cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lesser evilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser evilists
Senses: examples: text: When does a "lesser evilist" begin to fight for the greatest good, i.e., socialism?
ref: 1949, Anvil and Student Partisan - Volumes 1-5, page 6:
text: Harrington, forty-five, is a lesser evilist who could have voted in good conscience for regular Democrat Henry "Scoop" Jackson over both Nixon and a splinter peace candidate if the occasion had arisen.
ref: 1974, Philip Nobile, Intellectual Skywriting, page 138:
text: Yet this failure does not adequately account for Serge's general migration from a Trotskyist to a "Third Camp" socialist to a non-revolutionary "lesser evilist."
ref: 1997, Susan Weissman, The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art, page 114:
glosses: A proponent of lesser evilism.
lesser evilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser evilist
master of the obvious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Captain Obvious.
synonyms: word: Captain Obvious
it is easy to be wise after the event
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Tuchel may wonder whether he should have kept the unbeatable Mendy on for penalties after his heroic performance but it is easy to be wise after the event and Kepa has proved his quality from penalties in the past.
ref: 2022 February 27, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: After one has seen the consequences of a decision, it is easy to tell whether or not the decision was favorable, but it is also too late, since the consequences have already occurred.
Related terms: after the fact
backward rationalization
hindsight is 20/20
Chaumont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in France:
A commune in Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire.
glosses: A place in France:
A commune and capital of Haute-Marne department, Grand Est.
glosses: A place in France:
A commune in Haute-Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
glosses: A place in France:
A commune in Orne department, Normandy.
glosses: A place in France:
A commune in Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
glosses: A ghost town in Edmonson County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A village in Jefferson County, New York, United States.
Maubeuge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
Vesoul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Haute-Saône department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
photofissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photofission
photofissions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photofission
photofissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photofission
photofissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photofission
Dubbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌboʊ/
Etymology: Probably from Wiradjuri [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A city in the Orana region, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: dubbo
Prenderghast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prenderghasts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Pendeghast
Penderghast
Prendeghast
Prendeghast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prendeghasts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Pendeghast
Penderghast
Prenderghast
Penderghast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Penderghasts
Etymology: Variant of Prendergast.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pendeghast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pendeghasts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Penderghast
Prendeghast
Prenderghast
ran away with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run away with
running away with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run away with
runs away with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run away with
ass-kissings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ass-kissing
goes short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go short
going short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go short
went short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go short
gone short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go short
supplementary character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplementary characters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Any character assigned a code point in one of the supplementary planes (planes 1 through 16, covering the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF).
high surrogate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high surrogates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DB7F (the High Surrogates block), excluding the range of code points used in encoding characters from the private-use planes 15 and 16.
Hypernyms: surrogate
Coordinate terms: low surrogate
geo-military
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: geomilitary
Senses: glosses: Concerning the military in the context of geography; pertaining to the military when applied across borders.
geomilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of geo-military.
low surrogate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low surrogates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.
Hypernyms: surrogate
Coordinate terms: high surrogate
surrogate pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrogate pairs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the supplementary character's code point.
Lauman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laumans
form: Laumann
form: Laumenn
form: Laumen
Etymology: Anglicization of German Laumann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
UTF-32
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Unicode Transformation Format-32, a fixed-width encoding for Unicode characters which uses 4 bytes (32 bits) to encode each character.
Hyponyms: UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
Coordinate terms: UTF-7
UTF-8
UTF-16
time spent laughing is time spent with the gods
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Japanese proverb.
Senses: glosses: Laughter is bliss.
Related terms: laughter is the best medicine
whoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whoomp.
whoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whooms
form: whooming
form: whoomed
form: whoomed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whoomp.
NHK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese NHK (NHK).
Senses: examples: text: Naomi Osaka, a Japanese professional tennis player, also responded to the NHK post with a popular gif of “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey expressing bewilderment.
ref: 2020 June 9, Yoko Wakatsuki, Eric Cheung and Jack Guy, “Japanese broadcaster takes down controversial Black Lives Matter anime”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (“a Japanese public broadcaster”).
FIGS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: These combinations of letters are an abbreviation for a set of languages, usually the languages a game is localized into or published in. In particular, they are: FIGS: French, Italian, German, Spanish
ref: 2019 June 11, Veronika, “A Glossary of Translation and Localization Terms”, in Translation Geek, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2021:
glosses: Initialism of French, Italian, German, Spanish.
Related terms: EFIGS
CJK
Camenca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Camenca.
Senses: glosses: A village in Brusturoasa, Bacău County, Romania.
McGees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGee
Pendergrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pendergrass
amicrofilaremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + microfilaremia.
Senses: glosses: The absence of microfilaremia
Related terms: amicrofilaremic
amicrofilaremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + microfilaremic.
Senses: glosses: Not microfilaremic
Related terms: amicrofilaremia
difluorophenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difluorophenols
Etymology: From difluoro + phenol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any difluoro derivative of a phenol
Related terms: difluorophenyl
difluorophenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of difluorophenol
enterothelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the enterothelium
enterothelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entero- + -thelium.
Senses: glosses: The endothelium of the intestines
Related terms: enterothelial
eupatriochromene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An antitrypanosomal chromene
Penderghasts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Penderghast
seroassays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seroassay
serotested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serotest
serotested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: serologically tested
tarsoconjunctival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: tarsal and conjunctival
McGhies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGhie
Great British
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Great British
form: most Great British
Senses: synonyms: British
glosses: Pertaining to Great Britain.
Porcello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Porcellos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Porcello.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Nyarko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nyarkos
Etymology: Borrowed from Akan Nyarko.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Akan.
Nyarkos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nyarko
Porcellos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Porcello
Neuendorf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neuendorfs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Neuendorf.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Nevares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nevareses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Nevares. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Nevareses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nevares
Neuendorfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neuendorf
Mapel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mapels
Etymology: Variant of Maple.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Krutsinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krutsingers
Etymology: Variant of German Kreuziger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Krutsingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krutsinger
Mapels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mapel
Maddisons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maddison
Kobza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kobzas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kobza or Ukrainian Кобза (Kobza).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Basarabeasca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Basarabeasca.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
Kobzas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kobza
Laurino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laurinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Laurino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Kilman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kilmans
Etymology: Variant of Kelman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kilmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilman
Laurinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laurino
lumenised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lumenized.
Huneke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hunekes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hüneke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Iafrate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iafrates
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Iafrate.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Iafrates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Iafrate
Hunekes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Huneke
McCallion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCallions
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cailín (“son of Cailín”), a personal name which derives from coileán (“cub, puppy”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Oommen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oommens
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam ഉമ്മന് (ummaṉ). This surname is mostly found in Kerala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Malayalam.
Oommens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oommen
McCallions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCallion
Bede
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: bead
Senses: glosses: An English monk, historian and theologian from Northumbria who lived from c. 673 to 753, commonly known as the Venerable Bede.
wikipedia: Nuremberg Chronicle
Derived terms: Bedean
Frunză
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Frunză.
Senses: glosses: A town in Ocnița, Moldova.
symbolicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symbolicates
form: symbolicating
form: symbolicated
form: symbolicated
Etymology: From symbolic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Xcode generally does a good job of automatically symbolicating the reports (replacing addresses with method names) in Organizer as long as you keep the .dSYM for every binary you ship.
ref: 2011, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: deobfuscate
glosses: To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.
symbolicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of symbolicate
symbolicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of symbolicate
symbolicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of symbolicate
Ninian Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart.
Senses: glosses: A former football stadium in the city of Cardiff, Wales, which was replaced by Cardiff City Stadium. The name is still used by Ninian Park railway station, and a local thoroughfare, Ninian Park Road (OS grid ref ST1675).
wikipedia: Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart
Ninian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪnjən/
Senses: glosses: A male given name, probably from Saint Ninian.
Derived terms: Ninian Park
Gartsides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gartside
Deerings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deering
East Moors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An industrial area in the city of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST2075).
glosses: A moor in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS3919).
glosses: A moor in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6093).
Gilbeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gilbey
Garsides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garside
Shardlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shardlows
form: Sharlow
Etymology: From Old English sċeard (“notch, indentation”) + hlǣw (“mound”).
Senses: glosses: A village in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK437302).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Shardlows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shardlow
what someone is made of
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You don't have to take it lying down. Show him what you are made of!
glosses: One's personal qualities that project strength, power, courage, or stamina.
Vallorbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland, on the border with France.
avdoralimab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibody used to treat covid infections
blepharogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blepharo- + gel.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preparation used to prevent or to treat inflammation of the eyelids
Orhei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Orhei.
Senses: glosses: A city, municipality, and district of Moldova.
bluespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluespaces
form: blue space
Senses: glosses: Any urban area composed of water.
bluespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluespace
downpressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downpressures
Senses: glosses: downward pressure
electropherotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electropherotype
fluvioeolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluvio- + eolian.
Senses: glosses: Produced by flowing water and wind
geolithology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geolithologies
Etymology: From geo- + lithology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: (the study of) the distribution of different types of stone
geolithologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geolithology
heteroclonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heteroclonal
lawnweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawnweeds
Senses: glosses: Any weed present in a lawn, but especially Soliva sessilis
nonsummability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + summability.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being nonsummable
protoplasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Whose protoplast has been regenerated or transformed
rockbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockbolts
form: rock bolt
Senses: glosses: A bolt used to anchor the surface of rock
rockbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockbolt
semitrypsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + trypsin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of trypsin that cleaves peptide bonds only at one end of a protein
z-score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: z-scores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Z score.
z-scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of z-score
nonattendee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonattendees
Etymology: From non- + attendee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not an attendee
Related terms: word: regret
nonattendees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonattendee
backmap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backmaps
form: backmapping
form: backmapped
form: backmapped
Etymology: From back- + map.
Senses: glosses: To map in a reverse direction.
backmapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backmap
backmapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backmap
Albinețul Vechi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Albinețul Vechi.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Fălești Raion, Moldova.
Anenii Noi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Anenii Noi.
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Moldova.
Bilicenii Noi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bilicenii Noi.
Senses: glosses: A village in Bilicenii Noi, Sîngerei Raion, Moldova.
Boghenii Noi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Boghenii Noi.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Ungheni Raion, Moldova.
multikingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + kingdom.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to multiple taxonomic kingdoms
cosmopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmopods
Etymology: From cosmo- + pod.
Senses: examples: text: The man sat up to study the CosmoPod. He was barrel-chested, built like a tank.
ref: 2011, Peter Nikelski, Quantum Storm:
glosses: A type of spacecraft.
beghilos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from the letters available on an upside-down calculator screen, those letters being: 'b', 'e', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'l', 'o', 's' and 'z'.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:beghilos.
synonyms: calculator spelling
glosses: The alphabet consisting of the letters that can be spelled out when a traditional calculator screen is viewed upside down.
unrevisitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrevisitable
form: most unrevisitable
Senses: glosses: Unable to be revisited.
Podenii Noi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Podenii Noi.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Prahova County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Podenii Noi, Prahova County, Romania.
Dobrogea Veche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Dobrogea Veche.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Sîngerei Raion, Moldova.
Florițoaia Veche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Florițoaia Veche.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Ungheni Raion, Moldova.
Tătărăuca Veche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Tătărăuca Veche.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Soroca, Moldova.
Albota de Jos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Albota de Jos.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Taraclia Raion, Moldova.
Albota de Sus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Albota de Sus.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Taraclia Raion, Moldova.
Ciolacu Nou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciolacu Nou.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Fălești Raion, Moldova.
Cuhureștii de Sus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cuhureștii de Sus.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Florești, Moldova.
Halahora de Sus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Halahora de Sus.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Briceni Raion, Moldova.
magocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magocracies
Etymology: From mag(e) + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: In a magocracy, arcane spellcasters usually have the greatest rights and freedoms, and nonspellcasters are looked down upon.
ref: 2000, Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams, Dungeon Master's Guide: Core Rulebook II, page 156:
text: Of course, he knew that his attitude about magic making one superior came from having been raised in a magocracy, where the most powerful mage was made the King or Queen at each five-year turning of the throne's succession.
ref: 2008, Jean Johnson, The Master: A Novel of the Sons of Destiny, page 11:
text: The Tevinter imperium is ruled by a magocracy. The most powerful of mages wield the greatest influence.
ref: 2020, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, page 7:
topics: fantasy
glosses: Government or rule by those with magical powers; a hierarchy composed of wizards or mages.
Synonyms: mageocracy
Slatterys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Slattery
Alexăndreni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Alexăndreni.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Sîngerei Raion, Moldova.
Alexăndrești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Alexăndrești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Rîșcani Raion, Moldova.
Cotiujenii Mici
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cotiujenii Mici.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Sîngerei Raion, Moldova.
Grinăuți-Moldova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Grinăuți-Moldova.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Ocnița, Moldova.
magocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magocracy
genship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genships
Senses: examples: text: There had been doubts that a genship crew would be able to handle a starship after five generations or so post departure, ...
ref: 2018, Wes Boyd, Destiny, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: Second, genship endurance is still a het dependent plan. Maybe we can hack cryophase, just sleep for thousands of years on your ship, become space vampires. The breeders can keep breeding."
ref: 2016, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Contraction of generation ship.
patent fuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent fuels
Senses: examples: text: The originating tonnage of coal class traffic (that is to say coal, coke and patent fuel) for the whole of British Railways in 1957 was 166,153,300 tons, representing half-a-million tons a day and roughly 60 per cent of the total freight traffic.
ref: 1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:
glosses: Fuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.
nonexpansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-expansion
Etymology: From non- + expansion.
Senses: glosses: Absence of expansion.
examples: text: The resulting nonexpansion policy (fukakudai hōshin), embodied in the September 24 “First Official Statement,” clearly set forth government opposition to a full-scale occupation of Manchuria and to any further military action.
ref: 1998, Louise Young, chapter 4, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Refusing to expand; abstaining from expansion.
crown witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown witnesses
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person implicated in a criminal case who turn against their accomplices by serving as a witness for the state and who may enter into a witness protection program afterwards.
dodecaoxotetrasilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecaoxotetrasilicates
Etymology: From dodeca- + oxo- + tetra- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
inorganic-chemistry
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with a formula containing four silicon atoms and twelve oxygen atoms (Si₄O₁₂)
Derived terms: cyclo-dodecaoxotetrasilicate
arsenosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenosilicates
Etymology: From arseno- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
inorganic-chemistry
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound that is a variation of a silicate where some silicon atoms are replaced by arsenic.
buck breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: buck (in derogatory US sense of a black man) + breaking (as in breaking a horse)
Senses: examples: text: One example of this destructive process came in the form of “buck breaking.” This practice involved the breaking of the most masculine, rebellious, and/or influential of the enslaved Black males.
ref: 2015, Mwalimu J. Shujaa, Kenya J. Shujaa, The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America:
text: Slaves were subject to a process called “buck breaking,” a method that was used by slave owners to strike fear in the observing slaves.
ref: 2018, Rashad McCants, Plantation Education:
text: As a means of breaking us psychologically, during slavery, white slave masters' implemented the “buck breaking” method.
ref: 2018, C. M. Fox, K. C. Dillon, Conversations of a Conscious Black Girl, page 16:
text: We are playing the devil's game without his infernal name in this good for nothing God forsaken buck breaking society.
ref: 2021, Richard Shine, The Emmanuel 9:
glosses: The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him.
Old Ravensworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Lamesley parish, Gateshead borough, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2357). Ravensworth Castle, Lamesley is nearby.
pop-sci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpˈsaɪ/
Forms: form: pop sci
form: popsci
form: pop. sci.
Senses: examples: text: pop-sci books
glosses: Clipping of popular science.
participant observation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A research methodology used in some social sciences to gain familiarity with a group of individuals and their practices through an intensive involvement, usually over an extended period of time.
Derived terms: participant observer
cycloxydim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloxydims
Senses: glosses: A herbicide chemical, with systematic name 2-[(E)-N-ethoxy-C-propylcarbonimidoyl]-3-hydroxy-5-(thian-3-yl)cyclohex-2-en-1-one
participant observer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: participant observers
form: participant-observer
Senses: examples: text: Between 1988 and 1992, I acted as a participant observer at over two hundred discos, clubs and raves and attended at least thirty live gigs for comparative purposes.
ref: 1995, Sarah Thornton, Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital, Wiley, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: One doing participant observation.
buy a pup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys a pup
form: buying a pup
form: bought a pup
form: bought a pup
Senses: glosses: To buy something that ultimately proves to be worth nothing or less than promised.
Related terms: sell someone a pup
participant-observer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: participant-observers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of participant observer.
participant observers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participant observer
participant-observers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participant-observer
gate-to-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wire-to-wire
Senses: examples: text: Authentic led the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic at every point of call en route to a gate-to-wire victory.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: From start to finish. (Usually used to describe a horse that wins a race by leading throughout.)
betitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A stereoisomer of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetrol found in sugar beet molasses.
Nahla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nahlas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
oxacycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxacycles
Etymology: From oxa- + cycle.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic compound with oxygen in the ring.
oxacycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxacycle
high surrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high surrogate
low surrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low surrogate
surrogate pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogate pair
clown worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clown world
criminigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminiggers
Etymology: Blend of criminal + nigger.
Senses: examples: text: Obama set the thug spook Damarlon Thomas free on 11/22.
Dumb nigger barely made it 8 weeks before it assumed room temperature.
ref: 2017 January 30, Rick Mathers, “Obanga Pardoned criminigger gets ventilated”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: What's scary is that these niggers are just starting their careers, and
there are many felonies ahead- sooner rather than later if some lib
judge turns them loose.
ref: 2017 February 14, Rick Mathers, “Master criminiggers kill 92 year old black female- net $70”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: Seriously, it's not the catch and release nigger's fault that he keeps
getting 2nd chances. It's the fault of his Lib Coddlers, and they are
as much at fault, if not more, than the POS CrimiNigger.
ref: 2017 April 5, Rick Mathers, “Will the 55th strike finally be enough to cage this beast for life?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: In Cleveland horsenostril nigger Manson Bryant, a career
catch-‘n-release criminigger, was facing up to 28 years for a home
apevasion and a laundry list of charges.
ref: 2019 March 20, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger’s courtroom chimpout = 28 yrs. in Nigger University from judge”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):
text: Making a hero out of a filthy stinking feral idiot piece of shit criminigger is repulsive!
ref: 2021 May 24, SynCity, “SH*T-FOR-BRAINS JOE TO HOST THE GEORGE FLOYD 'FAMBLY' AT THE WHITE HOUSE”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
glosses: A black criminal.
Related terms: dindu nuffin
suspook
near-Earth comet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near-Earth comets
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a comet having a period of revolution shorter than 200 years and a perihelion distance smaller than 1.3 au
high on one's own supply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a scene in the film Scarface (1983), in which drug dealer Tony Montana (Al Pacino) is mocked for excessively consuming cocaine from his own inventory.
:
1983, Oliver Stone, Scarface, spoken by Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer):
Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.
Senses: glosses: (of a drug dealer) Using the drugs which one sells, especially to excess.
examples: text: The relentless pursuit of realising his imagination on the big screen has come at a personal cost. […] The director admits he used to play up to the "image of what a film-maker was supposed to be. […] [D]on't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply."
ref: 2013 June 10, Jonathan Owen, James Cameron: 'Don't get high on your own supply', Independent (UK) (retrieved 28 July 2021)
text: Trump […] seems to have gotten high on his own supply — he actually seems to believe the bizarre conspiracy theories his supporters drum up to excuse his actions.
ref: 2019 November 10, Paul Krugman, Luckily, Trump Is an Unstable Non-Genius, New York Times (retrieved 28 July 2021)
text: Tapper reminded viewers that there had been a lot of magical thinking lately on the part of Democrats and liberal pundits, who spent too much time entertaining pie-in-the-sky dreams […] imagining a landslide victory for Biden. "As they say, 'You can’t get high on your own supply,'" Tapper zinged.
ref: 2020 November 4, Hank Stuever, Election night TV was high anxiety, flat comedy, Washington Post (retrieved 28 July 2021)
glosses: Assigning too much credibility to exaggerated favorable descriptions of one's character, achievements, or prospects; intoxicated by one's own braggadocio; enamored with one's own overvalued public image.
Related terms: eat one's own dog food
criminiggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminigger
Jora de Mijloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Jora de Mijloc.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Orehi Raion, Moldova.
Archaic Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Used by Bernhard Karlgren.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Archaic Chinese
Ancient Chinese
glosses: Old Chinese.
wikipedia: Bernhard Karlgren
less is a bore
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: To rhyme with less is more; attributed to architect Robert Venturi (1925-2018).
Senses: glosses: Less of something is not necessarily more appropriate or optimal.
wikipedia: Robert Venturi
more is more
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to suggest that in some cases, less of something is not appropriate or optimal.
a little goes a long way
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a little of something goes a long way.
Russian Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A period of political and social upheaval that took place in the former Russian Empire and began during the First World War.
Fenech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fenechs
Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese Fenech.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Maltese.
Mula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mulas
Etymology: Various possible origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Mulà, perhaps a metonymic occupational surname for a muleteer.
* Borrowed from Spanish Mula, a habitational surname from a city in the province of Murcia.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Agius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agiuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese Agius.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Maltese.
Spiteri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spiteris
Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese Spiteri.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Maltese.
cytomation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cytometric automation
Debono
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Debonos
form: DeBono
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian De Bono.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
immunosubset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunosubsets
Etymology: From immuno- + subset.
Senses: glosses: A subset of cells that have the same immunological function
immunosubsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunosubset
metalloserrulase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloserrulases
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of metalloproteases present in the venom of the scorpion Tityus serrulatus
metalloserrulases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloserrulase
milkborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From milk + -borne.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: carried in milk
raw_tags: of a pathogen
perilymphadenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + lymphadenitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the tissue surrounding a lymph gland
periostalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain due to periostitis
Ravensworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ1407).
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A community in the municipality of Kearney, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Old Ravensworth
knottage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knottages
Senses: examples: text: High knottage carpets are generally more expensive.
glosses: Density of knots, especially in carpets and rugs.
examples: text: Sailing into the gale, we managed only a fraction of our usual knottage.
glosses: Speed, usually of a ship or aircraft, or of the wind, measured in knots.
Montgolfier balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montgolfier balloons
form: Montgolfière balloon
form: Montgolfiere balloon
form: Montgolfière
form: Montgolfiere
Etymology: From the Montgolfier brothers, who popularized this style of balloon, and is credited with its European origin.
Senses: glosses: The most common type of hot-air balloon, a balloon lifted by only heated air with onboard burners, and a usually-manned platform at the base.
qualifier: by restriction
glosses: The pattern of Montgolfier balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers, predating modern Montgolfier-style hot-air balloons
Coordinate terms: de Rozier balloon
Rozier balloon
Hazley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hazleys
Etymology: Variant of Heasley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Heberlein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪbɚlaɪn/
/ˈhɛbɚlaɪn/
Forms: form: Heberleins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heberlein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Heberleins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heberlein
Hazleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hazley
Garciamorales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garciamoraleses
Etymology: From Garcia + Morales.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Garguilo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garguilos
Etymology: Corrupted form of Gargiulo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Garguilos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garguilo
Sicilies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sicily
wikipedia: Italian unification
Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Sicily
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Sicilian Vespers
Garciamoraleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garciamorales
Gharibian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gharibians
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Ղարիբյան (Ġaribyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Girdner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Girdners
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Swiss German Gurtner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.
Girdners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Girdner
Gharibians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gharibian
Flesner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flesners
Etymology: Variant of German Flessner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Flesners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flesner
Filipowiczes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Filipowicz
Duszynski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duszynskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Duszyński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Difazio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Difazios
form: DiFazio
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Fazio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Difazios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Difazio
Duszynskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duszynski
Călugăr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Călugăr.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Fălești Raion, Moldova.
Ditrău
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ditrău.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Harghita County, Romania.
Eppings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Epping
Lipcani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Licani
Senses: glosses: A town in Briceni Raion, Moldova.
Droddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Droddys
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Draddy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Creque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɹik/
Forms: form: Creques
Etymology: Variant of French Créquy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Prepelița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Prepelița.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sîngerei Raion, Moldova.
Creques
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Creque
Droddys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Droddy
McGonagle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGonagles
form: McGonagall
form: McGonigal
form: McGonigle
form: McGonnigal
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Conghail (“son of Conghal”), a personal name composed of the elements cú (“hound”) + gal (“valor”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Draddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Draddys
form: Droddy
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dreada (“descendant of Dreada”), perhaps a variant of Ó Greada, from which Grady.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Draddys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Draddy
McGonagles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGonagle
Merlinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Merlino
diphosphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphosphites
Etymology: From di- + phosphite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anion with the formula P₂O₅⁴⁻, or salt containing this.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical containing two phosphite groups.
ethynium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyne + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation, protonated acetylene (C₂H₃⁺)
ethenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethene + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation, protonated ethylene (C₂H₅⁺)
McGonagalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGonagall
Maniat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maniats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maniot.