cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
deoxythymine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˌɒksɪˈθaɪmiːn/
Etymology: From deoxy- + thymine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A deoxyribonucleoside related to thymine
disiamylborane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disiamylboranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic borane bis(1,2-dimethylpropyl)borane that is used to synthesize aldehydes from alkynes
siamyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical 1,2-dimethylpropyl- that is isomeric with amyl
hexatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sexaatomic
form: sexa-atomic
Etymology: From hex- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having six atoms in each molecule
galectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlɛk.tɪn/
rhymes: -ɛktɪn
Forms: form: galectins
Etymology: Blend of galactoside + lectin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lectin that binds galactosides
Derived terms: galatrox
nematogalectin
flub up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flubs up
form: flubbing up
form: flubbed up
form: flubbed up
Senses: glosses: To flub; to botch or mess up.
filos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filo
Heilsgeschichte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Heilsgeschichte.
Senses: examples: text: Without a divine Heilsgeschichte it would not make sense to speak of Jesus' ‘deity’. He would then simply be one of the heroes of history—nothing more.
ref: 1959, Guthrie/Hall, translating Oscar Cullman, The Christology of the New Testament, p. 306
text: He was not a Leninist because he would have had no conception of historical self-determination. The only kind of history that mattered was Heilsgeschichte, or salvation history.
ref: 2007 December 4, Terry Eagleton, The Guardian:
text: The much greater iconographic programmes of the other three Bibles mean that a sort of pictorial Heilsgeschichte can be given spread throughout the work: in the Bamberg it has to be compressed.
ref: 2008, Jill Bradley, You Shall Surely Not Die, volume 1, page 71:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: History seen as the work of God's salvation. (Especially, in Christianity, the history of the Old Testament, seen as a preparation for the coming of Christ.)
glosses: Any interpretation of history as leading to eventual well-being, as e.g. in Marxism.
Maka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Makas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Mąka, and also from Tamil மகா (makā).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
puddley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puddley
form: most puddley
Etymology: From puddle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of puddly.
unkerned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kerned.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Not kerned.
multitool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multitools
form: multi-tool
Etymology: From multi- + tool.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: EDC, everyday carry
glosses: A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
glosses: A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
glosses: A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
Any of a class of folding or telescoping tools with a plier head as the central implement and with sets of peripheral implements (typically knife blades, screwdrivers, files, saws, can openers, bottle openers, scissors, and so on).
glosses: A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
glosses: A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
synonyms: oscillating tool
glosses: An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
Related terms: multibit
multidriver
multipurpose
multiuse
multitools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitool
small forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small forwards
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A forward who is the shorter of the two forward positions, and often plays behind the power forwards.
power forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power forwards
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A forward who is the taller of the two forward positions, and is often responsible for scoring near the basket, collecting rebounds and blocking shots in defense.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A forward who is capable of both rugged physical play and scoring goals.
slapsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slap + -sies.
Senses: qualifier: hand games; children's games; hand games; children's games
glosses: A children's game in which the players position themselves in a circle and each place one hand in the centre (normally on top of a table or other item of furniture). An ordinal number or another word such as "last" or "penultimate" is then called out by someone and whoever draws their hand away from the circle at that position has their hand slapped by the other players.
Related terms: patty cake
slaps
red hands
bloody knuckles
sola topee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sola topees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of solar topee.
Habbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Habbos
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A member of the social networking website Habbo.
MySpacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MySpacers
Etymology: MySpace + -er
Senses: examples: text: Many MySpacers have at least a few celebrity names in their list […]
ref: 2007, Peter Buckley, Rough guide to MySpace and online communities:
text: When you sign up for the account and start building your network of fellow MySpacers, you are forced to put a limited number of them on your home screen.
ref: 2009, Kirby Alfaro, Black Coffee:
text: To MySpacers the traditional idea of a 'work ethic' does not apply. Home is the only safe place to be (so many continue living with their parents).
ref: 2009, Nigel F Piercy, Nikala Lane, Strategic Customer Management: Strategizing the Sales Organization:
glosses: A member of the social networking website MySpace.
MySpacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MySpacer
hush one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hushes one's mouth
form: hushing one's mouth
form: hushed one's mouth
form: hushed one's mouth
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be quiet.
totally disconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that each connected subspace is a singleton.
notitia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈtɪʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Forms: form: notitiae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin notitia. Doublet of notice.
Senses: glosses: A roll, list, or register: a catalogue of public functionaries, with their districts: a list of episcopal sees.
Related terms: notitia criminis
clunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clunches
Etymology: Perhaps related to clump. Compare hump, hunch; lump, lunch, etc.
Senses: examples: text: clunch pit
text: The manor-house stands near the church, and is a large convenient old house built of clunch, stone, &c. with good gardens and walks adjoining to the river side.
ref: 1736, Charles Parkin, History of Norfolk, volume 6:
glosses: A traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay.
clunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clunches
form: clunching
form: clunched
form: clunched
Etymology: Alteration of clench.
Senses: examples: text: As William Wallace felt the bank giving away under his feet, he clunched the other boy firmly by the arm.
ref: 1920, Nephi Anderson, The Boys of Springtown, page 15:
glosses: To grasp firmly; clench.
trape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: trapes
Etymology: Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).
Senses: examples: text: Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]
ref: 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
glosses: A messy or untidy woman.
trape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: trapes
form: traping
form: traped
form: traped
Etymology: Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).
Senses: examples: text: No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.
text: "I expect that's right," Frest admitted. "You going to drop right down—or be you hunting and traping along? You'n Delia?"
ref: 1920, Raymond S. Spears, chapter 6, in Diamond Tolls:
glosses: To drag.
glosses: To run about idly or like a slattern.
slap shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slap shot
autognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôʹtəg-nōʹsĭs
ipa: /ˌɔːtəɡˈnəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌɔːtəɡˈnəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌɔtəɡˈnoʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌɑtəɡˈnoʊsɪs/
Forms: form: autognoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) (“self”) + γνῶσις (gnôsis) (“knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
Synonyms: self-knowledge
self-awareness
bumfuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: uk
ipa: /ˈbʌmfʌzl/
note: us
ipa: /ˈbəmˌfəz(ə)l/
Forms: form: bumfuzzles
form: bumfuzzling
form: bumfuzzled
form: bumfuzzled
Etymology: Probably an alteration of fuzzled (“confused, intoxicated”), with the colloquial intensifier prefix bum-. First attested in 19th-century U.S. dialect.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly South Midland US
glosses: To confuse or fluster.
Related terms: befuddled
bewildered
confounded
flummoxed
perplexed
pull up a pew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls up a pew
form: pulling up a pew
form: pulled up a pew
form: pulled up a pew
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take a pew.
bumfuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bumfuzzle
bumfuzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bumfuzzle
bumfuzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bumfuzzle
notitia criminis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nōtitia (“renown”) + crīminis, genitive of crīmen (“verdict”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A notice conveyed to a prosecutor that a crime is alleged to have occurred.
sad ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sad asses
form: sadass
Senses: examples: I'm gonna play that game when I get home!
What a sad ass.
glosses: One who has unfashionable interests or obsessions.
eco-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-houses
form: ecohouse
Etymology: From eco- + house.
Senses: examples: text: Another initiative was support for the Indonesian Ministry of Environment on eco-house design, with the construction of a pilot eco-house […]
ref: 2007, United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP Annual Report 2006:
glosses: A house designed to be environmentally friendly.
titches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titch
titches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of titch
transition town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition towns
Etymology: Compound of transition + town.
Senses: glosses: A town in the British and Ireland that is a member of the Transition Towns movement and is striving to develop a higher standard of living and an environmentally friendly future.
transition towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transition town
square roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square root
external world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: external worlds
Senses: examples: text: Human beings are able to form ideas that correspond in some way with a real world, outside of themselves. . . . [T]o each necessary relation a:b in human consciousness, there corresponds a relation A:B in the external world.
ref: 1882, Josiah Royce, “Mind and Reality”, in Mind, volume 7, number 25, page 30:
text: Is not a vast "background" of experience what we all really mean by an external world, or God, according to the mood we are in?
ref: 1954, Daniel Cory, “God or the External World”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 51, number 2, page 61:
text: Skeptics . . . claim that our evidence can't support our beliefs about the external world.
ref: 2003, Ram Neta, “Contextualism and the Problem of the External World”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 66, number 1, page 1:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose existence is accepted by the human mind, but which exist independently of the mind.
Derived terms: problem of the external world
Related terms: noumenon
phenomenal world
real world
Archimedean solids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Archimedean solid
Catalan solids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catalan solid
pentakis dodecahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentakis dodecahedron
rainshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnˌʃeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: rainshades
Etymology: From rain + shade; compare sunshade.
Senses: examples: text: No reason to wait up for her, Kellen told himself, hanging up his cloak and shaking out his rainshade before setting it in its tray to finish drying.
ref: 2005, Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory, To Light a Candle:
glosses: An umbrella; any covering to protect or shield from the elements; an awning to keep out rain
Synonyms: umbrella
Related terms: rainscreen
-ex
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Imitative of the ending of Latin-derived words such as index and codex
Senses: glosses: Used to construct company and product names that borrow meaning from the root word.
Derived terms: Amex
Celotex
Centrex
Durex
Kardex
Kleenex
Memorex
Perspex
Piñatex
Purex
Rolex
Romex
Timex
Tippex
Windex
hot springs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot spring
moradas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morada
meles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mele
lumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lume
Etter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
hard-arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard-arses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard-ass.
Related terms: hard-arsed
Google-fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: google-fu
form: Google fu
form: google fu
Etymology: From Google + -fu (suffix indicating expertise or mastery).
Senses: examples: text: If you need to brush up on your Google-fu, check out Google Hacking for Penetration Testing from the talented and modest Johnny Long.
ref: 2006, Johnny Long, Max Moser, Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Syngress, →ISBN, page 107:
text: ... they think they have all the Google-fu they'll ever need ...
ref: 2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers... in the Library?!, ALA Editions, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Coworkers seek out my Googling abilities. My Google-Fu is strong.
ref: 2007, Ben Grabow, "Big Brother Is Watching You Google", Scripps Howard News Service, May 9, E. W. Scripps
text: ... one thing that I did notice when I was doing a little google-fu on the issue is that there appears to be approximately 20 to 50 billion dollars spent by the federal government ...
ref: 2008 May 5, Kevin Drum, “Political Animal: Corporate Welfare in the Oil Patch”, in Washington Monthly:
text: Oh, dang, I blogged about this once and can't find my blog post now (anyone with better Google-fu than I want to help?)
ref: 2008 August 6, Robin Abrahams, “Miss Conduct Chat”, in The Boston Globe:
text: [Gary] Small suggests the inexperienced may register less brain activity because they haven't yet figured out the right strategies required to perform a successful search. In other words, their Google-fu is weak.
ref: 2008 October 16, Austin Modine, “Internet searches stimulate brain more than books: Assuming good Google-fu”, in The Register:
text: Kitty sighed. “It's worth looking into.” She pointed at the nearest computer. “Ed, I need your Googlefu.” Ed swung around and poised his fingers over the keyboard.
ref: 2015, Gretchen McNeil, Get Dirty, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: A skill in using search engines (especially Google) to quickly find useful information on the Internet.
Related terms: -fu
google-fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Google-fu.
Google fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Google-fu.
google fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When you use your google fu on Forrester, the first thing that shows up is KnoxViews.
ref: 2008, Michael Silence, "Silence: Attention Span Might Favor the Twitter"1, Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 2, E. W. Scripps
glosses: Alternative spelling of Google-fu.
evar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛvɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈɛvɚ/
Senses: examples: text: That was the best party evar!!1!!!1!
glosses: ever (at any time)
chipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipas
Etymology: From Guaraní chipa.
Senses: glosses: A kind of baked cheese-flavoured roll eaten in Paraguay.
see-thru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more see-thru
form: most see-thru
Senses: examples: ref: 2010, Jessica Mazurkiewicz, See-Thru Butterflies Stickers:
glosses: Alternative spelling of see-through.
hens' night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hens' nights
form: hen night
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Helen Denkha, Private Purgatory, Llumina Press, Florida, page 63,
The cruises were very popular for Hens’ nights, and the girls would really let their hair down.
text: Among the so-hip-it-hurts couples and civilians, hens’ night group (bachelorette party) there; all giggles and squeals in the corner.
ref: 2006, Stacey DeMarco, Witch in the Bedroom: Proven Sensual Magic, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, page 33:
text: 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, Black Inc., Melbourne, page 25,
The hens’ night, the wedding and the marriage seem to boil down to slut for a night, princess for a day and slave for the rest of your life.
text: Tiaras are common accessories at school dances, kids’ birthday parties and hens’ nights.
ref: 2008, Karen Brooks, Consuming Innocence: Popular Culture and Our Children, University of Queensland Press, page 239:
text: 2010, Barbara Elsborg, Digging Deeper, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Ohio, page 31,
Flick hoped Stef married someone rich.
Willow chatted about her hens’ night.
text: 2008, David P. Reiter, Primary Instinct, Interactive Publications, Queensland, page 32,
His sister, who had called me sister from the day we were engaged, and shared her most private thoughts with me regarding her bi-sexual fantasies on my Hens’ Night, has never called me since.
glosses: A hen night.
Synonyms: sense: hen night
word: bachelorette party
hen's party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen's parties
Senses: examples: text: They actually call out to male strippers at hen′s parties, ‘Show us your tits.’ I would have thought that it would be more appropriate to yell, ‘Show us your vital male equipment’ or words to that effect. But no.
ref: 1996, Kerry Cue, Australia Unbuttoned, part i, page 34:
text: A few of us from school went to her hen′s party, which was a new experience for me and the other Westerners at the school. One of the best things about the party was the advice for new brides she received — all of it traditional Tanzanian wisdom which bore a distinct resemblance to The Auatralian Women′s Weekly circa 1928.
ref: 2007, Gemma Sisia, Saint Jude′s: A girl from Guyra, a school in Africa and the patron saint of hopeless causes, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 197:
text: 2011, Jacqueline Lunn, Under the Influence, Random House Australia, page 16,
In Sarah′s book, big events were for weddings, birthdays, christenings and hen′s parties, not funerals. They were for the good stuff.
text: 2011, Garry Disher, Whispering Death, Text Publishing Company, Victoria, page 60,
The diners, this Friday evening, were a mix of locals and weekender tourists. Young, middle-aged, old. Kids on a first date, a hen′s party of shire office workers, the Waterloo postmaster and his wife, a family singing Happy Birthday to an ancient crone.
glosses: A hen night.
grip-car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grip-cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grip car.
raine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raines
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rain.
pentatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: penta-atomic
form: pentaatomic
Etymology: From penta- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having five atoms in each molecule.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution.
pesthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pesthouses
Etymology: From pest + house.
Senses: glosses: An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections
Related terms: pesthole
asylum
sanatorium
serotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serotherapies
Etymology: From sero- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: I will take this opportunity to present various regional initiatives in serum production that are absent from most historical accounts of serotherapy, even those focusing on France.
ref: 2016, Jonathan Simon, Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of sera or vaccines.
Derived terms: autoserotherapy
serotherapeutic
synthesizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synthesizable
form: most synthesizable
Etymology: From synthesize + -able.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to be (easily) synthesized
trouvère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouvères
Etymology: Borrowed from French trouvère.
Senses: examples: text: The activities of Jewish singers immediately before the expulsion from Spain testifies that they were outsiders in every respect, regarded neither as Jews nor Christians. They also appeared in the company of troubadours and trouvers, and like Suesskind of Trimberg (c.1220); these Jewish singers mastered the international repertoire no less than their Gentile colleagues.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 199:
glosses: A medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d’oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d’oc (Occitan)
Related terms: word: troubadour
trouveur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouveurs
Etymology: From French trouveur. Piecewise doublet of troubadour.
Senses: examples: text: 1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, Book IV, 1829, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 16,
Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sang
Of Lancelot du Lake, the truest Knight
That ever loved fair Lady;
text: But, secondly, a great many of these tales were borrowed from the narratives of the trouveurs or minstrels who wandered through the north of France, relating stories or reciting poems for the amusement of their entertainers.
ref: 1834, Robert Thomson, Treatise on the Progress of Literature and its Effects on Society, page 81:
text: The origin of these tales must be traced to the inventions of the Trouveurs, who doubtless often adopted them from various nations.
ref: 1835, Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature, First Series, page 118:
glosses: A minstrel, a troubadour.
trouvères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trouvère
ultracentrifugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ultracentrifugates
form: ultracentrifugating
form: ultracentrifugated
form: ultracentrifugated
Etymology: From ultracentrifuge + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To separate by means of an ultracentrifuge.
minifloppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minifloppies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mini-floppy.
minifloppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minifloppy
Kachchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kutchi
form: Cutchee
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the Kutch region of Gujarat.
ultracondenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultracondensers
Etymology: From ultra- + condenser.
Senses: glosses: The optical condenser of an ultramicroscope
code face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code faces
form: codeface
Etymology: Blend of code + coalface.
Senses: examples: text: […] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling.
ref: 1992, Patrick A V Hall, Software reuse and reverse engineering in practice:
text: Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face (as it were), we encounter this urge to apologize for the current techniques and to seek improvement?
ref: 1992, Derek Partridge, Engineering artificial intelligence software:
text: This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame.
ref: 1999, Barb Knox, “Y2K Optimism: Unjustified in survey”, in comp.software.year-2000 (Usenet):
text: Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date the moment it's written, and difficult to write […]
ref: 2003, Robert L Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering:
text: Code craft starts at the codeface; it's where we love to be. We programmers are never happier than when immersed in an editor, bashing out line after line of perfectly formed and well-executed source code.
ref: 2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code craft: the practice of writing excellent code:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
codeface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codefaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of code face.
Zeist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Zeist.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Coca-Colas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coca-Cola
drivetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drivetimes
form: drive-time
Etymology: From drive + time.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drive time.
drivetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drivetime
drive times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drive time
dehire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehires
form: dehiring
form: dehired
form: dehired
Etymology: From de- + hire.
Senses: glosses: To terminate the employment of.
glosses: To terminate use under a lease of.
Synonyms: sense: terminate employment
word: decruit
word: let go
word: unhire
word: lay off
ultramontanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramontanisms
Etymology: From ultramontane + -ism, after French ultramontanisme.
Senses: examples: text: Ultramontanism is often seen as a conservative force in the Church, but after 1815 it represented innovation and the prospect of Church reconstruction and revival, albeit of a particular type.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 818:
glosses: A Roman Catholic philosophy that emphasises the prerogatives and powers of the Pope.
Derived terms: neo-ultramontanism
ultramontanist
Related terms: ultramontano
Vaticanism
potsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potsie
glosses: plural of potsy
tam o'shanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tam o'shanter
Senses: glosses: plural of tam o'shanter
etherealness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etherealnesses
Etymology: From ethereal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ethereal.
Synonyms: ethereality
etherealnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etherealness
chromograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromographs
Etymology: From chromo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: chromolithograph
Related terms: chromogram
chromography
chromographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromograph
hypersonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypersonically
form: most hypersonically
Etymology: From hypersonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hypersonic way.
swoopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swoopingly
form: most swoopingly
Etymology: From swooping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swooping way; with a swooping motion.
unslapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slapped.
Senses: glosses: Not having been slapped.
Synonyms: unsmacked
unskilfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unskilfully
form: most unskilfully
Etymology: From unskilful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unskillfully.
sixth forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixth form
ultravirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraviruses
Etymology: From ultra- + virus.
Senses: glosses: A filterable virus.
amortisseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amortisseurs
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of amortisseur winding.
squirrel cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirrel cage
béarnaise sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: béarnaise sauces
form: bearnaise sauce
Etymology: from French, the feminine of béarnais (the adjective from the Béarn region, using -ais (“-ese”)) + sauce
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs.
Synonyms: béarnaise
bearnaise
leag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leags
Senses: examples: text: I found the hand & three others Indians the rest of the Canoes Camped 2 leags Below
ref: 1989, Harry W. Duckworth, The English River Book: A North West Company Journal and Account Book of 1786, McGill-Queens, →ISBN, page 19:
text: … from the Illand of flowers beinge ten Leags South weste from ytt.
ref: 2000, Harry S. Burrage, Gorges and the Grant of the Province of Maine 1622, Heritage Books, →ISBN, page 81:
text: … E [by] S distant six Leags.
ref: 2006, Joseph E. Garland, The Fish and the Falcon, The History Press, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Archaic spelling of league.
béarnaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: béarnaises
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of béarnaise sauce.
Béarnais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French Béarnais.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or descendant of the population of the Béarn region in the French Pyrenees
bearnaise sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearnaise sauces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of béarnaise sauce.
bearnaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearnaises
Senses: glosses: Béarnaise sauce.
colorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From color + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Colorable kid menu with crayons provided for the under-21 set.
ref: 1990, Val Mallinson, The Dog Lover's Companion to the Pacific Northwest: The Inside Scoop on Where to Take Your Dog, →ISBN, page 426:
glosses: US standard spelling of colourable.
Derived terms: uncolorable
colourable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌləɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: colorable
Etymology: From colour + -able.
Senses: glosses: Colourful.
examples: text: Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse the want of execution or answer.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie […].
ref: 1612, John Smith, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia, Chapel Hill 1988 (Select Edition of his Writings), p.178
text: These three examples have what may be called a 'colourable' claim for a public justification: they do not appear to us as checkerboard statues because, looking at the distinctions they draw, we presume the required justification does exist.
ref: 2003, Ofer Raban, Modern legal theory and judicial impartiality, page 83:
glosses: Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
examples: text: Glauce, what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Deceptive; fake, misleading.
topics: law
glosses: Deceptive; fake, misleading.
In appearance only; not in reality what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned.
examples: text: This matter, however, is not itself coloured, but is only capable of exhibiting colours, by the addition of other matters : and hence we have ventured to call it the colourable, rather than the colouring parts of the plant, by which we merely indicate its property of becoming coloured, but not its actual possession of colour.
ref: 1811, Daniel Ellis, Farther inquiries into the changes induced on atmospheric air, by the germination of seeds, the vegetation of plants, and the respiration of animals, page 117:
text: These results were discovered whilst investigating uniquely edge colourable graphs.
ref: 1978, A. G. Thomason, “Hamiltonian Cycles and Uniquely Edge Colorable Graphs”, in Advances in graph theory: Volume 1977, →ISBN, page 259:
text: A circle graph with no cycle of length four is colourable with three colours.
ref: 1992, A. Finkel, M. Jantzen, editors, STACS 92, 9th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, page 397:
text: Take a look at the free colouring page application available at Kidopo[…]This service offers all the essential colouring tools _^([sic]) a pen, a pencil, colouring palette etc _ and presents a variety of colourable pictures for helping the child simulate a real colouring experience.
ref: 2010 October 4, J Murali, “Online document sharing: expanding frontiers”, in The Hindu:
glosses: That can be coloured.
Derived terms: colourableness
recolourable
uncolourable
colophonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colophony
fieri facias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English fieri facias, from Medieval Latin fierī faciās (“thou shouldst cause it to be done”), which is not a normal Classical Latin construction but a calque from Romance causatives from faciō and infinitive (attested since Late Latin).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In English law, a writ of execution issued after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages.
Derived terms: fi fa
fi. fa.
fi. fa.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fi fa
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of fieri facias.
fi fa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fi. fa.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of fieri facias.
subleaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subleasers
form: sub-leaser
Etymology: From sub- + leaser.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublessor
word: underlessor
word: sublandlord
word: underlandlord
word: subletter
word: underletter
word: underleaser
word: head tenant
english: as tenant
translation: as tenant
word: superior tenant
word: sublessor
glosses: Synonym of sublessor.
subleasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subleaser
sublemmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublemma
sublemmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublemma
sublessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublessees
form: sub-lessee
Etymology: From sub- + lessee.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: subtenant
word: undertenant
word: underlessee
word: subtenant
glosses: Synonym of subtenant.
sublessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublessee
meunière
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mənˈjɛɹ/
ipa: /mʊn-/
ipa: /-ˈjeɪ/
Etymology: From French meunière (literally “miller's wife”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Of fish: dredged in flour before being sautéd or pan-fried.
Related terms: meunière sauce
military attaché
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military attachés
Etymology: military + attaché
Senses: examples: text: Military attachés are usually high-ranking officers.
glosses: A diplomatic attaché for military affairs.
glaciological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glaciology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glaciology.
Derived terms: astroglaciological
glaciologically
glaciologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From glaciological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a glaciological way.
scriptless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From script + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a script.
relaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relace
relacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relace
relaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relace
coronis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏrōʹnĭs
ipa: /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊ.nɪs/
rhymes: -əʊnɪs
Forms: form: coronides
Etymology: From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
examples: text: The coronis of this matter is thus ; some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.
ref: 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38
glosses: The conclusion of something; the end of something.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A character similar to an apostrophe or the smooth breathing written atop or next to a non–word-initial vowel retained from the second word which formed a contraction resulting from crasis; see the usage note.
Related terms: colophon
vignette
coudé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French coudé.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the gum coudé or prostatic catheter enters more easily[…]
ref: 1926, Hugh H. Young, David Melvin Davis, Franklin Paradise Johnson, Young's Practice of Urology, Based on a Study of 12,500 Cases, page 469:
text: FIGURE 22.1 A, Standard 16fr two-way Foley catheter. B, 18fr two-way coudé catheter. C, 24fr three-way catheter (hematuria catheter). Coudé catheters have curved tips (Figure 22.1B). These catheters are helpful[…]
ref: 2019 October 8, Alok Gupta, Daniel B. Jones, Surgery Boot Camp Manual, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Both Foley and coudé catheters are designed to be left in place, draining the bladder continuously or intermittently for an extended period of hours, […].
ref: 2021 December 7, Barbara L Yoost, Lynne R Crawford, Fundamentals of Nursing E-Book: Active Learning for Collaborative Practice, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1067:
glosses: Bent at the tip at a 45° angle, like an elbow.
raw_tags: of a catheter
hydroalcoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + alcoholic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a solution in which the solvent is a mixture of water and alcohol
æternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æternal
form: most æternal
Senses: examples: text: Theologia mystica, or The mystic divinitie of the æternal invisibles, viz. the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever.
ref: 1683, John Pordage, Jane Lead, and Edward Hooker (editor), Theologia mystica, or The mystic divinitie of the æternal invisibles, viz. the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever. A work never exstant before. By a person of qualitie JPMD., main title (self-published)
text: 1824, James Ellice, Æternal life, or, A future state the universal doctrine of the sacred […] , main title
Æternal life, or, A future state the universal doctrine of the sacred […]
text: “Then did we bury those who by the savages had been murtherèd. And so my mother did I prepare for her æternal rest. From her face did I wash the blood and lay her at her peace, and at her side my brother William and —” Virginia choked back a sob then went on in a whisper. “And my Little Shadow, mine Elizabeth, with her lamb o’ rags and stuffing in her arms fore’er held.”
ref: 2005, Henrik Moller, Virginia, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 186–187, →ISBN:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of eternal.
fillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fillo
nonconfession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconfessions
Etymology: From non- + confession.
Senses: glosses: The absence of a confession, or the refusal to confess
nonconfessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconfession
search engine optimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search-engine optimization
Senses: synonyms: SEO
organic search marketing
SEM
glosses: The use of various techniques to improve the ranking of a website in search engines in the hopes of attracting more visitors.
Related terms: english: app store optimization
translation: app store optimization
word: ASO
S.Afr.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of South Africa.
pht
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: phht
form: phpht
Senses: glosses: Used to signify mild annoyance or disagreement.
glosses: The sound of a short fart.
Synonyms: pshh
feh
pooh
pshaw
pish
bah
poh
pars distalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: päz' dĭstäʹlēs
enpr: päz' dĭstāʹlēs
enpr: päz' dĭstăʹlēs
ipa: /ˌpɑːz dɪsˈtɑːliːs/
other: /ˌpɑːz dɪsˈteɪliːs/
other: /ˌpɑːz dɪsˈtaliːs/
enpr: pärz' dĭstăʹlis
enpr: pärz' dĭstāʹlis
ipa: /ˌpɑɹz dɪsˈtælis/
other: /ˌpɑɹz dɪsˈteɪlis/
Forms: form: partes distales
Etymology: First attested in English in 1913 or prior: from scientific Latin pars distālis, from classical Latin pars (“part”) + post-classical Latin distālis (“~distant”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The distal part of the adenohypophysis, which contains the majority of its hormone-secreting cells.
oxlips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxlip
première danseuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prəmyĕr däɴsöz
enpr: prĕ'mĭë dŏnsӛzʹ
enpr: prĕ'mĭë dänsӛzʹ
enpr: prĕ'mĭë dănsӛzʹ
ipa: /pɹəmjɛ(ɹ)dɑ̃søz/
other: /ˌpɹɛmɪɛː dɒnˈsəːz/
other: /-dɑːnˈsəːz/
other: /-danˈsəːz/
enpr: prəmi.ĕr' dänso͝ozʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈmjɛɹ dɑnˈsuz/
ipa: /pɹəmiˌɛɹ-/
ipa: /-dɑnˈsəz/
other: /-dɑnˈsʊz/
Forms: form: premières danseuses
form: premiere danseuse
Etymology: From French première danseuse (unlisted in dictionaries of French); from première, feminine form of premier (“first”) + danseuse, feminine form of danseur (“dancer”); feminine form of premier danseur (“first dancer”).
Senses: examples: text: They honestly thought they were doing good with it, and so they were — with what was left after the publicity man and the printer and the première danseuse had been paid.
ref: 1920, National Municipal League, National Civic Review, volume 9, page 152:
text: The School remained under the management of Miss Margaret Curtis. Miss Rita De Leporte was Première Danseuse and Mr. Giuseppe Bonfiglio was Premier Danseur.
ref: 1931, Pierre Key, Irene E. Haynes, Pierre Key’s Musical Who’s who: A Biographical Survey of Contemporary Musicians, volume 1, page 64:
text: […] in 1935 she joined the company formed by Leon Woizikowski, touring Germany, France and Spain, and became première danseuse of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York.
ref: 1943, Albert Ernest Wier, Thesaurus of the Arts: Drama, Music, Radio, Painting, Screen, Television, Literature, Sculpture, Architecture, Ballet, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 148:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: The lead female dancer in a ballet.
Synonyms: sense: lead ballerina
word: première
sense: lead ballerina
alt: Italianate
word: prima ballerina
Related terms: english: masculine equivalent
translation: masculine equivalent
word: premier danseur
premières danseuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of première danseuse
mediumship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediumships
Etymology: From medium + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The mother is a spiritualist—has been for years—and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in Viola when a child.
ref: 1905, Hamlin Garland, “Dr. Britt Explains”, in Tyranny of the Dark, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2008, page 70:
text: "I may add that in my own domestic circle, under my wife's mediumship, we have been privileged to bring hope and knowledge to some of these unhappy beings."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: But for myself I do not regard mediumship very favourably.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 276:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
Derived terms: mental mediumship
physical mediumship
birthday girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthday girl
mediumships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediumship