cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cheapening out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheapen out
cheapened out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheapen out
runs out on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run out on
running out on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run out on
ran out on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of run out on
mic up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mics up
form: micing up
form: miced up
form: miced up
form: mic'd up
form: mic'd up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mike up.
mics up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mic up
micing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mic up
miced up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mic up
mikes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mike up
miked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mike up
algedonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”).
Senses: examples: text: Interactions of mental states with one another, or changing relations of the organism and the environment, determine all sorts of changes in the quality of the mental states as regards pleasure and pain. To show how these changes come about is to obtain the laws of "algedonics."
ref: 1894, The Speaker - Volume 9, page 703:
text: The conception of algedonics interests the physician, then, as far as it helps him to attempt to distinguish between a psychic or physical origin for the headache.
ref: 1908, Pennsylvania Medical Journal (1897-1923). - Volume 11, page 185:
text: In that work there was presented for examination a theory of Algedonics which seemed more adequate to account for our pleasure-pain experiences than any I had met with in the published works of other students of the subject, and which appeared to avoid the difficulties that had heretofore availed to discredit the hedonic theory of Aesthetics.
ref: 1909, Henry Rutgers Marshall, Consciousness, page vii:
text: Marshall viewed aesthetics as a special branch of introspective psychology dealing with algedonics, the science of pleasure and pain.
ref: 2005, John R. Shook, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 1626:
glosses: The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.
examples: text: The plant is adaptive to environmental changes (we have discussed how this could be done through algedonics). But the built-in control systems keep going wrong.
ref: 1994, Roger Harnden, Allenna Leonard, How many grapes went into the wine: Stafford Beer on the art and science of holistic management, →ISBN, page 138:
text: The final point introduces the idea of 'algedonics' (from the Greek 'aldos', meaning pain, and 'hedos', or pleasure), a signal produced by a statistically recognised event, which is so important that it bypasses the usual channels and gets sent directly to S5.
ref: 2011, Angela Espinosa, Jon Walker, A Complexity Approach to Sustainability, →ISBN, page 64:
text: The information is transferred from S3 to S4, in the form of “algedonics” (dashed line between S3 and S4 in Figure 3).
ref: 2012, Paolo Renna, Production and Manufacturing System Management, →ISBN, page 257:
topics: management
glosses: The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.
geriatrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geriatrophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gerontophile.
alginuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) and uresis.
Senses: glosses: Painful urination; dysuria.
hang low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæŋ ˈləʊ/
ipa: /heɪŋ ˈloʊ/
Forms: form: hangs low
form: hanging low
form: hung low
form: hung low
Etymology: From hang and low.
Senses: examples: text: As I joined the train at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, the skies hung low, the rain fell, and as the journey proceeded there was little change; […].
ref: 1956 December, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 819:
glosses: To droop or sag heavily; to remain at a low altitude.
rolls up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roll up on
rolling up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll up on
rolled up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roll up on
allolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæləˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From allo- + -lalia.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Any speech disorder resulting from cerebral damage.
downlow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downlow
form: most downlow
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of down low.
downlow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downlows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of down low.
DLed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of DL
DLs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of DL
DLing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of DL
runs game on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run game on
running game on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run game on
ran game on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run game on
Isisism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Isis + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An ancient and reconstructionist religion that venerates a pantheon of Egyptian deities.
hydrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hydrators
Etymology: From hydrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Something that hydrates.
glosses: A compartment or drawer, as in a refrigerator, for keeping perishable foods fresh and preventing moisture loss.
Derived terms: rehydrator
hydrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrator
reflected upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflect upon
reflects upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflect upon
reflecting upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflect upon
reflected on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflect on
reflects on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflect on
reflecting on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflect on
bulked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bulk out
bulks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bulk out
bulking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulk out
Great Patriotic War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Patriotic War
Etymology: Calque of Russian Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ (Velíkaja Otéčestvennaja vojná). This term was first used in 1844 to refer to the Russian resistance and victory over Napoleon's invasion, and was evoked again in 1912 during the centenary of the French defeat. In 1941, the newspaper Pravda used the term for the defence against the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in order to motivate citizens to unite and fight.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Russian campaign
Eastern front
glosses: The German-Soviet war (a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945).
raw_tags: in Soviet or Russian contexts
Related terms: Victory Day
STEMM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine.
Related terms: topics: science
sciences
technology
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
mathematics
sciences
word: STEM
topics: science
sciences
technology
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
arts
mathematics
sciences
word: STEAM
QAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QA
hydronautical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydronautics + -al.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to hydronautics
currans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curran
armatoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Armatoles
Senses: glosses: plural of armatole.
tarantas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarantases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tarantass.
arthritism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arthritis + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A predisposition to gout or to arthritis.
ascaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascarides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ascarid.
assiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of assy: most assy
UWP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Universal Windows Platform, a framework for applications that run on multiple Windows OS devices.
glosses: Initialism of University of Wales Press.
interintelligible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interintelligible
form: most interintelligible
Etymology: From inter- + intelligible.
Senses: examples: text: The Okrika dialect, with Kalabari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Ndembe but not with the Central-Western dialects.
ref: 1962, Kay Williamson, “Changes in the Marriage System of the Okrika Ijo”, in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 32(1): 53-60:
text: The sense of independence from London norms ... was difficult to establish with the obvious reality in mind that English, Scottish, Irish, American, Australian and other Englishes are, after all, interintelligible and undoubtedly varieties of one and the same language.
ref: 1995, Manfred Görlach, More Englishes: New Studies in Varieties of English, 1988-1994, John Benjamins, page 128:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety.
Synonyms: mutually intelligible
Related terms: interintelligibility
WinJS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Equivalent to Win (shortening of Windows) + JS (shortening of JavaScript).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Library for JavaScript, an open source JavaScript library developed by Microsoft.
field sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field sport
field sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field sports
Senses: glosses: Any non-competitive sport that takes place in the outdoors or open countryside, such as hunting, fishing, or shooting.
copstache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copstaches
form: cop'stache
form: cop-stache
Etymology: Blend of cop + mustache
Senses: glosses: A mustache in the style commonly worn (or perceived as such) by a police officer.
copstaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copstache
opponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oppone
opponing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oppone
dote over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dotes over
form: doting over
form: doted over
form: doted over
Senses: glosses: To care for (someone), usually excessively or in an overly emotional manner.
doted over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dote over
dotes over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dote over
doting over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dote over
tails away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tail away
tailing away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tail away
tailed away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tail away
tailed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tail off
tails off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tail off
tailing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tail off
fugitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fugitive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a fugitive.
bandied around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bandy around
bandies around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bandy around
bandying around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bandy around
battened down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of batten down
battens down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of batten down
battening down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batten down
air mattresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air mattress
moves in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move in
moving in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move in
moved in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moved-in
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move in
moved in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: moved-in
Senses: glosses: Settled into a new environment; having brought one's belongings to a new home or workplace and arranged the place to be agreeable.
move in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves in on
form: moving in on
form: moved in on
form: moved in on
Senses: glosses: To come closer to, as if to catch or hunt.
glosses: To encroach or prepare to take over (a thing, relationship, task or place that is or was somebody else's).
moves in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move in on
moved in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move in on
moving in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move in on
moved-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moved-in
form: most moved-in
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moved in.
water-loving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more water-loving
form: most water-loving
Etymology: From water + loving.
Senses: examples: text: To prepare a cotton that would swell like linen, we decided to attach water-loving groups to the cellulose chain
ref: 1894, U.S. Government Printing Office, Yearbook of Agriculture:
text: The trouble is that calcium, magnesium, and iron react with the water-loving ends of the molecule to form insoluble […]
ref: Aug 31, 2012, Robert L. Wolke, What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions
text: This is made of fatty acids, molecules that are characterized by having a water-loving end and a water-hating end.
ref: Oct 1, 2013, Robert L. Wolke, What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
text: Since it accomodates both the water-hating and water-loving properties of modified diglycerides ...
ref: Aug 28, 2014, Mark Burkitt, Healthy Eating Through Informed Choice
text: a barrier consisting of cells that prevent bacteria and large or water-loving molecules from crossing into the central nervous system
ref: Sep 9, 2014, Michael Backes, Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: water-fearing
glosses: Having an affinity for water; hydrophilic.
Synonyms: hydrophilic
punk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: punks out
form: punking out
form: punked out
form: punked out
Senses: examples: text: When the going got tough, he punked out.
glosses: To give up or cravenly abandon something difficult.
examples: text: He knew if he didn't stand up for himself, he'd be punked out by someone stronger.
qualifier: almost always used in the passive voice
glosses: To treat as a punk (either as a worthless person or the bottom in a male-male relationship, especially a nonconsenting prison relationship).
boarded out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of board out
boards out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of board out
boarding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of board out
punked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punk out
punks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punk out
punking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punk out
rems out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rem out
remming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rem out
remmed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rem out
street gang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street gangs
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An organized group of lower-class criminals; an urban gang.
shoots off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot off
shooting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot off
shot off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot off
respec'ful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more respec'ful
form: most respec'ful
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of respectful.
confide in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confides in
form: confiding in
form: confided in
form: confided in
Senses: glosses: To share a secret with; to talk of sensitive and personal issues with (someone).
hell-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hell-born
form: most hell-born
form: Hell-born
Etymology: From hell + born.
Senses: glosses: Born of or in hell.
drop a nickel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a nickel
form: dropping a nickel
form: dropped a nickel
form: dropped a nickel
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drop a dime.
go at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes at
form: going at
form: went at
form: gone at
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, at.
examples: text: I went at the issue for hours but could not come up with a way around it.
glosses: To try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task.
glosses: To initiate an attack on or an argument with.
Derived terms: go at it
happen upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: happens upon
form: happening upon
form: happened upon
form: happened upon
Senses: examples: text: The old haunt that defines “Dragonstone” isn’t Dragonstone, though. It’s the house of that peasant father who took in the Hound and Arya, fed them, and gave them a good night’s sleep only to be robbed. In the present, the Brotherhood Without Banners happens upon the man’s house.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To accidentally encounter a person or situation; to chance upon, happen on or stumble across.
happens upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of happen upon
happening upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of happen upon
happened upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of happen upon
grinds down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grind down
grinding down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grind down
ground down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grind down
steel band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel bands
Senses: glosses: A band (musical group) who perform with steelpans.
Synonyms: steel pan orchestra
steel bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steel band
get one's groove on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's groove on
form: getting one's groove on
form: got one's groove on
form: got one's groove on
form: gotten one's groove on
Senses: examples: text: I wanna go out and get my groove on while the night is young!
glosses: To dance.
examples: text: John wants to get his groove on with Melinda.
text: John and Melinda are going to get their groove on.
glosses: To have sex; to have sex with.
Synonyms: sense: to have sex
word: do it
word: get one's end away
word: get one's leg over
word: copulate
sucking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suck in
sucks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suck in
roping off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rope off
ropes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rope off
roped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rope off
roped in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rope in
roping in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rope in
ropes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rope in
dog doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog door
big girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big girls
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, girl.
glosses: An adult female.
examples: text: You can tie your own shoelaces – you're a big girl now.
glosses: An older girl or grown-up girl; a girl who is no longer an infant.
examples: text: Stop crying, you big girl!
glosses: A timid, weak or effeminate boy or man.
examples: text: Just put on your big-girl panties and make a choice.
text: Bobby knew he should've followed up the way Lucky would've, but what the heck – he had other things on his mind. And Brigette was a big girl – she could look after herself.
ref: 2011, Jackie Collins, Poor Little Bitch Girl:
text: Clinical health psychologist, author and nationally recognized speaker Dr. Lori Stevic-Rust shows today's women what "having it all" really means, revealing that when women step into their big-girl shoes-reckoning with their contradictions and fears-they can tap into their awesome power
ref: 2016, Lori Stevic-Rust, Put On Your Big-Girl Shoes:
text: When I went to college, thinking I was now a big girl and could look after myself, I stopped the antimalarial prevention medication, and within 6 months I had a bout of malaria for the first time in my life.
ref: 2020 April 27, Patricia (on-line commenter), “Recognising progress in crisis: what malaria has taught Sierra Leone – op-ed”, in Sierra Leone Telegraph:
glosses: A female supposed to behave as a responsible adult.
examples: text: I was surprised he didn't take the straight line Camryn fed him about "Do you like big girls?"
ref: 1999 May 12, Greg Anderson, “Dave loves the big girls”, in alt.fan.letterman (Usenet), message-ID <7hb1gl$qgt$1@firewall.afs.com>:
text: Diet Coke and a pizza please / Diet Coke, I'm on my knees / Screaming, "Big girl, you are beautiful"
ref: 2007 July 23, MIKA, “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”, in Life in Cartoon Motion:
glosses: A woman who is overweight.
Derived terms: big girl's blouse
Related terms: big girl's blouse
big boy
bedded out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bed out
beds out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bed out
bedding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bed out
invasivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invasivores
Etymology: From invasi(ve) + -vore.
Senses: examples: text: “Invasivore” diets were increasingly encouraged as a hopeful means of controlling unwanted species like lionfish, Asian carp, and green mitten crabs.
ref: 2012, Larry Perez, Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion, Pineapple Press, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Grab your shotgun and your frying pan, and let Eating Aliens be your guide to becoming the ultimate invasivore!
ref: 2012, Matthew Weingarten, quoted on praise page of Jackson Landers, Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species, Storey Publishing (2012), unnumbered page
text: My first training in the way of the invasivore came a few months before I met Bun, when I sat in a Boston restaurant watching New Hampshire chef Evan Mallett plate buttermilk-poached-dogfish salads.
ref: 2014 March 24, Rowan Jacobsen, “The Invasivore's Dilemma”, in Outside:
glosses: A person who makes a point of eating invasive species in an effort to reduce their ecological impact.
invasivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invasivore
taking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take off
taken off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take off
aquatintist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquatintists
Etymology: From aquatint + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist who makes aquatints.
aquatintists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquatintist
unagreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + agreed.
Senses: glosses: Not agreed.
marksheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marksheets
Etymology: From mark + sheet.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A document indicating the marks awarded for academic work.
marksheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marksheet
unturkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unturkey
paraprofessionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paraprofessional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By, or in a way that relates to, paraprofessionals.
resultatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From resultative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a resultative manner.
Tooth Fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tooth Fairies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tooth fairy.
soloecisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soloecism
older sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: older sisters
form: elder sister
Senses: coordinate_terms: older brother
younger brother
younger sister
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Derived terms: elder sisterly
older sisterly
older brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: older brothers
form: elder brother
Senses: coordinate_terms: older sister
younger brother
younger sister
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
algebraicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algebraic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being algebraic.
bootstrappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bootstrap + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being bootstrapped.
haramiyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haramiyids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the order †Haramiyida or family †Haramiyidae.
Synonyms: haramiyidan
Related terms: †Cifelliodon wahkarmooshuh
†Hahnodontidae
haramyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haramyid
letter cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter case
bottles up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bottle up
bottling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bottle up
bottled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bottle up
chickens out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chicken out
chickening out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chicken out
chickened out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chicken out
pultrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pull + extrusion
Senses: examples: text: During pultrusion, a collection of fibres are pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to cure the resin.
ref: 2000, C. D. Rudd, Composites for Automotive Applications, page 18:
glosses: A continuous process for manufacture of composite materials with constant cross section.
Related terms: pultrude
flash back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flashes back
form: flashing back
form: flashed back
form: flashed back
Etymology: Denominal verb of flashback.
Senses: glosses: To recall or remember something; to experience a flashback.
pegged back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peg back
pegs back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peg back
pegging back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peg back
bounces back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bounce back
bouncing back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bounce back
bounced back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bounce back
notes down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of note down
noting down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of note down
noted down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of note down
talk through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks through
form: talking through
form: talked through
form: talked through
Senses: examples: text: The dispatcher will have to talk him through landing the plane in the middle of a hurricane!
synonyms: walk through
glosses: To tell (someone) step by step how to do something.
examples: text: I'll talk him through the problem.
text: She's utterly grief-stricken, so I'm going over to talk her through it.
glosses: To comfort someone as they endure trauma; to help someone consider an issue or see certain aspects of it.
Related terms: pass through
work through
written down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of write down
talked through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk through
talks through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of talk through
talking through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talk through
musac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muzak.
cried up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cry up
cries up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cry up
crying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cry up
goes at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go at
going at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go at
went at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go at
gone at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go at
supersolvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + solvability.
Senses: examples: text: Lili Mu and Stanley characterized the supersolvability of the #92;psi-graphical arrangements and conjectured that the freeness and the supersolvability of #92;psi-graphical arrangements are equivalent.
ref: 2015, Daisuke Suyama, Shuhei Tsujie, “Freeness of ψ-graphical arrangements and chordality of vertex-weighted graphs”, in arXiv:
glosses: The state or condition of being supersolvable.
five finger discounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of five finger discount (alternative spelling of five-finger discount).
go hard or go home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes hard or goes home
form: going hard or going home
form: went hard or went home
form: gone hard or gone home
Senses: examples: text: "Probably top five I would have to do, I’m guessing, to get into the Tour Championship. So it’s either that or a couple weeks off. Go hard or go home."
ref: 2009 September 10, Larry Dorman, “Golf: Players Competing With a Sense of Urgency”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Nov 2015:
text: He strikes me as more of a go hard or go home athlete, an impression reinforced by reports of aggressive and competitive behaviour.
ref: 2013 August 19, Catriona Menzies-Pike, “Does being a fitness fanatic make you a good politician?”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 17 Nov 2015:
text: Those kind of predictions are for the weak. We believe in going hard or going home. So these are real predictions—not probabilities.
ref: 2014 October 3, Jordan Heath-Rawlings, “Unlikely Predictions: Eastern Conference”, in sportsnet.ca, Canada, retrieved 17 Nov 2015:
text: Members of the Newcastle University trampolining team went hard or went home when they took part in a 24-hour sponsored bounceathon.
ref: 2015 January, Edward Jones, “Fundraising efforts had us bouncing off the wall”, in The University Paper: Newcastle Edition, UK, retrieved 17 Nov 2015, page 39:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To face a challenge by making a bold, superior effort, lest one give up and forgo the opportunity.
Synonyms: do or die
fish or cut bait
put up or shut up
rise to the occasion
Related terms: go big or go home
B story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B stories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of B-story.
B stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B story
sneak past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sneaks past
form: sneaking past
form: sneaked past
form: sneaked past
form: snuck past
form: snuck past
Senses: examples: text: It might be seen as inappropriate, but I'll sneak it past human resources.
glosses: To get through or successfully go around an inspection, guard or bureaucratic hurdle.
came upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come upon
comes upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come upon
coming upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come upon
sammo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æməʊ
Forms: form: sammos
Etymology: From sandwich + -o, under a loose pronunciation; compare sammich.
Senses: glosses: A sandwich.
Synonyms: word: sambo
word: sammie
word: sanger
word: sango
word: sarnie
sammos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sammo
went down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go down
writter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of writer.
Banbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænbɹi/
Etymology: From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).
Derived terms: Banbury cake
Banbury mixer
Banbury story
Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Banbury tart
Banbury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænbɹi/
Forms: form: Banburies
Etymology: From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).
Senses: glosses: A Banbury cake.
glosses: A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
glosses: A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.
Derived terms: Banburismus
Lebonya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the first syllables of Lengola, Bodo, and Nyali.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages, with three branches: Lengola, Bodo, and the Nyali languages.
skybridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪˌbɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: skybridges
Etymology: From sky + bridge.
Senses: glosses: A walkway connecting buildings at a significant height above ground level.
Hyponyms: sense: a corridor connecting an airport to a plane
word: jet bridge
skybridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skybridge
water deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water deer
Senses: glosses: Hydropotes inermis, a species of small deer native to China and Korea that is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer.
Hyponyms: Chinese water deer
Korean water deer
champion data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many of the advances one reads about are based on champion data, i.e., fibres and/or data produced in the laboratory which often represents the extreme in performance capability.
ref: 1980, The Engineers' Digest, volume 41:
text: Table I gives the typical and champion data for attenuation of these fibres at different wavelengths.
ref: 1983, G.J Koel, Ann. Télécommun, (1983) 38: 36. doi:10.1007/BF02996055:
text: It is well known among tribologists that the head-to-disk spacing, or the flying height of the head, in hard-disk drives for computers has been providing champion data of thin hydrodynamic films.
ref: 2000, Y. Kimura et al., “Thinning films and design of lubricated components: a state-of-the-art report from Japan”, in Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces: Proceedings of the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium, page 376:
text: This result is not our champion data and every technician can obtain it by exchanging the Pb particles for Er₃Ni powders in the 2nd stage regenerator of the common GM refrigerator.
ref: 2012, T. Hashimoto et al., “Recent Progress on Rare Earth Magnetic Regenerator Materials”, in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, volume 37, page 861:
text: For this reason, the stably realized conductivity is 1/5–1/10 times the champion data shown in table.
ref: 2012, David Michael Rowe, Modules, Systems, and Applications in Thermoelectrics:
glosses: The best result data among many experiments with uncontrolled variations.
open circuit voltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open circuit voltages
Senses: glosses: The difference of electrical potential between two terminals of a device when disconnected from any circuit. The open-circuit voltage of a cell is its EMF (electromotive force).
bodyfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body-fur
Etymology: From body + fur.
Senses: glosses: The fur or hair that is on the main part of a person or animal's body.
asynergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asynergy
cockmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cock + meat.
Senses: examples: text: The older man groaned with excitement as he fed inch after inch of his cockmeat deep into the student's ass.
ref: 1978, Paul Gronowski, College Hunk, page 91:
glosses: A penis; the flesh of a penis.
loosened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loosen up
loosens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loosen up
loosening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loosen up
loosening up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loosening ups
Senses: examples: text: His hands by his sides he shook them in a loosening up exercise.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 152:
glosses: The action of relaxing, especially relaxing the muscles before exercise, sport, etc.
flash forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flashes forward
form: flashing forward
form: flashed forward
form: flashed forward
Etymology: From flashforward.
Senses: examples: text: His dream flashed forward to an incident in grade school.
glosses: To move forward in time.
raw_tags: of a memory or vision
deformingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deformingly
form: most deformingly
Etymology: From deforming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She is consistently but not deformingly alert to irony, to satire, to humor in its high and low forms.
ref: 2015 November 17, Dwight Garner, “Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to deform.
Samburus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samburu
custodially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From custodial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a custodial sense.
nonanalyticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + analyticity.
Senses: examples: text: We identify a topologically driven nonequilibrium phase transition, which is indicated by the nonanalyticity of the Hall conductance as a function of the energy gap m_f in the post-quench Hamiltonian H_f.
ref: 2015, Pei Wang, Markus Schmitt, Stefan Kehrein, “Universal nonanalytic behavior of the Hall conductance in a Chern insulator at the topologically driven nonequilibrium phase transition”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being nonanalytic.
gen ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gen. Ed.
form: gen. ed.
form: Gen-ed
form: Gen Ed
Senses: glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of general education.
Gen. Ed.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gen ed.
gen. ed.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gen ed.
Gen-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gen ed.
Gen Ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gen ed.
no-doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more no-doubt
form: most no-doubt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no doubt.
move over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves over
form: moving over
form: moved over
form: moved over
Senses: synonyms: move up
glosses: To move (oneself, or someone/something else) so as to free up space.
move along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves along
form: moving along
form: moved along
form: moved along
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers were unmoved but the policeman immediately placed himself between Jimmy and the entrance. 'Good morning, madam. No loitering please. Now move along.'
ref: 2015, Toby Wilde, The Lost Moons of Venus:
glosses: To continue without being distracted; to keep going.
examples: text: the construction project is moving along
glosses: To proceed; to make or signify progress.
examples: text: the committee moved along to the next item on the agenda
glosses: To go on to something else.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: move ahead
sense: make progress
word: make headway
sense: go on to something else
word: move on
frees up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free up
freeing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free up
freed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free up
moved over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move over
moves over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move over
moving over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move over
Morty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
Etymology: Diminutive + -y.
Senses: glosses: A short form of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
cord-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting the cord
Senses: glosses: Cancelling traditional subscription television services such as cable or satellite in favour of Internet services.
Related terms: cord-cutter
cut the cord
Mau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maus
Etymology: From mȧu, the rendering of Egyptian mjw (“cat”) in Karl Richard Lepsius’s 19th-century transcription system.
Senses: glosses: A kind of short-haired domestic cat.
Derived terms: Arabian Mau
Egyptian Mau
Mau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Azamgarh division, Uttar Pradesh, India.