cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
broscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bro + science.
Senses: examples: text: Broscience is the predominant brand of reasoning used by amateur bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts where the anecdotal stories of people who really have no idea what's going on inside their bodies takes precedence over credible scientific research.
ref: 2012, Michael Matthews, 12 Health & Fitness Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making, Oculus Publishers, →ISBN:
text: This brings us to more work by Dr. Leidy, who put this meal frequency/satiety broscience to the test to see if eating more actually does make you less hungry during the day.
ref: 2017, Michael Roussell, The MetaShred Diet: Your 28-Day Rapid Fat-Loss Plan, Rodale Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Any pseudoscientific claim on behalf of fitness goals derived from bodybuilding experience.
Derived terms: broscientist
bullneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullnecks
Etymology: From bull + neck.
Senses: glosses: A bull-necked person.
examples: text: The engineer kept shaking his head. A muscle bulged out on his arm. Felix tapped the rebellious biceps, soothing it with a barely perceptible touch. The engineer was listening now, his bullneck calm, his shoulders drooping.
ref: 2014, David Grossman, The Zigzag Kid:
glosses: A short and thick neck, like that of a bull.
Derived terms: bullneck seahorse
chirotony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χειροτονίᾱ (kheirotoníā), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + -τονία (-tonía) (from τόνος (tónos, “stretching, tension”)).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The laying on of hands as an ecclesiastical rite
Related terms: chirothesia
laying on of hands
decrime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈkɹaɪm/
Forms: form: decrimes
form: decriming
form: decrimed
form: decrimed
Etymology: From de- + crime.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To remove the criminal status of a reported crime, typically due to insufficient evidence or to artificially reduce crime statistics
elastofluid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From elasto- + fluid.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Both elastic and fluid
exairesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exaireses
form: exhairesis
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of crossectomy.
synonyms: word: crossectomy
exhairesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhaireses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exairesis.
pub test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pub tests
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical test of the social acceptability of something (e.g. a government policy, a certain behaviour) as though by asking the opinions of people drinking in a pub.
Related terms: field test
Joe Sixpack
kitchen table issue
man on the street
man in the street
reality check
sanity check
sanity test
sniff test
Council of Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Council of Europe
Senses: glosses: An international organisation focused on protecting human rights, democracy, rule of law in Europe, with headquarters in Strasbourg, France.
Synonyms: CoE
Related terms: Council of the European Union
European Council
CoE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Council of Europe.
glosses: Initialism of Church of the East.
CoE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CoEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of center of excellence.
Godwaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: TILLER, William, of Fordingbridge, wheelwhright, 21 b., & Susannah Godwaine, of Burcombe, co. Wilts.
ref: 1893, William John Charles Moens, Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837:
glosses: A surname.
Sothic year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sothic years
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The span of time between successive heliacal risings of the star Sirius, equivalent to almost precisely 365¼ days.
Related terms: Sothic cycle
Sothic period
Sothic years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sothic year
Sothic cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sothic cycles
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The roughly 1460-year cycle between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.
Related terms: Sothic year
Sothic period
Sothic cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sothic cycle
Sothic period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sothic periods
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The roughly 1460-year period of time between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.
Synonyms: canicular period
Great Year
Related terms: Sothic year
Sothic cycle
Sothic periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sothic period
rainbows and unicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnbəʊz(ə)nd ˈjuːnɪkɔːnz/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪnboʊz(ə)nd ˈjunɪkɔɹnz/
Forms: form: rainbow unicorns
Senses: examples: text: In a Results-Only Work Environment, people can do whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. […] You get paid for a chunk of work, not for a chunk of time. We realize that this sounds too good to be true. This kind of freedom and control and trust sounds like the stuff of rainbows and unicorns. But this idea didn't come out of the blue.
ref: 2008, Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson, “Introduction: We’ve Had Enough … Have You?”, in Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke—The Simple Change that can Make Your Job Terrific, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio, →ISBN:
text: Don't get me wrong; it is not all rainbows and unicorns. […] Despite my extensive experience with offline experimental design (from clinical trials to testing the effectiveness of direct mail marketing), I found the online testing space extremely challenging.
ref: 2015, Brian Hawkins, Lily Chiu-Watson, “Appendix A: Interviews with Target Professionals”, in Adobe Target: A Guide for Marketing, Business, and IT Professionals (Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe), San Jose, Calif.: AdobePress, →ISBN, page 188:
text: Keep in mind that none of this is guaranteed to end with rainbows and unicorns. Like any idea, notions such as "culturcide" and "the culture of one" can be used by people to achieve what will strike a particular society or group or individual as negative effects; nonetheless, I hope to keep things mostly upbeat.
ref: 2017, Daniel S. Traber, “Introduction: Kill Yr. Culture”, in Culturcide and Non-identity across American Culture, Lanham, Md.; London: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxvi:
text: Just a few days earlier, the president [Donald Trump] had remarked that "nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated". Now he's promising rainbows and unicorns.
ref: 2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2017:
synonyms: word: sunshine and rainbows
word: rainbows and butterflies
word: beatitude
word: bliss
word: delectation
word: delight
word: ecstasy
word: euphoria
word: lust
word: nirvana
word: pleasure
word: rapture
word: ravishment
word: transport
antonyms: doom and gloom
glosses: A wonderful (but often unrealistic) scenario.
Related terms: utopia
Shwetha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
express elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: express elevators
Senses: glosses: A high-speed elevator that only serves a select number of floors
examples: text: Throw in Mr Trump's promise of a "great, great wall along our southern border" - with estimates starting at $12bn - and "massive tax relief for the middle class", and the price tag for his speech proposals is on an express elevator to astronomical.
ref: 2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News:
glosses: Something that gets a person somewhere fast
Synonyms: word: express lift
sense: Something that gets a person somewhere fast
word: express train
rice paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice paddles
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the rice is cooked, immediately turn it out into a large shallow bowl or onto a platter and spread out gently with a rice paddle or wooden spatula.
ref: 2003, Jeffrey Alford, Seductions of Rice, page 215:
glosses: A kitchen utensil used to stir and serve rice.
Synonyms: rice spoon
shamoji
Wattpadder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wattpadders
form: Wattpader
Etymology: From Wattpad + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person using a Wattpad website to write and publish articles, poems, fiction or nonfiction stories
mantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantic
tells on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tell on
telling on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tell on
told on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tell on
dentinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛntɪnˌɔɪd/
Etymology: From dentin + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to dentin
dentinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛntɪnˌɔɪd/
Forms: form: dentinoids
Etymology: From dentin + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Dentinoid was defined by Gardner and Farquhar as a collagenous tissue, generally non-mineralized, which resembles dentin, but which neither contains tubules nor fulfils the criteria for atubular dentin, and which is located in a close anatomical relationship to odontogenic epithelium.
ref: 2014 November 20, [Adalberto Mosqueda-Taylor,corresponding author Brad W. Neville, Yukihiro Tatemoto, Ikuko Ogawa, and Takashi Takata], “[Odontogenic Carcinoma with Dentinoid: A New Odontogenic Carcinoma]”, in [Head and Neck Pathology], volume 8, number 4, page 421:
glosses: A dysplastic form of dentin.
synonyms: dentinoma
glosses: A rare tumor of the tooth, in part composed of dentin.
glosses: The early, uncalcified stage of the dentin matrix seen during tooth formation.
dentiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɛnˈtɪpəɹəs/
Etymology: From denti- + -parous.
Senses: examples: text: A thin compact floor of bone separates this groove, and the sockets anterior to it, from the large cavity of the ramus of the jaw; it is pierced by bloodvessels for the supply of the pulps of the growing teeth and the vascular dentiparous membrane which lines the alveolar cavities.
ref: 1866, Richard Owen, On the Anatomy of Vertebrates:
synonyms: dentigerous
glosses: tooth-bearing
dentiroster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛntəɹɑstəɹ/
ipa: /ˈdɛntɒɹstəɹ/
Forms: form: dentirosters
Etymology: From denti- + Latin rostrum (“beak”).
Senses: examples: text: A dentiroster alights and sings on the branch of the plum tree.
ref: 1985, Gioconda Belli, Marc Zimmerman, Nicaragua in Reconstruction & at War: The People Speak : a Collage of Chronology, Analysis, Poetry, Etc. Portraying Insurrection, Reconstruction, Cultural Revolution & U.S. Intervention : Poetry, page 271:
glosses: A dentirostral bird
Nuvvuagittuq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inuktitut (Nunatsiavummiutut dialect).
Senses: glosses: The area on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay that is the location of the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, possibly the oldest known terrestrial rock formation, between 3.75 and 4.3 billion years old, possibly bearing traces of early life.
denti-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /dɛnti/
Etymology: Combining form of Latin dens (“tooth”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dento-.
synonyms: word: dento-
dento-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛntoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
Etymology: Combining form of Latin dens (tooth) with -o-, after the pattern of Greek combining words
Senses: glosses: tooth or teeth
Synonyms: denti-
odonto-
biggening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biggen
there is no there there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: there's no there there
form: there's no "there" there
form: there is no "there" there
Etymology: From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in Oakland, California, no longer existed.
Senses: examples: text: She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
ref: 1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, Vintage Books, published 1973, page 289:
text: There is a character issue for Mr. Bush in this campaign. The clothes have no emperor. There is no there there.
ref: 1992 May 6, Anna Quindlen, “Public & Private: No There There”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
text: This desire to express national difference comes at a time when the world is shrinking rapidly and travellers arrive halfway across the globe to find that there is no "there" there.
ref: 1996 October 12, Sir Terence Conran, “Travel in Style”, in Independent (UK), retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
text: Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world. . . . Cog's "mind," similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. "There's no there there," notes Brooks with a touch of pride.
ref: 2001 June 24, Julian Dibbell, “The Race to Build Intelligent Machines”, in Time, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2015:
text: Mill Creek . . . still lacks a geographic heart. . . . There's no "there" there, no center to the city—unless you count the private Mill Creek Country Club or the grocery-store shopping centers.
ref: 2003 September 26, M. L. Lyke, “Mill Creek works to stay 'nice'”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
text: With Trump, there’s no there there. That is, no substance—not if substance is taken to mean a coherent set of policy proposals.
ref: 2016 January 9, Scot Lehigh, “Don’t presume Trump in New Hampshire”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
glosses: The indicated thing, person, or other matter has no distinctive identity, or no significant characteristics, or no functional center point; nothing significant exists in that place; nothing significant is occurring in that situation.
wikipedia: Everybody's Autobiography
Gertrude Stein
Related terms: wherever you go, there you are
there's no there there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there is no there there.
there's no "there" there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there is no there there.
there is no "there" there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there is no there there.
pub tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pub test
length operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: length operators
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An operator that returns the length of a string in bytes, characters, or code points, or the number of consecutive numerically indexed values in a table or array.
philoxenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philoxenic
form: most philoxenic
Etymology: From philoxenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Showing philoxenia, hospitable.
Related terms: philoxenia
burning plasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burning plasmas
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Abbreviation of burning nuclear plasma.
burning nuclear plasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burning nuclear plasmas
Etymology: From burning + nuclear plasma. From being self-sufficient in the production of the amount of heat necessary to continue the nuclear processes, hence "burning" (where in a chemical fire, the reaction processes produces enough heat to continue reacting in the heat portion of the fire triangle); and being a plasma (a highly ionized gas) where nuclear processes occur.
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A plasma undergoing nuclear fusion where the amount of fusion reactions is sufficient to produce enough energy to maintain the temperature of the plasma at a level necessary for further fusion processes.
Synonyms: burning plasma
nuclear plasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear plasmas
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A plasma undergoing nuclear fusion
Derived terms: burning nuclear plasma
fire triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire triangles
Etymology: From fire + triangle.
Senses: glosses: The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).
glosses: The diagram representing these three elements of a fire.
glosses: A fire and its three components.
Synonyms: combustion triangle
Related terms: fire tetrahedron
combustion triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combustion triangles
Etymology: From combustion + triangle. From the three elements necessary to sustain combustion, therefore being a metaphorical "triangle" (though more like a tripod, having three supporting elements sustaining combustion).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fire triangle.
synonyms: word: fire triangle
catch some rays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches some rays
form: catching some rays
form: caught some rays
form: caught some rays
Senses: examples: text: "We want to sit on the beach, watch the girls, and go catch some rays."
ref: 1992 July 15, Josh Barbanel, “The Lady Edna Is Gone But Not From Long Beach”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
text: Basking in the sun whether it's on the porch or on the boat, he just loves to lay out and catch some rays.
ref: 2015 October 31, Jane Welowszky, “Allen the cat loves supervising and boating”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
text: If the weather is good, take your summer reading outside and catch some rays at the same time.
ref: 2016 July 1, Jack Wallington, “Starting university”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 01 Mar 2017:
glosses: To sunbathe.
Roget
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Roget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Rogets
form: Rogeting
form: Rogeted
form: Rogeted
Etymology: Eponymous, named after Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869)'s 1805 thesaurus.
Senses: examples: text: In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue.
ref: 1931, Joseph Daly, Mencken and Einstein look at religion, page 6:
text: ... the deep waters of English, including 29 pages out-Rogeting Roget with synonyms for "drunk".
ref: 1983, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Punch - Volume 285, page 17:
glosses: To use a thesaurus; to look for synonyms; to suggest synonyms.
examples: text: Mr Sadler added that he had “seen quite a bit” of “Roget-ing”, which he described as “disguising plagiarism by substituting synonyms, one word at a time with no attempt to understand either the source or target text”.
ref: 2014 August 7, Jack Grove, “Sinister buttocks? Roget would blush at the crafty cheek”, in Times Higher Education:
text: Usually it's not, as it's only key words that are Rogeted, so the rest of the sentence gets flagged.
ref: 2015 February 7, Dr Pete Etchells, “Plagiarism: Copy, Paste, Thesaurus? [comment]”, in Discover Magazine: Neuroskeptic blog, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2017:
text: We discuss methods of identifying Rogeted text, concluding with practical recommendations for educators about how to better support student writers so they can avoid Rogeting in favour of developing their writing skills.
ref: 2021, Azimeh Takrimi, Sarah Elaine Eaton, “Exploring Rogeting: Implications for academic integrity”, in Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, volume 4, →DOI, page 110:
glosses: To use or to mention synonyms; (often) to replace words in a text with synonyms in order to disguise plagiarism.
Derived terms: Rogetism
Related terms: Rogetian
Roget's
tortured phrase
Rogeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Roget
folkloricness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From folkloric + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I will argue that this phenomenon may help partially to explain the increasing extravagance and decreasing folkloricness of these works.
ref: 2008, Christopher Stone, Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation, page 11:
text: While the light show was incredible — a spectacle in and of itself as well as an enhancement to the music — there were times that it seemed in opposition to the galloping folkloric-ness and organic essence of the music.
ref: 2013 October 1, Alli Marshall, “Sound Track web extra: Sigur Rós”, in Mountain Xpress:
text: Being constituted as an object of anthropological study, while a crucial form of recognition, may—given the association of anthropology with the exotic or “traditional”—also have the effect of cementing Andalucía’s folkloricness and reproducing its othering.
ref: 2016 September, Jessaca Leinaweaver, “Andalucía, the Americas, and the Anthropological Object”, in American Anthropologist, volume 118, number 3, page 626:
glosses: The quality of being folkloric.
anti-misogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimisogyny
Etymology: From anti- + misogyny.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to misogyny.
Hypernyms: antisexism
Hyponyms: feminism
Related terms: antimisogynist
rode hard and put up wet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ridden hard and put away wet (“in either sense”).
sing Kumbaya
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings Kumbaya
form: singing Kumbaya
form: sang Kumbaya
form: sung Kumbaya
Etymology: From the folksong Kumbaya.
Senses: examples: text: "Without singing 'Kumbaya,' what bad things can I say about him? He has some bad hair days," she chuckles.
ref: 1999, Brill's Content:
text: Peaceful coexistence is attainable, and no one need sing Kumbaya.
ref: 2007, Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook:
text: During a newscast, while reporting on party unity during the 2008 election year, CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux commented that “nobody's singing 'Kumbaya' just quite yet”
ref: 2010, Stephanie P. Ledgin, Discovering Folk Music, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Two Agencies. Same team. Different objectives. It was a match made in hell, but policy makers back in Washington expected everyone to sing kumbaya for the good of the country.
ref: 2021, Taylor Moore, Down Range, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: To seek peace and ignore disagreements.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sing, kumbaya.
mill-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill-stones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millstone.
mill-stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mill-stone (alternative form of millstones).
nikkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nikker
decemplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin decemplex.
Senses: glosses: Having ten parts; decuple or tenfold.
regio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: region
examples: text: regio- + -centrism → regiocentrism
glosses: region (geographic)
kingmakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingmaking
paradrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradrops
Senses: glosses: A delivery of goods or equipment by dropping of a parachute
paradrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paradrops
form: paradropping
form: paradropped
form: paradropped
Senses: glosses: To deliver goods or equipment by dropping of a parachute
air-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air-drop
air-dropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of air-drop
paradrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradrop
paradrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paradrop
paradropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paradrop
paradropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paradrop
a vinculo matrimonii
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin a vinculo matrimonii (“from the bond of marriage”).
Senses: examples: text: These courts never granted divorces a vinculo matrimonii, which permit either—or both—of the divorced persons to contract a fresh marriage […]
ref: 1882, Annie Besant, Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, And As It Should Be: A Plea For Reform, second edition, London: The Freethought Publishing Company, page 38:
text: It includes both the complete abrogation of the marriage relation known as a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, which carries with it a power on the part of both parties to the marriage to remarry other persons or each other […]
ref: 1911, “Divorce”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 334:
topics: law
glosses: Describing an absolute divorce, after which the parties may remarry.
raw_tags: of a divorce
a vinculo matrimonii
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin a vinculo matrimonii (“from the bond of marriage”).
Senses: examples: text: The woman divorced a vinculo matrimonii, receives again all that ſhe brought with her: […]
ref: 1741, “Divorce”, in Ephraim Chambers, editor, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, fifth edition:
topics: law
glosses: Describing an absolute divorce, after which the parties may remarry.
raw_tags: of a divorce
Coordinate terms: a mensa et thoro
iochroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.oʊˌkɹoʊ.mə/
Forms: form: iochromas
Senses: glosses: Any South-American plant of the genus Iochroma
bone-grubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone-grubber
bone-grubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone-grubbers
Senses: examples: text: More than half of our modern scribes, and particularly the dramatic portion of them, are little better than literary bone-'''grubbers, pickers and stealers of unconsidered trifles,—men who, having no brains, live by spinning the brains of others, and give themselves credt for originality.
ref: 1842, William Collier, “A Chapter on Beards”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume 11, January-June 1842, p. 575:
text: The bone-grubber generally seeks out the narrow back streets, where dust and refuse are cast, or where any dust-bins are accessible. The articles for which he chiefly searches are rags and bones—rags he prefers—but waste metal, such as bits of lead, pewter, copper, brass, or old iron, he prizes above all.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 139:
text: If anyone believes that rats are not used for human food, he must change his opinion. In Paris the chiffoniers or bone-grubbers eat them.
ref: 1875 February, James Mackintosh, “All About Rats”, in Ballou’s Monthly Magazine, volume 41, number 2, page 183:
text: While you were there father died. As you know, he was a bone-grubber; the only property he left me was a hooked stick, a bag, and a horse’s skeleton.
ref: 1880, W. T. Washburn, chapter 47, in The Unknown City: A Story of New York, New York: Jesse Haney & Co, page 351:
synonyms: bone-picker
rag-and-bone man
glosses: A person who scavenges for waste materials such as bones and rags to sell.
dentulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛntjəleɪtəd/
Forms: form: more dentulated
form: most dentulated
Etymology: From Latin dens (tooth), -ule, -ate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of denticulated
synonyms: word: denticulated
eye-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-strings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyestring.
eye-strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-string
recompletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recompletions
Etymology: From re- + complete + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of completing again.
glosses: Another completion after a first one (such as when construction on a building is completed, inspected, repaired, and recompleted).
Related terms: recomplete
recompleted
recompleting
canicular days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Latin diēs caniculārēs (literally “puppy days”), from Canīcula (“the Puppy”), a semantic loan of Ancient Greek Κῠ́ων (Kŭ́ōn, “the Dog”) in reference to Sirius, which appears in Epic Greek as κῠ́ων Ὠρίωνος (kŭ́ōn Ōríōnos, literally “Orion’s dog”) in its elided accusative form κύν’ Ὠρίωνος (kún’ Ōríōnos) in Iliad XXII.29.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dog days.
synonyms: word: dog days
loxodograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loxodographs
Etymology: ? + -graph
Senses: examples: text: For this purpose he has contrived an instrument which he calls a "loxodograph," which consists of a compass placed below the ordinary ship's compass, so as to occupy the same relative position in the ship, and so that it can be compared from time to time with the normal instrument.
ref: 1867, The Popular Science Review, volume 6, page 110:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled
homina
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 1993, Sonic the Hedgehog (4-issue miniseries) #3, Archie Comics
Robotnik: If you are a true robot, you will obey! Now tell me the location of Knotville Village at once!
Buzz Bomber: He's stalling, master!
Sonic the Hedgehog: [pretending to be a robot] Homina-homina-homina...
text: I was pretty sure the sounds homina, homina wasn't going to translate into "Hey, let's go get some lunch."
ref: 2009, Tiffany Guthrie, Book: The Lakeside Series, →ISBN, page 460:
text: “Homina-homina-homina-homina,” I hummed, trying not to appear scared shitless.
ref: 2011, K. Dawn Goodwin, Until He Comes: A Good Girl's Quest to Get Some Heaven on Earth, →ISBN:
text: Then again, she would have said "You're crazy," even if I'd said "Homina homina homina homina," so there's no proof.
ref: 2014, Richard Posner, Goodnight, Cinderella, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of hummina.
dentinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentinoid
warfarinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warfarinizes
form: warfarinizing
form: warfarinized
form: warfarinized
Etymology: From warfarin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of warfarinise.
warfarinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warfarinises
form: warfarinising
form: warfarinised
form: warfarinised
form: warfarinize
Senses: glosses: To commence a patient on warfarin therapy.
ear rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear-rape
form: earrape
Etymology: Compound of ear + rape, metaphorically referring to an unwanted assault on the listener's ears.
Senses: synonyms: cacophony
coordinate_terms: eyerape
glosses: Highly unpleasant or cacophonous sounds or music.
glosses: An act of deliberately increasing the volume of the audio of music, often for humorous effect.
no horse in that race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no horse in this race.
regionalect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regionalects
Etymology: Blend of region + dialect
Senses: examples: text: Although the government regulated against speaking Taiwanese regionalects in school, it was much more lenient before 1970, at least in the degree of strictness in enforcing regulations against the offenders.
ref: 2005, J. Makeham, Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua, page 92:
glosses: A dialect spoken in a particular geographical region.
Synonyms: regiolect
geolect
topolect
aksakal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aksakals
form: aksakallar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aqsaqal.
aqsaqal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aqsaqal
form: aqsaqallar
form: aksakal
Etymology: From various Turkic languages, including Bashkir аҡһаҡал (aqhaqal), Kazakh ақсақал (aqsaqal) and Kyrgyz аксакал (aksakal).
Senses: examples: text: 'Hey you! Aksakal!' Rusanov wagged his finger at him. 'Stop it. You're disturbing me.' The aksakal fell silent.
ref: 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, Random House, published 2011, page 28:
glosses: A village elder in some Central Asian cultures.
loathe-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loathe-worthy
form: most loathe-worthy
Etymology: From loathe + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: These alternate with package stores like cause and effect: pawn, booze, pawn, booze, pawn, booze. In fact, aside from Phoenix City, Alabama, Gallup's aggressive squalor and blatant rapacity in turning Navajos, Hopis, Zunis, and others into alcoholics make it the most loathe-worthy town I am able to imagine.
ref: 1998, Reg Saner, Reaching Keet Seel:
text: If I am a mother I'm a loathe-worthy, squeaky-weak mother.
ref: 2015, Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Review: The Aquamarine Issue #5:
text: “Either way, it doesn't make the knowledge any less painful, or loathe-worthy.”
ref: 2016, K.A. Poe, Anathema:
glosses: worthy of disgust or loathing; despicable
acquired disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquired disorders
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition which develops post-fetally, as opposed to a congenital disorder.
lustworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lustworthy
form: most lustworthy
Etymology: From lust + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Abraham's appeared on the top terrace so lustworthy I can't take my eyes off him. His muscles are running with sweat.
ref: 2002, Barbara Toner, Cracking America:
text: The message becomes, real men like muscled women; the fact that they can find her body lustworthy and are not threatened is a test of their own manliness.
ref: 2010, Susan Hekman, Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault:
text: Both a sex object and an admired person may be attributed luster, as physically lustworthy or personally lustrous.
ref: 2013, Jim Combs, Comic Grace:
glosses: Worthy of being lusted after; sexually desirable.
geocontent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geo-content
Etymology: From geo- + content.
Senses: glosses: geographic content
geo-content
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Geo-content is essential.
ref: 2006, Christian Jensen, "Geo-Enabled, Mobile Services—A Tale of Routes, Detours, and Dead Ends" in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (11th International Congress, DASFAA), p. 11
text: The clients are able to discover, browse, create, edit and publish geo-content useful for MR applications.
ref: 2010, Petri Selonen, Petros Belimpasakis, Yu You, “Experiences in Building a RESTful Mixed Reality Web Service Program”, in Web Engineering: 10th International Conference, ICWE 2010, page 402:
text: We name three such achievements: fast and userfriendly 3D reconstruction technologies, web-based 3D visualization within standard browsers, and emerging maturity and usage of volunteered geo-content, which is built from vector data, photo collections, and 3D models.
ref: 2016, Nikolas Prechtel, Sander Münster, “Cultural Heritage in a Spatial Context – Towards an Integrative, Interoperable, and Participatory Data and Information Management”, in 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage II: How to Manage Data and Knowledge Related to Interpretative Digital 3D Reconstructions of Cultural Heritage:
glosses: Alternative form of geocontent.
riseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riseable
form: most riseable
Etymology: From rise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of risible.
rat's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat's nests
Senses: examples: text: rat's nest of a wiring harness
text: To make this mid-17th-century rat's nest of love affairs and sexual confusions intelligible for late-20th-century audiences is a job in itself.
ref: 1990 May 22, Bernard Holland, “Opera: A 17th-Century Rarity, Cesti's 'Dori'”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Mar 2017:
text: That has been held up by the need to negotiate the distribution rights for each country with the labels and artists—a rat's nest of contracts.
ref: 2003 November 1, Charles Arthur, “This is the sound of the future”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 02 Mar 2017:
text: Faced with that rat's nest of legal and jurisdictional issues, the NLRB threw the Northwestern players' labor rights under the team bus.
ref: 2015 August 26, “Editorial: Why can't college athletes unionize?”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 02 Mar 2017:
synonyms: mare's nest
glosses: Something that is excessively complicated, entangled, or disorderly (either physically or metaphorically).
examples: text: Many CPU silicon designers in the 1990s complained bitterly about the rat's nest in the center of SPARC chips.
ref: 2002 January 14, Jim Turley, “Embedded Processors, Part Two”, in PC Magazine, retrieved 02 Mar 2017:
text: And cloud computing relies on millions of connections and services. In other words, it's a troubleshooting nightmare when the cloud goes bust. . . . In other words, the cloud will likely become more of a rat's nest.
ref: 2008 July 21, Larry Dignan, “Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?”, in ZDNet, retrieved 02 Mar 2017:
text: 2016 July 2, veryatlantic, "Saturday, July 2, 2016: Addendum," Tales From The Trailer Court™ (retrieved 2 March 2017):
text: Think of libraries as the way the sub-idiots who like C code hide all the rat's-nest programming they don't want you to see.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mare's nest
glosses: Something that is excessively complicated, entangled, or disorderly (either physically or metaphorically).
A software or hardware system whose design lacks organized structure, making it difficult to understand and maintain.
Related terms: hornets' nest
rat king
spaghetti code
ifil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ifils
form: ipil
Senses: glosses: A Philippine and Pacific island tree (Intsia bijuga), yielding a valuable brown dye and having a very hard and durable dark wood.
examples: text: The priest lived in the kombento. Some people have coffee tables made of ifil. Today people make clocks of ifil wood.
ref: 2001, Lawrence J. Cunningham, Guam: A Natural History, page 53:
glosses: Wood of this tree.
Judas steer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judas steers
Senses: glosses: A steer that leads other cattle to a slaughterhouse.
Related terms: Judas goat
alintatao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alintataos
Etymology: From Tagalog alintataw.
Senses: glosses: Diospyros pilosanthera; a tree in the Ebenaceae family.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Mayer's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution of mercuric chloride and potassium iodide, used to detect alkaloids by causing them to precipitate.
two-port network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-port networks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quadripole.
synonyms: word: quadripole
Ogaden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Somali Ogaadeen, from the clan of the same name, a subsection of the Somali Darod, which inhabit part of the region. Documented folk etymologies include Ogad, the name of a founding father, meaning clever or quick-witted, and a combination of the Harari word ūga (“road”) and Aden, a city in Yemen, supposedly connected to Harar by an ancient caravan route passing through the region.
Senses: glosses: A region in eastern Ethiopia.
wikipedia: Darod
Harar
Harari language
phagnalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæɡ.nəˈlɑn/
Forms: form: phagnalons
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Phagnalon.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Phagnalon
phagnalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phagnalon
pittospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pittospores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pittosporum.
Černovír
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Černovír.
Senses: examples: text: William Čoka, b. Černovír, Moravia, R.C. priest came to US in 1871 and took charge of St. Nepomucene Parish in Chicago.
ref: 2016, Miloslav Rechcigl, Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography, volume 1, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, page 245:
glosses: A former village, nowadays an area of the city of Olomouc, Czech Republic.
glosses: A former village, nowadays an area of the city of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic.
bias tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bias tape
Stewpot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Stewart and Stuart + stewpot; compare -pot.
Senses: examples: text: Fuck, that is brilliant! That is inspired! What sauce! Get in! It's the economy, Stewpot!
ref: 2009 December 12, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, Will Smith, The Thick of It, season 3, episode 8, spoken by Cal Richards (Tom Hollander), BBC Four:
glosses: A nickname for somebody called Stewart or Stuart (as a given name or a surname).
glosses: A nickname for somebody called Stewart or Stuart (as a given name or a surname).
English disc jockey Ed Stewart.
patriarchalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patriarchal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of patriarchalizing.
Derived terms: depatriarchalization
patriarchalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: patriarchalizes
form: patriarchalizing
form: patriarchalized
form: patriarchalized
Etymology: From patriarchal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make patriarchal.
patriarchalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of patriarchalize
patriarchalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of patriarchalize
patriarchalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of patriarchalize
ideocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideocracy
careers fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: careers fairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of career fair.
careers fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of careers fair
tailorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tailor + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tailorable.
half-hardies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-hardy
newscastresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newscastress
Aesopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aesopish
form: most Aesopish
form: Æsopish
Etymology: From Aesop + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Lucky One (1919) came to the stage several years later and was somewhat more serious in tone, being a character study of two brothers, one brilliant, one dull; of course, the tortoise won the race for the hand of the girl they both wanted in typically Æsopish fashion.
ref: 1947, A History of Modern Drama, Ed. by Barrett H. Clark and George Freedley
text: I am feeling a little Aesopish today and hence this story.
ref: 2002, Gaurav Sabnis, Vantage point:
text: It sounds rather Aesopish. Talking snakes, one bad apple ruining it all. I'm not so sure.
ref: 2011, William Huffhine, Confessions of a Christian Dropout:
glosses: Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables; Aesopian
Leninite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛnɪnaɪt/
Forms: form: Leninites
Etymology: From Lenin + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Lenin.
Leninites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leninite
nature deficit disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nature deficit disorders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nature-deficit disorder.
nature-deficit disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nature deficit disorders
Senses: glosses: plural of nature-deficit disorder.
heat indexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat index
nature deficit disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nature deficit disorder (alternative form of nature-deficit disorders).
OHKOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OHKO
autorefractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autorefraction
arrowword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowwords
Etymology: From arrow + word.
Senses: glosses: A kind of crossword puzzle with the clues written in the grid, accompanied by arrows that indicate the position and direction of the answers.
arrowwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowword
safe areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safe area
Sessions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛʃənz/
Forms: form: Sessums
Senses: examples: text: “When I spoke to ADF last year, I learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center had classified ADF as a ‘hate group,’ ” Sessions said. “They have used this designation as a weapon and they have wielded it against conservative organizations that refuse to accept their orthodoxy.”
ref: 2018 August 8, Laura Jarrett, “Sessions: Group that backed baker who turned away gay couple not a ‘hate group’”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Sessions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛʃənz/
Forms: form: Sessums
Senses: glosses: plural of Session
dead wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dead-wrong
form: deadwrong
Etymology: From dead being used as an intensifier.
Senses: glosses: utterly wrong.
dead-wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Be careful how you deny a dead-wrong story that has yet to be published.
ref: 1986, Campaigns & Elections - Volume 7, page 20:
text: Committing herself to the dead-wrong type of man, more than once, had led to her current circumstances, ...
ref: 2012, Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, →ISBN:
text: You're jumping to conclusions, Gregory. Why don't you simply ask me instead of making dead-wrong conclusions?
ref: 2015, Gloria H. Giroux, Voices of Angels: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of dead wrong.
unburdensomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unburdensome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And yet this work is in closest rapport with the Epistle, in its exhortation to keep the commandments, in its commendation of the unburdensomeness of the commandments, in its belief in the possibility of a sinless observance of the commandments, and of a victory over Satan, […]
ref: 1876, Theodor Keim, The History of Jesus of Nazara: Considered in Its Connection with the National Life of Israel, and Related in Detail:
glosses: The state or quality of being unburdensome.
flash crowds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash crowd