cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
minidisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minidisks
Etymology: From mini- + disk.
Senses: examples: text: Standard digital recording techniques are used with floppy disks rather than audio recording techniques. A smaller 5-inch-diameter disk, referred to as a minidisk, is also available. Data-storage capacity is typically 70,000 to 100,000 bytes.
ref: 1978, Louis E. Frenzel, Getting Acquainted with Microcomputers, page 239:
text: From minidisks, floppy disks, all the way to high-capacity hard disks, the flexibility of CP/M 2.0 makes it a truly universal operating system.
ref: 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 1:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A 5.25-inch floppy disk.
Related terms: MiniDisc
minidisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minidisk
silhouettists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silhouettist
unartfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unartful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The man's unartfulness caused him to say abruptly what was on his mind, which often hurt people's feelings.
glosses: Quality of being unartful.
wikiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
English etiquette
blend
English wikiquette
Blend of wiki + etiquette
Senses: glosses: The etiquette dictating the manner in which to behave when working on a wiki.
Hypernyms: netiquette
self-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-minded
form: most self-minded
form: selfminded
Etymology: From self- + minded.
Senses: glosses: Concerned or preoccupied with one's own selfish or self-centered needs, interests, or wants; egocentric.
Derived terms: self-mindedness
Related terms: self-mind
landfalling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is the closest landfalling hurricane known to have an impact.
glosses: Making landfall.
fore-strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + strength.
Senses: examples: text: Saying "Thermopylae" he thought "Leonidas." "Ay, of course; who knows not that?" The man was puzzled at Aristodemos's sudden wrath. "They gave their lives — those men — every one of them. They were the fore-strength of Salamis.
ref: 1911, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, The Coward of Thermopylæ:
text: Somewhere within my blood Is the fore-strength of peace
ref: 1929, MacKnight Black, Machinery:
glosses: That which leads to or engenders strength.
fourtinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourtino
reflew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of refly
reflown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of refly
self-standing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: selfstanding
Etymology: From self- + standing. Compare Dutch zelfstandig (“independent”), German selbstständig (“independent, self-reliant”).
Senses: synonyms: stand-alone#Adjective
freestanding#Adjective
glosses: Standing or existing by one's own (or something's own) power, ability or competence; not reliant on others; independent.
examples: text: a self-standing word
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Lacking affixes; being a stem.
reflies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refly
inbounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inbounder
Vaderesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vaderesque
form: most Vaderesque
Etymology: From Vader + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of the Cybermen the Vaderesque trappings, and the incongruous displays of emotion, were rapidly stripped away.
ref: 2011, Piers D. Britton, TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who, page 77:
text: Adopting a Vaderesque voice, he intoned, “Luke, I am your federal agent. Somehow it doesn't have the same kick. […]
ref: 2013, Kate Donovan, Trace Elements:
synonyms: Darth Vaderesque
Darth Vaderian
glosses: Reminiscent of Darth Vader, the sinister deep-voiced villain of the Star Wars original trilogy.
antipornographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipornographic
form: most antipornographic
Etymology: From anti- + pornographic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing pornography.
pornfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornfests
Etymology: From porn + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A film, event, etc. that is full of pornography.
pornfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornfest
gropefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gropefest
youthfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youthfest
smutfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smutfest
blubberfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blubberfest
hot-pluggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be safely plugged in while the system is turned on and running.
Related terms: hotplug
pornoaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A calque from a term coined in Indonesian as pornoaksi in 2006 for the Bill against Pornography and Pornoaction, which was passed in 2008.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any actions, behaviors, or forms of dress considered immoral in public due to sexual mores.
wikipedia: Bill against Pornography and Pornoaction
rubbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rubble + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Reduced to rubble.
examples: text: Look: a heap of burnt huts, Ibrahim, openmouthed and lionhearted, leading his men across the rubbled field.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 155:
glosses: Strewn with rubble.
rubbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rubble + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubble
poxless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pox + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from pox.
plaqueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplækləs/
Etymology: From plaque + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from plaque.
forceps-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forceps-like
form: most forceps-like
form: forcepslike
Etymology: From forceps + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a forceps.
Underwood's septa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described in 1910 by Arthur S. Underwood, an anatomist at King's College in London.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: fin-shaped projections of bone sometimes found in the maxillary sinus
BUF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of British Union of Fascists, a political group of the 1930s.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Buffalo.
zoophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + physiology.
Senses: glosses: animal physiology
recommodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recommodifies
form: recommodifying
form: recommodified
form: recommodified
Etymology: From re- + commodify.
Senses: glosses: To commodify again.
reobjectify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reobjectifies
form: reobjectifying
form: reobjectified
form: reobjectified
Etymology: From re- + objectify.
Senses: glosses: To objectify again.
reobjectified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reobjectify
recommodified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recommodify
recommodifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recommodify
recommodifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recommodify
reobjectifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reobjectify
reobjectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reobjectify
recommodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + commodification.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of recommodifying.
reobjectification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + objectification.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of reobjectifying.
untier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untiers
Etymology: From untie + -er.
Senses: examples: the untier of a knot
glosses: One who unties.
untiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untier
cack-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cackhandedness
Etymology: From cack-handed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now the chances of the casual golfer being able to borrow a set of left-handed clubs are pretty slim ; so I had to do the best I could with a bagful of right-handed clubs which, owing to my natural cack-handedness, I had to grip with the right hand over the left...
ref: 1946, Spike Hughes, Opening Bars: Beginning an Autobiography, page 258:
text: We can also see it as part of that vast repertoire of symbolism associated with right and left, which permeates so much of our daily lives, from the political left and right wing, through dexterity and 'cack-handedness', to 'lefthanded marriages'.
ref: 2013, Chris McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Left-handedness.
examples: text: “No,” I say and take the phone offline. “It's mismanagement. Bungling. Ineptitude. Incompetence. Cack-handedness."
ref: 2008, Ramsey Campbell, The Grin of the Dark, →ISBN, page 237:
text: Such opportunities help learners to overcome their cack-handedness and to develop their ability to use equipment comfortably.
ref: 2013, Ian Scott, Jenny Spouse, Practice Based Learning in Nursing, Health and Social Care, →ISBN:
glosses: Clumsiness or incompetence.
examples: text: Martin Maloney 's painting, Sony Levi, with its assured cack-handedness and considered vacuity can stand as an emblem of the movement.
ref: 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Back-handedness
cackhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cackhanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cack-handedness.
wowie zowie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: wowie kazowie
Etymology: Reduplication, from wow.
Senses: glosses: wow; expressing astonishment
cack-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cack-handedly
form: most cack-handedly
form: cackhandedly
Etymology: From cack-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There was only one reason Siobhan could think of why anyone would do all of that, and try to cack-handedly cover up the fact by booking another flight to Bristol at the same time.
ref: 2014, Gerard O'Donovan, Dublin Dead: A Novel, →ISBN, page 151:
text: I had crewed for him once or twice, cack-handedly. He only took me out, I think, because for some reason he thought I was good for a laugh.
ref: 2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Yet, though Charles II curiously concurred with Fox's view of Vane's character, the political point emerges rather cack-handedly: after all, Restoration magistrates took a very hard line with hatted Quakers appearing before them.
ref: 1996, Thomas N. Corns, David Loewenstein, The Emergence of Quaker Writing: Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: In a cack-handed manner.
cackhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cackhandedly
form: most cackhandedly
Etymology: From cackhanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cack-handedly.
car-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Northern and Scottish dialects from Scottish Gaelic caerr (“awkward”) + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says.
ref: 2006, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Alan Tuffery, Words We Use, page 19:
glosses: Left-handed.
carhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of car-handed.
zerumbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin zerumbet, zurumbet, from Arabic زُرُنْبَاد (zurunbād).
Senses: synonyms: shampoo ginger
pinecone ginger
bitter ginger
glosses: Zingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.
object glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of object glass
purgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Genericized version of the trade name Purgen, from purge.
Senses: examples: text: The author considers purgen (phenolphthalein) generally reliable as a cathartic, but one attended with some danger.
ref: 1908, Norbert Ortner, Nathaniel Bowditch Potter, Frederic Huntington Bartlett, Treatment of Internal Diseases: For Physicians and Students, page 498:
glosses: A preparation of phenolphthalein, employed as a laxative.
gastricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastric + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Hence it happens, that, unreflecting physicians are often ignorant of the true efficient cause of this disease, for, among the non-natural causes and gastricism they find the usual cause of its being […]
ref: 1878, C. F. Panelli, A Treatise on Typhoid Fever: And Its Homoeopathic Treatment, page 50:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any gastric disorder, such as dyspepsia or indigestion.
apologetic apostrophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apologetic apostrophe
Nonthaburi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai นนทบุรี (non-tá-bù-rii).
Senses: glosses: A province of Thailand.
glosses: The capital of Nonthaburi Province, Thailand.
Nakhon Ratchasima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai นครราชสีมา (ná-kɔɔn-râat-chá-sǐi-maa).
Senses: glosses: A province of Thailand.
synonyms: Korat
glosses: The capital of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.
Chiang Mai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃi.ɑːŋ ˈmaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai เชียงใหม่ (Chiiang Mai), from เชียง (chiiang, “walled city”) + ใหม่ (mài, “new”). In reference to the kingdoms, from their capital.
Senses: glosses: A province of Thailand.
glosses: The capital city of Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
glosses: Synonym of Lanna, a former kingdom.
synonyms: word: Lanna
extra: a former kingdom
glosses: Synonym of Rattanatingsa, a former kingdom.
synonyms: word: Rattanatingsa
extra: a former kingdom
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Chimay, an imaginary lake or marsh long thought to exist near Chiang Mai.
synonyms: word: Chimay
extra: an imaginary lake or marsh long thought to exist near Chiang Mai
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Etymology: Calque of Georgian საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა (sakartvelos sabč̣ota socialisṭuri resṗubliḳa)
Senses: synonyms: Georgian SSR
Soviet Georgia
glosses: The republic of Georgia when it was a nominally independent member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
adamantinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamantinoma
adamantinomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamantinoma
adamantomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamantoma
pyrogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrogenetic
form: most pyrogenetic
Etymology: From pyro- + genetic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyrogenic.
synonyms: word: pyrogenic
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyrogenous.
synonyms: word: pyrogenous
Texarkana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɛksɑɹˈkænə/
Etymology: A modified blend of Texas + Arkansas.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Miller County, Arkansas, adjoining Texarkana, Texas.
glosses: A city in Bowie County, Texas, adjoining Texarkana, Arkansas.
rabiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabiators
Senses: examples: text: Then he is not like our rabiators, who are just thieves and robbers.
ref: 1841, John Dunlop, The South Sea Islanders; a Christian Tale:
glosses: A violent, greedy person.
rabiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabiator
quinidamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: conquinamine
glosses: A particular cinchona alkaloid.
quinetum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of the sulphates of the cinchona alkaloids: a cheap substitute for quinine sulphate.
quinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinins
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of quinine.
quinamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular alkaloid obtained from cinchona bark.
Derived terms: apoquinamine
jury masts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jury mast
nothing for it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothing else for it
Senses: examples: text: "You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing."
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 21, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 5, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift. . . . So there was nothing for it only to stay the night or to foot it out.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 5:
text: There's nothing for it but to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not.
ref: 2010 June 25, Carolyn See, “Book World: Vendela Vida's The Lovers”, in Washington Post, retrieved 05 May 2015:
qualifier: often preceded by there + be and followed by but
glosses: No alternative; nothing else to be done or to have recourse to.
nothing else for it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nothing for it.
Ekiri syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Like ekiri, from Japanese.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Childhood shigellosis.
salicyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salicyl
multistylistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + stylistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to multiple styles (manners of doing or presenting things).
nota augens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notae augentes
Etymology: From New Latin nota augēns, from nota (“mark, sign; critical mark or remark; note”) + augēns (“increasing, augmenting”). Coined by Zeuss in his Grammatica Celtica.
Senses: qualifier: Celtic linguistics
glosses: An Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.
qualifier: Celtic linguistics
glosses: A Welsh reduplicated or conjunctive pronoun (appearing in modern Welsh as minnau, tithau, yntau, hithau, ninnau, chwithau, and hwythau).
notae augentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nota augens
antispreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antispreaders
Etymology: From anti- + spreader.
Senses: glosses: Any of several devices that prevent spreading
hyperglobal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + global.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of hyperglobalism
Utican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Utica + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Utica.
Utican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uticans
Etymology: From Utica + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Now all that remains is the building, some copies of the paper, and the memories of a few elderly Uticans.
ref: 1992, Ralph Frasca, The Rise and Fall of the Saturday Globe, page 166:
glosses: A person from Utica.
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of the state of Lithuania when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The state of Latvia when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
Senses: glosses: The state of Estonia when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The state of Kazakhstan when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The official name of the state of Tajikistan when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ʌblɪk
Senses: glosses: The official name of the state of Turkmenistan when it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
non-resident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-residents
form: nonresident
Etymology: From non- + resident.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person living in a country who is no legal permanent resident.
glosses: one who is not a resident; an alien; a foreigner.
Synonyms: sense: foreigner
word: outlander
word: outsider
word: peregrine
word: foreigner
usurpative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more usurpative
form: most usurpative
Senses: glosses: That usurps.
Derived terms: usurpatively
amurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amur
phonoaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phono- + aesthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to phonoaesthetics.
phonoaesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phono- + aesthetics.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phonaesthetics.
phonaesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonesthetics
Senses: glosses: The study of phonaesthesia.
glosses: The study of euphony.
glosses: The aesthetics of a language's phonology, or the study or construction thereof.
test flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test flights
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a proving flight; usually of a prototype of a new aircraft design before it goes into production.
Synonyms: flight test
FT
TF
Hypernyms: flight
Hyponyms: IFT
ITF
OFT
OTF
Coordinate terms: flight-tested
flight testing
maiden flight
Related terms: FTA
test-fly
test pilot
TFA
Onge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ongee
Senses: glosses: One of the Andamanese indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands.
Onge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ongee
Senses: glosses: An Ongan language spoken by the Onge people.
Ongee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Onge.
Ongee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Onge.
plantstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantstuffs
Etymology: From plant + stuff.
Senses: examples: text: The caterpillars of the rice moth feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds.
glosses: Any material obtained from plants.
plantstuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantstuff
Jarawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jarawas
form: Jarawa
Etymology: Borrowed from Aka-Bea [Term?] (“foreigner”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an Adivasi indigenous people of the Andaman Islands.
Jarawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Aka-Bea [Term?] (“foreigner”).
Senses: glosses: An Ongan language spoken by the Jarawa people of Andaman Islands.
Jarawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The most populous of the Southern Bantoid Jarawan languages of eastern Nigeria.
unliterariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unliterary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unliterary.
flea's eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Glutamine is the flea's eyebrows for quick recovery from workouts. Add 5 mg along with 5 mg creatine to your post-workout beverage and blend in a banana for the healing properties of potassium.
ref: 2008, Jason S. Comely, Zero to Superhero, page 42:
glosses: Synonym of cat's whiskers.
synonyms: word: cat's whiskers
longingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From longing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of longing or yearning.
yearningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yearning + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of longing or yearning.
antispreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antispreader
annexationistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annexationistic
form: most annexationistic
Etymology: From annexation + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to annexationism
naphthogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naphtho- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: As far as naphthogenesis is concerned, this hypothesis offers a reasonable explanation on how the first petroleum could have originated.
ref: 1967, Bartholomew Nagy, Fundamental Aspects of Petroleum Geochemistry, page 338:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The genesis of petroleum, natural gas etc.
Đắk Lắk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdæklæk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Đắk Lắk.
Senses: glosses: A province of Vietnam.
arights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aright
arighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aright
arighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aright
Senyera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan senyera.
Senses: glosses: The flag of Catalonia
Related terms: Estelada
mauby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maubies
Senses: glosses: A beverage made from the bark of certain species in the genus Colubrina or related plants and widely consumed in the Caribbean.
maubies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mauby
bandlimitedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bandlimited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being bandlimited
bicompletions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicompletion
crowdion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowdions
Etymology: Possibly a blend of crowd + region. Coined by Heinz R. Paneth in 1950.
Senses: glosses: A proposed form of lattice imperfection in crystals in which an extra atom is inserted (crowded in) within a row
crowdions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowdion
flowtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowtimes
form: flow time
Etymology: From flow + time.
Senses: glosses: The time taken for completion of a flow of material (in an experiment).
interarea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + area.
Senses: examples: text: It is shown that an improvement of interarea transport facilities may encourage trade and as a consequence decrease the disparity in area size.
ref: 2002, Wei-Bin Zhang, An Economic Theory of Cities, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Finally, as stated earlier, note that these adjustment factors can be used to add back to the characteristics-adjusted indexes the influence of variables that an analyst does not wish to remove in making interarea comparisons.
ref: 2007, Alan Heston, Robert E. Lipsey, International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, →ISBN:
text: Nevertheless, significant interarea differences in patterns of rights creation or in the distribution of property will not be reducible to differences in rates of testacy.
ref: 2014, Toby L. Ditz, Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750-1820, →ISBN:
glosses: Between areas.
interarea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interareas
Etymology: From inter- + area.
Senses: examples: text: The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.
ref: 1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, page 73:
text: In one sense the interareas, planareas, and palintropes are genetically the same in that they are all surfaces resulting from increment to the posterior margin.
ref: 1942, Preston E. Cloud, Jr., Terebratuloid Brachiopoda of the Sillurian and Devonian, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The posterio-lateral socket ridge lies between the socket and the interarea (pl. 2, figs. 9b, 13b, 16b). The posterio-lateral socket ridges are accommodated by grooves in the hinge teeth of concavo-convex species or pockets between the hinge teeth and the interarea of resupinate species.
ref: 1949, Geological Survey Professional Paper, page L-2:
text: Pedicle valve with well developed sulcus; height and concavity of interareas highly variable, apsacline to catacline, rarely slightly procline.
ref: 1995, Andrzej Baliński, Palaeontologia Polonica, number 54, page 60:
text: Spiriferides tend to have highly biconvex shells, with well-developed radial costae and a large interarea on the ventral valve.
ref: 2013, Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, →ISBN, page 334:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A typically triangular shelf of shell on some brachiopods that serves as a weight-bearing surface to stabilize the valves.
examples: text: In arranging the data for analyses, all sites that exhibited the behavior of an alkali or saline-alkali soil were grouped together and the panspot designation was used only for the panspot interareas. This was done because the panspot interareas were so widely different in their intake characteristics from the actual panspots themselves.
ref: 1968, Technical Bulletin - Issues 1382-1394, page 12:
text: Soils in the interareas may be moderately deep and have fair to good vegetal cover ; thus, the rate of water intake on the interareas may be quite high.
ref: 1968, Frank Rauzi, Claude Lee Fly, E. J. Dyksterhuis, Water Intake on Midcontinental Rangelands as Influenced by Soil and Plant Cover:
text: The pale-gray and light greenish-gray interareas between the red mottles in Longford clay rocks are composed of the same clay minerals that are present in the mottles.
ref: 1979, Paul C. Franks, Paralic to fluvial record of an early Cretaceous marine transgression, page 18:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area where the soil composition differs significantly from the surrounding region.
Derived terms: pseudointerarea
macrotexture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrotextures
Etymology: From macro- + texture.
Senses: glosses: A large-scale texture
macrotextures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrotexture
nonadsorbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adsorbing.
Senses: glosses: nonadsorbent
keeps one's pecker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep one's pecker up
keeping one's pecker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep one's pecker up
kept one's pecker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep one's pecker up
Ninty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive with -y.
Senses: examples: text: Ninty have missed the boat this Xmas in the 20 something bracket, Starfox Adventures is not going to convince people to buy a gamecube.
ref: 2002, SteveC, “Xbox PS2 or Gamecube”, in uk.games.video.xbox (Usenet):
text: With the Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance systems, 'Ninty' had lorded it over the competition […]
ref: 2009, India Today, volume 34, numbers 1-8, page 466:
text: Certainly, hearing that the 'Queues to get just 20 minutes with the shiny new Ninty handheld stretched for hours' reassure us that even games journalists at trade shows with copy deadlines are prepared to wait in line for their few minutes with the new device […]
ref: 2012, James Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, page 62:
topics: video-games
glosses: The video game company Nintendo.
ball hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball hogs
Senses: examples: text: "Ball hog!" Linda Shanklin howled from the stands. "Pass the ball!"
ref: 2015 June 16, Baxter Holmes, “Iguodala NBA's no-stats Finals MVP”, in ESPN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In team sports, a player who keeps the ball to themselves, rather than passing it.
naphthalol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: naphthyl salicylate
jaculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin jacula (“dart”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: Mice, rats, gophers, groundhogs, the jaculiferous porcupine: they're all more or less miniature beavers — just add water.
ref: 2005, Bill Roorbach, Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey, page 46:
glosses: prickly; bearing spines
damnd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: damnds
form: damnding
form: damnded
form: damnded
Senses: examples: text: But damnd it, it's I who am off the circuit worrying this poem along like this.
ref: 1958 November 26, Robert Duncan, “Letter 106”, in The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, page 153:
text: black out your damnded eyes.
ref: 2007 (published in 2013), Rob Alexander, The Best of Thursday Morning Writer's Group, page 262
glosses: Alternative form of damn.
damnd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of damned.
damnded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of damnd
quantimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantimeters
Senses: glosses: A device for determining the quantity of X-rays generated by a Crookes tube or Coolidge tube.
Related terms: qualimeter
quantimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantimeter
Coolidge tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coolidge tubes
Etymology: Introduced by William Coolidge in 1913.
Senses: glosses: An improvement on the Crookes tube in which the electrons are produced by thermionic effect from a tungsten filament heated by an electric current.
Synonyms: hot cathode tube
Coolidge tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coolidge tube
thermionically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermionic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a thermionic manner.
nonthermionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + thermionic.
Senses: glosses: Not thermionic.
photorecombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photorecombinations
Etymology: From photo- + recombination.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: recombination influenced by light
thermionics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: examples: text: The radioactivity subgroup turned to Kleeman, Crowther, and Campbell, and Richardson's influence on the thermionics subgroup continued even after he left the Cavendish.
ref: 2013, Dong-Won Kim, Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory:
glosses: The science dealing with thermionic emission.
precunei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precuneus
hot cathodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot cathode
Edison effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Thomas Edison.
Senses: glosses: The thermionic effect by which electrons are transferred from a hot cathode into a vacuum, in a vacuum tube.
wikipedia: Thomas Edison
jessamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jessamins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jasmine.
laurestinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laurestina
jessamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jessamin
clean-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleanhandedness
Etymology: From clean-handed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All in all, the Mubarak leadership has adopted a low-key, businesslike style, and, in addition to its reputation for honesty and clean-handedness, it has been quite careful and discreet in its approach to issues and problems.
ref: 2005, Lillian C Harris, Egypt: Internal Challenges and Regional Stability, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: The quality of being clean-handed; honesty and freedom from wrong-doing.
scaleheight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaleheights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scale height.
cleanhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cleanhanded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Within its limits this has worked as a most admirable corrective to patronage; it is one of the chief factors in the cleanhandedness of British politicians, and it is continually importing fresh young men from outside to keep officialdom in touch with the general educated world.
ref: 1903, H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making:
glosses: Alternative form of clean-handedness.
scale height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scale heights
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The distance over which a quantity changes by a factor of e (the base of natural logarithms)
iodipin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: iodized sesame oil
subdetector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdetectors
Etymology: From sub- + detector.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A component of a compound detector
subdetectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdetector
clean-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clean-handedly
form: most clean-handedly
form: cleanhandedly
Etymology: From clean-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The notion that the Sabra fights clean-handedly a morally justified war and that Jewish combatants are ever better than any of their opponents, emerges with striking clarity from the chronicles of the 1948 Convoy of the Thirty-five event.
ref: 2013, Eyal Lewin, Ethos Clash in Israeli Society, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: In a clean-handed manner; honestly and forthrightly.
cleanhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cleanhandedly
form: most cleanhandedly
Etymology: From cleanhanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clean-handedly.
copoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + poiesis.
Senses: glosses: creation together; a joint process of creation
Related terms: copoietic
juxta-articular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + articular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of juxtaarticular.
subevent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subevents
Etymology: From sub- + event.
Senses: glosses: An event that makes up part of a greater event.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A component of a complex event, such as a collision between large particles.
subevents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subevent
thermomagnonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + magnonic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to thermal magnons
jugum penis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin; see iugum (“yoke, collar”).
Senses: glosses: A device to compress the penis, used to prevent masturbation in Victorian times.
jugum petrosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An arched elevation on the anterior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone over the superior semicircular canal.
jugum sphenoidale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The structure connecting the two wings of the sphenoid bone.
if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: This phrase was coined by economist Ronald Coase. A closely related sentence had been published in Alfred Sauvy's book L'Opinion publique (The public opinion, éd. Presses universitaires de France, coll. « Que sais-je ? », 1961, p. 100):
The figures are innocent people who, under solicitation, under torture, very quickly confess what is asked of them, even if it means retracting later. (Les chiffres sont des innocents qui, sous la sollicitation, sous la torture, avouent très vite ce qu'on leur demande, quitte à se rétracter plus tard.)
Senses: glosses: Statistics can be manipulated to support any conclusion.
wikipedia: Alfred Sauvy
Ronald Coase
kynophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cynophobia.
Kromskop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kromskops
Etymology: Coined by American inventor Frederic Eugene Ives as a phonetic respelling of a compound formed from chrom- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device used for taking colour photographs of specimens in pathology.
wikipedia: Frederic Eugene Ives
Related terms: kromogram
Kromskops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kromskop
habromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæbɹə(ʊ)ˈmeɪni(j)ə/
ipa: /ˌhæbɹoʊˈmeɪni(j)ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἁβρός (habrós, “graceful, pretty”) with the suffix -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Melancholy, says one, is a morbid sadness; mania is a prolonged anger. Various madnesses of expansive forms, certain monomanias of Esquirol, have been regarded as morbid gaieties (amenomania of Rush, habromania), just like the hilarious form of mania so frequent among adolescents.
ref: 1899, Charles Féré, The Pathology of Emotions: Physiological and Clinical Studies, page 319:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: a form of insanity characterised by delusions of a cheerful or joyous nature
Synonyms: amenomania
hymenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hymen + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the hymen
hydrophobophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those who have been exposed to the chance of inoculation frequently imagine that they have the disease, but it is rare that this hydrophobophobia induces symptoms resembling, except in the most superficial manner, the genuine malady, and we doubt whether there are any authenticated instances in which a disease unquestionably emotional in its origin ran a rapid course to a speedy death.
ref: 1877 September 15, “The Diagnosis of Hydrophobia”, in The Lancet, page 400:
glosses: The fear of hydrophobia, or rabies.
Synonyms: lyssophobia
lyssophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lyssa + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: A young man, 24 years of age, employed as a clerk in a dry goods store, was bitten on a Saturday morning bu a watchdog belonging to the proprietor. […] [H]e stated that he had been reading about rabies and the symptoms which would develop in man from the bite of a rabid dog, and insisted that he was developing hydrophobia as a result of having been bitten by the watchdog. […] Two days later the young man was in a very hysterical state and kept insisting that the dog that bit him was rabid. […] Here was a typical case of lyssophobia or pseudo-rabies, a figment of an overworked imagination, […]
ref: 1911 May 12, John R[obbins] Mohler, “Differential Diagnosis”, in Rabies or Hydrophobia (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; 449), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
synonyms: hydrophobophobia
glosses: The fear of lyssa (rabies), or madness.
nystagmiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nystagmiform
form: most nystagmiform
Etymology: From nystagmus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling nystagmus.
nutarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /nʌˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: nutarians
Etymology: From nut + -arian.
Senses: glosses: One whose diet consists mainly of nuts.
nutarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /nʌˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From nut + -arian.
Derived terms: nutarianism
nutarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutarian
nutarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nutarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of being a nutarian, eating mainly nuts.
natrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Natrum is characterised by its effect on digestive system ^([sic]) resulting in impaired nutrition.
ref: 2002, George Vithoulkas, The Science of Homeopathy, page 235:
glosses: sodium
raw_tags: in homeopathy
Related terms: natrum muriaticum
nasoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasoscopes
Etymology: From naso- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: rhinoscope
nasoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasoscope
narcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: narcosis
necrogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necrogenous
form: most necrogenous
Etymology: From necro- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: necrogenic
neurodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: nerve pain; neuralgia
nebenkern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nebenkerns
Etymology: German neben (“near”) and Kern (“nucleus”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass or shred of chromatin-staining material outside of the nucleus in the cytoplasm.
nebenkerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nebenkern
nearthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearthroses
Etymology: From neo- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pseudarthrosis
nearthroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nearthrosis
nearthrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nearthrosis.
inappetences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inappetence