cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tircha d'tzibura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic טִרְחָא דְּצִבּוּרָא.
Senses: examples: text: The last several weeks has seen Sephardi Haftaras being much shorter than the Ashkenazi one. What would be wrong with an Ashkenazi shul adopting the Sephardi Haftaras as a measure to cut down on Tircha D'Tzibura?
ref: 2002 October 28, Raphael, “The liturgy of Orthodox Judaism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: The concept is that having got a minyan together for Minchah we don't expect them to go away and come back later (Tirchah detziburah) for Maariv.
ref: 2007 November 15, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “No Brakha on Someone Else's Talit?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Should the Sheliaḥ Tzibbbur pray slowly, including many songs in order to help the congregation achieve Kavanah or shorten the service in order to avoid tirḥa d'tzibbura?
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Should the cantor pray slowly or shorten the service?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 3:
glosses: An inconvenience to the congregation.
Labourd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Labourd, from Latin Lapurdum.
Senses: glosses: A historical province of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
case up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cases up
form: casing up
form: cased up
form: cased up
Senses: examples: text: We have to case up those bottles.
text: The computer should be cased up when you're done using it.
text: The buildings around it case it up.
text: The hotel should be cased up for winter.
glosses: To place (something) in cases (a box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture); to be covered in a case (a box, sheath, or covering generally); to enclose or seal as if by a case.
examples: text: I can't believe you got cased up for what happened at the store.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Synonym of catch a case (to commit a crime and be arrested for it)
synonyms: word: catch a case
extra: to commit a crime and be arrested for it
examples: text: He cased up the nicest houses in the neighborhood.
glosses: Synonym of case (to survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery)
synonyms: word: case
extra: (to survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery)
RMSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Military School of Music (British Army musical school).
case out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cases out
form: casing out
form: cased out
form: cased out
Senses: examples: text: They cased out the big house.
glosses: Synonym of case (to survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery)
synonyms: word: case
extra: (to survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery)
chlodronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlodronic acids
Senses: glosses: A type of bisphosphonate medication used to treat osteoporosis and other bone diseases by inhibiting the breakdown of bone.
chlodronic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlodronic acid
tzibbur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzibur
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew ציבור (“community”).
Senses: examples: text: The phone company said they were working on it [the eruv] and the work would be completed during Friday evening. Can you trust them to the extent of informing the Tzibbur that they may not carry on Friday night but may on Shabbat morning?
ref: 2004 February 4, Henry Goodman, “Repairing an Eruv on Shabbat”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A community.
examples: text: At hashkama I sit in front of an annoying old man who is always correcting the Torah readers, a practice infuriating to the tzibbur and to the reader.
ref: 2008 January 13, Abe Kohen, “Cincinnati congregations”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A congregation.
RCAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
politics
war
synonyms: CAMUS
glosses: Initialism of Royal Corps of Army Music (a corps of the British Army).
fag cash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Money or gifts provided by a homosexual male paypig or finsub.
Related terms: cashfag
cave out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caves out
form: caving out
form: caved out
form: caved out
Senses: examples: text: I caved out a space in the rock.
glosses: To form a cave or cave-like shape.
antonyms: cave in
glosses: To collapse outwards or out from under something.
Cash Apps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cash App
Cash Apps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Cash App
Cash Apping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of Cash App
Cash Apped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Cash App
chlorophenoxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorophenoxy
variable cam timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variable cam timings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of variable valve timing.
synonyms: word: variable valve timing
signal timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal timings
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
road
transport
vehicles
glosses: A technique which traffic engineers use to distribute right of way at a signalized intersection.
taharat hamishpacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taharas hamishpacha
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew טהרת המשפחה (“family purity”).
Senses: examples: text: That's an _added_ bonus, like avoiding pork products avoids trichonosis or circumscised males are less prone to penile cancer and women who practice taharas hamishpacha are less prone to cervix cancer.
ref: 2003 May 18, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Actually, only 20% of the Jewish people left Eg”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: They are "offended" by the laws of taharas hamishpacha and bristle at the idea that women sit behind a mechitza.
ref: 2004 May 23, Susan Cohen, quoting Cindys, “Sheitel Burning in Israel”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Numerous scholars […] have opined on potential ways in which adherence to the mandates of taharat hamishpacha can benefit a marriage, including injecting a monthly sense of renewal into the husband-wife relationship, ensuring that the couple learns to relate to each other on levels beyond the physical, cultivating a husband's sensitivity towards his wife during a vulnerable time of the month, sanctifying the physical bond between husband and wife, and more.
ref: 2010, Shmuel Goldin, Unlocking the Torah Text: Vayikra, Gefen Publishing House, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: The Jewish laws pertaining to menstruation, given in Leviticus.
sequential valve timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequential valve timings
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: An automobile variable valve timing technology in which the timing of the intake valves is varied by using hydraulic pressure to rotate the camshaft.
target timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The choice of an optimal window or moment for administering treatments, interventions, or medications to achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes.
topics: business
glosses: The strategic planning and execution of marketing campaigns or initiatives aimed at specific customer segments or demographics.
dynamic ignition timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic ignition timings
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A computational process that calculates the optimal ignition timing for an engine.
continuous variable valve timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuous variable valve timings
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A system allowing for the perpetual adjustment of valve timing in an engine in order to optimize it for all engine speeds and conditions.
basic timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basic timings
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The ability of a musician to maintain a beat, especially when playing with other musicians.
attack timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attack timings
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The strategic decision of the appropriate time in launching a competitive move, market initiative, or the launch of a new product.
topics: games
video-games
glosses: The strategic decision of the appropriate time in launching an offensive move against one's opponent.
basic ignition timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basic ignition timings
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: The position of the crankshaft in relation to the top dead center when the piston is located at the top of the compression stroke.
computer-controlled timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computer-controlled timings
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any type of timing in a vehicle, machine, or other experiment aided by an internal timer.
active timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active timings
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of accurate timing system in which a battery-powered active chip, known as a transponder, sends a unique code to the detection loop, which is connected to a decoder.
active timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active timing
attack timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attack timing
basic ignition timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basic ignition timing
basic timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basic timing
computer-controlled timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer-controlled timing
continuous variable valve timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuous variable valve timing
dynamic ignition timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamic ignition timing
sequential valve timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequential valve timing
signal timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signal timing
cell up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cells up
form: celling up
form: celled up
form: celled up
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna have to cell up with Harry.
text: They're celling me up with Joe.
qualifier: prison
glosses: To share a cell with someone.
variable cam timings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variable cam timing
metzora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metzorah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מצורע.
Senses: examples: text: a kohen does not "treat" tzoraas; there is in fact no medical treatment for tzoraas, the only cure being for the metzora to do teshuva, and it does not require a kohen to advise him how to do that
ref: 2009 September 5, Giorgies E. Kepipesiom, “The book is coming along well”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A person afflicted with tzaraath.
ages like wine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of age like wine
aging like wine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of age like wine
ageing like wine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of age like wine
aged like wine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of age like wine
ages like vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of age like vinegar
aging like vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of age like vinegar
chalk against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chalks against
form: chalking against
form: chalked against
form: chalked against
Senses: examples: text: They chalked his actions against him.
glosses: To hold against or count against; to a hold a grudge regarding (something).
chalk it down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chalks it down
form: chalking it down
form: chalked it down
form: chalked it down
Senses: glosses: To agree enthusiastically.
ageing like vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of age like vinegar
aged like vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of age like vinegar
hashkama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An early-morning prayer service.
run against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs against
form: running against
form: ran against
form: run against
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to run against him for the governorship.
glosses: To compete with (someone) in an election.
examples: text: The game is running against my team.
text: Her reforms ran against popular opinion.
glosses: To negatively effect (someone or something); to experience a conflict regarding (something); to run up against (something).
fudge together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fudges together
form: fudging together
form: fudged together
form: fudged together
Senses: glosses: To make (something) shoddily or on short notice, using improvised materials or substandard techniques; to kludge (something) together.
tack together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tacks together
form: tacking together
form: tacked together
form: tacked together
Senses: glosses: To assemble or put together (something).
stitch together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stitches together
form: stitching together
form: stitched together
form: stitched together
Senses: examples: text: I stitched together an outfit from a bunch of old clothes.
text: You stitched those subpar ingredients together into a fine meal.
glosses: To make (something) by combining disparate components.
chatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatanim
form: chasan
form: chosson
form: hatan
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חָתָן.
Senses: examples: text: "So, who is the chosson," she asked. Her father told her the name, but of course she had no idea who he was or what he looked like. She asked if she could see him. "Of course you'll see him! You're going to marry him, and you'll see him for 120 years."
ref: 2002 May 22, R, “Dating a midrashh”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Another potential reason for leniency is the basic requirement of weddings that the ring must belong to the chatan (Shulchan Aruch E.H. 28). In fact, mesadrei kiddushin verify with the chatan that he owns the ring and did not simply borrow it. If the chatan forgot to bring the wedding ring, the mesader kiddushin will ensure that the "lender" of a replacement ring transfers the title of the ring to the chatan with proper kinyanim (halachic mechanisms of conveyance).
ref: 2008, Chaim Jachter, Ezra Fraser, Gray Matter: Volume 3, Ian Richmond, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Yesterday I traveled from Chicago to New Jersey for the day to attend an afternoon wedding at a place called the Venetian in Garfield New Jersey. The Chatan was the son of friends of mine.
ref: 2013 October 7, David Makowsky, “Wedding food”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: The boy frequently had a special haircut and was dressed up in special clothes like a ḥattan.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 53:
glosses: The bridegroom.
cheek it through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheeks it through
form: cheeking it through
form: cheeked it through
form: cheeked it through
Senses: examples: text: He's cheeking it through that class, and the surprising thing is, it's working!
glosses: To endure with an air of unearned confidence.
citramalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An organic acid, C₆H₈O₅ that is synthesized from malic acid and which is used as a reference compound or as a precursor in the synthesis of other organic compounds.
cheek it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheeks it out
form: cheeking it out
form: cheeked it out
form: cheeked it out
Senses: glosses: To brazen out or get through (a situation).
EDSA II
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: EDSA Dos
coordinate_terms: EDSA I
EDSA III
glosses: The mass protests that overthrew former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, held at EDSA (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue), Metro Manila, Philippines.
EDSA III
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: EDSA Tres
coordinate_terms: EDSA II
EDSA I
glosses: The protests sparked by the arrest of newly deposed president Joseph Estrada of the Philippines from April 25 to May 1, 2001.
Mickey Mouse money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The paper currency used during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
dollar-speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: primarily Anglophone
behest loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behest loans
Senses: glosses: A loan granted to an individual or corporation at the sole behest of an authoritative government official
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see behest, loan.
meat dealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat dealers
Senses: topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
glosses: A pimp or an escort service.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meat, dealer.
Vasishtha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वसिष्ठ (vasiṣṭha).
Senses: glosses: Vasishtha, husband of Arundhati, attributed as the author of the 7th Mandala of the Rigveda and one of the seven Saptarshis.
up and down house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up and down houses
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A two-storey house
hamster-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hamster-wheels
form: hamster-wheeling
form: hamster-wheeled
form: hamster-wheeled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamster wheel.
hamster-wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hamster-wheel
hamster-wheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hamster-wheel
hamster-wheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hamster-wheel
Claudian letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Claudian letters
form: Claudian letter
Etymology: Named after Roman emperor Claudius (10 BCE–41 CE), who created them.
Senses: glosses: Three letters which were added to the Latin alphabet by the Roman emperor Claudius, and were briefly used in some public inscriptions during his rule until his death, when they were quickly abandoned.
Related terms: Ↄ ↄ
Ⅎ ⅎ
Ⱶ ⱶ
Methilhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Methil, Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3599).
Great Ellingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0197).
Related terms: Little Ellingham
cladial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Berry (1964) provided a comprehensive description of the species and Maletz (1994) confirmed Berry's conclusions concerning the proximal development and cladial branching of Pterograptus from isolated material.
ref: 2005, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 42, Issues 5-8, page 800:
text: Several stages in the development of a cladium, showing the secondary nema as the leading rod of the cladial stipe (based on Bulman 1970a, Fig. 65).
ref: 2017, Jörg Maletz, Graptolite Paleobiology, page 36:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the cladium.
Derived terms: pericladial
my people yearn for freedom
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a Twitter post by @JaneOst_ on February 3, 2019: "blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom".
Senses: examples: text: My people yearn for freedom. Mister Xi, please cancel Saturday night live.
ref: 2020 May 22, @killerguerilla, Twitter:
text: Cuba, please annex Florida. My people yearn for freedom.
ref: 2022 July 11, @ComradeLuc, Twitter:
text: dear morgan stanley ceo james gorman, my name is greenTetrahedron. i am but a humble poster. for months the cruel dictator elon musk has been beating this website to death. please spend one billion dollars to buy twitter back. my people yearn for freedom. yours, greenTetrahedron.
ref: 2023 October 18, @greenTetra_, Twitter:
glosses: A stock phrase in a call for regime change or other usurpation.
Tirymynach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) north of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales.
boowomp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: An onomatopoeia of the "Low Bork" library sound effect, best known for its use in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate sadness or disappointment.
Related terms: wah-wah
womp womp
boo-womp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boowomp.
clapperdudgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clapperdudgeon
homographous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homograph + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of homographic.
synonyms: word: homographic
Sorbianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːɹbiənaɪz/
Forms: form: Sorbianizes
form: Sorbianizing
form: Sorbianized
form: Sorbianized
form: sorbianize
form: Sorbianise
form: sorbianise
Etymology: From Sorbian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The 1948–1952 linguistic reforms secured the unification of Upper Sorbian and encouraged the use of this variety at the expense of increasingly neglected Lower Sorbian, which also became Upper Sorbianized much to the dislike of Lower Sorbian-speakers.
ref: 2008, Tomasz Kamusella, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 306:
glosses: to give a Sorbian character to
to give an Upper Sorbian character to
glosses: to give a Sorbian character to
to give a Lower Sorbian character to
glosses: to adopt Sorbian customs or culture
to adopt Upper Sorbian customs or culture
glosses: to adopt Sorbian customs or culture
to adopt Lower Sorbian customs or culture
Related terms: word: Sorbianization
run away together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs away together
form: running away together
form: ran away together
form: run away together
Senses: glosses: To elope with someone.
impastor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpæstɚ/
Forms: form: impastors
Etymology: Blend of impostor + pastor.
Senses: examples: text: Anyways, please by all means, this man is an Impastor, and it is wrong of him to present himself as such.
ref: 2003 April 26, Celestial, “Belief in God”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):
text: At least you have the common sense not to buy fake religions as touted round by impastors
ref: 2006 March 6, Les Hellawell, “Ignorant Atheist Idiots”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: I felt even more like an impostor. Impastor.
ref: 2011, Greg Paul, Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 119:
text: I'm not referring to tattoos. I'm referring the ungodly, foul-mouthed impastor in the back seat.
ref: 2014 November 13, @Protestia, X, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024:
text: It’s pretty well known so I’m surprised that all those moronic impastors are so progressive, unless…
ref: 2023 October 16, u/Cerberus_Rising, Reddit, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024:
text: In this cosplay, @TuckerCarlson plays the Leninist “useful idiot” to the self-ordained impastor, whose delusional desire for power, would round up liberal Episcopalians like Tucker & use blasphemy laws to “disappear” them all from their #datpostmil Utopia
ref: 2024 April 15, @DanielRHyde, X, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024:
text: American impastors using the Bible for unnecessary sermon illustrations is no different than this woman tearing it up.
ref: 2024 June 23, @farmingandJesus, X, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Someone who pretends to be a pastor; a false teacher.
impastors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impastor
run about with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs about with
form: running about with
form: ran about with
form: run about with
Senses: glosses: Synonym of run around with.
synonyms: word: run around with
Related terms: run about
run with
chip at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chips at
form: chipping at
form: chipped at
form: chipped at
Senses: glosses: To argue with (someone); to nag, criticize, insult or tease (someone).
Related terms: chip away
for what
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “For what didst thou drub him, O man of peace?” inquired the Glover.
ref: 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 58:
text: For what is this tool used? Sketch it upon your paper, showing the pick better placed, and explain why you alter it.
ref: 1902 May 7, “South Kensington Examinations. (Held on Saturday evening last.) Questions and Answers in Building Construction.—Elementary Stage.”, in The Builders’ Journal and Architectural Record, Appealing to Those Engaged in the Art of Building, volume 15, number 378, London: […] Eyre and Spottiswoode, […], page 186, column 1:
text: Darden wondered how many people had been injured. Certainly hundreds. For what? Why would someone cause all this misery and loss?
ref: 2012, David Darracott, chapter 7, in Internal Security, 2nd edition, Atlanta, Ga.: Lightning Rod Books, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Alternative form of what for.
uppedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uppedy
form: most uppedy
Etymology: From up + -ed + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uppity.
Modern Turkish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Turkish language spoken since the twentieth century.
Related terms: Old Anatolian Turkish
Ottoman Turkish
Old Anatolian Turkish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Old Anatolian Turkic
glosses: The ancestor language of Modern Turkish, spoken in Anatolia between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, from which Ottoman Turkish developed
Old Anatolian Turkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Old Anatolian Turkic
glosses: Of or relating to the Old Anatolian Turkish language
Old Anatolian Turkic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Old Anatolian Turkic, a very important stage in the history of Turkic languages, is represented by a great number of literary documents.
ref: 1972, A. Bodroglieti, “On Modern Turkish Üstünkörü and Yüzükoyun”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 26, number 1, Akadémiai Kiadó, →JSTOR, page 145:
text: In Old Anatolian Turkic we find constructions with a nominative subject without agreement marking.
ref: 2000, C. Schönig, “Some formal types of Turkic relative clause equivalents”, in Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, editors, Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages, page 200:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Old Anatolian Turkish.
synonyms: word: Old Anatolian Turkish
Old Anatolian Turkic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Old Anatolian Turkic converb suffix -(y)IcAk signifying 'when' could very well come from this suffix together with the particle (O)k.
ref: 2004, Marcel Erdal, A Grammar of Old Turkic, page 314:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Old Anatolian Turkish.
synonyms: word: Old Anatolian Turkish
unitary governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitary government
basic B's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basic B
Aslett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
province-level city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: province-level cities
Senses: synonyms: province-level municipality
glosses: A city in China directly managed by the central government as a space for testing economic strategies or for developing national infrastructural projects.
province-level municipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: province-level municipalities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of province-level city.
synonyms: word: province-level city
county-level municipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: county-level municipalities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of county-level city.
synonyms: word: county-level city
regional municipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regional municipalities
Senses: glosses: A type of municipal government similar to and at the same municipal government level as a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary depending on the place.
federal municipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal municipalities
Senses: glosses: A municipality that governs itself separate from a governorate, republic, or territory.
antimirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimirrors
Etymology: From anti- + mirror.
Senses: examples: text: The conditions are often signs of a triumphant hero's beginnings, and indeed will almost reflect, in the antimirror, Cordelia's fate.
ref: 1992, Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of King Lear:
text: When an antimirror plane is positioned between the two halves of the Herman's logo, or between the man and woman in the Russian sculpture, there is no geometrical correspondence between the two parts.
ref: 1994, István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Symmetry: A Unifying Concept, page 116:
text: A physical system may be invariant under mirror operations, but also under antimirror operations, that is mirror operations combined with time reversal.
ref: 1994, American Journal of Physics - Volume 62, page 328:
text: Because of their color reversing nature, antioperations act on displacements such as p in a manner complementary to the action of ordinary symmetry operations; in the present case the antimirror acts to invert the component of p responsible for breaking the symmetry, i.e., p*, and leaves invariant the normal (expansion) component, which does not break symmetry;
ref: 1994, R.C. Pond & J.P. Hirth, “Defects at Surfaces and Interfaces”, in Advances in Research and Applications, page 347:
glosses: An antisymmetric operation; the operation of reflection combined with a reversal of some sort (such as color, time, size, etc); the reflection of opposites.
examples: text: The current disruption simulation was performed with a long "antimirror" trap 2MK-200 at 10 MW/cm² flow density.
ref: 1994, Plasma Physics Reports - Volume 20, page 931:
text: Point is, the west wall had to have zero albedo, no reflection, the opposite of the Gymsealed floor. Actually, that's how I wanted my face to be. The Yid called it a "Light Sponge" or an "antimirror."
ref: 2007, Eliot Fintushel, Breakfast with the Ones You Love:
text: The veil, in some of the poems I have discussed, functions as a kind of antimirror: a representation of the hidden side of nature.
ref: 2013, Andrew Mattison, The Unimagined in the English Renaissance, page 155:
glosses: Something that inhibits reflection; something that obscures or absorbs light instead of reflecting.
Derived terms: antimirror neuron
antimirror
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimirror
form: most antimirror
Etymology: From anti- + mirror.
Senses: examples: text: We had never suspected the existence of a silly antimirror law, and if it still exists in any hospital we trust the management will hasten to rescind it.
ref: 1902 June 21, “Mirrors for Hospital Patients”, in American Medicine, volume 3, page 1032:
glosses: Opposed to mirrors.
state-level city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state-level cities
Senses: synonyms: state-level municipality
glosses: A city that holds a significant administrative status within a particular state or region. These cities often have a higher level of autonomy and authority compared to other cities within the state.
state-level municipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state-level municipalities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of state-level city.
synonyms: word: state-level city
antimirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimirror
province-level cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of province-level city
province-level municipalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of province-level municipality
county-level cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of county-level city
county-level municipalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of county-level municipality
federal municipalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federal municipality
regional municipalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regional municipality
state-level cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state-level city
state-level municipalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state-level municipality
-chroic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “color, complexion”).
Senses: glosses: Producing or changing color in a certain way.
glosses: Having a certain complexion.
Related terms: -chroism
-chrome
-chroous
chromatic
Monard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A townland in Whitechurch civil parish, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 6476).
glosses: A townland in Solloghod-More civil parish, County Tipperary, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 8439).
-podium
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”) + -ium (“biological structure”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or being a leg-like structure.
take a hit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a hit
form: taking a hit
form: took a hit
form: taken a hit
Senses: glosses: To suffer undesirable consequences, especially a decrease in reputation, score, etc.
stand up guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stand up guys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stand-up guy.
stand up guys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stand up guy
time-domain averaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A method for processing and analyzing signals, particularly when there is a requirement to reduce the impact of short-term fluctuations or noise.
time-domain electromagnetic method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-domain electromagnetic methods
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A survey method for collecting subsurface electrical data that is interpreted to analyze the constituents within a subsurface area.
time-domain reflectometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-domain reflectometers
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic instrument used to determine the characteristics of electrical lines by observing reflected pulses.
time domain electromagnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of techniques that describe electromagnetic wave motion.
time-domain reflectometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technique used to track faults in networks, such as cable breaks or loose connections, in which a pulse of a known shape is transmitted over the network and an echo is created when the pulse strikes an obstacle or cable end.
Derived terms: time-domain reflectometer
chasseneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxasənə/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxʌsʊnə/
note: some alternative forms
ipa: /xɑːtuːˈnɑː/
Forms: form: chasene
form: chaseneh
form: chasone
form: chasuna
form: chasune
form: chatuna
form: chatunah
form: hasuna
form: khasene
form: khaseneh
form: khasone
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish חתונה (khasene), from Hebrew חתונה /חֲתֻנָּה (khatuná).
Senses: glosses: A wedding.
frequency domain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequency domains
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The analysis of mathematical functions or signals with respect to frequency, and possibly a phase, rather than time.
frequency domains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frequency domain
Dunkettle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement and townland in Caherlag civil parish, east of Cork, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7373).
nonhaemodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonhemodynamically.
non-haemodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonhemodynamically.
non-hemodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonhemodynamically.
time-domain electromagnetic methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-domain electromagnetic method
time-domain reflectometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-domain reflectometer
actative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæktətɪv/
Forms: form: more actative
form: most actative
Etymology: From act + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly then, the MENS may be said to be subject to the immotions of contemplation and volition, corresponding to, but not similar to, the receptative and actative natures of the ANIMUS, which have been regarded as subject to cognitions and impulses.
ref: 1878, William N. Haggard, Creation, as a Divine Synthesis, London, Recognition XV, page 100:
text: Perhaps the most acute expression of the different structures of time and being within philosophy can be found in the actative dimension which provides the difference between Heraclitus and Plato.
ref: 1991, Andrew Benjamin, “The Decline of Art: Benjamin's Aura” (chapter 9), in Art, Mimesis, and the Avant-garde: Aspects of a philosophy of difference, London: Routledge, pages 148-149:
text: Thus, groups are not only possessed of certain attributes (intelligence, beauty, work ethic, and other entative characteristics), but they enjoy active control over others by determining their life outcomes (they evaluate, select, punish, reward, among other actative behaviors).
ref: 1998, James M. Jones, “The Essential Power of Racism: Commentary and Conclusion?”, in Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Susan T. Fiske, editors, Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response, SAGE Publications, page 282:
text: The seemingly static model of identification forged through a “reflection” — as though in a mirror — appears at first sight to contrast markedly with the more dynamic notion of identity based on performativity. And yet, if we perceive the former as being grounded in a certain intentionality, we should recognise the actative dimension to the gaze itself.
ref: 2002, Neil Leach, “Belonging: Towards a Theory of Identification with Space”, in Jean Hillier, Emma Rooksby, editors, Habitus: A Sense of Place, Ashgate Publishing, page 291:
text: Secondly, whereas for Benjamin the term mimesis is a largely passive one, which in essence constitutes a mechanism for finding meaning in the world, for Adorno it displays a more actative, creative character.
ref: 2006, Neil Leach, “Sensuous Correspondence”, in Camouflage, MIT Press, page 35:
glosses: Serving to act.
actative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæktətɪv/
Forms: form: actatives
Etymology: From act + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: Whose are these hands? Are they really Blanchot’s? How could Blanchot be so careless as to reinstate the actative of “writing” when all action had given way to absence?
ref: 2005, Dimitris Vardoulakis, “"What terrifying complicity" Jean Paul as Colocutor”, in Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, Dimitris Vardoulakis, editors, After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, University of Delaware Press, page 183:
text: The ineliminable presence of action and with it of inscribed presence of the actative in this formulation should not therefore pass unnoticed.
ref: 1998, Andrew Benajamin, “Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate: Walter Benjamin's 'fate and character'”, in Laura Marcus, Lynda Nead, editors, The Actuality of Walter Benjamin, Lawrence & Wishart, page 149:
text: Rather than a substantative, having an essence that can be identified, holiness or spirituality is better termed an actative. This actative is conflictual and therefore unable to support an essential.
ref: 2016, Helen Hills, “Indroduction: openings”, in The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity, Manchester University Press, page 28:
glosses: Something that serves to act.
Carrigtohill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carrigtwohill
Etymology: From Middle English Karrectochell, from a Middle Irish form corresponding to modern Carraig Tuathail.
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 8273).
Carrigtwohill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Carrigtohill, County Cork, Ireland.
Jewfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jewface
bitachon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew ביטחון.
Senses: glosses: Faith, trust, especially in God.
Hesse-Cassel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hesse-Kassel.
boresomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boresomely
form: most boresomely
Etymology: From boresome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a boresome manner.
Kassel brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cassel brown
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vandyke brown.
synonyms: word: Vandyke brown
Kassel earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cassel earth
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vandyke brown.
synonyms: word: Vandyke brown
Cassel earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kassel earth.
town drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town drunks
Senses: synonyms: tavern fool
glosses: An English stock character who is depicted as mostly drunk.
town drunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town drunk
tavern fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavern fools
Senses: glosses: Synonym of town drunk.
synonyms: word: town drunk
tavern fools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tavern fool
anarcho-tyrannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anarcho-tyranny
neuter voice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuter voices
Senses: examples: text: He uſes the word UNUM, in the neuter voice; which does not belong to a ſingle peſson, but to an (u) unity of perſons.
ref: 1785, George Travis, Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq - Author of the History of the Decline, and Fall, of the Roman Empire, page 71:
text: These likewise terminate in ся, and without the particle they are not used. They have the meaning of verbs of either the active or neuter voice.
ref: 1882, Ardalīon Ivanov, A. Ivánoff's Russian Grammar (16th Ed.-145th Thousand), page 53:
text: Such verbs really have no voice, but for convenience we may say they are in the neuter voice.
ref: 1898, Missouri School Journal - Volume 15, page 150:
text: We have the Neuter Voice, or Passive of the Intransitive, also āchia (20/16, 20/25), jāiā (for jāiă?: 16/14), mohia (51/23); ho=bhūyate (12/29).
ref: 1953, Dāmodaranaṇḍita, Uktivyaktiprakaraṇa, page 58:
text: ... the neuter voice, we have in verbs of adjectival nature the distinction of inchoative and static forms, such as "to be yellow (static, descriptive)" and "to become yellow (inchoative)"
ref: 1965, American Anthropological Association, et. al. (contributors), International Journal of American Linguistics - Volumes 7-8, page 124:
text: ... the laughter, a voice without gender, without inflection, a neuter voice: "I wish I may, I wish I might.
ref: 1973, Mercury Press (publisher), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 45, page 95:
text: It is the narrative voice, a neuter voice that speaks the work from that place-less place in which the work is silent.
ref: 1981, Maurice Blanchot, The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays, page 141:
text: "I am receiving a communications signal," the aerospace truck told Sinead and the XTs, using a stiff neuter voice now that Silvercup's essence had been withdrawn from it.
ref: 1994, Jack McKinney, The Black Hole Travel Agency Book 4: Hostile Takeover, page 170:
text: Historically reflexive verbs expressing neuter voice consists of three members - active voice - neuter voice - passive voice.
ref: 1998, Latviešu valodas institūta žurnals (publisher), Linguistica lettica, Volumes 3-4, page 162:
text: For instance, while the Hebrew of the Old Testament has only masculine and feminine voice, the New Testament Greek has a neuter voice as well.
ref: 2000, Mark B. Fenton, Business Education and Training - A Value-Laden Process on the Threshold of the Millennium, page 283:
text: Yet no sooner is the neuter voice heard than it blends listlessly into background sound, a murmur clueless about things. The neuter voice is too reticent, too timid—too unjust—to be audible.
ref: 2016, David Appelbaum, In His Voice: Maurice Blanchot's Affair with the Neuter, page 26:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A voice which is neither active nor passive (nor middle voice); the voice assigned to a copulative verb.
travertine marble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travertine marbles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of travertine.
synonyms: word: travertine
travertine marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travertine marble
classings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classing