cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
editcountitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edit count + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: A system that encourages number of contributions over quality can be counterproductive. Wikipedia cautions against 'editcountitis', humorously described as 'a belief that a Wikipedian's overall contribution level can be measured solely by their edit count'.
ref: 2006, Jane Klobas, Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Chandos Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:
text: The author of the original tool for counting edits noted that editcountitis, or an unhealthy obsession with the notion of edit count, can be fatal. Editcountitis is often a symptom of Wikipediholism, which is an even worse disease. The only sure treatment is worrying more about the quality of your edits than the quantity.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, pages 324–325:
text: Wikipedians can be a similarly compulsive and eccentric lot. So much so that some refer to themselves as Wikipediholics with a case of editcountitis, "a serious disease consisting of an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits you have made to Wikipedia."
ref: 2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A.; London: MIT Press, page 157:
text: In fact, the very ease of this process may be the reason for deletionism's prevalence: Many Wikipedians suffer from editcountitis, the state of being overly obsessed with the number of edits one makes.
ref: 2017 March 6, Dariusz Jemielniak, “The Wikipedia Battle Over Really Short Articles”, in Slate, archived from the original on 29 May 2023:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: An obsession with increasing one's edit count on a wiki.
Related terms: wiki crack
Wikiholic
Wikipediholism
wikiholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wikiholics
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wikiholic.
Wikiholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wikiholic
takes heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take heart
taking heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take heart
took heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take heart
taken heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take heart
defined term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defined terms
Etymology: From defined + term.
Senses: examples: text: If I have correctly interpreted the intention underlying this Amendment, I do not think that it is necessary. The only thing it appears to add to the Bill as drafted is to put an outright ban on terms closely resembling a defined term, if they are introduced into common use after the definition order has been made.
ref: 1966 February 24, Lord Rhodes, “Protection of Consumers (Trade Descriptions) Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), volume 273 (5th series), column 416:
topics: law
glosses: A term in a legal document that has been given a specific definition, which overrides the general meaning of the term in the context of that document.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see defined, term.
defined terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defined term
debank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /di(ː)ˈbæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: debanks
form: debanking
form: debanked
form: debanked
form: de-bank
Etymology: From de- + bank, partly (sense 1) by analogy with deplatform.
Senses: examples: text: Ms Juric said as well as debanking her business, banks had also debanked her personal accounts and the accounts of people she was related to or lived with.
ref: 2021 September 8, Sarah Danckert, “Bitcoin Babe refused by 91 banks, put on terrorism watchlist, ‘bullied’ by Austrac”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: Both of our organizations have had recent run-ins with debanking. The National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF)—a nonprofit advocacy group that exists to defend the right of everyone in America to live out their faith freely—opened a JPMorgan Chase checking account last April. A few weeks later, the bank shut down the account without explanation.
ref: 2023 March 15, Sam Brownback, Jeremy Tedesco, “Stop the Troubling Trend of Politically Motivated Debanking”, in Newsweek:
text: However, recent regulatory announcements – including directives from the U.S. Federal Reserve and executive branch designed to debank crypto firms, a pending lawsuit against the largest and most trustworthy U.S. exchange, Coinbase, and increasingly hostile rhetoric from Congress – are far from appropriate.
ref: 2023 March 26, Keiko Yoshino, “Where the U.S. Government Went Wrong in Regulating Crypto”, in Yahoo Finance:
text: It might come as some small comfort to Nigel Farage to discover that it’s not just those on his side of the Brexit debate who have fallen victim to potential ‘debanking’.
ref: 2023 July 28, Steerpike, “Has Gina Miller also fallen victim to ‘debanking’?”, in The Spectator:
glosses: To deprive a person or organisation of banking services, especially for political reasons.
examples: text: Oil Company of Texas [was] a company with which the Board had been feuding for two years over its efforts to “debank” its subsidiary bank by purporting to abandon demand deposit-taking.
ref: 1985, John D. Hawke, Jr., Commentaries on Banking Regulation, →ISBN, page 394:
text: After some years in which ING Group received dispensation from the US government it will now start to ‘debank’ (giving back its banking licence) its business in the US.
ref: 1997, Simon Sijbrands, “The Internationalisation of Dutch Banks: New Beginning and Future Developments”, in Jack Revell, editor, The Recent Evolution of Financial Systems, →ISBN, page 261:
text: As part of the transaction, [Bayerische Vereinsbank] planned to “debank,” that is end its backing operations in the U.S. […] It appeared, however, that various aspects of debanking would take a substantial period of time, for example liquidating its positions on letters of credit or guarantees issued on industrial revenue bonds.
ref: 1998, Hal S. Scott, Philip A. Wellons, International Finance: Transactions, Policy, and Regulation, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: To cease or cause to stop operating as a bank.
Synonyms: unbank
Related terms: unbanked
underbanked
debanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debank
debanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debank
debanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debank
de-bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-banks
form: de-banking
form: de-banked
form: de-banked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of debank.
de-banks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-bank
de-banking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-bank
de-banked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-bank
Wikipediholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wikipediholics
Etymology: From Wikipedi(a) + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: Hopefully, you'll get hooked on Wikipedia soon and can add yourself to the list of "Wikipediholics" ;-).
ref: 2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):
text: Yes, I am a Wikipediholic.
ref: 2004 July 6, Bryan Derksen, “Ringworld's Children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: Wikipedians can be a similarly compulsive and eccentric lot. So much so that some refer to themselves as Wikipediholics with a case of editcountitis, "a serious disease consisting of an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits you have made to Wikipedia."
ref: 2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A.; London: MIT Press, page 157:
text: Many Wikipedia pages deal with topics only of interest to the Wikipedia community itself. Some of these pages are funny: there's a 1,181-question test to see if you're a Wikipediholic (for anyone who willingly sits through the entire test, I think the answer is obviously "yes"); a list of articles with freaky titles ("22.86 Centimetre Nails," the metric version of the band "Nine Inch Nails," now unfortunately deleted); and many others.
ref: 2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53:
hypernyms: Wikiholic
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.
Related terms: Wikipediholism
Wikipediholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wikipediholic
Wikipediholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪ.kɪˌpiːdɪˈhɒ.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˌwɪ.kiˌpiːdiˈhɑ.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˌwɪ.kəˌpiːdiˈhɑ.lɪ.zəm/
rhymes: -ɒlɪzəm
Etymology: From Wikipedia + -holism.
Senses: examples: text: Blog streaking, Google-stalking, Wikipediholism and other modern maladies
ref: 2006 December 21, Jack Schofield, “(article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023:
text: The author of the original tool for counting edits noted that editcountitis, or an unhealthy obsession with the notion of edit count, can be fatal. Editcountitis is often a symptom of Wikipediholism, which is an even worse disease. The only sure treatment is worrying more about the quality of your edits than the quantity.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, pages 324–325:
text: The community has dubbed obsessively editing the encyclopedia Wikipediholism; an article for the term warns that, "like any behavioral addiction, Wikipedia overuse may lead to job loss, divorce, bankruptcy, or worse. […] Remember, it's your time and you are donating it to Wikipedia. It is healthy to donate what you can afford to donate, but no more."
ref: 2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023:
hypernyms: Wikiholism
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: An addiction to editing Wikipedia.
Related terms: Wikipediholic
service media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From service + media.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Equipment, structures or machinery used for the supply of a service (“utility provided on a continuous basis, such as water supply”).
Llanstadwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + Saint Tudwal.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, between the towns of Milford Haven and Neyland (OS grid ref SM9505).
wikipedia: Tudwal
bassily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bassily
form: most bassily
Etymology: From bassy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bassy manner.
FRZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRZs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of flight restriction zone.
FRZs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FRZ
living legends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living legend
Machon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
teaette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaettes
Etymology: From tea + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A perforated lidded spoon for the rapid preparation of a single cup of tea.
teaettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teaette
tri-pane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + pane.
Senses: examples: text: Windows Live Mail uses a tri-pane window layout.
ref: 2011, Kevin Otnes, Windows 7 Made Simple, page 304:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Consisting of three panes.
bucket orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucket orchids
Senses: glosses: Any orchid of the genus Coryanthes.
bucket orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucket orchid
Maryland chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chicken Maryland.
synonyms: word: chicken Maryland
raindroppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raindroppy
form: most raindroppy
Etymology: From raindrop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Raindrops are raindroppy, not gumdroppy—more's the pity.
ref: 2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities, page 364:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a raindrop.
Los Angelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Los Angelizes
form: Los Angelizing
form: Los Angelized
form: Los Angelized
form: Los Angelise
Etymology: From Los Angeles + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To subject to Los Angelization, or urban sprawl.
Los Angelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Los Angelize
Los Angelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Los Angelize
Los Angelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Los Angelize
classroomese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /klæsruːˈmiːz/
Etymology: From classroom + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently, this is another instance where classroomese contrasts with authentic language use.
ref: 2013, Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, Susanne Ley, Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, page 169:
glosses: A form of language taught to learners that does not reflect actual language use.
do someone's business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone's business
form: doing someone's business
form: did someone's business
form: done someone's business
Senses: examples: text: I'll spoil his wandering, I'll him. I'll do his business that way, never fear.
ref: 1702, George Farquhar, The Inconstant, or the Way to Win Him:
glosses: To ruin someone; to do for.
Related terms: do one's business
pretzellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretzellike
form: most pretzellike
Etymology: From pretzel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pretzel
expressivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expressivistic
form: most expressivistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to expressivism.
bro down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bros down
form: broing down
form: broed down
form: broed down
Senses: examples: text: But I actually liked Madness, I thought they were really cool guys; they were actually, like, 'Let's bro down'.
ref: 2009, Stevie Chick, Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag:
text: My parents met Jesse (I mean, obviously, he was right there), and there was some awkwardness, followed by my dad trying to “bro down” with him (yes, those exact words were used, I'm still mortified), […]
ref: 2013, Robin Benway, Spy Society:
glosses: To fraternize; to have a casual male social gathering.
potatoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potato
potatoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From potato + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: With the proper ration card, you could buy the day’s fare of black bread, black coffee and a potatoed version of borsch.
ref: 1950 May, G. F. Zimmermann, “Iron Curtain Day”, in Harvester World, volume 41, number 5, International Harvester Organization, page 8, column 1:
text: They had seen the country once, a rolling valley from a train, the thigh-like cleaves of furrows of a potatoed field—from a window—or upon some swift auto ride; […]
ref: 1969, Earl Conrad, Battle New York: Mural of the Metropolis, San Francisco, Calif.: West-Lewis Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 22:
text: It can be clear clam broth or Manhattan clam chowder (red and tomato-y) or Boston clam chowder (a potatoed cream soup).
ref: 1978 November, Ellen Stein, “Dining Out: Michigan’s Water Wonder: Seafood”, in Monthly Detroit, volume 1, number 8, page 21, column 3:
text: […] a ‘potatoed, corned and peopled country’ between Letterkenny, Limavady and Strabane formed an advantaged core zone, the inhabitants of which were predominantly Protestant with Presbyterians out-numbering Episcopalians in all localities (indeed, the district was ‘more Presbyterian’ than the immediate hinterlands of Belfast, Newry or Enniskillen each of which contained several parishes where Episcopalians were dominant).
ref: 1998, Cathal Póirtéir, editor, The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798, Spoken Language Services, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 84:
text: >I've brewed with potatos.^([sic]) The regular run-of-the-mill kind are extremely
> flavour
>neutral, so it's pretty-much like brewing with rice. Just take mashed potatos^([sic])
> and
>throw them into your mash. Easy as that.
Alan, do you know approximately how many points per pound 'average' potatos^([sic]) yield? This thread has gotten me currious^([sic]) about trying a potatoed mash.
ref: 1998 June 20, Mats White, “Odd idea for blue ale”, in rec.crafts.brewing (Usenet):
glosses: With potato.
potatoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From potato + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potato
GZK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin.
Derived terms: GZK cutoff
GZK horizon
GZK limit
GZK mechanism
Nanch'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻang¹.
Senses: examples: text: The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary—Chang Kuo-t’ao—to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.
ref: 1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927, number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
text: The First Army Corps attacked Nanch'ang on August 1, but failed to capture it.[…]In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.
ref: 1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927–1935, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215:
text: The Communist Party had no troops of its own, but it is known that the Northern Expedition forces included several communist officers, some of whom held important commands. Such was the case in the Second Front Army (ex Fourth Army), commanded by General Chang Fa-k'uei and recently transferred from Hupei to the Nanch'ang-Kiukiang area of Kiangsi, with its headquarters to Kiukiang (see Map 5, p. 152). A few units of three armies belonging to the Second Front Army were in Nanch'ang itself or in the neighbourhood of the town:[…]
ref: 1972 [1968], Jacques Guillermaz, “The change in leadership and the failure of the Nanch'ang and Autumn Harvest Uprisings, and of the Canton Commune”, in Anne Destenay, transl., A History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1949, 1st American edition, New York: Random House, translation of Historie du parti communiste chinois 1921-1949 (in French), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151:
text: In early 1358 Ch’en Yu-liang captured Anch’ing, and soon afterwards Nanch’ang, the key to central Kiangsi, fell without serious resistance.
ref: 1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352–1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of Nanchang.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Wayana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Carib-speaking people located in the southeastern part of the Guiana highlands.
Wayana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Cariban language spoken by the Wayana people.
time heals all hurts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: However, it is a true saying that time heals all hurts, and so it was with Jack Grosvenor, for it came to pass that when the first soreness was over Fred induced Jack to pay them another visit before he took his bride back to the bush, […]
ref: 1883 February 1, The Australian Woman's Magazine and Domestic Journal, volume 1, number 2, page 332:
text: She pressed my arm. “Time heals all hurts,” she said, “and some day you will find a woman worthy of you, if such a one exists.”
ref: 1930, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Fighting Man of Mars, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc., published 1931, page 211:
text: She also assures Jacob that time heals all hurts. The day will come when Esau's seething will dissipate, and the scenario with Jacob and Esau will become only part of Esau's distant past.
ref: 1995 September 26, Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18-50, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
synonyms: word: time heals all wounds
time heals all sorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: “Time heals all sorrows; and that which, perhaps, appears almost unbearable at the beginning of the year, may be looked upon with calm complacency at the end of it. Time will do that for us which nothing else can; and grateful ought we to be that it is so.”
ref: 1844, Anonymous [Eliza Peake], Honour! A Tale, London: Saunders and Otley, page 121:
text: “Time heals all sorrows,” they tell you; but it is a platitude, and not a true one. Sometimes people deceive themselves; they think they have forgotten, and then something brings all back again, and it is worse than before.’
ref: 1891, Mary Linskill, Between The Heather And The Northern Sea, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 127:
text: By time, I don’t mean that “time heals all sorrows.” That’s a bad cliché— and nothing could be further from the truth. Time will never heal all sorrows. I know because it hasn’t healed mine, and it certainly hasn’t healed the hearts of the people whose stories I listen to every day.
ref: 2013, Rita Schulte, Shattered: Finding Hope and Healing Through the Losses of Life, Abilene, Texas: Leafwood Publishers, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Synonym of time heals all wounds.
synonyms: word: time heals all wounds
coffee-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coffeeroom.
time heals every wound
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Do you say, Time heals every wound? Ay, time heals the wounds of time by slaying eternity. He vampeth up a kind of endurance of threescore and ten years by the death of ages and ages. That is the cure of time.
ref: 1865, Edward Irving, The Collected Writings of Edward Irving, volume III, page 228:
text: Early on, when Maggie says time heals every wound, Mama replies, "I suppose -- if you live long enough." At the end, as anguish reveals how fragile Buddy and Maggie both are, the old woman's quiet compassion turns to steel.
ref: 1993 January 25, D. J. R. Bruckner, “Review/Theater; The Ties That Bind And Bind Too Tightly”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2018:
text: Time heals every wound – that's still the best solution.' 'We don't have much time. Maybe twenty years if all goes well.' 'You're always so dramatic!' Marianne took several deep breaths. 'Forget it. I'll tell you what I want.
ref: 2017 March 2, Nina George, The Little Breton Bistro, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of time heals all wounds.
Bazalar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bazalars
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Alvechurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0272).
business unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business units
Senses: topics: business
management
synonyms: strategic business unit
glosses: A profit center which focuses on a particular product line and/or market segment, having its own marketing plan and campaign, even if part of a larger business entity.
Related terms: cost center
profit center
Niggerati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of niggerati.
formwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From form + -wise.
Senses: coordinate_terms: contentwise
glosses: In terms of form.
counter-embattled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterembattled.
countercombatant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-combatant
form: counter-combattant
Senses: examples: text: In this and other articles Russett advocated a countercombatant deterrent. The Russians are adequately deterred by a credible threat that the U.S. can and will wipe out their army on the Chinese border; there is no need to aim at[…]
ref: 1979, Worldview, page 48:
text: It is the thesis of this article that the broad outlines of such a deterrent would include an ethnic-based countercombatant, counterindustrial targeting doctrine. Within this framework, declaratory policies and force procurement[…]
ref: 1985, Kenneth M. Currie, Gregory Varhall, The Soviet Union: What Lies Ahead? : Military-political Affairs in the 1980s, page 388:
text: Post-Cold War U.S. nuclear counterforce could allow for countercombatant targeting against military infrastructure and power projection capabilities of armies, navies, and air forces, without seeking the destabilizing[…]
ref: 1998 July 23, Stephen J. Cimbala, The Past and Future of Nuclear Deterrence, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 20:
text: the popular understanding nor in the U.S. security elite community is there sufficient appreciation of the possibilities and requirements of a countercombatant strategy.
ref: 2021 December 13, Charles Kegley, After The Cold War: Questioning The Morality Of Nuclear Deterrence, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Targeting or countering combatants. (Describing, for example, a strike that targets enemy troop concentrations, as opposed to a counterindustrial strike that targets enemy industry.)
examples: text: Arms. G. 2 lions countercombatant O. quartering A. on a pale B. 3—A.
ref: 1790, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Topographer: Containing a Variety of Original Articles, Illustrative of the Local History and Antiquities of England, page 78:
text: Quarterly, 1st gu. on a chev. ar. a rose betw. two lions countercombatant of the first, for HEPBURN; 2nd, az. a ship or, her sails furled ar. within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second, as Duke of Orkney: 3rd[…]
ref: 1884, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 480:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.
raw_tags: of two animals
counterrampant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counter-rampant.
Sellindge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1038).
counter-changed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterchanged.
counter-charged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countercharged.
counter-combatant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countercombatant.
purse-seine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: purse-seines
form: purse-seining
form: purse-seined
form: purse-seined
Senses: examples: text: Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small. John, born in 1945, […] began in a little dory with his father. They gillnetted, longlined, jigged, purse seined, and survived in the postwar years of poverty.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228:
glosses: To fish using a purse seine.
tetracyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracyanates
Etymology: From tetra- + cyanate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with four cyanate groups or ions.
Bongistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Britbong + -i- + -stan.
Senses: qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Great Britain or the United Kingdom.
organ of elimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organs of elimination
Senses: examples: text: The delicate surface of the lungs, and, indeed, of the whole air passages, is […] also a great organ of elimination. Camphor, phosphorus, ether, diluted alcohol, gases, and various odorous substances, when introduced into the system, escape in a great measure by the lungs: whence they are perceived in the breath[…]
ref: 1835, Human physiology, page 227:
text: Thus in my opinion the question is decided ; the kidney is but an organ of elimination; its office in diabetes is to eliminate the sugar from the blood, as it is in health to eliminate the urea.
ref: 1841, Changes of the blood in disease, page 21:
text: […]that most important organ of elimination the skin, in the glow of which, and in its cleansed pores, and promoted transpiration, an increased exhalation and excretion are obtained, through which in the course of weeks any degree of purification of the blood that may be supposed necessary, may be arrived at.
ref: 1846, Observations on hydropathy; with an account of the principal cold water establishments of Germany, page 43:
text: For man and animals the liver receives the food for the body: the liver is the principal organ of elimination; the liver appears to play the role of cytoplasm; it appears to be the negative pole of the organism, playing always with the positive pole—the brain.
ref: 1926, The Therapeutic Gazette, page 168:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any bodily organ that produces or excretes waste products.
maybeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maybe + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: possible
uncertain
glosses: Characterised by possibility or uncertainty.
mijwiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of woodwind instrument with two pipes used in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine
paixiao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of pan flute with pipe holes made from notches that is from China.
saenghwang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saenghwang
Senses: glosses: A type of free reed mouth organ from Korea, usually having 17 pipes.
myolipoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myolipomas
form: myolipomata
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myelolipoma.
forgor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɔː/
ipa: /fɔːˈɡɔː/
ipa: /fəɹˈɡɔɹ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈɡɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: i forgor 💀
antonyms: rember
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of forgot.
cyclocoagulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclocoagulation
cyclocorids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclocorid
cyclocryotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclocryotherapy
cyclodecaphosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclodecaphosphate
cyclo-decaphosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclo-decaphosphate
cyclodehydratases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclodehydratase
cyclodeviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclodeviation
cyclodextrinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclodextrinase
cyclodiathermies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclodiathermy
SPCK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: An SPCK publication of last year, Revelation and Reunion, deserves more recognition than it has had in this country.
ref: 1943 February 14, Father Joseph [Claude Crookston], “What Price Unity?”, in The Living Church, volume 106, number 7, page 9:
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: Initialism of Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
get one's fuck on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's fuck on
form: getting one's fuck on
form: got one's fuck on
form: gotten one's fuck on
form: got one's fuck on
Senses: examples: text: I used to see him, in The Tunnel, with fuckers at dawn
Whisper in my ear he wanna get his fuck on
ref: 1996, Lil' Kim, “Not Tonight”:
glosses: to have sex
run up in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs up in
form: running up in
form: ran up in
form: run up in
Senses: examples: text: I know a dude named Jimmy, used to run up in me
Night time pissy drunk off the Henny and Rémy
I didn't mind it, when he fucked me from behind it
Felt fine, 'specially when he used to grind it
ref: 1996, Lil' Kim, “Not Tonight”:
text: Although he only stopped by from time to time to run up in her, bust off, and roll out, she still loved him.
ref: 2007, Endy, In My Hood 2:
text: Even though Quannie wasn't a virgin, most of the guys who ran up in her were average at best, and Smurf's dick was bigger than what she was used to.
ref: 2012, Lisa Lennox, Crackhead II: A Novel:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with, especially in a non-romantic way
uterine gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uterine glands
Senses: glosses: Tubular glands, lined by ciliated columnar epithelium, found in the functional layer of the endometrium that lines the uterus
Binukid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bukid
adraxone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Adrenochrome.
Nio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /niːoʊ/
/niːəʊ/
Forms: form: nio
Etymology: From Japanese 仁王 (Niō), from Chinese 仁王 (Rénwáng, “Benevolent or Humane King[s]”).
Senses: examples: text: Two Deva Kings (Nio) stand guard, as do two koma-inu (Korean lion-dogs), to protect the temple from the entry of evil forces... The 12 foot (3.6 m) tall Nio on the right has his mouth open to pronounce the Sanskrit "A" while the one on the left has his lips closed so as to pronounce the "Om" sound, these two sounds being the alpha and omega of Buddhist lore, symbolizing the all inclusiveness of Buddhist teachings.
ref: 2014, John H. Martin et al., Kyoto: 29 Walks in Japan's Ancient Capital, page 43:
text: The guardian at the right, with mouth open, represents birth; the guardian on the left, with mouth closed, represents death. The space between them represents the Absolute, or all that is contained between birth and death. At Iwamadera, the Nio, a distinctive ebony and shiny as lacquer, enhanced their ferocious, don't-mess-with-me muscular stance.
ref: 2018, Joan D. Stamm, A Pilgrimage in Japan, page 114:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: especially Japanese contexts
glosses: A pair of door gods at the main gates of Buddhist temples.
Synonyms: word: Vajrapani
english: Chinese contexts
translation: Chinese contexts
word: Renwang
saves someone's bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of save someone's bacon
saving someone's bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of save someone's bacon
saved someone's bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of save someone's bacon
pulls someone's bacon out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull someone's bacon out of the fire
pulling someone's bacon out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull someone's bacon out of the fire
pulled someone's bacon out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull someone's bacon out of the fire
pulls someone's chestnuts out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
pulls someone's fat out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull someone's fat out of the fire
pulling someone's fat out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull someone's fat out of the fire
pulled someone's fat out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull someone's fat out of the fire
dayjamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dā•jäməz
ipa: /deɪ̯ˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/
note: Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US
ipa: /deɪ̯ˈd͡ʒæ.məz/
Etymology: Blend of day + pajamas
Senses: examples: text: DAYJAMAS FOR CASUAL AND LEISURE CLOTHING FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NAMELY, SHIRTS, PANTS, SHORTS, SOCKS, SWEATERS AND JACKETS (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).
ref: 1996 December 17, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 257:
text: In its 2012 resort collection, Louis Vuitton gave model Arizona Muse a Coco Chanel look, but traded the immortal mademoiselle’s tweed and ivory silk for “dayjamas” with blue leopard spots and a fuddy-duddy cardigan. The old menswear classic was accessorised with a matchy-matchy helmet and Prince Albert slippers.
ref: 2012 May 27, “Pajamas wake up to the party scene”, in The New Indian Express, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2020:
text: What are DayJamas? DayJama /dā•jämə/ noun: Comfortable enough to sleep in, but chic enough to wear all day. Mix and match effortless designs with and easy fit in a super soft material.
ref: 2021, “Mer Sea Fall 2021”, in Harper Group, Fall/Winter edition, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2023, page 23:
text: The “inclusive and nonbinary” collection consists of slipdresses, dayjamas, tops and bottoms, and robes in luxurious silk.
ref: 2022 July 28, Christian Chensvold, “Roy G. Takes Tie-Dye to the Next Level”, in California Apparel News, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2023:
text: There are three different categories that feature silk material in slip dresses (mini too), dayjamas, and robes. The color schemes are very loud and peaceful with a combination of excitement.
ref: 2022 August 15, Luke Drew, “SILKY SMOOTH COMFORT FROM ROY G.”, in The Garnette Report, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2023:
glosses: Pajama-like clothing worn as daytime-appropriate apparel.
TMML
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of that made me laugh.
what is worse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: what's worse
Senses: glosses: Worse still, even worse; and to top it off, as if that wasn't bad enough.
Related terms: what is more
most like
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: mostlike
Senses: glosses: In all probability, most likely.
tape dispenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape dispensers
Senses: glosses: A device used to hold and dispense adhesive tape, typically with a cutting edge to facilitate tearing.
Synonyms: tape holder
Hypernyms: office supply
stationery
tape dispensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tape dispenser
organs of elimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ of elimination
oxopropanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɒksəʊˌprəʊpəˈnəʊɪk/
Etymology: From oxo- + propanoic, where "oxo-" indicates the presence of a carbonyl group and "propanoic" refers to the three-carbon chain.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: ketopropanoic
glosses: Of or relating to a compound containing a ketone group attached to a three-carbon chain with a carboxylic acid functional group.
Derived terms: oxopropanoic acid
Coron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /koˈɾon/
Senses: glosses: An island in the Calamianes, Palawan, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Palawan, Philippines.
twilight language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twilight languages
Etymology: Calque of Sanskrit सांध्याभाषा (sāṃdhyābhāṣā).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, when you hear your song for the first time and it seems to be nothing more than babble, do not dismiss it. For the words, should you receive them immediately, will not be in Chinese, Spanish, Sanskrit or any ancient earthly tongue. They will be in one of a multitude of twilight languages, which seep through the gate that leads from the Realm of Creation to the Physical Realm and vice versa.
ref: 1987, Laeh Maggie Garfield, Sound Medicine, Berkeley, C.A.: Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 45:
text: One of the leading subjects of his research, conspiracy theorist James Shelby Downard, proposed a scenario about the JFK assassination that contained a fascinating speculation about the importance of Freemasonic "twilight language" (double and triple meanings, numerology, and onomatology).
ref: 2012 April 12, Steven Heller, “The Secret History of Secret Societies”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2023:
text: Ancient rituals were pulled from Middle Eastern caves, translated from the native language and its alleged twilight language, and the name of a forgotten Pharaoh Osar Onophris comes to us now in the phrase, "Myself made Perfect."
ref: 2013, Michael Cecchetelli, The Holy Guardian Angel: On the Practice and Experience of the Holy Guardian Angel, Nephilim Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A secret communication system, involving verbal, nonvisual, or visual symbols, associated with tantric traditions in Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism.
twilight languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twilight language
shishya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shishyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi शिष्य (śiṣya, “disciple, student”), from Sanskrit शिष्य (śiṣya), from Sanskrit शास् (śās, “to teach, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁s- (“to teach, to indicate”).
Senses: examples: text: That winter night, everybody was drinking rum that we, the visiting party, had brought with us from Calcutta. One of the Babaji's young shishyas had got into a close and personal tangle with the liquor, drinking faster than everybody else, and the old guru was admonishing him about overdoing the Old Monk before sending him off to bed.
ref: 2018 August 20, Ruchir Joshi, “Free Spirit”, in India Today, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Living Media India Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022:
glosses: In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
shishyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shishya
picking up the pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of pick up the pieces.
ultrarisky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrarisky
form: most ultrarisky
Etymology: From ultra- + risky.
Senses: examples: text: But reality does not exist only in movies. What is missing from Cruise's fervid documentation of ultrarisky, inconceivably expensive, meticulously planned real-life events are any details about the parts of his real life that do not involve, for example, filming stunts for "Mission: Impossible" movies.
ref: 2023 July 17, Caity Weaver, “My Impossible Mission to Find Tom Cruise”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023:
glosses: Extremely risky.
leave something to be desired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /liːv ˈsʌmθɪŋ tu biː dɪˈzaɪə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: leaves something to be desired
form: leaving something to be desired
form: left something to be desired
form: left something to be desired
Senses: examples: text: These instructions are too short not to leave something to be desired under certain circumstances; but the knowledge of veterinary surgeons will supply whatever may be incomplete[…]
ref: 1835, An essay on the use of chlorurets of oxide of sodium and of lime, page 35:
text: […]the drawings of the bats, though very artistic, leave something to be desired as regards detail.
ref: 1921, Foxes from Northern Argentina, page 386:
text: Nevertheless, the trains are well patronised, for road services in the district leave something to be desired.
ref: 1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
text: To say Cuban train toilets leave something to be desired would not just be an understatement, it would suggest the person speaking inhabited an altogether alien reality.
ref: 2013, Slow train to Guantanamo : a rail odyssey through Cuba in the last days of the Castros, page 125:
glosses: to be insufficient in some aspect.
Related terms: leave a lot to be desired
leave much to be desired
leaves something to be desired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave something to be desired
sailor skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.lər skɜːrt/
Forms: form: sailor skirts
Senses: examples: text: But Weil remained interested in learning more about the Japanese girl-games about teen soldiers in sailor skirts, about the dollhouse oddities filigreed with princess crowns and Barbie branding. She wanted to know where to find them, and how much they might be worth.
ref: 2014 June 5, Leigh Alexander, “Girly video games: rewriting a history of pink”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023:
glosses: A skirt making up part of a sailor fuku uniform.
sailor skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailor skirt
spirant mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirant mutations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aspirate mutation.
synonyms: word: aspirate mutation
spirant mutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirant mutation
harborows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harborow
sneaky fucker strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term was coined by John Maynard Smith.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: kleptogyny
wikipedia: John Maynard Smith
women's rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women's right
Senses: glosses: The rights and entitlements specific to women and girls.
Related terms: human rights
children's rights
children's rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: children's right
Senses: glosses: The rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.
Related terms: human rights
women's rights
Oranbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.