cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Zhongshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʒɔŋ.ʃæn/
ipa: /d͡ʒɔŋˈʃæn/
ipa: /d͡ʒɔŋˈʃɑn/
enpr: jo͝ongʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Chung-shan
form: Chungshan
form: Jhongshan
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 中山 (Zhōngshān).
Senses: examples: text: The chief town of Zhongshan, Shiqi (formerly spelt Shekkei) has been an important market centre and inland port for 800 years.
ref: 1990, Shann Davies, Macau, Passport Books, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 137:
text: A man was apprehended by the mainland police early yesterday morning in Zhongshan on suspected link with human body parts found in Taipa Grande on Saturday.
ref: 2021 June 14, Anthony Lam, “Suspect linked to body parts found in Taipa Grande apprehended in Zhongshan”, in Macau Daily News, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2021, Crime:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southern China.
examples: text: Many trendy and expensive restaurants can be found in and around Taipei 101. The Jhongshan district is full of nightclubs and Karoake bars and has remnants of Japanese forms of entertainment.
ref: [2008, Nick French, Asian Ways: A Westerner's Guide to Asian Business Etiquette, Aardvark Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: Speaking at her cafe in Taipei’s Zhongshan district, Annie Hsieh, unrelated to Mr. Hsieh, smiled when asked about the Tsai-Trump call.
“I think it’s great,” Ms. Hsieh said.
ref: 2016 December 5, Chris Horton, “Trump Call Gauged Positively, but Cautiously, in Taiwan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2016, Asia Pacific:
text: The Leofoo Residences is situated in the vibrant center of the Jhongshan District, in the heart of downtown Taipei.
ref: [n.d., “Locations and Directions”, in 六福居 [Leofoo Residences], archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
english: Leofoo Residences
translation: Leofoo Residences
text: Arrangements are being made, including a public appearance with a visit to the Legislative Yuan tomorrow, they said, adding she would also meet with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
However, given the sensitivity involved, plans would change according to situations, they added.
Meanwhile, local media quoted other sources as saying that Pelosi could possibly stay at the Grand Hyatt Taipei in Xinyi District (信義) or the Marriott Taipei in Zhongshan District (中山).
ref: 2022 August 2, “Pelosi could arrive today: analyst”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2022, Front Page, page 1:
glosses: A district of the city of Taipei, Taiwan.
glosses: A district of the city of Keelung, Taiwan.
glosses: A district of the city of Dalian, Liaoning, China.
glosses: A district of the city of Liupanshui, Guizhou, China.
glosses: A station of Taipei Metro in Taipei, Taiwan.
glosses: Zhongshan (state)
Synonyms: sense: city of Guangdong; from Cantonese
word: Heungshan
Related terms: Zhongshan Station
box sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box set
Bichon Frisé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːʃɒn fɹiːˈzeɪ/
Forms: form: Bichons Frisés
form: Bichon Frise
Etymology: From French bichon (à poil) frisé (lapdog with curly hair).
Senses: glosses: A small bichon with white fur and dark eyes and nose, originating in Spain, Belgium and France.
Bichons Frisés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bichon Frisé
gaymers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaymer
ninjaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ninja
ninjaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ninja
drumette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drumettes
form: drummette
Etymology: From drum + -ette.
Senses: glosses: The first segment (meatier part) of a chicken wing, closest to the body.
Coordinate terms: flat
tip
Related terms: drumstick
drum majorette
drumettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drumette
haematemesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematemeses
Etymology: From haemat- + emesis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hematemesis.
hematemeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematemesis
haematemeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematemesis
non-disclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-disclosures
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondisclosure.
minettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minette
glycerols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerol
rapism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rape + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia in which a person is aroused by rape, i.e. forcing somebody into sexual acts against their will.
examples: text: The ethos of Judeo-Christian culture is dominated by The Most Unholy Trinity: Rape, Genocide, and War. It is rapism which spawns racism. It is gynocide which spawns genocide, for sexism (rapism) is fundamental socialization to objectify "the other".
ref: 1993, Marilyn Pearsall, Women and Values: Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy:
text: As boundary violators, all participate in the mythic paradigm of Rapism.
ref: 1984 Fall, Harris Mirkin, “The Passive Female: the Theory of Patriarchy”, in American Studies, volume 25, number 2:
text: ... in which abominations are normalized, ritualized, repeated, legitimized, sacralized. The state of atrocity is characterized by rapism, the fundamental ideology and practice of patriarchy.
ref: 1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence-- Realizing the Archaic Future:
text: These are questions about liberation. There is one more: can you liberate womyn from the enslavement of sexism, rapism...
ref: 1993 Spring-Summer, Mykel Johnson, “Casting a New Circle”, in Women's Studies Quarterly, volume 21, numbers 1-2:
text: I imagine being part of a "we" that wants to change rapacity culture in order to change rape culture, to undo rapism as many cultures have sought to undo racism.
ref: 2014 Fall, Lisa Samuels, “Rapacity Culture and the Body”, in Chicago Review, volume 59, numbers 1-2:
glosses: A set of cultural values that make rape morally acceptable.
Synonyms: sense: set of cultural values
word: rape culture
isotretinoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌɪ.sə(ʊ).tɹəˈtɪn.əʊ.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.soʊˈtɹɛt.ɪˌnoʊ.ɪn/
Etymology: From iso- + tretinoin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Accutane
glosses: A cis isomer of retinoic acid that is a synthetic derivative of vitamin A, inhibits sebaceous gland function and keratinization, and is used in the treatment of severe inflammatory acne but is contraindicated in pregnancy because of its implication as a cause of birth defects.
Related terms: alitretinoin
cybermarketplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybermarketplaces
Etymology: From cyber- + marketplace.
Senses: glosses: A virtual marketplace in cyberspace or on the Internet.
Synonyms: e-marketplace
marketspace
cybermarketplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybermarketplace
cybercommerce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + commerce.
Senses: glosses: Commerce on the Internet or in cyberspace.
Synonyms: e-commerce
cyberbusiness
Great Depression
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Depression
Senses: examples: text: For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began.
ref: 2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A major economic collapse characterized by mass unemployment and limited business activity that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.
wikipedia: Great Depression
Related terms: Great Crash
Great Recession
status effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: status effects
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: chiefly roleplaying games
glosses: An effect that modifies a character's status, either positively (e.g. strength increase) or negatively (e.g. poisoning).
Hyponyms: buff
debuff
status ailment
status effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of status effect
persistence hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lieberman believes they ran their prey to death, often called “persistence hunting.”
ref: 2009 March 18, Maywa Montenegro, “The Running Man, Revisited”, in Seed, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2009:
text: Supplied with water, any good marathoner probably has the endurance to chase down a zebra, antelope, or steenbok. However, there's more to persistence hunting than endurance, a lot more.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: endurance hunting
glosses: A type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion.
unaffordability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + affordability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unaffordable.
status ailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: status ailments
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A negative status effect that adversely affects the afflicted character (such as being poisoned or blinded).
status ailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of status ailment
Xboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xbox
Zhuhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuˈhaɪ/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: jo͞oʹhīʹ
Forms: form: Chu-hai
form: Chuhai
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 珠海 (Zhūhǎi).
Senses: examples: text: In 1992, at the age of eighty-eight, Deng visited the Shenzhen and Zhuhai Special Economic Zones in order to defend his policies against Party critics.
ref: 2002, Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:
text: Super typhoon Saola made landfall in southeast China’s Guangdong province early Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and flooding in Shenzhen city and the neighboring Hong Kong and Macao.
The typhoon made landfall around 3:30 am south of the city of Zhuhai, located along the coast of Guangdong, the National Meteorological Center said.
ref: 2023 September 2, “Super typhoon Saola leaves trail of destruction in southern China”, in EFE, sourced from Hong Kong (EFE), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2023:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Synonyms: english: from Cantonese
translation: from Cantonese
word: Chuhoi
mythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythes
Senses: examples: 1846-1856, George Grote, History of Greece
But another class of mythes, more popular and more captivating, grew up under the hands of the poets […]
glosses: Obsolete form of myth.
mythes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythe
semibreve rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semibreve rests
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A semibreve rest is a pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
Synonyms: whole rest
Related terms: breve rest
minim rest
crotchet rest
quaver rest
semiquaver rest
demisemiquaver rest
hemidemisemiquaver rest
whole note
semibreve
semibreve rests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semibreve rest
Yinchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐnʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Yinchwan
form: Yin-ch'uan
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Yin Chuan
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
Etymology: Likely c. 1940s, from Mandarin 銀川 /银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
Senses: examples: text: Peiping radio claimed tonight that Communists occupied Yinchuan, capital of Ninghsia Province in Central China two days ago.
ref: 1949 September 26 [1949 September 25], “NATIONALISTS REVOLT”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXVII, number 228, Bombay, →OCLC, Stop Press, page 5, column 1:
text: All the bigger towns in this vast area are to have new power stations. Yinchuan and Bayenhot in Ningsia province, Sining in Chinghai, Tienshui, Tunhchuan and Paochi in Shensi, and Tihua in Sinkiang have all been mentioned in Press reports.
At Yinchuan factories for machinery, woollen textiles and chemicals have been started, and two new textile mills are planned in the cotton-growing district of Kuanchung, in Shensi.
ref: 1954 February [1954 January], “China's Industrial Growth”, in Economic Digest, volume VII, number 2, London: Economic Research Council, →OCLC, pages 87–88:
text: On the trip out our car was full of railway workers, going out to work on the Lanchow-Sinkiang Railway which had already reached Yumen, China’s biggest oil field, and in 1960 will connect with the Soviet Union’s Turkestan-Siberia Railway; or to the Lanchow-Yinchuan section, which cuts through the Great Wall to reach Yinchuan, a major wool, hide and skin trading center in the Northwest.
ref: 1956 October, Grace Liu, “A Train Trip in China”, in New World Review, volume 24, number 10, New York: S.R.T. Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
text: Yinchuan, capital of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, lies in the centre of the Ningsia Plain.
ref: 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 201:
english: A Concise Geography of China
translation: A Concise Geography of China
text: Mr. Ai had become obsessed with a red scribble that appeared on a planning document for an art show next month in Yinchuan, a city in northwest China. He decided to build a large sculpture modeled on the line that he would call “Redline” — a playful rumination on the idea of censorship.
ref: 2016 August 26, Javier A. Hernández, “Ai Weiwei Planned to Sculpt a ‘Redline.’ Chinese Censors Say He Crossed One.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2016, Sinosphere:
glosses: The capital city of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Hui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 回 (Huí).
Senses: examples: text: In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.
ref: 1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: This compact collection of households comprises nine teams that are almost 100 percent Hui, a rarity in central and northern Ningxia, where Hui are thinly distributed among the majority Han population. Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China).
ref: 2002, Dru C. Gladney, “Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community”, in Susan D. Blum, Lionel M. Jensen, editors, China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:
text: Within Xi’an, Hui and Han alike eat roujiamo, the Chinese hamburger: meat tucked into flatbread that’s been crisped on the grill until it shows tiger skin on one side — shades of orange and black — and a chrysanthemum whorl on the other. The Han make it with long-braised pork, doused with a spoonful of its own broth, and the Hui with beef or lamb, stewed, then salted and dried.
ref: 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:
glosses: An ethnic group of China, distinguished by their practice of Islam, who speak Mandarin (or Dungan in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia).
Related terms: Dungan
hui
Islam
Hui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 徽 (Huī).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
Synonyms: Huizhou
Hui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 惠 (Huì), 回 (Huí), or Cantonese 許／许 (heoi2).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
cybername
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybernames
Etymology: From cyber- + name.
Senses: examples: text: He signed in using his own cybername: Point Guard.
ref: 1999, Jacqueline Guest, Triple Threat:
text: Your modem dials an 800 number a couple of times. Along the way, you'll be asked to make up a cybername for yourself...
ref: 2002, David Pogue, Flat screen iMac for dummies:
text: "Are the two of you going to stick to phony cybernames? Or shall I introduce you by your real ones?"
ref: 2006, John Weir, What I did wrong:
glosses: A nickname used on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cybernames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybername
cybercounseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + counseling.
Senses: glosses: Counseling on the Internet or in cyberspace.
releasee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: releasees
Etymology: From release + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party that is given a release.
perpetuum mobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəːˌpɛtjʊəm ˈməʊbɪleɪ/
/pəːˌpɛtjʊəm ˈməʊbɪli/
Forms: form: perpetua mobilia
Etymology: From Latin perpetuum (neutral inflection of perpetuus “perpetual”) + Latin mōbile (neutrum of mōbilis “mobile, moving”), used together as a noun, thus literally meaning “perpetual mover”. Although often said to literally mean “perpetual motion”, the latter in Latin is mōtus perpetuus. A perpetuum mobile is a device that exhibits perpetual motion.
Senses: glosses: A perpetual motion machine.
topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
musicology
sciences
glosses: Pieces of music, or parts of pieces, characterised by a continuous steady stream of notes, usually at a rapid tempo.
topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
musicology
sciences
glosses: Whole pieces, or large parts of pieces, which are to be played repeatedly, often an indefinite number of times.
seminoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminomas
form: seminomata
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of testicular cancer
labialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: labializes
form: labializing
form: labialized
form: labialized
Etymology: labial (from Latin labium (“lip”)) + -ize (“causative suffix”)
Senses: glosses: To round, make (a sound, notably a consonant) labial.
Derived terms: labializable
labialization
nonlabialized
unlabialized
Related terms: labiate
labiodental
labiovelar
cubozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubozoan
heteropolyanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropolyanions
form: heteropoly anion
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anion derived from a heteropoly acid
Golden Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: golden age
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The oldest and best of the Classical Ages of Man, when people lived innocent lives of happiness and prosperity.
examples: text: The tradition of a "Golden Age" is widespread over the world, and it is not necessary to go at any length into the story of the Garden of Eden and the other legends which in almost every country illustrate this tradition.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 137:
glosses: Any previous period similarly viewed as superior to the present.
Coordinate terms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Silver Age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Bronze Age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Heroic Age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Iron Age
immunodepression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunodepressions
Etymology: From immuno- + depression.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A deficiency in one or more components of the immune system
Related terms: immunodeficiency
Sanders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːndəz/
enpr: sănʹdərz
ipa: /ˈsændəɹz/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːndə(ɹ)z
rhymes: (General American) -ændə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: Sanderses
Etymology: From the Middle English Sander, a shortened form of Alexander + suffix -s.
Senses: examples: text: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to send a letter to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, following up on previous requests that the administration use its authority to deschedule cannabis and pardon non-violent cannabis-related offenders.
ref: 2022 July 6, “Senators Warren, Sanders, Markey, and Gillibrand Urge Administration to Deschedule Cannabis and Pardon Nonviolent Cannabis Offenders”, in warren.senate.gov:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perry Township, Monroe County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Carroll County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Pennington County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Treasure County, Montana.
Derived terms: Colonel Sanders
Sanderista
Sanders County
Sandersian
Sandersism
Sanderism
Related terms: sense: given name
word: Sander
sense: given name
word: Xander
sense: given name
word: Zander
Toyama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 富(と)山(やま) (Toyama).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Japan.
glosses: The capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
aerodontalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerodontalgias
Etymology: From aer- + odont- + -algia.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the teeth caused by changes in air pressure.
Cy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: sie
homophone: sai
homophone: psi
homophone: xi
homophone: scye
homophone: Si
homophone: Sy
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Cyril.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Cyrus.
upgushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upgush
upgushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upgush
upgushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upgush
upgushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upgushings
Senses: examples: text: And in truth, to those who could understand and value it, there was rich matter in the upgushings and outpourings of these initiated souls to whom sorrow had been a talisman, admitting them into spiritual depths which no other spell can open.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: That which gushes upward.
upgushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upgush
unharnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unharness
unharnessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unharness
unharnessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unharness
unharnessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having had the harness or harnesses removed.
unhobbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhobble
unhobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhobble
unhobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhobble
unhobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not hobbled.
spaghetti bolognese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti bologneses
form: spaghetti bolognaise
Senses: synonyms: spag bol
glosses: A dish of spaghetti with Bolognese sauce.
unplaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unplait
unplaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unplait
unplaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unplait
unplaited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not plaited.
undercoated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercoat
unaffiliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unaffiliate
unaffiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unaffiliate
uglifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uglify
uglifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uglify
bucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: buckies
Etymology: From buckshot.
Senses: examples: text: Like for a gun, you could say a gat but that's quite an old term. Most young people now would say stralley, a tool or a bucky.
ref: 2011 October 21, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Bloomsbury Publishing:
glosses: A gun.
bucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: buckies
Etymology: From Potter-Bucky diaphragm.
Senses: examples: text: There are two major types of bucky assemblies: reciprocating and recipromatic. The difference is that the reciprocating bucky moves at two different speeds during the exposure […]
ref: 2003, Stephen S. Hiss, Understanding Radiography, 4th edition, page 274:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”).
Related terms: buckyball
bucky bit
buckybowl
buckypaper
buckyroll
buckytube
bucky onion
turophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turophile
isomalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside of mannitol that is used as an artificial sweetener.
Hypernyms: english: polyhydric alcohol
translation: polyhydric alcohol
word: sugar alcohol
Related terms: isomaltase
isomaltitol
isomaltose
isomaltulose
tranships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tranship
transhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tranship
transhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhippings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of transshipping.
isopolyanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopolyanions
form: isopoly anion
Etymology: From isopoly acid and anion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion derived from an isopoly acid.
Related terms: heteropolyanion
isopoly acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopoly acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several complex oxyacids containing atoms of one or more metals; they form heteropoly acids in combination with non-metallic compounds
real Macoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the real Macoy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of real McCoy.
meningitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meningitic
form: most meningitic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to meningitis.
Derived terms: antimeningitic
nonmeningitic
postmeningitic
premeningitic
transhipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tranship
tramcars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramcar
Tamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪmə(ɹ)/
/ˈtɑːmɑ(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “Tamar”, literally “date palm, date”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A daughter-in-law of Judah.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A daughter of David.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A daughter of Absalom.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Related terms: Tamara
Thamar
Tamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑːmɑ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈteɪmɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈteɪmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑːmɑ(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Latin Tamarus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *tamaros (“river, waters”, literally “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hrós, from *temH- (“dark”). See more at Thames.
Senses: glosses: A river in Devon and Cornwall, England, which forms the border between the two counties.
glosses: A river in the Australian state of Tasmania, named after the English river.
glosses: Administrative centre of Hong Kong.
drop ships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop ship
motoneurone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motoneurones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of motoneuron.
drop shipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop ship
drop shipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dropshipping.
drop shipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop ship
Thomasina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑməˈsinə/
ipa: /tɒməˈsiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: Thomasinas
Etymology: From Thomas + -ina.
Senses: examples: text: I looked up the cause of the feud and find that our great-grandfathers quarreled because each wanted to name his new daughter Thomasina. It was a distinctive name, and each craved its possession. I have argued with my aunt night and day—result, the two Thomasinas are drinking tea together.
ref: 1908 November 23, Clarissa Mackie, “A Feud and Its Finish”, in The Quincy Daily Ledger, volume 20, number 277, Quincy, Mass.: George W[ashington] Prescott & Sons, →OCLC, page [3], column 5:
glosses: A female given name from Aramaic, masculine equivalent Thomas.
Derived terms: Aunt Thomasina
doubting Thomasina
peeping Thomasina
Related terms: Tamsin
drawlatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawlatch
dripstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dripstone
dumbarses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbarse
drawbenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawbench
ebbermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ebberman
parotid glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parotid gland
disinflationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disinflationary
form: most disinflationary
Etymology: From dis- + inflationary.
Senses: examples: text: For the period through 1984, there is weak support for accelerationism, though the linear fit is mainly due to the disinflationary impact of high unemployment, which no one disputes, not the inflationary effects of prosperity.
ref: 1998, James K. Galbraith, “Comments”, in Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy, page 66:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
Related terms: disinflate
disinflation
false witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false witnesses
Senses: synonyms: knight of the post
glosses: A perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: slander, calumny, libel, defamation, lying, lie
text: to bear false witness
translation: to perjure oneself
english: to perjure oneself
synonyms: perjury
glosses: Deceptive public statements.
fictionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fictionizes
form: fictionizing
form: fictionized
form: fictionized
form: fictionise
Etymology: From fiction + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To fictionalize.
on the spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I spent some time walking around the exhibitor area before my turn to speak. […] The first exhibitor was a mom with a kid on the spectrum. […] The next person is an artist on the spectrum.
ref: 2009 April 7, John Elder Robison, “Autism and Art as a window into the mind” (blog post)
ref: 2009, Lynn Kern Koegel, Claire LaZebnik, Growing Up on the Spectrum: A Guide to Life, Love, and Learning for Teens and Young Adults with Autism and Asperger's, Penguin Group, →ISBN:
ref: 2010, Julie Brown, Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN:
ref: 2010, Zosia Zaks, Parenting on the Spectrum, Jessica Kingsley Limited, →ISBN:
ref: 2011, Valerie L. Gaus, Living Well on the Spectrum: How to Use Your Strengths to Meet the Challenges of Asperger Syndrome/High-Functioning Autism, Guilford Publications, →ISBN:
text: 2014 Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai, "Minimum Viable Product", Silicon Valley season 1 episode 1, 6 minutes 10 seconds
There is a personal ad section on this Asperger site. Holy shit this one is looking for "a relationship that has a potential to become sexual in nature". Boy, is she on the spectrum. She can't even make eye contact with the camera.
text: might slag the project as monotonous or, more callously, "on the spectrum"
ref: 2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED:
qualifier: autism
glosses: Having autism spectrum disorder or exhibiting traits pertaining to or within the autism spectrum.
examples: text: [Infrared light] waves are too long to see, but they have enough energy to make your skin feel warm. They come right before visible light on the spectrum.
ref: 2012 September 1, Spectrum, Science, Grade 7, Carson-Dellosa Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
text: The basic spectrum model is often coupled with the sex-gender distinction, whereby one's sex is seen as binary and immutable but one's gender can be anywhere on the spectrum.
ref: 2019 December 3, Katie Steele, Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 70:
text: This subsection marks out the different points on the spectrum, starting with a minimal level and moving to a higher level of engagement.
ref: 2023 May 30, Rebecca J. Cook, Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, spectrum.
Synonyms: autistic
spectrumy
floating feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating feelings
Senses: glosses: A combined feeling of light-headedness and dizziness, as if floating.
packs fudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pack fudge
packed fudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pack fudge
packing fudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pack fudge
bashes the bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bash the bishop
bashed the bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bash the bishop
bashing the bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bash the bishop
morning glories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning glory
chokes the chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of choke the chicken
choked the chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of choke the chicken
choking the chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choke the chicken
ding-a-lings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ding-a-ling
love muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love muscle
skin flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin flute
bean bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean bag
perineal raphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perineal raphae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The visible line that extends from the anus, through the mid-line of the scrotum and upwards through the posterior mid-line aspect of the penis
Related terms: word: penile raphe
word: scrotal raphe
sense: See also
word: anococcygeal raphe
sense: See also
word: buccal raphe
sense: See also
word: lateral palpebral
sense: See also
word: lingual raphe
sense: See also
word: palatine raphe
sense: See also
word: pharyngeal raphe
sense: See also
word: pterygomandibular raphe
sense: See also
word: raphe nucleus
perineal raphae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perineal raphe
tracheostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheostomy
totalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totalizer
treeifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of treeify
treeifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of treeify
encoignure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encoignures
Etymology: Borrowed from French encoignure.
Senses: examples: text: The delightful Louis Quinze or Louis Seize encoignure in lacquer or in mahogany elaborately mounted in gilded bronze is not the least alluring piece of the great period of French furniture.
glosses: A small armoire, commode, cabinet or cupboard made to fit a corner.
encoignures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encoignure
treeified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of treeify
trifurcates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trifurcate
trifurcating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The three single hollow-core oil-filled cables are fed by one 225-litre normal pressure tank at the trifurcating joint position outside the Blackheath end of the tunnel.
ref: 1954 July, “Notes and News: New Cables in Blackheath Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, pages 507-508:
glosses: present participle and gerund of trifurcate
trifurcated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The song's structure is as follows: refrain (trifurcated); verse 1 (A, quadfurcated); refrain` (trifurcated); […]
ref: 2021, Anthony J. Fonseca, Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre:
glosses: simple past and past participle of trifurcate
triglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ.ɡlɪf/
Forms: form: triglyphs
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Ancient Greek τρίγλυφος (trígluphos, “triglyph”).
Senses: examples: text: An interesting architectural point is raised by some stone carvings, with a vertical triple-grooved design. So often is this design found that Mr. Fyfe, when discussing its occurrence on a miniature fresco at Knossos, calls it the most distinctive architectural ornament of the age. There is every probability that we may see in it the prototype of the "Triglyphs" that alternate with Metopes on the entablature of the Doric Temple.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 28:
topics: architecture
glosses: A vertically channeled tablet of the Doric frieze.
osteoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteomas
form: osteomata
Etymology: From osteo- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign bony tumour that typically grows on the skull.
Ballardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ballardian
form: most Ballardian
Etymology: From Ballard + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the sense of evil—which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture—is nowhere present in the Ballardian text.
ref: 1993, Nicholas Ruddick, Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction, Praeger Pub Text:
text: Like some Ballardian nightmare from 1986 / Let the satellite navigation system guide us to the Styx
ref: 2011, “Roof Of Your Car”, in Computers and Blues, performed by The Streets:
text: The purest Ballardian set, poised chronologically between High-Rise and Millennium People, was an estate on the edge of the recently created Barrier Park (architectural planting in the deep trenches of an old dock).
ref: 2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
text: However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space.
ref: 2013, Paul Morley, The North: (And Almost Everything In It), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: The very Ballardian violence comes from rogue Salafist jihadists and their far-right counterparts, the Nativists (imagine the EDL with brains); […]
ref: 2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: Wellsian
glosses: Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009).
muley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: moolley
form: mooly
form: mulley
Etymology: Gaelic maolag, a hornless cow, from maol, bald, hornless, blunt.
Senses: glosses: Without horns.
raw_tags: of cattle or deer
muley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muleys
form: moolley
form: mooly
form: mulley
Etymology: Gaelic maolag, a hornless cow, from maol, bald, hornless, blunt.
Senses: glosses: A cow or deer without horns.
muley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muleys
Senses: glosses: The mule deer.
Lijiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Li-chiang
form: Likiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 麗江 /丽江 (Lìjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: The main road to Lichiang-fu, by Ho-ch'ing, is not followed by the muleteers, except by request, as there is a high mountain to cross.
ref: [1922 December 2, [Francis] Kingdon Ward, “Mr. Kingdon Ward’s Seventh Expedition in Asia. No. III. To Lichiang.”, in The Gardeners’ Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, volume LXXI (Third Series), number 1875, London: 5 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2, →OCLC, page 325, column 1:
text: On board the Chinese satellite Micius, which launched last year, a high energy laser was fired through a special kind of crystal, generating entangled photon pairs. This in itself was a feat: the process is sensitive to turbulence, and before the experiment launched scientists weren't completely sure it would work. These photons were transmitted to ground stations in Delingha, a city on the Tibetan Plateau, and Lijiang, in China's far southwest.
ref: 2017 June 15, Sarah Kaplan, “Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2017:
text: A 5.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled the city of Lijiang in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Sunday injured 15 people, the Yunnan Earthquake Agency said on its social media feed.
ref: 2022 January 2, Tony Munroe, Min Zhang, “Earthquake in southwest China's Yunnan injures 15 people”, in Neil Fullick, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2022, China:
glosses: A prefecture-level city northwestern Yunnan, China.
Haikou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hīʹkōʹ
Forms: form: Hai-k'ou
Etymology: From Mandarin 海口 (Hǎikǒu).
Senses: examples: text: Hainan Island, of which Haikou is the capital, is a tropical province that China has proclaimed its newest and largest special economic zone. Partly because it is separated from the Chinese mainland by a 13-mile strip of water, the authorities give it special dispensation to stray from economic and social orthodoxy.
ref: 1993 March 25, Sheryl WuDunn, “Haikou Journal; For Treasure (and Pleasure), Their Special Island”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, World:
glosses: The capital and most populous city of Hainan province, China; located on the north side of Hainan island.
Synonyms: english: Postal Romanization
translation: Postal Romanization
word: Hoihow
greeneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenery
33s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 33
sofritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofrito
re-evaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-evaluations
form: reevaluation
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent evaluation or rating
star chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star charts
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: star-map
glosses: A map of the night sky used to identify and locate astronomical objects such as stars, constellations and galaxies.
glosses: A radar chart.
star charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star chart
bollox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolloxes
Senses: examples: text: “That’s it. On yer feet and let’s go,” the voice continued. “You’re in New York now, ya little bollox. This is not your mother’s house back in Tyrone.”
ref: 2009, Colin Broderick, Orangutan: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bollocks.
Derived terms: bolloxology
bollox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bolloxes
form: bolloxing
form: bolloxed
form: bolloxed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bollocks.