cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kniving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
ipa: /k(ə)ˈnaɪvɪŋ/
ipa: /naɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Etymology: Likely a mishearing of the misconstrued word's pronunciation as kniving with a pronounced k, perhaps influenced by its semantic associations with backstabbing and knives.
Senses: examples: text: When your so-called friends try to smear your name with their backstabbing and kniving games, look them straight in their eyes and say, I know who I am.
ref: 2003, Carlton D. Bembry, If I Were a Card: The Things I Would Say, →ISBN, page 13:
text: It was enough that Frederich was a kniving back-stabber who was always working with ...
ref: 2011, Tommy Anthony, Somewhere Along the Line, →ISBN:
text: He did not share his Duke's kniving mind, nor lack of morals and he had a good friend aboard one of those boats back across the turbulent sea.
ref: 2011, Juan Crazy, Succubus: Book 1 - Seven Hells, →ISBN, page 361:
glosses: Misconstruction of conniving.
knived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From knife + -ed, with -f- changed to -v- as in the plural knives.
Senses: examples: text: The sharp-knived butchers cut off thine head, they sever thy neck, they do execution on (?) thee again and again. […] he shall not be, for he is fallen to the fire of the glance of Horus, to the slaughterers and the sharp-knived butchers; they perform their office on him and he is fallen into this evil impotence.
ref: 1937, R[aymond] O[liver] Faulkner, “The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus—III”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume XXIII, London: […] The Egypt Exploration Society, […], pages 172–173:
text: At the entrance to the market-hall, where sharp-knived butchers were peeling off slices of steak as if they were taking off a wrapper, and where the butter came in primrose mountains, was a woman selling basil a good foot-and-a-half high planted in an old tin can, and scenting the doorway with its enormous leaves.
ref: 1981, Tom Vernon, “Pyramids of the Sun”, in Fat Man on a Bicycle: A Discovery of France, [London]: Fontana/Collins, published 1982, →ISBN, page 313:
text: He sent silent-knived assassins by night to the Ammonite captains.
ref: 1981, Amos Oz, Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.; London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 207:
text: Other cured meats are common too – a shop selling salami and other pork products is known all over Italy as a norcineria, after the town of Norcia, famous for its sharp-knived butchers who once also had a sideline keeping boys’ singing voices high.
ref: 2009 May, Julius Honnor, Umbria & Marche (FootprintItalia), Bath, Somerset: Footprint, →ISBN, page 54, column 1:
text: Her mother differed from the long-knived butchers only in that she screamed along with her victim, so that an outsider could never tell who was threatening whose life.
ref: 2010, Albert Vigoleis Thelen, translated by Donald O. White, The Island of Second Sight: From the Applied Recollections of Vigoleis, Cambridge, Cambs.: Galileo Publishers, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of knifed.
knived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From knive + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knive
unluxuriant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unluxuriant
form: most unluxuriant
Etymology: From un- + luxuriant.
Senses: glosses: Not luxuriant.
bat detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat detectors
Senses: glosses: A device that helps to identify the presence of bats by converting their echolocation ultrasound signals to audible frequencies.
bat detectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bat detector
coemerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coemerges
form: coemerging
form: coemerged
form: coemerged
Etymology: From co- + emerge.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, 14 viruses exhibited another covarying position D701N with K627E observed in seasons I and II but missing in season III. Although no cooccurrence of Q591K, K627E, and D701N was observed, other amino acid changes coemerged with K627E at various degrees.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Genomic Signatures for Avian H7N9 Viruses Adapting to Humans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To emerge together.
Related terms: coemergent
coemerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coemerge
coemerges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coemerge
coemerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coemerge
erythroferrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This could indicate that both TMPRSS6 and erythroferrone are important components of one signaling pathway.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Effect of Erythropoietin, Iron Deficiency and Iron Overload on Liver Matriptase-2 (TMPRSS6) Protein Content in Mice and Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A protein hormone produced by erythroblasts that inhibits the action of hepcidin and so increases the amount of iron available for hemoglobin synthesis.
heterogeneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + generic.
Senses: examples: text: Many congeneric spider species had optima in more open canopy while species that had their optima in more closed canopy were mostly heterogeneric.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Impact of Canopy Openness on Spider Communities: Implications for Conservation Management of Formerly Coppiced Oak Forests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of different genera.
intergenogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + genogroup.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, such intergenogroup reassortant strains were identified in Thailand, implying the ongoing spread of unusual rotavirus strains in Asia.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Reassortment of Human and Animal Rotavirus Gene Segments in Emerging DS-1-Like G1P[8] Rotavirus Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between genogroups.
noninhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noninhibitors
Etymology: From non- + inhibitor.
Senses: examples: text: The “randomForest” package in R was employed to construct random forest models for classification of HCV NS5B polymerase inhibitors and noninhibitors.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Discovery of Novel Hepatitis C Virus NS5B Polymerase Inhibitors by Combining Random Forest, Multiple e-Pharmacophore Modeling and Docking”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A substance that is not an inhibitor.
noninhibitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noninhibitor
discolorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discolorate
undemonstrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + demonstrated.
Senses: examples: text: Taken together, our data indicated that APN reversed miR-133a levels through AMPK activation, reduced ERK1/2 phosphorylation in cardiomyocytes stimulated with Ang II, revealing a previously undemonstrated and important link between APN and miR-133a.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Adiponectin Upregulates MiR-133a in Cardiac Hypertrophy through AMPK Activation and Reduced ERK1/2 Phosphorylation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not demonstrated.
unablated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ablated.
Senses: examples: text: Repositioning the monopolar electrode under ultrasonographic guidance is very difficult because the changes in the hyperechoic area induced by the previous ablation may interfere with positioning the tip of the electrode and identifying unablated residual tumor.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Usefulness of a New Three-Dimensional Simulator System for Radiofrequency Ablation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not ablated.
chondroprogenitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondroprogenitor
dirofilarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.ɹəʊ.fɪˈlɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.ɹoʊ.fəˈlɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: Dirofilaria + -al
Senses: examples: text: There were no abnormalities in the results of physical examination, CBC, serum biochemical analysis, urinalysis, multiple fecal examinations, dirofilarial antigen assay, endoscopic examination, or histopathologic findings of mucosal biopsies.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Alterations of the Ileal and Colonic Mucosal Microbiota in Canine Chronic Enteropathies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of or relating to the Dirofilaria, a genus of nematodes.
Related terms: dirofilaria
dirofilariasis
endotransglycosylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endotransglycosylase
graviportality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From graviportal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Other available proxies (femur length and humerus width) produced unreasonable mass estimates for one or more of the included taxa, likely as a result of the changing degree of graviportality through the history of the rhino lineage.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Osteopathology in Rhinocerotidae from 50 Million Years to the Present”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being graviportal.
intrascanner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + scanner.
Senses: examples: text: This phenomenon has been observed in earlier studies and could be related to intrascanner variation, sampling differences in the region of interest of an inhomogeneous nodule or beam-hardening artifact.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Can Spectral CT Imaging Improve the Differentiation between Malignant and Benign Solitary Pulmonary Nodules?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: interscanner
glosses: Within a single scanner.
osteopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + pathological.
Senses: examples: text: This pattern in osteopathological expression may reflect a part of the complex system of adaptations in the Rhinocerotidae over millions of years, where increased mass, cursoriality, and/or increased life span are selected for, to the detriment of long-term bone health.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Osteopathology in Rhinocerotidae from 50 Million Years to the Present”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to osteopathology.
Synonyms: osteopathologic
racemisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racemisation
triciribine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tricy(clic) + -ribine (“ribofuranosyl derivative of the pirazofurin type”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A cell-permeable tricyclic nucleoside used to treat cancer.
cabotegravir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -tegravir (“HIV integrase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An integrase inhibitor used to treat HIV infection.
cannabimimetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannabimimetic.
intermonth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + month.
Senses: examples: text: The same procedure was used to calculate the intermonth diet similarity described below.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Feeding Strategies of Brown Howler Monkeys in Response to Variations in Food Availability”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between months.
intramonth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + month.
Senses: glosses: Within a single month.
reprepared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reprepare
reprepares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprepare
repreparing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reprepare
unlimiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlimiting
form: most unlimiting
Etymology: From un- + limiting.
Senses: glosses: Not limiting.
Dwarfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dwarfers
Etymology: From Dwarf + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fan of the British comedy series Red Dwarf.
Dwarfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dwarfer
push polling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push-polling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push poll
push polling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-polling
Senses: examples: text: Allegations of push polling have become increasingly common during recent election campaigns for all levels of public office in the United States, including the presidency, Congress, state legislatures, and state initiative campaigns.
ref: 2005, Samuel J. Best, Benjamin Radcliff, Polling America, →ISBN, page 610:
text: Push polling is so antithetical to legitimate polling that in 1996 the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC), and the National Council on Public Polls (NCPP) issued a joint statement condemning the practice.
ref: 2008, Paul J. Lavrakas, Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods, →ISBN, page 646:
text: As a final example, the 2009 campaign to reelect Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York City was accused of conducting push polling against a potential Bloomberg opponent, U.S. representative Anthony Weiner (Hernandez 2009).
ref: 2011, Herbert Asher, Polling and the Public, →ISBN:
text: Push polling has extended beyond the boundaries of the United States, although one Toronto Sun article referred to push polling as "a controversial U.S. style campaign tactic."
ref: 2012, Michael A. Genovese, Matthew J. Streb, Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: The practice of using push polls as a campaign or marketing technique.
push-poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-polls
Senses: examples: text: The push-poll operates under the guise of legitimate survey research to spread lies, rumors, and innuendo about candidates.
ref: 1996, Larry Sabato, Dirty Little Secrets, →ISBN, page 245:
text: Republican pollster Ed Goeas echoed this sentiment, stating that "anonymously spreading rumor and innuendo through push-polls is sleazy and should have no part in a campaign strategy.
ref: 2001, Dennis W. Johnson, No Place for Amateurs, →ISBN, page 166:
text: He was asked if the Clinton campaign was behind the push-poll, knew who was behind it or had any other information on it.
ref: 2008 February 3, Andrew Malcolm, “Breaking News: Pro-Clinton push poll erupts in California”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Alternative form of push poll.
push-poll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push-polls
form: push-polling
form: push-polled
form: push-polled
Senses: examples: text: Are Hillary's consultants trying to push-poll New Yorkers around?
ref: 2000, New York - Volume 33, Issues 5-12:
text: Dick Bennett of the American Research Group pollsters told Vanity Fair that his callers constantly encountered people who had just been push-polled.
ref: 2009, David Mark, Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Soon afterward, voters reported being push-polled.
ref: 2013, Daniel M. Shea, Brian M. Harward, Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: Alternative form of push poll.
push-polls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of push-poll
push-polls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push-poll
push-polled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push-poll
push-polling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push-poll
push-polling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is the business of push-polling, a deceptive practice purporting to be a poll but actually designed to influence opinion.
ref: 1999, United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations, Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government, page 36:
text: Push-polling hones in on an opponent's record, strip-mining it and often distorting or exaggerating it.
ref: 2004, Steven Hill, Fixing Elections, →ISBN, page 159:
text: One telemarketing application that has received considerable criticism in the past several election cycles is push-polling.
ref: 2015, Dennis W. Johnson, Political Consultants and American Elections, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of push polling.
push polled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push poll
10/40 Window
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the 10/40 Window
Senses: examples: text: This intercessor's guide features maps and information on each 10/40 Window nation, covering trends, religions, people groups, and history.
ref: 1995, George Otis, Mark Brockman, Strongholds of the 10/40 window, →ISBN:
text: All three major non-Christian religions — Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism — originated in the 10/40 Window and have their greatest strength there.
ref: 1996, Gailyn Van Rheenen, Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies, →ISBN, page 209:
text: The primary but not exclusive focus of AD2000 became the 10/40 Window, a term coined for the area of the world between ten degrees and forty degrees north latitude, stretching from northern Africa and southern Spain to Japan and the northern Philippines.
ref: 2003, Jon Bonk, Between Past and Future, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: The geographic region between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude, especially when considered as a target for Christian missionary work.
unforgiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unforgivers
Etymology: From un- + forgive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who does not forgive.
unforgivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unforgiver
e-therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-therapies
Etymology: From e- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: Therapy delivered by means of electronic technology, especially computer networks.
Related terms: e-health
teletherapy
Rumpolean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rumpolean
form: most Rumpolean
Etymology: From Rumpole + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rumpolian.
Rumpolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rumpolian
form: most Rumpolian
form: Rumpolean
Etymology: From Rumpole + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Horace Rumpole (Rumpole of the Bailey), a fictional eccentric barrister who defends any and all clients.
derailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more derailable
form: most derailable
Etymology: From derail + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being derailed.
Derived terms: nonderailable
underailable
unfraudulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfraudulent
form: most unfraudulent
Etymology: From un- + fraudulent.
Senses: glosses: Not fraudulent.
clubling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clublings
Etymology: From club + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Long before his irregularities became a public scandal, they were known to the more sharp-sighted of his set; and it is said that a young clubling once came to a certain Duke with an air of much embarrassment and concern, stating that he had discovered Lord de Ros in the act of cheating, and asking what he should do in the matter.
ref: 1875, The Southern Magazine, volume 16, page 536:
text: The men were more of Sherrard's own class, — aristocratic clublings and travellers, — with a sprinkling of long-haired, artist-professor looking individuals.
ref: 1899, Mrs. Alexander, The Step-mother - Page 98:
glosses: One who frequents or belongs to a club; club attender or member
clublings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubling
vine staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vine staffs
form: vine staves
form: vine-staff
Etymology: Calque of Latin vītis (“vine; vine staff”).
Senses: synonyms: centurion's staff
glosses: A cane originally made of twisted grapevine trimmings and used by Roman centurions to beat the soldiers under their command; the various mushroom-headed batons later borne by them as a mark of office.
vine staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vine staff
vine staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vine staff
vine-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vine-staffs
form: vine-staves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vine staff.
vine-staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vine-staff
vine-staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vine-staff
ecospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecosphere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A series of experiments are carried out to simulate the equilibrium conditions as the ecospheric recovery rate improves.
ref: 1994, Rural Economy Staff Paper, page 22:
glosses: Relating to the ecosphere, especially in the context of its contributions to the economy.
centurion's staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In his right hand [Gaius] carried his centurion's staff, while his left held a rolled parchment, with Pilate's signature, guaranteeing Eleazor's pardon.
ref: 2006, Sean Young, Violent Sands, page 67:
text: Likewise [Marcellus] cast away his Centurion's staff and his arms, further declaring, "From this day forth I make an end of fighting for your Emperors..."
ref: 2013, A.R. Allison & al. translating Antonio Gallonio, Torture of the Christian Martyrs, page 65:
glosses: Synonym of vine staff.
synonyms: word: vine staff
Bauhausian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bauhausian
form: most Bauhausian
Etymology: From Bauhaus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bauhaus or the style it promulgated.
Bauhausian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bauhausians
Etymology: From Bauhaus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Bauhaus artistic movement.
Bauhausians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bauhausian
Brunton compass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunton compasses
Etymology: After geologist David Brunton, founder of Brunton, Inc.
Senses: glosses: A type of precision compass commonly used by geoscientists.
wikipedia: Brunton, Inc.
Brunton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bruntons
Etymology: From a metathesized form of Old English burna (“stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). This surname is also common in Ireland.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Newton-by-the-Sea parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2024).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Collingbourne Kingston parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU2456).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet near Cupar, Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3220).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Brunton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bruntons
Etymology: From a metathesized form of Old English burna (“stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). This surname is also common in Ireland.
Senses: examples: text: USING A BRUNTON AS A PROTRACTOR
If you find yourself without a protractor for plotting rays on a map in the field—as you must do when triangulating—you can first field-orient your map and then use the Brunton as a protractor […]
ref: 2009, Tom Freeman, Procedures in Field Geology, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of Brunton compass.
synonyms: word: Brunton compass
love offering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love offerings
Senses: examples: text: There are actually some preachers who are timid about urging people to give a good revival love offering.
ref: 2000, Hugh F. Pyle, What Every Preacher Should Know!, →ISBN, page 307:
text: No one thought of taking up a love offering! I was irritated to say the least. My only consolation was that I knew the second service would have an even larger crowd, so at least we would get the love offering from that one.
ref: 2010, Ron Owens, Iris: Trophy of Grace, →ISBN, page 70:
text: In the typical love offering approach, the funds are received by the church or nonprofit (payments directly to an individual are discussed above).
ref: 2010, Dan Busby, Zondervan Church and Nonprofit Tax & Financial Guide 2010, →ISBN:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Money collected from members of a congregation by passing a plate during the religious service.
love offerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love offering
permanent shave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permanent shaves
Etymology: From the early 1900s, presumably a pun on permanent wave.
Senses: examples: text: (ghost brandishing a noose:) “Brother, you sure gonna get your face lifted.” (ghost brandishing a razor:) “And a permanent shave! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
ref: 1930, Fleischer Studios, Swing You Sinners:
text: ‘Last chance,’ she said. ‘Or.’ ‘Or else,’ she said, pantomiming a knife being drawn across her throat. ‘You’re going to shave me?’ ‘A permanent shave,’ she said.
ref: 1999, Louis Rogers, Ladder to the Sky:
text: I walked right up to Ravus’s unconscious body with the intention of blasting his brains out, and that’s exactly what would have happened if the hot Fangorian who’d been escorting me to the table hadn’t pulled a blade from out of nowhere and held it up to my neck so hard that if I so much as breathed wrong I’d get a permanent shave.
ref: 2015, Steven Montano, The Last Acolyte:
glosses: A throat-slitting.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see permanent, shave.
non-denominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nondenominal
Etymology: From non- + denominal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not denominal.
examples: 2015, Richey Novak, Ph.D., A Love Affair: An Essay on Life, Love, and Being Together
He found fertile grounds in Palestine, and in time his tent was turned into a substantial permanent building and an independent, non-denominal church called the Temple.
glosses: Misspelling of non-denominational.
nondenominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + de- + nominal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-denominal.
femtometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From femto- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or measured using the femtometre
foolproofness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foolproof + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being foolproof.
monolithicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monolithic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being monolithic.
Synonyms: monolithicness
foolproofly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foolproofly
form: most foolproofly
Etymology: From foolproof + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a foolproof manner
mofette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mofettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mofetta.
co-oped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-op
co-oping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-op
mofetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mofettas
form: mofette
form: moffette
Etymology: From Italian mofeta.
Senses: glosses: A volcanic discharge of carbon dioxide together with other, mostly smelly, gases
Related terms: mephitis
Swedophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swedophiles
Etymology: From Swedo- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Sweden is often in his mind though he is no robotic Swedophile, as one sometimes finds; his theory is more general and its applications would be more diverse.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Boswell, Community and the Economy: The Theory of Public Co-operation, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: On the other hand it was unfashionable to be Swedish-speaking, Swedophile and believing in cooperation with Russia.'44 These contrasting attitudes were not necessarily mutually exclusive; for example, some of the leading Jägers were Swedish-speaking although in other ways they fell into the 'fashionable' category.
ref: 2000, John Ernest Oliver Screen, Mannerheim: The Finnish Years, Hurst, →ISBN:
text: But even a Swedophile must exercise restraint. My memories of Swedish gardens are but one part and that indeed a small one, of my whole impression of Swedish life.
ref: 1935, Landscape and Garden: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Garden Design and Landscape Architecture, volume 2, Arthurs Press, Ltd, page 102:
glosses: A person who admires Sweden and things associated with it.
Synonyms: Suecophile
Sweeaboo
Related terms: Svecoman
Swedophobe
Foxheart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
thermolyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermolyses
form: thermolysing
form: thermolysed
form: thermolysed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thermolyze.
topochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From topo- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemistry of reactions that are dependent on, or change, the topology of the reactants
Derived terms: topochemical
Ayuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese あゆこ.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
mofettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mofette
put-downable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more put-downable
form: most put-downable
form: putdownable
Etymology: From put down + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The Red White and Blue is, FOR THE most part, terrifically readable, but also immensely put-downable. A reason for the latter is that John Gregory Dunne is lavish with murder, mutilation, vomit, dwarf jokes, racist jokes, latrine scenes, and […]
ref: 1987, {unattributed}, New York Magazine Feb 23, 1987
text: It's not that it wasn't good, but it was significantly more put-downable than others.
glosses: Not captivating or engrossing; dull.
un-put-downable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-put-downable
form: most un-put-downable
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we appeal to all right-minded playgoers. Let them remember that they have got tongues, and that a vigorous, unmistakeable, un-put-downable hiss is, in a theatre, a potent instrument.
ref: 1861, The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine: An Illustrated Journal, Combining Practical Information, Instruction, and Amusement, London: S[amuel] O[rchart] Beeton, →OCLC, page 303:
text: Since "Next" is one of Mr. [Michael] Crichton's more un-put-downable novels, the reader may experience some frustration. It's tempting to stop and look up each of the genetic, legal and ethical aberrations described here in order to see how wild a strain of science fiction is afoot. Save a step. Just believe this: Oddity after oddity in "Next" checks out, and many are replays of real events.
ref: 2006 November 28, Janet Maslin, “Geneticists gone wild. What’s the world to do?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2018:
text: [James] Lees-Milne does not always show himself off in a good light, and he is by turns self-aggrandising, cruel, dismissive, mean-spirited and totally un-put-downable (though there will be occasions when you want to throw his books across the room with some force).
ref: 2013 January 21, Alan Titchmarsh, “Keeping a diary is hard work”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of unputdownable.
putdownable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more putdownable
form: most putdownable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put-downable.
Blanchet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blanchets
form: Blancett
Etymology: From French Blanchet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Blanchett
Blanchette
lesser mortal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser mortals
Senses: examples: text: The better-off tend to look upon us as lesser mortals.
text: 1693, William Penn, Reflections and Maxims, no. 262, in A Collection of the Works of William Penn, London, 1726, Volume 1, p. 856,
[…] those higher Ranks of Men, are but Trustees of Heaven, for the Benefit of lesser Mortals, who, as Minors, are entituled to all their Care and Provision:
text: […] at the luaus (feasts) the forever never-ending luaus, I must be seated on Lilolilo’s makalao mat, the Prince’s mat, his alone and taboo to any lesser mortal save by his own condescension and desire.
ref: 1919, Jack London, On the Makaloa Mat, New York: Macmillan, page 33:
text: In respect to Celia’s uncannily sunny disposition in Nyack Hospital, I swallowed many an admiring remark for seeming somehow indecorous, as if her improbable good nature were an affront to lesser mortals who quite reasonably wail from pain and grow irascible during convalescence.
ref: 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk about Kevin, London: 5-star, published 2006, page 345:
glosses: A person of lower rank, station or ability.
raw_tags: used in the plural form
Related terms: mere mortal
lesser mortals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser mortal
sole rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sole right
shipping companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipping company
monogastrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monogastric
postal votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postal vote
polling days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polling day
death traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death trap
shaving gels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaving gel
purpletuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purpletufts
Etymology: From purple + tuft, a reference to the purple feather tufts on the flanks of the male.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Iodopleura of small, short-tailed birds found in the canopy of forests in tropical South America.
purpletufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purpletuft
birth rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birth rate
base years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base year
buddy booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy booths
Senses: glosses: A room, usually part of a sex shop, where a customer can view pornographic material and interact sexually with the customer in the adjacent booth.
buddy booths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy booth
veteran cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veteran car
metaphoreme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphoremes
Etymology: From metaphor + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A non-literal expression with a relatively fixed lexicogrammatical form and specific semantics and pragmatics, associated with metaphoric language.
metaphoremes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphoreme
vice-chairmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vice-chairman
Left May
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small language family of central New Guinea.
Hirt's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Hermann Hirt, who postulated it in 1895.
Senses: glosses: A Balto-Slavic sound law stating that the inherited Proto-Indo-European stress would retract to a non-ablauting pretonic vowel or a syllabic sonorant if it was followed by a consonantal (non-syllabic) laryngeal that closed the preceding syllable.
Winter's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Werner Winter, who postulated it in 1978.
Senses: glosses: A sound law operating on Balto-Slavic short vowels, according to which they lengthen before unaspirated voiced stops, and that syllable gains rising, acute accent.
eunuched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eunuch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made a eunuch; emasculated.
eunuched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From eunuch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eunuch
odalique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odaliques
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of odalisque.
odaliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odalique
plunging necklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plunging neckline
brake vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brake van
kerb weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerb weight
Starbucksification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Starbucks + -ification, named after the American coffee company and coffeehouse chain.
Senses: examples: text: In what might be seen as a move to promote salon-style discussions or a result of society's Starbucksification, a self-serve, push-button cappuccino, latte, and espresso machine came fall quarter to the Bartlett Dining Commons.
ref: 2004, The University of Chicago Magazine, volume 97, page 18:
text: It leads to chainstores swallowing up individual enterprises; it leads to the phenomenon, recently labelled 'clone towns' in the UK, whereby every high street looks pretty much like every other high street. It leads to the Starbucksification of the world […]
ref: 2007, Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Free:
text: The billboards were placed by an informal coalition of independent Louisville businesses – a protest against 'Starbucksification', sparked by the sale of Hawley-Cooke, Louisville's largest independent bookstore, to Borders in August 2003.
ref: 2012, Charles Landry, The Art of City Making, page 127:
glosses: The increased homogeneity of an area as a result of big business, to the detriment of local character and diversity.
Related terms: clone town
curb weights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curb weight
private cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private car
counterfinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfindings
Etymology: From counter- + finding.
Senses: glosses: A finding that contradicts another finding.
counterfindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfinding
company cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of company car
tyre barriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyre barrier
racing drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racing driver
paddy fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddy field
migratory birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of migratory bird
spankavision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of spank + television
Senses: examples: text: Print on the wall, earth tones on the bed, data port on the phone, fifty-five channels on the TV, including E! and Bravo: the modern secular hotel in perfect replica, except for the fact that there's no Spankavision and no minibar.
ref: 1999, Esquire: The Magazine for Men, volume 131, page 96:
text: If he needs some spankavision to get him through those nights, he needs to visit us. We'll provide DVD's for him!
ref: 1999, Bill, “I will provide Howard with DVD's!”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):
text: and for the record, cable modems download pron^([sic]) at speeds of over 100 times faster than regular modems. its^([sic]) total spankavision. i love it.
ref: 1999, Yokes, “[bst] testing”, in alt.music.nin (Usenet):
text: “Do you at least have some good spankavision?” Ben asked. Mike blushed. “I've got a kid in the house, so no, I don't have any spankavision.”
ref: 2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again:
glosses: audiovisual pornographic material
oil refineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil refinery
drilling rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drilling rig
swing bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swing bridge
passing loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passing loop
crossing loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossing loop
moonlight flits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonlight flit
passenger trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passenger train
blue lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue light
blue lights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blue light
north-easterlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of north-easterly
south-westerlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of south-westerly
air intakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air intake
one-year-olds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-year-old
polar circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polar circle
self-examinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-examination
self-exams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-exam
audio tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio tape
world leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world leader
sovereign states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovereign state
cold sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold sweat
marine mammals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marine mammal
sea mammals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea mammal
T-pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-piece
heterolecithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + lecithal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the yolk unevenly distributed within the cytoplasm
dividing lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dividing line
oligolecithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + lecithal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a small amount of yolk in the cytoplasm
honey extractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey extractor
paper punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper punch
sheets of paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheet of paper
homolecithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + lecithal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the yolk evenly distributed within the cytoplasm
seat cushions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seat cushion
binding agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binding agent
target groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of target group
family members
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family member
daily lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daily life
axle loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axle load
axle stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axle stand
jack stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack stand
fist fights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fist fight
fishing vessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishing vessel
string players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string player
Tigranes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Tigrānēs, from Ancient Greek Τιγράνης (Tigránēs).
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Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by several kings of Armenia.
Related terms: Tigran
andropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andropathies
Etymology: From andro- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Effects on male reproductive function Examination of potential LHRH- and agonist-induced antifertility effects in the male became the subject of intense interest, particularly on the basis of their anti-reproductive properties in the female and the general inability of these compounds to significantly ameliorate various types of clinical andropathy (hypospermia, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, etc.)
ref: 2012, M. Briggs, Progress in Hormone Biochemistry and Pharmacology, page 262:
glosses: Any disease that only affects men.
Coordinate terms: gynecopathy
gynecopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynecopathy
andropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andropathy
Englisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Englishers
Etymology: From English + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Englishman: an English person.
synonyms: word: Englishman
extra: an English person
qualifier: Amish dialect
glosses: A non-Amish person.
glosses: A person who translates works into English.
Related terms: Britisher
Irisher
Welsher
Englisher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From English + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of English: more English.
Englishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Englisher
Englishest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of English: most English.
bioecologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bioecological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of bioecology.
bioecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioecologists
Etymology: From bio- + ecologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies bioecology.
bioecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioecologist
marvail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marvails
form: marvailing
form: marvailed
form: marvailed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marvel.
marvail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marvails
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marvel.
marvailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marvail
marvailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marvail
marvails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marvail
marvails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marvail
Kahoolawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˌhoʊ.əˈlɑːwiː/
Forms: form: Kaho'olawe
form: Kahulawi
Etymology: From Hawaiian Kahoʻolawe, from ka (“the”) + hoʻolawe (“to subtract, erode”).
Senses: glosses: An uninhabited island, the smallest of the main 8 islands of Hawaii in the United States.