cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Spader
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spaders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spader or Späder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spike
Spaders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spader
Șirna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șirna.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Prahova County, Romania.
Clutton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈklʌtən/
Forms: form: Cluttons
Etymology: From Old English clūdiġ (“rocky, stony”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Coddington and District Parish Council) in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4654).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6259).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Quinde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quindes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Quinde. This surname is mostly found in Ecuador.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Osterkamp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Osterkamps
Etymology: Borrowed from German Osterkamp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Osterkamps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Osterkamp
Quindes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Quinde
Cluttons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clutton
TTF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ttf
Senses: glosses: Initialism of TrueType Font.
Related terms: OTF
WOFF
WOFF2
Perella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Perellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Perella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Montville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Montvilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Montville.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, alternative form of Monville.
glosses: A town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Geauga County, Ohio, United States.
Montvilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Montville
Perellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Perella
Megee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Megees
Etymology: Variant of McGee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Megees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Megee
Nauses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Naus
MAGAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MAGATs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MAGAt.
MAGATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAGAT
McCraney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCraneys
form: McCranie
form: McRaney
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Bhranaigh (“son of Branach”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of bran (“raven”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Ohl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ohls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ohl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ohls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ohl
McCraneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCraney
Olden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oldens
Etymology: Variant of Alden.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas, United States.
combfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combfoots
Senses: glosses: A comb-footed spider
Monville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Monvilles
form: Montville
Etymology: Borrowed from French Monville a habitational surname from villages in Belgium and Normandy, syncopic form of Montville, from Old French mont and ville.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Monvilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Monville
Oldens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Olden
Bosbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bosbury and Coddington Parish Council) in east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6943).
Belcești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Belcești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Iași County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Belcești, Iași County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Pogonești, Vaslui County, Romania.
Blăgești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Blăgești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Blăgești, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A locality in Pașcani, Iași County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Vaslui County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Blăgești, Vaslui County, Romania.
Boțești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Boțești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Boțești, Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Girov, Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Vaslui County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Boțești, Vaslui County, Romania.
Curtești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Curtești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Botoșani County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Curtești, Botoșani County, Romania.
Drăgești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Drăgești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bihor County, Romania.
glosses: Various villages in Romania.
Gornești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Gornești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Mureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Gornești, Mureș County, Romania.
Hănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Hănești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Botoșani County, Romania.
Mușetești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Mușetești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Mușetești, Gorj County, Romania.
Preutești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Preutești.
Senses: glosses: A village in Timișești, Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Suceava County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Preutești, Suceava County, Romania.
Robănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Robănești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dolj County, Romania.
Roești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Roești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Pesceana, Vâlcea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Roești, Vâlcea County, Romania.
Sutești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Sutești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
Udești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Udești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Suceava County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Udești, Suceava County, Romania.
Buzoești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Buzoești.
Senses: glosses: A county of Romania.
glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Buzoești, Argeș County, Romania.
Vitănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Vitănești.
Senses: glosses: A village in Sârbii-Măgura, Olt County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vitănești, Teleorman County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Țifești, Vrancea County, Romania.
re-solve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈsɒlv/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɑlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: re-solves
form: re-solving
form: re-solved
form: re-solved
Etymology: From re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of resolve.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll have to re-solve the equation with the new values.
glosses: To solve again.
Vobster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Mells parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7049).
Milward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Milwards
Etymology: Variant of Millward.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pay the ultimate price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays the ultimate price
form: paying the ultimate price
form: paid the ultimate price
form: paid the ultimate price
Senses: examples: text: On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
text: I speak today now about my citizens- citizens of Ukraine- who are defending- by paying the ultimate price- defending freedom. I'm very happy what I've seen here now, and heard here now, I'm very glad to sense this mood- the uniting, unified mood. I'm happy that we have unified today, all of you, all the countries of the European Union but I did not know that this is the price they will have to pay.
ref: 2022 March 1, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 0:00 from the start, in Zelensky receives standing ovation after speech to European Parliament, CNN:
hypernyms: pay the price#Verb
glosses: To die as a result of a fatal choice or decision, or because of deep commitments.
Related terms: ultimate sacrifice
pays the price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the price
paying the price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay the price
paid the price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay the price
pays the piper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the piper
paying the piper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay the piper
paid the piper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay the piper
faces the music
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face the music
facing the music
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of face the music
faced the music
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face the music
faces up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face up to
facing up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of face up to
faced up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face up to
pays the fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the fiddler
paying the fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay the fiddler
paid the fiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay the fiddler
pays the penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the penalty
paying the penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay the penalty
paid the penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay the penalty
pays the ultimate price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the ultimate price
paying the ultimate price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay the ultimate price
paid the ultimate price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pay the ultimate price
faces facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face facts
facing facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of face facts
faced facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face facts
face the facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faces the facts
form: facing the facts
form: faced the facts
form: faced the facts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of face facts.
faces the facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face the facts
facing the facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of face the facts
faced the facts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face the facts
sucking it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suck it up
sucked it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suck it up
lumps it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lump it
lumping it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lump it
lumped it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lump it
biting the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bite the biscuit
bit the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bite the biscuit
bitten the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bite the biscuit
likes it or lumps it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of like it or lump it
liking it or lumping it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of like it or lump it
liked it or lumped it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of like it or lump it
inconjugatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being conjugated.
Synonyms: unconjugatable
indeclension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the state of being grammatically indeclinable
both-sidesed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of both-sides
both-sidesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of both-sides
Encyclopedia Galactica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Encyclopaedia Galactica
form: Encyclopædia Galactica
Etymology: Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.
First World problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: First World problems
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of first world problem.
First World problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of First World problem
GOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GOFs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of gain of function.
glosses: Initialism of graphene oxide foam.
gain of function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gains of function
form: gains of functions
form: gain-of-function
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: GOF
glosses: An increase in virulence or transmissibility
Derived terms: gain-of-function research
GOF
superquintessential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o′pər-kwĭn′tə-sĕn′shəl
ipa: /ˌsuː.pəˌkwɪn.təˈsɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌsu.pəɹˌkwɪn.təˈsɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌsʉː.pəˌkwɪn.təˈsen.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌsʉː.pɐˌkwən.təˈsen.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌsʉ.pəɹˌkwɪn.təˈsɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌsuː.pɜʳˌkwin.teˈsen.ʃal/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
Forms: form: super-quintessential
Etymology: From super- + quintessential.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody understood him, he understood nobody, and though he got on excellently with the genial Buelow, his case became hopeless when Buelow made war for Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, a superquintessential bureaucrat, who could no more live without red tape than a geranium without red blossoms.
ref: 1910, The Atlanta Constitution 1910-08-07: Volume 43 Issue 53, page 2:
text: PHILOSOPHERS may argue about the perfectibility of the superquintessential.
ref: 1991, John Victor Luce, Orationes Dublinienses Selectae: 1971-1990, Board of Trinity College, Trinity College Dublin Press, page 84:
text: For instance, if we adopt models of dark energy as potential energy of some, as yet undiscovered, scalar field, we cannot obtain superquintessential values w < −1, unless we consider phantom fields or non–minimal coupling terms.
ref: 2011 November 16, Ester Piedipalumbo, Paolo Scudellaro, “A Matter–Dominated Cosmological Model with Variable G and Λ and Its Confrontation with Observational Data”, in arxiv.org:
text: The dark energy equation of state w parameter as a function of t , for the potential in Eq. (3.60) for A = 1, λ = 1, and σ = 1: it turns out that such a scalar field can be interpreted as a superquintessential field.
ref: 2012 July 21, Giampiero Esposito, Claudio Ruban, “On Quintessential Cosmological Models and Exponential Potentials”, in researchgate.net:
text: The superquintessential septuplets.
ref: 2021 July 27, “Daily Miku #154”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2021:
topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or relating to superquintessence.
supermeteor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermeteors
form: super-meteor
Etymology: From super- + meteor.
Senses: examples: text: The aeroplane shot ahead like a supermeteor.
ref: 1910, Life, Volume 55, Part 2, Life, page 832:
text: ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS in astronomy is the (sometimes) seemingly interminable waits between some of the more beautiful celestial phenomena. For instance, if you want to see a solar eclipse, where you not only have to wait for one, but you have to go where it is. If you’re really lucky, you might see one fireball, or supermeteor, in your lifetime. And there are beautiful but infrequent apparitions of Mars, one of which will peak this month.
ref: 1990, Connecticut Environment, Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection, page 23:
text: Societies are often warned that they face grave dangers (for instance, oil is about to be exhausted, a supermeteor is approaching, the ratio of dependent to working population is rising rapidly) and hence should take extraordinary measures to protect themselves.
ref: 1996, Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: A giant meteor.
supergrand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /suːpəɹˈɡɹænd/
Forms: form: more supergrand
form: most supergrand
form: super-grand
Etymology: From super- + grand.
Senses: examples: text: I had from eleven-thirty to one P.M. an absolute supergrand talk with Adolph Meyer and John Watson. He is a grand young southerner and simply knows his behavioristic psychology in a way to make one's hair stand up. We talked my plan clear out and they are enthusiastic.... Things are going grandly.
ref: 1919, Cornelia Stratton Parker, Carleton Hubbell Parker, An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker, Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Meanwhile old Mrs. Hastings would stay with him, and she never paid much attention to anything he did; so it was a perfect time to really make a grand, supergrand, hide-out!
ref: 1955, Edward Jenks, Charles Roden Buxton, Junior Guide, Volume 3 Issue 30, Review and Herald Publishing Association, page 14:
text: A swarm of foreshocks, the main shock, and aftershocks on the supergrand scale was that of Chilean earthquakes of 1960.
ref: 1964, Takeo Matuzawa, Study of Earthquakes, Uno Shoten, page 76:
glosses: Exceptionally grand; of tremendous grandness.
supercomet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercomets
form: super-comet
Etymology: From super- + comet.
Senses: examples: text: The “planetesimals” of the Chamberlin and Moulton hypothesis would (if we ascribe their origin to the constant formation of atoms in solar space by the various unions of electrons, protons and neutrons, instead of the one-time tidal disruption of the sun) supply the materials upon with a long-interval supercomet could feed and develop into a planetoid or, with increasing growth, into a planet.
ref: 1942, Clarence Augustus Chant, The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Volume 36, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, page 167:
text: In Napier's Scenario, major impacts occur in the dying days of the supercomet when most of its ice has gone, at which point the rest of it disintegrates into "cometary asteroids".
ref: 1997, Robert G. Clouse, New Scientist, Volume 155, Issues 2089-2097, New Science Publications, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Low to one side, partly eclipsed by the curve of Earth's dark side, stretched the awesome spectacle of Athena's braided tail streaming in the solar wind as the supercomet fell toward the Sun.
ref: 1999, James P. Hogan, Cradle of Saturn, Baen, page 22:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A giant comet.
recovery time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery times
Senses: examples: text: Actually, the point-to-point times in general were not varied; the additions were all in the form of blocks of recovery time over certain selected stretches of line.
ref: 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Additional time built into a train timetable to allow the train to recover from any delays en route, without arriving at its destination late according to the published arrival time.
Derived terms: frame-alignment recovery time
sinoatrial recovery time
Related terms: recovery time objective
awomen
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Amen. (Awomen as well.)
ref: 1980 May, Harry D. Schultz, “Harry D. Shultz Speaks Out”, in American Import Export Bulletin, page 74, column 2:
text: Amen … Awomen
ref: 1987, Linda Goodman, “Physical Immortality: A Thought Transformation, Leading to the Achievement of Cell Regeneration”, in Linda Goodman’s Star Signs: The Secret Codes of the Universe; Forgotten Rainbows and Forgotten Melodies of Ancient Wisdom, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1988, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 544:
text: Forever and Ever and Ever Amen . . Awomen
ref: 1989, Linda Goodman, “Canto Nineteen”, in Gooberz, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 828:
text: Forevermore. Amen. Oh, and one other thing, Goddess. Please don’t wait more than two weeks to send me someone or something that gives me goose bumps and hot flashes for all the right reasons. Amen and awomen.
ref: 1998 September 16, Rob Brezney, “Real Astrology”, in Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, N.M., section “Gemini (May 21-June 20)”, page 43, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of awoman.
recovery times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recovery time
vice verse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vice versa.
collaboratress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collaboratresses
Etymology: From collaborator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: But does this entire movement only mean, as an evil tongue has already suggested, that the majority of the collaboratresses and lady readers of Woman are poor in attractions and rich in years—wretched old maids who have become parched and yellow over their embroidery during their long and bitter existence; unfortunate, disdained ones, whom love has ignored and who want love all the same, even if they have to take it by force?
ref: 1890 October 18, “Is Woman to Woo? The English Discuss the Question Through All of Its Phases.”, in The Evening Times, Kansas City, Mo., page 4, column 5:
text: Mrs. Cady Stanton, the editress, says she and her collaboratresses would have liked some scholarship, and they asked for it from “several distinguished women,” but these were afraid that “their high reputation and scholarly attainments might be compromised by taking part in an enterprise that for a time may prove very unpopular.”
ref: 1897 June, “The Bookman’s Table”, in The Bookman, volume XII, number 69, page 76, column 1:
text: But I am wondering if you might not discover in yourself a decided talent for it … whether you might consent to become my collaboratress?
ref: 1982, Joan Aiken, The Girl from Paris, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 91:
glosses: A female collaborator.
Synonyms: collaboratrix
collaboratresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collaboratress
decryptify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decryptifies
form: decryptifying
form: decryptified
form: decryptified
Senses: glosses: To remove encryption
Related terms: decryptification
decryptification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal of encryption
Related terms: decryptify
decryptified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decryptify
New-Yorkeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New-Yorkeresses
Senses: examples: text: But—(as we learn from our European correspondent)—but—he^([sic]) authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugenie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops avaunt!—Down on your knees, femenine^([sic]) provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugenie! New-Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling shams
ref: 1857 March 5, “A War Whoop”, in The Carroll Free Press, volume 25, number 10 (whole 1,313), Carrollton, Ohio, column 2:
text: “I thought of going up to the English chapel outside the Popolo, to see a pretty New-Yorkeress,” said the latter;
ref: 1863, Henry P. Leland, Americans in Rome, New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Evans, page 34:
text: The lady was not pretty, and she was not, Isabel thought, dressed in the perfect taste of Boston; but she owned frankly to herself that the New-Yorkeress was stylish, undeniably effective.
ref: 1871, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXVIII, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 32, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of New Yorkeress.
New-Yorkeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New-Yorkeress
etherlipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etherlipid
perkinsozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perkinsozoans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any parasite of the superclass Perkinsozoa
perkinsozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perkinsozoan
Preston Brook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5680).
cyanoglucosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanoglucoside
intramniotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + amniotic.
Senses: glosses: Within an amnion
lithospermoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The glycoside nitrile (2Z)-2-[(4R,5S,6S)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxycyclohex-2-en-1-ylidene]acetonitrile present in the roots of Lithospermum
mechanostimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechano- + stimulatory.
Senses: glosses: That provides mechanical stimulation
preperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preperceptions
Etymology: From pre- + perception.
Senses: glosses: A preliminary perception
preperceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preperception
Milwards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Milward
subocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subocclusions
Etymology: From sub- + occlusion.
Senses: glosses: A partial occlusion, typically of the intestine.
McGourtys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGourty
Kasel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kasels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kasel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Karman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karmans
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Dutch Karman, an occupational surname for a carter.
* A variant of German Karmann, which shares the same origin of the Dutch surname.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Kármán, an ethnic name for the Turkish people of the Karaman Province.
* A Jewish surname from Russian карман (karman, “pocket”), probably a metonymic occupational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Alternative form of Kerman, Iran.
Karmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Karman
Kasels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kasel
Kathman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kathmans
Etymology: Variant of Kathmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kosky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koskys
Etymology: Variant of Koski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Koskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kosky
Kathmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kathman
Krenzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krenzers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Krenzer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lanasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lanasas
form: LaNasa
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian La Nasa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Lanasas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lanasa
Krenzers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krenzer
STEMlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STEMlords
Etymology: From STEM + -lord.
Senses: examples: text: "Yeah, Myra's basically a communist. I can't imagine how much they had had to offer to get her to agree to work for a bunch of right-wing STEMlords."
ref: 2017, April Daniels, Sovereign, unnumbered page:
text: Oh, the people who study the humanities...the butt of jokes told by unwashed STEM-lords, by overdressed business students with overinflated egos, considered prime wasters of time and money.
ref: 2020 February 17, Tom Leach, “Toast of the Week”, in The Courier, Newcastle University, page 9:
text: I've long learned that engaging with basement-dwelling STEMlords who come online looking for a fight is never a good idea — the last thing I want is to provide free entertainment for their fragile egos.
ref: 2021, Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis, page 362:
glosses: A self-important, condescending person with a background and/or interest in a STEM field, particularly one who disparages the humanities.
Related terms: scientism
net ionic equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net ionic equations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An ionic equation in which spectator ions are omitted, i.e. only the reacting ions are included in the equation.
crab market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab markets
Etymology: From the movement of a crab, which appears to move sideways and seems to be going neither forward (a bull market, in this metaphor) or backward (a bear market).
Senses: examples: text: Writing covered options is a technique to use when we're not in a bull market or a bear market, but a crab market. (I call any market that moves sideways for any length of time a crab market. This is not simply because crabs move sideways, but because people, deprived of their daily dose of market action, tend to get pretty crabby during these periods.)
ref: 1989, Joseph L. Shaefer, Bringing Home the Gold, Dow Jones-Irwin, →ISBN, page 161:
text: There could be an extended "crab" market: the index stays pretty much flat for long enough that the fundamentals eventually catch up. It has happened before.
ref: 1993 February 25, Brent Buckner, “da Bears vs. da Bulls”, in misc.invest (Usenet):
text: A crab market moves sideways. (This could go on forever. Anyone for tuna?)
ref: 1994, Bruce McDougall, Michael Reardon, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance for Canadians, Pearson Education Canada, →ISBN, page 72:
text: A 'crab' market is when the market just traverses sideways, oscillating in a channel, between an imaginary 'floor' level and an imaginary 'ceiling' level.
ref: 2006, Marquez Comelab, The Part-Time Currency Trader, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 95:
text: A crab market is defined here as a market where the difference between the close and open prices is not greater than ±5 % of the open price.
ref: 2021 October 29, Carlo Requião da Cunha, Introduction to Econophysics, CRC Press, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: bear market
bull market
glosses: A market trend where a stock keeps fluctuating around the same price over a longer period of time, neither entering a bull market nor a bear market
examples: text: Overall, the crab industry is faring well right now. The higher price of shrimp actually is a good thing for the crab market because crab is a higher-priced, premium item.
ref: 2014 October 7, Addie K. Martin, Jeremy Martin, Southeast Louisiana Food, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Through the current study of weekly crab markets, monsoon season was observed to be the most productive season in terms of number of crabs brought for sale by the crab sellers from the nearby area.
ref: 2016, Sharda Padghane, Shivaji Chavan, Dilip Dudhmal, “Fresh water crab Barytelphusa cunicularis as a food commodity: Weekly crab market study of Nanded city, Maharashtra, India”, in International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, volume 4, number 4, →ISSN, page 17:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crab, market.
Heckstall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heckstalls
Etymology: English habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hilling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hillings
form: Hillin
Etymology: Topographic surname for a person living on a hill, from an unattested Old English word *hylling (“hill-dweller”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Hillings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hilling
Heckstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heckstall
secant method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An iterative numerical method for finding a root of an equation f(x)=0, using a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate the root.
Hreha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hrehas
Etymology: As a Carpathian Rusyn and Slovak surname, from Hreha, short form of the personal name Hrehor, a regional variant of Gregor.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovak.
Hrehas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hreha
Hieronymuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hieronymus
Ceva's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Italian mathematician Giovanni Ceva (1647-1734), to whom the discovery of the theorem is often attributed.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem about triangles in plane geometry, regards the ratio of the side lengths of a triangle divided by cevians.
wikipedia: Giovanni Ceva
to a lesser extent
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: A variety of topics are included, but there seems to be a primary concentration on the study of athletes and to a lesser extent the growth and performance of children and youth.
ref: 1984, Jan Borms, Human growth and development, page 438:
text: In laboratory tray tests designed to simulate a field test, pheromones of A. diaperinus cause aggregation responses in adults and, to a lesser extent, larvae.
ref: 1986, Adejoju Ajoke Falomo, The Pheromone Biology of the Lesser Mealworm, Alphitobius Diaperinus (Panzer), (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), page 165:
text: Shanghai and, to a lesser extent, Taiwan, lack the transparency and level playing field of Hong Kong. Singapore, Shanghai, and, to a lesser extent, Sydney, lack the entrepreneurial drive found in Hong Kong.
ref: 1997, Michael J. Enright, Edith Elizabeth Scott, David Dodwell, The Hong Kong Advantage, page 274:
text: To what extent is the Middle Palaeolithic in Mediterranean France similar to, or different from, that found in southwestern France, (and to a lesser extent in other regions) and to what extent do the models of Mousterian variability developed in the classic area of southwestern France apply in Mediterranean France?
ref: 2003, Carolyn Szmidt, Mousterian in Mediterranean France, page iii:
glosses: Occurring somewhat less.
Related terms: to some extent
to an extent
to a large extent
to a great extent
to a greater extent
Igwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Igwes
Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo Igwe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Igbo.
Janowiczes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Janowicz
Igwes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Igwe
McGarvey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGarveys
form: McGarva
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Gairbhshíth (“son of Gairbhshíth”), a personal name composed of the elements garbh (“rough”) + síth (“peace”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schutters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schutter
McGarveys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGarvey
Makowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Makowski
Ptolemy's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem that states in a cyclic quadrilateral, the product of the lengths of its diagonals is equal to the sum of the products of the lengths of the two pairs of opposite sides.
view someone's etchings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: views someone's etchings
form: viewing someone's etchings
form: viewed someone's etchings
form: viewed someone's etchings
Senses: examples: text: Next, he'd be telling her that no other woman had ever understood him the way she did, and asking her to come to his hotel room to view his etchings.
ref: 1991, Linda Lael Miller, Wild About Harry, page 79:
text: “I think, I just might have a reason for you to . . . change your mind about viewing my etchings,” she stated, her voice taking on a little husky tone.
ref: 2007, Stephen R. Sobotka, Two of a Kind, page 81:
text: “Would you like to step inside to view my etchings?” he murmured, now kissing her brow and nose.
ref: 2013, Stephen Pearsall, Focus, page 357:
glosses: Synonym of see someone's etchings.
synonyms: word: see someone's etchings
Related terms: Netflix and chill
jelly cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly cakes
Senses: examples: text: Another culinary disagreement arose when Sue defined lammingtons as squares of sponge cake coated in red jelly. The rest of us were shocked and amused, and insisted that lammingtons were coated in thin chocolate icing and rolled in coconut and that Sue was confusing them with jelly cakes.
ref: 2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 33:
glosses: A type of sponge cake with one or more layers of jelly (flavoured gelatin).
jelly cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly cake
saw-tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The saw-tooth profile between mileposts 300 and 295 was taken at 67 to 71 m.p.h., [...].
ref: 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 478:
glosses: Synonym of saw-toothed.
synonyms: word: saw-toothed
Derived terms: saw-tooth roof
Related terms: sawtooth
the day before
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: synonyms: the previous day
coordinate_terms: yesterday
;
the next day
the day after
the following day
glosses: On the preceding day; the day before. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: the day before yesterday
the next day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: synonyms: the following day
the day after
coordinate_terms: tomorrow
;
the day before
the previous day
glosses: The day that follows the one just spoken about. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: the day after tomorrow
next-day
one day to the next
sun umbrella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun umbrellas
Senses: glosses: A parasol.
Related terms: sunhat
sunshield
sun umbrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun umbrella
Hobley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbli/
Forms: form: Hobleys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
parallel axis theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorem that states the moment of inertia of a rigid body about any axis is equal to its moment of inertia about a parallel axis through its center of mass plus the product of the mass of the body and the square of the distance between the two parallel axes.
Related terms: perpendicular axis theorem
tikam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tikam-tikam.
compulsive hoardings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsive hoarding
monkeys humping a football
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: energetic but useless action, or a person engaged in such action.
Bunsen coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bunsen coefficients
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The number of milliliters of gas dissolved in a milliliter of liquid at atmospheric pressure and a specified temperature.
Bunsen reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bunsen reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reaction in which water, sulfur dioxide, and iodine react to form sulfuric acid and hydrogen iodide.
peripheral oxygen saturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peripheral + oxygen + saturation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An estimation of the oxygen saturation level usually measured with a pulse oximeter device.
molecular oxygen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dioxygen.
synonyms: word: dioxygen
Bachmann's bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A branch of the anterior internodal tract that resides on the inner wall of the left atrium.
Great Sutton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3775).
Related terms: Little Sutton
Sutton Green
latest and greatest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: form only
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: DiBattista advocated balanced webmastery: Don't go to the leading edge if it forces users to buy the latest and greatest Web stuff.
ref: 1996, Computerworld, volume 30, number 21:
glosses: Thoroughly up-to-date; cutting-edge.
Bunsen reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bunsen reaction
ontology engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A field which studies the methods and methodologies for building ontologies.
ontology alignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies.
text simplification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text simplifications
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: An operation used in natural language processing to modify, enhance, classify or otherwise process an existing corpus of human-readable text.
delirating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delirating
form: most delirating
Etymology: From delirate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For Women that were addicted to Bacchanal Sports, preſently ran to the Ivy and pluck'd it off, tearing it in pieces with their Hands, and knawing it with their Mouths, ſo that they are not altogether to be disbelieved, that ſay it hath an infatuating and delirating Spirit in it, tranſporting and bereaving of the Senſes, […]
ref: 1704, Plutarch, “Roman Questions: Translated from the Greek”, in Isaac Chauncy, transl., Plutarch’s Morals: Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: […] Tho[mas] Braddyll, […], →OCLC, question 112, page 393:
glosses: Making one delirious or mad; also, delirious; mad.
delirating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From delirate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delirate
Childer Thornton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Childer is from cildra, genitive plural of Old English cild, referring to the young monks of St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester.
Senses: glosses: A village next to Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3677).
work in process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: works in process
form: work-in-process
Senses: glosses: Synonym of work in progress.
synonyms: word: work in progress
works in process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work in process
AV bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AV bundles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bundle of His.
synonyms: word: bundle of His
atrioventricular bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrioventricular bundles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bundle of His.
synonyms: word: bundle of His
AV node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AV nodes
Etymology: From AV (“atrioventricular”) + node.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small structure in the heart, located in the Koch's triangle, near the coronary sinus on the interatrial septum.
Stanco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stancos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Stanco.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
AV nodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AV node
AV bundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AV bundle
atrioventricular bundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atrioventricular bundle