cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nook-shotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nook-shotten
form: most nook-shotten
Senses: glosses: Full of nooks and corners.
rewardably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rewardably
form: most rewardably
Etymology: From rewardable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that merits a reward.
nut pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut pines
Senses: glosses: Any of the pine trees that bear pine nuts.
nut pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nut pine
Pecht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pechts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pict.
Pechts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pecht
outflingings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outflinging
draperess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draperesses
Etymology: From draper + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female draper.
draperesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draperess
prepunctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prepunctual
form: most prepunctual
Etymology: From pre- + punctual.
Senses: glosses: excessively prompt; early
prepunctuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being prepunctual.
Leibnitzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leibnitzian
form: most Leibnitzian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Leibnizian.
orange lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange lilies
Senses: glosses: Lilium bulbiferum, a herbaceous European lily with underground bulbs and orange flowers.
orange lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange lily
barber's block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A round block on which wigs are made.
pincering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pincer
Moruroa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mururoa
form: Mururura
Senses: examples: text: The minesweeper and the sea tug now came along either side, pincered the Vega, and seemed to be ushering it toward Moruroa, perhaps attempting to push the ketch inside the 12-mile limit.
ref: 2004, Rex Weyler, Greenpeace:
glosses: An atoll forming part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Synonyms: word: Aopuni
ginger wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A liquor made by the fermentation of sugar and water, flavoured with various spices, chiefly ginger.
ginger cordial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cordial made from ginger, lemon peel, raisins, water, and sometimes spirits.
Faringee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faringees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of firangi.
Faringees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Faringee
synapte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synaptes
form: synaptai
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συναπτή (sunaptḗ).
Senses: glosses: A litany in the Greek church.
ectenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ektenia.
ektene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ektenia.
podites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podite
podismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: spasm of the muscles of the foot
stock tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Tackle used in hoisting an anchor on board ship to keep its stock clear of the ship's side.
subflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfloras
Etymology: From sub- + flora.
Senses: glosses: A more local flora included within one of wider range.
subfloras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subflora
HAIFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of hash iterative framework: a cryptographic structure used in the design of hash functions.
thieves' Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The slang used by thieves among themselves.
subfloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sub-floral
Etymology: From sub- + floral.
Senses: examples: text: DeCandolle (1830) divided the family into two groups based on the presence or absence of a subfloral bract or calyculus.
ref: 1961, Lake S. Gill, Frank G. Hawksworth, The Mistletoes: A Literature Review, page 3:
text: Gynoecial plants somewhat more robust, bracts to 1050- 1350 mu wide (leaves near gynoecia with disk often 4-5 cells high and 12 cells wide at base); bracts and subfloral leaves grading into each other, maximally variable with vigor;
ref: 1966, Candollea - Volume 21, Issue 1, page 88:
text: The stems in this family often bear subfloral innovations below the gametangia.
ref: 2014, Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico: Bryophyta - Part 2, →ISBN, page 191:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Beneath a flower
braggartisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braggartism
desmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desmo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: 103. Antonio Augusto Ferreira Silva, M. D. Studies of sanitary desmography. Rio de Janeiro
ref: 1893, Catalogue of the Brazilian Section at the World's Columbian Exposition, page 117:
text: The muscle meridian is a summarization of the physiology and pathology of demic desmography, mycology and affiliated tissues on a platform of twelve circulation operating line based on the ancient anatomy understandings...
ref: 2012, W Song, W Sun, Z Chen, L Jian, “The mechanical discussion of effect of muscle meridian on the treatment of arthralgia syndrome”, in 2012 IEEE International Conference:
text: In his book on desmography in 1752, Weitbrecht referred to “fibrous bunches that reinforce the capsule and bands that supplement the fixation of the semicircular cartilages (meniscus)”, but he did not provide further details as his work was purely descriptive.
ref: 2017, Etienne Cavaignac, David Ancelin, Philippe Chiron, Jean-Louis Tricoire, Karine Wytrykowski, Marie Faruch, Elodie Chantalat, “Historical perspective on the “discovery” of the anterolateral ligament of the knee”, in Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, volume 25, number 4:
glosses: The description of ligaments; a treatise describing ligaments
destruxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destruxins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Any of a group of mycotoxins found in Metarhizium anisopliae
ingratefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ingratefully
form: most ingratefully
Etymology: From ingrateful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: ungratefully
corporate citizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporate citizens
Senses: glosses: A business corporation that has, or takes on, some of the rights and responsibilities of individuals.
Related terms: corporate citizenship
corporate citizens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporate citizen
trapezian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having opposed trapeziform faces.
father superior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathers superior
form: father superiors
Senses: glosses: a friar or monk in charge of a monastery, priory or convent; an abbot or a prior
Coordinate terms: mother superior
epicormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Cut off whippy epicormal growths, especially if any have grown because of your last pruning.
glosses: Of or pertaining to of a young whippy shoot growing from a previously dormant bud on the trunk or a limb of a tree.
fathers superior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathers superiors
Senses: glosses: plural of father superior
father superiors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of father superior
Indian cress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because these plants were introduced from the Americas, then popularly known as the Indies, and used like cress as salad ingredients.
Senses: synonyms: garden nasturtium
monks cress
nasturtium
trophywort
glosses: A plant of species Tropaeolum majus).
sexagene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexagenes
Senses: glosses: An arc or angle of 60 degrees.
sexagenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexagene
RSLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSL
recurrent slope linea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurrent slope lineae
Etymology: From recurrent + slope + linea. From being a line-like marking found on sloped terrain that has occurred multiple times on the same slope area.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: An ephemeral dark linear feature found on slopes that recurs seasonally.
Synonyms: word: RSL
Derived terms: word: RSL
home nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home nations
Senses: glosses: Any of the four constituent nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) that make up the United Kingdom
Related terms: home county
recurrent slope lineae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recurrent slope linea
home county
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home counties
Senses: examples: text: Owing to the comparative nearness to London and populous home county centres, road competition is keen for goods as well as summer passenger business.
ref: 1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 391:
text: Think home counties, and the sorts of things that come to mind are blue-rinse, golf courses and village halls. This is a stereotype we need to reconsider based on the latest demographic shifts we are seeing in and around London.
ref: 2017 October 12, Ian Warren, “How the Conservatives lost their home counties heartland”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England.
Related terms: home nation
yellow-billed chough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-billed choughs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alpine chough.
synonyms: word: alpine chough
panty-belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panty-belts
form: pantie-belt
Senses: examples: text: The underwear counters of Marks and Spencer are crammed with brassières such as I have not seen since the late 1950s, bras with underwired cups, padded cups, boned supports. And girdles, pantie-belts, even things that look very much like corsets.
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, “Year of the Punk”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 150:
glosses: A piece of underwear for women combining panties with a suspender belt or garter belt.
foeticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foeticidal
form: most foeticidal
Etymology: From foeticide + -al or foetus + -cidal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feticidal.
mensurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to mensuration or measurement.
symmedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmedians
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of three lines associated with every triangle, constructed by taking a median of the triangle (a line connecting a vertex with the midpoint of the opposite side) and reflecting the line over the corresponding angle bisector (the line through the same vertex that divides the angle there in half).
Derived terms: cosymmedian
symmedians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmedian
keekar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keekars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kikar (“kind of tree”).
keekars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keekar
pony engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pony engines
Senses: synonyms: shunter
shunting engine
switcher
hypernyms: engine
locomotive
coordinate_terms: iron horse
glosses: A small locomotive used for shunting wagons, etc.
synonyms: pony motor
glosses: A small gasoline engine serving as an auxiliary to a diesel engine (mainly in older designs from the 1930s to 1950s), providing heat to warm it up and, when engaged with a clutch, providing cranking to start it up.
Related terms: donkey engine
pony engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pony engine
Jerusalem pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jerusalem ponies
Senses: glosses: A donkey.
Jerusalem ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerusalem pony
sindoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sintoc.
nigger killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger killer
gewgawish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gewgawish
form: most gewgawish
Etymology: From gewgaw + -ish.
Senses: glosses: showy; gaudy
late modern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to late modernity
late modernity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the current time period, perceived as a part of modernity
Related terms: late modern
postmodernity
Jekyll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈdʒi.kəl/
Etymology: From a Breton name also appearing in various forms in French Judicaël, Gicquel, Jézéquel, etc., ultimately from Old Breton Iudicael, the name of a Breton king revered as a Catholic saint. His name is from Old Breton iudd (“lord, ruler, prince”) + Old Breton cael (“generous, noble”) (whence modern Breton cael (“generous, noble”)).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name, transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Jekyll and Hyde
Jekyllesque
Jekyllian
Jekyllesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jekyllesque
form: most Jekyllesque
Etymology: From Jekyll + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), British horticulturist and garden designer.
Jekyllian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jekyllian
form: most Jekyllian
Etymology: From Jekyll + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), British horticulturist and garden designer.
stag's-horn clubmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stag's horn clubmoss
form: Stag's-horn Clubmoss
Senses: examples: text: Stag's-horn Clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum) is particularly widespread in drier heathland areas, and is one of the most likely species to be encountered.
ref: 1988, Christopher Nigel Page, Ferns: Their Habitats in the British and Irish Landscape, →ISBN, page 292:
text: In the Stag's-horn Clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum, Fig. 3 III, IV) these strobili are even elevated above the main system of creeping shoots on an upright, elongate and sparsely leafy "podium".
ref: 1992, Focko Weberling, translated by R. J. Pankhurst, Morphology of Flowers and Inflorescences, translation of Morphologie der Blüten und der Blütenstände (in German), →ISBN, page 4:
text: Fir clubmoss can spread by producing disc shaped vegetative propagules and stag's horn clubmoss can spread by means of creeping stems (stolons).
ref: 2009, Mike Raine, Nature of Snowdonia, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Throughout, you'll discover a woodland carpeted with stag's-horn clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum), trailing pine (L. digitatum) and princess pine (L. dendroideum).
ref: 2010, Bill Bowers, Eileen McNulty-Bowers, 50 Hikes in Central New York's Leatherstocking Country, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Lycopodium clavatum, a club moss in the family Lycopodiaceae.
Synonyms: ground pine
running clubmoss
enterorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the intestines and the kidneys
monosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a single spore.
potomitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potomitans
form: poteau mitan
form: poteau-mitan
form: poto mitan
Etymology: From Haitian Creole potomitan, and its source, French poteau mitan (“central post”).
Senses: examples: text: Around this poteau-mitan revolve the ritual movements and the dance; at its base the offerings are placed; and through it the loa enter the peristyle.
ref: 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:
text: Across from us two young men were setting up a battery of drums; they cast furtive glances at Rachel as she cracked open a bottle of rum, tipped it three times toward the poteau mitan, and took a drink.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 226:
text: Next, swinging a censer, Divié blessed the poto mitan and all the ounsis who raised their skirts and swished them around to get the full effect of the incense.
ref: 1995, Marilyn Houlberg, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 277
text: The poteau-mitan is a ladder between Heaven and Earth, a pathway by which the ancestors can rise from below and the spirits descend from above.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 36:
text: The Lwa are believed to ascend or descend through the potomitan, which is therefore seen as a magical axis.
ref: 2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, volume 1, page 394:
glosses: A sacramental post or pillar in the middle of the peristyle in front of a voodoo temple, used as the focus of certain rituals.
ubasute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 姥捨て.
Senses: glosses: A supposed former custom of Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was left in some desolate place to die.
Related terms: granny dumping
ättestupa
gargoylelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gargoylelike
form: most gargoylelike
Etymology: From gargoyle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On the wall hung paintings of the djab—the devil—gargoylelike with protruding red tongues pierced by red dagger and lightning bolts […].
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 227:
text: The set was enormous, with lots of big scaffolds, and there was giant statue of a gargoyle-like character with a high forehead (which we joked looked a bit like Paul Berrow).
ref: 2008, Andy Taylor, Wild Boy:
glosses: Like a gargoyle.
Invernessshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Inverness-shire.
Kinrossshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kinross-shire.
Argyllshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Argyll + -shire.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Argyll, Scotland
synonyms: word: Argyll
word: Scotland
Buteshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bute: a historical county of Scotland.
synonyms: word: Bute
extra: a historical county of Scotland
Bedlingtonshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former enclave of Durham, now Bedlington
Babelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Babel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A chaotic situation where people cannot communicate because of different languages.
labour exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labour exchanges
Senses: examples: text: Isn't it taking candour unwisely far to anticipate clueless responses from some station staff and excuse them on the grounds that "some of the chaps you see in uniform have just arrived from the labour exchange"?
ref: 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 75:
text: Against her father’s wishes, at the age of 18 Elizabeth registered at a labour exchange and undertook a vehicle maintenance course at Aldershot, Hampshire, learning how to strip an engine.
ref: September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: Wadebridge area railwaymen were reported in the local press as "worried", while National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) Wadebridge branch secretary W J Hambly believed "the rail closures will mean dole queues at the Labour Exchange for many".
ref: 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38:
glosses: An employment agency, a job centre.
labour exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labour exchange
pulpousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pulpous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pulpous.
family pajamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of matching pajamas of varying sizes, intended for the use of a family, sometimes including pets.
Synonyms: famjams
more-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more more-ish
form: most more-ish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moreish.
Nago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːɡəʊ/
Forms: form: Nagos
form: Nagoes
form: Nago
Etymology: From Ewe Anagó (“a Yoruba”), from Yoruba Ànàgó (“Yoruba from Abeokuta Province, Nigeria”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Yoruba people living in coastal regions of modern-day Benin and Nigeria, especially one taken to the Caribbean or South America as a slave.
examples: text: The Nago and Petwo lwa are honored with Florida water.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 54:
text: The colors red and blue are frequently worn during Nago rite Voodoo ceremonies.
ref: 2012, Michael R Hall, Historical Dictionary of Haiti, page 181:
glosses: In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Yoruba origin.
Nago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːɡəʊ/
Etymology: From Ewe Anagó (“a Yoruba”), from Yoruba Ànàgó (“Yoruba from Abeokuta Province, Nigeria”).
Senses: glosses: The Niger–Congo language spoken by the Nago people.
NEV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NEVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of neighborhood electric vehicle or neighbourhood electric vehicle.
glosses: Initialism of new energy vehicle.
Related terms: autocycle
e-bike
LSV
moped
NEVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NEV
new energy vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new energy vehicles
form: new-energy vehicle
Senses: glosses: An alternative energy vehicle. A vehicle which is fuelled by an uncommon energy source, as compared to the vast marketplace of conventionally fuelled vehicles, as of the turn of the 21st century.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A plug-in electric vehicle, either a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or an all-electric plug-in battery electric vehicle
Synonyms: word: NEV
sense: Chinese marketplace
alt: PEV
word: plug-in electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: alternate fuel vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: alternative energy vehicle
Hypernyms: word: vehicle
sense: Chinese marketplace
alt: EV
word: electric vehicle
Hyponyms: topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: alcohol vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: all-electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: BEV
word: battery electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: EV
word: electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ethanol vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: flex-fuel vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: fuel cell vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
english: HEV
translation: HEV
word: hybrid electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: hydrogen vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: methanol vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: multifuel vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: natural gas vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: PEV
word: plug-in electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: PHEV
word: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
topics: source
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: solar electric vehicle
sense: Chinese marketplace
word: all-electric vehicle
sense: Chinese marketplace
alt: BEV
word: battery electric vehicle
sense: Chinese marketplace
alt: PHEV
word: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
Derived terms: word: NEV
neighborhood electric vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighborhood electric vehicles
Etymology: From neighborhood + electric vehicle. From being a vehicle class appropriate for local (neighborhood) use, but not suitable for longer distances (such as metropolitan areas), or high speeds (such as expressways), that is electrically powered.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: NEV
electric quadricycle
glosses: A low-speed low-weight short-range electric vehicle.
Hypernyms: alt: BEV
word: battery electric vehicle
word: all-electric vehicle
alt: EV
word: electric vehicle
word: vehicle
Coordinate terms: english: a similar vehicle for off-road use
translation: a similar vehicle for off-road use
word: side-by-side
english: a similar vehicle used to shuttle people around shopping mall and airport concourses
translation: a similar vehicle used to shuttle people around shopping mall and airport concourses
word: club car
english: a similar vehicle on golf courses
translation: a similar vehicle on golf courses
word: golf cart
word: lawn tractor
Derived terms: word: NEV
neighbourhood electric vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbourhood electric vehicles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neighborhood electric vehicle.
plows up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plow up
up-plows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up-plow
flies out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fly out
bebars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bebar
becuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of becut
becries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of becry
befoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befoe
beflies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befly
beflees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beflee
begabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begab
bekens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beken
behues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behue
behews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behew
belaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belap
umbelappes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of umbelappe
bemans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beman
bemars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemar
braggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of braggle
bemows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemow
besews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besew
besows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besow
bespies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespy
betags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betag
betows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betow
bewags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewag
betops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betop
beties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betie
beweds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewed
benims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of benim
bemourns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemourn
Ghede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gede
form: Guede
Senses: examples: text: In Haiti, the Gede are the most numerous among all the Iwa.
ref: 1996, Gerdès Fleurant, Dancing Spirits, page 103:
text: As life ends in death, so does a fet end with homage to the Bawon and Brigitte, the king and queen of the graveyard, and their servants, the Ghede.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 31:
text: Ghede loa are boisterous and have a healthy sexual appetite.
ref: 2012, Michael R Hall, Historical Dictionary of Haiti, page 120:
glosses: In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa generally associated with death.
langaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langage
Etymology: From Haitian Creole langaj, from French langage (“language”). Doublet of language.
Senses: examples: text: Though used only by initiates, some passages in langaj emphasize sounds in a fashion that appeals to the ears of the profane as well, even when no translation is accessible as in most of the following examples.
ref: 2003, Marie-Jose Alcide Saint-Lot, Vodou, A Sacred Theater, page 172:
text: The langaj used for activation and the specific combinations required for a ceremony are initiatory secrets.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 41:
text: He and his assistant, a bigger, stronger, younger man, are both singing, bent over the bowl, in langage, which is a mix of slavery-era African dialects combined with Creole; it's used only in voodoo ritual and is one of the world's few remaining wholly sacred languages.
ref: 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 196:
qualifier: voodoo
glosses: A sacred or incantatory language used in Haitian voodoo rituals.
inbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbeat
inbelches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbelch
inbinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbind
inblands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbland
inblinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inblind
emblinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emblind
inborrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inborrow
inburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inburn
imbrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbring
postnationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postnationalisms
form: post-nationalism
Etymology: From post- + nationalism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The theory or conception of the world after the existence of nation-states.
Related terms: postnational
postnationalist
inbuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inbuild
inlights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inlight
inlightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inlighten
enveils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enveil
inviles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invile
inlives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inlive
inmoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inmove
inmixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inmix
inmingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inmingle
enmingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enmingle
inwanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwander
inwombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwomb
inwones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwone
inwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwood
interrupted clubmoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrupted club moss
form: Interrupted Clubmoss
Senses: examples: text: Bowfell is not among the places he must visit, but viviparous alpine bistort grows there at over 1,800ft, and there is also interrupted clubmoss, which grows too in Rossett Ghyll and up Great Langdale on the grassy slopes among damp rocks.
ref: 1973, Eric Hardy, The Naturalist in Lakeland, page 70:
text: Among the species which best characterise the undergrowth of conifers, on acid humus - and therefore in particular, but not only, in spruce woods - is the creeping and common interrupted clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum).
ref: 2007, Lucio Bonato, Alessandro Minelli, Mountain conifer forests: a mantle of fine green needles, page 20:
text: Interrupted Clubmoss is generally common, and Issler's clubmoss Diphasiastrum complanatum scattered.
ref: 2010, Derek Ratcliffe, Lapland: A Natural History, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Lycopodium annotinum, a club moss of the family Lycopodiaceae common throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Synonyms: stiff clubmoss
rhetorolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhetorolects
Etymology: From Latin rhētorica from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr, “public speaker”) + from Latin lectus, form of Latin legō (“I read”).
Senses: examples: text: If the elaborations "catch on" in some way, and themselves become developed, it is likely that we are looking at the creation of a "rhetorolect," a configuration of topoi and their argumentation that "is generated through a process whereby widely recognized topoi are recontextualized and reconfigured to create conventions that support reasoning in new contexts."
ref: 2003, Vernon Kay Robbins, David B. Gowler, L. Gregory Bloomquist, Fabrics of Discourse: Essays in Honor of Vernon K. Robbins, →ISBN, page 175:
text: In other words, within each rhetorolect or language environment there are social places (like the household, the empire, nature) and cultural spaces (like God's world, the Diaspora, the kingdom) in which people think, speak, feel and act to construct meaningful lives.
ref: 2007, Robert L. Webb, John S. Kloppenborg, Reading James with New Eyes, →ISBN:
text: Early Christian wisdom rhetorolect blends human experiences of the household, one's interpersonal body, and the geophysical world (firstspace) with the cultural space of God's cosmos (secondspace). In the lived space of blending (thirdspace), God functions as heavenly Father over God's children in the world, whose bodies are to produce goodness and righteousness through the medium of God's wisdom, which is understood as God's light in the world. In this context, wisdom rhetrolect emphasizes "fruitfulness" (productivity and reproductivity). The goal of wisdom rhetrolect is to create people who produce good action, thought, will, and speech with the aid of God's wisdom.
ref: 2007, Petri Luomanen, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Risto Uro, Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism, →ISBN:
text: This Lukan discourse, then, directs the demons' identification of Jesus as the Son of God toward prophetic rhetorolect that features the coming of an anointed one who will oversee God's kingdom on earth.
ref: 2012, Duane F. Watson, Miracle Discourse in the New Testament, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A type of discourse that has a characteristic configuration of topics, themes, and arguments.
rhetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have already suggested that rhetology is dominant in some forms of discourse when compared with others, for example, apocalyptic compared with wisdom.
ref: 2012, Duane F. Watson, Miracle Discourse in the New Testament, →ISBN, page 101:
text: At this point in the narration, Lukan prophetic miracle rhetology evokes the belief that power of the Lord in Jesus flowed through the brier into the body of the young man.
ref: 2015, Vernon K. Robbins, Jonathan M. Potter, Jesus and Mary Reimagined in Early Christian Literature, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The former type of argument is grounded in rhetography - rhetoric that evokes images - and the latter is built upon rhetology - rhetoric that evokes logical reasoning.'
ref: 2017, Robert H. von Thaden Jr., Sex, Christ, and Embodied Cognition: Paul's Wisdom for Corinth, →ISBN:
glosses: The form of rhetorical argument or reasoning that characterizes a rhetorolect.
spermaduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermaducts
Senses: glosses: A spermatic duct.
spermaducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermaduct
labor exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labor exchanges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labour exchange.
labor exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labor exchange
silver beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Beer traditionally served after a game of Cornish hurley; the silver ball from the game is placed in the jug.
Cornish hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish hens
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cornish game hen.
synonyms: word: Cornish game hen
Cornish hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish hen
Cornish game hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish game hens
Senses: glosses: A young broiler chicken (not an actual game bird, nor necessarily female) sold whole.
Synonyms: Cornish hen
poussin
Cornish game hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish game hen
ride or die
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ride or dies
form: ride-or-die
Senses: examples: text: I'll be your babe and you will be my hubby wubby. I'll be your ride or die.
ref: 2012, Wisam Patros, Torn, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Princess (Lopez), your spirit is super-amazing, you are truly my ride or die, and I love you and want you to have nothing less than the absolute best!
ref: 2013, Nikki Turner, Project Chick II: What's Done in the Dark, →ISBN, page viii:
text: Yeah, me and Mr. Lonely double dating, with pen, paper, and empty wine glasses . . . I'm looking for a new him . . . The one that stays, not gonna cheat, he is my ride or die and I'm his drive to shine.
ref: 2013, Heather Maria Ramirez, All the Fireflies in France, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Around 9 pm and a few of my ride or dies show up with their people.
ref: 2014, Michael Gilligan, Sex, Drugs, And Cubicles: What I've Learned From The Music Industry, →ISBN:
text: They know that the boyfriend usually isn't a good investment. You can't make a life long commitment with a guy who you don't have an in-depth ride or die bond with.
ref: 2017, Ronnell "Chewy" Coombs, The Female Baller's Handbook, page 93:
glosses: Someone who is wholeheartedly committed and supportive.
ride or die
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ride or die
form: most ride or die
form: ride-or-die
Senses: examples: text: Because a lot of us say we "are ride or die". OK then...How many of you will let someone nail you to a cross and torture you for your homies???
ref: 2010, Erica "makeda" Brathwaite, The Releasing of Me, →ISBN, page 51:
text: When you think about it, if I can use this terminology, Jesus Christ is ride or die for all of us, so we ought to be loyal and committed to Him.
ref: 2012, Jesse R. Watson Jr, Morning Coffee, →ISBN, page 369:
text: Being young, dumb, and in love, she set out to prove she was more ride or die than any of the others.
ref: 2013, Maggie Stephens-Dykes, Letters Home, →ISBN:
text: Yeah but it's okay Kari because he is ride or die for you too.
ref: 2017, Lolah Lace, Flag On The Play (BWWM Interracial Romance), →ISBN:
glosses: Wholeheartedly committed and supportive.
ride or die
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides or dies
form: riding or dying
form: rode or died
form: ridden or died
form: ride-or-die
Senses: examples: text: I would like to thank my friends Deirdre Neeley, Lola Oyenuga, and Theresa Tarver, who not only ride with me when I have book signings, but “ride or die” for me on a daily basis.
ref: 2011, Shana Burton, Flaw Less, →ISBN:
text: Ladies, before you choose to ride or die with a man, you should first know that he is capable of handling the responsibility.
ref: 2012, Maxwell Billieon, Ray J -, Death of the Cheating Man: What Every Woman Must Know About Men Who Stray, →ISBN:
text: Just being with him and loving him in spite of it all was the limit of my riding or dying as his chick.
ref: 2013, Meesha Mink, Real Wifeys: Hustle Hard: An Urban Tale, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: To support with wholehearted commitment.
phratric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phratry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a phratry.
phratria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phratrias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phratry.
phratrias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phratria
nodded off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nod off
family court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family courts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A court convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as the custody of children.
family courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family court
geostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The statics of rigid bodies
Related terms: geostatic
spendability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spend + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spendable.
expendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expending
God's medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug opium.
riverwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverwaters
Etymology: From river + water.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the marked front-like features are believed to appear due to complex processes of riverwater and seawater interaction.
ref: 2002, Vladimir A. Volkov, Ola M. Johannessen, Victor E. Borodachev, Polar Seas Oceanography: An integrated case study of the Kara Sea, →ISBN:
text: The relative abundance of clay minerals (except montmorillonite) in the Gzhel clay is close to that in the particulate matter in riverwaters around the world.
ref: 2007, Geochemistry International - Volume 45, Pages 841-1273, page 949:
text: In the face of litigious challenges undermining its control of riverwater, the Fresno Group used its power to protect its economic interests by initiating and guiding the transformation of unenforceable water right claims into strong private property contract rights to the lower flows of riverwater.
ref: 2012 -, Ariel Dinar, David Zilberman, The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture, →ISBN, page 767:
glosses: Alternative form of river water.
river-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river-waters
Senses: examples: text: In such a process the dammed up river-water passes over cascades (for aeration) into gravel pre-filters, is collected at the end of said filters and, after repeated aeration, brought onto sand filters.
ref: 2012, Francis A. Gunther, Residue Reviews: Residues of Pesticides and other Contaminants in the Total Environment, →ISBN:
text: The presence of widespread lateritic formations has been thought to indicate very high rates of silica removal in tropical environments, G.V. Bogomolov et al. (1966) asserting that the silica content of tropical river-waters is greater than that of open streams in higher latitudes, and N.M. Strakhov (1967) noting that the migrational capacity of SiO₂ is particularly high in the humid tropics.
ref: 2013, Olav Slaytnaker, Fluv Geom: Geom Crit Conc Vol, →ISBN:
text: She spit out a mouthful of sand that tasted like Grape Nuts soaked in river-water.
ref: 2015, Christian O'Neill, Back Roads Kingdom: Book One of the Back Roads Cycle, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of river water.
river water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river waters
form: riverwater
form: river-water
Senses: examples: text: They can be changed in various ways; for instance, river water is more turbid than that of lakes, since rivers drain water from the land, ...
ref: 1978, Haslam, River Plants, →ISBN, page 115:
text: All these five directly use Pavana River, thus river water quality is very important for them.
ref: 2006, C. A. Brebbia, J. S. Antunes do Carmo, Water Pollution VIII: Modelling, Monitoring and Management, →ISBN, page 67:
text: River waters are used as drinking water and irrigation water for agricultural fields.
ref: 2008, Makoto Taniguchi, William C. Burnett, Yoshihiro Fukushima, From Headwaters to the Ocean, →ISBN:
text: Bad weather, therefore, cannot disrupt the metronomic existence of its regular users, but river water does come in, both from the Thames and its tributary the Walbrook. [...] This may be why the line is nicknamed 'The Drain', [...]
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Water found in or taken from a river.
ride or dies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ride or die
hostages to fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stay home, keep house for my three newest hostages to fortune, and write while I waited for my modest pensions to kick in.
ref: 2004, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs of a Geezer Dad, page 26:
glosses: A man's wife, children, etc.