cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
palmomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παλμός (palmós, “quivering motion”) + -mancy; compare palmoscopy.
Senses: examples: text: The other texts are new or unidentified: an epic fragment relating to Achilles and the ransoming of Hector, some very imperfect iambic trimeters, apparently from a comedy, scholia on an unknown poetical text, two fragments of romances, an astrological fragment, and some fragments of a book of palmomancy, a genre very popular in Egypt, to judge by the specimens now known. To these may be added no. 718, containing medical recipes.
ref: 1921, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology:
text: A more specifically divinatory approach to the human body is palmomancy, or divination from twitches and itches in various parts of the body, an ancient and apparently universal method of divination. At the level of Russian popular sayings and beliefs a large number of examples of this lore can be found, some of which are familiar in other languages, including English. The manuscript tradition is still unclear and palmomancy in Russia must be considered more ...
ref: 1997, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 54:
text: It is a “well-preserved quire of eight papyrus leaves” (PRYL. I 28, 56). The handwriting resembles a biblical uncial. It contains Pseudo-Melampous's treatise on palmomancy, a form of divination that takes its clues from involuntary body movements.
ref: 2014, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Forbidden Oracles?: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 52:
text: 5546 Papyrus fragment (sheet or roll) (PMich. XVIII 766; Pap. Flor. XXXIX, 3.1), containing a treatise of palmomancy, with no clear Christian influence.
ref: 2016, Alan Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts: A study of scribal practice, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 412:
glosses: Divination of involuntary movements of the body such as tics.
decampee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decampees
Etymology: From decamp + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The most popular decampee who is widely believed to pose the most serious challenge to Governor Sylva is Chief Timi Alaibe who defected from PDP to the Labour Party (LP).
ref: 2013, John A. A. Ayoade, Nigeria's Critical Election, 2011, page 170:
glosses: A person who has switched political parties.
decampees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decampee
bunkerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkerers
Etymology: From bunker + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The JTF security report signed by Briagier General Lawrence Ngubare, former commander of the task force further stated that BoyLoaf was bent on becoming an illegal oil bunkerer and is known to have a violent disposition.
ref: 2008, Newswatch: Nigeria's Weekly Magazine, page 15:
text: Bunkering is comprised of a complex network of engineers, welders, intelligence and armed security operatives, boat and ship captains, pumpers, handlers, and traders. One bunkerer describes the process as “pipeline vandalization to steal refined or crude oil products and transportation of these products in various vessels such as barges and tankers to sell locally and internationally”.
ref: 2015, Hannah Appel, Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, page 79:
glosses: An oil thief.
bunkerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunkerer
jamoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jamoons
Senses: examples: text: For permanent wind-breaks, fruit trees such as mangoes and jamoons can be used.
ref: 1990, Pre-Production, Production And Post-Harvest Handling Of Carambola:
text: All members of the family contribute labour for collecting jamoon fruits. Jamoon fruits are collected by plucking them from the trees.
ref: 1994, D. N. Thakur, v:
glosses: Alternative form of jamun.
jamoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jamoon
hot water can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot water cans
form: hot-water can
form: hotwater can
Senses: examples: text: The rest of us were glad to creep between blankets, with a mountain of covers on top, and a hot water can inside. What a tale to tell of balmy Florida!
ref: 1889, Helen Harcourt, chapter 11, in Home Life in Florida, Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton, page 178:
text: 1899, “Australian Prison Discipline,” condensed from an article in Colonial Empire, Shanghai, in Public Opinion, New York, Volume 26, No. 6, p. 174,
A third warder proceeds along the doors with a hot water can, and each prisoner who by good conduct has earned the privilege of tea and sugar is supplied with the water to make his tea.
text: “Oh, dear Miss Honeychurch, you will catch a chill! And Mr. Beebe here besides. Who would suppose this is Italy? There is my sister actually nursing the hot-water can; no comforts or proper provisions.”
ref: 1908, E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 50:
text: After weary waiting at Plymouth they took their seats in the little, cold local train that was to carry them another stage on their journey. Hot-water cans put in at Plymouth mitigated to some extent the iciness of the compartment.
ref: 1910, William J. Locke, A Christmas Mystery, New York: John Lane, page 28:
text: Anyhow, here I am […] quite in the mood to revisit one of those Queen Anne country houses where I awoke on the morning after a dance and drowsily observed the discreet man-servant putting a hot-water can into the hip-bath, wondering whether he was expecting me to give him half-a-sovereign or whether five bob would be decent […]
ref: 1942, Siegfried Sassoon, chapter 3, in The Weald of Youth, London: Faber & Faber, published 1943, page 44:
glosses: A can (often with a spout and handle) filled with hot water, used to warm a room, to keep one's feet warm, or to supply water for such things as shaving, washing, etc.
hot water cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot water can
blackberry winter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackberry winters
Etymology: So-called because it (typically) falls when blackberries are flowering.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:blackberry winter.
synonyms: blackthorn winter
dogwood winter
glosses: A period of cold weather that falls when blackberries are flowering, or more generally any time in spring or early summer (March, April or May).
Coordinate terms: squaw winter
Indian summer and synonyms listed there
blackberry winters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackberry winter
blackthorn winters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackthorn winter
dogwood winter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogwood winters
Etymology: So-called because it (typically) falls when dogwoods are flowering.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:dogwood winter.
synonyms: blackberry winter
blackthorn winter
glosses: A period of cold weather that falls when dogwoods are flowering, or more generally any time in spring or early summer (March, April or May).
dogwood winters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogwood winter
Langlie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From given names of Anglo-Norman origin, from the Germanic given name Lanzo, itself ultimately from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Krzyzaniak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish of Polish and Poleshuk origin.
Kooner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kooners
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
Plenge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Pearre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A patronymic French surname from Occitan, from a given name cognate to Peter.
Paet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Khmer.
Omoto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Oborny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Nickleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An American surname primarily used by African Americans.
McKaughan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKaughans
Etymology: Variant of McCaughan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Gambel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name of Anglo-Norman origin, from the Anglo-Norman given name Gamel, from Old Norse gamall (“old”).
Derived terms: Gambel oak
airsac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airsacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of air sac.
Derived terms: airsac catfish
airsacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airsac
Norcott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname, for a person from one of several places in England called Northcott.
Dworaczyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dworaczyks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Dworaczyk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Cramm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Scottish habitational surname for someone who lived in Crombie, an area in Auchterless, Scotland, from Scottish Gaelic crom (“crooked”).
counterselectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of creating a counterselection
Cuin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish from Irish Ó Cuinn (“descendant of Conn”).
disector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disectors
Senses: glosses: A device that counts objects in three dimensions (two orthogonal planes)
neohesperidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavanone glycoside, hesperetin 7-O-neohesperidoside, found in citrus fruits
Derived terms: neohesperidin dihydrochalcone
Covil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman, from the name of a village in Manche, Normandy.
organotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of organotypic.
parkinsonogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That gives rise to Parkinson's disease
Catellier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Québécois surname from French.
phloretine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phloretin.
retronasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retro- + nasally or retronasal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Via the back of the nose
retrorubral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + rubral.
Senses: glosses: Behind the red nucleus of the midbrain
rubral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the red nucleus of the midbrain
Derived terms: prerubral
fachidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fachidiots
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fachidiot.
Senses: glosses: A (narrow) specialist expert who is ignorant outside of their specialty, or who only looks at problems through the (blinkered) lens of their own specialty.
Related terms: tunnel vision
fachidiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fachidiot
roaming eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roaming eyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roving eye.
micrangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrangiums
form: micrangia
Senses: examples: text: Pulmonary vessels and micrangiums are rather intact and very rarely split as observed from tissue serial sections under electron microscope (human and guinea pig).
ref: 1984, He-Guang Wu, De-Cheng Luo, Chinese Medicine Modern Chinese Medicine, Volume 2:
text: Based on a method of composite integral values assigned for the states of microcirculatory change detected in vivo, under the optical microscope, under the electron microscope and in post-radiation vascular penetrability, the Military Academy of Medical Sciences divided the micrangia of 20 organ tissues into 5 categories of radiation sensitivity:
ref: 1985, China Report: Science and Technology - Issues 17-20, page 122:
text: These included increased permeability of the micrangium, distortion of the microscopic blood vessels, slowing of blood circulation, and irregular, shortened blood vessels.
ref: 2006, Hoy Ping Yee Chan, Acupuncture for Stroke Rehabilitation: Three Decades of Information, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Indeed, there has been evidence showing that acupuncture could promote tonicity of the micrangium and reduce peripheral resistance, thus improving microcirculation (Qi 1994).
ref: 2010, Ying Xia, Xiaoding Cao, Gen-Cheng Wu, Acupuncture Therapy for Neurological Diseases: A Neurobiological View, →ISBN, page 302:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A capillary.
micrangiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micrangium
micrangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micrangium
conospherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cono- + spherical.
Senses: examples: text: The indentation experiments were performed with a conospherical tip (tip radius = ~1 µm; semi-angle = 30°; maximum load = 10 mN).
ref: 2014, Ling Li, Christine Ortiz, “Pervasive nanoscale deformation twinning as a catalyst for efficient energy dissipation in a bioceramic armour”, in Nature Materials, volume 13, →DOI, supplementary information, pages 501–507:
glosses: With a form that combines a conical portion with a spherical portion, such as a tapering stylus with a rounded tip.
militariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: militariats
Etymology: Blend of military + proletariat
Senses: examples: text: It is noted that some military coups, especially in West Africa, have been carried out, not by senior officers, but by junior & noncommissioned officers, ie, the militariat, which occupies a class position in the army analogous to the working class in society.
ref: 1998, Leo P. Chall, Sociological Abstracts - Volume 46, Issue 6, page 3825:
text: Irregulars of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) shared both the subaltern class location and lumpen culture of the militariat in Sierra Leone.
ref: 2004, J. Kandeh, Coups from Below: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa, →ISBN:
text: The militariat generally lack a "social consciousness" (Kandeh 2004, 3), aw well as the intellectual skills, organizational expertise, and military discipline necessary for governance.
ref: 2010, John Conteh-Morgan, New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: A ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.
militariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: militariats
Senses: examples: text: The employers and the landlords were upheld in their exploitation of the masses by militariats, who, as masters of their politically and militarily separate territories, moreover, taxed the people outrageously and allowed their soldiers to live upon them and ravage them practically at will.
ref: 1930, Henry Francis James, Thorsten D. Sellin, China, page 232:
text: In Nigeria, this failure is expressed by the coming into position of dominance of the militariat, that is the alliance of top military officers and bureaucrats, local and foreign capital (private sector) and traditional rulers that has been dominant in Nigerian politics, especially from the mid-1980s.
ref: 2001, Nigerian Journal of International Affairs - Volumes 25-27, page 56:
text: We should emphasise that the militariat enlists both military and civilians members. It is important to point this out in order to avert the illusion that links militarism in Nigeria exclusively to the direct occupation of the state by the military. Surely, the project of the militariat does not necessarily need to be realized through military rule.
ref: 2004, Democracy and Development:
glosses: A ruling class formed by an alliance between military officers and bureaucrats.
militariats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of militariat
aortico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: A New Latin neoclassical combining form from Latin aortic + interconsonantal -o-.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the aorta.
wikipedia: classical compound
Synonyms: aorto-
neurovariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurovariants
Etymology: From neuro- + variant.
Senses: examples: text: The wholly negative results obtained during attempts to restore the hepatotropic attribute to patency in the neurovariant of the 90th passage suggest that the agent might be classified as neurostable at that level.
ref: 1950, Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division, Collected Papers by Members of the Staff - Volume 27, page 426:
text: Thus, while studying the effect of a neurovariant of the influenza virus on mouse tumors (Gardner's lymphosarcoma, sarcoma-37, sarcoma-180, and neuroblastoma MT-65) and also on the Brown-Pearce tumor, Wagner detected a marked suppression of the growth of mouse neuroblastoma MT-65.
ref: 1967, JPRS, page 11:
text: Recently, Chelyapov and Chernos (1981) have examined the replication of viral DNA in CEF cells infected with the neurovariant MM Strain of vaccinia virus.
ref: 2012, W. Henle, P. H. Hofschneider, H. Koprowski, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology - Volume 97, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: A strain of a virus that affects neural tissue.
neurovariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurovariant
bedriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedrive
microgoggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + goggles.
Senses: examples: text: With a long-suffering sigh, Cale pulled the microgoggles from his eyes and followed her up the ladder onto the roof.
ref: 2000, Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Titan A.E.: A Novel. Cale's story, →ISBN, page 27:
text: So whether you are out conquering worlds or are just concerned about these tiny pests, make sure you're prepared with a pair of germ-spotting microgoggles.
ref: 2001, Invader Zim, "Germs" (season 1, episode 4a)
text: She reached into her own field kit for microgoggles, took a closer look.
ref: 2015, J. D. Robb, Obsession in Death, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Goggles that help to see minuscule objects.
wood rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood roses
Senses: glosses: Dactylanthus taylorii, parasitic plant of New Zealand that lives on the forest floor where it attaches to a host root of trees taking nutrients from the host to create a burr which eventually turns into a flower-like growth.
glosses: Hawaiian baby woodrose (Argyreia nervosa).
glosses: Rosa gymnocarpa, of California.
glosses: Merremia spp..
Emeasoba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
prospectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prospectivity
colposcopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From colposcopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With a colposcope; upon colposcopy.
yersinial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yersinia + -al. For more, see yersinia.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to yersinia.
serodiagnostically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From serodiagnostic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a serodiagnostic way; using serodiagnosis; diagnostically by way of serology.
midsystolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + systole + -ic or midsystole + -ic or mid- + systolic.
Senses: examples: text: Evidence has recently been produced to show that patients with a midsystolic click and late systolic murmur have a peculiar abnormality of the mitral valve: the systolic ballooning of the leaflets, particularly the posterior one, usually associated with mild mitral insufficiency.
ref: 1973, Rizzon P, Biasco G, Brindicci G, Mauro F, “Familial syndrome of midsystolic click and late systolic murmur”, in British Heart Journal, volume 35, number 3, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 245–259:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the middle portion of systole, as with midsystolic murmur, midsystolic ejection, and midsystolic click.
Coordinate terms: holosystolic
pansystolic
postsystolic
presystolic
Related terms: midsystole
staphylococcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylococcoses
Etymology: From Staphylococcus + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Clinically apparent staphylococcal infection; disease caused by staphylococci.
celemines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celemin
streptococcemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptococcemias
Etymology: From Streptococcus + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of streptococcus in the blood; bloodstream infection with streptococci.
streptococcemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streptococcemia, referring to types or instances thereof.
croupieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croupiere
hubbyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hubby + -man.
Senses: qualifier: term of endearment
glosses: Husband.
azumbres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azumbre
lemony fresh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lemony fresh
form: most lemony fresh
Senses: examples: text: He has a lemony fresh record, a perfect job where everyone loved him, and no social life to speak of.
ref: 2013, J. J. Greene, First Down:
glosses: Fresh; good; fashionable.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lemony, fresh.
coyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coya
cocadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocada
ajimeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajimez
crouplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crouplike
form: most crouplike
Etymology: From croup + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling croup or some aspect of it; as with a crouplike cough (sounding like the typical cough of croup) or a crouplike illness (having a clinical picture and a clinical course similar to those of croup).
Hlai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hlai Hlai.
Senses: glosses: The largest minority ethnic group in Hainan, China.
Synonyms: Li
Hlai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hlai Hlai.
Senses: glosses: A Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in Hainan, China.
Derived terms: Pre-Hlai
Proto-Hlai
lavvy paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: But no, it's still clinging on to the hairy ring of human comprehension, and the lavvy paper of reason just can't wipe if off.
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 29:
text: When I had to go to the lavvy there I always had to use that stiff, scratchy, smelly, lavvy paper she always said she 'put for the 'young ladies' - sniff'.
ref: 2012, Glynis Dunnitt, Hidden History, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Ma regarded it as her right, one of the perks of early-morning charring up at the hospital, along with STs and Lifebuoy and government issue lavvy paper.
ref: 2013, Jacqueline Jacques, Someone To Watch Over Me, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of toilet paper.
synonyms: word: toilet paper
cop one's whack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops one's whack
form: copping one's whack
form: copped one's whack
form: copped one's whack
Senses: examples: text: ...or the time the phone rang in the middle of the night and they knew before they answered that Auntie Jeanie had copped her whack.
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 29:
text: See if there's anybody deserves to cop their whack then it's him, surely, it's him and all the rest of they lying bastards, because they knew, they knew long before anybody else did.
ref: 2011, Ross Raisin, Waterline, →ISBN:
text: Pick a day, pick a week, and if the big man cops his whack, you're in.
ref: 2012, Lee Battersby, The Corpse-Rat King, →ISBN:
glosses: To die.
cops one's whack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cop one's whack
copped one's whack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cop one's whack
copping one's whack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cop one's whack
Hobo Joe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The nickname is a near rhyme.
Senses: glosses: A nickname given to some homeless people, especially ones named Joe, John, etc.
ablood
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: more ablood
form: most ablood
Etymology: From Middle English ablode, variant of on blode, equivalent to a- + blood.
Senses: examples: text: My pierced life was all ablood with sorrow!
ref: 1835, Thomas Wade, The Un-charmed:
text: "Ay, Master Pengorn: How, when we were all in despair at thy non-coming, and Master Pierce and John Cann going down before this French tor of flesh, will I forget the mighty shout that went up from Cornish throats when thou cast thyself all ablood from the foaming mare! […]"
ref: 1905, Alexander Alexander, The Pirates' Hoard, page 18:
glosses: With blood; covered in blood; bloodied
Stein-Leventhal syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From being first described in 1935 by U.S. gynecologists Drs. Irving F. Stein, Sr. and Michael L. Leventhal.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of polycystic ovary syndrome.
synonyms: word: polycystic ovary syndrome
run a train
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs a train
form: running a train
form: ran a train
form: run a train
Senses: examples: text: And we went upstairs and we ran a train on her.
ref: 2008, Jody Miller, Getting Played:
text: “Hey mister, why don't you leave so we can run a train on Andrea?”
“Oh my god,” Andrea said. “Erik, you motherfucker! They should run it on your mom!”
ref: 2009, Mike Flax, L.A. Unified:
text: He even drove them to a couple of house parties, whereby his partners, along with other boys in the hood, impatiently waited their turn to run a train on consenting young teen-aged girls.
ref: 2011, A. Vyctoria Abrams, Ava's Diary: From the Very Beginning, page 64:
text: Sometimes, to punish victims, the gang would “run a train” on a victim, which meant that multiple gang members would have sex with the victim in rapid succession.
ref: 2018, Laura J. Lederer, Modern Slavery: A Documentary and Reference Guide, page 288:
glosses: Synonym of gangbang: To have sex with someone as a line going one after the other.
synonyms: word: gangbang
extra: To have sex with someone as a line going one after the other
glosses: To have sex with someone multiple times in short succession.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, train.
Coordinate terms: pull a train
tip drill
Boy Scouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Boy Scout + -ing.
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: The Boy Scout movement.
Related terms: Girl Guiding
hammie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammies
Etymology: From ham + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hammy (“hamstring injury”).
hammie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammies
Etymology: Clipping of hamster + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hammy (“hamster”).
Stein-Levanthal syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Misspelling of Stein-Leventhal syndrome.
po-mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A truncation.
Senses: examples: text: Po-mo has lost its grip. We can't seem to get enough mid-century modern in design, advertising and furniture (those 1929 Barcelona chairs by Mies are perennially chic).
ref: 2001, Newsweek - Volume 137, page 82:
text: However, the recent appearance of a Web site entitled “Everything Postmodern,” a regularly updated listing of “po-mo” on the Internet, suggests neither endings nor beginnings.
ref: 2006, Fred Newman, Lois Holzman, End Of Knowing, →ISBN, page 1:
text: As the realities of international politics increasingly are generated, mediated, simulated by new digital means of reproduction, as the globalization of new media further confuses actual and virtual forms; as there is not so much a distancing from some original, power-emitting, truth-bearing source as there is an implosion; as meaning is set adrift and then disappears into media black-holes of insignificance, a little po-mo can go a long way.
ref: 2009, James Der Derian, Critical Practices in International Theory: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of postmodernism.
po-mo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more po-mo
form: most po-mo
Etymology: A truncation.
Senses: examples: text: This is also becoming very po-mo that we've got ahead of ourselves and we've skipped over some of your fiction.
ref: 2004, Maria Fusco, Ian Hunt, Put about: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing, page 76:
text: After reading the manuscript of this book, her feeling is that the current fans are 'more po-mo', more diverse, more ironic, more able to laugh at themselves than those a decade earlier; but the earlier legacy certainly continues, and it was very evident during the research for this book.
ref: 2005, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch, Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who:
text: Josh got sidetracked somehow onto whether or not “Delia's Gone” is too po-mo to be misogynist, and I went home early.
ref: 2014, Gemma Files, We Will All Go Down Together, →ISBN:
text: Now the band has released its most po-mo puzzle box of anguish yet.
ref: 2015 July 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Titus Andronicus and the Joy of Angst”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of postmodern.
Bahauddin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic بَهَاءُ الدِّين (bahāʔu d-dīn, literally “glory of the religion”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Po-Mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Truncation
Senses: examples: text: Describing his design as 'an eclectic composition', he had not yet heard of Post-Modernism, but this project featured in an exhibition on the subject. Andreas Papadakis, who took over the magazine Architectural Design in the 1970s and published many of the pioneers of Po-Mo, said: 'The true revolution of the 1970s was a revolution of ideas'. Papadakis asserted that: 'The battle of Po-Mo has been won.
ref: 1999, The Architects' Journal - Volume 209, page 22:
text: In perhaps the only useful instrument Po-Mo has left us, it is indispensable that the spiral be there as a model but it is also indispensable that it be "under erasure" - as it is in Marx, who simultaneously expects collapse of capitalism and works for revolution.
ref: 2010, Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow, →ISBN:
text: This includes a demonstration that Po-Mo can also be structurally acrobatic (here, in the manner the bulding spans across London Wall).
ref: 2014, Ken Allinson, Victoria Thornton, London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of postmodernism.
Po-Mo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Po-Mo
form: most Po-Mo
Etymology: Truncation
Senses: examples: text: If anyone should edit a book of Po-Mo texts ("innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave") it's probably Larry McCaffery, and his Avant-Pop: Fiction For A Daydream Nation (Fiction Collective Two, $7) doesn't disappoint.
ref: 1995, David Johnson, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Blue Mesa Review, No Six, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Nothing could be less Po-Mo, or more elegant, something project architect Bruce Wood was quick to point to when I raised the issue of how differently one might detail this sort of "veneer" brick wall from the old-fashioned fully structural kind: between Kallmann's point and Wood's are a host of issues thoughtful architects like KMW can be depended upon to work through on every job.
ref: 1999, Douglass Shand-Tucci, Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000, →ISBN, page 357:
text: Po-Mo art critics express sarcastic nostalgia for his allegorical frescoes.
ref: 1999, River Styx - Issues 54-57, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of postmodern.
Easter cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Easter cactuses
form: Easter cacti
form: Easter cactus
Senses: examples: text: The flowers of the Easter cactus are rounder and more daisy-like than tubular types of the other two cacti. They come in a broad range of spring colors: yellows, pinks, peaches, reds and white.
ref: 2012 December 22, Trish Grenfell, “Ask the Master Gardener”, in Colfax Record:
glosses: A type of cactus grown as an ornamental plant, Schlumbergera gaertneri.
Related terms: Christmas cactus
whistling kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistling kites
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized bird of prey native to Australia and New Guinea, Haliastur sphenurus.
prickly pear cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly pear cactuses
form: prickly pear cacti
form: prickly pear cactus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prickly pear (“various plants of the genus Opuntia”).
colocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colo- + cutaneous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the colon and the skin
Derived terms: colocutaneous fistula
colocystoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colocystoplasties
Etymology: From colo- + cystoplasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The use of colon tissue to repair or enlarge the urinary bladder
colonopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonopathies
Etymology: From colon + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease or disorder of the colon
Synonyms: colopathy
colopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colopathies
Etymology: From colo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease or disorder of the colon
Synonyms: colonopathy
coloproctitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the colon and the rectum
coloptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: prolapse of the colon.
coloproctostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coloproctostomies
Etymology: From colo- + proctostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: anastomosis of the colon to the rectum
Azusa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Native American language, likely Tongva Asuksagna.
Senses: glosses: A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
ekiben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 駅弁(えきべん) (ekiben).
Senses: glosses: A bento (boxed lunch) sold at a railroad station in Japan.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
synonyms: suspended congress
glosses: A sex position which consists of one participant carrying the other while penetrating them.
DPDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of dipyridoxyl diphosphate (fodipir).
colorectostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorectostomies
Etymology: From colo- + rectostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: anastomosis of the colon to the rectum
dipyridoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + pyridoxyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two pyridoxyl groups in a compound
colovaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From colo- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the colon and the vagina
Derived terms: colovaginal fistula
pyridoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridoxyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from the hydroxyl form of pyridone
colpectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of vaginectomy.
synonyms: word: vaginectomy
colpocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpoceles
Etymology: From colpo- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A vaginal hernia or prolapse
Synonyms: vaginocele
stock market index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock market indexes
form: stock market indices
Senses: glosses: A measure that is calculated as a weighted average of the prices of a defined range of stocks
Related terms: bear market
bull market
correction
crab market
market price
market value
colpocystotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpocystotomies
Etymology: From colpo- + cystotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the bladder through the vagina
colpohysterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpohysterectomies
Etymology: From colpo- + hysterectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A hysterectomy carried out through the vagina with no incision through the abdomen
colpohysterotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpohysterotomies
Etymology: From colpo- + hysterotomy.
Senses: examples: text: Complete colophysterotomy with an incision from the external os to the fundus will be found necessary in the large majority of cases.
ref: 1903, “Chronic Inversion of the Uterus”, in American Gynecology, page 503:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A hysterotomy carried out via the vagina.
colpomicroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpomicroscopes
Etymology: From colpo- + microscope.
Senses: hypernyms: colposcope
;
microscope
;
scope
glosses: A form of microscope, inserted via the vagina, used to examine the cervix in situ; a type of colposcope with high magnification.
Related terms: colpomicroscopy
colposcopy
microscopy
colpomicroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colpo- + microscopy.
Senses: glosses: microscopy by means of a colpomicroscope
colpoperineoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpoperineoplasties
Etymology: From colpo- + perineoplasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair of the vagina and perineum
Synonyms: vaginoperineoplasty
vaginoperineoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginoperineoplasties
Etymology: From vagino- + perineoplasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair of the vagina and perineum
Synonyms: colpoperineoplasty
colpoperineorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpoperineorrhaphies
Etymology: From colpo- + perineorrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair of a laceration of the vagina and perineum
Synonyms: vaginoperineorrhaphy
vaginoperineorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginoperineorrhaphies
Etymology: From vagino- + perineorrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair of a laceration of the vagina and perineum
Synonyms: colpoperineorrhaphy
colpopexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpopexies
Etymology: From colpo- + -pexy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Suture of a prolapsed vagina to the abdominal wall.
Synonyms: vaginofixation
Derived terms: sacrocolpopexy
vaginofixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginofixations
Etymology: From vagino- + fixation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: suture of a prolapsed vagina to the abdominal wall
Synonyms: colpopexy
colpoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpoplasties
Etymology: From colpo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: plastic surgery to the vagina
Synonyms: vaginoplasty
colpopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpopoieses
Etymology: From colpo- + -poiesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: construction of a vagina
colporrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colporrhagias
Etymology: From colpo- + -rrhagia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: vaginal hemorrhage
Coordinate terms: english: blood from an orifice requires differential diagnosis of internal source
translation: blood from an orifice requires differential diagnosis of internal source
word: menorrhagia and metrorrhagia
colporrhexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colpo- + -rrhexis.
Senses: glosses: vaginal laceration
colpostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpostats
Etymology: From colpo- + -stat.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A device that is used to hold something in place within the vagina
Algerian War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Algerian War
Senses: glosses: The war between France and the Algerian nationalist FLN from 1954 to 1962, as a result of which Algeria gained its independence from France.
with this
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: ‘Blood and thunder,’ roared the other gentleman. With this he whipped his sword out, and made a lunge at my uncle without further ceremony.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
synonyms: with that
at this
glosses: When this happened; hereupon, after this moment.
acetabuloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetabuloplasty
adipositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adipose + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the adipose tissue
vasopressinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vasopressin + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aminopeptidase enzyme that cleaves vasopressin, oxytocin, and other peptide hormones.
retinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinoses
Senses: glosses: Any degenerative condition of the retina.
hanging indent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging indents
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hanging indentation.
hanging indents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging indent
hanging indentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanging indentation
hot water bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot water bags
form: hot-water bag
form: hotwater bag
Senses: examples: text: Nothing is more comfortable, nothing, I should say, more indispensable, than a hot-water bag,—or rather, two hot-water bags; for they will burst sometimes, as I found out, and a passenger who has become intimate with one of these warm bosom friends feels its loss almost as if it were human.
ref: 1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in Our Hundred Days in Europe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 20:
text: Presently her stiff limbs relaxed in the gentle heat from her hot water bags.
ref: 1931, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Put Out the Light, London: Wark Lock:
text: “I think he’s got flu, Mummy. He’s frightfully tired, for one thing. He’ll have to go to bed directly we get home. Could you light a fire in his room, and put a hot-water bag in the bed? […]”
ref: 1957, Neville Shute, On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:
glosses: A hot water bottle.
hot water bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot water bag
thrown in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw in
Orthodoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orthodox
litmag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litmags
Senses: glosses: a literature magazine
EPCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EPC
preconstructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preconstruction
off-plan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: off plan
Senses: examples: text: About 2m off-plan homes remain unfinished across China, according to a rough estimate by S&P. […] In 2021, about 90% of homes were sold off plan in China.
ref: 2022 September 25, Martin Farrer, “A Ponzi scheme by any other name: the bursting of China’s property bubble”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Being or relating to a property that has not yet had a structure built on it.
off-plan
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: off plan
Senses: examples: text: About 2m off-plan homes remain unfinished across China, according to a rough estimate by S&P. […] In 2021, about 90% of homes were sold off plan in China.
ref: 2022 September 25, Martin Farrer, “A Ponzi scheme by any other name: the bursting of China’s property bubble”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of a property: without yet having had a structure built on it.
cement hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Hands that do not catch or grip well because they are too tense.
least willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The leaves of the least willow (S. herbacea), soaked in water, are employed in Iceland for tanning leather.
ref: 1848, Cuthbert William Johnson, The Farmer's Encyclopædia, page 1142:
text: The species that characterize the heathland are wooly willow (Salix lanata), broadleaved willow (Salix callicorpea) and least willow (Salix herbacea), especially wooly willow.
ref: 2000, Geothermal Training in Iceland, page 95:
text: In terms of high-altitude survival, the least willow (S. herbacea) occurs at 2170 m in central Norway.
ref: 2008, R. M. M. Crawford, Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change, →ISBN, page 314:
glosses: Either of two species of willow:
Salix herbacea, a tiny creeping shrub widely distributed in alpine and Arctic environments.
synonyms: dwarf willow
examples: text: Closely related to least willow (Salix rotundifolia) but differs in having large, slightly hairy capsules, abundant skeletonized leaves, and 3-5 pairs of veins on leaves instead of 2-3 pairs in least willow.
ref: 1972, Agriculture Handbook, number 410, page 90:
text: Least willow is found in alpine and arctic tundra in a variety of vegetation types from dry scree to cool, wet slopes.
ref: 2010, Les Viereck, Alaska Trees and Shrubs, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: Either of two species of willow:
Salix rotundifolia, a densely matted shrub growing in tundral regions.
Colts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colt
Colts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colt
columnella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: columnellae
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A small column
glosses: Alternative form of columella.
combatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being combatable
leave a lot to be desired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves a lot to be desired
form: leaving a lot to be desired
form: left a lot to be desired
form: left a lot to be desired
form: leave much to be desired
Senses: examples: text: The three cylinders of these engines are 18½ in. dia. by 26 in. stroke; and as the three piston valves were all between the frames, it resulted in the monoblock casting being weak, so far as the centre cylinder was concerned, with the result that the life of these castings left a good deal to be desired.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Conversion of L.N.E.R. "B16" Class 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
glosses: To be unsatisfactory; to fail to meet minimal standards of acceptability.