cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
break someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks someone's back
form: breaking someone's back
form: broke someone's back
form: broken someone's back
Senses: examples: text: Would it break your back to pay me a compliment once in a while?
text: My books are sitting at the top of the stack now
The longer words are really breaking my back now.
ref: 2003, Jack White, “Black Math”, in Elephant, performed by The White Stripes:
glosses: Alternative form of break the back of (overburden).
glosses: Synonym of blow someone's back out.
synonyms: word: blow someone's back out
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, back.
Related terms: back-breaking
break one's back
brozier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: broziers
form: broziering
form: broziered
form: broziered
Senses: examples: text: The miserable fact is, I am completely broziered, cut down to a sixpence, and have left town.
ref: 1808, Thomas Morton, The Way to Get Married: A Comedy, in Five Acts, page 9:
glosses: To bankrupt.
examples: text: […] and as dinners were not always up to the mark, according to their ideas, they sometimes sought advantage from it, and took to "broziering" their Dame.
ref: 1892, William Hill Tucker, Eton of Old: Or, Eighty Years Since, 1811-1822, page 82:
glosses: To steal provisions from the larder of (the school housekeeper).
brozier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broziers
Senses: glosses: A bankrupt person.
glosses: The school prank of stealing provisions from the housekeeper's larder.
broziers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brozier
broziers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brozier
broziering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brozier
broziered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brozier
brosier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brosiers
form: brosiering
form: brosiered
form: brosiered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brozier.
brosier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brosiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brozier.
brosiered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brosier
brosiers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brosier
brosiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brosier
brosiering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brosier
brosmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brosmaid
ARPAbet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ARPABET
Etymology: Blend of ARPA + alphabet
Senses: examples: text: The ARPAbet system provides a broad, phonetic transcription that is nearly phonemic.
ref: 2016, Ronald A. Cole, Perception and Production of Fluent Speech, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:
coordinate_terms: IPA
SAMPA
glosses: A set of phonetic transcription codes developed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
unforeheard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + foreheard.
Senses: examples: text: […] for an educational masterpiece it does remain despite the unforeheard, inartistic results which certain features of his mastery are producing.
ref: 1984, Dominic Gill, The Book of the Violin, page 148:
text: Like Mendelssohn (whose concern is with a phenomenon worth thinking more about, the unforeheard), Derrida drops the onset of the sacred […]
ref: 2020, Benedict Taylor, Rethinking Mendelssohn, page 344:
glosses: Not foreheard; not heard in advance.
plum cash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: prime cost
ARPABET
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ARPAbet.
unforeseeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unforeseeable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unforeseeability.
synonyms: word: unforeseeability
bumbrusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumbrushers
Senses: glosses: An usher at a school.
bumbrushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumbrusher
Jack Nasty-Face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack Nasty-Faces
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: Jack Nasty
glosses: A sailor.
Jack Nasty-Faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jack Nasty-Face
chest candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: scrambled egg
glosses: Medals and ribbons worn on the chest.
Related terms: arm candy
eye candy
dame de compagnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dames de compagnie
Etymology: From French dame de compagnie.
Senses: glosses: A woman's paid female companion.
dames de compagnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dame de compagnie
sow's baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pig
glosses: A sixpence coin.
M.B. coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M.B. coats
Etymology: The letters stand for mark of the beast.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pygostole (“Tractarian curate's surtout”).
synonyms: word: pygostole
extra: Tractarian curate's surtout
M.B. coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M.B. coat
Stroop effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stroop effect
Stroop test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stroop tests
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A test that presents the subject with coloured words to measure the Stroop effect.
Stroop tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stroop test
marygold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marygolds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marigold (“the flower”).
glosses: Obsolete form of marigold (“a million pounds sterling”).
marygolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marygold
mean white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mean whites
Senses: examples: text: A mean white would be acutely reminded of his own shabby status upon encountering a slave like Northup, […]
ref: 2019, William L. Andrews, Slavery and Class in the American South, page 186:
glosses: Synonym of poor white trash (“a white person of low social status”).
synonyms: word: poor white trash
extra: a white person of low social status
raw_tags: used by black slaves
mean whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mean white
Shillibeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shillibeer
bungham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even in such soft material as marsh clay, or what engineers call “bungham,” there is no danger of the hole collapsing.
ref: 1928, Transactions of the Society of Engineers, page 240:
text: A typical borehole starting at 9 ft. below the level of Grosvenor Road showed the presence of 4 ft. of brick rubble, 1 ft. 6 in. of bungham, 3 ft. 3 in. of peat, 1 ft. each of green clay and green sand […]
ref: 1930 November, Concrete and Constructional Engineering, volume 25:
text: These are the so-called bungham clays and are characterised by broad, shallow depressions 6in. - 12in. deep, known as crabholes, and which fill with water in winter.
ref: 1937, Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, page 345:
text: Other difficulties which had to be overcome at the time included the "treacherous" soil known as bungham, which Hutton wrote "needed only the briefest spell of rain to convert it into a liquid mud", making the construction of the dock a risky endeavour for those involved.
ref: 2020 December 19, Ryan O'Neill, “The rise and fall of Newport's once-thriving docks”, in Wales Online:
glosses: A type of clay sometimes found in marshes.
push-and-pull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: push and pull
Senses: examples: text: The trials were conducted to assess the suitability of four-motor power cars on high-speed push-and-pull workings, with a view to possible operation of the electrified Waterloo-Bournemouth services by these methods.
ref: 1961 December, “Talking of Trains: Push-and-pull to Bournemouth?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 707:
glosses: Synonym of push-pull.
synonyms: word: push-pull
push-and-pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-and-pulls
form: push and pull
Senses: examples: text: Because of course there were layers here too. Welcome to Qatar 2022, a World Cup so contorted by wider push and pull you can almost feel the political actors at the side of pitch shunting their avatars about the turf with long wooden paddles.
ref: 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of push-pull.
synonyms: word: push-pull
mollisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollishers
form: monnisher
Senses: synonyms: moll
glosses: A disreputable girl or woman, especially one who lives with a thief.
mollishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollisher
shickery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shickery
form: most shickery
Etymology: Unknown. A connection with later shicker is unlikely, because the Yiddish and Hebrew terms only have senses relating to alcohol.
Senses: examples: text: The platform itself was a shickery arrangement of trestles and shutters, and was kept by a publican for the use of travelling companies.
ref: 1876, The Australian Journal, page 243:
glosses: Shabby; bad.
swankey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swankeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swankie (“a kind of drink”).
swankeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swankey
cervical canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervical canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A spindle-shaped, flattened canal of the cervix (the neck of the uterus), communicating with the uterine cavity and the vagina.
cervical canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervical canal
pitheco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape, monkey”).
Senses: glosses: ape.
Related terms: pithecan
pithecism
pithecoid
microsuturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microsuture
Cottonopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From cotton + -o- + -polis.
Senses: glosses: The city of Manchester, England.
liver-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liver-faced
form: most liver-faced
Senses: glosses: Lily-livered; cowardly.
water bewitched
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: husband's tea
glosses: Very weak tea or other highly diluted drink.
quodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quod
quodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quod
Skimmery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: St Mary Hall, Oxford, England, a medieval academic hall of the University of Oxford, incorporated into Oriel College in 1902.
cocked hat curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocked hat curves
Etymology: From the resemblance to the hat also called a bicorn.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The bicorn (type of curve).
cocked hat curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocked hat curve
that accounts for the milk in the coconut
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: That explains everything (in response to a satisfactory explanation).
according to Gunter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Eponymous of Edmund Gunter.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of according to Cocker.
synonyms: word: according to Cocker
wikipedia: Edmund Gunter
Related terms: Gunter's chain
Gunter's line
Gunter's quadrant
Gunter's scale
bellowser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellowsers
Etymology: From bellows + -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue to breathe until they die.
Senses: glosses: A sentence of transportation for life.
glosses: A blow in the pit of the stomach, taking one's breath away.
Related terms: bellowsed
bellowsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellowser
force the voucher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forces the voucher
form: forcing the voucher
form: forced the voucher
form: forced the voucher
Senses: glosses: To carry out fraud by placing an advertisement offering to send a list of winners for the purpose of sports betting, and replying to interested parties by sending out vouchers similar to those sent out by respectable commission agents, but displaying double or treble the current odds. The victim is informed that on account of early investments made by the firm, the extra odds can be laid by them, and a remittance is requested. The fraudulent firm later disappears with the money.
go for the gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for the gloves
form: going for the gloves
form: went for the gloves
form: gone for the gloves
Etymology: Perhaps from the old custom of ladies betting their gloves, expecting to be paid if they won but not to pay if they lost.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: To bet against a racehorse on the chance of its losing, without having the wherewithal to pay if it wins.
noncrowdsourced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crowdsourced.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, similar but noncrowdsourced studies were limited to a small number of motivated participants that were willing to spend up to 12 h in order to place the large number of gauges.
ref: 2011 March 25, Tara S. Behrend, David J. Sharek, Adam W. Meade, Eric N. Wiebe, “The viability of crowdsourcing for survey research”, in Behavior Research Methods, →DOI:
text: For this work on back pain, we decided that the opinions and perspectives of people with back pain—regardless of their health care access or utilization—would give valuable and potentially different insights from a sample derived using noncrowdsourced approaches.
ref: 2017 October 6, Bartek et al., “The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Crowdsourcing in Research Prioritization for Back Pain: Cross-Sectional Surveys”, in Journal of Medical Internet Research, →DOI:
text: This experiment illustrated that the crowd can produce similar experimental findings to well-established experimental studies conducted with a noncrowdsourced sample.
ref: 2019 April 9, Lara G. Hilton, Tarek Azzam, “Crowdsourcing Qualitative Thematic Analysis”, in American Journal of Evaluation, →DOI:
glosses: Not crowdsourced.
Taṇhaṅkara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Taṇhaṅkara.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 1st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Medhaṅkara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Medhaṅkara.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 2nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Saraṇaṅkara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Saraṇaṅkara.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 3rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Dīpaṃkara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Dīpaṃkara.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 4th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: Dīpankara Buddha
Koṇḍañña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Koṇḍañña.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 5th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: Kondanna Buddha
Maṅgala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Maṅgala.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 6th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Sumana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Sumana.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 7th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Revata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Revata.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 8th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Sobhita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Sobhita.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 9th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Anomadassi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Anomadassi.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 10th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Paduma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Paduma.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 11th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Padumuttara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Padumuttara.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 13th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Sumedha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Sumedha.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 14th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Sujāta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Sujāta.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 15th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Piyadassi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Piyadassi.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 16th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Atthadassi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Atthadassi.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 17th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Dhammadassī
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Dhammadassī.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 18th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: List of named Buddhas
Siddhattha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Siddhattha.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 19th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
Phussa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Phussa.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 21st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Vipassī
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Vipassī.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 22nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Sikhī
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Sikhī.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 23rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Vessabhū
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Vessabhū.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 24th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Kakusandha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Kakusandha.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 25th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Koṇāgamana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali Koṇāgamana.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 26th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Kassapa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali कस्सप (kassapa), from Sanskrit कश्यप (kaśyapa).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name of the 27th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama.
wikipedia: + Buddha
Gotama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gautama.
mark my word
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Tyson: Don't sweat it! Next time I meet up with that whoosh Kai, I'll show him who's king of the Blades! You mark my word, kid.
ref: 2002, Beyblade, "Day of the Dragoon" (episode 2)
glosses: Alternative form of mark my words.
tigertail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tigertails
Etymology: From tiger + tail.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various dragonflies of the family Synthemistidae, having black and yellow patterned tails.
tigertails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tigertail
Lesbian rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lesbian rules
Etymology: The rules were originally made from pliable lead found on Lesbos.
Senses: examples: text: Or, with a Lesbian rule—that strip of soft lead which could be pressed into a particularly satisfying molding to record its profile—we explored buildings that interested us.
ref: 1957, AIA Journal, American Institute of Architects:
text: Instead , the good architect would use a "Lesbian" rule, which "adapts itself to the shape of the stone and is not rigid."
ref: 1994, The Journal of the Legal Profession:
glosses: A flexible leaden mason's rule that can be bent around the curves of a molding, and thus used to measure or reproduce irregular curves.
examples: text: He asks: “Is Scripture become a Lesbian''' rule and bowed to our fancies? But this is the very answer that a classical brother gave me […]
ref: 1850, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, page 36:
text: […] that it may exercise authority as a rule for the direction of life, and for prescribing some limits to liberty, and not that it may be slavishly subservient to the wills of men, like a Lesbian rule, which may be accommodated to every condition; since these are some of the properties of religion, man is not permitted to stipulate concerning it, […]
ref: 1853, Jacobus Arminius, The Works of James Arminius, page 152:
text: […] and cemented by a thousand links of union, the law of marriage should be a Lesbian rule, which shifts according to the circumstances of place; and that acts which in England would be absolutely null may be binding marriages in Scotland […]
ref: 1861, The Law Magazine and Review: A Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, page 19:
text: Lesbian rules — rules which accommodate themselves to the wishes of men, and bend to all the demands of denominational prejudice — have been quite too long employed to elucidate, or rather to misinterpret, the Scriptures.
ref: 1869, Dorus Clarke, The Oneness of the Christian Church, page 32:
text: […] have Lesbian rules of interpretation - rules which he can bend to his wishes and so apply as to make the Scriptures yield the meaning he desires. But these rules are not of that kind. They are meant to be just and impartial.
ref: 1891, Albert Edward Waffle, The Interpreter with His Bible, page 41:
text: This is certainly using a Lesbian rule, to adapt Christ in such a way as to bring Him into accord with Aristotle, rather than Aristotle with Christ.
ref: 1991, Jens Andersen Sinning, Oratio de Studiis, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A flexible principle, one which may be bent to accommodate or fit different circumstances.
Lesbian rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lesbian rule
lesbian rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbian rules
Senses: examples: text: It has to be, shall we say, you have to work with a lesbian rule, I suppose! You know what a lesbian rule is? It's a rule that you can bend.
ref: 1993, Wolfgang Görtschacher, “Little Magazines Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993”, in Poetry, Salzburg:
text: Using slides of photographs from advertising and art, the authors discuss the importance of using "lesbian rules" (a term deriving from a mason's tool that allows measuring flexibility) to understand the dimensions of sexual expression […]
ref: 1998, Continuing Medical Education Syllabus and Scientific Proceedings in Summary Form: Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association:
text: In an attempt to build a few intertextual bridges, we use images from lesbian literature to illustrate principles we find most useful in thinking psychoanalytically about homosexuality. We call these principles lesbian rules. A lesbian rule was originally a mason's rule made of lead […] Thus, figuratively, it became, […] "a principle allowing flexibility." […] Clinical psychoanalysis uses many such lesbian rules.
ref: 2013, Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller, Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule.
raw_tags: in the context of sexuality
lesbian rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbian rule
non-binarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbinarity
Etymology: From non-binary + -ity or non- + binarity.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond Ladefoged's arguments for non-binarity (1970), I feel that the human nervous system is not constructed in a way that it could use binarity easily, either in perception or production.
ref: 1975, General Linguistics:
text: Through his use of ellipsis, understatement, unspecified agency, and non-binarity, Johnson is thus attempting to bring about a change in the status of the Negro without explicitly acknowledging or processing conflict and dispossession.
ref: 1990, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, Plume:
text: As regards its particular mass and age, and probably its non-binarity, "anthropic" explanations may seem in place. The possible tendency for the Sun, as compared with similar stars, to be somewhat rich in iron relative to other elements […]
ref: 1998, Claus Fröhlich, M. Huber, S.K. Solanki, Rudolf von Steiger, Solar Composition and its Evolution — from Core to Corona: Proceedings of an Issi Workshop 26-30 January 1998, Bern, Switzerland, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 419:
text: On the non-binarity of the null subject parameter
ref: 2003, Josep Quer i Carbonell, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance,' Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2001, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Nor can we maintain the converse position that a defining property of parameters is non-binarity, as there appear to be some, most notably the directionality parameters, which by their very nature are binary.
ref: 2019, I. M. Roca, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 13:
synonyms: non-binariness
glosses: The quality of being non-binary (not binary); absence of binarity.
nonbinarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Assimilation : optionality versus nonbinarity, and natural classes
ref: 1992, Heinz J. Giegerich, English Phonology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 213:
text: The namer's power to authorize the pairing of word and thing underscores the nonbinarity of the sign even as it insures that pairing.
ref: 1992, Susan Derwin, Professor Susan Derwin, The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press:
text: "Innocence" here takes the form of a nonbinarity between binarity (day and night divided by the punctual moment of sunset) and nonbinarity (the fading light in which the moment is embedded, making the boundary negotiable).
ref: 1997, Ira Livingston, Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: None of the norms of identification for sex need change much for someone who is clearly male or clearly female when they discover the nonbinarity of biological sex.
ref: 2007, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Race Or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity:
text: Nonbinarity can also enter into MV-optimal GGDDs with s>1, as demonstrated next. Though neither binarity nor equal replication is required, Theorem 3.8(i) does imply binarity when p = 0.
ref: 2015, Angela Dean, Max Morris, John Stufken, Derek Bingham, Handbook of Design and Analysis of Experiments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Alternative form of non-binarity.
Akasagarbha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit आकाशगर्भ (ākāśagarbha).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Kṣitigarbha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ (kṣitigarbha), literally “earth-womb”.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Mahāsthāmaprāpta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit महास्थामप्राप्त (mahāsthāmaprāpta).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Mañjuśrī
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Samantabhadra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit समन्तभद्र (samantabhadra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Vajrapāṇi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वज्रपाणि (vajrapāṇi).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Viśiṣṭacāritra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit विशिष्टचारित्र (viśiṣṭacāritra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Viśuddhacāritra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit विशुद्धचारित्र (viśuddhacāritra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Supratiṣṭhitacāritra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सुप्रतिष्ठितचारित्र (supratiṣṭhitacāritra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism
Vajraratna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वज्ररत्न (vajraratna).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Vajratīkṣṇa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वज्रतीक्ष्ण (vajratīkṣṇa).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Vajrapāramitā
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वज्रपारमिता (vajrapāramitā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Bhaiṣajyarāja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit भैषज्यराज (bhaiṣajyarāja).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Bhaiṣajyasamudgata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit भैषज्यसमुद्गत (bhaiṣajyasamudgata).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Padmasambhava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit पद्मसम्भव (padmasambhava), from पद्म (padma) + सम्भव (sambhava).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Sangharama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सन्घरम (sangharama).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a monastic settlement where Sangha dwells. e.g. Valukarama of Vesali , Kukkutarama of Paliputra
Sitātapatrā
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सितातपत्रा (sitātapatrā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Skanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit स्कन्द (skanda).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
examples: text: Skanda Purana
glosses: epithet of Kartikeya, the Hindu god of war.
Sūryaprabha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सूर्यप्रभ (sūryaprabha).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: Candraprabha
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Candraprabha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit चन्द्रप्रभ (candraprabha).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: Sūryaprabha
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Bhaiṣajyaguru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit भैषज्यगुरु (bhaiṣajyaguru). See Sanskrit भेषज्य (bheṣajya) and Sanskrit गुरु (guru).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Supuṣpacandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सुपुष्पचन्द्र (supuṣpacandra).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Śāntideva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit शान्तिदेव (śāntideva).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Vasudhārā
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वसुधारा (vasudhārā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Mandāravā
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मन्दारवा (mandāravā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Tārā
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit तारा (tārā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Vajrasattva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वज्रसत्त्व (vajrasattva).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Cundi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit चुन्दि (cundi).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
Vairocana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वैरोचन (vairocana).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a celestial Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism
ageladine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ageladines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of brominated pyrrole-imidazole alkaloids present in some marine sponges
anaerobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: anaerobic exercise
apodema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apodemas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apodeme.
bethanachol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bethanechol.
bigeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bigeminy.
bispecifics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bispecific
like a shot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I went over the fence like a shot, and ran like one o'clock for the trap, cussing and swearing as I went.
ref: 1899, H. G. Wells, Mr. Brisher's Treasure:
glosses: suddenly; without delay or hesitation.
Related terms: off like a bride's nightie
off like a prom dress
on the double
Gnin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Poland.
bottlefeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlefeedings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of feeding a (human) baby with a bottle, as:
Implying (when not otherwise specified) feeding with commercial baby formula as contrasted with human breast milk.
coordinate_terms: breastfeeding
nursing
glosses: The act or process of feeding a (human) baby with a bottle, as:
Feeding with human breast milk expressed (pumped) earlier, as contrasted with feeding directly at the breast.
hypernyms: breastfeeding
coordinate_terms: nursing
glosses: An instance (session) of such feeding activity.
glosses: Such feeding (or instance thereof) for any nonhuman animal, especially lambs (orphaned or rejected) or juvenile wildlife rescues.
Hypernyms: feeding
Related terms: english: feeding bottle
translation: feeding bottle
word: baby bottle
word: bottle-feed
alt: lactation
word: lactating
english: baby formula
translation: baby formula
word: infant formula
word: milk replacer
champacyclin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclic octapeptide present in Streptomyces champavatii
chaphamaparvovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaphamaparvoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any parvovirus of the genus Chaphamaparvovirus
chaphamaparvoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaphamaparvovirus
chemogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemigram.
chemograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemogram
chlorogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorogenases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyses chlorogenic acid
coaptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * coapt + -ive
Senses: glosses: That leads to coaptation.
cyclotorsional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclo- + torsional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or producing cyclotorsion
devaluative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or producing devaluation
diastology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The assessment of diastolic function, typically by echocardiography
diphosphoglucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + phosphoglucose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: glucose diphosphate
dorsolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From dorso- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the dorsal side of the tongue
dorsolingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a dorsolingual manner or direction
ecotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of protease inhibitors present in Gram-negative bacteria
ecotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotin
electroreceptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + receptory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electroreceptors or to electroreception
euvolaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euvolemia.
halimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halimides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytotoxic diketopiperazine present in some marine fungi
Jesusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now ſee Gods grace more fully to us, that hath renewed this covenant which is in Chriſt more evidently, and take we heede of caſting our ſelves out of it againe, by following ſtrange Mediators and Jeſuſſes, as I thinke the Papiſts doe.
ref: a. 1639, William Whately, “The Sixth Example. Of Noah.”, in Prototypes, or the Primarie Precedent Presidents ovt of the Booke of Genesis. […], London: […] Edward Leigh and […] Henry Scudder, […]; […] G.M. for George Edwards […], published 1640, page 77:
text: He is handing her a case, and says: / Good bye Liz! Here’s my daggero’ type likeness! I’d stand treat but I hain’t got the ghost of a red cent left, our uniforms is so very expensive—When I come back from Californy I’ll bring you a whole lot of little golden Jesusses and crosses! I will upon the honor of a soldier! /[…]/ References to “little golden Jesusses and crosses,” occur repeatedly.
ref: 1977, Donald C. Biggs, Conquer and Colonize: Stevenson’s Regiment and California, Presidio Press, page 66:
text: > I wonder what Lars Olav _wants_, exactly. / I dunno... not enough Dancing Jesusses on the web site?
ref: 2002 January 6, John S. Novak, III, “Nooooo, not TOR.”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: but there's lots of Jesusses too. even my Bible says so (kinda like the bit about jealous gods):[…]
ref: 2003 November 5, SOD of the CoE, “Lucifer/Satan/Jesus/Venus: Gods of the Dawn?”, in alt.mythology (Usenet):
text: > ...do you Know Him? / Knowing him is one thing, it does not help the world. That this King died has not helped in any way, look around you - pain, suffering, war... The real question is, are you prepared to sacrifice yourself* for the better of the world like this King did for you? Imagine a world full of jesusses... wow!
ref: 2006 July 27, No Name, “Love ... A Powerful Thing”, in alt.religion.christianity (Usenet):
text: – Or are there several ‹real›, i.e. historically identifiable ‹Jesusses›?
ref: 2020, “2000 Years In Search Of Jesus And No End …”, in M.P. Steiner, editor, Interrogatio Iohannis (The Secret Book of the Cathars): […]; and Apokryphon Iohannis (The Secret Book of John): […]; […] The Nativity of Christianism and Its Significance in the 21ˢᵗ Century, Germany: Edition Oriflamme, translation of Interrogatio Iohannis: Das geheime Buch der Katharer; […] und Apokryphon Iohannis: Das geheime Buch des Johannes […], →ISBN, section “Who Was The «Historical Jesus» ?”, page 142:
glosses: plural of Jesus (“the Christian savior”)
homogenisator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogenisators
Senses: glosses: Synonym of homogenizer.
synonyms: word: homogenizer
homogenisators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homogenisator
hyposodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + sodic.
Senses: glosses: Low in sodium
raw_tags: of a diet
immobilisate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immobilisates
Senses: glosses: The material used in immobilisation (typically of an enzyme)
immobilisates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immobilisate
kasanosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kasanosins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of azaphilones present in genus Talaromyces of fungi.
kasanosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kasanosin
laconicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being laconic
laterborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That was born later than another
macroband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrobands
Etymology: From macro- + band.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of hunter-gatherers from several families
macrodeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrodemes
Etymology: From macro- + deme.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macroband.
synonyms: word: macroband
macrodemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrodeme
magnetohemodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: magneto-hemodynamic
Etymology: From magneto- + hemodynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the circulation of blood either under the influence of an applied magnetic field or as visualised by magnetic resonance imaging
maldigestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mal- + digestive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing maldigestion
campus carry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of carrying a firearm on a college or university campus.
Related terms: concealed carry
open carry
methoxyhydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methoxyhydroquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methoxy derivative of a hydroquinone
methoxyhydroquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methoxyhydroquinone
jail bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A display fault in which the picture is disrupted by evenly-spaced vertical bands.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jail, bar.
methylthiolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylthiolations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with a methylthio group
methylthio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylthios
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The radical CH₃S- analogous to the methoxy group
methylthiotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylthiotransferases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a methylthio group
methylthiotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylthiotransferase
MTTase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MTTases
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of methylthiotransferase.
MTTases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MTTase
microcoordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcoordinations
Etymology: From micro- + coordination.
Senses: glosses: coordination of activities on a very small scale, typically by means of mobile phones
secret squirrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secret squirrel
micropulverize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micropulverizes
form: micropulverizing
form: micropulverized
form: micropulverized
Etymology: From micro- + pulverize.
Senses: glosses: To pulverize either a very small sample, or to produce very small particles
Related terms: micropulverization
micropulverizer
micropulverized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of micropulverize
multibase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + base.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple bases (in any of several contexts)
stays at home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stay at home
transfer test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer tests
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An examination administered to some students in their last year of primary education, governing admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools that use academic selection.
Related terms: 11-plus examination
tripartite system
transfer tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfer test
multivariation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multivariations
Etymology: From multi- + variation.
Senses: glosses: multivariant variation