cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kinocentrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinocentra
Senses: examples: text: The author suggests that it may act in the smooth muscle-cell as a kinocentrum, as it is supposed to do in some other cases.
ref: 1900, Journal of Microscopy - Volume 20, page 180:
text: It may also be observed in passing, that cellular kinoplasm with the kinocentrum, the centrosome and its archoplasmic structures, possibly the most primitive motor organoids of the cell, similarly manifest a high degree of variability and instability.
ref: 1916, B. Sidis, The causation and treatment of psychopathic diseases, →ISBN, page 355:
text: The basal body is often called blepharoplast or kinocentrum and many investigators regard it as the center of ciliary activity.
ref: 1951, Acta Oto-laryngologica - Volume 39, page 364:
glosses: A cellular organelle that acts as the center of motor activity of the kinoplasm.
gents'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gents'
Senses: examples: text: A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
ref: 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27:
text: ...our modern man in Hong Kong excuses himself to go to the gents'. The broad window overlooking the lights of Hong Kong in the gents' loo is astonishingly elevated too, and as he relieves himself, gazing out into the night of diamond dust, across the fairy glimmering of the city, he feels something shift in a subtle way...
ref: 2012, Roopa Farooki, The Flying Man, page 137:
glosses: possessive case of gents: belonging to some or all gents.
examples: text: "I'm dressed as a woman, but I am still technically a man. I believe that to comply with the law of the land I ought to continue to use the Gents', but in order not to look out place I intend to use the Ladies' from now on. I trust none of you will grass on me..."
ref: 2004, David Nobbs, Sex and Other Changes, page 95:
text: I asked the way to the restroom. A young lady pointed the way and said, "I'm afraid you'll have to use the Gents', they're painting the Women's."
ref: 2007, Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, "Hold the Salad" in I Should Have Stayed Home: Food, page 68 f.
text: ...our modern man in Hong Kong excuses himself to go to the gents'. The broad window overlooking the lights of Hong Kong in the gents' loo is astonishingly elevated too, and as he relieves himself, gazing out into the night of diamond dust, across the fairy glimmering of the city, he feels something shift in a subtle way...
ref: 2012, Roopa Farooki, The Flying Man, page 137:
text: When he was quite satisfied with his handiwork, The Poet opened the toilet window, and then walked quickly from the gents' into the ladies'.
ref: 2014, Trevor Dalton, Rhyme for Reason, page 102:
glosses: Synonym of men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men.
synonyms: word: men's room
extra: a lavatory intended for use by men
Synonyms: word: men's
word: gents
word: bathroom
Coordinate terms: ladies'
Derived terms: english: as a lavatory
translation: as a lavatory
word: gents
bringhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bring + house.
Senses: glosses: take-home leftover food (such as from a party)
open fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open fire
open fires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of open fire
denucleation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denucleations
Etymology: From de- + nucleation.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Deprivation of the nucleus.
examples: text: In any solution, gas nuclei can be deactivated (crushed) by the application of large hydrostatic pressures. The process of crushing is also termed denucleation.
ref: 2015, Bruce Wienke, Science of Diving: Concepts and Applications:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The process of removing of gas nuclei from the liquid solution by the application of hydrostatic pressures.
documentably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From documentable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To some extent, it is for you to determine what might go on in someone's mind when that person makes a documentably false statement.
ref: 2012, Serge Lang, The File: Case Study in Correction (1977–1979)
glosses: In a documentable manner.
navigatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navigatresses
Etymology: From navigator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female navigator.
Synonyms: navigatrix
crackmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackmeters
Etymology: From crack + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: Five of these clusters had crackmeters installed in triplets to determine a true movement vector. Of the installed crackmeters, five were donated to the project […]
ref: 2005, Oldrich Hungr, Robin Fell, Rejean Couture, Landslide risk management: proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, Vancouver, Canada, 31 May-3 June 2005:
glosses: A device for measuring the width and other characteristics of a crack.
crackmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackmeter
house of easement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of easement
Etymology: From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.
Senses: examples: text: Se the hous of esement be swete & clene.
ref: 1508, Book of Keruynge:
text: [T]he lowest servants at Hampton Court used the great communal toilet capable of seating fourteen people at once named the ‘Common Jakes’ or the ‘Great House of Easement’. This giant facility discharged into a tank which was washed clean by the waters of the moat. Even so, the tank emitted a dreadful smell and frequently had to be scrubbed clean.
ref: 2011, Lucy Worsley, “The Whole World is a Toilet”, in If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: An outbuilding in which to do one's easement (defecate): an outhouse.
Synonyms: outhouse
Derived terms: house of ease
Related terms: do one's easement
stool of easement
houses of easement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house of easement
do one's easement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does one's easement
form: doing one's easement
form: did one's easement
form: done one's easement
Etymology: From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.
Senses: examples: text: He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.
ref: 2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN:
glosses: To ease one's bowels: to defecate.
Synonyms: defecate
Derived terms: do one's ease
house of ease
house of easement
stool of easement
does one's easement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do one's easement: shits
doing one's easement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do one's easement
did one's easement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do one's easement: shat.
done one's easement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do one's easement: shat
stool of easement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stools of easement
Etymology: From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.
Senses: glosses: A stool upon which to ease one's bowels: a commode, a chamber pot.
Synonyms: chamber pot
Related terms: do one's easement
house of easement
stools of easement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stool of easement
jakeshouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jakeshouses
form: jakes-house
form: jakes house
Etymology: From jakes (“outhouse; lavatory”) + house, to clarify the intended sense.
Senses: examples: text: A dounghill God, […] a God of the jakeshouse.
ref: 1577, "H.I." translating H. Bullinger as 50 Godlie Sermons, III, v, iii
glosses: An outbuilding with a jakes: an outhouse.
Synonyms: outhouse
Hypernyms: house
jakeshouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jakeshouse
jakes-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jakes-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jakeshouse: an outhouse.
jakes-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jakes-house
jakes house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jakes houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jakeshouse: an outhouse.
jakes houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jakes house
kocay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kocays
form: koley
form: cockey
Etymology: From Middle English cokei (“stream; drain, gutter”).
Senses: examples: text: Kocay, priuy, cloaca.
ref: c. 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, page 281:
glosses: A place used for urination and defecation: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
Synonyms: bathroom
kocays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kocay
sodium bicarbonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sodium bicarbonate
Scouse brow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scouse brows
Etymology: From Scouse (“from Liverpool”) + brow.
Senses: examples: text: She had a full face of make-up on, a scouse brow and false lashes.
ref: 2012, Katie Price, In the Name of Love, Random House, →ISBN, page 83:
text: She picked up her black eyeliner and worked at her brows to achieve a scouse brow.
ref: 2013, Lily-Anne Longjohn, Orange Butterfly, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 27:
text: This, from a girl who left Heathrow six months ago wearing skinny jeans and a Scouse brow and with her beloved hair straighteners carefully packed in her hand luggage.
ref: 2014, Alexandra Potter, The Love Detective, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A style of eyebrow where the thickness of the brow is exaggerated with a very dark pencil.
siegehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siegehouses
form: siege-house
form: siege house
form: segehouse
form: sege-house
form: sege house
Etymology: From siege (“seat, toilet seat”) + house.
Senses: examples: text: The sege houses in þe West~orcherd were graunte to hym.
ref: 1440, Coventry Leet Book, page 194:
text: A segehouse wold be vnder the open aire betwene two wallis.
ref: 1519, W. Horman, chapter XIX, in Vulgaria, page 170:
glosses: An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.
Synonyms: outhouse
Hypernyms: house
siege-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siege-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of siegehouse: an outhouse.
siege-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siege-house
siege house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siege houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of siegehouse: an outhouse.
siege houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siege house
siegehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siegehouse
privy house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privy houses
form: privy-house
Etymology: From privy (“outhouse”) to clarify the intended sense, likely under the influence of Anglo-Norman privé hostel (attested in an 1139 British source) and Latin domus privata (1141).
Senses: examples: text: I wil that ye newe prevy hous ovir the synkke be the dore... serve for the parlour and chambir a loffte.
ref: 1463, will in S. Tymm's 1850 Wills and Inventories of Bury St. Edmunds, p. 20
text: The filthiness and nasty things of the said privy house of office, flowed out... into the cellar aforesaid.
ref: 1776, Young Clerk's Complete Guide, page 106:
text: So far as he's concerned, all dem he don't know oughta be tried and sentenced tuh six months behind de United States privy house at hard smellin'.
ref: 1937, Zora N. Hurston, chapter XIX, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, page 255:
text: An intact, clapboarded privy house still stands within the foundation of the 1794 ministry barn.
ref: 2004, D.R. Starbuck, chapter II, in Neither Plain nor Simple, page 116:
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
Synonyms: outhouse
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: house
word: privy
word: bathroom
privy-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privy-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of privy house: an outhouse.
privy-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privy-house
privy houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privy house
passage house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passage houses
form: passage-house
Etymology: From passage in its obsolete sense "passage of feces" and dated sense "place for easy passage of a river etc."
Senses: glosses: An outbuilding used for the passage of feces: an outhouse.
glosses: A building providing transportation across a passage: a ferryhouse.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: outhouse
passage-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passage-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of passage house: an outhouse.
passage-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passage-house
passage houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passage house
petty-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty-houses
Etymology: From petty (“anything small; a little house, an outhouse”) + house to clarify the intended sense.
Senses: glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: outhouse
petty-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty-house
Gentlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gentlemen
Senses: examples: text: "You go and leave them in the Gentlemen."
"Leave 'em in the lavatory?"
ref: 1929, Henry Vincent Yorke as "Henry Green", Living, Ch. xviii, p. 213
glosses: Alternative form of gentlemen: a men's room, a lavatory for use by men.
shutterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutterers
Etymology: From shutter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That year four men looked like good material for the expedition: a surveyor, an engineer, a shutterer (concrete moldmaker) and a scaffolding erector.
ref: 1983, Ranulph Fiennes, To the Ends of the Earth:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A worker who constructs shuttering/formwork.
shutterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shutterer
afts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aft
bath room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath rooms
Senses: examples: text: Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...
ref: 1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8
glosses: Alternative form of bathroom in its various senses.
bath rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath room
never fight a land war in Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: never start a land war in Asia
Etymology: Attributed to various military leaders, including Bernard Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur, the quotation has existed in various forms since the Second World War. It was popularized when used by the character Vizzini in the 1987 movie The Princess Bride (after appearing in the 1973 novel The Princess Bride). Asia is far more heavily populated than Europe or North America, and while Western armies had technological advantages post-WWII, these could be overcome (as they were in Korea by the Chinese PLA and Vietnam by the PAVN) by sheer numbers.
Senses: examples: text: Although Britain is one of the world's most lucrative markets, with retail sales of £286bn last year, expensive shop rents and world-class local competition have kept international groups at bay. Indeed, some analysts put the UK in the "never fight a land war in Asia" category due to the challenges posed by the market.
ref: 2010 October 1, Zoe Wood, “Retail therapy: foreign chains glimpse window of opportunity in UK market”, in The Guardian:
text: Apple’s mistake in instigating a patent war with Samsung is illustrative of a larger pattern involving large stockpiles of patents. “Never fight a land war in Asia” comes to mind.
ref: 2014 July 4, Evan Jensen, “The Patent Wars”, in Lexology:
text: "Well listen here, Walmart," wrote blogger Caroline Gallay, "you should heed the advice of Vizzini in The Princess Bride: Never fight a land war in Asia."
ref: 2016, Philip Kotler, François Maon, A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility: Pressures, Conflicts, and Reconciliation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 50:
synonyms: pick one's battles
choose one's battles
glosses: Don't bite off more than you can chew; don't start a fight that is too big to win.
Related terms: hill to die on
Gents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gents
Senses: examples: text: "I don't want to go in there like this. We'll go to the Gents and see you back in the car park"...
Naylor... started to walk him towards the toilet.
ref: 2011, John Harvey, Lonely Hearts, page 64:
text: One unidentified man spoke of how he was approached to "go to the Gents" with an MP at an event for young political activists while another man described how an MP invited his entire office staff to a gay bar.
ref: 2014 April 11, Charlotte Meredith, “The Palace of Sexminster”, in Huffington Post: United Kingdom:
glosses: Alternative form of gents: a men's room, a lavatory intended for use by men.
agap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of agape.
agap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of agape.
in flying colors
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of with flying colors.
synonyms: word: with flying colors
in flying colours
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of in flying colors.
gnudis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnudi
monoheterosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monoheterosexual
form: most monoheterosexual
form: mono-heterosexual
Etymology: From mono- + heterosexual.
Senses: glosses: Sexually attracted only to other members of the opposite sex. Being either a male gynephile or a female androphile. (Always used in the sense of heterosexual not being bisexual.)
raw_tags: of a person or animal
monoheterosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoheterosexuals
form: mono-heterosexual
Etymology: From mono- + heterosexual.
Senses: glosses: A person who is attracted solely to others of the opposite sex.
Derived terms: monoheterosexuality
religtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒtɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: religtards
Etymology: From relig(i)- + -tard.
Senses: synonyms: religionist
qualifier: antireligion viewpoint
glosses: A religious person.
synonyms: religionist
religionist
qualifier: antireligion viewpoint
glosses: A religious person.
Especially, a religious zealot.
religtards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religtard
resistojet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistojets
form: resisto-jet
Etymology: From resist + -o- + jet.
Senses: glosses: A method of spacecraft propulsion (electric propulsion) that provides thrust by heating a (typically non-reactive) fluid.
glosses: A spacecraft that uses such method of propulsion.
resistojets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistojet
resisto-jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resisto-jets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resistojet.
resisto-jets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resisto-jet
hotseat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotseats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot seat.
hotseats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotseat
Brosette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brosettes
Etymology: From Bros + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female fan of Bros, a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Brosettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brosette
chinny reckon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
Synonyms: word: go on
word: Walker
word: bullshit
Related terms: SMH
Marie Antoinette syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The hair of Queen Marie Antoinette of France is said to have turned white after her capture.
Senses: glosses: A sudden whitening of the hair.
Related terms: alopecia areata
eensy-weensy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːn(t)si ˌwiːn(t)si/
Forms: form: more eensy-weensy
form: most eensy-weensy
Senses: glosses: Very small; tiny.
malnourish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malnourishes
form: malnourishing
form: malnourished
form: malnourished
Etymology: From mal- + nourish.
Senses: examples: text: But of course it is we who are letting them down, we whose overconsumption is malnourishing the world.
ref: 2013, Edith Pearlman, How to Fall: Stories:
glosses: To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
malnourishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malnourish
malnourishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of malnourish
embolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embolises
form: embolising
form: embolised
form: embolised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of embolize.
embolises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embolise
embolising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embolise
embolised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embolise
uncrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncreases
form: uncreasing
form: uncreased
form: uncreased
Etymology: From un- + crease.
Senses: examples: text: I got up from my web seat after an hour to uncrease the marks in my back and buttocks.
ref: 2011, Br. Spike Jonas, Using a Time Warp to Get it Right:
text: He jabbed at the crease I'd made through the center of the Great Leader's face and did his best to uncrease it, while scolding at me in Korean as if I were a horrid barbarian imperialist.
ref: 2015, Albert Podell, Around the World in 50 Years:
glosses: to remove the crease(s) from
uncreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncrease
uncreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncrease
cloak room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloak rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloakroom: a room for storing outerwear; a lavatory.
cloak rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloak room
ladies' cloakroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies' cloakrooms
Senses: glosses: A cloakroom intended for use by women.
glosses: A ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women.
Synonyms: sense: lavatory
word: bathroom
Coordinate terms: sense: gentlemen's cloakroom
word: cloakroom for men
sense: lavatory for men
word: cloakroom
word: gentlemen's room
word: bathroom
ladies' cloakrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladies' cloakroom
gongpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gongpits
form: gong-pit
Etymology: From Middle English gonge-put, from Old English gangpyt, equivalent to gong (“latrine, outhouse”) + pit.
Senses: examples: text: On þære nyðemestan fleringe wæs heora gangpyt & heora myxen.
ref: c. 1000, Aelfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi
text: In to a gonge-put fer wiþ-Inne þe child adoun þer-Inne he þrong.
ref: a. 1400, the Vernon Manuscript, Ch. xxix, p. 48
glosses: The cesspit of a latrine or outhouse; a latrine or outhouse itself.
Synonyms: sense: pit
word: cesspit
sense: toilet
word: bathroom
Related terms: gong
gongpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gongpit
gong-pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong-pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gongpit: a cesspit; a latrine; an outhouse.
gong-pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gong-pit
kinohapt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinohapts
Senses: examples: text: For stimulation we had recourse to a modified Benussi kinohapt, controlled by the Leipzig time-sense apparatus set to give an interval of 4/3 sec.
ref: 1922 January, H.M. Lufkin, “Cutaneous Localization and the" Attribute of Order"”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 33, number 1:
text: The most accurate instrument for delivering a 'touch' stimulus is probably the kinohapt (Bartley, 1958), which is a tiny stylus released by a solenoid to rest on the skin for a definite time with a definite and measurable pressure.
ref: 1967, David Cecil Sinclair, Cutaneous sensation, page 27:
text: In more recent years several different investigators constructed electromechanical devices called kinohapts, whereby tiny styli could be raised and lowered on the skin with more or less uniform impact and with precise timing.
ref: 1980, Samuel Howard Bartley, Introduction to perception, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: An esthesiometer for applying several stimuli to the skin with controlled timing and pressure.
kinohapts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinohapt
schrödinbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schrödinbugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schroedinbug.
kirner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirners
Senses: examples: text: It may be noted here that all the holes were bored with an ordinary boring ratchet, and although the hole is larger than the one prepared for powder, yet it was not considered that any extra labour was taken in the boring owing to the boring ratchet being used instead of the ordinary jumper or kirner.
ref: 1887, Mining Institute of Scotland, Transactions - Volume 8, page 178:
text: Tools for Single Hand Boring -- Hammer, weighing 3 or 4 lbs. ; jumpers, made of 1 inch or 3/4 inch octagon steel, or iron tipped with steel — length, 2 feet, 3 feet, and 4 feet; face of jumper 1 1/2 inch, 1 1/4 inch, and 1 inch; kirners of same material, and about 4 feet long; cleaners of copper, 4 feet long.
ref: 1894, William Williamson, Mining Notes and Formulæ for Students Preparing for the, page 65:
text: The kirner was made to give repeated blows in the hole, turning it partly at each blow to keep the hole cylindrical.
ref: 1902, Elementary Coal Mining, page 29:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A hand-operated jumper.
kirners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirner
toilet room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet rooms
form: toiletroom
form: toilet-room
Etymology: Originally from French chambre or cabinet de toilette, used for private grooming areas and then euphemistically for the locations of chamber pots and the plumbing fixtures which took their name from the room. Now generally understood as a direct (even impolitely overly direct) reference to the fixtures.
Senses: examples: text: We first enter a set of apartments, that are fitted up as toilette-rooms for the ladies.
ref: 1800, William Tooke, History of Russia, volume II, page 428:
text: Before dawn already the executioner repairs to the prison, and signs at the office the certificate by which he vouches for the delivery of the person whom he is to behead. He then enters the so-called toilet-room, a narrow, dark chamber, whither the poor sinner, accompanied by the priest, is soon taken.
ref: 1868 July 18, "Monsieur de Paris" in Every Saturday, Vol. VI, p. 78
text: The wealthy official Shih Ch'ung [sc., Shi Chong]... had more than ten beautiful girls... always stand at attendance in the toilet room to help the guest ‘change clothes’.
ref: 1961, R.H. van Gulik, chapter VI, in Sexual Life in Ancient China, page 168:
glosses: A room in which to perform one's toilet, including dressing and grooming, particularly before execution.
examples: text: The other apartments are for toilet rooms for both sexes, on first and second floors.
ref: 1854, San Francisco Board of Education, Annual Report, page 9:
text: To have at least four seat closets placed in the toilet room adjoining the assembly and at least two in the toilet room adjoining the senate.
ref: 1895, State of Wisconsin, Laws, page 795:
glosses: A room in which to use a toilet: a lavatory.
Synonyms: sense: obsolete room for dressing and grooming
word: cabinet
sense: obsolete room for dressing and grooming
word: chamber
sense: lavatory
word: toilet
word: lavatory room
word: bathroom
Derived terms: word: gentlemen's room
word: ladies' room
word: men's room
word: women's room
english: as a lavatory
translation: as a lavatory
word: tearoom
toilet rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet room
toiletroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toiletrooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toilet room: a room for grooming; a lavatory.
toiletrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toiletroom
toilet-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toilet room: a room for grooming; a lavatory.
toilet-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet-room
IPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IPFs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
transmedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmediums
form: trans-medium
Etymology: From trans- + medium.
Senses: examples: text: This happened when it was a one to one reading but didn't take place when giving a demonstration. I was asked to give a demonstration in a Masonic hall with a good friend of mine who was a transmedium in Lincoln.
ref: 2014, Matthew Wilson, The Chronicles Of A Medium Perception: The Amazing Martelo:
text: […] during the course of a reading I am receiving messages from other spirits and feeling other people's emotions, and therefore I could technically be considered a medium, transmedium, or channeler in those moments.
ref: 2015, Debra Lynne Katz, Extraordinary Psychic: Proven Techniques to Master Your Natural Abilities:
glosses: A psychic who is able to cross boundaries between the natural and supernatural worlds.
transmedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmedia
form: trans-medium
Etymology: From trans- + medium.
Senses: examples: text: Looking inside the digital transmedium, we can discern distinct developments.
ref: 2015, Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media:
glosses: Several mediums (formats for presenting information) considered collectively.
transmedium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trans-medium
Etymology: From trans- + medium.
Senses: examples: text: A transmedium drone flies out of water and then dives into water. Zhang Shuxin and his colleagues have reported that their drone used […]
ref: 2021 July 21, :How China’s flying submarine drone could change sea battles", in South China Morning Post
text: [see title] […]
ref: 2022 July 5, “Filmmaker Claims UFOs are 'Real' and have 'Transmedium' Capabilities”, in PetaPixel:
glosses: Operating across multiple mediums (material(s) of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum).
transmediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmedium
co-screenwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-screenwriters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coscreenwriter.
co-screenwriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-screenwriter
auteurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auteur + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: It also involves an analysis of the ways in which he has incorporated his own biographical detail into this paratextual input in order to create and maintain an auteurial mythology […]
ref: 2014, Keith McDonald, Roger Clark, Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art:
glosses: Of, or related to an auteur.
janusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more janusian
form: most janusian
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Janusian.
get rich quicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: get rich quickers
Etymology: From get-rich-quick + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most of those get rich quickers aren't going to make it.
ref: 2014, Arthur Harris, Perils of the Gold Rush:
glosses: One who falls for, believes in, or pursues a get-rich-quick scheme.
corncob engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corncob engines
Etymology: From the pistons resembling a cob of corn.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An air-cooled multi-row radial piston aircraft engine
HSAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of highly superior autobiographical memory; hyperthymesia.
hyperthymestic syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hyperthymesia
hyperthymestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hyperthymesia.
Derived terms: hyperthymestic syndrome
yule logs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yule log
get rich quickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of get rich quicker
coutaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of coumaric acid + tartaric acid, since it is an ester formed from those two compounds.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxycinnamoyltartaric acid found in wine, pomace, and grape.
fertaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ferulic acid + tartaric acid, since it is an ester formed from those two compounds.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxycinnamic acid found in wine and grape.
cisvestites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cisvestite
two can play this game
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -eɪm
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of two can play that game.
chavicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in Piper species such as black pepper; one of the four diastereomeric geometric isomers of piperine.
Derived terms: isochavicine
taste pore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taste pores
Senses: glosses: Any of the small openings in the tongue epithelium that allow dissolved food to come into contact with the taste receptors.
taste pores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taste pore
foreday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foredays
form: fore-day
Etymology: From Middle English *foreday (attested only in plural foredais), equivalent to fore- + day.
Senses: examples: text: This same token should be of Luces the emperor, and of the Senators [of Rome], who with him came from Rome [thither]; ' and in the same wise, they there gan fall;' what Merlin in foredays said, all they it found there, as they did ere, and subsequently well everywhere; ere Arthur were born, Merlin it all [all it is] predicted.
ref: 1847 [c. 1200], Frederic Madden, Layamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain, translation of original by Layamon:
text: When the English horsemen shivered
On the foredays' glorious strife,
By his spearmen, and De Clifford
Yielded both the wreath and life.
ref: 1897, Dugald Ferguson, Poems of the Heart, page 79:
text: We bend our knees to the ground
Seeking refuge from the One on High
To redeem us from the
Prophesies of the fore-days
Consigning these daysafter
The last days, as the evil days.
ref: 2016, David Udo, “The Last Days”, in The Ripples:
glosses: Past or former days
glosses: The earlier part of the day; the morning or early afternoon.
Synonyms: sense: past days
word: foretime
word: yestertide
word: the past
sense: morning
word: forenoon
word: morn
word: morning
sense: early afternoon
word: undermeal
word: undertide
word: afternoon
Chow Chow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chow Chows
Etymology: First attested in 1886, but of uncertain origin (present Chinese terms for the breed do not resemble it). Possibly related to the old Chinese custom of eating dogs (cf. chow and chow-chow).
Senses: glosses: A chayote.
glosses: A chow, a Chinese breed of dog.
Synonyms: chow
Chow
Chow Chows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chow Chow
renegotiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renegotiators
Senses: glosses: One who renegotiates.
renegotiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renegotiator
alkalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalides
Etymology: From alkali + -ide?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound in which alkali metals are anions (i.e. they bear a negative charge).
Hyponyms: caeside
kalide
natride
potasside
rubidide
sodide
alkalides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkalide
qualitiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quality + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qualityness.
actionness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From action + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).
ref: 2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma:
text: Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]
ref: 2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The property of being an action.
hypocoercivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + coercivity.
Senses: examples: text: To prove hypocoercivity in that case, the key point is to show the existence of a convenient Riemannian foliation associated to the diffusion.
ref: 2016, Fabrice Baudoin, Camille Tardif, “Hypocoercive estimates on foliations and velocity spherical Brownian motion”, in arXiv:
glosses: The property of being hypocoercive.
oloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oloids
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we derive the expectations of the mean width, the surface area and the volume of the intersections of a fixed oloid and a moving ball, as well as of a fixed and a moving oloid.
ref: 2016, Uwe Bäsel, “The mean width of the oloid and integral geometric applications of it”, in arXiv:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional curved geometric object, the convex hull of a skeletal frame made by placing two linked congruent circles in perpendicular planes, so that the center of each circle lies on the other circle.
oloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oloid
Halbach array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Halbach arrays
Etymology: Named after Klaus Halbach, Halbach is borrowed from German Halbach.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of permanent magnets that augments the magnetic field on one side of the array while cancelling the field to near zero on the other side.
Halbach arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Halbach array
technihadron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technihadrons
Etymology: From techni- + hadron.
Senses: examples: text: Its weakness relative to extended technicolor is essential to understanding the lightness of H compared to the low-lying spin-one technihadrons.
ref: 2016, Kenneth Lane, Lukas Pritchett, “The Light Composite Higgs in Strong Extended Technicolor”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hadron described using the technicolor model.
technihadrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technihadron
unfollower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfollowers
Etymology: From unfollow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who unfollows another user.
unfollowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfollower
thearubigin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thearubigins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polymeric polyphenols formed during the enzymatic oxidation and condensation of gallocatechins during the fermentation reactions in black tea.
Related terms: theacitrin
theaflavin
theasinensin
thearubigins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thearubigin
glabrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavene and xenoestrogen found in liquorice root.
lonchocarpane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lonchocarpus + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavane found in Lonchocarpus laxiflorus.
laxiflorane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin laxiflorus + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavane found in Lonchocarpus laxiflorus.
brussels sprout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brussels sprouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Brussels sprout.
gallotannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallotannins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polymers formed when gallic acid esterifies and binds with the hydroxyl group of a polyol carbohydrate such as glucose.
gallotannins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallotannin
indicaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain pigment found in beets.
poor man's black velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it does not require champagne, a relatively expensive ingredient of a true black velvet cocktail.
Senses: synonyms: black velveteen
glosses: A cocktail of stout with cider or perry.
black velvets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black velvet
six-water grog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Rum diluted with six measures of water instead of the normal three, formerly used as a disciplinary measure for sailors.
vulgaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulgaxanthins
Etymology: From Beta vulgaris, taxonomic name for the beet.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of betaxanthins found in red beets, Swiss chard, etc.
Swiss chards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swiss chard
vulgaxanthins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulgaxanthin
linkification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From link + -ification or linkify + -ication.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of (something in a body of text) to one or more internal links or hyperlinks.
eccentric anomalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eccentric anomaly
true anomalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true anomaly
Steptoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛptəʊ
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bajillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bajillion + -th
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number bajillion (an unspecified large number).
virtue signalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜɹtʃu sɪɡnəlɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈvɝtʃ-]
Forms: form: virtue signaling
form: virtue-signalling
form: virtue-signaling
Etymology: Initially used in academic works about religion to refer to ostentatious public displays of religiosity. Popularised by James Bartholomew in an April 2015 article in the British conservative magazine The Spectator.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of virtue signal
virtue signaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of virtue signalling.
vegangelicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegangelical
respecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respeck
respecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of respeck
megaweapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaweapons
Etymology: From mega- + weapon.
Senses: glosses: An extremely powerful weapon.
megaweapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaweapon
superrepressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superrepressor
pluralia tanta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plurale tantum
aforedescribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + described.
Senses: glosses: Described earlier.
steampunkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steampunkish
form: most steampunkish
Etymology: From steampunk + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the steampunk genre.
predicatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From predicate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Predicable; capable of being predicated.
Gartnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Gaertnerian
Etymology: From Gartner + -ian.
Senses: examples: a Gartnerian cyst
glosses: Relating to, or described by, the Danish surgeon and anatomist Hermann Treschow Gartner (1785-1827).
old wine in new bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of old wine in a new bottle.
telically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more telically
form: most telically
Etymology: From telic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a telic manner.
atelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more atelically
form: most atelically
Etymology: From atelic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an atelic manner.
ultroneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultroneities
Etymology: From ultrone(ous) + -ity, from Latin ultroneitas.
Senses: examples: text: […] but it is now held that the mere fact of the ultroneity of a witness, i.e. his offering his testimony without citation, is not of itself a barrier to his admissibility.
ref: 1851, James George Wood, The Law of Libel: a Treatise on the Forms of Judicial Procedure in the Courts of the Church of Scotland:
text: Notwithstanding that admonition, they do choose to answer; and, in so doing, they evince ultroneity to a degree that is highly suspicious.
ref: 1901, John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Second Series:
glosses: The quality of being ultroneous.
glosses: Ultroneous behaviour.
ultroneities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultroneity
sticks out like a sore thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stick out like a sore thumb