cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Huhehot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ho͞oʹhā-hōtʹ
Senses: examples: text: The southwestern part of the region is served by the line from Peking to Paotow via Tsining and Huhehot and, since 1955, by the Tsining-Ulan-Bator railroad. A continuation of the Peking-Paotow railroad is under construction to Lanchow via Yinchwan.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 235:
text: In October 1958 a six-province Conference on Sand Dune Control was convened at Huhehot, capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. At this conference the Soviet scientists reported that the Soviet Academy of Sciences was planning to carry out a desert control project in Soviet central Asia from 1959 to 1965.
ref: 1961, Sidney H. Gould, editor, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960, Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, page 449:
text: When Peking red guards occupied government buildings in Huhehot, Ulanfu tried to compromise, then he created his own revolutionary organizations, and finally suspended the cultural revolution. He was accused of setting up an “independent kingdom” at the Gobi desert frontiers.
ref: 1972, Oton Ambroz, Realignment of World Power: The Russo-Chinese Schism Under the Impact of Mao Tse-Tung's Last Revolution, volume II, New York: Robert Speller & Sons, Publishers, Inc., page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of Hohhot.
paragraphize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paragraphizes
form: paragraphizing
form: paragraphized
form: paragraphized
Etymology: From paragraph + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To arrange into paragraphs.
paragutta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An electrical insulating material made from gutta-percha
paralactate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralactates
Senses: glosses: sarcolactate
sarcolactate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcolactates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of sarcolactic acid
paralexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paralexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paralexia
parallelarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: parallelism
parallelogramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parallelogram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having the form or properties of a parallelogram
paralogia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralogias
Etymology: From para- + -logia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: delirium
Related terms: paralogy
paralogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + logic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paralogism.
glosses: Relating to paralogics.
paramenstruum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramenstrua
Etymology: From para- + menstruum.
Senses: glosses: The days immediately before and after menstruation
paramnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to paramnesia
Tengchong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tǔngʹcho͝ongʹ
Forms: form: T'eng-ch'ung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 騰衝 /腾冲 (Téngchōng).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese didn’t relent, however, and despite huge losses to both forces, the Y Force eventually took the city on June 10. Now they had to turn their attention to the Japanese garrison city of Tengchung, forty miles to Lungling’s north, and to the long, impregnable, and still-Japanese-controlled ridge of Sungshan, which still imperiled the Burma Road and its Salween River crossing.
ref: [2003, Donovan Webster, chapter 14, in The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 222–223:
text: Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.
ref: 2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017, ASIA PACIFIC:
text: Wang and Javid Zarif also reaffirmed their commitment to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, according to the Chinese foreign ministry, an implicit rebuke of the United States for abandoning the accord during their Saturday meeting in China's southwestern Tengchong city.
ref: 2020 October 11, “China backs Iran nuclear deal, calls for new MidEast forum”, in France 24, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2020, Live news:
glosses: A county-level city of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
Derived terms: tengchongite
Island Southeast Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subregion of Southeast Asia, comprising the tropical islands lying between mainland Asia, New Guinea, and Australia.
Oranjestad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈɹænjəstɑːt/
ipa: /ɔːˈɹɑːnjəstɑːt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Oranjestad (literally "Orangetown").
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Aruba.
glosses: The capital city of Sint Eustatius.
Kackley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kackleys
Etymology: Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kächele.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gietzen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gietzens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gietzen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gietzens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gietzen
Kackleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kackley
Ghuman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ghumans
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu گھمن.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Urdu.
Fanguy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fanguys
Etymology: Borrowed from French Fanguy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Fanguys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fanguy
Ghumans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ghuman
Jariwala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jariwalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi जरीवाला (jarīvālā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Jariwalas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jariwala
Grupps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grupp
Coltrain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coltrains
Etymology: Variant of Coltrane.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Jamars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamar
Coltrains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coltrain
Chorba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorbas
Etymology: Altered spelling of Hungarian Csorba, from csorba (“gap-toothed”).
Also Americanized from Slovak and Serbo-Croatian Čorba, from the noun čorba (“soup, chowder”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Chorbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chorba
Collanteses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Collantes
Flewellens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flewellen
Budhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Budhus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बुधू (budhū).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Breslow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Breslows
Etymology: Variant of German Breslau, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Breslows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Breslow
Budhus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Budhu
McWhorter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McWhorters
Etymology: Variant of McWhirter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Wieses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiese
McWhorters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McWhorter
nuclear decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Radioactive decay.
Synonyms: sense: radioactive decay
word: nuclear disintegration
sense: radioactive decay
word: radioactive disintegration
radioactive disintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Radioactive decay.
Synonyms: sense: radioactive decay
word: nuclear decay
sense: radioactive decay
word: nuclear disintegration
Slaidburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Slaidburn and Easington Parish Council) in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7152).
nuclear disintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Radioactive decay.
Synonyms: sense: radioactive decay
word: nuclear decay
sense: radioactive decay
word: radioactive disintegration
U-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-bombs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of uranium bomb
Related terms: word: A-bomb
word: C-bomb
word: H-bomb
word: N-bomb
alt: U
word: uranium
uranium bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranium bombs
Senses: glosses: A uranium-fired nuclear bomb.
Synonyms: U-bomb
Hypernyms: atom bomb
atomic bomb
fission bomb
nuclear bomb
nuclear weapon
Derived terms: U-bomb
Related terms: atom bomb
atomic bomb
cobalt bomb
fission bomb
fusion bomb
hafnium bomb
hydrogen bomb
nuclear bomb
plutonium bomb
thermonuclear bomb
plutonium bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutonium bombs
Senses: glosses: A plutonium-fired nuclear bomb.
static fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static fires
form: static-fire
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of test where a fully-fueled launch vehicle's engines are fired at full thrust for several seconds while the vehicle is firmly clamped to the launch pad.
static fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: static fires
form: static firing
form: static fired
form: static fired
form: static-fire
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform a static fire test.
Cuxham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Cuxham with Easington parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6695).
static-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: static-fires
form: static-firing
form: static-fired
form: static-fired
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of static fire.
static-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static-fires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of static fire.
Carter Bar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A border crossing point on the A68 road between Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT6906).
firesmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fire + smoke.
Senses: examples: text: He wrote of the love and hate between Judah and Colette and he burned down not only her brothel but several more and he raised the Frenchtown paranoia and destruction to such a level of calamity that the city seemed to be engulfed in a constant cloud of firesmoke.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 290:
hypernyms: smoke
coordinate_terms: cigar smoke
glosses: Smoke from a fire.
Related terms: second-hand smoke
smokiness
wildfire
clam-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam-shells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clamshell.
autorefractometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + refractometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autorefractometry
glosses: By means of an autorefractometer
azamerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A terpenoid phthalazinone (3R,10S)-6-acetyl-3-chloro-10-[[(1S,3S,6S)-3-chloro-6-hydroxy-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexyl]methyl]-10-hydroxy-2,2-dimethyl-3,4-dihydropyrano[3,2-g]phthalazin-5-one
azvudine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The antiviral drug 4-amino-1-[(2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-azido-3-fluoro-4-hydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]pyrimidin-2-one.
costoabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From costo- + abdominal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ribs and the abdomen
dryomorphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dryomorphans
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the taxon Dryomorpha
dryomorphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dryomorphan
geocomputational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + computational.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to geocomputation
hydroclimatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydro- + climatically.
Senses: glosses: In a hydroclimatic manner
hydroxypropionaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxypropionaldehydes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of hydroxypropanal.
synonyms: word: hydroxypropanal
hydroxypropanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxypropanals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydroxy derivative of propanal, but especially 3-hydroxypropanal
infragastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + gastric.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the stomach
intraneurite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + neurite.
Senses: glosses: intraneuritic
jolkinolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolkinolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of diterpenoid lactones present in Euphorbia
jolkinolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolkinolide
juvicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That kills juveniles (typically insects)
metabolopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolopathies
Etymology: From metabolo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease caused by incorrect metabolism
metabolopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metabolopathy
metallocomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallocomposites
Etymology: From metallo- + composite.
Senses: glosses: Any composite material that is partly metallic
microrandomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + randomized.
Senses: glosses: Describing a very small randomized trial
microsource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsources
Etymology: From micro- + source.
Senses: glosses: A source of micropower
microsources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsource
minnelide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A prodrug of triptolide
monopustular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + pustular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or derived from a single pustule
Evershot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in west Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST5704).
multicovariate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicovariates
Etymology: From multi- + covariate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A multivariate covariate
multicovariates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicovariate
nephrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrospheres
Etymology: From nephro- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A cluster of kidney epithelial cells
nephrospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrosphere
overpenetrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈpɛnətɹeɪt/
Forms: form: overpenetrates
form: overpenetrating
form: overpenetrated
form: overpenetrated
Etymology: From over- + penetrate.
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To pass completely through a target and out the other side, potentially striking another person or object located further downrange.
raw_tags: of a bullet or other projectile
Derived terms: overpenetration
stage set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage sets
form: stage setting
Senses: glosses: The disposition of props, scenery, etc. for a play.
glosses: The context or environmental surroundings of an event; ambiance.
Related terms: set the stage
stage setting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage settings
Senses: examples: text: The smells of the streets and the calls from the open windows of the brothels created the stage setting and he casually misremembered following the girl into the alley and being beaten and robbed and he casually misremembered being drunk and passing out along the sidewalk.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 290:
glosses: Alternative form of stage set.
Related terms: set the stage
Fernhill Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First known as Vernal Heath (1813), altered to Fearnall Heath (mid 19th century), and changed to Fernhill Heath in 1938; the Great Western Railway used the latter spelling by 1887.
Senses: glosses: A village in North Claines parish, Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8659).
dairy lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairy lunches
Senses: examples: text: He wolfed down a sandwich and coffee from the dairy lunch across the street before hurrying back to work.
text: A newspaper man ran across the street the other day to a dairy lunch. He was in a hurry. He leaned against the marble counter and ordered a lamb stew.
ref: 1916 March 11, “Sense and Nonsense”, in Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: An establishment serving light, ready-made food and drink, such as sandwiches, soup, and donuts. Mostly limited to early 20th century US.
Related terms: dairy bar
milk bar
ploughman's lunch
nonportability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + portability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonportable
nonvitrectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vitrectomized.
Senses: glosses: Not vitrectomized
optomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opto- + magnetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: optical and magnetic; related to optomagnetism
phenaziterpene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenaziterpenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any terpenoid derivative of phenazine
phenaziterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenaziterpene
posavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of the porcine stool-associated RNA viruses, sometimes considered species of genus Posavirus, unplaced in order Picornavirales.
posaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posavirus
Chiarenza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiarenzas
Etymology: From Italian Chiarenza, from chiarenza, via French from Latin clarentia, from clarus (“clear, bright, famous”) + -entia (“-ence: forming abstract nouns”).
Senses: examples: text: CHIARENZA, a port-town of the north-weſt coaſt of the Morea, oppoſite to the iſland Zant, in the Mediterranean, and ſubject to the Turks...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183
glosses: Former name of Glarentza, a medieval Frankish fortress and town in Greece.
glosses: A surname from Italian
retroabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + abdominal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: retroperitoneal
retrocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the ribs
romosozumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibody used to treat osteoporosis
dairy bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairy bars
Senses: examples: text: Biltmore Dairy Farms, a corporation, owned and operated a dairy bar at Lake Junaluska in Haywood County, where it sold milk shakes and sandwiches.
ref: 1966, North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina:
qualifier: nearly historical
glosses: A small establishment serving milk, milkshakes etc. and sometimes light food.
Synonyms: milk bar
soda shop
malt shop
Related terms: dairy lunch
static fired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of static fire
static fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static fire
static fires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of static fire
static firing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of static fire
be someone's to lose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is someone's to lose
form: being someone's to lose
form: was someone's to lose
form: been someone's to lose
Senses: examples: text: Widely considered the favorite, the election is his to lose, but an upset is still possible if a scandal emerges.
text: The debate continues around England's goalkeeping position with Everton's Jordan Pickford out injured but he has been Southgate's favoured keeper for some time so it still seems to be his position to lose if he is fit.
ref: 2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To be anticipated to be won by someone.
examples: text: “Eventually,” Maddie continued, “my dad did lose everything, including money that wasn't his to lose. […]
ref: 2014, Karen Foley, Hard to Hold (Harlequin Blaze), Harlequin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, someone's, to, lose.
triazavirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The broad-spectrum antiviral drug 2-methylsulfanyl-6-nitro[1,2,4]triazolo[5,1-c][1,2,4]triazin-7(4H)-one
static-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of static-fire
static-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of static-fire
static-firing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of static-fire
static-fired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of static-fire
overpenetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpenetrate
overpenetrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpenetrate
overpenetrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpenetrate
untensioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tensioned.
Senses: glosses: Not tensioned
Finstock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3616).
misforward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misforwards
form: misforwarding
form: misforwarded
form: misforwarded
Etymology: From mis- + forward.
Senses: examples: text: He never failed to be considerate for the feelings of all about him, even when all his telegrams and messages had been misdelivered or misforwarded, and the boys always listened to what he had to say with the greatest respect; and he knew Evelyn must be exasperated to a degree to speak in such a tone.
ref: 1889, Geoffrey Drage, Cyril: A Romantic Novel, page 283:
text: Confusion follows and shipments intended for consignees in one town are frequently misforwarded to those in the other.
ref: 1927, The Express Messenger - Volumes 10-11, page 16:
text: I have just come back to Wales to live, and letters have been misforwarded.
ref: 1985, Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris, The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, page 705:
text: We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.”
ref: 2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376:
text: They could also end up being misforwarded by an incorrectly configured router.
ref: 2003, Panos C. Lekkas, Network Processors: Architectures, Protocols and Platforms, page 11:
glosses: To forward to the wrong destination.
misforwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misforward
misforwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misforward
misforwarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misforward
Fladbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9946).
knobend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knobends
Senses: examples: text: No, I'm fuckin ' delited dat meself an ' Derek leave youse two alone fer two bleedin' minits te go te de jax, an' wen we come back, yer givin' it lodes te some knobend ! ”
ref: 2003, Donal Ruane, Tales in a Rearview Mirror, page 170:
text: We'd bother beforehand when some knobend took exception to Fred's accent. Within seconds, a team of boys from Kelty was on the scene, and the knobend was removed.
ref: 2011, Adrian Searle, The Hope That Kills Us:
text: That isn't to say there aren't “knobends” in the voluntary sector – there are plenty of them. But the ethos of the sector is about positive social change for the better, and breaking taboos of all kinds is part of this.
ref: 2019, Jen Wight, Rattled: Overcoming Postpartum Psychosis:
glosses: Alternative form of knob-end.
knobends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knobend
knob-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob-ends
form: knobend
form: knob end
form: nob end
form: nob-end
Senses: examples: text: He appreciated a man giving head as much as anyone, and he was sure as hell gonna enjoy the feel of his knob-end slipping between Casey's hungry lips.
ref: 2006, Marc Holland, Mark Stone: Secret Agent, page 30:
text: Lenny Plant thought the world of his foreskin, appreciating the benefits it bestowed on his knob-end.
ref: 2014, Andrew Price, Poor Enid, page 343:
glosses: The glans penis
examples: text: Why did these knob-ends so much want us to fail?
ref: 2001, Hamish MacDonald, The Gravy Star, page 51:
text: Nothing ever sickened me more than pre-season friendlies, when English teams would come over and total knob-ends would actually show up at the matches to cheer on the foreign side.
ref: 2006, Johnny Fallon, Party Time: Growing Up in Politics, page 157:
text: That's it, you pair of knob-ends.
ref: 2010, Kimberley Chambers, The Betrayer, page 150:
glosses: A stupid or contemptible person
examples: text: […] the knob end of a moldy loaf of bread. He was halfway through chewing it when he was aware of the corpse of a fox lying at the end of the alley.
ref: 1990, Garry Kilworth, The Foxes of First Dark, page 90:
glosses: The heel of a loaf of bread.
examples: text: The Tithing - man -— with his long stick, with a knob on one end, and a squirrel's tail on the other — was swift in dealing out punishments, and the sharp raps from the knob-end quickly brought about proper behavior .
ref: 1928, Imogen Clark, Old Days and Old Ways, page 30:
text: She saw the shiny knob-end of the rhubarb thrusting upwards upon the thick red stem, thrusting itself like a knob of flame through the soft soil.
ref: 1949, David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow, page 414:
text: Greg marches up to the farmhouse door and is about to whack it with the knurled knob-end of his ash walking stick when it opens abruptly.
ref: 2013, Charles Stross, Equoid:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knob, end. The end of something that is shaped into a knob.
knob-ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knob-end
knob end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob ends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knob-end.
knob ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knob end
Fourstones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Warden parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY8867).
core course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core courses
Senses: examples: text: ...their cooperation should be secured in order to include the subject as a core course in the program of studies.
ref: 1934, The Balance Sheet - Volumes 16-17, page 113:
text: What specifically is a core course? Over the answer to this advocates and the opponents of general education have waged bitter battles.
ref: 1948, Earl James McGrath, Social Sciences in General Education, page 77:
text: As mentioned previously, this is a core course with a relatively large annual enrollment.
ref: 1993, CASCON '93: Software engineering, page 130:
topics: education
glosses: An academic class that is one of a subset of mandatory classes required to complete a degree program.
Related terms: core curriculum
core courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of core course
OHK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OHKs
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of one-hit kill.
OHK
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: OHKs
form: OHKing
form: OHKed
form: OHKed
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of one-hit kill.
search-fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From search + -fu (suffix indicating expertise or mastery).
Senses: examples: text: You can do compound searches, as well as calculations and other search-fu.
ref: 2008, Macworld: The Macintosh Magazine - Volume 25, Issues 1-6, page 128:
text: When it comes to hyper-local oddities, your search-fu has got to be powerful.
ref: 2017 June 1, Andrew Kenney, “Why there’s a Frederic Remington bronze sculpture in a Denver parking lot: A guide to pointless investigations”, in Denverite:
text: It has never, if my search-fu is any good, hitherto appeared in the pages of the National Post.
ref: 2018 March 22, Colby Cosh, “Former area man receives one million dollars for mathematical awesomeness”, in National Post:
glosses: Synonym of Google-fu.
synonyms: word: Google-fu
butler lie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butler lies
Etymology: Coined in 2009 by Jeff Hancock et al, referring to the idea of a butler blocking access to a home by lying about the occupant's availability.
Senses: examples: text: By indicating that a contact has read a message, this feature may affect response time expectations and also makes it more difficult to tell a butler lie excusing late reply to a message (eg, “sorry; just saw your message”).
ref: 2011 March, Lindsay Reynolds, Samantha Gillette, Jason Marder, Zachary Miles, Pavel Vodenski, Ariella Weintraub, Jeremy P Birnholtz, Jeffrey T Hancock, “Contact stratification and deception: blackberry messenger versus SMS use among students”, in Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work:
text: Thus, if we want to end a mediated communication we may tell a butler lie like 'someone has just knocked at the door', or if we do not want to meet someone at a suggested time we may say we cannot because we 'have an assignment to finish'.
ref: 2016, Owen Hargie, Skilled Interpersonal Communication, page 245:
text: He's lying, but it's a polite lie. A butler lie.
ref: 2017, Cassandra Parkin, The Winter's Child:
glosses: A polite lie told in a text, on the phone, or through a similar electronic medium that provides an excuse for why one is unavailable.
butler lies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butler lie
paramylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: decene
paramyoclonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramyoclonus multiplex
Etymology: From para- + myoclonus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inherited form of myoclonus
paranatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + natal.
Senses: glosses: Near the time of birth
paranema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranemata
Etymology: From para- + -nema.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: paraphysis of an alga
Related terms: paranematal
paranematal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a paranema
paranja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranjas
form: parandja
form: paranji
Senses: glosses: A robe with a veil once worn by some Muslim women.
paranotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranota
Senses: glosses: A lateral expansion of the dorsal part of the thorax of some insects
Related terms: paranotal
paranotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to paranota
paranym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranyms
Senses: glosses: A euphemistic synonym
paraphysate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having paraphyses
Derived terms: aparaphysate
Jaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Jacques and similar.
paraplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraplasmas
Senses: glosses: paraplasm
paraplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: paraplasmic
glosses: neoplastic
glosses: metaplastic
paraplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to paraplasm
parapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parapods
Senses: glosses: parapodium
pararabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + arabin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of arabin present in agar
parascender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parascenders
Senses: glosses: A person who takes part in parascending
parastacine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to crayfish of the genus Parastacus
parastigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + stigmatic.
Senses: glosses: Near a stigma
parasymbiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasymbionts
Etymology: From para- + symbiont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A parasymbiotic symbiont
parasymbionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasymbiont
parasymbiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + symbiosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition when the hyphae of a parasite envelop the algal constituents of a lichen and cause injury.
paratectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + tectonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or produced by a large-scale deformation or parageosyncline
parathecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parathecia
Etymology: From para- + thecium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The hyphal layer of the apothecium of a lichen
Related terms: parathecial
parathecial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a parathecium
parathermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + thermic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: infrared
paravisual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + visual.
Senses: glosses: Describing an instrument, in the cockpit of an aircraft, that is displayed in the peripheral field of view of the pilot
parazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parazones
Senses: glosses: A dagger resembling a parazonium
pseudoapostle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoapostles
form: pseudapostle
Etymology: From Middle English pseudoapostle; equivalent to pseudo- + apostle.
Senses: glosses: A false apostle.
pseudoarchaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoarchaisms
Etymology: From pseudo- + archaism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pseudoarchaic.
glosses: A false (typically invented) archaism.
Related terms: pseudoarchaist
pseudoarchaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoarchaists
Etymology: From pseudo- + archaist.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses or invents pseudoarchaisms
pseudoaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoaxes
Etymology: From pseudo- + axis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sympodium.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pseudosymmetric axis.
pseudoclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + classic.
Senses: glosses: Falsely classic.
pseudoclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoclassics
Etymology: From pseudo- + classic.
Senses: examples: text: Kang Youwei denounced the ancient classics as pseudoclassics and put forward the saying that Confucius was the author of the “six classics,” which had shaken the foundation of traditional studies of Confucian classics […]
ref: 2020, Zeng Yeying, Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History II:
glosses: A work that is falsely claimed to be a classic.
pseudocolumella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocolumellas
form: pseudocolumellae
Etymology: From pseudo- + columella.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure resembling a columella of a coral formed from its septa joining together
pseudodiphtheritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + diphtheritic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pseudodiphtheria
pseudodipteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodipterons
Etymology: From pseudo- + dipteron.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A pseudodipteral structure
pseudodoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodoxies
Etymology: From pseudo- + -doxy.
Senses: glosses: False opinion or belief
pseudoerysipelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪpɪləs
Etymology: From pseudo- + erysipelas.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition that resembles erysipelas
pseudofovea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofoveas
Etymology: From pseudo- + fovea.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An area of the retina in which an image is fixated (in a person with strabismus)
pseudoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoisms
Etymology: From pseudo- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: intellectual spuriousness or artificiality
pseudoleukaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoleukaemias
Etymology: From pseudo- + leukaemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which there is a leukocytosis resembling that of leukaemia
Cretella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cretellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cretella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cretellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cretella
pseudological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pseudology
pseudomartyrdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomartyrdoms
Etymology: From pseudo- + martyrdom.
Senses: glosses: False or pretended martyrdom
Damman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dammans
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Damman, occupational surname for someone whose responsibility was to look after a dike or dam, from dam.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Deyoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deyoes
Etymology: Variant of Deyo.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Deyoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deyoe
Dammans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Damman
Dambrosia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dambrosias
Etymology: Variant of Dambrosio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cannizzos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cannizzo
Dambrosias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dambrosia
WX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wx
form: wx
Etymology: Originating as a Morse code shorthand code. Possibly by analogy with single-word medical terms such as Hx (“history”) and Dx (“diagnosis”), which were patterned after the earlier Rx (“prescription”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of weather.
Related terms: english: diagnosis
translation: diagnosis
word: Dx
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
word: Hx
english: prescription
translation: prescription
word: Rx
english: receive
translation: receive
word: RX
english: receiver
translation: receiver
word: RX
english: reception
translation: reception
word: RX
english: therapy
translation: therapy
word: Tx
english: transmission
translation: transmission
word: TX
english: transmit
translation: transmit
word: TX
english: transmitter
translation: transmitter
word: TX
english: treatment
translation: treatment
word: Tx
WX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Wexford.
Carano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caranos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Carano.
Senses: examples: text: It’s Time to Uncancel Americans / February 17, 2021 / This week, actress Gina Carano made headlines when Disney+ and Lucasfilm decided to cancel her from their hit series “The Mandalorian” over controversial social media posts.
ref: 2021 February 17, Ben Shapiro, If It Ain’t Woke, Don’t Fix It, Hermosa Beach, Calif.: Creators Publishing, published 2022, →ISBN:
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Caranos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carano
alpha linolenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An omega-3 fatty acid, (9Z,12Z,15Z)-octadeca-9,12,15-trienoic acid, an essential fatty acid, found in many seeds and oils, including flaxseed, walnuts, chia, hemp, and many common vegetable oils.
Freshford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7860).
glosses: A village in County Kilkenny, Ireland (Irish grid ref S 4064).
Houge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Houges
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Houge or from Norwegian Houge, a variant of Hauge.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Halder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Halders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Halder, but also from Bengali হালদার (haldar).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Halders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Halder
Houges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Houge
Heckart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heckarts
Etymology: Variant of Heckard.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ferrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ferricks
Etymology: Shortened Americanized form of Irish Mac Phiaraic (“son of Piers or Peter”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Ferricks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ferrick
Heckarts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heckart
McAfee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAfees
form: Afee
form: McAffee
form: McHaffey
form: McHeffey
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Dhuibhshíthe (“son of Dhuibhshít”), a personal name composed of dubh (“black”) + síth (“peace”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: McFee
McPhee
Borgeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borges
McAfees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McAfee
shampoo bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shampoo bowls
Senses: glosses: A large bowl, basin or sink typically found in hair salons, with a cutout at the front that fits a person's neck while their hair is washed.
pseudomorphose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudomorphoses
form: pseudomorphosing
form: pseudomorphosed
form: pseudomorphosed
Senses: glosses: to pseudomorph
pseudomorphosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pseudomorphose
pseudomorphosing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Undergoing pseudomorphosis
pseudoorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoorders
Etymology: From pseudo- + order.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A false taxonomic order
pseudoperipteros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoperipteroi
Etymology: From pseudo- + peripteros.
Senses: glosses: A type of peripteros, some of whose columns are attached to the walls instead of standing free
pseudoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoplankton
form: pseudoplanktons
Etymology: From pseudo- + plankton.
Senses: examples: text: Pseudoplanktons are organisms that are not true plankton, but are often found associated with planktonic communities.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online:
glosses: Any plankton that lacks buoyancy and so attaches itself to a floating object.
Derived terms: pseudoplanktonic
pseudoprophetess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoprophetesses
Etymology: From pseudo- + prophetess.
Senses: glosses: A female pseudoprophet
pseudoprophetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + prophetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pseudoprophet or to pseudoprophecy
pseudoproposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopropositions
Etymology: From pseudo- + proposition.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A spurious or meaningless proposition
Golcar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0915).
pseudopupal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + pupal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pseudopupa
pseudoracemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From pseudo- + racemic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing a mixture of nonracemic crystals
pseudorationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + rationalist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pseudorationalism
pseudorationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorationalists
Etymology: From pseudo- + rationalist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of pseudorationalism
pseudorotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudorotates
form: pseudorotating
form: pseudorotated
form: pseudorotated
Etymology: From pseudo- + rotate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To undergo pseudorotation
pseudorotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pseudorotate
pseudorotated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by pseudorotation