cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bonefire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonefires
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll the inhabitauntes confortynge and exhortynge eche other to die, rather than to violate the leage and amitie that they of longe tyme had contynued with the Romaynes, by one hole assent, after that they hadde made sondry great pyles of wode and of other mater to brenne, they layde in it all their goodes and substaunce, and laste of all, conuayenge them selfes in to the saide pyles or bonefires with their wyfes and children, sette all on fire, and there were brenned or Annyballe coulde entree the citie.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “Of Faythe or Fidelitie, Called in Latyne Fides whiche is the Fundation of Iustyce”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 213:
text: O thou art a perpetuall triumph, an euerlaſting bonefire light, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: And one thing I like in you, novv that you ſee / The bonefire of your Ladies ſtate burnt out, / You give it over, doe you not?
ref: 1620 (first performance; published 1622), Philip Messenger [i.e., Philip Massinger]; Thomas Dekker, The Virgin Martyr; a Tragedie. […], London: […] B[ernard] A[lsop] and T[homas] F[awcet] for Thomas Iones, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act III, signature [G4], verso:
text: For after Tertullian, in the dayes of Minucius it was obviouſly objected upon Chriſtians, that they condemned the practiſe of burning. […] And perhaps not fully diſuſed till Chriſtianity fully eſtabliſhed, vvhich gave the finall extinction to theſe ſepulchrall Bonefires.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: He's mounted on a Hazel Bavin, / A Cropt malignant Baker gave 'em. / And to the largeſt Bonefire, riding / Th' have Roaſted Cook already, and Pride-m.
ref: 1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 183:
text: Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.
ref: 1710 October 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Whig-Examiner: No. 2. Thursday, September 21. [1710.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 339:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bonfire.
bonefires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonefire (alternative spelling of bonfires)
brick-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brick-shaped
form: most brick-shaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brickshaped.
abaxializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abaxialize
Salford Priors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Affix from early possession by Kenilworth Priory.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP0751).
Anxin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːnˈʃiːn/
enpr: änʹshǐnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 安新 (Ānxīn).
Senses: examples: text: After studying "On practice", "Where do correct ideas come from?" and other brilliant works by Chairman Mao, the PLA cadres engaged in the work of "three supports and two militaries" (i.e. support the broad masses of the Left, support industry, support agriculture, military control, and political and military training) in Anhsin County, Hopei Province, came to understand that to uphold the materialist theory of reflection and oppose idealist apriorism, it was necessary to conscientiously make investigations and study in[…]
ref: [1971 August, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East, volume 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page A-2:
text: Xi himself visited Anxin county in late February, which only became public when China announced plans for Xiongan on April 1.[…]
Not everyone in Anxin is cheered by the prospect.
An Anxin restaurant owner in her 50s surnamed Liu said she checks social media constantly for updates, as she fears being forced out of the spacious villa built on her farmland.
ref: 2017 April 12, Yawen Chen, Elias Glenn, David Stanway, “Xi stamp of approval fuels frenzied hopes for new China economic zone”, in Tony Munroe, Will Waterman, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2017, Emerging Markets:
glosses: A county of Xiong'an, Baoding, Hebei, China.
humanitarian corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjʊˌmæ.nɪˈtɛː.ɹɪ.ən ˈkɒ.ɹɪ.dɔː/
ipa: [-ɛə.ɹi.ən-]
ipa: /-də/
ipa: /hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən ˈkɔ.ɹəˌdɔɹ/
ipa: /ˌhjuː.mæ.nɪˈtɛː.ɹɪ.ən-/
ipa: /-ˈkɔ.ɹə.dɚ/
Forms: form: humanitarian corridors
Etymology: From humanitarian (“concerned with people’s welfare, and the alleviation of suffering”) + corridor (“restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places”).
Senses: glosses: A type of temporary demilitarized zone intended to allow the safe transit of humanitarian aid into, and/or refugees out of, a crisis-hit region.
Quiver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Corruption of the French Cuivre, from cuivre (“copper”).
Senses: glosses: A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.
glosses: A township in Mason County, Illinois, United States, named after Quiver Creek.
Calder Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Calder in West Yorkshire, England.
Related terms: Calderdale
PNTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.
ref: 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:
topics: business
diplomacy
finance
government
politics
trading
synonyms: permanent normal trade relations
permanent normalised trade relations
permanent normalized trade relations
coordinate_terms: MFN
most favoured nation
most favored nation
glosses: Initialism of permanent normal(ized) trade relations.
deny of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denies of
form: denying of
form: denied of
form: denied of
Etymology: Likely due to confusion of the expressions to deny and to deprive of.
Senses: examples: text: Sony has publicly argued against the merger, claiming that the combined company would deny the PlayStation platform of games like Call of Duty.
glosses: To deny; to deprive of.
aspectology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The branch of psychology concerned with aspects of one's own personality.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An area of semantics concerned with verbal aspect.
Related terms: aspectological
aspectological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psychology
sciences
glosses: Relating to aspectology
beyrichitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beyrichitines
Senses: glosses: Any extinct ammonoid of the genus Beyrichites
beyrichitines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beyrichitine
bilectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That speaks two lects of the same language
bilectal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilectals
Senses: glosses: Such a person
Bradenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU8297).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9208).
bilectals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilectal
bryophilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryophilins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bryophillin.
bryophillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryophillins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of bufadienolides present in plants of the genus Bryophyllum
cervicogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervicograms
Etymology: From cervico- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cervicograph.
synonyms: word: cervicograph
cervicograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervicogram
chondroprotectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondroprotectants
Senses: glosses: Any chondroprotective material
chondroprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondroprotectant
circumcapitular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + capitular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Surrounding a capitulum
copovidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copovidones
Senses: glosses: A form of povidone
decoralin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide present in the venom of the wasp Oreumenes decoratus
disjugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the plane or furrow separating the ancestral prosoma and opisthosoma in some mites
dracunculiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dracunculosis.
Mouchard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
ergotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergotherapist
ethnonutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + nutrition.
Senses: glosses: ethnological aspects of nutrition
exfoliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That can exfoliate
fecundicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fecundity.
filarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filarids
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the family Filariidae
filarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filarid
gripopterygid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gripopterygids
Senses: glosses: Any stonefly of the family Gripopterygidae
gripopterygids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gripopterygid
hemoprotozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemoprotozoan
spark anglemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spark anglemouths
Senses: synonyms: deepsea fangjaw
deepsea lightfish
glosses: Sigmops bathyphilus, a species of bioluminescent deepwater fish that lives in the bathypelagic.
heterogomph
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having dissimilar teeth on the bristles
heterogomph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogomphs
Senses: glosses: Such an organism (typically a spiniger or falciger)
heterogomphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogomph
spotted sand lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted sand lizards
Senses: glosses: A desert-dwelling lizard endemic to Africa, of species Meroles suborbitalis.
homotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + toxicology.
Senses: glosses: The toxicology of homotoxins
intradyadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + dyadic.
Senses: glosses: Within a dyad
ionoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iono- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The acoustic properties of ions (charged particles). especially when interacting with uncharged matter
keratotopography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kerato- + topography.
Senses: glosses: The surface topography of skin and other tissue, but especially of the cornea
Related terms: keratotopographic
keratotopographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kerato- + topographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to keratotopography
labidostommatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labidostommatids
Senses: glosses: Any acariform mite of the family Labidostommatidae
labidostommatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labidostommatid
Hsu-ch'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 許昌 /许昌 (Xǔchāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü³-chʻang¹.
Senses: examples: text: Three of the six short stories are written by K'o Kang: […]
c) "Yen-ts'ao hu-hu" 烟草糊糊 (Tobacco). Tobacco is the main crop of the people of Hsu-ch'ang in Honan. The wicked tobacco dealer and the Americans deceive a planter and his family. The planter and his wife commit suicide.
ref: 1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949–1974: An Annotated Bibliography, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150:
text: Moving to Hsu-ch’ang (Xuchang) in 1906, Edwins obtained a foothold in Loyang (Luoyang), Jiaxian, and other strategic centers, where land and property were purchased and groundwork was laid for future expansion. In 1910 the first nine converts were baptized in Hsu-ch’ang.
ref: 1998, James. A. Scherer, “Edwins, August W(illiam)”, in Gerald H. Anderson, editor, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
text: First, his forces, including the Shang and their thirty-six allies, reached K'un-wu (of the Ssu clan in the modern Hsu-ch'ang area in Honan), a powerful subordinate state of the Hsia located just southwest of the Hsia capital and on the frontier between the Hsia and Shang; […]
ref: 2007, Chun-shu Chang, The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Nation, State, & imperialism, volume I, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of Xuchang.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Achères
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
glosses: A commune in Yvelines department, Île-de-France, France.
lymphanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lymphoid.
microgyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgynes
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Microgyne
microgynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgyne
multiquadratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + quadratic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: multiply quadratic
myosteatotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + steatotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myosteatosis
wild orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild oranges
Senses: glosses: Capparis mitchellii, a non-citrus plant species that contains notable amounts of vitamin C.
glosses: Several species of wild Citrus fruit, especially Citrus macroptera.
white-browed woodswallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-browed woodswallows
Senses: glosses: Artamus superciliosus, an Australian species of perching bird.
eastern green drake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪk
Forms: form: eastern green drakes
Senses: glosses: Ephemera guttulata, a species of mayfly.
four-lined wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-lined waves
Senses: glosses: Scopula quadrilineata, a species of Canadian-American moth.
streaked wren-babbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streaked wren-babblers
Senses: glosses: Gypsophila brevicaudata, a species of perching birds.
North Esk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Esk.
Senses: examples: text: The sight of them [the Grampians] as we crossed the viaduct over the North Esk I am not likely to forget. After a night of snow, they hung wraith-like across the sky, exquisitely beautiful in the greyness of winter dawn.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
glosses: A river in Angus council area and Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
glosses: A river in Midlothian council area, Scotland, a branch of the River Esk, East Lothian.
glosses: A river in northern Tasmania, Australia, which joins the Tamar.
Related terms: South Esk
prefecture-level cities
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of prefecture-level city
Horsfield's bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horsfield's bats
Senses: glosses: Myotis horsfieldii, a species of vesper bat.
Papworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Papworths
Etymology: Habitational surname from the villages of Papworth Everard and Papworth St Agnes, from the Old English personal name *Papa + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Related terms: Papworth Everard
Papworth St Agnes
Ketley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village and civil parish in Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6711).
mat amaranth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mat amaranths
Senses: synonyms: prostrate pigweed
procumbent pigweed
prostrate amaranth
matweed
glosses: Amaranthus blitoides, a species of glabrous plant.
in the pay of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Employed by (someone), often secretly.
water scavenger beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water scavenger beetles
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the family Hydrophilidae.
netted olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netted olives
Senses: glosses: Oliva reticularis, a species of sea snail.
Mauritanian shortface eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mauritanian shortface eels
Senses: glosses: Panturichthys mauritanicus, a species of mud eel.
Mueller's geebung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mueller's geebungs
Senses: glosses: Persoonia muelleri, a species of Tasmanian shrub.
saw off the branch one is sitting on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saws off the branch one is sitting on
form: sawing off the branch one is sitting on
form: sawed off the branch one was sitting on
form: sawed off the branch one was sitting on
form: sawn off the branch one was sitting on
Senses: examples: text: A critic's role, he wrote, is that of “sawing off the branch on which one is sitting”: One can and may continue to sit on a branch while sawing it. There is no physical or moral obstacle if one is willing to risk the consequences.
ref: 2006, Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh, page 11:
text: Since the theory of action must necessarily start with the actors, then the actors who saw off the branch on which they sit cannot give their action any meaning.
ref: 2012, U. Duchrow, F. Hinkelammert, Transcending Greedy Money:
text: If we insist that all thoughts are simply chemical or physical phenomena, and conclude that reason is therefore unlikely to yield true beliefs, we will saw off the branch of the tree we are sitting on.
ref: 2016, Justin Buckley Dyer, Micah J. Watson, C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law, page 24:
text: BUT, if you persist in your slanders against God's Holy Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives, sawing off the branch on which you are sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives.
ref: 2016, Ellen Landreth, My Little Visits With God Corrected, page 131:
text: The model is wrong. Papatūānuku is the basis of real wealth. Her wellbeing should not be the cost of accumulating wealth. We are literally sawing off the branch we sit on.
ref: 2020, Sarah Bennett, Dave Bamford, Susanne Becken, 100% Pure Future: New Zealand Tourism Renewed, page 29:
glosses: To pursue a course of action that will lead to self-destruction.
Related terms: bite the hand that feeds one
dig a hole for oneself
dig one's own grave
like turkeys voting for Christmas
shoot oneself in the foot
gold moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold moths
Senses: glosses: Basilodes pepita, a species of noctuid moth.
black limpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black limpets
Senses: glosses: Lottia asmi, a species of sea snail.
Ashton under Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated at the foot of Bredon Hill.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9938).
wikipedia: Bredon Hill
golden egg bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: golden egg bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the genus Phyllomorpha.
Harvington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0549).
glosses: A hamlet in Chaddesley Corbett parish, Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8774).
Dazhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑːˈd͡ʒaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Tachai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寨 (Dàzhài).
Senses: examples: text: In 1964 a new policy emerged, which continued until about 1978 within the context of greater state support to agriculture. The origins of the policy go back to February 1960 in Hsi-yang county and the small village of Ta-chai. In that year Ch’en Yung-kuei, the production team leader of Ta-chai, reported to the Shansi Communist Party Congress how his village had raised crop yields to unprecedentedly high and stable levels through a new kind of team spirit and organization.
ref: [1980, Ramon H. Myers, “The Development of the Socialist Economy”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 216:
text: The term “shanzhai” also riffs off a popular Cultural Revolution era slogan about a model village, Dazhai, which has been changed to read: “In agriculture learn from Dazhai, in industry learn from Shanzhai.”
ref: 2009 February 6, Tyra Dempster, Ben Blanchard, “"Sham glam" sweeps China as fakes get trendy”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023, Lifestyle:
glosses: A town in Xiyang, Jinzhong, Shanxi, China, formerly a township.
Hinton on the Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Hinton on the Green and Aston Somerville Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0240).
Aston Somerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Hinton on the Green and Aston Somerville Parish Council) in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0438).
Kucinichs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kucinich
Kuciniches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kucinich
Greek yoghurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek yoghurts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Greek yogurt.
Greek yoghurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greek yoghurt
Mykolayiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mykolaiv.
ad personam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad persōnam.
Senses: examples: text: bishop ad personam
glosses: Given exclusively to one specific person, and not transferrable to or heritable by others. (of a role, title, privilege, etc.)
examples: text: The decriminalization of accounting fraud was a law ad personam intended save the President from legal trouble.
glosses: Targeted at one person or group of people in particular, but not generally applicable to the entire community.
glosses: Synonym of ad hominem.
synonyms: word: ad hominem
Related terms: ad hoc
headbump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headbumps
Senses: glosses: A light nudge or bump done with the head as an affectionate gesture, typically by an animal.
glosses: A naturally-occurring bump on the cranium, especially as analyzed in phrenology.
headbump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: headbumps
form: headbumping
form: headbumped
form: headbumped
Senses: glosses: To nudge or bump with the head as a gesture.
raw_tags: of an animal
Dusunic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family, a subfamily of Sabahan
Dusunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Dusunic language family.
most favoured nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: most favoured nations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of most favored nation.
FaCIAbook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fāsʹˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/-bo͝ok
ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ bʊk/
ipa: /feɪ siːˌaɪˈeɪ bʊk/
Etymology: A blend of Facebook + CIA, suggesting that the site has an ulterior motive of spying on its users, or is a tool of the US government.
Senses: glosses: The social networking site Facebook.
Related terms: Fakebook
Fuckbook
al-CIAda
Borovoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borovois
Etymology: Derived from Russian Борово́й (Borovój)
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Novodvorsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Novodvorskys
form: Novodvorskies
Etymology: Derived from Russian Новодворский (Novodvorskij).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Sokolskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sokolsky
Papworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Papworth
Papworth St Agnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Manorial affix from Agnes de Papewurda (Papworth), not a church of St Agnes.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL268645).
Papworth Everard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL285635).
Novodvorskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Novodvorsky
Wyke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wykes
Etymology: From Old English wīċ (“village”); compare Wick, which shares the same etymology.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Much Wenlock parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ646021).
glosses: A village in Normand parish, Guildford district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9151).
glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE151692).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Wyke Champflower
Wyke Regis
Boursiquot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boursiquots
Etymology: Borrowed from French Boursiquot. This surname is predominantly found in Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Boursiquots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boursiquot
Wykes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wykeses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wykes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wyke
Bottini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bottinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bottini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Arduinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Arduini
Bottinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bottini
Bartolon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bartolons
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Bartolón. This surname is predominantly found in Guatemala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Ambrosini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ambrosinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ambrosini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Ambrosinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ambrosini
Bartolons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartolon
Alon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alons
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Hebrew אַלּוֹן (alon, “oak tree”).
* Borrowed from Tagalog Alon; this surname is predominantly found in Bangsamoro region.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
glosses: A surname, from given names.
glosses: A surname from Tagalog.
Related terms: Alona
Alons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alon
Bakas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bakases
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Μπάκας (Bákas).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Bakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baka
Bakas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baka
Bartens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barten
Avinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Avingers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Ewinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A town in Cass County, Texas, United States.
Aukermans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aukerman
Avingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Avinger
aggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggy
form: most aggy
Etymology: From a clipping of aggressive, aggravating, or aggravated, combined with -y. .
Senses: examples: text: But whatever you think of Bieber, the adverts are questionable for reasons other than the singer's reputation for being an aggy teenager with an unfortunate tendency to offend and irritate.
ref: 2015 January 7, Ella Alexander, “GLAMOUR debates: Justin Bieber x Calvin Klein pics”, in Glamour UK:
text: These encapsulate the trio at their modern finest, vocalist Maxim stalking mercilessly while Keith Flint plays the aggy child antagonizing everyone.
ref: 2018 November 11, Leigh Sanders, “The Prodigy, Arena Birmingham – review and pictures”, in Express & Star:
text: “Girl asap I need to get away from Tekey. Before I spit on him he's so aggy lil jealous ass."
ref: 2016, Juannikka Callaway, My Life: My Decisions, unnumbered page:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggy.
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular and UK slang
glosses: Aggravating; annoying, irritating, obnoxious.
examples: text: I got aggie like a motherfucker.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 191:
text: So he responded with two oversized hits: "Cock Back," which he calls "the aggiest gun tune ever," and "So Sure," a remarkably relaxed and tender tune […]
ref: 2010, Andrew Rice, "The Devil Inside", XLR8R, November/December 2010, page 50
text: I hated curriculum, I hated my tutors, I hated the people. I came to my final year and I realized like, wait... why am I getting so aggy about all this?
ref: 2015, Alex B Rowland, “Roxanne Farahmand”, in Re-bel Magazine, page 50:
text: Ring, ring, rin-
"What!"
"Nice to hear from you too, Spect. Why are you so aggy?"
ref: 2018, Tiffany Bolado, The Legacy of Misperception, page 102:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggy.
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular and UK slang
glosses: Aggravated; aggressive, angry.
McWhannell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McWhannells
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of McConnell.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Foulshams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Foulsham
McWhannells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McWhannell
Wymark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wymarks
Etymology: From Wiuhomarch, name of a Breton saint, from Old Breton uuiu (“worthy of”) + ho- (“successful”) + march (“horse”). Cognate to modern Breton Guyonvarc'h.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Rhayader
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, historically in Radnorshire (OS grid ref SN9768).
Ujah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ujahs
Etymology: Nigerian surname predominantly found in Benue State.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Benue State
Ujahs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ujah
Wymarks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wymark
Uptons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Upton
Folsoms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Folsom
Brinkler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brinklers
Etymology: Variant of Brinklow.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sujit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali সুজিত (śujito).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
convel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈvɛl/
Forms: form: convels
form: convelling
form: convelled
form: convelled
Etymology: From Latin convellō. Doublet of convulse.
Senses: examples: text: [Comfrey] is a vulnerary, and is much commended to disrupted, broken, bruised and convelled members.
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A medicinal dispensatory, Medicinal Materials, Book 1, section 5, chapter 10, page 353:
text: Choler, having allowed it a drying quality also, and having an acrimony joyned to it, may rather be allowed to create Convulsion, by contracting and convelling the Nerves.
ref: 1678, John Browne, “Of Palsey”, in A compleat discourse of wounds, page 50:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
examples: text: Let vs come to his last exception against Doctor Humphrey, which is that hee handleth the matter artificially, to make a credulous reader beleeue that Saint Augustine himselfe doth conuell the vse of prayer for the dead by those sentences of the Apostle.
ref: 1628, Richard Field, Of the Church fiue bookes, Appendix, part 1, book 2, section 8, page 793:
text: The Pursuer answered, that he did not intend to Convel principally the intrinsick points of the Testimonies, but mainly to prove their partiality and corruption, and therewith also to prove their Testimonies were false, and impossible.
ref: 1683, James Dalrymple, Viscount of Stair, “The Laird of Milntoun contra the Lady of Milntoun, Eodem die [February 26, 1668]”, in The decisions of the Lords of Council & [Scotland Court of] Session in the most important cases […] from June 1661 to July 1681, page 537:
text: Modesty will not allow me to repeat them [sc. obscene passages], since they defile the Air, and needs must pollute the Eyes of Readers, and Ears of Hearers, and therefore to convel and [?] them, I shall only say this[…]
ref: 1694, William Strachan, Some remarks upon a late pamphlet, entituled, An answer to the Scots Presbyterian eloquence […] , page 78:
glosses: To completely rebut, to utterly reject.
convels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of convel
convelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convel
convelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convel
Killeagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in east County Cork, Ireland.
brickhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brick house.
Derived terms: built like a shit brickhouse
brickhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickhouse
Chaytor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chaytors
Etymology: Occupational surname from Middle English catour (“acater, provisioner”), aphetic form of Old French acatour.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Wittgensteineanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wittgensteinianism.
Hemingway special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hemingway specials
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hemingway daiquiri.
synonyms: word: Hemingway daiquiri
Hemingway specials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hemingway special
Hemingway daiquiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hemingway daiquiris
Etymology: Named after the author Ernest Hemingway.
Senses: synonyms: Hemingway special
glosses: A variant of the daiquiri cocktail, made with white rum, lime and grapefruit juices and maraschino liqueur, without sugar.
wikipedia: Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway daiquiris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hemingway daiquiri
precanyon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + canyon.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Before the formation of a canyon.
Banbhore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bhanbhore.
Bhambhore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bhanbhore.
Bhanbhore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bambhore
form: Banbhore
form: Bhambhore
Senses: glosses: A historical city in Sindh, Pakistan.
Bambhore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bhanbhore.
dryout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dryouts
Etymology: From dry out.
Senses: examples: text: […] with more severe dryouts resulting in stimulation of MeHg production or export, while routine water level variations or minor dryouts appear to have little effect.
ref: 2017, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Christopher D. Metcalfe, Multifunctional Wetlands, page 224:
glosses: The process of drying out.
dryouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dryout
wah pedal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wah pedals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wah-wah pedal.
synonyms: word: wah-wah pedal
wah pedals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wah pedal
utilitarianistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more utilitarianistic
form: most utilitarianistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to utilitarianism.
don't say gay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of no promo homo.
synonyms: word: no promo homo
metavalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metavalues
Etymology: From meta- + value.
Senses: examples: text: Efficiency as a metavalue is applied forward, to the future; but as a value it is measured backwards, in respect to the past.
ref: 1991, Christopher Hodgkinson, Educational Leadership: The Moral Art, page 108:
text: The preceding discussion assumes that happiness is the metavalue that the student maximizes. Perhaps some people seek happiness and others seek pleasure, social status, self-fulfillment, moral goodness, and so forth.
ref: 2005, Francesco Parisi, Vernon L. Smith, The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, page 100:
text: The metavalue of truth, however, is the notion of truth in its overarching character—the value society holds that demands, for example, that truth values be determined for claims and charges.
ref: 2016, Phil Gaines, From Truth to Technique at Trial, page 7:
glosses: A standard by which good is measured, which is incommensurable with other values.
metavalues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metavalue
backfurrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backfurrows
Etymology: From back- + furrow.
Senses: examples: text: Harrow sections are usually held together by bolts and projecting eyes which permit them to follow the contours of terraces and backfurrows.
ref: 1977, Archie Augustus Stone, Harold E. Gulvin, Machines for Power Farming, page 210:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow
backfurrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backfurrows
form: backfurrowing
form: backfurrowed
form: backfurrowed
Etymology: From back- + furrow.
Senses: examples: text: Before planting, an attempt was made to list the ground, the land being ridged with an ordinary walking plow by backfurrowing.
ref: 1923, Jenkin William Jones, Rice Experiments at the Biggs Rice Field Station in California, page 56:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.
backfurrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backfurrow
backfurrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backfurrow
backfurrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backfurrow
backfurrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backfurrow
backgrindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backgrinding
backgrind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backgrinds
form: backgrinding
form: background
form: background
Etymology: From back- + grind.
Senses: glosses: To use the backgrinding process in semiconductor manufacture.
backgrinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backgrind
hair stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair sticks
form: hairstick
Senses: coordinate_terms: hairpin
;
hairnet
glosses: A small stick for holding a hair bun in place.
hair fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair forks
form: hairfork
Senses: glosses: A large pronged accessory for holding a hair bun in place.
bell-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-horses
Senses: examples: text: Shortly before the strike in London began, his 'bell-horse' had been fined by the masons' union for breaking their regulations on work and price.
ref: 2014, John Rule, The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850, page 343:
qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: Synonym of speeder.
synonyms: word: speeder
bell-horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell-horse
WTUL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Women's Trade Union League.
UNCLAS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of unclassified.
Étampes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French, from Medieval Latin Stampae, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to squeeze, compress”). This name could have been in reference to fulling.
Senses: glosses: A commune in Essonne department, Île-de-France, France.
wobulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wobulates
form: wobulating
form: wobulated
form: wobulated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wobbulate.
wobulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wobulate
wobulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wobulate
wobulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wobulate
wobulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wobbulation.
wobbulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wobbulation
ROW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROWs
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
coordinate_terms: ROM
ROP
ROY
glosses: Initialism of run of week.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
video-games
qualifier: digital rights management
glosses: Initialism of rest of world.
examples: text: In some of these areas, the road ROWs are also adjacent to existing aboveground MVEC distribution lines, which are shown on maps in Appendix A. […] Great River Energy will require a new 100-foot-wide ROW for construction and maintenance of the Transmission Line.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 30:
glosses: Initialism of right of way.
ROY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
coordinate_terms: ROM
ROP
ROW
glosses: Initialism of run of year.
strategic warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strategic warnings
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: tactical warning
glosses: A warning, relatively far in advance, of a potential attack.
strategic warnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strategic warning
switch trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A form of countertrade by which one company sells to another its obligation to make a purchase in a given country.
counterpurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpurchases
Etymology: From counter- + purchase.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A form of countertrade in which an exporter purchases goods from another country in exchange for that country purchasing goods from the exporter.
counterpurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterpurchases
form: counterpurchasing
form: counterpurchased
form: counterpurchased
Etymology: From counter- + purchase.
Senses: glosses: To engage in such a purchase.
counterpurchased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterpurchase
counterpurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpurchase
counterpurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterpurchase
counterpurchasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterpurchase
Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Yvelines department, Île-de-France, France.
fudge box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fudge boxes
Senses: topics: journalism
media
printing
publishing
glosses: A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A small blank area left in a newspaper layout for the insertion of late-breaking news.
fudge boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fudge box
grey rock method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the grey rock method
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray rock method.
FRUIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.
Related terms: fruiting
Irishphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Irish + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Continuing Irishphobia, in fact, caused some concern when the Civil War erupted upon the nation.
ref: 1971, John B. Duff, The Irish in the United States, page 20:
text: It is in this context of Irishphobia that the racist caricature of the drunken, violent, ignorant Paddy was established.
ref: 1996, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, Ernest Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, page 182:
glosses: Synonym of Hibernophobia.
synonyms: word: Hibernophobia