cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
undertoad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertoads
Etymology: From John Irving's 1978 novel The World According to Garp, in which the title character's son Walt mishears warnings about the undertow at the beach as warnings about an "under toad", causing the title character to subsequently use the phrase "under toad" to refer to the omnipresent threat of disaster that lies beneath the surface of everyday life.
Senses: examples: text: Fully two thirds of the earth's surface is covered by water. The other one third is covered by a crack team of investigative reporters led by a crusty old bureau chief. This very fact means that the subject of water is fraught with grave political undertoads.
ref: 1979, New West - Volume 4, Issues 14-20, page 11:
text: But the European framework has, as John Irving would say, 'an undertoad'. Kings in Conflict and Ireland's Fate both underscore the painful conclusion that Ireland, her rights and wrongs, was of little or no consequence within what was seen by...
ref: 1990, Fortnight - Issues 280-290, page 21:
text: You're like Garp; you always imagine every terrible thing that could possibly happen. You see undertoads everywhere.
ref: 1994, Louis Owens, Bone Game: A Novel, →ISBN, page 61:
text: ...the wish-delight of pure belief, unseasoned faith in being true, no cynicism to ease the pain, you said that, tapping-in, as it were, and the visible monologue says, go on, and fire the fall, the undertoad reciting the quick shots are your cards and letters imitating scorn or envy or distrust not present, but pure panic culls retreat from your coins today, today the crossing over into birthdays, into the new cycle...
ref: 2003, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Superprose:
text: While attempting to plumb the intensity of my feelings about the “deep dark secrets,” known by absolutely everyone, I have been reminded of the “undertoad.”
ref: 2013, Ann Todd Jealous, Caroline T. Haskell, Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism, →ISBN:
glosses: An underlying threat of disaster beneath the surface of everyday life.
examples: text: It was that undertoad what took old Bill's boy clean under the water and never brung him back up,” reminisced Will.
ref: 2004, Joan Cox, To Love, Honor and Obey, →ISBN, page 36:
text: “Baby, watch out for the undertoad.” I just had this vision of this big toad out there waiting to grab me and take me off to Cuba. She kept saying the undertoad was in the water.
ref: 2005, Kathy Ann Chandler, Honeysuckle Memories, Bitterweed Times, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Parents would warn the small children to stay out of the water or the "undertoads" might get them.
ref: 2009, Robert L. Anderson, The Life, Beliefs and Divine Detours of a Tennessee Mountain Man, →ISBN, page 292:
text: He says something about an undertoad and sometimes that happens in Lake Michigan. Giant frogs love the bottom of the lake, Pops has told me, and you have to be very careful.
ref: 2014, Deborah Emin, Scags at 7, →ISBN:
glosses: A mythical monster that lurks underwater to catch unwary swimmers; a personification of an undertow.
undertoads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertoad
bcc's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bcc
bcc'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bcc
bcc'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bcc
bcc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bcc
rec'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rec
rec'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rec
sink tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdi
Forms: form: sink tidies
Senses: glosses: A small receptacle kept beside a kitchen sink to hold utensils, cleaning materials or kitchen waste.
butt-raping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butt-rape
butt-raped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butt-rape
upstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upstaffs
form: upstaffing
form: upstaffed
form: upstaffed
Senses: examples: text: Samsung is planning to upstaff and move its West Coast offices, currently located in Orange County, to Century City.
ref: 1996 February 29, Rex Weiner, Michael Williams, “Samsung, Milchan pact”, in Daily Variety:
text: Mr. Armes said “a decision by the ministry to upstaff the service it operates in Brampton was a key factor” in the negotiators’ decision to recommend the new offer.
ref: 1988 December 31, Gary Webb, “Health ministry accused of strikebreaking”, in The Globe and Mail (Canada):
text: “I see merit in upstaffing Thea,” Gideon said.
ref: 2001, Karen Sandler, Eternity, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Meanwhile, David and I upstaffed the spare and pulled two people out of a rollover at the Minnewanka Interchange.
ref: 2016, Graeme Pole, Siren Call, →ISBN:
glosses: To hire additional employees, thereby increasing the size of the workforce.
upstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upstaff
upstaffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upstaff
upstaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upstaff
upstaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upstaffings
Senses: examples: text: We see that there are a great many additional top level people in the District Government, but we have not seen enough of it to make any competent comment on it; however, there is certainly a substantial upstaffing of the top echelon.
ref: 1968, United States Congress House Committee on the District of Columbia, Hearings, page 198:
text: By developing a flexible work force plan a company can protect itself from the costs that arise in an upstaffing situation.
ref: 1971, The Office - Volume 74, page 40:
text: In June of 1988, the original upstaffing at this site included three analysts, one secretary and a director.
ref: 1990, Project Management Institute, Proceedings of the PMI Annual Seminar/Symposium, page 311:
text: The results of this upstaffing had surprised everyone.
ref: 2005, Mandy Johnson, Family Village Tribe: The Story of Flight Centre Limited, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Community planning for rapid upstaffing of impacted facilities by special credentialing of health care providers along with augmentation of supplies may be one partial solution.
ref: 2007, David E. Hogan, Jonathan L. Burstein, Disaster Medicine, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: The process of increasing the workforce for a business or institution.
ulnar loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulnar loops
Senses: examples: text: This increase in ulnar loop frequency in AD is commensurate with the median percentage frequency of ulnar loops in DS patients (78.3) versus controls (56.8) reported in other studies.
ref: 2012, Abraham Fisher, Israel Hanin, Chaim Lachman, Alzheimer’s Disease: Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives, →ISBN, page 19:
text: The ulnar loop is often known as the "loop of nature" since people with it have an intuitive response to the workings of nature.
ref: 2012, Richard Webster, Palm Reading for Beginners: Find Your Future in the Palm of Your Hand, →ISBN:
text: The two types of loops, radial loop and ulnar loop, are based on the direction of flow of the ridges relative to the two long bones of the forearm: the radius (on the thumb side) and the ulna (on the little finger side).
ref: 2013, Joe Nickell, John F. Fischer, Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: A fingerprint or palmprint pattern that consists of a loop which opens toward the ulna side of the hand (toward the pinkie).
ulnar loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulnar loop
spot-checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot-check
spot-checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spot-check
spot-checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spot-check
spot-checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spot-check
endoreic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the floor of the Rift Valley most of the streams are affected by the tectonic disturbances and are mostly fault-guided besides being endoreic.
ref: 1971, Francis F. Ojany, “Drainage Evolution in Kenya”, in S[imeon] H. Ominde, editor, Studies in East African Geography and Development, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 138, column 2:
text: During the Pleistocene, the Ajusco closed the fluvial drainage to form the endoreic basin, which initiated sediment accumulation that eventually covered more than half of the valley [...].
ref: 2002, Guadalupe de la Lanza Espino, José Luis García-Calderón, “Historical Summary of the Geology, Climate, Hydrology, Culture, and Natural Resource Utilization in the Basin of Mexico”, in Mark E. Fenn, L. I. de Bauer, Tomás Hernández-Tejeda, editors, Urban Air Pollution and Forests: Resources at Risk in the Mexico City Air Basin (Ecological Studies; 156), New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 5:
glosses: Alternative spelling of endorheic.
endorreic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The calanoid species more frequent in the Pyrenees is Diaptomus cyaneus, species with a relict occurrence in Dalmatia, endorreic and litoral lagoons of the western Mediterranean countries and frequent in the Pyrenees and in the North African Atlas.
ref: 1981, Maria-Rosa Miracle, “Biogeographica del Zooplàncton dels Llacs dels Pirineus [Biogeography of the Zooplankton from the Lakes of the Pyrenees]”, in Biogeografia de la Mediterrània Occidental [Biogeography of the Western Mediterranean] (Treballs de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural [Works of the Catalan Institute of Natural History]; 9), Barcelona: Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, →ISBN, summary, page 147:
english: Biogeography of the Western Mediterranean
translation: Biogeography of the Western Mediterranean
text: The basin of Lake Zempoala is endorreic. Precipitation and running off from the watershed are the only source of water income whose budget is not balanced: annual precipitation and evaporation are 1200–1500 mm and 1600 mm, respectively [...].
ref: 2002, Judith García-Rodríguez, Rosaluz Tavera, “Phytoplankton Composition and Biomass in a Shallow Monomictic Tropical Lake”, in Javier Alcocer, S. S. S. [Sudarsana] Sarma, editors, Advances in Mexican Limnology: Basic and Applied Aspects (Hydrobiologia; 467), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:
glosses: Misspelling of endorheic.
hypolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypolithic
form: most hypolithic
Etymology: * hypolith + -ic
Senses: glosses: Growing beneath rocks.
raw_tags: of plants
hypolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoliths
Etymology: From hypo- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A plant that lives underneath rocks, usually in climatically extreme deserts.
Derived terms: hypolithic
hypoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypolith
hyperaridity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyperarid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyperarid.
sproutarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sproutarians
Etymology: From sprout + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: Sproutarians center their lives and diets around live foods, that is, sprouts. They grow their sprouts at home, thus controlling all aspects of their diet.
ref: 1985, Joel Rose, The Vegetarian Connection, page 21:
glosses: A person whose diet consists largely of sprouted seeds, fruits and raw vegetables.
sproutarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sproutarian
smartful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smartful
form: most smartful
Etymology: From smart + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.
ref: 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112:
text: Even the absence alone of fore-gone joy is troublesome; how much more when they wind downward into smartful extremities?
ref: 1834, The Literary Cyclopædia, Or Universal Dictionary of Ideas:
synonyms: word: aching
word: smarting
word: achesome
word: aching
word: achy
word: raw
word: hurt
word: hurty
word: griefful
word: pained
word: painfilled
word: painful
word: smartful
word: smarting
word: sore
word: suffering
word: tender
word: tormented
glosses: painful
juicearian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juicearians
Etymology: From juice + -arian.
Senses: glosses: A person whose diet consists largely of juiced fruits and vegetables.
juicearians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juicearian
autoschediasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoschediasm
autoscales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoscale
anopsology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄνοψος (ánopsos, “without relish”, compare ὄψον (ópson, “delicacy”)) + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Anopsology is not medicine since it makes no use of diagnoses, chemical products or technical expedients.
ref: 1987, Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Guy-Claude Burger has some fascinating theories connected with anopsology. Among them, bacteria and viruses are used by the body, much like Tilden wrote. […] Anopsology is "instinctive eating". People who are into this sort of thing are "instinctos". Of course there is no such thing as instinct.
ref: 2001 September 25, @unknownsite, “Re: germs as cause of disease”, in humanities.philosophy.objectivism (Usenet):
glosses: A raw food diet based on the sensory pleasure instinct.
Derived terms: anopsologist
shortcrust pastries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortcrust pastry
dietologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietologists
Etymology: From dietology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how many dietologists, doctors, or journalists tell you that carbohydrates are bad for you, the brain runs on glucose, and glucose is a carbohydrate.
ref: 2018, Lisa Mosconi, Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power:
glosses: A specialist in dietology.
dietologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dietologist
puputan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puputans
form: puputan
Etymology: From Balinese puputan.
Senses: examples: text: According to their own records, the Dutch believed that the royal family had determined upon a fight to the death—another puputan—which left them with no alternative but all-out assault.
ref: 2009, Jeff Lewis, Belinda Lewis, Bali's silent crisis, page 18:
text: The puputan was both a sign to other kings of an end, and a way to achieve liberation of the soul by death in battle.
ref: 2012, Adrian Vickers, Bali: A Paradise Created, 2nd edition, Tuttle, page 58:
glosses: A suicidal march towards an enemy as carried out by the aristocracy or ruling class of a Balinese kingdom.
anopsologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anopsologists
Etymology: From anopsology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Anopsologists believe that these new compounds cannot be properly, totally metabolized so that mismetabolites are stored in the body and lead to degenerative diseases and weakening of the immune system.
ref: 1984, New Realities - Volumes 6-7, page 44:
text: Anopsologists believe that when a human eats food in its original state, the food's taste changes from pleasant to unpleasant once the person's need is fulfilled.
ref: 1988, William White, Buyer's Guide: 1999-2000 - Volume 113, Issues 1-11, page 93:
text: Anopsologists follow a type of raw food diet in which they choose foods based on instinct; that is, what smells and tastes best to them.
ref: 2009, Vegetarianism, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Fruitarians vie with juicearians, sproutarians, alkalinists, palaeolists (those who demand foods available in the Stone Age) and anopsologists (disciples of the diet they imagine to have been eaten by our prehuman ancestors) in thepurity of their devotion to what they see as the most natural or the most moral cuisine.
ref: 2013, Steve Jones, The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science, →ISBN:
glosses: The proponent of anopsology.
anopsologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anopsologist
central government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central governments
Senses: glosses: The national government of a country such as India and unitary state, in contrast to the lower local government.
central governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central government
unhabited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhabited
form: most unhabited
Senses: synonyms: word: deserted
word: peopleless
word: beingless
word: desert
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: disinhabited
word: inhabitantless
word: inhabited
word: lifeless
word: peopleless
word: solitary
word: tenantless
word: unhabited
word: uninhabited
word: unoccupied
word: unpeopled
word: unpopulated
word: untenanted
word: vacant
word: wasteful
glosses: uninhabited
examples: text: an unhabited nun
glosses: Not wearing a habit.
unhabited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhabit
tenkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenkey
namevoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namevoters
Etymology: From name + voter.
Senses: examples: text: how bad is the rest of the releases from evoke2000 democompo, because the haujobb demo was the overall winner! or is this again a true example of namevoting? How could such a demo win a democompo?
ref: 2000, Frans Bouma, “Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who votes for an entry in a demoscene competition on the basis of its author or demogroup, rather than the actual merits of the work.
Related terms: namevoting
namevoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namevoter
puputans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puputan
youngests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youngest
onlys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of only
oldests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldest
eldests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eldest
easties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastie
Easties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eastie
prime formulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prime formula
palettises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palettise
urotoxicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urotoxicity
TFNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TFN
Ouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Usa, probably of Romano-British Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *udso-, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).
Senses: examples: text: Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plain
Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er,
Conducts the eye along his sinuous course
Delighted.
ref: 1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems, 254
glosses: Various rivers in England.
glosses: Various rivers in England.
River Ouse, Yorkshire: A river in North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
glosses: Various rivers in England.
River Ouse, Sussex: A river in both West Sussex and East Sussex.
glosses: Various rivers in England.
River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia.
glosses: Various rivers in England.
River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.
Derived terms: Great Ouse
Linton-on-Ouse
Little Ouse
Newton-on-Ouse
minor diameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor diameter
cane sugars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cane sugar
imperfect tenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperfect tense
quality controls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quality control
flying fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying fish
thermoelasticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoelasticity
dysmotilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysmotility
phosphosiderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphosiderite
dry powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry powder
Bond event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bond events
Etymology: Named after Gerard C. Bond of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, lead author of a 1997 paper that postulated the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.
Senses: glosses: A North Atlantic ice-rafting event of a kind tentatively linked to climate fluctuations in the Holocene.
Bond events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bond event
UIMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UIM
many-partedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From many + parted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: heterogeneity (the condition of being composed by many parts)
primals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primal
primals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of primal
okkerd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more okkerd
form: most okkerd
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awkward.
ockerd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ockerd
form: most ockerd
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awkward.
okkard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more okkard
form: most okkard
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awkward.
ockard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ockard
form: most ockard
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awkward.
obductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obduction
asymmetric meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asymmetric meter
ShamWows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ShamWow
democratic socialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of democratic socialism
hospitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hospitation
Yakimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yakima
fibroatheromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibroatheroma
howieites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howieite
masnad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masnads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of musnud.
masnads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masnad
splanchno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπλάγχνα (splánkhna, “viscera”).
Senses: glosses: viscera; intestine
Related terms: splanchnic
trustee stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trustee stock
LPOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LPO
micro-optimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-optimizations
form: microoptimization
form: micro-optimisation
Etymology: From micro- + optimization.
Senses: topics: architecture
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Optimization at the level of individual instructions and operations.
Coordinate terms: algorithmic optimization
ditroites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditroite
baglos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baglo
uniformed service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniformed services
Senses: examples: text: Where the active member is awarded retired pay by his uniformed service for physical disability prior to the completion of the eighteen years of service, the election may be made at the time of retirement.
ref: 1955, General Accounting Office, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, United States, page 584:
text: I explained to him the police organisation and suggested that as the DMP uniformed service took no part whatsoever in anti-Sinn Féin activities – as unlike the RIC they did not do political duty – they should not be alienated by attacks on them.
ref: 2005, T. Ryle Dwyer, The Squad: And the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins, page 19:
text: A person who is a member of, applies to be a member of, has performed, applies to perform, or has an obligation to perform service in a uniformed service shall not be denied initial employment, reemployment, retention in employment, promotion, or any benefit of employment by an employer on the basis of that membership...
ref: 2013, Joshua Penner, Welcome Home: Veterans Resources, page 159:
glosses: A military organization, or another agency or organization of government in which members wear a uniform.
examples: text: The DoD, under the secretary of defense, operates the vast security community that is in uniformed service for the United States
ref: 2008, Cynthia Ann Watson, U.S. National Security: A Reference Handbook, page 234:
glosses: Participation in a military organization, or another agency or organization of government in which members wear a uniform.
wager-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wager-boats
Senses: examples: text: From where they sat they could get a glimpse of the main stream […]; and just then a wager-boat flashed into view, the rower—a short, stout figure—splashing badly and rolling a good deal, but working his hardest. The Rat stood up and hailed him, but Toad—for it was he—shook his head and settled sternly to his work.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 1, in The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen:
glosses: A high-performance boat for sculling, and winning wagers.
projectivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projectivist
projectivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projectivism
wager-boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wager-boat
consonant gradations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consonant gradation
nothing-buttery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothing-butteries
Etymology: From nothing but + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Any form of reductionism seen as explaining away phenomena.
Related terms: whataboutery
public goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public good
ringspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringspot
upset the natives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsets the natives
form: upsetting the natives
form: upset the natives
form: upset the natives
Etymology: Most likely from colonial days when upsetting the native population could lead to outbreaks of violence.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upset, native.
examples: text: I have learned the most about culture when I have been involved as a consultant in trying to help an organization deal with specific issues on which it needed some help. The issue here is that in the normal flow of things cultural data are unintentionally concealed; the "natives" are not conscious of what it is they take for granted. The researcher then has the problem of how to observe phenomena that occur at that level without, at the same time, upsetting the natives by delving into areas that may be defined by them as private, or even unwittingly intervening in those cultures by raising questions that the natives may never have thought about.
ref: 2000, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Celeste P M Wilderom, Mark F. Peterson, Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, →ISBN, page xxvi:
text: Paolo had decided he needed a more mellow persona so as not to upset the natives, but one still different enough to fascinate them. So he quit being a skater and became a Deadhead.
ref: 2001, Jacques Whitecloud, The Sin Eater, →ISBN, page 42:
text: How on earth Jacqueline brought herself to leave the poor little mite I'll never know, but she did, and it seems her and Maurice are settling in nicely over there—if you call upsetting the natives settling in, which sounds about right for our Jack.
ref: 2014, Susan Lewis, Just One More Day, →ISBN, page 310:
glosses: To offend local sensibilities.
unholiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unholidays
Etymology: From un- + holiday.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the most touching gifts are often the ones that come as unbirthday or unholiday or unanniverary gifts.
ref: 2013, Patricia Spadaro, Honor Yourself: The Inner Art of Giving and Receiving, →ISBN:
text: I guess this unholiday is exactly what we all needed today, she thought as she pulled into the driveway.
ref: 2014, Lorraine Turner, Calico Horses and the Patchwork Trail, →ISBN:
text: It being your unbirthday then you must be invited to boogie at the bank unholiday.
ref: 2015, Douglas Gilbert, Alice In Wunderkinderland With a Hedgehog, →ISBN:
text: Today we declare an unholiday. We'll take a break from all our play.
ref: 2015, Douglas Evans, Children's Games, page 122:
glosses: A day or period of time which is not a holiday, but is celebrated as if it were one.
unholiday
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unholiday
form: most unholiday
Etymology: From un- + holiday.
Senses: examples: text: An air of gaiety and festal enjoyment, which contrasts singularly with the unholiday appearance of men and things in the interior of the country, reigns on the waters of the bays and rivers in the vicinity of the cities to a surprising degree.
ref: 1835, Charles Joseph Latrobe, The Rambler In North America Vol. I, page 30:
text: O that unholiday look of English countenances, how sad it is!
ref: 1856, Frederick William Faber, The Blessed Sacrament Or the Works and Ways of God, page 224:
text: But the other day I took it out for reference; and now as I am holiday- making in a certain little backwater of the world, where it is raining in a most unholiday fashion, it occurs to me that, as everything has happened to me which is likely to happen (Heaven knows I want no more excursions and alarums in my life's drama), I may as well bring the narrative up to date.
ref: 2008, William J. Locke, Simon the Jester, →ISBN:
text: Even the unholiday drabness of the homespun dress could not dim the expectation with which she set out soon after daybreak.
ref: 2010, Rosita G. Fanto, Lady of the Cards, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: lackluster
word: wan
word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
word: bland
word: colourless
word: dim
word: dingy
word: dull
word: faint
word: lackluster
word: leaden
word: muddy
word: sad
word: sober
word: uncolorful
word: unholiday
word: wan
glosses: Grim or drab; the antithesis of festive.
unholidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unholiday
nudey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nudey
form: most nudey
Etymology: From nude + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Oh I wish I were a fishy in the sea
Oh I wish I were a fishy in the sea
Oh I'd swim nudey nudey nudey
 without my bathing suity
Oh I wish I were a fishy in the sea.
ref: before 1974, traditional, “I Wish I Was a Little Bar of Soap”:
text: “If you think I'm inviting a guy with a severe speech impediment to the nudey bar, you're out of your fucking mind.”
ref: 2007, Brad Bauer, Homering in the Clutch:
glosses: Alternative form of nudy.
Derived terms: nudiness
nudiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudeyness
Etymology: From nudy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being nudy
nudy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nudier
form: more nudy
form: nudiest
form: most nudy
form: nudie
form: nudey
Etymology: From nude + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The New Yorkers took over the Americana Hotel at the north end of the beach, where the management welcomed them with the news that the supper-club show "Toujours Paris" was the "naughtiest, nudiest, sauciest show this side of Europe.
ref: 1969, David English, Divided they stand:
glosses: Relating to nudity or nudeness.
glosses: Naked.
Derived terms: nudily
nudiness
nudy rudy
vicarious embarrassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicarious embarrassments
Senses: examples: text: It is noted that vicarious embarrassment does not necessarily indicate the presence of an embarrassed other.
ref: 1996, Rom Harré, W. Gerrod Parrott, editors, The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions, SAGE, →ISBN, page 124:
text: The same brain regions, the study found, are implicated in vicarious embarrassment – watching President Obama give an awkward hug of his own to departing press secretary Jay Carney, say – as they are when empathizing with the physical pain of others.
ref: 2014 July 17, Oliver Burkeman, “No, I won't watch that cringe-inducing viral video. I'm a better person than you”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: empathic embarrassment
secondhand embarrassment
Spanish shame
glosses: The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.
empathic embarrassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empathic embarrassments
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vicarious embarrassment.
synonyms: word: vicarious embarrassment
Synonyms: secondhand embarrassment
underclassness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underclass + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Here, it may be that underclassness consists in the copresence of these several negative effects, with some unmeasured force 281.
ref: 1990, Brett V. Brown, The effect of neighborhood characteristics on teen outcomes related to socioeconomic attainment: in search of the underclass neighborhood, Volume 2:
glosses: The quality or condition of belonging to the underclass.
red sanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Pterocarpus santalinus or its reddish heartwood, highly valued in woodworking, and used as a dye as well as a traditional herbal medicine.
uniformed services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniformed service
quasispheroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + spheroidal.
Senses: glosses: Almost, but not quite spheroidal.
quasielliptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + elliptical.
Senses: glosses: Almost, but not quite elliptical.
quasistraight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + straight.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Almost, but not quite straight.
quasicubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + cubic.
Senses: glosses: Almost, but not quite cubic.
quasisquare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + square.
Senses: glosses: Almost, but not quite square.
bostin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bostin'
form: most bostin'
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bostin.
auxiliary cruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxiliary cruisers
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: An armed merchantman, typically used as a commerce raider or as a convoy escort.
wikipedia: German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
dhurri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhurris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhurrie.
velocitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of velocitize
velocitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of velocitize
blabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of babbling.
velocitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velocitizations
Etymology: From velocitize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Velocitization refers simply to deceptive speeds possible on a modern expressway.
ref: 1953, Mississippi Highways - Volumes 22-23, page 9:
text: Velocitization is a special danger when leaving a freeway. You may misjudge your speed on the exit ramp and come suddenly upon traffic stopped at a junction point connecting a lower speed roadway.
ref: 1985, Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Road Worthy, →ISBN, page 103:
text: To prevent velocitization, the feeling of going slower than you really are, keep checking the speedometer while you drive.
ref: 1996, Heward Grafftey, Safety Sense: How to Live Safely and Prevent Death and Injury, →ISBN:
glosses: The condition of being accustomed to high speeds, so that they no longer seem as fast.
examples: text: A single gradient (part B) usually will suffice, although to obtain maximum purity (e.g., for use as a probe), a velocitization step (part D) and a second CsCl-PI gradient (part E) are added. The velocitization differs from equilibrium gradients in that molecules are pelleted at a rate proportional to their size and largeley independent of conformation.
ref: 1996, David M. Hillis, Craig Moritz, Barbara K. Mable, Molecular Systematics, page 283:
text: For most enzymatic manipulations, including restriction endonuclease digestion, end-labelling, nick translation, or primer extension labelling (random priming), it is usually not necessary to perform the velocitization and final gradient steps.
ref: 1998, A. Rus Hoelzel, Molecular Genetic Analysis of Populations: A Practical Approach, →ISBN:
text: A velocitization is sometimes used between two density-gradient ultracentrifugations to [19] mitochondrial genomics 317.
ref: 2005, Molecular Evolution, Producing the Biochemical Data, →ISBN:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of subjecting a sample to extreme speeds
developing country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: developing countries
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: LMIC
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: HIC
developed country#Noun
hypernyms: country
glosses: A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often consequently widespread poverty and low Human Development Index (HDI).
wikipedia: AMA Manual of Style
Coordinate terms: developed country
developing countries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of developing country
viewshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewshafts
form: view shaft
Etymology: From view + shaft.
Senses: examples: text: Enthusiastically adopted by city planners, the viewshafts have survived a quarter-century of growth. Plenty of developers have cursed Turner’s viewshafts but few have challenged them.
ref: 2002 November 16, Geoff Cumming, “Showdown over city’s volcano zones”, in The New Zealand Herald:
text: My fundamental concern is that we don’t make essentially irreversible decisions to develop the waterfront in ways which we will not be happy with in 10 to 30 years’ time. I want to preserve viewshafts of the harbour, minimise the loss of public space to private ventures, and not have too many buildings cluttering the unique and wonderful harbour edge.
ref: 2003 July 26, “Who can you trust with the waterfront?”, in The Dominion Post:
text: Older layers and traces of history in the city are covered or removed or being transformed beyond recognition, viewshafts are being disturbed or eliminated.
ref: 2010, Stephanie Herold, Reading the City: Urban Space and Memory in Skopje, →ISBN, page 44:
text: I ponder the Christchurch Beautifying Association planting thousands of native plants along here from 1897. The meanders provide myriad spaces in our city. The wonder of the grid design, enabling the viewshafts to mountains and Port Hills; the grid allowing a sense of orientation across the convolutions of the Otakaro-Avon River.
ref: 2014, Barnaby Bennett, Ryan Reynolds, James Dann, Once in a Lifetime: City-building after disaster in Christchurch, →ISBN:
glosses: A gap between buildings or other visual obstructions that allows a view of something scenic.
viewshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viewshaft
view shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: view shafts
Senses: examples: text: The council environment enforcement services manager, John MacLachlan, said the proposal appeared to satisfy most of the immediate amenity concerns, and that adverse effects on the environment would be minor. “For example, the impact on identified view shafts is not a factor.”
ref: 1995 December 7, “Midland tower decision due”, in The Dominion:
text: 'Notably intrusive for its bulk and massing in a dominant position is the "urban wall" of the Cotton Building,' commented a City Council-commissioned report on protecting the integrity of the urban skyline and view shafts in the mid-1980s.
ref: 1999, Rachel Barrowman, Victoria University of Wellington, 1899-1999: A History, →ISBN, page 142:
text: In contrast to it, however, the under-scaled entrance, the playful use of geometric shapes and the unexpected glimpses of bustling activity provided by narrow view shafts added the humanist qualities that Beaven so particularly valued.
ref: 2008, Julia Gatley, Long Live the Modern: New Zealand's New Architecture, 1904-1984:
text: A thousand view shafts are carved from a solid wall; each line of sight emanating from within and terminating in the surrounding landscape.
ref: 2008, Emily Abruzzo, Eric Ellingsen, Jonathan D. Solomon, Models, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of viewshaft.
view shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of view shaft
Chinese mugwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A herbaceous perennial plant from one of two species, Artemisia argyi or Artemisia verlotiorum, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Hollister
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hollisters
Etymology: The surname is a feminine derivative of Hollier, itself from Old French holier (“adulterer, lecher”), in this case extended to refer to a female brothel-keeper, (i.e. a madam). The originally feminine occupational suffix -ster has given rise to many such personal names which today might instead be either masculine or ungendered altogether. For example, from masculine dyer, came both formerly feminine variants Dyster and Dexter; from masculine weaver/webber, came the formerly feminine Webster, among others.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of San Benito County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city and town in Idaho, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Oklahoma, United States.
Related terms: Holister
pre-tournament
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pretournament
Etymology: From pre- + tournament.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pretournament.
pre-tournament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-tournaments
form: pretournament
Etymology: From pre- + tournament.
Senses: glosses: prelude to a tournament
particuly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of particularly.
visual language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual languages
Senses: examples: text: However, we also have to learn to "read" and understand the meaning of visual information and the components of visual language.
ref: 1989, Rune Pettersson, Visuals for Information: Research and Practice, →ISBN, page 146:
text: The designer's task is to make visual language responsive to the rhetorical situation: the audience, the purpose, and the context of the document.
ref: 1998, Charles Kostelnick, David Donovan Roberts, Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators, page 440:
text: In order to fulfil this function as a medium of communication, the visual language of botanical illustrations could not differ so much from the conventions of the genre that they became difficult for the audience to understand.
ref: 2006, Kärin Nickelsen, Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature, →ISBN, page 158:
text: In this paper I intend to explore the visual language used in cinema and their connection with human values.
ref: 2008, Kanti Lal Das, Anirban Mukherjee, Language and Ontology, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, and so on.
examples: text: A processor for a visual language consists of a graphical frontend attached to phases that analyse and transform the visual programs.
ref: 2001, Reinhard Wilhelm, Compiler Construction, →ISBN:
text: Also, the XML-based form of TUIML allowed us to precisely and formally define TUIML while adding a secondary textual notation to the visual language.
ref: 2008, Orit Ziv Shaer, A Visual Language for Specifying and Programming Tangible User Interfaces, →ISBN:
text: UML is a visual language.
ref: 2009, Dragan Gaševic, Ralf Lämmel, Eric van Wyk, Software Language Engineering, →ISBN:
text: The VPL implementation involves the implementation of a whole programming environment with a user interface which supports developing programs using a visual language.
ref: 2010, Kang Zhang, Visual Languages and Applications, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: VPL (visual programming language); a programming language that allows software developers to generate code by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.
visual languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visual language
kecak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Balinese kecak.
Senses: examples: text: The kecak is performed as a spectacle rather than a ceremony and new versions are commissioned for festivals and TV.
ref: 2000, Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, World Music: The Rough Guide, page 125:
topics: anthropology
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
sciences
synonyms: monkey dance
Ramayana monkey chant
glosses: A type of ceremonial chant in Bali, based on the Ramayana story, where men sit in a circle and imitate the sounds of monkeys.
weazens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weazen
CMEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CME