cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
'low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: 'lows
form: 'lowing
form: 'lowed
form: 'lowed
Etymology: Aphetic form of allow.
Senses: examples: text: But louing well, and meaning not amisse, / He lowde him scope, without suspect of ill, / To come and goe, to vse the house as hys, / A perfect showe of very great good wyll.
ref: 1587 (edition of 1837), George Turberville, Tragical Tales: And Other Poems, page 139
text: […] and so with - drew / That freedome from her lookes (least they should 'low / More then her heart might meane) as they reflect / A narrower and a carefuller aspect.
ref: 1609 (edition of 1885), Samuel Daniel, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose, page 320
text: It be time I got in a word, I 'low.
ref: 1900 June, Windsor Magazine, section 64:
text: The Stranger: They call Los Angeles the City of Angels. I didn’t find it to be that exactly. Though I'll 'low there are some nice folks there.
ref: 1998, The Big Lebowski:
glosses: To allow; to acknowledge or admit.
Derived terms: lowable
Innocenti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Innocentis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Innocenti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Whoniverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Whoniverse
Etymology: Blend of (Doctor) Who + universe
Senses: examples: text: While 'retconning' the scripts, I came up with a number of theories that throw new light on the Doctor, his past, and various other elements of the Whoniverse.
ref: 2003, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier, The Nth Doctor, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The Blinovitch limitation effect, however, appears to be a law of physics in the Whoniverse.
ref: 2006, Paul Parsons, The science of Doctor Who, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The universe in which the television series Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as related books, comics and other stories, are set.
examples: text: Special mention must also go to all the wonderful people I've met since becoming part of the ‘Whoniverse’: Joe Lidster, Stuart Manning, Scott Handcock, Tom Spilsbury, Gareth Roberts, Darren Scott, Kieron Grant, Neil Corry, […]
ref: 2010, Oli Smith, Doctor Who: Nuclear Time, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: The totality of all things connected to the series Doctor Who, including the fictional universe which is its setting, the real-world sets in which it is filmed, its actors and fandom, etc.
Related terms: Whovian
Malebolge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmalɪˈbɒldʒ/
ipa: /ˌmæləˈbɑldʒ/
enpr: măl'ĭ-bŏlj􂀽'
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian Malebolge (literally “Evil Ditches”). See bolgia.
Senses: glosses: The eighth circle of Hell in the Divine Comedy.
Derived terms: Malebolgian
Malebolgic
Malebranche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /malˈbɹɒnʃ/
ipa: /ˌmalɪˈbɹɒnʃ/
enpr: măl-brŏnsh􂀽'
enpr: măl'ĭ-brŏnsh􂀽'
ipa: /mælˈbɹɑnʃ/
ipa: /mɑlˈbɹɑnʃ/
ipa: /ˌmæləˈbɹɑnʃ/
ipa: /ˌmɑləˈbɹɑnʃ/
enpr: măl-bränsh􂀽'
enpr: mäl-bränsh􂀽'
enpr: măl'ĭ-bränsh􂀽'
enpr: mä'lĭ-bränsh􂀽'
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Malebranche.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
glosses: Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), a French philosopher.
Derived terms: Malebranchism
Malebranchist
Mirra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mirras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Mirra.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
overclockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From overclock + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This overclockable memory was sold at a premium to enthusiasts who wanted to overclock their motherboard chipsets, thereby increasing the speed of the processor and memory bus.
ref: 2013, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing PCs:
glosses: Suitable for overclocking.
raisest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: raise + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of raise
defining moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defining moments
Senses: glosses: A moment in time that defines something, such as a person's success or failure, achievement or demise, talent, etc.
glosses: A point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
Related terms: critical mass
killer app
make-or-break
moment of truth
career-defining
field works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field work
Neri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Neri; this surname is also well-attested in Spanish-speaking countries.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
nearline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: near-line
Etymology: From near + line.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a level of availability somewhere between online and offline, typically using removable media.
dragonhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonheads
Etymology: From dragon + head, a calque of translingual Dracocephalum.
Senses: synonyms: dracocephalum
dragon's head
glosses: Any plant of the genus Dracocephalum.
synonyms: dragonhead mint
American dragonhead
glosses: Dracocephalum moldavica, type species of the genus.
Hyrcania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Hyrcania, from Ancient Greek Ὑρκᾱνίᾱ (Hurkāníā), from Old Iranian. See Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴 (v-r-k-a-n /⁠varkāna⁠/) for more.
Senses: glosses: A region in the southeastern Caspian Sea, corresponding to parts of modern-day Iran (specifically Northern Iran) and Turkmenistan.
Synonyms: Gurgan
Gorgan
Derived terms: Hyrcanian
Related terms: Hyrcan
Hyrcanus
stayest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stay + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stay
stayeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stay + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stay
limpeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: limp + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of limp
diastemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diastema
kerchunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerchunk
kerflop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From ker- + flop.
Senses: glosses: The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.
kerflop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ker- + flop.
Senses: examples: text: She sat down kerflop.
glosses: (As if) with a flop.
heterosexists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterosexist
lignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lignify
lignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lignify
lignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lignify
sashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sash
sashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sashings
Senses: glosses: The plain strips used to separate the squares of a quilt.
sashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sashing
dine with Duke Humphrey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dines with Duke Humphrey
form: dining with Duke Humphrey
form: dined with Duke Humphrey
form: dined with Duke Humphrey
Etymology: Said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
Senses: examples: text: When I want prouant wᵗʰ: Humfrie
I sup, & when benighted,
I repose in Powles wᵗʰ: waking soules,
Yet neuer am affrighted.
When I lack food, I go
without it, and when benighted,
I repose in St. Paul’s (graveyard) with ghosts,
Yet am never scared.
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: It has been said that there is no instance, in modern times, of a Chuzzlewit having been found on terms of intimacy with the Great. But here again the sneering detractors who weave such miserable figments from their malicious brains, are stricken dumb by evidence. For letters are yet in the possession of various branches of the family, from which it distinctly appears, being stated in so many words, that one Diggory Chuzzlewit was in the habit of perpetually dining with Duke Humphrey.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
synonyms: box Harry
glosses: To go without dinner.
lipliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipliners
Etymology: From lip + liner.
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic product intended to fill uneven areas on the outer edges of the lips after applying lipstick, therefore giving a smooth shape.
Synonyms: lip pencil
lipliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipliner
masterbatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masterbatch
gammonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gammoning
tub-shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tub-showers
Etymology: From tub + shower.
Senses: examples: text: Plumbing a tub-shower is more complicated than plumbing a sink.
ref: 2004, Roger German, Remodeling a Basement, page 82:
glosses: An installation found in bathrooms, consisting of a stall that has a bathtub as the basin base with a bath shower atop it.
tub-showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tub-shower
APK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APKs
Etymology: Abbreviation of Android package.
Senses: examples: text: "Our current APK (Android app) provides support to SL4A," Mosquera Paulo said.
ref: 2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters:
glosses: An APK file, or an Android app distributed via APK files.
Related terms: IPA
relaxeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relax + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relax
relaxest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relax + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of relax
swifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swifter
swifters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swifter
wayboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayboards
form: way-board
form: way board
form: weighboard
Senses: examples: text: In the Mill Close Mine, a very rich and extensive flat occurred under a way-board which was topped with a tiny coal seam 1 in. thick or so, the way-board itself being from 1 to 3 ft. thick, and looking very much like an […]
ref: 1905, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, volume 15, page 176:
topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: A thin layer or band of rock that separates or defines the boundaries of thicker strata.
wayboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wayboard
weighboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighboards
Senses: topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of wayboard.
examples: text: Medical Scale Co. offers both rigid weighboard and stretcher style scales to weigh your bedridden patients.
ref: 1992, Nursing Homes: Long Term Care Management, volume 41, page 12:
glosses: A board used for weighing.
weighboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighboard
rip along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rips along
form: ripping along
form: ripped along
form: ripped along
Senses: examples: text: And so they went ripping along, and everybody just petrified and cold to see it; and when they got to the Capitol at last it was the quickest trip that ever was made, and everybody said so.
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:
text: "Well," said Mrs. Morel. "I'd starve before I'd sit down and seam twenty-four stockings for twopence ha'penny."
"Oh, I don't know," said Mrs. Anthony. "You can rip along with 'em."
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To rush headlong.
Synonyms: tear along
Pisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Pisa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Pisa or surrounding province, Tuscany, Italy.
Pisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pisans
Etymology: From Pisa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Pisa or surrounding province, Tuscany, Italy.
sheng nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheng nu
form: shengnü
form: shengnu
form: sheng nü
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 剩女 (shèngnǚ, “leftover woman”). Typologically compare Turkish kalık (“residue, leftover; leftover woman, spinster”).
Senses: examples: text: 2010 Schott, Ben (15 March 2010). "Leftover Ladies & 3S Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
The increasing prevalence of shengnü in China has boosted the number of shengnan – leftover men.
text: In 2007, the Women’s Federation defined “leftover” women (sheng nu) as unmarried women over the age of 27 and China’s Ministry of Education added the term to its official lexicon.
ref: 2012, Fincher, Leta Hong (12 October 2012). "OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; China's 'Leftover' Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013
text: Most of these parents come to this “marriage market” out of concern for their child being sheng nu (leftover women) or sheng nan (leftover men))—a rather stigmatized term for a growing number of young men and young women in their late twenties and early thirties who are well educated and career-minded but still single.
ref: 2012, Robert L. Moore and Li Wei, "Modern Love in China", in Michele Antoinette Paludi, The Psychology of Love, volume 1, page 31
text: 2012, Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (August 21, 2012). "Romance With Chinese Characteristics". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
Women, meanwhile, must be married by 27; after that they are branded sheng nu or “leftover women.” (This derogatory term — whose prefix “sheng” is the same word used in “leftover food” — was listed as a new word in 2007 by the Chinese Ministry of Education).
text: In China, the growing ranks of educated unmarried females are referred to as sheng nu, or “left—over women.”
ref: 2013, Liza Mundy, The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Our Culture, page 211:
text: "I'm definitely a 'sheng nu' (leftover woman). Women should learn to take it in their stride, and (realise) it's just a label that society gives us," Tsui said.
ref: 2013, "BE MY KEPT WOMAN - actress asked to 'name her price'", Malaysia Chronicle (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)
glosses: A woman in her mid- to late twenties and not yet married, particularly an unmarried successful businesswoman.
Synonyms: english: single, seventies (1970s), and stuck
translation: single, seventies (1970s), and stuck
word: 3S
word: spinster
word: catherinette
Related terms: english: office lady
translation: office lady
word: OL ()
roman: kyaria ūman
english: Japanese career woman
translation: Japanese career woman
word: キャリアウーマン
Pola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
Related terms: Pola de Lena
Pola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Polas
Senses: examples: text: I've always loved the look of those older roll film Polas.
ref: 2010 November 18, Ed Wenn, “Nekotech - Polaroid Pathfinder 120 (or maybe 110 too) to Pack-Film Conversion”, in Filmwasters:
related: word: pola
glosses: Clipping of Polaroid.
Priscian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Latin grammarian, Priscianus Caesariensis
Pugliese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpʊlˈjeɪ.zeɪ/
/ˌpʊlˈjeɪ.seɪ/
/ˌpuˈɡli.si/
/ˈpju.dʒəˌlis/
/ˈpuɡ(ə)ˌlis/
Forms: form: more Pugliese
form: most Pugliese
Etymology: Italian pugliese. Analyzable as Puglia + -ese
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Puglia (“Apulia”) in Italy.
Synonyms: Apulian
Puglian
Pugliese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpʊlˈjeɪ.zeɪ/
/ˌpʊlˈjeɪ.seɪ/
/ˌpuˈɡli.si/
/ˈpju.dʒəˌlis/
/ˈpuɡ(ə)ˌlis/
Forms: form: Pugliese
form: Pugliesi
Etymology: Italian pugliese. Analyzable as Puglia + -ese
Senses: glosses: A denizen of Puglia in Italy
Synonyms: Apulian
Puglian
Pugliano
Pugliese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpʊlˈjeɪ.zeɪ/
/ˌpʊlˈjeɪ.seɪ/
/ˌpuˈɡli.si/
/ˈpju.dʒəˌlis/
/ˈpuɡ(ə)ˌlis/
Forms: form: Puglieses
form: Pugliesi
Etymology: Italian pugliese. Analyzable as Puglia + -ese
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian; compare Pugliesi.
Related terms: Pugliese bread
common crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common crossings
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, crossing.
examples: text: The frogs are made of steel rails; for all common crossings a check rail is placed on each side, at least 12 feet in length, and much longer in special cases. The narrowest part of the throat of the frog is 1¾ inches wide.
ref: 1888, American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, volume 18, page 239:
text: From Fig. 22 it will be seen that a common crossing consists of four rails, i.e. one point rail, one splice rail, and two wing rails.
ref: 1943, Permanent Way Institution, British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, page 52:
text: During the study, various railways will be investigating different types of common crossing, such as Vario, manganese steel, glued or bloomed common crossings and common crossings with glued or welded fishplates.
ref: 1991, International Railway Congress Association, Rail International, volume 22, page 40:
text: The drawback of these common crossings lies in the difficulty of welding them to the adjacent rails.
ref: 1966, International Railway Congress Association, Monthly Bulletin (English edition), volume 43, page 397:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross; a frog.
common crossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common crossing
5 percenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5 percenters
form: Five Percenter
form: Five-Percenter
Etymology: The term refers to the movement's belief that only five percent of all people understand God and consider the Black man as superior to all, leaving eighty-five percent as slaves to a ten-percent elite conspiracy that rules the world.
Senses: examples: text: Trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona / 'Til the Five Percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him: / "You either build or destroy, where you come from?"
ref: 2009, “Exhibit C”, in Victory, performed by Jay Electronica:
glosses: A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City.
moonrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonrise
panic attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panic attack
Piaget
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pjaˈʒɛ/
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
examples: text: Piaget² has conducted many careful studies on the evolution of games during childhood, and has suggested that moral behavior consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.³ Piaget thus equates morality, or ethical feeling and conduct, with the individual's attitude toward and practice of various rules. This perspective provides a rational basis for the analysis of moral schemes as games, and of moral behavior as the players’ actual conduct.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher.
Derived terms: Piagetian
bind over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binds over
form: binding over
form: bound over
form: bound over
Senses: examples: text: In Middlesex, instead of being tried by jury, hundreds of suspected adulterers were instead bound over by magistrates – in other words, forced to end their alleged relationships, find respectable citizens to post bail for their good behviour, and appear in court to answer for their future conduct.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 48:
topics: law
glosses: To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act.
bound over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bind over
bawdy-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawdy-house
Hasmonean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hæzməˈniːən/
/æzməˈniːən/
Forms: form: Asmonean
form: Asmonaean
form: Hasmonaean
Etymology: From Latin Asmonaeus (latinized name of the family's founder) + English -an, from (Hellenic) Ancient Greek Ἀσαμωναῖος (Asamōnaîos), from Hebrew חַשְׁמוֹנַאי (ḥašmōnay).
Senses: examples: text: Herod tried to bolster the legitimacy of his reign by marrying a Hasmonean princess, Mariamne, and planning to drown the last male Hasmonean heir at his Jericho palace.^([Wikipedia])
text: The complaint presents the Hasmonean government as though from its inception it was wholly and exclusively dependent on the grace and permission of Rome which was entrusted also with maintaining its internal code of laws.
ref: 1987, Joshua Efrón, Studies on the Hasmonean Period, BRILL, page 231:
text: The accepted date of this letter is 152 B.C.E., before Jonathan the Hasmonean was appointed High Priest, that is, at the end of the time during which, according to Josephus, there was no High Priest in Jerusalem.
ref: 2008, Hanan Eshel, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, page 55:
text: It is not my intent, however, to reconstruct Hasmonean history based on these stories, but rather, as stated above, to trace the image of the Hasmonean dynasty in the collective memory of their contemporaries and the following generations, as this emerges from the Josephan and the rabbinic points of view.
ref: 2018, Vered Noam, Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans, Oxford University Press, unnumbered page:
glosses: Of or relating to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean.
Hasmonean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hæzməˈniːən/
/æzməˈniːən/
Forms: form: Hasmoneans
form: Asmonean
form: Asmonaean
form: Hasmonaean
Etymology: From Latin Asmonaeus (latinized name of the family's founder) + English -an, from (Hellenic) Ancient Greek Ἀσαμωναῖος (Asamōnaîos), from Hebrew חַשְׁמוֹנַאי (ḥašmōnay).
Senses: examples: text: I begin this chapter showing that Hasmonean policies, especially military campaigns, were supported by the Judaeans, and that the Hasmoneans acted on behalf of what they considered the basic interests and welfare of their Jewish subjects.
ref: 2013, Eyal Regev, The Hasmoneans: Ideology, Archaeology, Identity, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 267:
text: The Hasmoneans were a Jewish family that fought the Seleucid rulers during the mid-second century B.C.E. to create an independent Jewish state, which they at first governed as its political leaders and high priests and then as it kings.
ref: 2016, Kenneth Atkinson, A History of the Hasmonean State, Bloomsbury Publishing (Bloomsbury T&T Clark), page 23:
text: 2016, Kenneth Atkinson, Response to Gillihan, Lester L. Grabbe, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jason M. Zurawski (editors), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, Bloomsbury Publishing (Bloomsbury T&T Clark), page 224,
Gillihan proposes that these changes were largely compelled by new historical circumstances, and not by theological convictions the Hasmoneans held from the beginning of their rule.
glosses: A member of the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged.
Hasmoneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hasmonean
devoided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devoid
devoiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devoid
devoids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devoid
slide projectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slide projector
quantum information science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Foundational investigations in quantum mechanics, both experimental and theoretical, gave birth to the field of quantum information science. Nevertheless, the foundations of quantum mechanics themselves remain hotly debated in the scientific community, and no consensus on essential questions has been reached. [...]
ref: 2013 January 6, Schlosshauer Maximilian with Kofler Johannes and Zeilinger Anton, “A Snapshot of Foundational Attitudes Toward Quantum Mechanics”, in arXiv.org, number 1301.1069v1, page 1:
glosses: Information science adapted to deal with information held and/or handled by quantum systems, i.e., in which information is measured in qubits instead of classical bits.
Synonyms: QIS
Derived terms: QIS
Related terms: quantum information theory
engendereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: engender + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engender
engenderest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: engender + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of engender
chirkest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chirk: most chirk
fire temple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire temples
Senses: glosses: A Zoroastrian place of worship, where fire is kindled.
Synonyms: agiary
pyratheia
titularies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titulary
jinja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinjas
form: jinja
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 神社 (じんじゃ, jinja), from Middle Chinese 神社, from Old Chinese 神社 (“sacrificial altar, shrine”), from 神 (*hlin, “deity, divine”) + 社 (*ɦljaːʔ, “Earth deity [and altar]”). Cognate with Mandarin 神社 (shénshè, “shrine”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Shinto place of worship.
jinjas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jinja
mandirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hindus often use objects to help them ‘see’ God. Many of the statues that they use in their mandirs are thought to represent God.
ref: 1998, Dave Symmons, This is Hinduism, Cheltenham: Stanley Thornes, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8, →ISBN:
text: In 2010, I revisited these colonies to see what thirteen years had brought to the mandirs planned for these new middle-class environments.
ref: 2015 January 14, Daniel Gold, Provincial Hinduism: Religion and Community in Gwalior City, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58, →ISBN:
text: Perhaps Mulhar Rao made the smaller mandirs, and has got credit for the whole, by the judicious appropriation of a small fund, to the support of poor brahmans, ten of whom are daily fed at Ank-pát in his name.
ref: 1837, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Volume 6, Part 2, page 824:
glosses: plural of mandir
surviewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surview
surviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surview
thief-taker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thief-takers
Senses: examples: text: In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63:
glosses: Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.
thief-takers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thief-taker
thropples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thropple
truckages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckage
misles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misle
misling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misle
sensiblest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] the sense of his glowing body, in naked touch with mine […] deliver'd up every faculty of the soul to the sensiblest of joys […]
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: As to the ingein, as is always a pourin' out red hot coals at night, and black smoke in the day; the sensiblest thing it does, in my opinion, is, ven there's somethin' in the vay, and it sets up that 'ere frightful scream
ref: 1840-1841, Charles Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock:
glosses: superlative form of sensible: most sensible
vraicqueur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɹeɪˈkɜː/
Forms: form: vraicqueurs
Etymology: From Norman vraicqueur, from vraic + -eur.
Senses: synonyms: vraicker
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: A vraic-harvester.
vraicqueurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vraicqueur
cattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catte
travestying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of travesty
travestied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of travesty
misrulings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misruling
misruler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrulers
Etymology: From misrule + -er. Compare Middle English myssrewler (“disorderly or rebellious person”).
Senses: glosses: One who rules badly.
misrulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misruler
nontenancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + tenancy.
Senses: examples: text: A review of other known breeding stations of this subspecies suggests that breeding sites are subject to periods of nontenancy.
ref: 1975, Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Notornis, volume 22, page 265:
glosses: Lack of tenancy; the state of being uninhabited.
Babbagian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Babbagian
form: most Babbagian
Etymology: From Babbage + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Charles Babbage (1791–1871), English mathematician and engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.
overmeasured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmeasure
overmeasuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmeasure
imposthumate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imposthumates
form: imposthumating
form: imposthumated
form: imposthumated
Etymology: From imposthume + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Measles & Hooping Cough left the Lungs tender ten Years ago—& at this critical Time of Life they may imposthumate.
ref: 1792 September 6, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess.
imposthumated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imposthumate
imposthumates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imposthumate
imposthumating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imposthumate
unaffianced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + affianced.
Senses: glosses: Not affianced.
fantasmagorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantasmagorical
form: most fantasmagorical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
Leaping Lena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leaping Lenas
Senses: examples: text: The outboard motor is forever performing new stunts. The illustrations depict its latest—driving a real “Leaping Lena”—....
ref: 1930 July, Dick Cole, “An Outboard “Leaping Lena””, in Popular Mechanics, page 129:
text: All branches of the service find jobs for the versatile quarter-ton liaison truck, a car of unlimited possibilities in war.
ref: 1941 October, David M. Stearns, “Leaping Lena Joins the Army”, in Popular Science, page 52:
text: With the motor racing and the horns blaring, “Leaping Lena” would go around in circles, to the delight of the spectators.
ref: 1989, International Shrine Clowns Association, 25th Anniversary, Turner Publishing, page 38:
text: That dear car's name began as “Leaping Lena,” which was not an original name with us. Lots of old cars were called “Leaping Lena.” But when the radiator began to leak, the children appropriately changed her name to “Leaking Lena.”
ref: 2009, Sara F. Munday, Becoming Myself: A Passage of Grace, Dorrance Publishing, page 255:
glosses: A nickname for a vehicle.
examples: text: Kingfish Levinsky's earning power is due partly to an engaging slapstick manner in the ring, an engaging entourage which includes his sister Mrs. Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed for her loud voice and strong talk.
ref: 1932 May 9, “Levinsky v. Walker”, in Time, volume 19, number 19:
text: The press here today proclaimed that Leaping Lena, a Natal Province frog, had beaten the Americans and broken the world's frog-jumping record at the Frog Olympics at Capetown.
ref: 1954 January 17, “South Africa Claims Lead In World Frog Jumping”, in The New York Times, page 18:
ref: 2000, Sheila Kelly Welch, Leaping Lena, Rigby:
text: However, not to be outdone, Harry's frog “Leaping Lena” took the Frog Leaping Championship by jumping nearly two feet farther than Clancy Coughburn's “Cutie Pie.”
ref: 2012, Lez Bromfield, Rednecks: There's a New Sheriff in Town, Dorrance Publishing, page 138:
text: ... anyone who was Jewish and had any sense would put on Catholic habits in a thrice if they could get away with it, or twirl like a dervish, or leap like any Leaping Lena, if it would do the trick.
ref: 2013, William H. Gass, Middle C, Knopf, page 7:
glosses: A nickname for someone or something that leaps.
examples: text: During the Cold War Era, a German pigeon, Leaping Lena, made a fantastic flight through the Iron Curtain from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1954.
ref: 2008, A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917–2007, Government Printing Office, page 26:
glosses: The name given to a 1954 Cold War hero pigeon.
examples: text: In roughly thirty days, SOG had several teams ready to "cross the fence" in an operation code-named “Leaping Lena”.
ref: 2000, Richard H. Shultz, Jr., The Secret War Against Hanoi, HarperCollins, page 212:
glosses: The name given to a 1964 Vietnam War counterinsurgency operation in Laos, later renamed Project DELTA.
sclerotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerotic
NCX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of navigation control for XML applications.
sheng nus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheng nu
deerling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerlings
Etymology: From deer + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: You will return after giving birth to your deerling?
ref: 1950, G.A. Natesan, The Indian review - Volume 51 - Page 85:
text: When shall the old king of the herd of deer be smelling my mouth without fear, taking me to be a lifeless thing, when I would be sitting in the forest in the padmasana (lotus pose) with the deerlings sitting in my lap?
ref: 1989, Hemacandra, Amritlal Savchand Gopani, Surendra Bothara, The Yoga shastra of Hemchandracharya:
text: He with childlike innocence and simplicity employees the most direct language only to talk to man a man, because his aim is to beckon to him: "Alas, seeing always the deer in the trap in jungle, even then the deerlings get into the crooked snares" [...]
ref: 1997, Krishan Lal Kalia, Eminent Personalities Of Kashmir:
text: Both girls yelped, falling into each other's arms. But it was only a dwarf deerling, no taller than Dart's waist. Its ears quivered. It stopped on tiny hooves, blind to the three of them, then bounded forward, toward the deadfall. Dart glanced after it.
ref: 2006, James Clemens, Shadowfall:
glosses: A small, young, or baby deer; fawn.
deerlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerling.
twithought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twithoughts
form: twi-thought
Etymology: From twi- (“double”) + thought.
Senses: examples: text: Especially are they needed by the pedestalled woman in her conflict with the natural. Diana saw herself through the haze she conjured up. 'Am I worse than other women?' was a piercing twithought.
ref: 1910, George Meredith, The works of George Meredith - Volume 16 - Page 275:
text: Beatrice thought she caught the twithought that pierced through his words.
ref: 1947, Robert Briffault, New life of Mr. Martin - Page 230:
text: Soon her mind was full of twi-thoughts. Before she could even mutter a hello the boy left to join his friends.
ref: 2008, My Family, http://www.deliverancenow.info/WordsDance/Stories/Archive/Challenge_16.htm:
text: My head is filled with twi-thoughts these days, and all are variations on a single theme: that word I've forgotten, the one flitting around somewhere in the back of my head, teasing my lips and not quite coming close enough to remember.
ref: 2008, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED:
glosses: A vague, uncertain, or indistinct thought; a doubt.
twithought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: twi-thought
Etymology: From twi- (“double”) + thought.
Senses: examples: text: [...] "Her musings fierily brushed her cheeks," "so brawnily larcenous," "sovereignly" "twi-thought."
ref: 1913, University of Calcutta, Calcutta review - Volume 1 - Page 282:
glosses: Twice thought.
twithoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twithought.
twi-thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twi-thoughts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twithought.
wealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weal
wealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
homophone: Weald
homophone: weald
homophone: wheeled
homophone: wield
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weal
tuyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuyere (part of a blast furnace)
tuyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuyer
unmarriedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmarried + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being unmarried.
unweddedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwedded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is not always our duty to marry, but it always is our duty to abide by right, not to purchase happiness by loss of honour, not to avoid unweddedness by untruthfulness.
ref: 1830, Thomas Carlyle, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter:
glosses: Quality of being unwedded.
noncomittally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more noncomittally
form: most noncomittally
Senses: examples: text: 'Perhaps,' he says noncomittally. 'Would you write that Vergil down, so I can learn it myself?'
ref: 1999, Sandi Hall, Rumours of Dreams, Spinifex Press, →ISBN, page 51:
text: "That could be," he said, noncomittally.
ref: 2007, Weston P. Hatfield, The Govenor's Choice, Vantage Press, →ISBN, page 250:
text: Mila didn't say anything, and Tal likewise kept silent. He simply nodded noncomittally, the way she'd seen a hundred cops and another hundred lawyers do.
ref: 2009, Cat Adams, Magic's Design, Tor, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Misspelling of noncommittally.
malt dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.
ref: 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, Elements of Agricultural Chemistry in a Course of Lectures:
glosses: Fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; used as a fertilizer.
spawneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: spawn + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spawn
Mussa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mussas
Etymology: A variant of Musa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Derived terms: mussite
Kerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kermān
form: Kirman
form: Kirmān
form: Karman
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian کرمان (kermân).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Kerman County's Central District and the capital of Kerman Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: A province of Iran.
Related terms: Carmania
Kerman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kermans
form: Kermān
form: Kirman
form: Kirmān
form: Karman
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian کرمان (kermân).
Senses: glosses: A traditional kind of Persian carpet.
Kerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kermans
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a combination of the surnames of the two men who acquired the property of a local water supply, namely William G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar.
Senses: glosses: A city in Fresno County, California, United States.
Related terms: Kirman
undirecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undirect
undirects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undirect
leathergirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leathergirls
Etymology: From leather + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Dyke-U-Like was the most rampantly outrageous lesbian club in London, full of leathergirls and supermodels getting off together.
ref: 1997, Tony Strong, The poison tree, page 127:
text: She's a feminist whose increasing involvement in the leathergirl scene puts her in direct conflict with her separatist friends.
ref: 2004, Judith A. Markowitz, The Gay Detective Novel, page 36:
text: Just after the nocturnal exhibits / I come blinking and astonished upon “Tapir” / with an erection longer than his legs, / and hanging on the fence three punk leathergirls / in neon hair and safety pins, giggling / at his enormous member […]
ref: 2008, John Caddy, With Mouths Open Wide, page 101:
glosses: A young leatherwoman.
leathergirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leathergirl
recoilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoiling
agreeables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agreeable
disagreeables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disagreeable
overlading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlade
overlades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlade
overladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlade
Shandean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shandean
form: most Shandean
Etymology: From Shandy + -an.
Senses: examples: text: It was commenced when the author was in a Shandean fever, and burned to outstrip Sterne. Without any disguise as to who his model was he opened his vapid tale with a scene in which Yorick's manner was broadly caricatured, but which […]
ref: 1858, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria, page 278:
text: The 'Fragment' may instead suggest another key of access to try in the inter-textual journey from the Shandean writer to the Pantagruelist in virtue of the 'poor Homenas', who is the homonym of that ludicrous bishop of Papimany in the Fourth […]
ref: 1996, David Pierce, Peter Jan de Voogd, Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
Related terms: Sternean
sinograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinographs
form: Sinograph
Etymology: From sino- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: Any Chinese character.
Synonyms: sinogram
sinoglyph
sinographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinograph
oratorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oratorian
blessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blessable
form: most blessable
Etymology: From bless + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable or worthy of being blessed.
Derived terms: unblessable
ampliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ampliate
ampliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ampliate
ampliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ampliate
sinogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinograms
Etymology: From sino- (“China”) + -gram.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any character used in Chinese writing; hanzi.
Related terms: sinograph
sinogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinograms
Etymology: From sino- (“sinus”) + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A diagnostic image of the sinus, produced by sinography.
sinograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinogram
essentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of essentiate
Han character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Han characters
form: Hàn character
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chinese character.
synonyms: word: Chinese character
Han characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Han character
overrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrobes
Etymology: From over + robe.
Senses: examples: text: He wore a red overrobe, a gold underrobe, and somewhere, hidden beneath all the fabric, an antigrav belt which served to keep his body suspended one full unit off the deck.
ref: 2003, William C. Dietz, Halo: The Flood, Del Rey; republished New York: Tor, 2010, →ISBN:
text: The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.
ref: 2005, Hilari Bell, Fall of a Kingdom, Simon Pulse, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
text: He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline.
ref: 2006, Kate Elliott, Spirit Gate, Tor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 510:
glosses: A robe designed to be worn over other clothing, particularly another robe.
overrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrobe