cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sturm sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sturm sequences
Etymology: Named after Jacques Charles François Sturm.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For some univariate polynomial p, a sequence of polynomials associated with p and its derivative by a variant of Euclid's algorithm for polynomials.
Sturm sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sturm sequence
Laguerre's equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Edmond Laguerre.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The second-order linear differential equation xy+(1-x)y'+ny=0.
wikipedia: Edmond Laguerre
Laguerre polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laguerre polynomials
Etymology: Named after Edmond Laguerre.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial that is a solution to Laguerre's equation.
wikipedia: Edmond Laguerre
Laguerre polynomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laguerre polynomial
soybean oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soyabean oil
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
<
vegetable oil
<
oil
coordinate_terms: olive oil
palm oil
;
more
glosses: A vegetable oil extracted from soybeans, the seeds of Glycine max.
Bergstraße
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural district in southern Hesse, Germany.
glosses: An ancient trade route in Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, after which the district is named.
Coton Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4813).
glosses: A hamlet in Milwich parish, Stafford district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9832).
Coton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4058).
glosses: A village in Ravensthorpe parish, Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP6771).
glosses: A village in Wem Rural parish, northern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5334).
glosses: A hamlet in Gnosall parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8120).
glosses: A hamlet next to Coton Hill in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9832).
glosses: A suburb of Tamworth, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK1805).
Derived terms: Coton Hill
Hopton and Coton
lipolyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lipolyze
lipolyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lipolyze
lipolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipolyze
small category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small categories
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category such that all of its objects form a set and all of its morphisms form a set.
Hypernyms: locally small category
degradings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degrading
Penistone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnɪstən/
Forms: form: Penistones
form: Peniston
Etymology: Perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“head”) + Old English -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). No relation to penis.
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
staggerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien, from stagger + -ment
Senses: examples: text: To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
ref: 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
text: "Yes, sir." Illyan's voice was thin with his staggerment.
ref: 1986, Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor:
text: I have not felt any blow so much since little Normie died in 1908. It is not hopeless sorrow or resentment, but sheer staggerment.
ref: 2010, David McCasland, Oswald Chambers, Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest:
glosses: The state of feeling staggered or overwhelmed.
stagnationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stagnationist
form: most stagnationist
Etymology: From stagnation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A flat and downward-sloping schedule — the intersection of co-operative and stagnationist regimes — describes a wage-led growth regime, a result which follows immediately from the definition of wage-led growth as one in which a higher rate of accumulation.
ref: 1991, Stephen A. Marglin, Juliet B. Schor, The Golden Age of Capitalism, page 172:
text: In Maxine Berg's recent book, Josef Steindl has argued that his explanation of the stagnationist tendency of the first one-third of the twentieth century could not be straightforwardly applied to that of the last one-third because of the rise in the power of labour and the growth of interneational competition (Steindl 1990).
ref: 2004, Tracy Mott, Nina Shapiro, Rethinking Capitalist Development:
text: Marx and subsequent Marxists have extensively discussed countertendencies to the stagnationist tendencies.
ref: 2014, Marco Hauptmeier, Matt Vidal, Comparative Political Economy of Work, page 85:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Characterized by stagnation.
Mossley Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3887).
look like who did it and ran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks like who did it and ran
form: looking like who did it and ran
form: looked like who did it and ran
form: looked like who did it and ran
form: look like who did it and ran away
Etymology: From the question a person might be asked after a prank.
Senses: examples: text: My house looks like who did it and ran.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To appear messy or dishevelled.
stall feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stall feeds
form: stall feeding
form: stall fed
form: stall fed
Senses: examples: text: And to these I might add, as a matter of no less concern and astonishment, that it is idle and vain for me to attempt to stall feed any kind of Meats; when I have only my expence for my trouble, without a joint of meat which is fit to appear at.
ref: 1939, John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799, page 265:
text: Some of the cattle, owners having the crossbreds and graded Sindhi cattle, however, stall feed their animals.
ref: 1981, B. N. Gupta, Dairy Cattle Feed Resources and Feeding Practices in the Northeastern States, page 66:
text: As people stall feed through the years, or if they are wealthier to begin with, the money is used to build houses and buy metal roof sheets, or to buy bicycles, ox-carts and breeding cows.
ref: 1984, Cornelia Butler Flora, Animals in the Farming System:
text: He recommended restriction in pastoral pursuit until such time as “people have learnt to breed better stock, to grow fodder crops and cut hay instead of grass and to stall feed where pasture is insufficient”.
ref: 2013, Ian D. Rotherham, Cultural Severance and the Environment:
glosses: Alternative form of stall-feed.
stall feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is attributed by some to the use of clover hay as stall feed; but as the cattle run in the bush during the summer, and are only fed in winter, this does not strike me as being probable, and you will be doing a great service to myself and others by giving any information upon the subject.
ref: 1892, Report of the British Columbia Dept. of Agriculture:
text: Meadows and pastures are fertility-producing types of production, especially the former because they produce stall feed.
ref: 1935, Theodor Brikmann, Murray Reed Benedict, Mrs. Elizabeth (Tucker) Benedict, Economics of the Farm Business, page 70:
text: Alternatives to mangrove foliage as stall feed and feed supplements for livestock need to be found and there is hope in the current research being carried out in Pakistan (Saifullah, 1984).
ref: 1999, Azra Meadows, P. S. Meadows, The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind, page 40:
glosses: Fodder that is used to stall-feed livestock.
stall feeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stall feed
stall feeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stall feed
stall fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stall feed
stall-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stall-feeds
form: stall-feeding
form: stall-fed
form: stall-fed
Senses: examples: text: Stubble would have been much cheaper for the littering part, but it is not always to be had; whereas straw is every where to be bought; and it is necessary to charge the price of it, because a farmer may probably have a regular stock of cattle for the straw of his crop; in which case he cannot stall-feed to advantage without buying more.
ref: 1771, Arthur Young, A Course of Experimental Agriculture, page 158:
text: Traditionally, rural households that stall-feed cattle have slaughtered their bulls after two to three years of feeding at the annual harvest festival (November through December) or the bi- or tri-annual festival of the bull, the Marai (January through February).
ref: 1982, John Holtzman, A Socio-economic Analysis of Stall-fed Cattle Production and Marketing in the Mandara Mountains Regions of Northern Cameroon:
text: Poorer farmers let their animals graze on communal lands and along the roadside, and some nutrients may return to the farm although much of the dung will remain on communal lands. Richer farmers stall-feed their cattle in zero-grazing units, which facilitiates the collection and storage of manure and ensures that the manure remains on the farm.
ref: 2000, F. N. Muchena, Thea Hilhorst, Nutrients on the Move, page Q-131:
glosses: To raise and feed (an animal) in a stall.
stall-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is, I believe, of no sort of use to a labourer; for though he may cultivate part of the land as a garden, the continued labour it would require to supply stall-feed for a cow, winter and summer, and the quantity of land he must till, would occupy so much of his time, that the take would, upon the whole, be injurious to him, even supposing the land inclosed and contiguous to his house; if at a distance, or not inclosed, the disadvantage will be still greater.
ref: 1835, The Labourers' Friend, page 36:
text: The transponder is attached to a collar around the cow's neck that controls the operating time of the stall-feed dispenser within a preset period.
ref: 1977, Hoyle B. Puckett, Automatic feeding equipment for livestock and poultry, page 29:
text: After the stalks have been separated (this is later used as stall-feed along with grass during winter and early spring), winnowing of husk from grain takes place with a board.
ref: 1998, Smriti Srinivas, The Mouths of People, the Voice of God, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of stall feed.
stall-feeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stall-feed
stall-feeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stall-feed
stall-fed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stall-feed
topil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topile
Etymology: Compare Classical Nahuatl topileh (“constable, minor official”).
Senses: glosses: A constable, minor official, or altar server in certain Native American communities.
self-opening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + opening.
Senses: examples: text: Special features enable the cars to be used as mobile classrooms; equipment includes a microphone and inter-car broadcasting equipment, self-opening doors, fluorescent lights, illuminated speedometer, carton disposal units and a folding bed which normally serves as seats on either side of a table.
ref: 1963 January, “New in Japan: A Vista-car special”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
qualifier: Of an object
glosses: that opens, or is designed to open automatically, or opens of its own accord.
Related terms: self-closing
stallionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stallionizes
form: stallionizing
form: stallionized
form: stallionized
Etymology: From stallion + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I' troth, Sir Grandpaw, quoth the Ass, I am somewhat a Blockhead you know, and can't for the heart's blood of me learn so fast the Court-way of speaking of you Gentlemen-horses; I mean don't you Stallionize it sometimes here among your metal'd Fillies?
ref: 1653, François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor of Physick:
text: If he has a bull to show, he will exhibit him as a jockey does a stallion, parading him on rising ground, thrusting his head up and of course sinking his back till it is hollow, and his haunch sticks out like a starved calf's, stuffed fro show with bog hay. This may be called stallionizing.
ref: 1846, The American Agriculturist - Volume 5, page 52:
text: Then of a sudden she was kissing and fondling instead of fighting me off, laughing under her breath and using a few horny words I didn't know at that time; presently her hands were gripping her knees, I was in her standing, joyfully stallionizing it with not a thought in my head to interfere.
ref: 2015, Edgar Pangborn, Edgar Pangborn SF Gateway Omnibus:
glosses: To behave like a stallion, especially to engage in sexual intercourse.
examples: text: It shocks his sense of the proprieties to see a great religious journal (see "Editorials by Our Subscribers" — none of whom, we hope, have misplaced their "manhood") like the Texas Baptist Standard flaunting in the middle of a page of jejune prattle anent the Holy Spirit, a big display ad. for the "French Nerve Pill" — guaranteed to re-stallionize old roues — and following up a long dissertation on "The Weakness of the Baptist Denomination" with an illustrated notice to the effect that "loss of manly power resulting from bad habits" is cured by certain eastern Cagliostros, who will send, "securely sealed in plain envelope on receipt of 10 cents," a medical treaties "written in plain language."
ref: 1957, Charles Carver, Brann and the Iconoclast, page 47:
text: The stallionizing of Roy Campbell.
ref: 1970, Geoffrey Grigson, Notes from an odd country, page 96:
text: The public is sort of like a de-stallionized stallion.
ref: 1976, C. V. Myers, Money and Energy: Weathering the Storm, page 132:
glosses: To make virile and manly.
Synonyms: sense: engage in sexual intercourse
word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
sense: make virile
word: virilize
stallionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stallionize
stallionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stallionize
stallionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stallionize
cardan shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardan shafts
form: Cardan shaft
Etymology: Named after Girolamo Cardano.
Senses: examples: text: Each axle of every 82ft-long car is powered by a 170kW traction motor with flexible cardan shaft drive.
ref: 1963 January, “New in Japan: Tokaido Line trials”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A driveshaft with a universal joint at one or both ends.
wikipedia: Girolamo Cardano
cardan shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardan shaft
smoke around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smokes around
form: smoking around
form: smoked around
form: smoked around
form: smoke round
Senses: examples: text: He broke his arrows, stampt the ground,
To view his cities smoaking round.
ref: 1755, Joseph Warton, “The Revenge of America”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, volume 4, London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 209:
text: Chief mixed his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounded on steel, helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smoaks around.
ref: 1762, James Macpherson, Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Book 1, pp. 12-13:
text: 1801, Joseph Charles Mellish (translator), Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, London: Cotta, Tubingen, Act 5, p. 199,
The altar is adorn’d, the tapers blaze,
The bell invites, the incense smokes around,
text: At that time, nothing was heard of but sinister events, and a country smoking around:
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 8, p. 256:
text: 1821, Samuel Woodworth, poem written for the reopening of the Park Theater in New York, in Laurence Hutton (ed.), Opening Addresses, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, p. 39,
[…] shapeless heaps of ruins smoked around,
And desolation marked the blackened ground,
glosses: To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.
prevent defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prevent defenses
Senses: examples: text: In order to cope with this situation, we developed a simple prevent defense which was designed primarily to negate the long touchdown play. Originally, the 5-3 prevent defense was used in the latter moments of the second and fourth quarters ...
ref: 1960, “The 5-3 Prevent Defense”, in Athletic Journal, volume 41, page 32:
text: There were still forty seconds remaining, so the Bucks went into a prevent defense, with eight men back to guard against long passes. The Mustang halfback was able to pick up some ground, but not enough to score
ref: 2001, Robert Hirschfeld, Matt Christopher, Football Nightmare, football, most common (& earliest?) use [not this quote], page 118:
text: Much of the third period was a stalemate, with the Illini successfully clearing out the puck and playing prevent defense. With 6:37 left in the third period, Barnhart was able to make back-to-back stops while on the ground, preventing the Redbirds from tying the game momentarily.
ref: 2019 September 30, Carson Gourdie, The Daily Illini, hockey:
text: “Our defense shut them down,” Issa said. “I told them, ‘It was gonna take one or two goals.’ We had plenty of chances to score. I told them, ‘If we score one goal, we’re gonna go prevent defense and we’re going to shut them down, because people have done that to us before.’ ”
ref: 2019 November 19, Michael Shattuck, “Hometeam: Grace Martin, defense power Millbury [girls' soccer team] past Lenox to gain state final”, in Worcester Telegram and Gazette, soccer:
text: “I thought it was an unusual game because of the leads that we had,” said Weir, who noted his team’s 3-point defense allowed Wyoming to hit 10 from beyond the arc at a 35.7% clip. “… It was almost prevent defense, but we were just trying to kind of keep the game at bay, and I think we were trying to prevent quick scores and have them really use clock. …”
ref: 2019 December 7, Geoff Grammer, “Lobos dominate inside, move to 2-0 in MWC with win at Wyoming”, in Albuquerque Journal, basketball:
qualifier: team sports
glosses: Any defense intended to prevent rapid scoring by the offense, at the expense of allowing relatively easy, slower scoring.
Pixna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pishna
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur پىشنا (pishna).
Senses: examples: text: Uygur farmer Burexi Eli holds her child in the arm outdoors in Pixna Township of Pishan County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 4, 2015. A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Pishan County of Hotan Prefecture at 9:07 a.m. (0107GMT), with the epicenter recorded at 37.6 degrees north and 78.2 degrees east, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). Three people were killed and 71 others injured in the quake. Local government has erected 1,500 tents to accomodate^([sic]) residents affected by the earthquake.
ref: 2015 July 3, “Xinjiang earthquake kills 3, injures 71”, in ying, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2015:
text: The epicentre was between the Pishan County seat and the Pixna Township.
In Pixna Township, five temporary settlements have been erected for those who lost their homes in the quake.
ref: 2015 July 4, “4,000 aftershocks rattle China's earthquake-hit Xinjiang”, in The Economic Times, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021:
text: A Muslim family gathers to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr in Bulakbexi Village of Pixna Township in Pishan County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 18, 2015.
ref: 2019 April 18, Abhishek G Bhaya, “China slams allegations of pursuing anti-Muslim policy”, in CGTN, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2019:
glosses: A township in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
stalwartize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stalwartizes
form: stalwartizing
form: stalwartized
form: stalwartized
Etymology: From stalwart + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The Administration has been goaded by the charges made in and out of Congress that it has been trying to “stalwartize" the party by removals in the civil service, into publishing a sort of schedule of the President's doings in that field.
ref: 1882, The Nation - Volume 35, page 22:
text: In a word, the Executive and those from whom he takes advice have undertaken the peculiar task of stalwartizing the Republican party, and that too when the very name of stalwart has become a reproach.
ref: 1882, United States. Congress, Congressional Record:
text: He represented the chief hope of "stalwartizing" the state.
ref: 2010, Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon, page 118:
glosses: To make stalwart.
stalwartizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stalwartize
stalwartizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stalwartize
stalwartized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stalwartize
torporize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torporizes
form: torporizing
form: torporized
form: torporized
form: torporise
Etymology: From torpor + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Guileless and inoffensive, the faculties of his mind were so torporized by indolence, that they were, in his short career, nearly as useless as if they had never existed; and if he was indeed a youth of great hopes, his intellect must have been of that description which is not manifested at an early period, but which is not the less valuable for its tardy development.
ref: 1824, Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence:
text: The contrary opinions would torporize the human heart, and seal up the soul in the darkness of the polar regions, never agin to see the sun.
ref: 1828, Joseph Sutcliffe, A defence of the Immortality of the Soul against the Assumptions of Modern Infidelity, page 22:
text: You have been practicing these kinds of meditations. As a result of these you take marijuana, intoxicants, LSD, opium, and so many tens of millions of things which torporize your judgment.
ref: 1976, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Guidebook to the True Secret of the Heart - Volume 1, page 18:
glosses: To fill with torpor; stupefy.
torporizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torporize
torporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torporize
torporized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torporize
torporise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torporises
form: torporising
form: torporised
form: torporised
Etymology: From torpor + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: It has, by its frightful phantoms, forced the mind to vegetate in primitive stupidity, entangled man's reason in a labyrinth, from which he cannot extricate himself, it has subjugated the many for the benefit of the few, it has manacled the limbs and torporised the mind—the invention of the god-idea has robbed man of everynoble thought, feeling, impulse, and made him the prey of the most savage passions — while the supposed deity is described as exulting, with fiendish delight, over the horrid desolation.
ref: 1842, The Oracle of Reason, Or, Philosophy Vindicated:
text: The persuasion that a thing is impossible, at once nullifies endeavour, and like the Turkish "it is fate," torporises activity and exertion.
ref: 1843, The Metropolitan - Volume 36, page 52:
text: What can we do but weep over a gloomy theology which freezes the lips of ministers, torporises the Church, and drives nations and individuals to infidelity.
ref: 1868, R. S. T., God's Purposes and Man's Accountability: a dialogue:
glosses: Alternative form of torporize.
torporises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torporise
torporising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torporise
torporised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torporise
playfullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of playful: most playful
tossicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tossicates
form: tossicating
form: tossicated
form: tossicated
Senses: examples: text: “Sit down on the bed, a lanman,” whispered the director to me; “ they won't disturb a lady, though they'd think little about tossicating the poor.”
ref: 1834, The New Monthly Magazine, page 349:
text: She'll tossicate yer brains in no time, and be as composed herself as a dove on her nest in a storm.
ref: 1851, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Stories of the Irish Peasantry, page 35:
text: As one of the workmen expressed it, “ the earth was all turned and tossicated about.”
ref: 1857, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 298:
text: The whiskey is at length sent for, but only for the purpose of being diluted, which when Judy detects, she exclaims, " Oh, if you plase, ma'am, don't put wather to it — the whiskey never harms me, but the water tossicates me sadly — just one glass, if you plase, ma'am; it's as good as five years' life to me."
ref: 1874, Samuel Lover, “The Dublin Fishwoman”, in Bayle Bernard, editor, The Life of Samuel Lover: Selections from unpublished papers and letters, page 33:
glosses: To upset, agitate, or disturb.
tossicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tossicate
tossicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tossicate
traditionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traditionates
form: traditionating
form: traditionated
form: traditionated
Etymology: From tradition + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Remember to traditionate your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
ref: 1878, George D Watt, Journal of discourses. By B. Young [and others].:
text: My parents belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and I was traditionated in their doctrines and reareed in their faith, until I was twenty-one years of age, when I first heard the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.
ref: 1885, Francis A. Brown, A Heroic and Eloquent Plea:
text: Name some of the desires in which parents should traditionate their children.
ref: 1919, The Improvement Era - Volume 23, page 341:
glosses: To inculcate in a set of traditions.
traditionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traditionate
traditionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of traditionate
traditionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of traditionate
East Gippsland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eastern region of Gippsland (a prefecture-level division of the state of Victoria, Australia); including the eponymous Shire of East Gippsland, and the Shire of Wellington.
glosses: A local government area in Victoria, Australia; in full, the Shire of East Gippsland.
synonyms: Far East Gippsland
East Gippsland Shire
Shire of East Gippsland
glosses: Ellipsis of Shire of East Gippsland and Far East Gippsland. A shire in the prefecture of Gippsland, the easternmost region of the state of Victoria, Australia.
Related terms: West Gippsland
Gippsland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gipps' Land
Etymology: From Gipps + -land.
Named after George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales.
Senses: synonyms: Region of Gippsland
Gippsland Region
Division of Gippsland
Gippsland Division
glosses: The easternmost prefecture-level primary sub-provincial division of the state of Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Victoria, Australia.
Synonyms: english: former spelling
translation: former spelling
word: Gipps' Land
Derived terms: Central Gippsland
East Gippsland
Far East Gippsland
giant Gippsland earthworm
Gippsland East
Gippsland Lakes
Gippsland North
Gippsland South
Gippsland West
North Gippsland
Shire of East Gippsland
South Gippsland
West Gippsland
Gipps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Gippsland
Related terms: Gipp
asabiyyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asabiyya
form: asabiya
Etymology: From Arabic عَصَبِيَّة (ʕaṣabiyya), originally having the connotation of tribalism. Expanded by Ibn Khaldun to include social cohesion in large societies.
Senses: glosses: The degree of shared purpose, solidarity, and social cohesion of a group, typically in Arabic or Islamic contexts.
free category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free categories
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category that is induced by a multidigraph thus: it has as its objects the vertices of the multidigraph and its morphisms are paths in the multidigraph; composition of morphisms is concatenation of paths, as long as the end of one path coincides with the beginning of the other path; an identity morphism of an object is an “empty path” at that vertex.
Hyponyms: free monoid
Kokterak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kokterek
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur كۆكتېرەك (köktërek).
Senses: examples: text: The earthquake happened in China , Autonomous Region of Xinjiang (population 16,794,560) . The nearest places are Bexerik, Qaqkum, Azgan, Kokterak, Bora, Yecheng, Pishan, Guma, Sagan, Tou-pa-ko, and Koxtag.
ref: 2017, “M 4.5 in China on 20 Apr 2017 03:39 UTC”, in Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System:
glosses: A township in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Kokterek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur كۆكتېرەك (köktërek).
Senses: examples: text: Accounts provided to RFA's Uyghur Service by several policemen and villagers on Sunday said Gheyret Mamut was killed when a bomb exploded in the basement of a house in No. 23 Village of Kokterek Township in Guma County.
ref: 2016 September 19, Paul Eckert, Shohret Hoshur, “Authorities Detain 17 in Connection with Deadly Sept. 10 Blast in Xinjiang's Hotan”, in Paul Eckert, Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2016:
glosses: Alternative form of Kokterak.
high summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high summers
Senses: glosses: The hottest part of the summer.
rly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “It was rly nice,” a close friend texted me recently, reporting on her third date with a lawyer.
ref: 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025:
glosses: Abbreviation of really.
rly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of really.
rly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rlys
Senses: related: word: rly.
glosses: Abbreviation of railway.
thusfar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of thus far.
Zangguy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzɑŋ.ɡuˌiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur زاڭگۇي (zangguy).
Senses: examples: text: They sat on the small airfield at Zangguy, serviced and ready to fly.
ref: 2001, Ramon Harris, Allegro's Secret, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: A township in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Bulkington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Nuneaton and Bedworth district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3986).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, between Devizes and Trowbridge (OS grid ref ST9458).
Hillmorton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and ward in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP5374).
Kilsby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5671).
sitiogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sitiogonic
form: most sitiogonic
Etymology: From Greek σῖτος (sîtos, “food, grain”) + γόνος (gónos, “creation”).
Senses: examples: ref: 2005, Robert Campany, The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China, Brill, Leiden, 2005:
text: [Bruce] Lincoln ... coins the term sitiogonic to mean 'explaining the origin of food'
ref: 1993, Anne Birrell, Chinese Mythology, Johns Hopkins, page 12:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Concerned with the mythological motif of the origins of foods, food sources, or food-related aspects of human culture.
Related terms: sitiology
sitology
sexual marketplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual marketplaces
Senses: examples: text: Central among the institutions she must encounter in her life is that of the sexual marketplace, where human beings are viewed as having a price, and not a dignity, and where the price of women is fixed in a particular way. Women, as things, as items in the sexual marketplace, have a market value that depends in part on whether they have been used. Virgins fetch a higher price than second hand goods.
ref: 2000, Christina Hoff Sommers, Frederic Tamler Sommers, Vice and virtue in everyday life, page 196:
text: They argue that people possess a collection of qualities that place them on a continuum of desirability in the sexual marketplace.
ref: 2008, Kathleen A. Bogle, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, page 197:
glosses: A notional place where people's desirability as sexual or romantic partners is evaluated.
examples: text: The chart that lists United Nations estimates of the number of persons under 18 working as prostitutes does not distinguish between freelance or professional girlfriends and those in an organized industry, between those who enter the sexual marketplace voluntarily or who are kidnapped, raped and exploited, and between sexually mature persons, adolescents and children.
ref: 1996, Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 156, page 6:
text: The third category envelops all the clients that women service in the sexual marketplace. These encounters are temporary sexual transactions that do not involve more familiarity than necessary.
ref: 1999, Amalia L. Cabezas, “Women’s Work Is Never Done: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic”, in Kamala Kempadoo, editor, Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, →ISBN, page 100:
text: The Internet has become a clearing-house for information about the possibility of male sex work and on how to enter the sexual marketplace should one be interested in doing so.
ref: 2011, Michael D. Smith, Christian Grov, In the Company of Men: Inside the Lives of Male Prostitutes, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Prostitution; the sex work industry.
glosses: A location or situation in which people are looking for sexual or romantic partners.
Related terms: sexual market value
meat market
Roade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP7551).
Castlethorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7944).
breakbeaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breakbeaty
form: most breakbeaty
Etymology: From breakbeat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: An organ and Casio keyboard-fueled hootenanny, the record could be the breakbeaty and supergroovy soundtrack to a mid-'60s kids show.
ref: 2001, SPIN, volume 17, number 3, page 47:
text: Then, with a rapid title sequence, a zoom-in on Earth, England and then London from space, an alarm clock, a council estate, breakbeaty music, Trafalgar Square, a boyfriend, a shop... suddenly, here it was. Doctor Who, as a mainstream show, on television as it is today.
ref: 2014, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Time, Unincorporated 3: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of breakbeat music.
Hatch End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Harrow, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1391).
glosses: A hamlet in Bolnhurst and Keysoe parish, Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0761).
Coppull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5614).
unsharped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsharp
unsharps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsharp
unsharping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsharp
ballparkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ballparkish
form: most ballparkish
Etymology: From ballpark + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "I would admit that that figure — let's say it's a ballparkish kind of figure," he said. "We could have saved even more if they asked even more money and we didn't even give it to them […]
ref: 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways, Means. Subcommittee on Oversight, Medicare Administrative Costs: Hearings, page 43:
text: While Who Gets Ahead? concludes that, broadly speaking, the range of estimates is ballparkish, the game is being played in a reasonably large stadium.
ref: 1981, The Rand Paper Series:
text: They sound like what they probably are—ballparkish and high. Because odd amounts sound less susceptible, more real, and more like the result of considered deliberation, people are less inclined to negotiate any changes.
ref: 2008, Robert Mayer, How to Win Any Negotiation, page 157:
glosses: Being or relating to a ballpark figure, or rough estimate.
overshowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overshow
overshowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overshow
overshows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overshow
overshown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overshow
overshower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overshowers
form: overshowering
form: overshowered
form: overshowered
Etymology: From over- + shower.
Senses: examples: text: […] they are said to hate and punish wrong and violence; they may show mercy to those who call upon them in their afflictions, their faithful worshipper they overshower with favors.
ref: 1906, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 36, page 74:
glosses: To shower from above; to dispense liberally to.
examples: text: Don't overshower. Wetting the skin is a vicious cycle. You want to add moisture to your skin by trapping it under the moisturizer, but you don't want to strip away moisture.
ref: 2000, Deborah A. Cohen, Just Get Me Through This!: The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer:
glosses: To shower (wash one's body in a shower) too much or too long.
big light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the big light
Senses: examples: text: Who put the big light on? It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!
glosses: The main, usually central, light of a room in a house.
overshowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overshower
overshowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overshower
overshowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overshower
like Blackpool Illuminations
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: In reference to Blackpool Illuminations, an annual festival of light founded in 1879.
Senses: examples: text: Turn all those lights off. It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very brightly lit.
wikipedia: Blackpool Illuminations
FILs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FIL
Farington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in South Ribble district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5423).
Garstang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)stəŋ/
Forms: form: Garstangs
Etymology: From Old Norse geirr (“spear, lance”) + stǫng (“staff, pole”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4945).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Bay Horse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the local inn (public house).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in the city of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4953).
Hest Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Slyne-with-Hest parish, City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4766).
wikipedia: + railway station
Slyne-with-Hest
Burton-in-Kendal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD5376).
denumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denumber
denumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denumber
denumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denumber
Milnthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4981).
denumerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I have already calculated and discussed the agnates of the denumerate form of ...
ref: 1878, James Joseph Sylvester, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics:
glosses: Involving the process of denumerating.
examples: text: I might go on indefinitely on denumerate benefits that arise from co-operation, but these I have already mentioned will form a good working platform for years to come.
ref: 1916, California Grocers Advocate - Volume 21, Issues 1-26, page 9:
text: Where the divine is not so denumerate or diaphanous and the cosmology is different, we still find the object of science, the world, dependent on a whole hierarchy of supernatural personalities, demons, saints, angels, thrones, dominations, and principalities, all these ultimately dependent on God.
ref: 1967, Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy:
glosses: uncountable.
denumerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denumerate
denumerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denumerate
denumerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denumerate
sitiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sitology.
Scout Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5907).
Thrimby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Little Strickland parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district, and a civil parish (OS grid ref NY5520).
clasmatocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clasmatocyte
ERCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ERC
chotaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chotara
chotara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chotaras
Senses: glosses: A person of mixed race; half-caste.
deoculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoculates
form: deoculating
form: deoculated
form: deoculated
Etymology: From de- + oculo- + -ate (verb-forming suffix); coined by Charles Lamb in a letter to William Wordsworth written in 1816: "Dorothy, I hear, has mounted spectacles; so deoculated two of your dearest relations in life. ".
Senses: examples: text: "Lear" and "We Come to the River" have much in common, beyond the scene of deoculating the straitjacketed protagonist: images of brutality, executions, and jubilation; of soldiers starting to question their orders ("They make you do things no one should even have to dream of and cheer you when you've done it"); of suffering; and — fleeting yet powerful in both works— of a peaceful family life in which children's questions are asked and answered about the marvels of the natural world, not about hardships and unhappiness.
ref: 1976, The New Yorker - Volume 52, Part 5, page 188:
text: Big Mac's cancer is miraculously cured when he deoculates one of the severed heads and sinks them both out in the bay.
ref: 1984, Books and Bookmen, page 25:
text: Sadly deoculated by his enemy, the Genji, after defeat, Kagekiyo lives out his days in darkened solitude, visited finally by his long-lost daughter.
ref: 2002, Timon Screech, The Lens Within the Heart:
text: “Did you know,” said Roderick, “that St. Lucy had beautiful eyes, so she was deoculated as a martyrdom? Her symbol is a pair of eyes on a saucer.”
ref: 2010, Nick Gevers, Marty Halpern, Is Anybody Out There?:
glosses: To remove the eyes or their equivalent from (someone).
wikipedia: Charles Lamb (writer)
William Wordsworth
deoculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deoculate
deoculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deoculate
deoculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deoculate
Chinese landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese landings
Etymology: From the phrase "one wing low", thought to sound like a Chinese name. Compare Chinese ace.
Senses: examples: text: Undershootings, overshootings, skewshootings and Chinese landings (with one wing low) were a constant worry to Station Commanders, and inability, by reason of shot and shell, to lower or lock landing wheels took a heavy toll.
ref: 1971, Alastair Revie, The Lost Command, page 69:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The landing of an aircraft with one wing lower than the other.
Chinese landings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese landing