cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
de Manian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more de Manian
form: most de Manian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Paul de Man (1919–1983), Belgian-born literary critic and theorist.
technesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Mark B. N. Hansen in 1998, from techno- + -esis, based on Alice Jardin's gynesis and ultimately Edmund Husserl's noesis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The putting of technology into discourse.
opened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open up
valenciachrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valenciachromes
Etymology: From Valencia + -chrome, from the variety of orange.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pigment found in various citrus fruits.
valenciachromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valenciachrome
bi-hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + hourly.
Senses: examples: text: A further change in December 2020 will be to extend the Leicester to Lincoln service through to Grimsby every other hour. At present the bi-hourly Grimsby service generally runs through to Newark Northgate; instead EMR will run a shuttle to Lincoln alongside the LNER Azumas through to King's Cross to create two trains in each direction every two hours between Lincoln and Newark Northgate.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of bihourly.
Frostrup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
color war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color wars
Senses: examples: text: Campers enjoyed all of the traditional camp hoopla: color wars, shared team games with other camps and young eager college students spending their summer as counselors.
ref: 2008, Michigan Jewish History, volume 48, page 24:
glosses: An event in which a number of teams, each represented by a different color, compete against each other to earn points through various challenges.
color wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color war
wireform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wireforms
Etymology: From wire + form.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, any wireform described in a data structure such as that in Table 8-1 can replace the simple cube.
ref: 1983, Daniel L. Ryan, Computer Programming for Graphical Displays, page 234:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: wireframe
wireforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wireform
persicaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in peaches, plums, and related fruits.
sinensiaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in tangerines and related fruits.
derivatograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derivatographs
Senses: glosses: A measuring device for use in derivatography.
derivatographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivatograph
derivatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to derivatography.
Derived terms: derivatographically
derivatographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From derivatographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of or in terms of derivatography.
curly cuh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːli kə/
Forms: form: curly cuhs
Etymology: From the shape of the letter.
Senses: examples: text: Or did it start as Kill It Bang before they decided to soften it slightly by changing the kicking kuh to a curly cuh?
ref: 2014, Dave Gorman, Too Much Information, Random House, page 181:
text: (Sometimes these are spelt with a kicking ‘kuh’ rather than a curly ‘cuh’ as ‘homoskedasticity’ and ‘heteroskedasticity’.)
ref: 2018, Alan R. Jones, Best Fit Lines & Curves: And Some Mathe-Magical Transformations, Routledge, page 174:
glosses: The letter C, as distinct from the letter K ("kicking kuh").
derivatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From derivative + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of various basic and derived values in thermal analysis and thermogravimetry.
Related terms: derivatograph
derivatographic
derivatographically
kicking kuh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪkɪŋ ˈkə/
Forms: form: kicking kuhs
Etymology: From the shape of the letter (resembling a person kicking).
Senses: examples: text: Or did it start as Kill It Bang before they decided to soften it slightly by changing the kicking kuh to a curly cuh?
ref: 2014, Dave Gorman, Too Much Information, Random House, page 181:
text: (Sometimes these are spelt with a kicking ‘kuh’ rather than a curly ‘cuh’ as ‘homoskedasticity’ and ‘heteroskedasticity’.)
ref: 2018, Alan R. Jones, Best Fit Lines & Curves: And Some Mathe-Magical Transformations, Routledge, page 174:
glosses: The letter K, as distinct from the letter C ("curly cuh").
cavitationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cavitational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of or in terms of cavitation.
supercultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + cultural.
Senses: examples: text: To sum up: I think that cultural relativism is the position according to which there is no supercultural perspective, no supercultural conceptual scheme, or at least they are not attainable […]
ref: 1996, Anna Zeidler, Epistemology and History, page 545:
text: Ben-Amos (1969) argues that folklorists have consistently confounded supercultural with ethnographic genres, and that they have been troubled by the discrepancies between the two.
ref: 2011, Neal R. Norrick, How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs, page 58:
glosses: Transcending cultures; common across several or all cultures.
maiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of meiosis.
maiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of meiotic.
antiopiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + opiate.
Senses: examples: text: That is, the location of heroin use can serve as a conditioned stimulus for the antiopiate response. When the user injects the drug in a different location, the well-developed antiopiate response does not occur […]
ref: 2000, Lester A. Lefton, Psychology:
glosses: Counteracting an opiate.
antiopiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiopiates
Etymology: From anti- + opiate.
Senses: examples: text: Cholestyramine, however, may exert effects different from decreasing the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids including the release of endogenous antiopiates (e.g., cholecystokinin) that may result in a decrease in the perception of pruritus.
ref: 2012, C. J. Hawkey, Jaime Bosch, Joel E. Richter, Textbook of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, page 78:
glosses: A drug that has an antiopiate effect.
antiopiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiopiate
superfascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfascist
thermoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoanalyses
Etymology: From thermo- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: thermal analysis
thermoanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoanalysis
thermoanalytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of thermal analysis.
one and nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When Tomorrow Comes was probably some sort of weepy love story which always got him laughing like a drain, often leading to his physical removal from the one and nines.
ref: 2013, Tom Davies, Polly Garter's War:
glosses: Cheap seats in a theatre, costing one shilling and nine pence.
SASL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of South African Sign Language.
glosses: Initialism of South African Soccer League.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Simple Authentication and Security Layer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of St Andrews Static/Standard Language.
Ollerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Ollerton with Marthall Parish Council) in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7776).
glosses: A small town in Ollerton and Boughton parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6567)
glosses: A small village in Stoke upon Tern parish, between Telford and Market Drayton, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6425).
koaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koaro
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: synonyms: climbing galaxias
glosses: The freshwater fish Galaxias brevipinnis.
gownie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊni/
rhymes: -aʊni
Forms: form: gownies
Etymology: From gown + -ie.
Senses: antonyms: townie
glosses: A person living in a university town who has some academic connection with the university.
gownies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gownie
gownmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gown + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of gowns.
psychoelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + electronic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychoelectronics.
psychoelectronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + electronics.
Senses: examples: text: Among the subjects covered were psychochemicals, as specifics for mental disease, as education conditioners, as sleep substitutes, and as pleasure enhancers; current work in mapping the brain with psychoelectronics, […]
ref: 1964, The Year's Best S-F, volume 9, page 373:
text: What should be subsumed under this concept of psychoelectronics? Certainly the pioneer activities of electroconvulsive therapy and electroencephalography belong.
ref: 1968, Proceedings, volume 2, page 1177:
text: The most distant prediction of the panel finds psychopharmacy and psychoelectronics unlikely to come into use to induce or augment learning before the 1990s, if at all […]
ref: 1972, Quarterly journal of management development, volumes 3-4, page 6:
glosses: The use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.
Related terms: psychoelectronic
psychotronics
psychopharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + pharmacy.
Senses: glosses: The study or application of psychopharmaceuticals.
Rayleigh quotient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rayleigh quotients
Etymology: Named after Lord Rayleigh.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A formula used in the min-max theorem to find exact eigenvalues, and in eigenvalue algorithms to obtain an eigenvalue approximation from an eigenvector approximation; it has applications in quantum mechanics.
wikipedia: Lord Rayleigh
Rayleigh quotients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rayleigh quotient
Sturm-Liouville theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sturm-Liouville theories
Etymology: Named after Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803–1855) and Joseph Liouville (1809–1882).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of real second-order linear differential equations expressed in Sturm-Liouville form.
wikipedia: Jacques Charles François Sturm
Joseph Liouville
Related terms: Sturm-Liouville equation
Sturm-Liouville form
Sturm-Liouville theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sturm-Liouville theory
blowholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blowhole
blowholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blowhole
NERDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: NERD
Etymology: Acronym of Node.js, Express.js, React, and databases using SQL, or a set of similar names. Attested from the late 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to share an example of how to get NERDS (Node, Express, React, Database using SQL) stack up and running on Heroku.
ref: 2018 August 22, Shawn Cheng, “Examples setup for NERDS stack”, in Medium, archived from the original on 19 May 2021:
text: The app also offers data visualizations and a video chat platform for users to engage with each other.
Built using:
• NERDS stack (Node.js, Express, React/Redux, Sequelize/PostgreSQL)
• News API […]
ref: 2020 August 9, Fullstack Staff, “5 Fabulous Feminist Coding Bootcamp Projects”, in Grace Hopper.com:
text: The two most common of all JavaScript stacks that utilize Express.js are MEAN stacks and NERD stacks. Remember, these are just acronyms—please don’t be mean to nerds! […] The NERD stack is very similar. It stands for Node.js (the runtime environment; yes they moved it to the front to make the acronym more fun), Express.js (the server), React (the front end framework), and Database (this can be any database really. This is because the industry is moving away from sticking to a specific database and it makes the acronym more fun).
ref: 2020 November 10, Ethan Scully, “Express.js: Courses, Training, and Other Resources”, in Career Karma:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stack of technologies used to develop web applications.
wikipedia: Express.js
Node.js
React (JavaScript library)
members' day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: Friday, seen as the start of the weekend and a time to party.
handback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handbacks
Etymology: Presumably from the verb hand + back
Senses: examples: text: 'Route director Gary Walsh and I will be refreshing the meeting structures and we are already looking much more at passenger issues and areas like late handbacks of possessions.'
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 59:
glosses: The act of handing something back.
handbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handback
tourdion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourdions
form: tordion
Senses: glosses: A lively dance, similar to a galliard
tourdions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourdion
tordion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tordions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tourdion.
stack effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stack effects
Senses: synonyms: chimney effect
glosses: The phenomenon of air buoyancy leading to the movement of air into and out of buildings, chimneys, etc., which may drive natural ventilation, air infiltration, and fires.
Related terms: trench effect
chimney effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney effects
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stack effect.
synonyms: word: stack effect
stack effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stack effect
chimney effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney effect
voidened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of voiden
voidening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of voiden
voidens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of voiden
larryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larrymen
Senses: glosses: Dated form of lorryman.
larrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larryman
lorryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorrymen
form: larryman
Etymology: From lorry + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to operate a lorry (cart or wagon for transporting coke etc.).
lorrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorryman
matterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mattering
T-Charges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-Charge
lathyrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lathyranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of diterpenes mostly found in Euphorbiaceae.
lathyranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lathyrane
jatrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jatrophones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A jatrophane diterpene found in Jatropha gossypiifolia (black physicnut).
jatrophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jatrophone
jatrophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jatrophanes
Etymology: From translingual Jatropha + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of diterpenes found in Jatropha and other species.
Related terms: jatrophone
jatrophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jatrophane
japodagrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A macrocyclic diterpenoid found in Jatropha podagrica.
japodagrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A macrocyclic diterpenoid found in Jatropha podagrica (goutstalk nettlespurge).
microcompressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcompression
macrostructurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From macrostructural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of macrostructure.
microstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstress
macrostress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrostresses
Etymology: From macro- + stress.
Senses: glosses: stress in the macrostructure of a material
Related terms: macrostressor
microstressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstressors
Etymology: From micro- + stressor.
Senses: glosses: A microscale stressor.
macrostresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrostress
macrostressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrostressors
Etymology: From macro- + stressor.
Senses: glosses: A macroscale stressor.
macrostressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrostressor
microstressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstressor
Barlog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barlogs
Etymology: From Polish Barłóg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Leagrave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an unattested Old English personal name *Lihtla + grāf (“grove”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb and former village in Luton borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0523).
schmancier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of schmancy: more schmancy
schmanciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of schmancy: most schmancy
Sundon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Sunna, a byname from sunna (“sun”), + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England, in which the villages of Upper Sundon and Lower Sundon are located (OS grid ref TL0427).
black horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black horses
Braybrooke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Braybrookes
Etymology: From Old English brād (“broad”) + brōc (“brook, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP7684).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Related terms: Braybrook
cab signalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cab signaling
Senses: examples: text: Now, a century later, semaphores and discs are giving place to colour and position lights. What will be the fashion in 2041? Universal continuous cab signalling?
ref: 1941 April, “Centenary of the Semaphore Signal”, in Railway Magazine, page 171:
text: It's easy enough to calculate that even at higher speeds - 360 km/h to pluck a figure out of the air - the signalling headway can be as low as 120 seconds given the benefit that follows from cab signalling such as European Train Control System (ECTS) Level 2.
ref: 2019 October, William Barter, “West Coast capacity study”, in Modern Railways, page 66:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A rail safety system installed in the driving cab of a train, which gives information to the train driver on track status and condition.
Related terms: cab signal
all fart and no shit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of all mouth and trousers.
synonyms: word: all mouth and trousers
conversation lozenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversation lozenges
Senses: glosses: A form of confectionery consisting of a sweet lozenge with a flirtatious message printed on it.
conversation lozenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversation lozenge
overstatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overstated + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But in their overstatedness, such claims seem to me to be an especially unfortunate side-effect of the wholly culturalized definition of groups.
ref: 2014, Gideon Calder, Magali Bessone, Federico Zuolo, How Groups Matter: Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 28:
text: In §3.1.5.2, we have seen another misstep in Sussman's reflections on torture: the overstatedness of his distinction between the anguish induced by torture and the anguish induced by natural illnesses or accidental injuries.
ref: 2014, Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
text: She was already beginning to write the novel, on the strength of another G & T, but was unable to amend that last sentence, which as you can see still stands in all its pristine overstatedness, to get to the end of this wearisomely long episode -she had mercifully fallen asleep.
ref: 2018, Thomas Walters, The Witches of San Pedro Del Inglesi, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: the state or quality of being overstated.
reballasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Repair of the many tunnels and high masonry viaducts on the eastern side of Semmering, appears to have necessitated this single-line working, although complete rerailing with long welded rails and resleepering and reballasting are being undertaken.
ref: 1951 June, John L. Buckland, “The Semmering Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 414:
text: The most welcome progress from a short-term viewpoint, however, is that reballasting of the Trent Valley section is almost completed and as a result accelerations of express passenger trains are likely in this summer's timetable; we hear that over this section alone it should be possible to cut 20min from the timings of three Anglo-Scottish day trains and that other services will be speeded up by 8-15min.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The process of renewing the ballast under railway track.
reballasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reballast
reballast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reballasts
form: reballasting
form: reballasted
form: reballasted
Etymology: From re- + ballast.
Senses: examples: text: Another pressing requirement is to reballast the line as at present nearly all of the track is on ash ballast; some 15 years' hard work should see the line on stone ballast.
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To renew the ballast under railway track.
aculturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being acultural.
culturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cultural + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cultural.
lactifluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lactifluous
form: most lactifluous
Senses: examples: text: Me. But how does that appear? Og. Oh, the nun at Constantinople that gave it said so. Me. It may be she had it of St. Bernard. Og. I believe she had. Me. He, when he was very old, had the happiness to taste milk from the same nipple which the child Jesus sucked, whence I wonder he was not rather called Lactifluous than Mellifluous.
ref: 1518, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Religious Pilgrimage”, in Colloquies:
text: But the pronouncing aright of California names is only a part of the duty. There needs to be a present crusade for the preservation of our historical names from oblivion.¶ It is not so much the lactifluous tenderfoot who is our danger in this case, but the wax-witted Philistines of the Post Office Department and the railroads; two Boeotian despots that have a great deal to do with place names and who have committed some of the most cold-blooded murders known to etymology.
ref: 1904 June, Charles F[letcher] Lummis, “The Lion's Den”, in Out West, volume 20, number 6, page 568:
text: On March 1 a bleary-eyed, drop-horned and also knock-kneed 9-year-old Friesian cow named Bridge Birch (above) of Moortown Farm, Hampshire, England, concluded a lactifluous year by producing her 45,081st pound of milk.
ref: 1948 March 22, “Beer-drinking cow sets world record”, in Life, volume 24, number 12, page 59:
text: The bare teats of the human females bored out from this two-dimensional undergrowth like the barrels of lactifluous guns.
ref: 1997, Will Self, Great Apes, A&C Black, published 2011, page 385:
glosses: flowing with milk
Synonyms: word: milky
sense: by extension: childlike
word: childly
word: kiddish
word: childish
sense: by extension: producing milk
word: lactating
word: nursing
word: with milk
bacterialess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bacteria + -less.
Senses: examples: text: You may have it bacterialess through one filter and 50 or 100 coming away in another one side by side.
ref: 1900, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, page 263:
text: As 606 has been succeeded by 1001, or something to that effect, so have bacterial products been succeeded by bacterialess products known as "Phylacogens".
ref: 1913, The Homœopathic Recorder, page 117:
text: A bacterialess earth and a bacterialess ocean would soon be uninhabitable either for plants or animals; conversely, it is probable that bacteria-like organisms prepared both the earth and the ocean for the further evolution of plants and animals, and that life passed through a very long bacterial stage.
ref: 1917, Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and Interaction of Energy, London G. Bell, published 1918, page 80:
glosses: without bacteria.
lagomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lagomorph + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lagomorphic.
synonyms: word: lagomorphic
lamellarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lamellar + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lamellar manner.
lanternist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanternists
Etymology: From lantern + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, old beliefs die hard, and in spite of rational explanations, the belief that lanternists could summon spirits persisted.
ref: 2005, Paul Clee, Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play to the Silver Screen, page 21:
text: Lanternists first used glass slides as a surface for hand-drawn and photographic imagery and, in the 20th century, glass was replaced by 35mm film transparencies.
ref: 2014, Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, Richard Crangle, Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914:
synonyms: lanternman
glosses: The operator of a magic lantern.
lanternists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanternist
leukocytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leukocytoid
form: most leukocytoid
Etymology: From leukocyte + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the lymphocytes were normal in appearance but a few were leukocytoid.
ref: 1948, The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, page 1110:
glosses: Resembling a leukocyte
lettercard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettercards
Etymology: From letter + card.
Senses: glosses: A form of postal stationery consisting of a folded card with a prepaid imprinted stamp, giving the writer more space than a postcard.
lettercards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lettercard
libational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From libation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a libation.
limelighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limelighters
Etymology: From limelight + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who excessively seeks attention or tries to take credit for the accomplishments of others.
limelighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limelighter
literalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of literalization.
literalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literalisation
liquescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquescences
Senses: examples: text: I toss around [37,654 tonne] dreadnoughts like they were fighters; dimly aware of the former crews being crushed to liquescence.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
glosses: Alternative form of liquescency.
liquescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more liquescently
form: most liquescently
Etymology: From liquescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a liquescent manner.
loggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loggish
form: most loggish
Etymology: From log + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: But it would be a loggish observer indeed who failed to become involved In Mr. McMullen's situation, for in addition to being as sharp-eyed as an osprey he has made of himself no mean naturalist, […]
ref: 1985, The New York Times Book Review, page 16:
text: His first thought thereafter was that Robert was drunk and in a loggish stupor. But when, at Julie's sharp call, the sleeper awoke and jumped upright […]
ref: 1938, Frank Swinnerton, Harvest comedy: a dramatic chronicle, page 269:
glosses: heavy or ponderous; dull; lumpish
logographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logography
lustrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to lustration.
luniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of luny: most luny
lunier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of luny: more luny
lunetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lunetted
form: most lunetted
Etymology: From lunette + -ed.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having a lunette or lunettes.
lumbersomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lumbersome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being lumbersome.
Saroka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarokas
Etymology: From Belarusian сарока (saróka, “magpie”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Сарока (Saróka).
logogrammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of logograms.
lineable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: linable
Etymology: From line + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever your operating requirements might be, there is a STEBBINS quality lining for every lineable tank, chest or vessel.
ref: 1943, Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, volume 44, page 207:
glosses: Able to be lined.
linable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lineable.
read through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reads through
form: reading through
form: read through
form: read through
Senses: coordinate_terms: look over#Verb
read over#Verb
glosses: To thoroughly read something to check or proofread it.
glosses: To read a script out loud casually with other actors but without blocking
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To read and obey a signal that is beyond the applicable one (often mistakenly)
Derived terms: word: read-through
word: readthrough
Related terms: word: write-through
word: writethrough
score out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scores out
form: scoring out
form: scored out
form: scored out
Senses: glosses: To strike out or cross out; to draw a line through one or more written words.
score through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scores through
form: scoring through
form: scored through
form: scored through
Senses: glosses: To strike out or cross out; to draw a line through one or more written words.
tie off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties off
form: tying off
form: tied off
form: tied off
Senses: glosses: To close, seal, or end something by tying a knot.
glosses: To close (something) with string, thread, etc.
examples: text: She gave the Times an interview and let herself be photographed, she stroked the pastry chef’s ego, she stayed late and bagged up the spoiled meats in privacy, she fired the dishwasher who’d tied off in the john, and every lunch and every dinner she dogged the line and troubleshot.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: To tie something around the arm in order to restrict blood flow for the purposes of intravenous drug injection.
tiger tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the resemblance to a tiger's striped coat.
Senses: examples: text: Children's flavors, such as bubble gum, tiger tail (orange ice cream with black licorice, or banana ice cream with chocolate ripple), or cotton candy, can also be found in many flavor presentations.
ref: 2013, H Douglas Goff, Richard W Hartel, Ice cream, 7th edition, page 89:
text: "There's strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, maple walnut, and tiger tail."
ref: 2017, Jen Gilroy, Summer on Firefly Lake:
text: Tiger tail, the blend of orange and licorice that appears to be uniquely Canadian, isn't a big seller.
ref: 2017, Ian Austen, Canada Letter: Ice Cream Revival and Cross-border Trade Anxiety:
synonyms: tiger tiger
glosses: An orange-flavoured ice cream with black licorice swirl.
cracker barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracker barrels
Senses: examples: text: The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room).
ref: 2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79:
text: I set Allie on a cracker barrel beside the counter and told her, “Stay put!”
ref: 2012, Martha Bennett Stiles, Sailing to Freedom, page 13:
glosses: A barrel for holding crackers.
cracker barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cracker barrel
form: most cracker barrel
Senses: examples: text: He was, according to Fortune, “the Mississippi Yankee, the clever bumpkin, the homespun, rail-splitting, cracker barrel simplifier of national issues.”
ref: 2008, Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America, page 86:
text: Now forced elsewhere, the cracker barrel crowd would quietly meet at night in private homes.
ref: 2008, Alan Lazzari, Heat Of The Fire:
text: The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room).
ref: 2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of cracker-barrel.
cracker barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracker barrel
cracker-barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cracker-barrel
form: most cracker-barrel
form: crackerbarrel
form: cracker barrel
Etymology: Attributive form of cracker barrel. From the image of a group of locals sitting around the cracker barrel in a general store talking together.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Frost was a nice old New England guy with a lot of cracker-barrel wisdom that the government, somehow or other, saw fit to honor because he read a poem, or something, at the Kennedy inaugural.
ref: 2004, James Dickey, Donald J. Greiner, Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry, page 123:
text: One can love these moments, can cherish their invocation of the American sublime (though Wright's notion of the sublime seems closer to the lurid paintings of Bierstadt than to Whitman), and yet dislike the cracker-barrel philosophizing in which they're embedded.
ref: 2009, William Logan, Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, page 266:
text: The elaboration of this Donne-like metaphysical simile leads her to a cautionary conclusion, which has been praised for nearly a century for its profundity cast in the cracker-barrel tone of the “Down East” porch philosopher: "And he whose soul is flat — the sky/Will cave in on him by and by."
ref: 2014, Daniel Mark Epstein, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed:
text: “If there is such a thing as a cracker-barrel philosopher left in our century, Mr. Golden has earned the title,” declared the New York Times.
ref: 2015, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, Carolina Israelite, page 144:
synonyms: homespun
down-home
glosses: Folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people.
crackerbarrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crackerbarrel
form: most crackerbarrel
Senses: examples: text: Before long the slant and lunge of his big body and his restless, powerful movements made his expensive clothes stretch and crumple until they molded themselves on him and began to resemble the Levi's he might once have worn on the range or the range; by the same process, in the surge and pound of his speeches, the elegant and disciplined vocabulary he had so laboriously acquired speeded up to a wild crackerbarrel whine or slowed down to a twanging, gunsmoke drawl.
ref: 1966, Niven Busch, The Gentleman from California, page 62:
text: The crackerbarrel figure was thus a symbol of American individualism.
ref: 1982, Logan Esarey, Indiana Magazine of History, page 28:
text: Keep in mind, such thoughts are blasphemy in the world of crackerbarrel populism.
ref: 2013, Wes D. Gehring, Will Cuppy, American Satirist: A Biography, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of cracker-barrel.
ginchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ginchy: more ginchy
mealmoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealmoths
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flour moth, Pyralis farinalis
synonyms: word: flour moth
word: Pyralis farinalis
mealmoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealmoth
megamidden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamiddens
Etymology: From mega- + midden.
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally large midden
megamiddens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamidden
microcapillarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + capillarization.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of microcapillaries
microclamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microclamps
Etymology: From micro- + clamp.
Senses: glosses: A very small clamp
microcotyledonary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + cotyledonary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a microcotyledon
microfilariacide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microfilaricide.
microfragment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfragments
Etymology: From micro- + fragment.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic fragment
microfragments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfragment
microsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsaws
Etymology: From micro- + saw.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A very small saw
monoparesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopareses
Etymology: From mono- + paresis.
Senses: glosses: paralysis of a single limb
morphognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + gnosis.
Senses: glosses: knowledge of the form of a specific class of things
Related terms: morphognostic
morphognostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + gnostic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to morphognosis
mucoadhesivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muco- + adhesivity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being mucoadhesive
mucosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucosaccharides
Etymology: From muco- + saccharide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mucopolysaccharide.
mucosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucosaccharide
multiresonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + resonant.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple resonances
multiviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + viral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to multiple viruses
myocytopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + cytopathic.
Senses: glosses: cytopathic to myocytes
reballasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reballast
take from behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: take from behind
form: taking from behind
form: took from behind
form: taken from behind
Senses: glosses: To attack from behind.
glosses: To have sex with (someone) in doggy style.
Related terms: take up the ass
reballasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reballast
double-shots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double-shot
double-shotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double-shot
double-shotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-shot
nakhoda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nakhodas
form: nachoda
form: nacoda
form: nahoda
form: nakhuda
form: nakoda
form: nohuda
Senses: glosses: A travelling merchant in parts of South-East Asia, in charge of a vessel.
Katy bar the door
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: watch out; take care
Related terms: batten down the hatches
kitty bar the door
hypaethric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hupaithric.
millistokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millistokes
Etymology: From milli- + stokes.
Senses: glosses: A unit of kinematic viscosity, one thousandth of a stokes.
Aidis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aidi
seminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sēmen (“seed”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The old theory that the newly created being is formed by the mixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.
Colwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * (in Kansas): A portmanteau of Colorado + Wichita after the Colorado and Wichita Railroad.
* (in Staffordshire): Either from Old English col (“charcoal”) + wīc (“farm”); or else meaning "Cola's farm", from Old English personal name Cola + wīc (“farm”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stafford district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0121).
glosses: A small city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.
pulpaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulpaceous
form: most pulpaceous
Etymology: From pulp + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of a pulpy consistency.
tickbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tickbirds
Etymology: From tick + bird.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the oxpecker.
glosses: A bird, the yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima).
tickbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tickbird
Polesworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English pol + worþ.
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SK2602).
macrostock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + stock.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the traditional form of stock photography where images are sourced from large agencies rather than individually.
Coordinate terms: microstock
midstock
midstock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + stock.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a form of stock photography with mid-priced images, falling between macrostock and microstock.
Coordinate terms: macrostock
microstock
nondocile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + docile.
Senses: glosses: Not docile.
nonspasmodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spasmodic.
Senses: glosses: Not spasmodic.
phragmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phragma
chitinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chitinize
chitinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitinisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chitinization.
chitinisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitinisation
wire copies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire copy
Hyndland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential area of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5567)
unbioctium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Systematic element name.
Senses: glosses: The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 128 (symbol Ubo).
wikipedia: Systematic element name
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: unbiseptium Ubs
sense: Next
word: unbiennium Ube
unbiennium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Systematic element name.
Senses: glosses: The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 129 (symbol Ube).
wikipedia: Systematic element name
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: unbioctium Ubo
sense: Next
word: untrinilium Utn
Shivaji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit शिवजी (śivajī).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
twiddlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twiddlable
form: most twiddlable
form: twiddleable
Etymology: From twiddle + -able.
Senses: examples: 2015, 'rsidd', reply to FontForge and moving forward
[M]uch of Hofstadter's article was devoted to attacking Knuth's view that there is a "universality" to fonts such that a sufficient number of twiddlable knobs could cover all the font families around.
glosses: Able to be twiddled.
Garscadden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Gart Sgadan.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5268).
polytarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytarps
Senses: glosses: A tarpaulin made from woven polyethylene.
polytarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytarp
twiddleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twiddleable
form: most twiddleable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twiddlable.