cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autocarpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of being autocarpous.
autoette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoettes
Etymology: From auto + -ette, originally a brand name.
Senses: glosses: A battery-powered microcar with two seats and three wheels, also sometimes used as a kind of wheelchair by disabled people.
autoettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoette
autocopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + copulation.
Senses: examples: text: In some instances snails kept in solitary culture were observed attempting what appeared to be autocopulation, […]
ref: 1946, The American Midland Naturalist, volume 36, page 480:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Sexual intercourse with oneself.
autumn snowflake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autumn snowflakes
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Acis autumnalis.
autumn snowflakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autumn snowflake
awf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awfs
form: auf
Senses: examples: text: […] the first fact that craves our attention is that the Alfar, (Elves, Awfs,) and Dvergar, (Dwarfs,) stand in contrast with each other
ref: 1865, Monthly Packet, page 473:
text: […] the 'awfs' or elves, whose flint arrow-heads (awf-shot), shot in malice at cattle or human beings, are found everywhere in the houes and on the moors; […]
ref: 1875, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 489:
text: The thunder-bolts, and awf-shots, which we have already noticed among charms against human ills, were also used for the cure of disordered cattle. If an animal died of distemper, a portion of its flesh cut out and hung in the[…]
ref: 1914, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 256:
synonyms: ouphe
glosses: An elf.
examples: text: What an awf wur I to pretend rime weh yo.
ref: 1750, John Collier (Tim Bobbin?), Eawther an His Buk, quoted in 1875, John Howard Nodal, A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, volume 14, page 18
text: Gin you, cankard awf (ill-natured lout), Silas mays a gawby (fool) o' Robin, he'll loase t' likeliest wench i' th' forest , an' […]
ref: 1860, J. P. K. Shuttleworth, Scarsdale: Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, page 163:
glosses: A fool or simpleton; an oaf.
awf
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of off.
awf
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of off.
awfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awf
Awanyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avanyo
form: Avanyu
Senses: glosses: A Tewa deity, the guardian of water, represented as a horned or plumed serpent.
Avanyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Awanyu.
Yekaterinoslav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ekaterinoslav
form: Katerynoslav
Etymology: By surface analysis, Ekaterina f pers sg (“Catherine”) + -o- + -slav (“glory, fame”).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Dnipro.
Ekaterinoslav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yekaterinoslav.
RSDLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
chariotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chariot + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The military art of using war-chariots.
glosses: A military body that rides war-chariots.
baby pig disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acute hypoglycemia in newborn pigs.
rambler gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rambler gates
Senses: glosses: A self-closing footpath barrier, resembling a squeeze stile but having a pair of pivot posts that can be pushed apart to widen the gap.
rambler gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rambler gate
backlotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backlotters
Etymology: From backlot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A small-scale amateur keeper of bees or poultry etc.
backlotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backlotter
borofax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Trademark.
Senses: examples: text: A proper dressing contributes immensely to the comfort of the patient, as well as to a satisfactory cosmetic result. After the wound is properly sutured, vaseline or borofax is lightly applied along the suture line.
ref: 1951 February, Charles E. Gurney, Verner V. Lindgren, “Early Care of Traumatic Wounds of the Face”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 93:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An ointment containing boric acid, applied to the skin as an antiseptic.
backsawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backsaw
backsawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of backsaw
backsawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backsaw
elastoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tension on the skin edges is prevented by the use of several one-half inch strips of elastoplast applied directly across the wound at right angle to the suture line.
ref: 1951 February, Charles E. Gurney, Verner V. Lindgren, “Early Care of Traumatic Wounds of the Face”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 93:
text: the strips of land that drape the hillsides like elastoplasts
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Elastoplast.
mungo bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungo beans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mongo bean.
mungo beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mungo bean
banjo clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjo clocks
Senses: synonyms: banjo timepiece
glosses: An American wall clock with a banjo-shaped case, usually lacking a striking mechanism.
banjo clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjo clock
smoke room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smokeroom.
smoke rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke room
word painter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word painters
Senses: glosses: The writer or composer of a word painting.
word painters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word painter
wu-ts'ai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Chinese kind of multicolored enamel glaze.
musk xylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk xylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: xylene musk
glosses: A synthetic musk fragrance, 1-tert-Butyl-3,5-dimethyl-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene.
musk xylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musk xylene
xylene musk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylene musks
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of musk xylene.
synonyms: word: musk xylene
xylene musks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylene musk
micturator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micturators
Etymology: From micturate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: After a fine night on the grog, with bladder pressures reaching an estimated 4,000,000 psi (estimated by drunken scientists), the comparatively short range marksmanship required of an in-sink micturator is a significantly more approachable challenge than the tricky long yellow of the traditional method.
ref: 2007, Amanda Astill, Tom Bromley, Michael Moran, Simon Trewin, Shopping While Drunk: Confessions from Modern Life, London: John Murray, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: A person who micturates; a urinator.
micturators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micturator
thosai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thosais
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil தோசை (tōcai). Doublet of dosa.
Senses: examples: text: Thosai is usually eaten with coconut chutney and sambar.
ref: 2006, Naleeza Ebrahim, Yaw Yan Yee, Singapore, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 132:
text: “Uncle Raju,” he said, as he climbed up on my knees. “You will make me thosai? Mum says you make the best thosai in all Malaysia.” We all laughed. “Uncle Raju gets a break from cooking today,” said Mr Murugan. “Mum is cooking instead."
ref: 2013 November 1, Marc de Faoite, TROPICAL MADNESS, Buku Fixi (Fixi Novo), →ISBN:
text: Keep an eye on the heat and make sure the thosai doesn't burn on the bottom.
ref: 2017 May 4, Prakash K Sivanathan, Niranjala M Ellawala, Sri Lanka: The Cookbook, Frances Lincoln, →ISBN:
glosses: Dosa; a crepe made from fermented lentils and rice originating from South Indian cuisine
Derived terms: paper thosai
offensive to pious ears
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.
Senses: examples: text: And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as “containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears.”
ref: 1910, William John Sparrow-Simpson, Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility, page 121:
text: It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”
ref: 1969, Harry J. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong? An Ecumenical-Theological Study of Luther’s Major Work, The Bondage of the Will, page 252:
text: An investigatory commission in Oxford in 1378 declared that some of Wycliffe’s criticism were not incorrect in se but could be offensive to pious ears.
ref: 2009, Christopher M. Bellitto, “The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism”, in Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), →ISBN, page 317:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
Qingquan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chingchuan
form: Cingcyuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清泉 (Qīngquán).
Senses: examples: text: Qingquan, an aboriginal settlement in Wufeng Township that is perhaps best known for its hot springs, is the last major center on the road to Shei-pa National Park and the Syakaro Historic Trail.
ref: 2008 December 19, June Tsai, “Warlord's home taps new tourism markets”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2024:
text: “Zhang Xueliang Cultural Park” located in Chingchuan (Qingquan) Village conducted a series of anniversary events on September 18th. The authentic “Disaster Medal” from the Xian Incident was displayed to the public for the first time. The car imported and manufactured in 1931 by Zhang Xueliang was also donated by the collector for exhibition.
ref: 2015 September 25, “Zhang Xueliang Cultural Park, the authentic “Disaster Medal” publicly displayed for the first time”, in HsinChu County Government [新竹縣政府], archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020, Hsinchu News:
english: 新竹縣政府
translation: 新竹縣政府
text: As you approach the Atayal indigenous village of Qing­­quan in Wu­feng Township, Hsin­chu County, you see a little church nestled in verdant hills, its gray walls decorated with stained-glass windows. Against a cloudy sky, the Holy Cross Catholic Church is conspicuous yet reserved. Its historical ambiance seems to make time stand still, conveying a sense of serenity. For Father Barry Martinson, the keeper of this church, and the village of Qing­quan, 40 serene years have passed as if in the blink of an eye.
ref: 2017 March 20, “Enriching Lives in Qingquan: Father Martinson”, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of China (Taiwan), archived from the original on 20 Aug 2023, RELATED READS:
glosses: A village in Taoshan, Wufeng, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
leng zai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leng zais
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 靚仔 /靓仔 (leng³ zai², “handsome”).
Senses: examples: text: Even hardened gangsters teasingly addressed him as leng zai or 'pretty boy' and told him to marry their daughters so they would have grandchildren as cute as he was.
ref: 2019 June 27, Ovidia Yu, The Paper Bark Tree Mystery, Constable, →ISBN:
text: 'So, you got talk to the leng zai or not?' 'I talked to all of them. They're all —' But Auntie Fong had only one of them on her mind. 'So that leng zai, you think he's chup or not?' 'Which one ah?' 'The tall one lah! Sound like ang moh.'
ref: 2022 September 1, Julianne Cheah, The Death of Sally Song, Monsoon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: good-looking man, pretty boy
leng zai
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leng zai
form: most leng zai
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 靚仔 /靓仔 (leng³ zai², “handsome”).
Senses: examples: text: And whenever he visited he'd bring food from the kopitiam next door, and Mrs Wong would laugh and say aiyoh, leng zai, so sweet.[…]He could see her mother's mouth widen with laughter as she called him leng zai, could just about picture the colour on her painted nails as she passed around the lo mai gai he'd bought for the other aunties to eat.
ref: 2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN:
text: S2: then i plan lah maybe thirty minutes later lah i will go then the invigilator is too too leng zai {cantonese: handsome} ah i don't dare to ask you know
ref: 2022 January 19, Ian Walkinshaw, Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca: Findings and Developments, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN:
glosses: handsome; good-looking (of a man)
Related terms: yan dao
weaselword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaselwords
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weasel word.
weaselwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weaselword
powerlift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powerlifts
form: powerlifting
form: powerlifted
form: powerlifted
Etymology: Back-formation from powerlifting.
Senses: glosses: To take part in powerlifting.
L. I.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: H. K., boy aged 19 months, of Valley Stream, L. I., Aug. 26, 1916, felt feverish, the mother noticed, and later in the day began to vomit.
ref: 1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1156:
glosses: Abbreviation of Long Island.
powerlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of powerlift
powerlifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of powerlift
tornado potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornado potatoes
Senses: glosses: A potato sliced thinly into a screw shape around a skewer and deep-fried.
tornado fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornado fries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tornado potato.
synonyms: word: tornado potato
retentionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retentionist
trophy husband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophy husbands
Etymology: On the analogy of trophy wife.
Senses: examples: text: “No wonder you’re attracted to Marvelli. A good-looking guy, at least ten years younger than you—what’s not to like? He’d make a good trophy husband. You could show him off at feebie cocktail parties in D.C.”
ref: 1998, Anthony Bruno, chapter 35, in Double Expresso, Tom Doherty Associates, page 242:
text: Kate was a forever kind of woman. She didn’t take love lightly, and she wouldn’t give it that way, either. She wasn’t a bimbo looking for a meal ticket or a trophy husband. She was the kindest, warmest, most decent human being he’d ever met, and she’d done everything in her power to try to win his heart.
ref: 1998, Robin Wells, chapter 11, in Nine-to-Five Bride, Silhouette Books, page 176:
text: "And how does Martin fit into the picture?"
"Her trophy husband? He comes from a long line of bluebloods, but his father pissed away the family fortune. [...]"
ref: 1999, Bob Sloan, chapter 21, in Bliss Jumps the Gun, Foul Play Press, page 194:
text: They shared intimate conversations and Elijah had become accustomed to his new lifestyle just as Madame Froideur was increasingly proud of the trophy husband she flamboyantly paraded around her social scene.
ref: 2006, Todd Alexander, chapter 4, in Pictures of Us, Hachette Australia, pages 106-107:
text: “It’s a long story, but it basically boiled down to the fact that Michael was having a hard time coping with the power dynamic in our marriage. Even though I tried my best to be supportive, he felt emasculated by...you know, the whole money thing. He felt like a trophy husband, and the way my family treated him wasn’t helping much either.”
ref: 2015, Kevin Kwan, chapter 15, in China Rich Girlfriend, Doubleday, page 265:
coordinate_terms: trophy wife
trophy boyfriend
trophy girlfriend
trophy partner
glosses: A husband, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for his spouse, usually older and affluent.
Related terms: social handbag
arm candy
clot shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clot shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clotshot.
clot shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clot shot
black-legged tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-legged ticks
Senses: glosses: A deer tick (Ixodes scapularis).
wild duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild ducks
Senses: glosses: The mallard.
Barbary duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barbary ducks
Senses: glosses: The Muscovy duck.
vaxhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaxholes
form: vaxxhole
Etymology: Blend of vax + asshole. Emerged in February 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 and brags about it.
vaxholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaxhole
vaxxhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaxxholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vaxhole.
vaxxholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaxxhole
coordinate plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coordinate planes
Etymology: Compound of coordinate + plane.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Euclidean plane with a system of coordinates.
Hyponyms: Cartesian plane
coordinate planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordinate plane
cryological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryology.
Derived terms: geocryological
Related terms: cryologic
cryologist
cryology
peanut ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut balls
Senses: topics: athletics
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exercise ball comprised of two bulbous lobes and a narrower connecting portion, used in posture exercises, promoting labor, etc.
computistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of computistic.
deboonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deboonkers
Etymology: Blend of debunk + coomer.
Senses: glosses: A debunker or fact checker.
deboonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deboonker
triple-negative breast cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple-negative breast cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A type of breast cancer which is lacking in receptors for both estrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR), and for which HER-2 is not a significant feature.
Shaangxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In three large irrigation districts of the province Shaangxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) more than 40 mi. tons of sediment were utilized in this we in a year (1977).
ref: 1983, Zhaohui Wan, “Some phenomena associated with hyperconcentrated flow”, in Mechanics of Sediment Transport, A.A.Balkema, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 190:
text: Many young people moved to Yanan, a remote place in Shaangxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) province in northwest China, to join the Red Army which had made its capital there.
ref: 1994, Ge Yang, “A Woman in a Borrowed Country”, in Mahnaz Afkhami, editor, Women in Exile (Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory), University Press of Virginia, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
text: Located in Xian, China, in Shaangxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) Province, which was once the capital of the Chinese Empire for 13 dynasties, the Terracotta Army is one of the great archaeological finds of the twentieth century.
ref: 2009, Paul A. Tucci, Matthew T. Rosenberg, “Asia”, in The Handy Geography Answer Book, Second edition, Visible Ink Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 215-216:
text: In 2008, BYD bought a high-grade silicon ore mine in Shangluo, in the western province of Shaangxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]), to extract solar-grade polysilicon.
ref: 2010 September 16, Daisy Ku, “China's BYD buys 18 pct stake in lithium miner”, in Jonathan Hopfner, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2023, Financials:
text: But apart from the breakfast menu, the restaurant has signature dishes guests can try. One is the Biang Biang hand-ripped noodles. It's a Chinese dish that originated from Shaangxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) province. It's made of broad, flat noodles and some kind of meat like lamb and beef.
ref: 2019 October 24, Angelo G. Garcia, “This new Greenhills hotel upgrades guest experience with self check-in kiosks”, in ABS-CBN, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2019, Life:
glosses: Misspelling of Shaanxi.
DINC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Acronym of dual income, no children.
DINC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DINCs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of DINK.
synonyms: word: DINK
Cimiez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cimiez.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Nice, France.
midregion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midregions
Etymology: From mid- + region.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The middle of a region.
Neades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neadeses
Etymology: Ancient Greek: see the plural of νηάς.
Senses: glosses: gigantic, mythological animal from Samos, inspired by the fossilized remains of extinct proboscideans.
offence to be taken into consideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offences to be taken into consideration
form: offence taken into consideration
form: TIC
Etymology: From offence + to be + taken into consideration.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.
offences to be taken into consideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offence to be taken into consideration
offence taken into consideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offences taken into consideration
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offence to be taken into consideration.
offences taken into consideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offence taken into consideration
densometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of densitometer.
densometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of densometer
pond life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pondlife.
leave the door open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves the door open
form: leaving the door open
form: left the door open
form: left the door open
Senses: examples: text: Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates to their highest level in 22 years and left the door open to further action as they continued their 16-month campaign to wrestle inflation lower by cooling the American economy.
ref: 2023 July 26, Jeanna Smialek, “Fed Raises Rates After a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More”, in The New York Times:
text: Harry Kane has left the door open for a return to Tottenham after completing his £100m move to Bayern Munich.
ref: 2023 August 12, “Harry Kane joins Bayern Munich and leaves door open for Spurs return”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future.
raw_tags: with for or to
leave the ball in someone's court
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves the ball in someone's court
form: leaving the ball in someone's court
form: left the ball in someone's court
form: left the ball in someone's court
Senses: examples: text: His statement also left the ball in the Security Council’s court, for it is scheduled to discuss the report in August. Saudi Arabia has powerful backers on the Council, including the United States.
ref: 2016 June 22, Somini Sengupta, “Saudis Question U.N. Leader Over Report on Rights Violators”, in The New York Times:
text: The no-nonsense matriarch paid a visit to Cindy’s grandmother Julie (Lesley Manville), alluding to how they had once been friends and noting that both families were misfits – the shady crooks and “the angry strikers in a town full of scabs”. After giving her blessing to the young couple, she left the ball in a shellshocked Julie’s court.
ref: 2022 June 21, Michael Hogan, “Sherwood recap: episode four – have we found our Keats?”, in The Guardian:
text: Postecoglou had revealed on Friday that Kane’s move was “imminent” after a breakthrough in negotiations between the clubs was reached on Wednesday night. It left the ball in Kane’s court and he decided on Thursday to leave his boyhood club for Bayern, who will pay an initial £100m with add-ons potentially taking the deal up to an overall fee of £120m.
ref: 2023 August 12, “Harry Kane joins Bayern Munich and leaves door open for Spurs return”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To hand over the responsibility or choice to someone to make a decision or take action about something.
go fash, lose cash
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Coined to oppose the earlier phrase get woke, go broke.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Businesses who focus on catering to right-wing politics, especially extremists, are liable to lose customers.
Flaunders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Flanders.
Jackson Hole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after American trapper, fur trader, and explorer David Edward Jackson (1788–1837). "Hole" was a mountain man's term for a large mountain valley.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, Mr. Powell and his fellow policymakers have little reason to signal clearly what comes next. No policy meeting is held in August, though Mr. Powell often speaks at a closely watched Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., late in the month.
ref: 2023 July 26, Jeanna Smialek, “Fed Raises Rates After a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A valley between the Gros Ventre Range and the Teton Range in Teton County, Wyoming, United States.
wikipedia: David Edward Jackson
Riordon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Riordons
Senses: glosses: A surname
Drukarsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Drukarshes
Senses: glosses: A surname
rendsina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rendsinas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rendzina.
turfline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turflines
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stratum of soil between two other layers.
letter-writer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter-writers
Senses: examples: text: The Indian letter-writers, awaiting clients, fresh paper and carbons rolled into their machines, greeted Victor Crabbe with smiles and waved hands.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 46:
text: The people behind this offensive charge are revolutionaries wishing that once again America would become a nation of letter-writers.
ref: 1990 January 12, “Answering Back”, in The Boston Phoenix, published 13 January 1995, page 8:
text: We add to the chorus of letter-writers praising the current Morning Sun play at The New Mexico Actors Lab, here in Santa Fe.
ref: 2023 June 20, Susan and Robert Haynes-Borson, “Sun’s up”, in Santa Fe New Mexican, 174th year, number 171, page A-10:
glosses: Alternative form of letter writer.
letter-writers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter-writer
video-gamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video-gamers
Senses: examples: text: This new cartridge is built to be challenging even to the best of video-gamers.
ref: 1982 October 21, Bill Tatton, “Pitfall/by Activision”, in The Times-Independent, volume 88, number 42, Moab, Ut., page C7, column 6:
text: The video-gamers are smarter than the manufacturers and won’t buy a game just because it has a famous name on it.
ref: 1983 April 1, Bob Talbert, “Double-teaming those new USFL names”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 152, number 332, page 13C, column 4:
text: The Wagner Group of mercenaries is actively recruiting video-gamers to boost its ranks amid the war in Ukraine.
ref: 2023 June 21, Brendan Cole, “Wagner Group recruiting Russian gamers to fly drones into Ukraine”, in Miami Herald, volume 120, number 280, page 6A, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of video gamer.
video-gamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video-gamer
video-gaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But perhaps there is no concomitant need to regulate video-gaming in bars or to pull the plug on video-game shops at a particular time.
ref: 1982 May 20, “The video-game menace”, in Minneapolis Star and Tribune, page 16A, column 2:
text: The future of the lottery is unlimited, Jones said. A Lotto game similar to ones in other states is being studied, and “video-gaming” is also a possibility, Jones said. Players would play a video game such as Pac-Man, and their score would be matched with randomly selected numbers to determine winners, he said.
ref: 1982 August 13, Tim Moran, “Computerized lottery game winner with players”, in The Argus, Rock Island, Ill., page 24, column 3:
text: They escape their fears and panic with alcohol and other drugs…or with obsessions (such as endless video-gaming or TV viewing).
ref: 1982 August 15, J.G. Barrett, “Student Survival Kit: Things to Help You Get Through Your School Daze Without Defeat Tripping You Up, Down, and Out”, in The Chatham Press, volume 86, number 32, page 3:
text: The new organization, focused on competitive video-gaming, is among only a few of its kind in the country.
ref: 2022 December 17, Greta Cross, “Organization aims to connect gamers of all ages”, in Springfield News-Leader, volume 132, number 306, page 1A, column 1:
text: Already a multibillion-dollar industry with professional teams and live ESPN broadcasts, competitive video-gaming is establishing itself as a force in New Jersey as well, with dozens of schools fielding teams, clubs and other programs.
ref: 2023 March 31, Jane Havsy, “Not just fun and games”, in Daily Record, volume 36, number 104, page 1A:
glosses: Alternative form of video gaming.
video-gaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of video-game
Shekhawati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Marwari शेखावटी (śekhāvaṭī).
Senses: glosses: A historical region of Rajasthan, India.
social-justice warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social-justice warriors
Senses: examples: text: For 30 years, this web of struggle spun and created by wave upon wave of, well, feminists and other social-justice warriors who consciously and unconsciously, but never inevitably, changed the weather in Iowa City and the state, creating: a climate that transformed expectations and made it possible for a woman to be seen, by enough, as “qualified” to be president of the University of Iowa.
ref: 1995 October 19, Clara Oleson, “Welcome, Mary Sue Coleman”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Ia., page 14A:
text: The common thread in all these cases, whether the angry parties are Hermit Kingdom satraps or random social-justice warriors on Twitter, is a belief that the most important power is the power to silence, and that the perfect community is one in which nothing uncongenial to your own worldview is ever tweeted, stated, supported or screened.
ref: 2014 December 21, Ross Douthat, “N. Korea and the Speech Police”, in The Herald, volume 143, number 355, Rock Hill, S.C., page 2D:
text: First thing we need to do is stop this nonsense mentality of “defund the police” and “cops are minority killers.” It was propagated by social-justice warriors and extreme left politicians.
ref: 2023 May 20, W. Nelson Craft, “There can be no pacifists on the St. Louis crime battlefield”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 145, number 140, page A5:
glosses: Alternative form of social justice warrior.
social-justice warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social-justice warrior
peritoneoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒskəpi
Forms: form: peritoneoscopies
Etymology: From peritoneo- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Examination of the abdominal cavity using a narrow instrument inserted through a small incision in the peritoneum.
Related terms: peritoneoscope
laparoscopy
neoprontosil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + prontosil.
Senses: examples: text: In the field of therapeutic aids, chemotherapy and antibiotics have been completely developed since that time. We had prontosil and neoprontosil and thought we were very fortunate.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A soluble form of prontosil.
hyperestrinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperestrinisms
form: hyperoestrinism
Etymology: From hyper- + estrin + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In premenstrual tension, especially with dysmenorrhea, the problem is often one of relative hyperestrinism, yet actual estrin deficiency.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
glosses: Synonym of hyperestrogenism.
synonyms: word: hyperestrogenism
peritoneoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritoneoscopes
Etymology: From peritoneo- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: The same thing may be said about the peritoneoscope. Peritoneoscopy for pelvic lesions has some value and yet its risks are rather great in the patients that have enough pelvic pathology to indicate its use, just as in the use of the culdoscope.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 511:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A narrow medical instrument used in peritoneoscopy.
Tanaim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tana
palm-leaf snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm-leaf snails
Senses: glosses: Any of the minute snails of the family Assimineidae.
Girard form class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Girard form classes
Senses: glosses: The ratio of diameter inside bark at the top of the first 16-foot log to the diameter outside bark at breast height, used to estimate the board-foot volume of whole trees.
Girard form classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Girard form class
CDAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CDA
nonmotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + motional.
Senses: glosses: Not motional.
digital rupee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital rupees
Etymology: Introduced in 2022.
Senses: glosses: A blockchain-based digital version of the Indian rupee currency.
digital rupees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital rupee
starve the beast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starves the beast
form: starving the beast
form: starved the beast
form: starved the beast
Etymology: According to Bruce Bartlett, the second sense was first used by an anonymous Reagan staffer in “We didn’t starve the beast. It’s still eating quite well—by feeding off future generations.”
Senses: glosses: To progressively weaken or destroy a dangerous or powerful entity through attrition.
examples: text: Whatever the mechanism, attempts to starve the beast through revenue shortages somehow seem to make the beast all the more voracious.
ref: 2010 February 22, Catherine Rampell, “A New Social Contract, but Which One?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2021:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To deprive the federal government of revenue by cutting taxes in an effort to force it to limit spending.
starves the beast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of starve the beast
starving the beast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of starve the beast
starved the beast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of starve the beast
unbarbarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbarbarises
form: unbarbarising
form: unbarbarised
form: unbarbarised
Etymology: From un- + barbarise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbarbarize.
unbarbarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbarbarise
unbarbarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbarbarise
unbarbarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbarbarise
unanonymizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unanonymize
unanonymizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unanonymize
unanonymise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unanonymises
form: unanonymising
form: unanonymised
form: unanonymised
Etymology: From un- + anonymise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unanonymize.
un-Americanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-Americanises
form: un-Americanising
form: un-Americanised
form: un-Americanised
Etymology: From un- + Americanise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of un-Americanize.
unanonymised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unanonymise
unanonymises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unanonymise
unanonymising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unanonymise
un-Americanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of un-Americanise
un-Americanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of un-Americanise
un-Americanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of un-Americanise
petaparsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petaparsec
sen.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Glogau Stat.—Inns: Deutsches Haus; Westphal’s Hotel. A fortress of the 2nd rank on the l. bank of the Oder, 17,000 Inhab. The Dom upon an island dates from 1120, and contains a madonna by Cranach, sen., his masterpiece.
ref: 1868, “Sect VI.—Prussia, continued. Route 81”, in A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland. […], Sixteenth edition, London: John Murray, page 437:
related: word: Sen.
synonyms: Sr.
coordinate_terms: jun.
glosses: Abbreviation of senior.
trinaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From tri- + -n- + aural.
Senses: examples: text: The Hamilton Trinaural Sound System. Remember the night we dreamed that up? Three cartridges, needles, amplifiers, speakers. Mounted in three rooms. A man in each room, listening to each rig.
ref: 1957, Philip K. Dick, Eye in the Sky:
text: However, I was informed that some current stereo releases are "trinaural" — three-channel rather than two — and I'd like some information about this. Are these actually three-channel stereo tapes?
ref: 1957, High Fidelity, volume 7, numbers 1-6, page 8:
text: The talking drum held under the arm had soft sides that yielded three different tonal pitches, high, middle, and low, according to the pressure of the arm. This amounted to a “Morse Code” with three signals — a trinaural rather than a binaural system.
ref: 2004, Henry H. Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings:
coordinate_terms: monaural
binaural
glosses: Having a third audio channel in addition to the binaural or stereo channels.
bath-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath-houses
Senses: examples: text: The bath-houses are the property of the town, and are let to tenants: they contain lodgings, and are pretty much on a par.
ref: 1868, “Sect. IV.—Prussia.—Northern Germany.—The Rhine. Route 36”, in A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland. […], Sixteenth edition, London: John Murray, page 246:
glosses: Alternative form of bathhouse.
cowboy butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dip or spread made from butter with herbs and spices.
dalbergenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalbergenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of dalbergione.
synonyms: word: dalbergione
dalbergenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalbergenone
kway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kwayer
form: kwayest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qway.
kway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: kwayer
form: kwayest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qway.
zincworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincworks
form: zinc-works
Etymology: From zinc + works.
Senses: examples: text: About 4. m. S.W. of Aix., near the great railway viaduct over the Geul, is an old castle on a height, called Emmaburg, from the daughter of Charlemagne, who ran off with his secretary Eginhard. Near it are the calamine-mines and zinc-works of the Vieille Montagne Company.
ref: 1868, “Sect. IV.—Prussia.—Northern Germany.—The Rhine. Route 36”, in A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland. […], Sixteenth edition, London: John Murray, page 247:
glosses: A factory where zinc is processed.
Related terms: zincwork
zincworker
Makerfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area in northwest England, now split between the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, both within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.
Derived terms: Ashton-in-Makerfield
Ince-in-Makerfield
Newton-in-Makerfield
quettabyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛtəbaɪt/
Forms: form: quettabytes
form: queccabyte
Etymology: From quetta- + byte.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: geopbyte
glosses: One nonillion (10³⁰) bytes. SI symbol: QB.
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: ronnabyte
sense: Next
word: none
Newfoundland and Labradorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newfoundland and Labradorian
quettabytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quettabyte
hunter eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: prey eyes
text: But according to incels, there are very clear male beauty standards: wide cheek bones, hunter eyes, thick eyebrows, a square chin, a symmetric nose, rugged jawline and a lean body.
ref: 2023, Julia Ebner, Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over:
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: A man's eyes that are relatively hooded, elongated and recessed into the skull, believed by incels to be particularly attractive to women.
clean freak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean freaks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neat freak.
synonyms: word: neat freak
Cabot's tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cabot's terns
Senses: glosses: The bird Thalasseus acuflavidus.
Ch'ing Ming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qingming.
Ch'ing-ming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qingming.
Bow's notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Invented by Robert Bow and published in 1873.
Senses: glosses: A diagramming convention for modelling stresses and loads, marking various areas with letters.
Cupid's delight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Viola rafinesquei.
roentgenogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roentgenogram
exaparsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exaparsecs
Etymology: From exa- + parsec.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical unit of distance equal to 10¹⁸ parsecs.
Synonyms: Epc
exaparsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exaparsec