cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.ɪ.saɪd/
Forms: form: ambicide
Etymology: Misspelling of amicicide, from Latin amicus (“friend”) + caedo (“I kill”).
Senses: examples: text: Friends looked on the corpse of him they loved, and among the truest mourners was the unintentional amicide.
ref: 1881, History of Jackson County, Michigan, page 465:
text: Hippolito, shattered by his realization that he had almost committed “the most execrable act of amicide,” blames himself for “his blindness in not knowing his dearest friend” (495).
ref: 2002 Autumn, Aspasia Velissariou, ““This thing was only designed for show and form”: The Vicissitudes of Resemblance in Congreve's Incognita”, in Journal of the Short Story in English, volume 39:
text: The separated head of Namuci followed Indra, accusing him of amicide and Brahmicide, wherever Indra went.
ref: 2006, Zacharias P Thundy, “Classical Analogues—Eastern and Western—of Sir Gawain”, in Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents:
text: Perhaps 'amicide' sounds too flippant but for another Director of the CIA, William Colby, and many others, what he called the American-sponsored overthrow of Diem was the worst mistake of the Vietnam War.
ref: 2014, A. Short, The Origins of the Vietnam War, page 270:
glosses: The act of killing a friend.
examples: ref: 1982, Charles R. Schrader, Amicide: The Problem of Friendly Fire in Modern War:
text: It was called amicide. friendly fire, or blue-on-blue.
ref: 2000, Frank L. Grzyb, A Story for All Americans: Vietnam, Victims, and Veterans, page 197:
text: Fratricide (or amicide) is a terrible consequence of combat operations.
ref: 2006, Bruce W, Fowler & William C. McCorkle, Automated Target Recognition and Fratricide Reduction:
text: Friendly fire, also called "amicide," "fratricide," or "blue on blue," has been a constant problem in warfare since the beginning of recorded time.
ref: 2011 Winter, Michael J Davidson, “Friendly fire and the limits of the military justice system”, in Naval War College Review:
glosses: The accidental killing of a member of one's own side in warfare.
planetcide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planet + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the BEMs had better be *real* sure the technology of their "deadly probes" is sufficient to deal with said technological life forms when they finally get there, because an unsuccessful attempt at planetcide is bound to get the victims upset -- and they might come looking for the perpetrators.
ref: 1990 April 18, Mike Van Pelt, “Fermi Paradox: Deadly Probes”, in sci.space (Usenet), message-ID <2393@hsv3.UUCP>:
text: >Proof of this is that the mean temperature of the planet has only
>risen less than 1 degree over the last century.
Why are you attempting to commit planetcide with your lies?
ref: 2006 November 26, Roedy Green, “Re: Global Warming A Lot Of Bunk--Climate Expert”, in bc.politics (Usenet), message-ID <rd3qm2h94dj91qadm709e98rmso1qtmnp1@4ax.com>:
glosses: The act of killing all living creatures on a planet.
glucuronans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucuronan
Christiany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christiany
form: most Christiany
form: christiany
Etymology: From Christian + -y.
Senses: examples: text: History is full of Christiany people, Christiany music, Christiany nations, and Christiany churches. They claim the name of Christ but seem uninterested or unwilling to submit to his authority or take his instructions seriously.
ref: 2015, John J. Thompson, Jesus, Bread, and Chocolate:
text: I have a soft spot for outcasts. I've been an outsider so many times. I was too shy, then too loud. I wasn't cute enough. Not developed enough for the boys, then too developed for the girls. Not thin enough. Not pretty enough. Too pretty for them (“she must be vain”). Too Christiany here. Not Christiany enough there. Too young for this group. Too old for that group. Too conservative for those. Too liberal for them. Not enough money to run with this bunch. Not experienced in their area.
ref: 2015, Jen Hatmaker, Ms. Understood: Rebuilding the Feminine Equation:
qualifier: slightly derogatory
glosses: Characteristically or stereotypically resembling a Christian
Related terms: Christianish
Christian-like
Christianish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christianish
form: most Christianish
Etymology: From Christian + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic or resembling a Christian.
examples: text: Though Christianish, he woulde not eat Pig's Face; and sayd Swine's Flesh was forbidden by the Hebrew Law far its Unwholesomenesse in hot Countries and hot Weather, rather than by Way of arbitrarie Prohibition.
ref: 1852, Anne Manning, Edmund Lodge, The Household of Sir Thomas More:
text: [...]—to indicate unwholesome leanings in the tone of training, as towards Romish ceremonials, &c., or on the other hand, toward sceptical principles and vague Christianish socialism—to propose for the adoption of the General Committee, distinct and proper prizes for the encouragement of the men and women engaged in the great work of popular education; [...]
ref: 1853, John Bird Sumner, The Knot of To-day, and a Hand to Undo It:
glosses: Somewhat Christian.
high-low split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The rule, present in the game Omaha high-low split, of dividing the pot in half, between the player with the highest and lowest-ranking.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The game Omaha high-low split.
Omaha high-low split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A variant of Omaha with high-low split (sharing the pot between the players with the highest and lowest hands).
Huey, Dewey and Louie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
Etymology: After the nephews of Donald Duck in Disney cartoons.
Senses: examples: text: Gentleman Johnny's Huey, Dewey and Louie are the next highest cards visible. The three twos look puny against light-fingered Tucker's kings, but Johnny's still in the pot.
ref: 2011, Warren Bull, Murder Manhattan Style, Untreed Reads, →ISBN, page 40:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Three twos; a three of a kind of twos.
topics: business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Three hypothetical customers, user personas, or similar constructs.
Related terms: sense: hypothetical people
word: Alice and Bob
sense: hypothetical people
word: Tom, Dick and Harry
anthroponymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthroponym + -ous. By surface analysis, anthrop- + -onym + -ous = anthropo- + -nym + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Anthroponymous fishing grounds were named by Norfolk Islanders after Norfolk Islanders.
ref: 2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies, page 72:
text: Theses spaces happened to be anthroponymous, given that the military groups and their families adopted as surnames the space that they occupied within the interior of the village.
ref: 2016, Order and Chivalry, page 53:
text: It is not clear on what basis the names were chosen, but a systematic anthroponymous linkage across generations and between affines seemed likely.
ref: 2013, Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, page 396:
glosses: Of or relating to an anthroponym.
Related terms: anthroponymy
earthberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthberries
form: earth-berry
Etymology: From earth + berry. First attested in the 1800s, mostly in texts about or translated from German or other languages which use similar terms, of which it is likely a calque: German Erdbeere, Dutch aardbei, Danish jordbær, etc. Compare Old English eorþberġe (“strawberry”, literally “earthberry”). Also compare Polish poziomka, Russian земляни́ка (zemljaníka) (related to земля́ (zemljá)).
Senses: examples: text: The berries of the islands are sweet black currants, cranberries or goosh, strawberries and earthberries, together with the diddy, mountain, and malvina berries common to the Falkland Islands.
ref: 1869 July 1, Thomas Bridges, “Fireland and its people”, in The South American Missionary Magazine, volume III, page 114:
text: One time, the poor man had had no bread in the cupboard for a whole week, and the family lived on roots and stewed earthberries.
ref: 1882, Jeremiah Curtin, “The Round Stone (A Hungarian Folk-story)”, in St. Nicholas, volume 9:
text: Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana): A member of the rose family, the strawberry also has the nickname earthberry. No one could mistake this plant's succulent red and juicy berries.
ref: 1999, 2000 Herbal Almanac
text: It didn't take long for the waves of heat to reach him, and with them came the scents of tempanuts, earthberries, and honey.
ref: 2012, Lena Horn, The Celestial Saga: Forgotten Fox:
text: One evening in Norway we had earthberries and cream just as Mr Haythornthwaite, the Englishman who visited our town when I was a child, would have had in Norway in the nine-teen-twenties.
ref: 2013, Desmond Hogan, Farewell to Prague:
text: The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground.
ref: 2014, Denis Dunstone, Why Is an Apple a Pomme?:
glosses: A berry whose fruit lies upon the ground, in particular the strawberry (plant and fruit)
earthberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthberry
earth-berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth-berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earthberry.
papern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papern
form: most papern
Etymology: From paper + -(e)n (“made of”).
Senses: examples: text: A woodhouse is rightly a house for wood, and a woodenhouse one made of wood; a paper bag, a bag for papers, and a papern bag, one made of paper; an iron tool, one for working in iron, and an ironen tool, one of iron, and so on.
ref: 1832, Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.), Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle:
text: Put thare ta draw things out a Jan; An thit twis bit a papern wal, Zo thit tha witch cude yer et al, An, wen Jan enter'd tother dore, Cude tul min aul ha'd naw'd avaur ;— [...]
ref: 1865, Nathan Hogg, Poetical Letters and a Witch Story, in the Devonshire dialect:
text: Afore night 'twur the talk o' all the parish, an' folk did run in an' out all day long for a week to look at un. An' I got a basket o 'apples an' a papern bag o' lollipops for the childern to carr' in my pocket. [...] But the lollipops had all a-melted drough the papern bag, an' he wur a-stickt to my pocket.
ref: 1904, The Living Age, volume 242:
glosses: Made of paper.
Fennicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Fennicises
form: Fennicising
form: Fennicised
form: Fennicised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fennicize.
Fennicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Fennicise
Fennicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Fennicise
Fennicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Fennicise
military rank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military ranks
Senses: glosses: A grade conferred upon officers in armed forces, police and intelligence agencies, typically denoted by particular insignia affixed to their uniforms.
military ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military rank
coming to the fore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come to the fore
pignoratitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Late Latin pigneraticius, pignoraticius, from Latin pigneratus, pignoratus + -icius (“-itious”).
Senses: examples: text: ...the mortgagor, when possession has been delivered might (on the debt being paid or satisfied out of the profits) reclaim it by the pignoratitious action...
ref: 1840, Authur Browne, A compendious View of the Civil Law and of the Law of the Admiralty..., page 207:
glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to pignoration.
youngsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more youngsome
form: most youngsome
Etymology: From young + -some.
Senses: examples: text: We hope no literal reader will misunderstand us; for Dr. BRIGHAM's family numbers some four hundred and fifty members, and he is yet a youngsome man. All that was here to be seen, we saw ; and of much that we beheld we shall discourse hereafter.
ref: 1847, Knickerbacker, Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 30:
text: […] a barbecue, as it is probable they have done in some other colleges, nor yet have our faculty adopted this mode of dress very generally for themselves, though one or two of the more youngsome members have been seen thus habited; […]
ref: 1886, The Oberlin Review, volumes 14-15:
text: We pause. This newborn is half asleep, half awake, perched, docked really, atop the carriage in a comfy baby seat at table height. I ask how old he is. “Three months,” the youngsome couple says together.
ref: 2013, Joe Wise, The Truth in Twenty ... and Then Some:
text: Then round about went she, the Dame of the Helmings, And to doughty and youngsome, each deal of the folk there, Gave cups of the treasure, till now it betid [sic] That to Beowulf duly the Queen the ring-dighted, […]
ref: 2013, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Beowulf:
text: And three days before he died, had she not, that youngsome witch, not gone on that dark night somewhere, and there were all those whisperings, soft steps, silences, and goings on.
ref: 2015, Raja Rao, Collected Stories:
glosses: Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful
Synonyms: juvenile
youthsome
semilunar valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilunar valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: heart valve
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valve#Noun
coordinate_terms: atrioventricular valve
glosses: Either of the two crescent-shaped valves in the heart that prevent backflow from the arteries into the ventricles.
Related terms: english: one of the semilunar valves
translation: one of the semilunar valves
word: aortic valve
english: one of the semilunar valves
translation: one of the semilunar valves
word: pulmonary valve
semilunar valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semilunar valve
roulroul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roulrouls
form: roul roul
form: roul-roul
Etymology: From the misspelling "roulroul" in George Robert Gray's 1844 publication List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum, from a misinterpretation of "Le Rouloul de Malacca" as an instance of reduplication in Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's Deliciae florae et faunae Insubricae, seu novae, aut minus cognitae species plantarum et animalium quas in Insubria Austriaca, tam spontaneas quam exoticas vidit, descripsit, from "Rouloul de Malacca" (plate 100) and its description (pages 174 and 175) in Pierre Sonnerat's 1872 Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, fait par ordre du roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781, from the Malayic onomatopoeic rendition of one of the bird's calls.
Senses: glosses: A gamebird in the pheasant family, the crested partridge (Rollulus rouloul).
butterbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterbutts
form: butter butt
form: butter-butt
Etymology: From butter + butt.
Senses: glosses: The yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata), a North American bird species with a conspicuous yellow rump.
glosses: The yellow-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa), an Australian bird species with a conspicuous yellow rump.
butterbutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterbutt
laetificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laetificate
laetificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laetificate
charm offensives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charm offensive
asdet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Acronym of after sudden death extra time.
Related terms: aet
ultrametamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + metamorphism.
Senses: glosses: The process of metamorphism at extreme temperatures and pressures where rocks are partially heated to magma, to which the affected rocks then become metamorphic after fusing.
Related terms: ultrametamorphic
ultrametamorphosis
DPD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Dallas Police Department.
DPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of depersonalization-derealization disorder.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dependent personality disorder.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of depressive personality disorder.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of digital predistortion.
Myanmar snub-nosed monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
Burmese snub-nosed monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burmese snub-nosed monkeys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey.
synonyms: word: Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
Burmese snub-nosed monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burmese snub-nosed monkey
digit sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digit sums
Senses: examples: text: The digit sum of 517 is 5 + 1 + 7 = 13.
text: Given an integer X written in base 10 (as is usual), compute the sum of the digits of X: call the result the digit sum of X. If the digit sum is greater than 9, we form the digit sum again. Continue in this way to obtain the iterated digit sum which is at most 9.
ref: 2004, J. F. Humphreys, M. Y. Prest, Numbers, Groups and Codes, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 49:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The sum of all digits.
raw_tags: of a positive integer
examples: text: The digit sum of 517 is 4, since 5 + 1 + 7 = 13 and 1 + 3 = 4.
text: The definition is that to find the digit sum of any number, add all the digits in the number. If number is a one digit no. then stop else add all the digits in this new number. Continue this process till we get one digit number.
ref: 2012, Kiran Parulekar, Amazing Properties of Squares & Their Calculations, Kiran Anil Parulekar, page 17:
text: Every number has a digit sum. The digit sum of 7 is seven. The digit sum of 62 is eight (6 + 2). The digit sum of 728 is also eight (7 + 2 + 8=17, 1 + 7 = 8). The digit sum of a number is found by adding all the digits in the number until a single digit is left.
ref: 2002, Paul Swan, Investigating Patterns in Number Relationships, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the number obtained when repeatedly applying above described operation until arriving at a single-digit number.
raw_tags: of a positive integer
aavakaaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avakaya
form: aavakaya
Senses: glosses: A variety of pickle from Southern India, particularly popular in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. It is composed primarily of dried mango pickled in powdered mustard, red chili powder (dried, sometimes roasted, and powdered), salt, sesame oil, and fenugreek.
Bat-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: bat-
Etymology: Originally of the nature of a noun adjunct forming compound nouns, first bat + man = the batman or the Bat-Man = Batman, then later bat-phone = Bat-phone, bat-signal = Bat-signal, and so on.
Senses: examples: text: Holy unsafe sex, Batman! Did you forget to use your Bat-condom?
ref: 2002 October 27, Richard B. Becker, “Re: The most implausible thing about BoP (no spoilers)”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <3DBCA45A.F8B8C1AF@mindspring.com>:
glosses: Belonging to or associated with Batman; sometimes said of bat-themed objects used by him.
cheese knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese knives
Senses: glosses: A type of knife used for cutting cheese, typically with a wide, curved blade with two prongs.
glosses: A spatula used to break down curd.
emissions trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet the Kyoto Protocol's most enduring legacy may be a uniquely American idea - that "emissions trading" can help control heat-trapping gases at low cost.
ref: 2005 February 17, David B. Sandalow, “Emissions trading is Kyoto's success story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants.
Derived terms: carbon emissions trading
forclosures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forclosure
PTSDer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTSDers
Etymology: From PTSD + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who has post-traumatic stress disorder.
readduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readduces
form: readducing
form: readduced
form: readduced
Etymology: From re- + adduce.
Senses: glosses: To adduce again.
readduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of readduce
readducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of readduce
readduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of readduce
reincentivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reincentivizes
form: reincentivizing
form: reincentivized
form: reincentivized
Etymology: From re- + incentivize.
Senses: glosses: To incentivize again.
reincentivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reincentivize
reincentivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reincentivize
reincentivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reincentivize
Aatxe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Aatxe (“young bull”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A spirit in Basque mythology, a cave-dwelling shapeshifter usually taking the form of a young bull. Arising from his lair at night, more so in stormy weather, Aatxe attacks malevolent people such as criminals and, in addition, safeguards people by keeping them at home when danger is nearby.
Synonyms: Aatxegorri
Aatxegorri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Aatxegorri (“young red bull”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Aatxe.
synonyms: word: Aatxe
M-ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Paul Magriel.
Senses: examples: text: M=(mbox stack)/(mbox smallblind+ mbox bigblind+ mbox totalantes)
text: A player in an eight-player game with blinds of $50/$100, an ante of $10, and a stack of $2,300 has an M-ratio of 10. It would take 10 orbits for their chips to deplete if they only fold each time.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A measure of the health of one's stack: the stack divided by the sum of the small blind, the big blind and the antes of each player. The result (M) is the time (the number of orbits) it would take for one's chips to deplete if the player only passively places their forced bets and otherwise folds.
wikipedia: Paul Magriel
VPIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of voluntarily placed (money) in the pot.
Senses: examples: text: If a player voluntarily puts money in the pot every two hands, their VPIP is 50%.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The percentage of hands where a player voluntarily placed money in the pot, if given the opportunity to do so.
horse pistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse pistol
covert prestige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: Prestige acquired in a community by using a non-standard language variety, such as a working-class dialect.
Related terms: overt prestige
gabillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: There were about a gabillion people there, mostly teens, screaming and carrying on like he was the biggest star in the world.
ref: 2000 January 13, ANJI LAFRENIERE [username], “Minneapolis, Bradshaw, 5 rolls of film, and a wonderful show!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
gatrillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatrillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: What group are you posting from? I bet a gatrillion dollars you are posting from AMMJ.
ref: 2005 June 29, FlyFish_rep [username], “Re: Is Michael Jackson insane?????”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet):
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
helicotremas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helicotrema
Sturm and Drang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sturm und Drang.
strats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strat
systematic element names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systematic element name.
Gibraltese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gibraltese
form: most Gibraltese
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Gibraltar.
Synonyms: word: Gibraltarian
forage caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forage cap
PTSDers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PTSDer
ta-tas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ta-ta
mammo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: mamm-
Etymology: New Latin combining form, from Latin mamma (noun, literally “female breast”), ultimately cognate with mama and mom.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: relating to the mammary organs (mammary glands, breasts, udders, and dugs), or to females
Synonyms: mast-
mamm-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mammo- before a vowel.
Derived terms: mammalgia
mammaplasty
mammectomy
mammiform
mammiplasia
mammitis
Jibril
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جِبْرِيل (jibrīl). Doublet of Gabriel.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic used chiefly among Muslims, the Arabic version of Gabriel.
crown clade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown clades
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crown group.
synonyms: word: crown group
crown clades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown clade
unwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + walked.
Senses: examples: text: The picture that springs to mind here might be one of an unwalked dog looking forlorn.
ref: 2015, Alicia Eaton, Words That Work: How to Get Kids to do Anything, page 26:
glosses: Not having been walked.
qualgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwæl.ɡəʊ/
rhymes: -ælɡəʊ
Forms: form: qualgos
Etymology: From the initial letters; modelled on earlier quango.
Senses: glosses: A quango associated with local government rather than national government.
qualgos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualgo
albumblatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albumblatt
soft deletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft deletions
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: hard deletion
glosses: An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
hard deletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard deletions
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: soft deletion
glosses: An operation in which data is erased from the database.
avakaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aavakaaya.
aavakaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aavakaaya.
yallah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: yalla
Etymology: From Arabic ياالله (“c'mon”).
Senses: qualifier: Arab Australian
glosses: c'mon, come on, let's go
cross-site request forgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-site request forgeries
form: CSRF
form: XSRF
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: An exploit of a website where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts.
Hypernyms: forgery
dangling pointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dangling pointers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A pointer (variable that holds the address of a memory location) that does not reference a valid object.
Synonyms: wild pointer
laetification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laetificate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: To the laetification, of disgeneration by neuhumorisation of our kristianiasation.
ref: 1937, James Joyce, edited by Eugène Jolas, Transition - Issues 26-27, page 52:
text: […] because he is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
text: 30 October 1944 Victory Overture (patriotic laetification)
ref: 1949, Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, page lix:
text: Its musical language combines the elements of national lyricism, expressive narrative and exultant laetification, the qualities that are in correspondence with the epic subject of the opera.
ref: 1952, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, My Life, page 4:
text: So whoop whousabout a plumpaside, poison kerls, for the laetification MS 47479, 22 of disgeneration and by euhumourisation neuhumourisation of § % FW 331 […]
ref: 1963, James Joyce, edited by David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:
glosses: An act or instance of laetificating.
veriloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more veriloquent
form: most veriloquent
Etymology: From Medieval Latin vērācitās, semantically equivalent to Latin vērāc- (etymological inchoation of vērāx) "true" > ver + -iloquent.
Senses: examples: text: But, Dr. Jacob, you have gone further, and have dared to call public attention to what you have been pleased to designate "the first-fruits" of our anti-reform constitution, to wit, the dismissal of your veritable and veriloquent self from the office of Assistant Secretary in the College of Surgeons […]
ref: 1840, The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, volume 2, page 125:
text: It has been often remarked, that men, honest, honourable, and verlioquent in everything else, will cheat and lie in horse-trading.
ref: 1855, John Lewis, New Hope: Or, The Rescue. A Tale of the Great Kanawha, page 204:
text: We have given up magniloquent speech to follow veriloquent speech.
ref: 1987, Richard Peter McKeon, Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery, page 184:
glosses: Speaking truth; truthful; corresponding to facts.
groving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grove
groved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grove
groved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a groved hill
glosses: Covered in groves.
ultroneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ultroneously
form: most ultroneously
Etymology: From ultroneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Spontaneously; voluntarily.
ultroneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultroneous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I would certainly make it against law, as it plainly is against nature, for cousins-german to marry; and if we could pair ourselves as we pair our live stock, and give ear to the teaching of an enlightened zoönomy, we might soon drive many of our fellest diseases out of our breed; but the law of personality, of ultroneousness, of free will, that which in a great measure makes us what we are, steps in and forbids anything but the convincement and force of reason.
ref: 1858, John Brown, Spare Hours, page 446:
text: Today he is imparting his ultroneousness to all the Indians.
ref: 1977, Piare Lal Sharma, World's Wisest Wizard: A Psychography of Sanjay Gandhi's Cosmic Mind:
glosses: The state or quality of being ultroneous; spontaneousness; voluntariness.
idoneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin idōneitās.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being idoneous.
early position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The position of the first players to play the current hand, such as: UTG (under the gun), UTG+1, UTG+2.
Synonyms: EP
Coordinate terms: middle position
late position
middle position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The position of players between the early and the late position positions, such as: MP1, MP2, MP3.
Synonyms: MP
Coordinate terms: early position
late position
late position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The position of the last players to play the current hand, usually not counting the blinds, such as: BTN (button), CO (cutoff).
Synonyms: LP
Coordinate terms: early position
middle position
Greenland cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenland cod
Senses: examples: text: Gadus ojac Rich. (d. s.)—Greenland cod-fish; ojac or ovak (Greenland). Polar regions.
ref: 1873, United States Bureau of Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, U.S. Government Printing Office:
text: Greenland cods have been observed to perform migrations over 1000 km, northeastern Atlantic cod, 800-900 km, while cod of the North Sea, the Channel, and the Irish Sea undertake migrations of lesser magnitude.
ref: 1990, Daniel M. Cohen, Gadiform Fishes of the World:
text: The Greenland cod (Gadus ogac) is often called rock cod in Newfoundland and Labrador.
ref: 2007, George A. Rose, Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries:
glosses: A species of ray-finned fish in the cod family, (Gadus macrocephalus ogac, syn. Gadus ogac).
Synonyms: ogac
rock cod
ogac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an Inuit language. Compare Inuktitut ᐆᒐᖅ (oocaq), Greenlandic uuaq, uugaq (“cod”).
Senses: examples: text: The shore fish which were brought to us by Indians from Old Sitka were always dark-colored, with long heads and eyes far apart, and with conspicuous blotches, in general appearance often resembling the small cod taken in shallow water off South Greenland—the ogac form of the common cod.
ref: 1881, Proceedings of the American Fisheries Society, volume 10, page 25:
text: […] and in this part of the year he then concentrated on collecting and studying trematodes from fishes, the few fish species customarily caught through holes in the ice for consumption, mainly the father lasher and the ogac.
ref: 1976, Ornithological observations in Southern Peary Land, North Greenland, 1973, volume 205, page 10:
text: The ogac most closely resembles the Atlantic cod […]
ref: 1992, Brian W. Coad, Guide to the marine sport fishes of Atlantic Canada and New England:
text: The oceanic-demersal assemblage includes fishes living on or close to ocean-bottom substrates. The ogac, ribbed sculpin, spatulate sculpin, shorthorn sculpin, spinyhook sculpin, archer eelpout, pale eelpout, and daubed shanny are included in this assemblage.
ref: 2011, Chukchi Sea Planning Area: Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska: Revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, DIANE Publishing:
glosses: Synonym of Greenland cod.
synonyms: word: Greenland cod
thost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English thost, from Old English þost (“dung; ordure”), from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *tews- (“to clear; empty; drain”).
Senses: examples: text: To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]
ref: 1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:
glosses: dung
urlanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urlanguage
ur-languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ur-language
thoughty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɔːti/
ipa: /ˈθɔdi/
ipa: /ˈθɑdi/
Forms: form: thoughtier
form: more thoughty
form: thoughtiest
form: most thoughty
Etymology: From Middle English thoughty, thoghty, equivalent to thought + -y. Cognate with Scots thochty, thouchty (“thoughty”), Dutch gedachtig (“thoughty”), German gedächtig (“suspicious”).
Senses: examples: text: His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.
ref: 1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 22–23:
text: [...] "there was no questioning Glenn's ability. He was a very 'thoughty' guy. And he was also a very sly one — for Glenn Miller."
ref: 1980, George Thomas Simon, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra:
text: "Yoi, yoi, it's always the other guys," the Ganymedean snorted in disgust. "But SF is the phonetic equivalent of 'as if in Milt Gross dialect, a very thoughty parallel."
ref: 1981, Martin Harry Greenberg, Fantastic lives:
text: And Abe — she remembered him from one time Mr. Lincoln brought him to town, a thoughty talky little thing that noticed everything and had a word for it. He wasn't more than ten or eleven now, but had done some remarkable growing.
ref: 2001, Richard Slotkin, Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln:
text: I have been thoughty of my grandmother all week, every day actually. Thoughty is a word straight from Gramma's dictionary and is defined by an inner cognitive awareness of someone. It is more than thoughtfulness. It is a more intense character trait as it involves the spirit on a much deeper level. When I am thoughty of someone, they are not only on my mind, but in my heart, and connected to and felt by my spirit. This is what it means to be thoughty.
ref: 2007, Ma Kimberly Quinn Smith, Kimberly Quinn Smith Ma, A Full Moon Rising...and the Tao of Menopause:
text: Killing me now, for whatever reason, was going to take a lot of guts and a lot of thought, and I planned to be much gutsier and thoughtier.
ref: 2009, Lonnie Cruse, Fifty-seven heaven:
text: Ditto my nightly hit of Marketplace, a thoughty economy-based show on NPR. It never hit home until Salem's wise and loving and occasionally-during-sweeps-months demon-possessed psychiatrist and her studly husband got the ax.
ref: 2011, Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl:
text: Prior to sampling, Mike characterized himself as a “thoughty” person, and it might have been tempting to launch an investigation of the characteristics of his thinking.
ref: 2011, Russell T. Hurlburt, Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth:
text: “Such a thoughty man! And easy on the eyes, as well! Well done, my man! You're such a doat!” She raised her cup of mead in salute.
ref: 2013, Cait Oliver, Laying the Ghost: A Return to Culloden:
glosses: Given to serious thought or reflection; either attentive or pensive.
Synonyms: contemplative
reflective
thoughtier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thoughty: more thoughty
thoughtiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thoughty: most thoughty
Ku Klux Klanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ku Klux Klanners
Etymology: From Ku Klux Klan + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ku Klux Klan.
multitaxa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + taxa.
Senses: examples: text: One of the leading consequences of these negative impacts is biotic homogenization, i.e., the increasing similarity of biotas of large geographical areas over space and time, a multitaxa global phenomenon.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Human-Induced Landscape Changes Homogenize Atlantic Forest Bird Assemblages through Nested Species Loss”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of multitaxon.
synonyms: word: multitaxon
normoventilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + ventilation.
Senses: examples: text: There was no significant difference in pulmonary arterial pressure (data not shown), but there was a trend towards a lower central venous pressure in the HH-group as compared to the 2 normoventilation groups (NN and NH).
ref: 2016 February 4, “The Effects of Lung Protective Ventilation or Hypercapnic Acidosis on Gas Exchange and Lung Injury in Surfactant Deficient Rabbits”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: normal ventilation (of the lungs)
pericellularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pericellular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This representation allows for curved fibers that can collapse locally yet still transmit tension as they are gathered into a pericellularly dense region around the explants.
ref: 2016 February 4, “A Combined In Vitro Imaging and Multi-Scale Modeling System for Studying the Role of Cell Matrix Interactions in Cutaneous Wound Healing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding a cell
propleuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propleura
Etymology: From pro- + pleuron.
Senses: examples: text: Body brown except: yellowish clypeus and inter-torular area; scapus and pedicellus yellow (17 th antennal article grey, 18 th -21 st articles white), propleuron and upper corner of mesopleuron, first metasomal tergite; mesoscutum, scutellum and propodeum suffused with yellow; wing membrane slightly infuscate; pterostigma brown (but rather pale at base and apex), veins mostly brown, legs yellow, ovipositor sheath brown and apically whitish.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Species Diversity in the Parasitoid Genus Asobara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Native Area of the Fruit Fly Pest Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The lateral sclerite of the anterior division of the thorax of an insect
Related terms: propleural
prostamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethanolamide of a prostaglandin
prostamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Endocannabinoids can act as substrates for enzymes of the prostaglandin biosynthetic pathways and can be utilized to generate other related compounds such as prostamides.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Differential Regulation of Eicosanoid and Endocannabinoid Production by Inflammatory Mediators in Human Choriodecidua”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of prostamide
retopologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retopologizes
form: retopologizing
form: retopologized
form: retopologized
Etymology: From re- + topology + -ize.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To redefine the mesh of a 3D model at a lower resolution
Derived terms: retopologization
Related terms: retopology
retopologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The architecture of the arterial vascular tree was extracted from a μCT scan of a mouse liver (d,e) and this raw data was retopologized to make the model sinterable (f).
ref: 2016 February 4, “Open-Source Selective Laser Sintering (OpenSLS) of Nylon and Biocompatible Polycaprolactone”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of retopologize
lavani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Marathi लावणी (lāvṇī)
Senses: examples: text: WATCH: Sairat fame Rinku Rajguru performs lavani with Madhuri Dixit
ref: 2016 June 23, “Bosco Martis and Terence Lewis battle it out for Mouni Roy”, in The Times of India:
glosses: A genre of music and dance popular in Maharashtra.
rhamnosylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnosylations
Etymology: From rhamnosyl + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, since the enzymatic catalytic site may have one or more pockets for substrate binding, and may generally be suitable for drug design and development (i.e., druggable), the rhamnosylation enzyme EarP(Nm) is an attractive target for antibiotic drug development toward the treatment of meningitis.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Neisseria meningitidis Translation Elongation Factor P and Its Active-Site Arginine Residue Are Essential for Cell Viability”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that forms a rhamnoside
twitterati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After all, it gives them - and twitterati in general - recurrent opportunity to troll the CM for being able to find the time to watch scores of films despite being a full-time politician.
ref: 2016 June 23, “Kejreview: He came, he watched, he tweeted”, in The Times of India:
glosses: Alternative form of Twitterati.
vrikshasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit वृक्ष (vṛkṣa, “tree”) + आसन (āsana, “seat, chair; sitting, way of sitting”).
Senses: examples: text: " About her favourite asana, she said, "I like doing vrikshasan.
ref: 2016 June 22, “Koyal Rana and Sangram Singh's Yoga Day out in CP”, in The Times of India:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: A particular yoga pose, balancing on one leg with arms raised.
Synonyms: tree pose
robomussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robomussels
Etymology: From robo- + mussel.
Senses: examples: text: The root mean square error (RMSE) and the Pearson’s correlation coefficient between live mussel and robomussel temperatures were calculated for each medium.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Field Measurements Indicate Unexpected, Serious Underestimation of Mussel Heart Rates and Thermal Tolerance by Laboratory Studies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An intertidal temperature datalogger that mimics the thermal characteristics of a mussel
robomussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Comparison with live animals showed that robomussels provided a good estimate of mussel body temperatures.
ref: 2016 February 4, “Field Measurements Indicate Unexpected, Serious Underestimation of Mussel Heart Rates and Thermal Tolerance by Laboratory Studies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of robomussel