cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sneakery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sneakery
form: most sneakery
Etymology: From sneaker + -y.
Senses: examples: text: People remember her descending on the Anne Beauty Salon in Mount Kisco to have her hair washed — dressed in a long black skirt that was on crooked and black stockings that had fallen down and flat sneakery kind of shoes and a straw pork-pie hat pushed back on her head under which the white hair shot out in every direction.
ref: 1979, Alex Shoumatoff, Westchester, Portrait of a County, page 69:
text: Masked men and women, mainly white, swish past on sneakery soles.
ref: 1994, Linda Villarosa, Body & Soul:
text: I drifted out into the building's barren hallways and looked around; a few folks were buzzing about, entirely oblivious to me, and I waited for a while pretending not to be looking at any of them; then I began enjoying the old schoolhouse smell — dusty, and vaguely sneakery — and the sight of the half-windowed doors extending down the scuffed hall, and all the Scotch-tape residue on the yellowish walls, before I noticed that there seemed to be a brighter room towards the front of the building; so I wandered in that direction.
ref: 1995, Evan Dara, The lost scrapbook, page 213:
text: This spring, ' Ann Demeulemeester has plain, sneakery shoes; so does Hermes: they were shown on the runway with everything from cashmere to black leather.
ref: 1999, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman:
glosses: Involving or characteristic of sneakers.
wild plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild plums
Senses: glosses: Wild growing forms of plums, especially
glosses: Wild growing forms of plums, especially
Prunus americana, native to eastern North America.
glosses: Amelanchier (serviceberry), a genus in the Rosaceae producing small fruits lacking a pit.
glosses: Harpephyllum caffrum (kaffir plum), an Afrotropical tree species.
glosses: Podocarpus drouynianus (emu bush), a conifer native to Australia.
glosses: Terminalia platyphylla, a tree native to the Kimberly of Western Australia.
glosses: Ochna pulchra, of Africa.
Maze Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood and named road in the borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3977).
Rocester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1039).
Biddulph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8857).
gentlewomanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentlewomanlike
form: most gentlewomanlike
Etymology: From gentlewoman + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She is good-looking, civil, and gentlewomanlike.
ref: 1862, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench, page 113:
text: His wife, who was a coarse, vulgar woman, in the meantime died, and he afterwards married the daughter of an innkeeper , who proved as gentlewomanlike as the other had been the reverse, and who is very pretty besides.
ref: 1874, Charles Greville, Henry Reeve, The Greville Memoirs, page 335:
text: Those who have marked her conduct during her maidenhood, her distinguished politeness, her spotless modesty of demeanour, her unalterable coolness under all circumstances, and her lofty and gentlewomanlike bearing, must be sure that her married conduct would equal her spinster behaviour, and that Rowena the wife would be a pattern of correctness for all the matrons of England.
ref: 1898, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh: Etc, page 108:
glosses: Characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.
Derived terms: ungentlewomanlike
gentlewomanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gentlewomanlike
form: most gentlewomanlike
Etymology: From gentlewoman + -like.
Senses: examples: text: For you shall have some, yea many thousands, that live uppon nothing els, and yet go clothed gentlewomanlike both in their silks, and otherwyse, with their fingers clogged with rings, their wrists with bracelets and jewels, and their purses full of gold and silver.
ref: 1596, John Payne Collier, Miscellaneous tracts: temp. Eliz. & Jac. 1 - Volumes 9-11, page 101:
text: To clarify the spirit in which he undertakes the repayment of his loan, Mountford dresses himself "gentlemanlike" and requires Susan to dress "gentlewomanlike."
ref: 1985, Lena Cowen Orlin, Man's house as his castle in Elizabethan domestic tragedy, page 204:
text: It is this contamination of the outward appearance of gentility by actual “unchaste” behaviour that helps to work Stubbes into puritan fury and fuels his vituperative attack on those women who maintain themselves in high style by whoredom, “and yet go clothed Gentlewomanlike."
ref: 1998, English Studies in Canada, page 21:
glosses: In a manner befitting a gentlewoman.
ghost-write
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ghost-writes
form: ghost-writing
form: ghost-wrote
form: ghost-written
Senses: examples: text: In his late seventies, Barclay was already an accomplished writer and published author when Truman Voigt contracted with him to ghost-write his first book.
ref: 2011, Ken Reamy, A Coveted Servitude, page 308:
text: Although the book's content would be Carole's, Brand hired Edwin Seaver to help ghost-write the project. Seaver was a well-known writer and editor prominent in New York literary circles.
ref: 2015, E.J. Fleming, Carole Landis: A Tragic Life in Hollywood, page 147:
text: I have met authors who ghost-write for golfers, doctor scripts, produce advertising copy, do panel TV shows. . . . These activities can help your books, they can be fun, they can earn money, they can encourage people to gie you free vegetables, or suits.
ref: 2015, Romesh Gunesekera, A.L. Kennedy, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion, page 76:
text: In flashback, we see Dumont hire Verin to ghost-write some pacifistic essays for publication.
ref: 2015, John T. Soister, Of Gods and Monsters:
glosses: Alternative form of ghostwrite.
ghost-writes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghost-write
ghost-writing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghost-write
ghost-wrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ghost-write
pithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pithes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pitha.
ghost-written
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ghost-write
ghost write
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ghost writes
form: ghost writing
form: ghost wrote
form: ghost written
Senses: examples: text: That idea she'd had on the long drive—offering to ghost write Jamison's story—was a good one. Maybe fate had sent him into her life for this very reason.
ref: 2012, Stephanie Doyle, The Way Back:
text: Some will never do it even if you ghost write it for them.
ref: 2012, Asknod, Veterans Administration Claims:
text: Had it simply been an autobiography, he could have engaged a well-known journalist to ghost write it, but his conception of the book meant that the helper would also need considerable financial and investment knowledge.
ref: 2014, Christopher Risso-Gill, Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, page 345:
glosses: Alternative form of ghostwrite.
ghost writes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghost write
ghost writing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghost write
ghost wrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ghost write
ghost written
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ghost write
toothpickweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothpickweeds
Senses: glosses: Ammi visnaga (syn. Visnaga daucoides)
Synonyms: sense: Ammi visnaga
word: toothpick-plant
sense: Ammi visnaga
word: bisnaga
sense: Ammi visnaga
word: khella
sense: Ammi visnaga
word: Bishop's weed
jet dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet dryers
Etymology: From jet + dryer. From being a device that projects a jet of air used to dry a surface.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface.
qualifier: washroom fixture
glosses: Ellipsis of jet hand dryer.
bobolee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobolees
Senses: examples: text: Elias, dem police beat mih like if ah was a Good Friday bobolee.
ref: 1992, Michael R. Als, No Half a Loaf, page 30:
text: Good Fridays were unremarkable except for the hot-cross buns that Aunty Sue used to bake, and the drive to Point Fortin to look for Good Friday bobolees.
ref: 2000, Jennifer Franco, When the Ti-Marie closes, page 74:
text: “Bobolee” bands were popular around the 1860s and were ensembles of men and women from the poorer neighborhoods of Port of Spain. On Good Friday and during Carnival, they beat tin pans chanting, “Beat the bobolee! Beat the bobolee!
ref: 2012, Angela Smith, Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History, page 36:
text: Eric wanted to know if Christmas was the time when people made a bobolee.
ref: 2014, Cecil Gray, “A Gift For Eric”, in Cecil Gray, editor, Perspectives: A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition for Caribbean Secondary Schools, page 63:
glosses: An effigy of Judas Iscariot that is attacked as part of the Good Friday celebration in Trinidad.
bobolees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobolee
red-hot minutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-hot minute
ARMY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ARMYs
Etymology: From an acronym/backronym based on army ("Adorable Representative for MC Youth"), suggesting a large, devoted fanbase.
Senses: examples: text: ARMY are clever, too: they urged fans not to buy J-Hope's mixtape Hope World on its release date, having worked out that delaying by a day would result in a higher ranking in the Billboard charts.
ref: 2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, page 170:
text: In this manner, ARMY gives charity in the name of BTS, and BTS responds by returning charity back to society in the name of ARMY.
ref: 2019, Jeeheng Lee, BTS and ARMY Culture, page 163:
text: The BTS boys love telling ARMY how important they are to them—without ARMY's unwavering love and support, BTS wouldn't be where they are today.
ref: 2020, Becca Wright, The Unofficial BTS Fan Book: For the Bangtan ARMY, page 25:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fandom of the K-pop boy band BTS.
examples: text: Entering the theater, I expected the room to be filled with ARMYs decked out in their BTS merchandise.
ref: 2018 December, Ashley Chen, “BTS film rallies a large army”, in The Union, page 13:
text: It began when an ARMY tweeted something along the lines of: “If there are so many of us everywhere in the world, shouldn't we make a change and help people?”
ref: 2019, Jeeheng Lee, BTS and ARMY Culture, page 160:
text: As of this writing, the Philippines is not included in the tour but Filipino ARMYs are hoping the group will eventually perform in Manila for a fourth time.
ref: 2020 February 2, Rachel Anne Macarandang, “BTS To The World”, in BusinessMirror, page 4:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An individual fan of the K-pop boy band BTS.
base angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base angles
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: Either of the two angles that intersect with the base of a triangle.
exhibition hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhibition halls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of convention center
synonyms: word: convention center
glosses: A hall (building or room) for public exhibition of plans, ideas, items, etc. in a manner not comprehensive enough to be considered a museum.
myxorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Excessive secretion of mucus
coronitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coronite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The furthest zone from the veins in the halos consists of coronitic tremolite + chlorite fringes around olivine surrounded by plagioclase grains.
ref: 2017, J. Theo Kloprogge, Robert Lavinsky, “Introduction: Geological Examples”, in Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of or characteristic of coronite.
coronite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronites
Etymology: From corona + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: In the context of the upper slice of the Sobrado unit, the presence of high-P granoblastic granulites and the low Na contents of clinopyroxene in the coronites indicate that the latter represent arrested stages during transformation to granulite.
ref: 2002, José R. Martínez Catalán, Ricardo Arenas, “Prograde development of corona textures in metagabbros of the Sobrado unit (Ordenes Complex, northwestern Iberian Massif)”, in José R. Martínez Catalán, Robert D. Hatcher Jr., Ricardo Arenas, Florentino Díaz García, editors, Variscan-Appalachian Dynamics: The Building of the Late Paleozoic Basement (Special Papers; 364), Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Four stages in the evolution of the Allalin gabbro can be recognized: […]
2. Coronites, with olivine or its pseudomorphs surrounded by garnet rims. Plagioclase in these rocks is pseudomorphed by jadeite-bearing assemblages.
ref: 2017, J. Theo Kloprogge, Robert Lavinsky, “Introduction: Geological Examples”, in Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 87:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tiny grains of titanium nitride evenly dispersed in a heat treatable steel matrix, resulting in a manufactured material that combines the toughness of steel with the wear resistance of carbide.
Derived terms: coronitic
coronites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronite
Modiglianesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Modiglianiesque.
symplectite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symplectites
form: symplektite
Etymology: From -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The Phe + Qtz symplectite, grown preferentially along the planar perthitic exsolution lamellae, indicates that the albite exsolution (i.e., a first retrogression) occurred before the eclogite-facies metamorphism […].
ref: 2017, J. Theo Kloprogge, Robert Lavinsky, “Introduction: Geological Examples”, in Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: An intimate intergrowth of two or more different crystals, formed from the breakdown of unstable phases, consisting of minerals, ceramics, or metals.
Derived terms: symplectitic
Related terms: symplectic
symplectitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: symplektitic
Etymology: From symplectite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a symplectite.
Synonyms: symplectic
Grt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: (A) Plane-polarized light and (B) back-scattered electron (BSE) images. The pseudomorph (Crd) is made up of Grt + Qtz + Ky rodlets + micas flakes (mainly biotite, Bt).
ref: 2017, J. Theo Kloprogge, Robert Lavinsky, “Introduction: Geological Examples”, in Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of garnet.
Zooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Zoom
Zoomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Zoom
HREE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HREEs
Senses: examples: text: Due to the lanthanide contraction phenomenon, the REE are further divided into larger LREE (light Ln, La–Sm), medium MREE (Sm–Dy) and smaller HREE (heavy Ln, Tb–Lu and Y).
ref: 2024, Martin Ondrejka, Peter Bačík, Juraj Majzlan, Pavel Uher, Štefan Ferenc, Tomáš Mikuš, Martin Števko, Mária Čaplovičová, Stanislava Milovská, Alexandra Molnárová, Christiane Rößler, Christian Matthes, “Xenotime-(Gd), a new Gd-dominant mineral of the xenotime group from the Zimná Voda REE–U–Au quartz vein, Prakovce, Western Carpathians, Slovakia”, in Mineralogical Magazine, volume 88, number 5:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of heavy rare earth element.
Related terms: REE
LREE
MREE
LREE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LREEs
Senses: examples: text: Due to the lanthanide contraction phenomenon, the REE are further divided into larger LREE (light Ln, La–Sm), medium MREE (Sm–Dy) and smaller HREE (heavy Ln, Tb–Lu and Y).
ref: 2024, Martin Ondrejka, Peter Bačík, Juraj Majzlan, Pavel Uher, Štefan Ferenc, Tomáš Mikuš, Martin Števko, Mária Čaplovičová, Stanislava Milovská, Alexandra Molnárová, Christiane Rößler, Christian Matthes, “Xenotime-(Gd), a new Gd-dominant mineral of the xenotime group from the Zimná Voda REE–U–Au quartz vein, Prakovce, Western Carpathians, Slovakia”, in Mineralogical Magazine, volume 88, number 5:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of light rare earth element.
Related terms: REE
HREE
MREE
send a shiver down someone's spine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends a shiver down someone's spine
form: sending a shiver down someone's spine
form: sent a shiver down someone's spine
form: sent a shiver down someone's spine
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of send shivers down someone's spine.
qQED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of quenched quantum electrodynamics.
Related terms: QED
qQCD
West Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the West Sea
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Qinghai Lake (as found in English, from sources in China).
synonyms: word: Qinghai Lake
extra: as found in English, from sources in China
glosses: Ellipsis of West Korea Sea (“Yellow Sea”), as found in English-language material from Korea.
glosses: Ellipsis of West Philippine Sea (“South China Sea”), as found in English-language material from the Philippines.
glosses: Synonym of Sea of Japan (as found in English, from sources in Japan).
synonyms: word: Sea of Japan
extra: as found in English, from sources in Japan
Synonyms: Western Sea
Coordinate terms: North Sea
East Sea
South Sea
Western Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: the Western Sea
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of West Sea.
glosses: Synonym of Atlantic Ocean.
synonyms: word: Atlantic Ocean
glosses: Synonym of Pacific Ocean.
synonyms: word: Pacific Ocean
Synonyms: sense: ocean
word: Western Seas
Coordinate terms: Northern Sea
Eastern Sea
Southern Sea
Pearcey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pearceys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ts and Bs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] was usually combined with the antihistamine tripelennamine (“Ts and Bs” or “Ts and Blues” pattern of combined intravenous drug abuse).
ref: 1990, Martin W. Adler, Alan Cowan, editors, Testing and Evaluation of Drugs of Abuse (Modern Methods in Pharmacology; 6), Wiley-Liss, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Ts and blues.
leporello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leporellos
Etymology: Named after Leporello, the servant of the eponymous character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, who unfolds a long list of Don Giovanni's love conquests.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the accordion fold and leporello binding the book can be stretched out to its full length, showing a rich color field in transition.
ref: 2011, J. Susan Isaacs, “Artist Biographies and Works in Exhibition”, in J. Susan Isaacs, editor, The Book: A Contemporary View, Wilmington, DE: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A style of parallel folding with the folds alternating between front and back; concertina fold.
examples: text: These charming leporellos are once more available from Australian lBBY. The first batch sold out very quickly. ¶ The leporellos, consisting of ten frames each, with each frame having been designed by some of the world's most famous children's illustrators, may be used as […]
ref: 1985, Orana, volumes 21–22, page 94:
text: Paper artworks belong in an analagous category, not unrelated to the works of book art. Designer Michael Marschall presents colorfully printed, folded and punched cards and leporellos – prototypes from the field of graphic design.
ref: 1990, Art Aurea, numbers 1–4, page 85:
text: Mostly these—anonymously manufactured—portfolios were conceived as leporellos with a panoramic view of 360° in twelve images on the front and twelve singular images showing individual edifices on the back. Today, these leporellos often mark the earliest records of the existence of these cities.
ref: 2013, Rolf Sachsse, “Architecture”, in John Hannavy, editor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, volumes 1: A–I, Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Any printed material (book, leaflet etc.) having such folds; a concertina.
Related terms: concertina
leporellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leporello
trim one's sails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trims one's sails
form: trimming one's sails
form: trimmed one's sails
form: trimmed one's sails
form: trim one's sails to the wind
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: shorten sail
glosses: To adjust a ship's sails to make the best of wind conditions.
glosses: To adapt to changing circumstances, especially if it involves scaling back one's ambitions; to make cutbacks.
thrift store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrift stores
form: thriftstore
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thrift shop.
synonyms: word: thrift shop
put out to grass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts out to grass
form: putting out to grass
form: put out to grass
form: put out to grass
Senses: glosses: Synonym of put out to pasture.
synonyms: word: put out to pasture
to one's bone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to the bone.
to one's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to the bone.
to the bones
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of to the bone.
intercostal space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercostal spaces
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An anatomic space between two ribs, containing the intercostal muscles, nerves, arteries, veins and lymph nodes.
Synonyms: word: ICS
intercostal spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercostal space
Modiglianiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Modiglianesque
Etymology: From Modigliani + -esque.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian Jewish painter and sculptor.
Cordobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cordobeses
Etymology: From Spanish cordobés.
Senses: examples: text: This was the second American-born Spanish subject who had risen to the rank of Governor in these colonies. Hernando Arias, a Cordobes, was the first. Vertiz was a Mexican.
ref: 1919, Thomas Murray, The Story of the Irish in Argentina, New York, NY: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, page xxvi:
glosses: A person from Córdoba; a Cordovan.
Cordobeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cordobes
Cordovan hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cordovan hats
Etymology: Calque of Spanish sombrero cordobés.
Senses: glosses: A wide-brimmed traditional hat made in the city of Córdoba, Spain and traditionally worn in a large part of Andalusia.
wikipedia: Cordovan hat
Cordovan hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cordovan hat
police scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police scanners
Senses: topics: broadcasting
government
law-enforcement
media
radio
glosses: A scanner that is tuned to receive the frequencies used by police for their communications.
monantherous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single anther
plurisecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plurisecular
form: most plurisecular
Etymology: From pluri- (“multi-, many”) + secular (“of or related to centuries”), chiefly after French pluriséculaire.
Senses: examples: text: M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries.
ref: 1903 March 26, anonymous author, Nature, volume 67, number 1743, page 495:
text: Rather than seeing in [the anonymous author of My Secret Life] a courageous fugitive from a "Victorianism" that would have compelled him to silence, I am inclined to think that, in an epoch dominated by (highly prolix) directives enjoining discretion and modesty, he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.
ref: 1978, Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley, The History of Sexuality, volume I, page 22:
text: ...it is convenient to take into consideration, on one hand, registration in a program within a plurisecular story of academic mobilities and of the literary imagination linked to the juvenile journey and, on the other hand, the contribution of ERASMUS journeys to a socialisation centered on the meeting of individuals from different European countries.
ref: 2013, Vincenzo Cicchelli, “The Cosmopolitan 'Bildung' of Erasmus Students' Going Abroad”, in Critical Perspectives on International Education, page 205:
synonyms: secular
multisecular
glosses: Of or related to a span of several centuries, centuries-old.
honey wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey wines
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic beverage made from honey; mead.
woolly woofter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly woofters
Senses: examples: text: “Eddie Stone junior is the other side of the coin, when it comes to violence he's a woolly woofter, you know bent like a nine-bob note”.
ref: 2012, Linda Pye, Joseph Pye, The Steven Price Mysteries Part 3: The Murder in the Red Jacket, Xlibris, →ISBN:
glosses: A male homosexual; poofter.
examples: text: MediaWorks said ‘Woolly woofter’ is a term typically used colloquially in New Zealand as a mild and light-hearted insult for a cowardly or simpering person.
ref: 2019, New Zealand Law Society, ‘Woolly woofter’ not offensive says broadcasting watchdog, NZ Law Society
glosses: A cowardly or foolish person.
abductin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abductins
Etymology: Coined by Robert E. Kelly and Robert V. Rice in 1967, from abductor + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An insoluble elastic protein found in the hinge ligament of bivalve mollusks.
monocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monocentric
anticorona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticoronas
Etymology: From anti- + corona (“optical phenomenon consisting of circles visible around a bright celestial object such as the Sun or the Moon”).
Senses: topics: climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The glory optical phenomenon.
anticoronas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticorona
common dogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common dogwoods
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Cornus sanguinea, native to most of Europe
Synonyms: sense: Cornus sanguinea
word: bloody dogwood
HQC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HQCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of higher level quality control, high level quality control, higher quality control, high quality control.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Abbreviation of high quality connection.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of hydroxyquinolinecarbonyl.
Hougham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Houghams
Etymology: From hōh (“promontory, hill-spur”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8844).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
monoelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: That stretches in one direction only
raw_tags: of a fabric
HCQS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hydroxychloroquine sulfate.
Related terms: HCQ
CQ
HQCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HQC
monophylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single leaf
Temple Hirst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Temple" refers to the Knights Templar.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6025).
wikipedia: Knights Templar
Tuxford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partly uncertain. Oldest Domesday Book attestation is Tuxfarne. The first element is likely the Old English personal name *Tuk (modern day Tuck/Tucker), genitive singular *Tukes. The second element is now ford, but this is clearly a reinterpretation from the second earliest attested form Tuxforne (with vowel mutation), which leaves the original -farne element still unexplained. The modern form is equivalent to Tuck's ford.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish with a town council in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7370).
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Marquis, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A surname.
Stoke Hammond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8829).
paladinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paladinic
form: most paladinic
Senses: examples: text: “I made my paladinic vows here, oh so many decades ago
ref: 2017, Keith Rockwood, Irobu's Odyssey of Deceit, page 275:
text: You're a good person with a kind heart, but after three times requesting the paladinic calling and three times not receiving them from Our Lord
ref: 2011, Jonathan Jacobs, Stories in the Ether, Nevermet Press:
glosses: Related to being a paladin
Carnoustie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈnuːsti/
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5634).
Monifieth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4932).
Stannergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4331).
Rutog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rudok
Etymology: From Tibetan རུ་ཐོག (ru thog).
Senses: examples: text: We obtained total livestock numbers for all eight xiangs in Gerze County that use the reserve but not the numbers of sheep, goats, yaks, and horses for three of these xiangs; we also lack data for a few xiangs in Rutog County, in the western tip of the reserve, and in Amdo County, at the eastern end (table 15.2).
ref: 1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305:
text: Bird Islet is located on Pangong Tso Lake in Rutog County in the north of Ngari Prefecture. The lake is 4,242 meters above sea level and is called "Com Ngangla Renbo" in Tibetan, meaning "beautiful, long and narrow lake."
ref: 2005, 成卫东 [Cheng Weidong], 雪域寻梦 [Dreams of Snow Land], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:
english: Dreams of Snow Land
translation: Dreams of Snow Land
text: On July 17, a glacier in Rutog county in western Tibet suddenly slid, causing one of the largest ice avalanches ever documented. About 3,500 cubic feet of ice and rocks cascaded through a narrow valley, killing nine herders along with more than 350 sheep and 110 yaks in the remote village of Dungru.
ref: 2016 September 8, Kata Karáth, “Climate change could be to blame for an unusual avalanche in Tibet that can be seen from space”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2016:
glosses: A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
examples: text: Shan knew about Rutog. About one hundred twenty miles from Xinjiang. Close to India. A nuclear zone, a missile command center.
ref: 2002, Eliot Pattison, Water Touching Stone, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348:
text: "Gou shi! Peng, where are they?"
Peng stood at a large wallmap of the region, estimating the intersection of the Harbin's reported sighting."
"The last reported position was in western Tibet," Peng replied, "near Bangong Co. The nearest village is Rutog."
ref: 2007, Tom Grace, The Secret Cardinal, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:
glosses: A town in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Ritu
word: Jih-t'u
gim-peg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gim-pegs
Senses: examples: text: The squares are then polished in the same order, the gim peg being carefully adjusted for height between every row, in order that the stick may be inclined at exactly the same angle as that employed for cutting the squares.
ref: 1850, Charles Holtzapffel, Turning and mechanical manipulation:
text: the lower end of the rod passes through a hole or mortise in the bench, and is fixed by a wing-nut beneath, in order to allow the gim-peg being twisted round to different positions, according to the distance it is required to be placed from the mill.
ref: 1874, Oliver Byrne, Handbook for the Artisan, Mechanic, and Engineer:
text: A very important substitute for the gim-peg socket, already described, is the dial, by means of which facets can be cut with great precision.
ref: 1894, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:
glosses: An adjustable flanged bent iron rod that rises from the workbench of a lapidary and which is used as a guide for the vertical angle when cutting facets, and also to support the arm of the lapidary.
gim-pegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gim-peg
glacify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glacifies
form: glacifying
form: glacified
form: glacified
Etymology: From Latin glaciēs (“ice”) + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: "Perhaps the boys were right in waiting for the snow to glacify," said the Traveller; " but we're in for it now, and nothing but bad luck will keep us from sleeping in Italy to-night," he continued reassuringly.
ref: 1884 February, Frederic Courtland Penfield, “Over the Ortler”, in Outing and The Wheelman, volume 3, number 5, page 349:
text: Ishii's staff calculated the exact moment at which the human body froze to a lethal level of immobility and its flesh began to glacify.
ref: 2002, Stephen Barber, Annihilation Zones: Far East Atrocities of the 20th Century, page 30:
text: If LCC increase the number of IN, the ice-particle concentrations will increase and ice-particle sizes will decrease; the cloud may glacify over a relatively narrow altitude range.
ref: 2011, Nicole Mölders, Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes:
glosses: To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals.
examples: text: We may remark here that perfectly dry snow cannot be glacified, and that in the formation of glacier ice the water necessary for its production comes from the melting of the superficial layers of snow by the sun .
ref: 1887, Joyce Emmerson Muddock, The J.E.M." Guide to Switzerland:
text: On those heights the outposts would lie shivering in the trenches until they felt as if they were turned throughout to ice, and could note what happened only automatically — note the falling of an avalanche, a distant rifle-shot, the overhead passage of a scouting aeroplane, occurrences invariably followed once more by the absolute silence which brooded over the region amid a cold to glacify the very soul, to send a man out of his senses.
ref: 1923, Ivan Nazhivin, Rasputin - Volume 2, page 391:
text: The ideals of sustainable growth, perpetual augmentation of living standards, and the continual improvement in the services of the Scandinavian welfare states were glacified by a new ice age, as economic rationalists took the helm in the face of economic collapse.
ref: 2004, Tony Griffiths, Scandinavia, page 238:
glosses: To cause to turn into ice.
glacifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glacify
glacifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glacify
glacified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glacify
glassichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassichords
Etymology: From glass + -i- + chord.
Senses: examples: text: A patent has been granted for the combination of the glassichord with the piano; and in the same connexion an improvement has been made in the tones of the glassichord itself, by a more elastic mode of suspending the strips of glass than has been before used.
ref: 1844, United States. Patent Office, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, page 514:
text: Amongst other phenomena, let it be remembered that the glassichord and the drum were skilfully played upon with both sticks.
ref: 1870, Modern American Spiritualism:
text: The instruments usually comprised a guitar, an accordion, several bells, a glassichord struck with cork hammers, and a small drum with the requisite sticks.
ref: 1883 March, “Remarkable History of a Harvard Student”, in Facts, volume 2, number 1, page 51:
glosses: A 19th-century musical instrument made of glass plates that are struck by hammers or sticks.
examples: text: He revived and improved the harmonica, or glassichord, and extended his speculations to the finer arts; showing that he could taste and criticise even the compositions of a Handel!
ref: 1879, Horace Wemyss Smith, Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith:
text: Curiously, he omitted the only indigenous instrument, Franklin's glassichord.
ref: 1962, Lubov Breit Keefer, Baltimore's Music: The Haven of the American Composer, page 19:
text: His glassichord was a sensation in the intersecting spheres of art and science, capitalizing as it did upon a fad in London of playing concertos upon musical glasses.
ref: 2017, Daniel Mark Epstein, The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House, page 88:
glosses: Synonym of glass harmonica.
synonyms: word: glass harmonica
examples: text: The moveless, still air acted as a glassichord on the waters, which rang under the shrill voice of the singer.
ref: 1867, Ersilia: or, The ordeal, page 130:
text: Turning upon his perch , he brings to view his “glassichord," or shrilling organ, upon his back — a glass-like spot upon his wings just behind the thorax, or what might appear to be facetiously inclined as an exceedingly uncomfortable-looking collar.
ref: 1887, William Hamilton Gibson, Happy Hunting-grounds: A Tribute to the Woods and Fields, page 119:
text: Bobolink. For notes from the "glassichord" of fifteen bobolinks see Chapter III., near end.
ref: 1897, William Sloane Kennedy, In Portia's Gardens, page 220:
glosses: Anything that produces a similarly pure continuous sound.
glassichords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glassichord
RYC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Redhouse Yacht Club.
glosses: Initialism of Rockcliffe Yacht Club.
glosses: Initialism of Royal Yacht Club.
screwjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwjobs
Etymology: From screw + job.
Senses: examples: text: I will throw out Giant taking title from Flair on RAW. Desperately attempted screwjob did not come off, I can still her Woman's screams, or was that every match of those days:) And I loved it that the Giant didn't sell.
ref: 1997 March 26, John0714, “Most Significant Non-Screwjob Matches of All Time?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), message-ID <19970326010000.UAA22561@ladder01.news.aol.com>:
text: What is a screwjob finish and does the finish of last night's Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H match count as one?
ref: 2003 December 30, Dont Trust Anybody, “What Is A Screwjob Finish And Does Last Night's Count As One?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), message-ID <5dcc46b096e7859a0d6c2914242d6283@news.teranews.com>:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An incident where management disadvantages a wrestler without their prior knowledge.
screwjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwjob
RFAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RFA
monocable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + cable.
Senses: glosses: Describes a cableway in which the cable car is pulled along by the cable from which it is suspended.
monocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + -cephaly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being monocephalic or monocephalous.
Gêrzê
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gerze
form: Gertse
Etymology: From Tibetan སྒེར་རྩེ་ (sger rtse).
Senses: examples: text: Also in Totalashan of Rutog and the area to the north of Gêrzê of Tibet there appear corals with dissepiment like Polythecalis, Chusenophyllum and Wentzellophyllum.
ref: 1992, The Paleoclimate of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:
text: Gerzê is really the end of the world. It is situated in the middle of an empty desert, and I can't imagine why anyone ever stopped to build a town here. Except for a few nondescript Chinese concrete buildings, all the walls and houses are made from mud bricks and everything— the houses, the road, even the surrounding countryside—is the same light brown color. Beyond the town, emptiness stretches to the horizon.
ref: [1992, Jim Reynolds, The Outer Path: Finding my way in Tibet, Sunnyvale, Cali.: Fair Oaks Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: Ge Yi was from Chabug Village in Gêrzê County. Before he became Party branch secretary of Nuxtiu Village, his family had more than 400 sheep and 100 yak, making them one of the wealthy families in the village.
ref: 2012, Du Wenjuan, Tales from Tibet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=NKmUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT296&lpg=PT296:
text: The Upper Carboniferous Zhanjin Formation has attracted much attention from geoscientists for containing glacial–marine diamictite and cold‐water fauna typified by the bivalve Eurydesma. The presence of this Formation has provided important evidence for determining the northern border of Gondwana. Previous researchers have classified those strata north of Niangrong Co in the Gêrzê region as part of the Zhanjin Formation based on the presence of glacial–marine diamictite, although the absence of biological fossil evidence has defied clear age determination.
ref: 2015 October 24, Luo Shenglong, Wang Genhou, Gao Jinhan, Wang Xunlian, Xiao Hongji, “Age of the Purported Zhanjin Formation in Gêrzê County, Tibet: A New Understanding and Its Significance”, in Acta Geologica Sinica, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
glosses: A town in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Gaize
word: Kai-tse
monosyllogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosyllogisms
Etymology: From mono- + syllogism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An argument expressed as a single syllogism
Related terms: monosyllogistic
Makemakean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Makemakean
form: most Makemakean
Etymology: From Makemake + -an.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the dwarf planet Makemake.
Makemakean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Makemakeans
Etymology: From Makemake + -an.
Senses: glosses: a theoretical inhabitant of the dwarf planet Makemake
monotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: That which eats only one kind of food
monsignorhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a monsignor
Chaochowfu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 潮州府 (Cháozhōufǔ, literally “Chaozhou prefectural seat”).
Senses: examples: text: the Swatow-Chaochowfu Railway
text: These are the first motor launches to be used commercially in this vicinity, and if successful, as there seems good reason to believe they should be, should prove the forerunners of many more. It is expected that motor launches for use on the Han River above Chaochowfu, as previously reported by me, will arrive from Hongkong shortly.
ref: 1912 April 11, C. L. L. Williams, “Motor Boats for Chinese Waterways”, in Commercial Reports: Daily Consular and Trade Reports, volume 2, number 86, page 153:
text: And thirdly, it may be pointed out, the demand conflicted with certain engagement which the Chinese Government had made on August 24, 1914, giving preference to the British and Chinese Corporation, Limited, for the projected line from Nanchang to Chaochowfu.
ref: 1921, G. Zay Wood, The Twenty-one Demands, Japan versus China, Fleming H. Revell Company, pages 75–76:
text: On the river at Chaochowfu were many Hakka boats, larger than most river craft of southern China, with a high flaring bow and swallow-tail sterns, the sails of unique shape, like two immense triangles fastened together in the center, giving them a striking appearance as they sailed away up the river under their vast spread of canvas.
ref: 1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China, The Century Company, page 208:
glosses: Synonym of Chaozhou (“city”).
synonyms: word: Chaozhou
extra: city
montian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of Vincenzo Monti.
fitted carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fitted carpets
Senses: glosses: Carpet that is cut to fit the floorplan of a room.
pineapple melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple melons
form: pineapple-melon
Senses: synonyms: sucrin
glosses: Cucumis melo var. saccharinus, a particularly tender and sweet cultivar of muskmelon close to Cucumis melo var. reticulatus of rare commercial application for preserves.
pineapple melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineapple melon
dry stone wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry stone walls
Senses: glosses: A wall (typically around a field) made of heaped stones without any mortar.