cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
splunk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /splʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Etymology: Imitative; compare splash, splat, plunk.
Senses: examples: text: A splunk, like a rock hitting water, brought him to a standstill, straining to hear.
ref: 2004, Ramona Crawford, Sabrina Says, page 162:
text: Splunk! Mid-muse, Darcy was startled by a weird noise — something between a splat and a thunk. Pausing in her apple-picking, she looked around. Splunk! There it was again!
ref: 2005, Jory Simms, Welcome to Where?:
text: Was that the hose? Did they drop it in? Splunk. Something hit the water.
ref: 2007, Lois Metzger, Be careful what you wish for:
glosses: The sound of something heavy landing in a liquid.
escape goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape goats
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of scapegoat.
Synonyms: scapegoat
escapegoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escapegoats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scapegoat.
Synonyms: scapegoat
statue of limitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of statute of limitations.
hone in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊn ɪn/
ipa: /həʊn ɪn/
Forms: form: hones in
form: honing in
form: honed in
form: honed in
Etymology: By confusion between hone and home.
Senses: examples: text: More than half of those are completely ignored by de Róiste. He hones in on only 400 of those, scattered around the country.
ref: 2016 April 18, Harry McGee, “All you need to know about tight race for those Seanad seats”, in The Irish Times:
text: On June 12th The Economist’s pages featured an activist investor “honing in on the dearth of energy experience” on a company’s board. A few readers honed in on a solecism: […]
ref: 2021 July 15, “Sometimes solecisms can reveal linguistic ingenuity”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway facts: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of home in.
oligogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to oligogyny.
oligogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + -gyny.
Senses: glosses: The situation where an ant colony has multiple egg-laying queens, but they remain far apart from one another in the nest.
Hypernyms: polygyny
Related terms: oligogynous
haplometrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The establishment of an ant colony by a single queen.
Coordinate terms: pleometrosis
Derived terms: haplometrotic
pleometrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The establishment of an ant colony by multiple queens.
Coordinate terms: haplometrosis
Derived terms: pleometrotic
monodomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: The situation where an ant colony is established at a single nest site.
Derived terms: monodomous
polydomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thus polydomy ensues when an entire colony breaks up into several nesting aggregations.
ref: 1987, Jörg Eder, Chemistry and biology of social insects, page 35:
text: The outpost phenomenon probably accounts for many cases of polydomy, defined as the dispersal of the colony into multiple nest sites.
ref: 1990, Bert Hölldobler, The Ants, page 390:
text: Although this uncertainty exists, the lack of absolute male bias confirms that seasonal polydomy is not a major influence on the population sex ratio.
ref: 1995, Andrew F. G. Bourke, Social Evolution in Ants, page 187:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The situation where an ant colony is established across multiple nest sites.
Derived terms: polydomous
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spearman's rank correlation coefficients
Etymology: Created by Charles Spearman.
Senses: glosses: A statistical measure that expresses two variables by correlation on a scale from 1 to -1.
wikipedia: Charles Spearman
monodomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monodomy + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to monodomy.
non-prefabricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prefabricated.
Senses: glosses: not prefabricated; made to order.
chetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chetties
form: chitty
Etymology: Ultimately from Sanskrit श्रेष्ठ (śreṣṭha) or श्रेष्ठीन् (śreṣṭhīn).
Senses: examples: text: A contract is made, usually by the house itself, with the chetties for such a quantity of cotton of such a quality, and the very lowest sum is fixed. The chetty, finding he cannot get a price that would justify the delivery of such cotton as he has contracted for, agrees to it, well knowing that they must take such as he chooses to deliver to them at the time.
ref: 1851, J. Forbes Royle, On the Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India, and Elsewhere, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 87:
text: Far too many Burmese farmers are heavily in debt to the "chetties," the money-lending caste of the Madras coast.
ref: 1882, Shway Yoe, chapter XXIII, in The Burman: His Life and Notions, volume 1, London: Macmillan & Co., page 298:
text: […] Li Yeik or the Indian chetty in the bazaar would cash cheques […]
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 9, in Burmese Days:
text: 2000, Laure Adler, Marguerite Duras: A Life, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen, London: Victor Gollancz, Chapter 3, p. 58, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RRxxlYQTzNYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[…] Marguerite's mother was earning 22,000 francs a month. A quarter of that went to the owner of the Saigon boarding house; another quarter to Pierre's tutor in France and a third went to the chetties to pay off loans made for the concession.
glosses: A member of one of various South Indian castes of merchants, money-lenders and land-owners.
spruce cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spruce cones
Senses: glosses: The conical fruit of a spruce tree.
Related terms: fir-cone
pine cone
pine-cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine-cones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinecone.
pine-cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pine-cone
spruce cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spruce cone
nonprefabricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prefabricated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-prefabricated.
fangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanger
meadow muffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow muffin
hyperlink cinema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by author Alissa Quart in her 2005 review of the film Happy Endings.
Senses: examples: text: And yet one could also argue that the aestheticization of Kracauer's “solidarity of the universe” in contemporary cinema—for example, “hyperlink cinema” which brings together multiple protagonists from different social classes, ethnic or racial groups, and nations[…]
ref: 2009, Temenuga Trifonova, editor, European Film Theory, Routledge, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: A multilinear form of cinema involving interwoven storylines, plot twists, and flashback and flashforward sequences.
wikipedia: Happy Endings (film)
revenue cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revenue cutter
nonclairvoyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + clairvoyant.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not clairvoyant.
cock-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock on.
cock-on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock on.
cock-on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cocks-on
form: cocking-on
form: cocked-on
form: cocked-on
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cock on.
semiclairvoyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + clairvoyant.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given approximate advance information about the problem, but not fully clairvoyant.
celebritize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: celebritizes
form: celebritizing
form: celebritized
form: celebritized
Etymology: From celebrity + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Its failure to politicize celebrity, as well as to celebritize politics, caused the nascent group to founder in its early days.
ref: 1994, Toril Moi, Janis Radway, Materialist Feminism, page 773:
text: Everyone is required to sit for new headshots, to write exhaustively and shamelessly about themselves, to collect links to their TV clips and old articles, their author pages and personal websites, all this content shoveled onto the heaping pile of the magazine's redesigned website, trying to make personalities out of staff, to celebritize themselves, puffing out their chests to appear more relevant, less shut-down-able.
ref: 2016, Chris Pavone, The Travelers, page 269:
glosses: To transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous.
Derived terms: celebritization
celebritizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of celebritize
celebritizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of celebritize
celebritized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of celebritize
celebritization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celebritizations
Etymology: From celebritize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of celebritizing.
celebritizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celebritization
reinterpretability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reinterpret + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reinterpretable.
Homo Superior
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Homo Superiors
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Homo superior.
Homo Superiors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Homo Superior
Amphissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Amfissa.
in no way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In no sense,
glosses: Never ever; not for any reason.
Synonyms: on no account
under no circumstances
by no means
by no stretch of the imagination
gease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geas.
Polanskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Polanskian
form: most Polanskian
Etymology: From Polanski + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Roman Polanski (born 1933), French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.
folk dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk dancers
Senses: glosses: A person who takes part in folk dancing.
decompact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decompacts
form: decompacting
form: decompacted
form: decompacted
Etymology: From de- + compact.
Senses: glosses: To make less compact.
Related terms: decompaction
decompacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decompact
decompacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decompact
decompacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decompact
folk dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the activity of taking part in folk dances.
Related terms: folk dancer
seven and seven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven and sevens
form: 7 and 7
Senses: glosses: A highball made with Seagram's Seven Crown whiskey and 7 Up.
7 and 7
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 7 and 7s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seven and seven.
seven and sevens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seven and seven
7 and 7s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 7 and 7
milkbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkboxes
Etymology: From milk + box.
Senses: glosses: A box kept outside a house to store newly delivered milk and empty bottles to be returned to the dairy.
milkboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkbox
frame houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame house
Archie Bunker house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Archie Bunker houses
Etymology: Referring to the home of the fictional Archie Bunker from the 1970s American television sitcom All in the Family.
Senses: glosses: A frame house with clapboard siding.
wikipedia: Archie Bunker
Archie Bunker houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Archie Bunker house
wild flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild flowers
Senses: examples: text: At Merstone, The line to Sandown branches to the left, descends the ½ mile at 1 in 70 of Redway bank, and runs along the valley of the little River Yar (not to be confused with the River Yar in the western part of the island), through low-lying pleasing countryside, covered in spring and summer with wild flowers, to Horringford, 1¾ miles from Merstone.
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:
glosses: Alternative form of wildflower.
PUFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PUFAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polyunsaturated fatty acid.
PUFAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PUFA
policide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide.
Senses: glosses: The intentional destruction of a nation.
examples: text: In Chile the project of policide—annihilating the Left and more broadly, Center and Left cultural understandings of politics as a process of popular mobilization, via massive killing and abduction of real and alleged Left activists, complemented by additional layers of persecution and fright heaped on dissidents of any political stripe—yielded issues of comprehensibility and representation similar to those in classic cases of genocide.
ref: 2010, Steve J. Stern, Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006:
glosses: The intentional destruction of political activity in a society.
cover notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cover note
contingentism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒəntˌɪz.əm/
Forms: form: contingentisms
Etymology: From contingent + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Necessitism is the view that necessarily everything is necessarily something (so ontology is non-contingent). Analogously, permanentism is the view that always everything is always something (so ontology is unchanging). Different ways of developing these views are distinguished. On the other side, contingentism is the negation of necessitism, and temporaryism is the negation of permanentism.
ref: 2013, Timothy Williamson, Modal Logic as Metaphysics:
text: Throughout this book, I use the term "contingentism" to denote a way of understanding existence that differs usefully from the standard essentialist view.
ref: 2015, Kriti Sharma, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
contingentisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contingentism
chick-blinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chick-blind
above one's station
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The serf's ideas of equity were above his station.
text: Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation,[…] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter IV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: Of higher social status than suitable for one's position, standing, or rank.
social order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social orders
Senses: examples: text: May the dysgenic social order collapse under the weight of its depravity and misdeeds.
text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)
glosses: A particular system of social structures, institutions, customs, values, and practices which conserve, maintain, and enforce certain societal relations and behavioral patterns.
glosses: The stability of a society, in contrast to social chaos and upheaval.
Related terms: pecking order
law and order
chicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chick
chicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkt
Senses: examples: text: The glare outside seemed to soak somehow through the green-chicked windows, making one's eyes ache and filling one's head with stuffiness.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Fitted with a chick (bamboo screen or blind).
actinohivin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actino- + HIV + -in.
Senses: examples: text: We have also observed such differences (10- to 50-fold) when the inhibitory potential of CBAs such as HHA, GNA or actinohivin have been determined for cell-free virus infection of T-lymphocytes versus syncytium formation in cocultures of persistently HIV-1-infected and uninfected cells [44, 45 ].
ref: 2016 January 28, “The Cellular Thioredoxin-1/Thioredoxin Reductase-1 Driven Oxidoreduction Represents a Chemotherapeutic Target for HIV-1 Entry Inhibition”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lectin, that counters HIV, isolated from an actinomycete of the genus Longispora
endoventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + ventricular.
Senses: examples: text: First of all, working channels could be added in order to evaluate its efficacy during endoscope-controlled (e.g., endoventricular) procedures.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Preliminary Experience with a New Multidirectional Videoendoscope for Neuroendoscopic Surgical Procedures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a ventricle.
epitheliotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Our animal model should be useful to study squamous epitheliotropism, neuropathogenesis, oral/fecal shedding in EV-A71 infection, person-to-person transmission, and to test anti-viral drugs and vaccines.
ref: 2016 January 28, “A Consistent Orally-Infected Hamster Model for Enterovirus A71 Encephalomyelitis Demonstrates Squamous Lesions in the Paws, Skin and Oral Cavity Reminiscent of Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being epitheliotropic
intrachoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + choroidal.
Senses: examples: text: Eyes with shallow anterior chamber or media opacity affecting the fundus imaging, low quality OCT images, fundus abnormalities such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, retinal vein occlusion, inferior staphyloma associated with tilted disc syndrome, scleral ridge temporal to the optic disc, peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation or diffuse chorioretinal atrophy were also excluded.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Influence of Clinical Factors and Magnification Correction on Normal Thickness Profiles of Macular Retinal Layers Using Optical Coherence Tomography”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a choroid
microartifact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microartifacts
Etymology: From micro- + artifact.
Senses: glosses: A very small artifact
microartifacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sediment remaining in the screen was collected, wet-sieved and sorted for fauna and microartifacts such as microliths and beads.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microartifact
neuroendoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroendoscopes
Etymology: From neuro- + endoscope.
Senses: examples: text: A new subspecialty in neurosurgery (i.e. neuroendoscopy) has developed as a result of the versatility and applicability of the neuroendoscope to a multitude of neurosurgical approaches.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Preliminary Experience with a New Multidirectional Videoendoscope for Neuroendoscopic Surgical Procedures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An endoscope used in neuroendoscopy
neuroendoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: CCDs represented a new boost for endoscopy: this "machine" was designed to convert optical signals to electrical impulses, thus becoming invaluable tools for modern neuroendoscopes and advancing the miniaturization process.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Preliminary Experience with a New Multidirectional Videoendoscope for Neuroendoscopic Surgical Procedures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of neuroendoscope
neuroendoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroendoscopies
Etymology: From neuro- + endoscopy.
Senses: examples: text: Although the 1960's represented a time during which publications on neuroendoscopy were sparse, it was also a time when key technological advances were made, laying the groundwork for the future reinassance of neuroendoscopy.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Preliminary Experience with a New Multidirectional Videoendoscope for Neuroendoscopic Surgical Procedures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The use of endoscopy in neurosurgery
Related terms: neuroendoscope
neurorepairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + repairing.
Senses: examples: text: These MP may be involved in neurorepairing process as their parental cells, considering the negative correlation between lesion volumes and NPC-derived cMPs and also considering the fact that patients with any level of disability (modified Rankin Scale ≥1 at 90 days after the onset of stroke) have decreased NPC-derived cMPs at 90 days after the onset of stroke compared to patients without disability and small cerebral lesions.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Microparticle Shedding from Neural Progenitor Cells and Vascular Compartment Cells Is Increased in Ischemic Stroke”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The repairing of damaged neurons
overcoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcoordinates
form: overcoordinating
form: overcoordinated
form: overcoordinated
Etymology: From over- + coordinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To have a higher than normal coordination number
Related terms: overcoordination
overcoordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For example, computer generation of amorphous silicon by this approach leads to the presence of atomic overcoordination since in the liquid state, silicon is metallic and overcoordinated with respect to the solid, amorphous or crystalline.
ref: 2016 January 28, “Superconductivity in Bismuth. A New Look at an Old Problem”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of overcoordinate
overcoordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + coordination.
Senses: examples: text: For example, computer generation of amorphous silicon by this approach leads to the presence of atomic overcoordination since in the liquid state, silicon is metallic and overcoordinated with respect to the solid, amorphous or crystalline [3 ].
ref: 2016 January 28, “Superconductivity in Bismuth. A New Look at an Old Problem”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The presence of a higher than normal coordination number
BoE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: BofE
glosses: Initialism of Bank of England.
Russian White House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From being a building in Russia having a white exterior. From Russian Белый дом (Belyj dom, “White House”)
Senses: synonyms: White House
glosses: The primary government building of the Russian Federation, located in Moscow, also housing the Office of the Prime Minister of Russia.
Blue House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blue House
Etymology: From the blue tiles used to tile its roof; by analogy with the White House.
Senses: glosses: The executive mansion of South Korea, in Seoul, housing the residence and office of the President of South Korea
Related terms: White House
WSOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WSOPs
Etymology: Initialism of World Series of Poker.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Any of the series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas since 2005.
WSOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WSOP
canyoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canyoneers
Etymology: From canyon + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: Cheater sticks are simply sticks that are used to extend the reach of the canyoneer.
ref: 2013, David Black, Canyoneering, 2nd: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons:
glosses: A person who explores canyons.
canyoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canyoneers
form: canyoneering
form: canyoneered
form: canyoneered
Etymology: From canyon + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To take part in canyoning.
canyoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canyoneer
family reunions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family reunion
metagrobologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metagrobologist
canyoneered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canyoneer
long throws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long throw
jobsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobsites
form: job site
Etymology: From job + site.
Senses: synonyms: worksite
hypernyms: site
glosses: A physical location where work is done, especially construction work.
Derived terms: jobsite saw
jobsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobsite
decompositionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From decompositional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being decompositional, or proceeding by decomposition.
dibutylphthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibutylphthalates
Etymology: From dibutyl + phthalate.
Senses: examples: text: We present new viscosity and equation of state (EoS) results extending to high pressures for o-terphenyl, salol, and dibutylphthalate.
ref: 2016, R. Casalini, S.S. Bair, C.M. Roland, “Density Scaling and Decoupling in o-Terphenyl, Salol, and Dibutyphthalate”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of dibutyl phthalate.
dibutylphthalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibutylphthalate
dibutyl phthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibutyl phthalates
form: dibutylphthalate
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic compound with chemical formula C₁₆H₂₂O₄, used as a plasticizer and ectoparasiticide.
dibutyl phthalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibutyl phthalate
ferrogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrogel
suplattices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suplattice
scanpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scanpaths
Etymology: From scan + path.
Senses: examples: text: We conclude that inhibitory tagging is a viable mechanism for dynamical planning of scanpaths.
ref: 2016, Lars O. M. Rothkegel, Heiko H. Schütt, Hans A. Trukenbrod, Felix A. Wichmann, Ralf Engbert, “Influence of initial fixation position in scene viewing”, in arXiv:
glosses: The path followed by the viewer's eyes when reading a document or observing a scene.
Related terms: eyetracking
saccade
scanpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scanpath
fartfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fartface
degenitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + genital + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: In this form of desublimated control through liberation the degenitalization of sexuality effects a depoliticization, or rather the distancing of a politicized erotics from the intentionality of the centered subject.
ref: 1993, Andrew Hewitt, Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-garde, page 153:
glosses: The process of degenitalizing.
melocotoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melocotoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melocoton.
melocotoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melocotoon
fancy one's chances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fancies one's chances
form: fancying one's chances
form: fancied one's chances
form: fancied one's chances
Senses: examples: text: Iceland played with courage, skill and togetherness and might also fancy their chances against France in Sunday’s quarter-final.
ref: 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: To believe that one has a good chance of success.
cordonnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordonnet
generalized circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalized circles
form: generalised circle
Senses: examples: text: We shall speak of lines and circles as generalized circles. A line is a generalized circle that passes through the point at infinity. Under the inversion #92;zeta#61;1#47;z the generalized circle (53.3) goes into
(53-4) β|ζ|²-pζ-◌̅p◌̅ζ+α=0,
ref: 1965, H. F. Weinberger, A First Course in Partial Differential Equations with Complex Variables and Transform Methods, page 247
roman: which is a generalized circle in the ζ-plane.
text: For any Apollonian family of circles defined by the point circles A and B, the Coaxal Circles Theorem states that every generalized circle through A and B meets each of the Apollonian circles at right angles.
ref: 1999, David A. Brannan, Matthew F. Esplen, Jeremy J. Gray, Geometry, page 252:
text: This is why it makes sense to call every circle and every straight line a generalized circle. Thus the geodesics of ds consist of all arcs of generalized circles which lie wholly within Ω and are orthogonal to w (see Figure 2).
ref: 2001, Elie Zahar, Poincaré's Philosophy: From Conventionalism to Phenomenology, page 84:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: inversive geometry
glosses: A circle or a line, the two being regarded as types of a single form.
Synonyms: sense: circle or line
word: circline
sense: circle or line
word: cline
generalized circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generalized circle
24th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The vaccine under review Thursday was tested in about 7,300 women after the 24th week of pregnancy.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 May 2023:
glosses: Abbreviation of twenty-fourth.
25th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended.
ref: 2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of twenty-fifth.
gwailo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gwailos
form: gwailo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gweilo.
gwailos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwailo
contour integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contour integrals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The integral of a function around a contour on the complex plane.
Related terms: contour integration
Argand diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argand diagrams
Etymology: Named after Jean-Robert Argand (1768–1822), though first described by Caspar Wessel (1745–1818).
Senses: glosses: A kind of diagram used to plot the positions of the poles and zeroes of a function in the complex plane.
Argand diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argand diagram
multisheet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + sheet.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to more than one sheet.
beau monde seasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixed seasoning of salt, onion powder, and celery powder.
imagawayaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imagawayaki
Etymology: From Japanese 今川焼き.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese dessert made of batter and filled, usually with azuki bean paste.
apospory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of a plant's sporophytes to form a plant that looks like a gametophyte but has the ploidy level of the sporophyte.
runner's trots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: runner's diarrhea
runner's diarrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runner's diarrhoea
Senses: glosses: A condition among runners characterised by the urgent need for a relatively liquid bowel movement during a run.
Synonyms: word: runner's trots
runner's diarrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of runner's diarrhea.
plutomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plutomanic
form: most plutomanic
Etymology: From pluto- + manic.
Senses: glosses: Having an excessive desire for money or wealth.
Synonyms: plutomaniac
plutomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutomaniacs
Senses: glosses: One that has an excessive desire for money or wealth.
Synonyms: plutomanic
transceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transception
generalised circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalised circles
Senses: examples: 2005, R. Warcham, J. Cameron, J. Lasenby, Applications of Conformal Geometric Algebra, Hongbo Li, Peter J. Olver, Gerald Sommer (editors), Computer Algebra and Geometric Algebra with Applications, 6th International Workshop IWMM 2004 and International Workshop GIAE 2004, Revised Selected Papers, page 333,
It becomes convenient, therefore, to group planes and spheres by the collective term generalised spheres and, similarly, to define a generalised circle as either a circle or a line.
2008, Christopher Stone, Ther Use of Linear Fractional Transformations to Produce Building Plans, Stephen R. Wassell, Kim Williams (editors), Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, Volume 10, Number 2, page 342,
Strictly straight lines through the point at infinity appear as straight lines but are regarded as generalised circles.
2012, Circle of Apollonius, entry in Concise Dictionary of Mathematics, V&S Publishers, India, page 75,
Thus, if A, B, and C are given distinct points in the plane, then the locus of points P satisfying (1) is called a “generalised circle.” It may either be a true circle or a line. In this sense a line is a generalised circle of infinite radius.
glosses: Alternative form of generalized circle.
generalised circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generalised circle
polemomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, at the thought of the “giant liar,” the poet is seized with a sort of polemomania.
ref: 1874, “Mr. Tennyson's Social Philosophy”, in The Fortnightly, volume 21, page 243:
glosses: An obsession with, or craving for, war.
Synonyms: bellicosity
martialness
warlikeness
Related terms: polemic
jaditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jaditic
form: most jaditic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jadeitic.
jadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jadites
Etymology: From jade + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jadeite.
jadites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jadite
xericity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeric + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: aridity
hypernyms: dryness
glosses: The quality or degree of being xeric; adaptation to dry conditions.
phlyzacium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlyzacia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A large round, red pustule that is succeeded by a hard dark scab.
phlyzacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlyzacium
psydracium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psydracia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tiny, irregular-shaped pustule.
psydracia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psydracium
xerodermata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeroderma
phlyctidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlyctidia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φλυκτίς (phluktís, “boil”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of large blister.
phlyctis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlyctides
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of phlyctidium.
synonyms: word: phlyctidium
phlyctidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlyctidium
phlyctides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlyctis
xiphisternums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xiphisternum
xeroradiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeroradiography
xerographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of xerography.
xenodochiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenodochium
coleads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colead
chokra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokras
Etymology: From Hindi छोकरा (chokrā).
Senses: examples: text: At the foot of the veranda a chokra lay on his back in the sun, pulling the punkah rope with his heel and shading his face with a broad strip of banana leaf.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days:
text: 'Livin' is cheaper here,' he said. Back home we won't have an ayah or chokra.'
ref: 1990, Khushwant Singh, chapter 16, in Delhi, Penguin:
glosses: Boy; young male servant, boy dancer, bondsman
Related terms: chokri
electromagnetic pulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromagnetic pulse
vegaquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegaquarians
Etymology: Blend of vegetarian + aquarian or similar.
Senses: examples: text: Three years previously, at her insistence, the whole family had turned pescatarian or vegaquarian; call it what you will, we ate only fish and veges.
ref: 2008, Laura Solomon, Alternative Medicine, page 2:
text: I urge you to become a “vegaquarian” and mend your broken heart by following the Prevent a Second Heart Attack plant/fish protein philosophy.
ref: 2011, Janet Bond Brill, Prevent a Second Heart Attack: 8 Foods, 8 Weeks to Reverse Heart Disease:
text: I decided to continue to incorporate some meat, especially fish, into my diet on a semi-regular basis, thereby becoming what I describe as a “vegaquarian”—although all the cool kids are saying “flexitarian” these days.
ref: 2011, Charlotte Hilton Andersen, The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything, page 135:
text: She has various animals including a flockette of pet sheep that are thankful for her vegaquarian habits.
ref: 2014 November 24, Pure Slush, volume 11:
glosses: A vegetarian who eats fish.
Synonyms: pescetarian
vegaquarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegaquarian
dumb TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb TVs
Senses: glosses: A television that is not a smart TV.
Keseyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Keseyan
form: most Keseyan
Etymology: From Kesey + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ken Kesey (1935–2001), American writer and countercultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation and the hippies.
Jumu'a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Muslim men are obliged to attend the Jumuʿa Prayer in the Mosque or any othervenue where itis prayed in congregation.
ref: 2014, Batool Al-Toma, A Simple Guide to Prayer in Islam: For New Muslims:
glosses: Alternative form of Jumu'ah.
Rolands for Olivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a Roland for an Oliver
Rolandian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rolandian
form: most Rolandian
Etymology: From Roland + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mythological Roland, or The Song of Roland, the medieval epic poem in which he appears.
EMEAI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India.
EMEIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Acronym of Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa.
overdefine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdefines
form: overdefining
form: overdefined
form: overdefined
Etymology: From over- + define.
Senses: examples: text: Most students want to overdefine every flower and leaf. In the assignment above, I spoke of “the essence of flowers.” If you overdefine and explain every petal, you will lose the sense of softness and mystery.
ref: 2001, Charles Reid, Painting Flowers in Watercolor with Charles Reid:
text: The adolescent search for a new and a reliable identity can perhaps best be seen in the persistent endeavor to define, to overdefine, and to redefine oneself and each other in often ruthless comparison […]
ref: 2011, Walter N. King, Hamlet's Search for Meaning, page 133:
glosses: To define too rigidly, or in too much depth.
Related terms: overdefinition
overdefines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdefine
overdefining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdefine
overdefined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdefine
overdefinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + definition.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of overdefining; excessive definition.
underdefinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + definition.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of underdefining; inadequate definition.
underdefine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdefines
form: underdefining
form: underdefined
form: underdefined
Etymology: From under- + define.
Senses: glosses: To define too broadly, or in too little depth.
Related terms: underdefinition
underdefining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underdefine
underdefines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underdefine
quintuplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: quintuplications
Senses: glosses: multiplication by five
quintuplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintuplication
backstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstores
Etymology: From back + store.
Senses: examples: text: I had dinner with Henry Bornstein in his very confined living quarters (between his shop and his backstore) during which he gave me an interesting account of some orthodox Jewish customs.
ref: 2003, Vincent Roth, Michael Bennett, A Life in Guyana: The later years, 1923-1935:
text: When goods are received at the Future Store, employees transport the pallets from the truck through an RFID gate at the backstore entrance.
ref: 2006, Judith M. Myerson, RFID in the Supply Chain: A Guide to Selection and Implementation:
glosses: An area in the back of a store or shop.
examples: text: The most recent control units (3 GB cache size) provide a much better performance although the cache/backstore ratio is similar.
ref: 2004, Journal of Computer Resource Management, Issues 113-116:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A back end data storage; a backing store device.
backstores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backstore
forecare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + care.
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me that the logical points of this part of this paper must include forecare of the patient before the injection, the preparation of the drug for the injection, the surgical technique of the injection, the range variations and repetitions of doses, [...]
ref: 1911, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:
text: The major operations are characterized by forecare often for long periods as well as the day before the operation, by general anesthetics and by invasion of the important organs, such as the kidneys, ureters and bladder.
ref: 1919, Victor Cox Pedersen, A Text-book of Urology in Men, Women and Children:
text: I cannot resist the temptation to bring in another member of the care family, namely forecare.
ref: 1965, Journal:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: care given in advance of a procedure, such as surgery
Related terms: aftercare
charwomanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charwomanly
form: most charwomanly
Etymology: From charwoman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a charwoman.
dikgotla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kgotla
gumphion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumphions
Senses: examples: text: And then the funeral pomp set forth; saulies with their batons and gumphions of tarnished white crape, in honour of the well-preserved maiden fame of Mrs. Margaret Bertram.
ref: 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:
glosses: A flag or banner carried in a funeral procession.
gumphions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumphion
aikona
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Fanagalo aikona, haikona. Compare Xhosa hayi, kona, Zulu hhayi no.
Senses: glosses: no; no way
muntus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muntu
jocko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jockos
Senses: glosses: A lawn jockey.
jocko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jockos
form: jockoes
Senses: glosses: A chimpanzee.
jockoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jocko
jockos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jocko