cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
current divider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: current dividers
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: voltage divider
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A simple electronic circuit which reduces an input current by a fixed factor using sources of impedance (such as resistors) connected in parallel.
Derived terms: current divider rule
current dividers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of current divider
bike locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bike lock
rules-lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rules-lawyers
form: rules-lawyering
form: rules-lawyered
form: rules-lawyered
Senses: examples: text: And the pencil-necked geek is a fully juiced-up young vampire who has rules-lawyered himself around to some very interesting conclusions about his own freedom of action within the constraints Basil specified, and who is extremely pissed off right now because he has third-degree burns across most of his face.
ref: 2014, Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart (The Laundry Files), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 334:
text: Saladin, when fighting against the Crusades, famously rules-lawyered his way around this to kill the (richly deserving) Raynald of Châtillon, by giving water to his other prisoner, who then gave it to Raynald.
ref: 2021, Marie Brennan, New Worlds, Year Four: More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding, Book View Café, →ISBN:
text: But as horrors made colony a dirty word, the Age of Empires gave way only to an Age of Excuses, when superpowers learned to rules-lawyer Justice, Democracy, even Freedom and Revolution into pliable excuses to meddle wheresover^([sic]) on the globe they smelled profit, but when less-profitable peoples begged for aid, poisoned by the superpowers’ fumes, and lies, and cruel investments, then the powers hid like children in the pillow-fort of their so-modern and so-rational directive not to interfere.
ref: 2021, Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota), Tor Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of rules lawyer.
Bushophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bush + -o- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Bushophilia is reaching a new peak among the ranks of the demented, the sexually depraved and the paranoid. The GOP is selling pictures of the usurper running panicked and scared for his life after 9/11for $150 a pop.
ref: 2002 May 16, William PF, “Photos of W running scared after 9/11 are going for $150 a piece”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):
text: That said, for many fresh-faced men there was one love that dared speak its name. The exhibition hall was a temple of Bushophilia, from photographs of his inauguration for $175 to cups, hats, badges, key-rings and “Pray for him” T-shirts.
ref: 2003 February 8, “Guys and dolls: Conservatives, off their leash, are a frightening bunch”, in The Economist, volume 366, number 8310:
text: That’s why all the hypocrisy surrounding George H.W. Bush’s death thrilled me. I didn’t fall for the weaponization of Bushophilia to bash Trump and implicitly say, “Hey, I’m fair-minded, I could abide by Reagan or the Bushes – but this guy’s beyond the pale.”
ref: 2018 December 11, Gil Troy, “The constructive hypocrisy when eulogizing Bush was OK”, in The Jerusalem Post:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The love or admiration of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.
Dowsett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
Bregret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bregrets
Etymology: Blend of Brexit + regret.
Senses: examples: text: The anxiety – dubbed “Bregret” – emerged as the value of the pound tumbled and markets crashed, while [some felt] betrayed by Nigel Farage’s admission that a Vote Leave poster pledging to spend millions of pounds supposedly given to the EU on the NHS was a “mistake”.
ref: 2016 June 25, Lizzie Dearden, “Anger over 'Bregret' as Leave voters say they thought UK would stay in EU”, in The Independent:
text: Yet polling shows no ‘Bregret’ – a YouGov survey earlier this week showed 52% of voters think leaving was right and 48% wrong, mirroring the referendum result.
ref: 2016 August 10, Matthew Holehouse, “Is the ignorant Leave voter just a comforting myth?”, in The Telegraph:
text: Brexit may be in the history books, but “Bregret,” as the British newspapers have called it, is back in the air.
ref: 2022 November 22, Mark Landler, “Buffeted by Economic Woes, U.K. Starts to Look at Brexit With ‘Bregret’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: A creeping sense of Bregret is taking hold in Britain. A majority of Brits now say that the vote for Britain leaving the EU was a mistake.
ref: 2022 December 23, Matthew Goodwin, “Brexit regrets? Britain has a few”, in The Spectator:
text: Three years on from Brexit, all UK voters are left with is a bitter taste of Bregret [title]
ref: 2023 January 31, Polly Toynbee, “Three years on from Brexit, all UK voters are left with is a bitter taste of Bregret”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Regret about Brexit (or voting in favour of Brexit).
aerocar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerocars
Etymology: From aero- + car.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A flying car; a flying machine which looks and functions similarly to modern cars, often described as using antigravity technology.
Related terms: aircab
aerocars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerocar
stockinette stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockinette stitches
form: stocking stitch
Senses: glosses: a type of knitting consisting of only knit-stitches (or only purl-stitches)
Aldebaranian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Aldebaran + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Relating to the Aldebaran system or to Aldebaranians.
Aldebaranian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aldebaranians
Etymology: From Aldebaran + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of the Aldebaran system.
Aldebaranian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aldebaran + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The language spoken by Aldebaranians.
Aldebaranians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aldebaranian
aerocab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerocabs
Etymology: From aero- + cab under the influence of aeroplane. Compare aircab and airplane.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Synonym of aircab (“a flying taxicab”).
synonyms: word: aircab
extra: a flying taxicab
aerocabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerocab
aircab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircabs
Etymology: From air + cab under the influence of airplane. Compare earlier aerocab and aeroplane.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: aerocab
gyrocab
glosses: A flying taxicab.
Related terms: aircar
helicab
aircabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircab
armorplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armourplast
Etymology: From armor + -plast (“a small body, structure”).
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A fictional material, often described as being strong, flexible, and transparent.
armourplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK spelling of armorplast.
inconscionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconscionably
form: most inconscionably
Senses: glosses: In an inconscionable manner; unconscionably.
Anglofan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglo + fan.
Senses: glosses: A science fiction fan from the United Kingdom.
untowards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untowards
form: most untowards
Etymology: From un- + towards.
Senses: examples: text: After this I shewed theym, that if they orels the most parte of theyme wold denye at this tyme to make contribution to the Kinges Hieghnes, ther is no wise man but wool thinke that they have made bandds and promises, and that it apperith, seing they be thus vntowards that they be lincked together, for commonlye they aggreid in oon aunswer.
ref: 1525, Henry Ellis, editor, Original Letters, Illustrative of English History; Including Numerous Royal Letters: From Autographs in the British Museum, the State Paper Office, and One or Two Other Collections, third series, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1846, page 360:
text: But the luſtes of this world maketh many one vntowardes to be taughte: […]
ref: 1548 January 31, Nicolas Udal, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, folio xlvii, recto:
text: […] and if they ſhould be vntowards, as it is moſt certaine they will, thirtie or fortie good men will be ſufficient to bring them all in ſubiection, and make this prouiſion, if they vnderſtand what to doe; […]
ref: 1624, Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, page 211:
text: If private duties be occaſioned, much more awek and untowards they are: […]
ref: 1642, D[aniel] R[ogers], Matrimoniall Honour: or, The Mutuall Crowne and Comfort of Godly, Loyall, and Chaste Marriage. […], London: […] Th: Harper for Philip Nevil, […], page 135:
glosses: Obsolete form of untoward.
autodoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autodocs
Etymology: From auto- + doc.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A system or robot which provides automatic medical care.
autodocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autodoc
asterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asterites
form: Asterite
Etymology: From asteroid + -ite.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of an asteroid.
Asterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asterites
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of asterite.
asterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asterite
Asterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asterite
Ashwater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX3895).
Turkish Riviera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Turkish Riviera
Etymology: Turkish+riviera. From being a coastline in Turkiye similar to the Riviera, like the French Riviera.
Senses: topics: business
lifestyle
marketing
tourism
transport
glosses: A geographic region of Turkey, running from the southern Aegean Sea coast to the western Mediterranean, along the southwest coastline of Anatolia.
Synonyms: Turquoise Coast
Hyponyms: Turkaegean
Related terms: French Riviera
Italian Riviera
Ligurian Riviera
Mayan Riviera
Mexican Riviera
Riviera
riviera
Spain Riviera
Spanish Riviera
self-confinements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-confinement
ground blizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground blizzards
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A wind storm that blows freshly fallen snow around with such force that it meets the conditions to be called a blizzard.
quarter-zips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-zip
Putinophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Putinophiles
Etymology: From Putin + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: It's not clear if the job ad is a hoax, a publicity stunt, or a genuine appeal to the young Putinophile with an eye for fashion statements and espionage.
ref: 2016 August 30, Nick Miller, “Time to add some glamour to Russian espionage, unusual Raketa watch ad hints”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A fan or supporter of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Related terms: Putinophilia
Putinophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Putinophile
Putinophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Putin + -o- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: “Ukraine attacks Russia!” was the surreal headline on a report in the 22 February edition of Informer, Serbia’s biggest-selling tabloid. That headline was not a one off, it was an expression of the Putinophilia that has been strong in Serbia for years.
ref: 2022 October 28, Tomislav Marković, “The cult of Putin in Serbia reflects a nation that has still not dealt with its past”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The love or admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Related terms: Putinophile
Pollinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
callousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more callousy
form: most callousy
Etymology: From callous + -y or call(us) + -ous + -y (see note).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of callusy; see mucousy § Usage notes.
synonyms: word: callusy
extra: see mucousy § Usage notes
Related terms: callously
Cattewater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A channel between the River Plym and Plymouth Sound, at Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4953).
Tagalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tagala
deepfaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deepfakers
Etymology: From deepfake + -er.
Senses: examples: text: According to cybersecurity firm Sensity, deepfakes are growing exponentially, doubling every six months. Of the 85,000 circulating online, 90 percent depict non-consensual porn featuring women. As for the creators, a quick look at the top 30 on one site reveals deepfakers all over the world, including in the U.S., Canada, Guatemala and India.
ref: 2021 March 16, Sophie Compton, “More and More Women Are Facing the Scary Reality of Deepfakes”, in Vogue:
glosses: A person who creates deepfakes.
deepfakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepfaker
stuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A card game, a variant of faro.
revending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revend
screw eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skro͞o′-īz′
ipa: /ˈskɹuˌaɪz/
Forms: form: screweyes
form: eye screws
form: eyescrews
Senses: glosses: plural of screw eye
Solondz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sollondz
form: Zoladz
form: Zolandz
form: Zolondz
form: Zollondz
Etymology: Likely a Germanized form of the Polish surname Żołądź, from żołądź (“acorn”); ultimately from Proto-Slavic *želǫdь (“acorn”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zoladz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solondz
form: Sollondz
form: Zolandz
form: Zolondz
form: Zollondz
Etymology: From Polish Żołądź, from żołądź (“acorn”); ultimately from Proto-Slavic *želǫdь (“acorn”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
screweyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skro͞o′-īz′
ipa: /ˈskɹuˌaɪz/
Forms: form: eye screws
form: eyescrews
Senses: glosses: plural of screweye; alternative form of screw eyes.
Zolandz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solondz
form: Sollondz
form: Zoladz
form: Zolondz
form: Zollondz
Etymology: From Polish Żołądź, from żołądź (“acorn”); ultimately from Proto-Slavic *želǫdь (“acorn”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mercurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mercurial
form: most Mercurial
Senses: examples: text: He firſt ſubſiſts in Jupiter, the artificer of the world; next, among the ſupermundane gods; in the third place, among the liberated gods; fourthly, in the planet Mercury; fifthly, in the Mercurial order of demons; […] Likewiſe in this city a certain man once flouriſhed, full of the Mercurial power, becauſe his ſoul formerly exiſted in the heavens of the Mercurial order. […] But afterwards a demon, becauſe from the god Mercury, through a Mercurial demon, gifts of this kind are tranſmitted to a Mercurial ſoul.
ref: 1792, The Phædrus of Plato; a Dialogue Concerning Beauty and Love, London: […] Edward Jeffery, […]; R. Faulder, […]; J. Cook, […]; and T. and J. Merrill, […], page 126:
text: The alchemists too spoke of the return of the Mercurial spirit as a ‘celestial rain’, or ‘dew’ (Norton’s stilla roris madidi, Dee’s ros caeli), a ‘divine water’ falling from the ‘heaven’ of the vessel to reanimate the blackened earth of the Stuff.
ref: 1980, Charles Nicholl, “The Transmutation of King Lear”, in The Chemical Theatre, London; Boston, Mass.; Henley-on-Thames: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, section “The dew”, page 205:
text: In addition, the magnetometer on MESSENGER will characterize Mercury’s magnetic field in detail from orbit over four Mercurial years.
ref: 2007, Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Dynamic Planet: Mercury in the Context of Its Environment, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 198:
text: Then he is called a daemon in order to make it obvious that such gifts are handed down from Mercury himself via a Mercurial daemon to a rational Mercurial soul.
ref: 2008, Marsilio Ficino, translated by Michael J. B. Allen, Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 187:
text: However, despite these talents, despite the fact that he saw Mercurial as well as Jovial strains in his paternity, and despite his opinion that Mercury shared with Jupiter a special need of rehabilitation, Lewis claimed no special relationship with the planet of the second sphere. In fact, he confesses that the Mercurial essence is almost beyond his grasp: […]
ref: 2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: Looking at it in the apocalypse of the Mercurial dawn, it’s impossible to believe it’s not alive.
ref: 2012, Kim Stanley Robinson, “Prologue”, in 2312, Orbit, →ISBN, page 3:
text: We concluded at the end of Chapter 3 that the Mercurial or Herculean French king ruled over the fickle multitude by eloquence, but this woodcut might have suggested that not only “virtuous” eloquence but also “virtùous” eloquence with cunning and deceit, whose significance Machiavelli explored in his works, was needed to govern the people.
ref: 2013 October, Takashi Nishi, The Representations of Hercules and Hydra in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, page 196:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mercurial.
Poloncarz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Polacarz
Etymology: From Polish Połoncarz, a non-standard spelling of Połącarz.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
astroengineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroengineers
form: astro-engineer
Etymology: From astro- + engineer.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An engineer who designs or operates spacecraft or space stations.
Related terms: astroengineering
aerospace engineer
astroengineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroengineer
astro-engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astro-engineers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of astroengineer.
astro-engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astro-engineer
aerospace engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerospace engineers
Senses: glosses: An engineer who works in the development of aircraft or spacecraft.
wikipedia: Apollo 13
NASA
Related terms: aerospace engineering
aerospace engineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerospace engineer
Betelgeusean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Betelgeusian.
Betelgeusean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betelgeuseans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Betelgeusian.
Betelgeuseans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Betelgeusean
Bonestellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bonestellian
form: most Bonestellian
Etymology: From Chesley Bonestell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or resembling the work of Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986), who was known for his depictions of science fiction scenes.
wikipedia: Chesley Bonestell
Galaxy Science Fiction
Bradburyian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bradburyian
form: most Bradburyian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bradburian.
Bradburyesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bradburyesque
form: most Bradburyesque
Etymology: From Ray Bradbury + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bradburian (“of or pertaining to Ray Bradbury”).
synonyms: word: Bradburian
extra: of or pertaining to Ray Bradbury
wikipedia: Ray Bradbury
Bradburyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bradburyish
form: most Bradburyish
Etymology: From Ray Bradbury + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bradburian (“of or pertaining to Ray Bradbury”).
synonyms: word: Bradburian
extra: of or pertaining to Ray Bradbury
wikipedia: Ray Bradbury
braintape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braintapes
form: brain-tape
Etymology: From brain + tape (“any video or audio recording”).
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A complete record of the contents of someone's brain.
braintapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braintape
brain-tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain-tapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of braintape.
brain-tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain-tape
Big Dumb Object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Dumb Objects
Etymology: Coined by British critic and writer Roz Kaveney in 1981.
Senses: qualifier: science fiction criticism
glosses: A large and mysterious object of extraterrestrial origin containing immense power, thought of as a common trope of science fiction.
Derived terms: word: BDO
BDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BDOs
Senses: examples: text: There may be another characteristic BDOs need to have to be considered a classic BDO: absent creators and a consequently mysterious purpose. At the very least, by the time the story begins, the BDO has been around for a long time.
ref: 2018 January 8, James Davis Nicoll, “A Brief History of the Big Dumb Object Story in Science Fiction”, in Tor.com, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022:
qualifier: science fiction criticism
glosses: Initialism of Big Dumb Object.
Big Dumb Objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Big Dumb Object
BDOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BDO
Chicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicons
Senses: topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A name given to various science fiction conventions held in Chicago, United States.
Chicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicon
combozine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combozines
Etymology: From combo + zine.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A combination of zines bound or distributed together.
combozines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combozine
cityship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cityships
form: city-ship
Etymology: From city + ship.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spacecraft which contains an entire city.
glosses: A mobile seastead, as on a cruise ship.
city-ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city-ships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cityship.
cityships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cityship
city-ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of city-ship
Class M
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: class M
Etymology: Originally from the TV series Star Trek.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of a planet: having characteristics similar to that of Earth.
wikipedia: Star Trek
class M
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Class M.
collapsium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From collapse + -ium. Probably alluding to black holes, which are extremely dense objects formed by collapsing matter in the core of a dying star.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.
-con
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of convention
Senses: topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Used to form the names of conventions.
-con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from lolicon, ultimately a clipping of complex (“abnormal mental condition”).
Senses: topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: Forms terms for abnormal sexual attractions.
Cyberman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cybermen
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of cyberman.
Cybermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cyberman
countergravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-gravity
Etymology: From counter- + gravity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anti-gravity (“any of various concepts, systems or devices that would oppose or cancel out the force of gravity”).
synonyms: word: anti-gravity
extra: any of various concepts, systems or devices that would oppose or cancel out the force of gravity
Derived terms: countergrav
counter-gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countergravity.
countergrav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Clipping of countergravity.
coreward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coreward
form: most coreward
Etymology: From core + -ward.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Close to or travelling towards the galactic core.
coreward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From core + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The first colonisation efforts went coreward from the Blue Planetary Nebula with worlds like Sirona Prime, Xalau III and Usinnia being discovered and settled.
ref: 2018, James E Taris, The Venality Effect: Two Clients, Xlibris, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Towards the galactic core.
cyborged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Cyborged servitors – mind-wiped snail-men – constantly cruised the black marble floor of his long, barrel-vaulted chamber, cleansing and laying down trails of scewnted polish behind them.
ref: 1994, Ian Watson, Harlequin, Boxtree, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: cyborgized
glosses: Having been made into a cyborg.
cyborged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyborg
datasphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dataspheres
Etymology: From data + -sphere (“designating a particular realm”).
Senses: glosses: A notional place in which digital data is located; (sometimes referring to) the Internet as a whole.
dataspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datasphere
cyborging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyborgization (“the act of converting something into a cyborg”).
synonyms: word: cyborgization
extra: the act of converting something into a cyborg
cyborging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyborg
cyborgizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cyborgize
cyborgizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyborgize
cyborgized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She is almost totally cyborgized except for a small number of human brain cells. Her apparently female body is a mere shell to encase a cybernetic entity.
ref: 2011, Donna Spalding Andréolle, Veronique Molinari, Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 233:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: cyborged
glosses: Having been made into a cyborg.
cyborgized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyborgize
different story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: different stories
Senses: topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: impossible story
glosses: Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).
examples: text: But the run on the up "Talisman" on the following morning was a different story, and was a joyous experience throughout.
ref: 1957 September 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 641:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see different, story.
Related terms: scientifiction
impossible story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impossible stories
Senses: topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: different story
glosses: Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).
Related terms: scientifiction
impossible stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impossible story
dark fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of fantasy which incorporates elements of horror.
doppels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doppel
cyborgization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyborgize + -ation.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: cyborging
glosses: The act of converting something into a cyborg.
de Campian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From L. Sprague de Camp + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or resembling the writing of American author L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000).
wikipedia: L. Sprague de Camp
Earthish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Earthish
form: most Earthish
Etymology: From Earth + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I love it when planets are found around red dwarfs. They are by far the most common kind of star in the Universe, they tend to make smaller, Earthish-sized planets, and they tend to make a lot of them.
ref: 2022 September 9, Phil Plait, “Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone”, in Syfy, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling the Earth; Earthlike.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Terran
glosses: Relating to or originating from the Earth.
Earthish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Earth + -ish.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Earthian
glosses: A hypothetical universal language of Earth.
p-ANCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p-ANCAs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody.
Related terms: c-ANCA
c-ANCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c-ANCAs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of cytoplasmic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody.
Related terms: p-ANCA
Hermetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hermetic
form: most Hermetic
Senses: examples: text: It is a doctrine taught in the ancient Hermetic philosophy, and the esoteric science of the East, that there is a Universal Mind. It is enough for our present purpose to say, that this Mind connects all individual minds in a state of sympathy.
ref: 1885, Warren Felt Evans, The Primitive Mind-cure, page 83:
text: As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
ref: 1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II:
text: More affected by Cabbalic and Hermetic studies than Mede, he too uses allegory in his exposition of the Scriptures, and in teaching constantly quotes the prophetic books.
ref: 1931, Henry More, Geoffrey Bullough, Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems:
text: "As above, so below" is an axiom from Hermetic mysticism, and in this Hermetic vision of physiology the tongue is connected through the spinal column to the penis.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hermetic.
dystopiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dystopia
utopiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utopia
andrognathid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andrognathids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Andrognathidae family of millipedes.
knobkierries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knobkierrie
McAdamize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: McAdamizes
form: McAdamizing
form: McAdamized
form: McAdamized
Etymology: From McAdam + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The streets are broad, and are all McAdamized.
ref: 1835, Francis Warriner, Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac Round the World, During the Years 1831-34. […], New York, N.Y.: […] Leavitt, Lord & Co., […]; Boston, Mass.: Crocker & Brewster, […], page 44:
text: Of each division or arch of the building, a prisoner, whom the keeper thought trusty, had the charge; that is, he kept it clean, swept and whitewashed it while the prisoners were out in the prison yard cracking stones to McAdamize the city streets .
ref: 1843, Charles T. Woodman, Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, a Reformed Inebriate, Boston, Mass.: Theodore Abbot, […], page 47:
text: Whenever it may be deemed necessary by the City Council to pave or repave, McAdamize or re-McAdamize any street, avenue or highway over which said street Railway passes, it shall be the duty of said Company to pave or repave, McAdamize or re-McAdamize, the space between the rails of the tracks, turnouts and switches used by it on such streets, avenues or highways, and also the space between said main tracks and said turnouts and switches. Said paving, repaving, McAdamizing or re-McAdamizing, by said Company, shall be done in the same manner, […]
ref: 1893, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Massillon, Comprising the General Ordinances and Certain Special Ordinances, pages 118–119:
text: That year he was approached by the administrator of the Royal Military Hospital at Greenwich to McAdamize lots of Northumberland (northeast England) where the hospital owned big estates with coal mines that needed access roads.
ref: 2007, James Burke, American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Alternative spelling of macadamize.
compulsive hoarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsive hoarders
Senses: glosses: A person affected by compulsive hoarding.
compulsive hoarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsive hoarder
ascogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny.
ref: 1992, Microbiology Abstracts, page 43:
text: A species in its entirety can be recognized from characters derived from ascogeny and/or mitospore production.
ref: 1994, Fifth International Mycological Congress, page 179:
text: A discarded hypothesis held that a second karyogamy event occurred in the ascogonium prior to ascogeny, resulting in a tetraploid nucleus which divided into four diploid nuclei by meiosis and then into eight haploid nuclei by a supposed process called brachymeiosis, but this hypothesis was disproven in the 1950s.
ref: 2019, Zaid Hays, Danny Watson, Fungal Ecology, Diversity and Metabolites, page 57:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The development of ascospores inside an ascus.
brachiopoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachiopoid
brachiopoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachiopoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of brachyopoid.
remittance woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remittance women
Senses: examples: text: Here, in the western solitude, lived for several years—the veriest remittance woman—the girl who should now, by the right of love and honor, be the Princess of Wales; and whose infant daughter should have been the heir to the throne.
ref: 1908, Ella Rhoads Higginson, Alaska, The Great Country:
text: ‘I see her, some years hence, a remittance woman, paid to live abroad, in such an hotel, in various Hotels du Lac, her beautiful face grown gaunt and scornful, her dog permanently under her arm.’
ref: 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 81:
glosses: A woman paid a remittance to live abroad, especially because considered undesirable at home.
brachyopoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachyopoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Brachyopoidea superfamily of amphibians
mastodonsaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastodonsaurs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Mastodonsauridae family or Mastodonsaurus genus of amphibians.
microptery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The state of being micropterous.
pMHR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of portable multi-mission hemispheric radar.
tPCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tPCT
tPCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tPCTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of teaching primary care trust.
nanosoccer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + soccer.
Senses: glosses: A game resembling soccer played by nanobots.
infernalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infernalisms
Etymology: From infernal + -ism. First attested in 1795, popularised in the theological sense in the 2000s–10s.
Senses: examples: text: To these conceptions Protestant churches will gradually yield, and while still nominally the same in their faith, its infernalism will disappear, and the idea of future punishment will become a rational instead of a diabolical picture of Divine justice.
ref: 1853 August, “The Onward Movement”, in Joseph R. Buchanan, editor, Buchanan’s Journal of Man, volume 4, number 8, page 228:
text: Sheltered in my tiny corner of Christendom, like many evangelicals I was unaware of […] alternative prespectives on hell that did not transform God into a wrathful tyrant-judge who consigns the unrepentant to Dante-tesque tortures for eternity. As it turns out, the view of hell with which I grew up—infernalism—is only one of several options […]
ref: 2009, Brad Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem, →ISBN:
text: Embedded within his argument is the view that infernalism is a less severe form of retributive punishment than annihilationism; […]
ref: 2022, A. G. Holdier, “Comments on ‘Is Annihilation More Severe than Eternal Conscious Torment?’”, in Southwest Philosophy Review, volume 38, number 2, page 43:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Belief in the existence of hell, especially as a place of eternal and conscious torment after death.
examples: text: It is because worship has been slavishly bestowed on the personification of the worst of the human qualities magnified to infernalism, that it has been considered a degrading, or at least a pusilanimous thing […]
ref: 1860, Calvin Blanchard, The Religion of Science; or The Art of Actualizing Liberty […], page 128:
text: Paternalism has no terrors for me; indeed, I much prefer paternalism any time, in any form, and anywhere to infernalism in the way of bad roads.
ref: 1895, M. R. Campbell, “Road Laws”, in Roy Stone, editor, Historical and Technical Papers on Road Building in the United States, page 55:
text: If the production of men from a planet is continuous and the inhabitants should turn out to favor infernalism above heavenly things, then the Infinite Grand Universe of the Lord would be in danger of getting too many inhabitants for the hells and too few for the heavens.
ref: 1956, R. Newton Mahin, Palewings, page 249:
glosses: Hellishness.
examples: text: Is not the State an infernal institution? Why expect from it, then, anything but infernalisms?
ref: 1886 September 18, Benjamin R. Tucker, “Why Expect Justice from the State?”, in Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One: A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism, published 1893, page 444:
text: To me the long catalogue of matrimonial infernalisms has no significance other than that of congratulation at my escape from such loving woes.
ref: 1890, Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of the Pacific States of North America, volume 34, Literary Industries, page 456:
glosses: An infernal thing or act.
Related terms: infernalist
infernalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infernalism
infernalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infernalists
Etymology: From infernal + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: One who believes in infernalism.
infernalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infernalist
Corteses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cortes
Narcissan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Narcissan
form: most Narcissan
form: Narcissian
Etymology: From Narcissus + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Universal exhibitionism—the Narcissan instinct—in its relation to evolution: here is a vein of thought in which I have lately been working.
ref: 1930, New American Mercury, page 242:
text: Even though she links the Narcissan element in Plotinus with the ‘mirror of Dionysus’ (Kristeva 1988: 107) Kristeva does not foreground the threat of disintegration through confrontation with the maternal. This threat does, however, surface in Ovid’s integration of the story of Narcissus with that of Pentheus and is discernible in Plotinus’ identification of the mirror of Dionysus with the Narcissan error of ‘image-laden dispersion’ (107).
ref: 1993, Gerardine Meaney, (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction, Routledge, published 2012, page 172:
text: What initially recommends the Narcissan metaphor is paranomasia:^([sic]) Alberti is seduced by the pun on ‘flower’ that drives the pseudo-syllogism (or enthymeme) ornamenting the hubristic claims he makes on painting’s behalf.
ref: 2004, Christopher Braider, Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth: Hercules at the Crossroads, Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to the mythological Narcissus.
eupad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for Edinburgh University pathological department.
Senses: glosses: A powder made from chlorinated lime and boric acid. It is mixed with water to produce eusol.
Related terms: eusol
Ghoom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The greatest railway altitudes in India are very far from establishing world records. Ghoom Station, on the Darjeeling-Himalayan line, is 7,407 ft. above the sea, and takes 40th place among the world's railway summits.
ref: 1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Maximum Railway Altitudes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of Ghum, West Bengal.
low tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low teas
Senses: examples: text: Low tea, the original aristocratic late afternoon break for conversation and dainty delicacies was a very social time and was served in the 'low' part of the day.
ref: 2008, Emily Thacker, Vinegar & Tea:
text: Afternoon tea has evolved into a combination of high and low teas. High tea, once called "meat tea", was originally the main meal of the British lower classes, eaten with the family at home at the end of a long workday. Low tea was a light meal or snack, enjoyed by the British upper classes in thr late afternoon to tide them over until their more substantial dinner in the evening. Low tea was often a social event, enjoyed in the company of friends or associates. The distinction between high tea and low tea was also a literal one, based on the kind of table used for serving. High tea was consumed at a high dining room table, while low tea was served in the sitting or living room on a lower side table or cocktail table (also called a coffee table).
ref: 2012, Beverley Dubrin, Tea Culture: History, Traditions, Celebrations, Recipes & More, page 27:
text: Counterintuitively, "low tea" has historically been for the upper classes the term used for afternoon tea, while "high tea" was initially the afternoon tea of the working classes.
ref: 2019, Julia Skinner, Afternoon Tea: A History, page 39:
synonyms: afternoon tea
glosses: A formal afternoon meal comprising light snacks, often accompanied by tea.
Related terms: high tea
steam devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam devils
form: steamdevil
form: steam-devil
Etymology: From steam + devil. From being a whirlwind (“devil”) formed from mist (“steam”). Patterned after dust devil.
Senses: glosses: A spiraling wind caused by rising thermals off a warm body of water's surface that has been enveloped by a layer of very cold air, which also causes the humidity in the thermal to turn to mist, highlighting the whirl of the column. The equivalent of a dustdevil over water.
Coordinate terms: spout
thermal
tornado
waterspout
whirl
whirlwind
Related terms: devil
dust devil
fire devil
non-dialectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dialectal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nondialectal.
Ghum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ghoom
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in Darjeeling municipality, West Bengal, India.