal, volumes 15-16, page 70:
text: On motion of Mr. Anguish, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to House Bill No. 115 by the following vote: Those voting yea were: Representatives Adams (Wm. H.), Adamson, Allen, Anderson (W. M.), Anguish, Aspinwall, Atkinson […]
ref: 1919, House Journal of the Legislature of the State of Washington, page 548:
glosses: A surname.
examples: text: […] been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, […] and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards.
ref: 1819, “Durant v Titley”, in Francis Joseph Troubat, George Price, editors, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer, published 1835, page 231:
glosses: A male given name.
Ystrad Mynach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌstɹæd ˈmʌnæx/
ipa: [ˈɜstɹad ˈmɜnax]
Etymology: From Welsh ystrad (“wide valley, strath”) + mynach (“monk”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Gelligaer community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1494).
onomatopoesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomatopoesies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”).
Senses: examples: text: Another means is the imitation of sounds by the organ of speech, constituting onomatopoesy , e.g., the hissing of a stream, the roll of thunder, the tumult of a storm, whistling, etc.
ref: 1892, Leonard Landois, William Stirling, A Text-book of Human Physiology, page 664:
text: It is to be remembered, too, in saying that the child imitates such familiar onomatopoesies as “bow-wow” (French “oua-oua.”), “tic-tic” (French “tic-tac”) from the nurse, that the nursery tradition of employing these sounds is probably the result of a respectful attention to the spontaneous namings of earlier generations of babies.
ref: 1893 July, Professor Sully, “A New Book on Infant Psychology”, in Journal of Education, volume 15, number 288, page 387:
text: Because of this difference the onomatopoesy of the original has been lost and also some of the alliterative quality of Finnish poetry.
ref: 1963, Ernest J. Moyne, Hiawatha and Kalevala:
text: Even Hoxha's wife, Nexhmije (whose name is genuine onomatopoesy) , contributes by attacking the parasitic, opportunistic tendencies of Albanian youth.
ref: 1968, Yorick Blumenfeld, Seesaw: Cultural Life in Eastern Europe, page 109:
text: A little child is not content to call a cow, a cow; it is a moo-cow, and a dog is a bow-wow; but if onomatopoesy is a child-like quality, then our language itself is the kingdom of children.
ref: 2004, Frederick Millet Salter, H. V. Weekes, The Art of Writing, page 114:
glosses: The use of onomatopoeia.
onomatopoesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatopoesy
onomatopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onomatopoietic
form: most onomatopoietic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The most natural way of naming an object is by copying its characteristic mark, not that, on the onomatopoietic theory, language is due solely to the instinct of imitation, but chiefly to the activity of the intellect, which "reproduces the imitative at will as the sign of a fixed representative and so as a word, "which word "no longer calls attention to the sound, but stands for the whole conception of the object."
ref: 1866, The Anthropological Review - Volumes 3-4, page 137:
text: But these binomial combinations, which are often repetitions of the same character, are only onomatopoietic in the sense in which all words, sensuously descriptive at first, are applied by the mind to express its own concepts ;
ref: 1885, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism:
text: Gossip and its original form, "klatz" (Middle High German), were as onomatopoietic interjections originally imitations of a resounding slap, such as happens with a box on the ears or the crack of a whip.
ref: 1993, Jörg R. Bergmann, Discreet Indiscretions: The Social Organization of Gossip, page 62:
text: In mimesis, words come to be taken for the things they denote, as though they were onomatopoietic (truly mimetic).
ref: 2008, Roy Arthur Swanson, Blue Margin: Versions of Rhetoric, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of onomatopoetic.
onomatopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomatopoietics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Heb. ruh, sounded in two syllables, ru-ach, is an onomatopoietic.
ref: 1866, Oliver Spencer Halsted, The Theology of the Bible, page 15:
text: This is not the case, but there is often such a similarity in the onomatopoietics of the most remote languages that scientific linguists are unanimous in discarding them from service in ethnological comparisons.
ref: 1886, Johann Georg Heck, The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences:
text: Yet in onomatopoietics intrinsic signifier-signified relations persist, and coins and even paper money have intrinsic value beside their role as signifiers (e.g., a bank note has a small opportunity cost as wallpaper or even in lighting a cigar!)
ref: 2019, Gérard Deledalle, Michel Balat, Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, Signs of Humanity:
glosses: An onomatopoietic word.
onomatopoietics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatopoietic
onomatopoietical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onomatopoietical
form: most onomatopoietical
Senses: examples: text: The word may be onomatopoietical for a sneezing or hacking cough, and if our object were a complete study of the Aconite Cough, it would behoove us to leave no stone unturned to learn precisely what Hahnemann meant.
ref: 1907, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 42, page 184:
text: To this phase belong imitations of sound and sound-metaphors of the different onomatopoietical types.
ref: 1968, Joseph Strelka, Yearbook of Comparative Criticism - Volume 1, page 86:
glosses: Alternative form of onomatopoetic.
Pontypridd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒntəˈpɹiːð/
ipa: /pɒntɪˈpɹiːð/
ipa: [pɔntəˈpriːð]
rhymes: -iːð
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0790).
Synonyms: Ponty