cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
new candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new candles
Senses: glosses: A unit of luminous intensity, such that the brightness of the full radiator at the temperature of solidification of platinum is 60 new candles per square centimetre; superseded by the candela.
new candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new candle
Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare genetic disorder characterized by craniosynostosis and cutis gyrata.
CVG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cutis verticis gyrata.
summary execution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summary executions
Senses: examples: text: It was a wonder that he had not been a victim of the ferocious and summary executions which marked the course of that tyranny; for Guzman had ruled the country with the sombre imbecility of political fanaticism.
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
text: The Tribune demanded a quick trial and summary execution, calling on the prospective jury manfully to do its duty and dwelling at length on the moral effect that would be so produced upon the lawless working class.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: French and German authorities are preparing to dig in search of a mass grave in a forest in Corrèze after a 98-year-old former French resistance fighter who had kept silent for decades described the summary execution of German soldiers there in 1944.
ref: 2023 May 18, Angelique Chrisafis, “French resistance fighter, 98, reveals mass execution of German prisoners”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial.
summary executions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summary execution
empty letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty letters
Senses: examples: text: "According to Thorpe: 'The renewed social contract implied by the 1979 Constitution became virtually an empty letter.'”
ref: 1979 April, Luis van Isschot, Pacificacion y Desarrollo: Clientelism, Community Kitchens, and the Articulation of Social Policy in Contemporary Peru:
glosses: a promise that is not intended to be fulfilled
Raisbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6407).
glosses: A surname.
warrantedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more warrantedly
form: most warrantedly
Etymology: From warranted + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: unwarrantedly
glosses: In a warranted manner; with justification.
antiwhiteism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antiwhite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Conversely, the collaborating chiefs, under the leadership of Kaiser Matanzima, express their uneasy agreement with apartheid by raising the thinly veiled spectre of antiwhiteism.
ref: 1978, Ian Robertson, Phillip Whitten, Race and Politics in South Africa, page 7:
text: […] are the root causes of expressions of black antisemitism. This antisemitism is in the first instance an expression of anti-Americanism and antiwhiteism.
ref: 1998, Alan Helmreich, Paul Marcus, Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict, page 196:
text: We're conditioned to see racism as coming from whites just as antiwhiteism hits new heights. Woke comedians turned political hacks have a weird power over young minds ignoring facts.
ref: 2021, Karen Kellock, Contagious Madness, page 52:
glosses: Synonym of antiwhiteness (“hostility towards white people”).
synonyms: word: antiwhiteness
extra: hostility towards white people
Kagi chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kagi charts
Etymology: From Japanese [Term?].
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A style of financial chart, mostly independent of time, used to track price movements and make decisions on purchasing stock.
Kagi charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kagi chart
Dingane's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dingaan's Day
Etymology: Named after the Zulu prince Dingane.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Day of the Vow.
wikipedia: Dingane
Dingaan's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dingane's Day.
Day of the Vow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Dingane's Day
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A religious public holiday in South Africa on 16 December, commemorating the Voortrekkers' victory in the Battle of Blood River in 1838. After the end of apartheid in 1994, it was officially replaced by the Day of Reconciliation.
Day of Reconciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A public holiday in South Africa on 16 December, intended to promote reconciliation and national unity. It superseded the earlier Day of the Vow.
Karenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karenocity
Etymology: From Karen + -icity.
Senses: synonyms: Karenhood
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a Karen (a person exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement).
Related terms: Karenism
voorskots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voorskot
voorslags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voorslag
Westmorland and Furness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unitary authority of Cumbria, England, created on 1 April 2023, replacing Barrow-in-Furness district, Eden district and South Lakeland district, as well as Cumbria County Council.
mass densities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass density
SMFH
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: another enabling parent eh ?? any wonder "kids" these days are lazy and beyond useful...does he have a safe space too for his micro-aggressions ??? He's "only" almost 30, maybe give him another 20 years to catch on...SMFH
ref: 2017 January 8, Jack, “That was quite the wallop!”, in hfx.general (Usenet):
text: Back to slavery? Smfh!!!!! Dislike!!!!! I would have never agreed to do this.
ref: 2017 March 23, Denitsa Petrova Dineva, Jan Christian Breitsohl, Brian Garrod, quoting "Rob", Journal of Marketing Management, volume 33, numbers 9–10, Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute […]: Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: LOL...sure it will. If only everyone was as informed and intelligent as you. smfh
ref: 2020 February 14, BillB, “Question for Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, and Klobuchar”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of shaking my fucking head.
Related terms: SMH
mass vaccination centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass vaccination centre
reaction masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaction mass
requiem masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requiem mass
bannal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bannal
form: most bannal
Senses: examples: text: As feudalism in England never took the extreme centrifugal form of continental feudalism because it was, to a great extent, under the control of the crown, and as the king retained most of the powers of the ban in his own hands, there was never the opportunity for bannal lordships to develop in England.
ref: 1979, S.A.C. du Plessis, “Seigneurialism or manorialism”, in Kleio, volume 11, numbers 11–12, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, page 32:
text: In a bannal lordship the local seigneur, whether a castellan or a monastery, wielded a powerful and independent economic, judicial and fiscal authority over his men.
ref: 1980, Elizabeth M[ary] Hallam, Capetian France: 987–1328, London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, page 13:
text: The lords also quickly succeeded in extending their seigneurial jurisdiction over these dependents for all but the most serious crimes—just as the bannal lords of France had done three centuries earlier—thereby removing much of the county population from the direct judicial authority of the count and, indirectly, of the king.
ref: 1997, Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 274:
text: This man, an intellectual Alexander King—in both looks and attitude—bitter, bitter sweet (and I don't use the term intellectual in the bannal method of today) has verbally crucified every member of the class who dared open his mouth—and to read a work of ones own! Sheer folly.
ref: 2003 February, Jonathan Lethem, “The Disappointment Artist”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 306, number 1833, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Uncommon form of banal.
bannal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bannals
Etymology: From Cornish banadhel (“broom”).
Senses: examples: text: Cytisus scoparius Link. Common Broom; Bannal. Native. "Common in most of the districts, but becoming rarer as the Lizard and Land's End are approached. Cornish people hold that there are male and female Bannals, or, as it is locally expressed, He Bannals and She Bannals.
ref: 1930, Edgar Thurston, British & Foreign Trees and Shrubs in Cornwall:
glosses: Synonym of common broom (“Cytisus scoparius”).
synonyms: word: common broom
extra: Cytisus scoparius
khediviate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khediviates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khedivate.
khediviates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khediviate
Nazeing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL4106).
blow off one's steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows off one's steam
form: blowing off one's steam
form: blew off one's steam
form: blown off one's steam
Senses: examples: text: During this hour or hour and a half he used to take his fling, going round to the studies of all his acquaintance, sparring or gossiping in the hall, now jumping the old iron-bound tables, or carving a bit of his name on them, then joining in some chorus of merry voices — in fact, blowing off his steam, as we should now call it.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
text: When she left I was desperate to get out of the house and I decided to take Violet outside to blow off my steam.
ref: 2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, London […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: Synonym of blow off steam.
synonyms: word: blow off steam
blows off one's steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow off one's steam
blowing off one's steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow off one's steam
blew off one's steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow off one's steam
blown off one's steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow off one's steam
right-about-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-about-faces
Senses: examples: text: The Toronto share market staged a right-about face in the last hour today and advanced in active trading after four hours of dullness and small sales.
ref: 1937 July 6, The New York Times, “Canadian Shares Rise in Late Spurt”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 May 2023:
glosses: Synonym of about-face.
synonyms: word: about-face
right-about-face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: right-about-faces
form: right-about-facing
form: right-about-faced
form: right-about-faced
Senses: examples: text: So we right-about-faced and started back again, stumbling as if we were boozed, slipping, puffing, splashing, and bespattering ourselves. One of the boys cried to me through the wind and rain: 'We'll go back with you as far as your home, all the same. As we've nowhere to go we've plenty of time.'
ref: 1930, Henri Barbusse, “On Leave”, in Great First World War Stories, London: Chancellor Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 470:
glosses: Synonym of about-face.
synonyms: word: about-face
right-about-face
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more right-about-face
form: most right-about-face
Senses: examples: text: The urge to reach the Klondike had become a habit more than an obsession, and when at last on June 30 they walked glumly down the gangplank at Dawson most of them turned right-about-face and went home again.
ref: 1958, Pierre Berton, Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, London: W. H. Allen, published 1960, pages 210–211:
glosses: Synonym of about-face.
synonyms: word: about-face
right-about-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of right-about-face
right-about-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right-about-face
right-about-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of right-about-face
right-about-facing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of right-about-face
mirror match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirror matches
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A match in a 1v1 fighting game in which the two opposing players play as the same character.
mirror matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirror match
fat logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatlogic
Senses: examples: text: The site has actually developed Conditions2Cognition posts where users can say thank you or tell the forum how they beat their own fatlogic with their help. There are a ton of us fat readers who look for inspiration and help online.
ref: 2015 June 19, Marilia Brocchetto, “Reddit's 'bullies' pushed me to fight weight gain”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2023:
text: According to the sidebar, "This sub is a place for you to tell us about hamplanets in your life and your relationships/encounters with them. Remember that hamplanet is not just about the weight, but also the hamentality—rudeness, entitlement, fatlogic, etc. Not all fat people are hambeasts but all hambeasts are fat people".
ref: 2016 November 10, Sofia Apostolidou, Jules Sturm, “Weighing Posthumanism: Fatness and Contested Humanity”, in Social Inclusion, volume 4, number 4, Lisbon: Cogitatio Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 154:
text: Fat logic is not just a problem for fat people; I have never met a person who was completely free of it.
ref: 2019 January 5, Nadja Hermann, “I lost 13 stone – now I know the truth about obesity”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023:
glosses: Illogical or scientifically inaccurate reasoning used by obese people and fat activists to argue that weight loss is unhealthy or impossible.
Related terms: body positivity
fat acceptance
fatlogic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat logic.
fat activist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat activists
Senses: examples: text: Most people are startled by my unapologetic use of "fat" to describe not only the heroine of my novel, but my own body. To a majority of people, fat can never be anything but an insult. So I've explained again and again that fat activists use the word proudly in an effort to destigmatize not only the word, but by extension, the fat body.
ref: 2016 February 7, Sarai Walker, “Yes, I'm Fat. It's O.K. I Said It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2022:
glosses: Someone who advocates for fat acceptance ("the body positivity attitude that accepts and appreciates fatness or obesity in humans").
fat activists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat activist
REOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of REO
pseudomasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomass
plicaballins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plicaballin
plicaballinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plicaballinid
scout balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scout balloon
triccaballaccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triccaballacca
in vigilance
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Arms : Azure standing within a crown gold surmounting a conical mound in base vert a crane in her vigilance all silver.
ref: 1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms, page 10:
text: Or, a crane in her vigilance, azure, standing in reeds proper.
ref: 1943, National Americana Society, Americana Illustrated, page 133:
text: Quarterly; 1st and 4th azure, crane in his vigilance argent, gorged of a crown or; second and third[…]
ref: 1973, Helen B. Walter, Robert J. Walter, Nicola Walter and Descendants:
text: If by chance it falls asleep, the stone would drop and thus awaken it. In heraldry, the cranes most often were presented as in vigilance.
ref: 1977, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, A Design for an Education Center at the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin:
text: Crest. A crane in its vigilance. Motto. Vigilantia (Seal on Col Paumiér's will).
ref: 1983, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society:
text: KHVOSHCHINSKY -1- A : Per fess gules and azure, in chief fesswise a crescent points couped in pale Or, and in base a crane in its vigilance, proper.
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Standing on one leg, typically holding a stone in its other, raised leg.
raw_tags: of a crane
cat towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat tower
cat units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat unit
catamountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catamountain
catapeltics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catapeltic
cat o' mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat o' mountain
catastrophic moults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catastrophic moult
catcallees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catcallee
catch-up effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch-up effect
dogbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogbit
dog leads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog lead
dog chews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog chew
dog officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog officer
Doges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doge
rabbi cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbi card
rabbiteyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabbiteye
raccoon tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raccoon tail
cowfinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowfinch
sheeptracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheeptrack
she-elephants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she-elephant
Everett-Wheeler telephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Everett-Wheeler telephone
elephant's snout volutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant's snout volute
telephone showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephone shower
sexual education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sex education.
shampoo bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shampoo bowl
Shanghaiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shanghaier
cross potence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosses potence
Senses: examples: text: Chace, Gu. four crosses potence ar. two and two; on a canton az, a lion passant or.
ref: 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:
text: Crest - A lion ramp. or, holding betw. his feet a cross potence gu.
ref: 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of cross potent.
crosses potence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross potence
cross potent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosses potent
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: crutch cross
glosses: A cross with crossbars at the ends of its arms.
crutch cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crutch crosses
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of cross potent.
synonyms: word: cross potent
crosses potent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross potent
crutch crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crutch cross
Amaziah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Amasiah
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
isoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being isoelastic.
imbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbos
Etymology: From a clipping of imbecile + -o (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: SAM: Top idiots. Imbos.
ref: 1974, Jim McNeil, How Does Your Garden Grow, Scene Three:
text: “[D]on't let it go to your head, imbo. You might end up being all head and no body like Bandy-Andy.”
ref: 1986, Paul Radley, Jacks Rivers And Me:
text: I blew three lights because the car in front of me was doing twenty miles an hour and I was afraid to weave in and out of lanes to pass him. “Just my luck to get behind an imbo in a Nash Rambler.
ref: 1990, Sammy Davis, Jr., Yes I Can:
text: im an imbo, world's worst punter #fact handled it horribly as usual then found myself roaring at TV thinking horse won #wrong
ref: 2014 June 14, MCruicky, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 May 2023:
glosses: An idiot, a fool.
wikipedia: Green's Dictionary of Slang
imbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbo
in full aspect
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mexico - Arms : ar. upon a rock, issuant from the sea in base, the nopal or tuna plant, thereon an eagle in full aspect, wings expanded, the head towards the dexter, holding in the beak a snake or serpent bowed embowed, all ppr[…]
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 1:
text: Perch / Or an eagle in full aspect gu. standing on a perch issuing out of the sinister side arg.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 312:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Affronté or facing forward.
sergreant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of segreant.
en arrière
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: antonyms: en avant
qualifier: ballet
glosses: Toward the back.
examples: text: Argent, a Bend between six Bees en Arrière Sable : BEESTON.
ref: 1790, Anthony Wood, The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the university of Oxford, page 256:
text: […] a chevron between two boars ' heads erased in chief and a bee volant en arrière in base all counterchanged.
ref: 1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others, page 225:
text: The arms of Bassano (really of foreign origin and not an English coat) are : “ Per chevron vert and argent, in chief three silkworm flies palewise en arrière, and in base a mulberry branch all counterchanged.
ref: 1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 261:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: recursant
tergiant
glosses: With its back to the viewer.
raw_tags: of an insect
snot up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snots up
form: snotting up
form: snotted up
form: snotted up
Senses: glosses: To make something snotty (covered in snot), as a handkerchief or tissue, or to similarly cover with other bodily fluids, like a dog breathing on glass.
glosses: To sob in a way that produces snot.
pro-cure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-cure
form: most pro-cure
Etymology: From pro- + cure.
Senses: examples: text: Given this, then arguably, it is our responsibility to develop the conceptual and practical space for pro-cure autistics to not have their identities and agency invalidated by the neurodiversity paradigm.
ref: 2020, Robert Chapman, Neurotype Dysphoria:
glosses: In support of a cure, especially in opposition to anti-cure movements.
Synonyms: word: curebie
wilamowitzianus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilamowitziani
Etymology: Named after the German classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: a meter consisting of two choriambs, used in Attic tragedy and in Roman comedy, used by Plautus and Terence.
wikipedia: Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
dedollarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dedollarizes
form: dedollarizing
form: dedollarized
form: dedollarized
form: de-dollarize
Senses: glosses: To cause to undergo dedollarization.
dedollarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dedollarize
dedollarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dedollarize
dedollarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dedollarize
otherwise engaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: busy doing something else
tightner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightners
Etymology: Alternative spelling of tightener.
Senses: examples: text: Master Whelkey will answer perhaps, "But kool the esilop (look at the police), kool him (look at him). Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner" (have my dinner).
ref: 1857, James Ewing Ritchie, “The Costermongers' Free-And-Easy”, in The Night Side of London, page 193:
glosses: A meal, particularly a large one.
Derived terms: english: a twopenny fish-and-chip meal.
translation: a twopenny fish-and-chip meal.
word: Scots tuppeny tightner
railroad diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad diagrams
Senses: examples: text: Figure 1-1 is an example of a railroad diagram, also called a syntax graph. To read a railroad diagram, trace its lines, or tracks, with your finger […]
ref: 1986, Tom Swan, Mastering Turbo Pascal, Hayden Books, →ISBN, page 8:
synonyms: syntax diagram
syntax graph
glosses: A type of diagram used to visualize context-free grammars.
railroad diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railroad diagram
Mar Chiquita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mar Chiquita.
Senses: hypernyms: salt lake
glosses: A lake in Córdoba Province and Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina.
national conservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: National conservatism, on an entirely different note, is a conservative variant based on nationalist stances that clash with multiculturalism, unlimited immigration, and globalization.
ref: 2019, Francesco Giubilei, The History of European Conservative Thought, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 26:
text: In the words of rising Conservative star Miriam Cates, “national conservatism” was born out of the 2016 Brexit referendum and Tory 2019 election victory.
ref: 2023 May 14, Aletha Adu, Peter Walker, “Who are ‘national conservatives’ and what do they want?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Which is why many were rightly alarmed by this week’s gathering in the name of “national conservatism”, where the writer Douglas Murray declared that nationalism need no longer hide its face just because the Germans had “mucked up” in the last century – a novel way to describe the murderous record of national socialism.
ref: 2023 May 19, Jonathan Freedland, “They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A nationalist variant of conservatism that concentrates on upholding national and cultural identity, in particular family values, while opposing multiculturalism, immigration, and globalization.
Related terms: national conservative
national conservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national conservatives
Senses: synonyms: NatCon
glosses: A proponent of national conservatism.
national conservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national conservative
commander-in-chiefship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commander-in-chiefships
form: commander in chiefship
Senses: examples: text: A misconception as to the nature of the commander-in-chiefship has somehow crept into the prevailing pattern of our thinking.
ref: 2009, Wilfred E Binkley, The Man in the Whitehouse: His Powers and Duties, page 226:
glosses: the office and period of tenure of a commander in chief
commander in chiefship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commander in chiefships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commander-in-chiefship.
editor-in-chiefship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: editor-in-chiefships
Senses: glosses: position and term in office of editor in chief
postmillennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmillennial
post-millennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-millennial
median egrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of median egret
medium formats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medium format
Maggi mees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maggi mee
for the want of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of for want of.
hierodeacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierodeacons
Senses: glosses: One who is both a monk and an ordained deacon.
hierodeacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierodeacon
Aristotelianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Aristotelianly
form: most Aristotelianly
Etymology: From Aristotelian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Speaking Platonically and normatively, we attribute style to an author or charge him with lacking style; speaking Aristotelianly, we use the term as a description, hold that every author has a style, and turn our attention to analysing the specific character of this author or that.
ref: 1951, Austin Warren, “The Style of Sir Thomas Browne”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 13, number 4, pages 674–687:
text: We have a special name for this making, we call it 'creation', but it is not difficult to see that creation names an Aristotelianly impossible kind of making, just as transubstantiation names an Aristotelianly impossible kind of change; and for approximately the same reason.
ref: 1972 December, Herbert McCabe, “Transubstantiation: A reply to G. Egner”, in New Blackfriars, volume 53, number 631, pages 546–554:
text: As Stephen Erickson puts it in his essay, "Jaspers is more Aristotelianly in the world and Heidegger more Platonically, even Orphically, looking out beyond it."
ref: 1996, Thomas K. Carr, “Review of Heidegger and Jaspers by Alan M. Olson”, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, volume 64, number 2, pages 452–455:
glosses: In an Aristotelian manner.
holdman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holdmen
form: holdsman
Etymology: From hold + -man.
Senses: examples: text: However, because the winch drivers' competence is more visible than the holdmen's, winch drivers are more vulnerable to supervision even though options for handling incompetence are limited contractually.
ref: 1997, David Wellman, The Union Makes Us Strong, page 154:
glosses: A man employed in the hold of a ship to load and unload cargo.
holdmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holdman.
under and over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: under and overs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of over and under (“type of gun”).
synonyms: word: over and under
extra: type of gun
under and overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of under and over
powerball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerballs
Etymology: From power + ball.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of speedball (“mixture of drugs”).
synonyms: word: speedball
extra: mixture of drugs
powerballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerball
emerituses
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: emeriti
glosses: plural of emeritus
emerituses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emeritus
plural of emeritus (“retired person”)
synonyms: emeriti
glosses: plural of emeritus
plural of emeritus (“title”)
teleobstetrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + obstetrics.
Senses: glosses: obstetrics facilitated by a specialist who advises over a telecommunication network
anjumara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aimara (“type of fish”).
synonyms: word: aimara
extra: type of fish
saloonatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saloonatics
Etymology: Blend of saloon + lunatic
Senses: glosses: A person who drinks alcohol in saloons.
saloonatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saloonatic
midrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midrashim
form: midrashot
form: midrashoth
Senses: examples: text: You could call the Gospels a midrash on the Hebrew Bible, the lives of the saints a midrash on the Christ story, the Koran a midrash on all of the above.
ref: 2016 June, Judith Shulevitz, “The Brontës’ Secret”, in The Atlantic:
text: Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, quoting Northrop Frye, chapter 12, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Midrash.
salon music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A popular music genre in Europe during the 19th century, usually written for solo piano in the romantic style, and often performed by the composer at salon gatherings.
sal prunella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nitrate of potassium that has been melted over a fire and then cast into balls, cakes or sticks.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Sodium nitrite.
fuang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuangs
Etymology: From Thai เฟื้อง (fʉ́ʉang).
Senses: glosses: An old coin of Thailand.
fuangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuang
frozen stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely cold.
fringed sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringed soles
Senses: synonyms: Gulf of Mexico fringed sole
glosses: Gymnachirus texae, a fish from the United States and Mexico.
fringed soles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fringed sole
microbikini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹə(ʊ)ˈkiː.ni/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈki.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: microbikinis
Etymology: From micro- + bikini.
Senses: examples: text: Victoria's Secret and microbikinis were out of the question—so were the enveloping caftans that would trip her up if she tried to run.
ref: 2006, Anne Stuart, Cold As Ice, page 184:
synonyms: microkini
glosses: A very skimpy bikini.
microbikinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbikini
frozen daiquiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frozen daiquiris
Senses: glosses: A daiquiri cocktail made with finely pulverized ice.
frozen daiquiris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frozen daiquiri
midrashim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midrash
midrashot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midrash
midrashoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midrash
fruit body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit bodies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fruiting body.
synonyms: word: fruiting body
fruit bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit body
scrapbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrapboxes
Etymology: From scrap + box.
Senses: examples: text: If you work with an institution that has a costume department ask for leftover pieces. If not, do not throw away anything that might be of use. Keep a scrapbox of odds and ends.
ref: 2013, Pauline Koner, Elements of Performance, page 77:
text: But, speculating that there might be lost playscripts hidden behind the panelling at the house where Shakespeare's granddaughter died, and keeping a scrapbox labelled 'Shakespeare's Manuscripts', Halliwell-Phillipps betrayed secret hopes that were never to be fulfilled.
ref: 2021, Lena Cowen Orlin, The Private Life of William Shakespeare:
coordinate_terms: scrapbook
glosses: A box for storing fragments of material or documents etc. that may be of use or interest at a later time.
scrapboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrapbox
frwy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frwys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frwy..
frwys.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frwy.
frwys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frwy
fruticulturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruticulturists
Senses: glosses: A person involved in fruticulture; a grower of fruit.
fruticulturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruticulturist
take-under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: take-unders
Etymology: Modelled on takeover.
Senses: examples: text: PNC said the deal represented an offer of $2.23 for each share of National City, or nearly 19 percent below the stock’s closing price on Thursday. That makes the acquisition a “take-under,” meaning the purchase price is below the market value of the target company.
ref: 2008 October 24, Eric Dash, “PNC Gets National City in Latest Bank Acquisition”, in New York Times:
text: Yes SanDisk is being acquired at a 40% premium to its stock price at the beginning of October, but the deal amounts to a 20% take-under from beginning of year share prices.
ref: 2015 October 21, Antoine Gara, “Why KLA-Tencor's Sale Should Change Silicon Valley Forever”, in Forbes:
text: And, immediately, they realized that Credit Suisse could not stand on its own two feet. And the government there in Europe, I think there was a lot of suasion to force what effectively is a shotgun take-under, a merger.
ref: 2023 March 20, Roben Farzad, “Can banking takeovers and rescues stabilize the markets?”, in PBSNewsHour (transcript of interview):
topics: business
glosses: A proposed acquisition of a company at a price below its market price.
System F
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kind of typed lambda calculus that introduces a mechanism of universal quantification over types.
take-unders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of take-under
fülöppite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fülöpp + -ite. Named in 1929 for Béla Fülöpp (1863–1938), Hungarian lawyer, statesman and mineral collector.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare plagionite mineral with chemical formula Pb₃Sb₈S₁₅.
semseyites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semseyite
RAMAcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RAMAcrafts
form: ramacraft
form: RAMACRAFT
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: Acronym of rapid and/or massive accelerating spacecraft.
Hypernyms: spacecraft
Coordinate terms: gravitational wave
Rama
warp drive
Related terms: RAMADAR
RAMADAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramadar
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acronym of RAMAcraft detection and ranging, a system analogous to passive SONAR or passive RADAR for gravitational wave wake tracking.
Coordinate terms: gravitational wave
Rama
warp drive
Related terms: radar
RAMAcraft
sonar
Smath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
inopportunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inopportunists
Senses: examples: text: The letter was published to demonstrate that these American archbishops did not agree with Baltimore's Spalding who protested in a letter to Dupanloup that he was never an inopportunist.
ref: 2004, Patrick W. Carey, Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane, page 306:
text: The so-called inopportunists feared an infallibility separated from the college of bishops, a personal and absolute infallibility.
ref: 2018, W. De Pril, M. Lamberigts, Louvain, Belgium, and Beyond, page 486:
glosses: One who suffers from inopportunism.
Related terms: inopportunism
inopportunists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inopportunist
inopportunism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And I do not believe in the inopportunism of Socialists.
ref: 1913, Why I Am in Favor of Socialism, page 12:
text: Who would risk a schism in a mere question of inopportunism?
ref: 1999, Roland Hill, Lord Acton, page 196:
text: When we still had a situation where we had to reckon with revolutionary spasms, we faced what was called the 'inopportunism' of the Left, a tendency that had to be overcome.
ref: 2011, John Riddell, Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, page 177:
glosses: A reluctance to take advantage of pragmatic opportunities that present themselves, usually because of ideological or theological purity.
Related terms: inopportunist
sate down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of sit down
sitten down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of sit down
stereodirect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stereodirects
form: stereodirecting
form: stereodirected
form: stereodirected
Etymology: From stereo- + direct.
Senses: examples: text: This anchoring can stereodirect adsorption.
ref: 1999, Gerard V. Smith, Ferenc Notheisz, Heterogeneous Catalysis in Organic Chemistry, page 292:
text: The stereodirecting effect of the C-5-glycuronate ester has been demonstrated in the synthesis of mannuronic acid alginate oligomers.
ref: 2014, Yves Queneau, A Pilar Rauter, Thisbe Lindhorst, Carbohydrate Chemistry: Chemical and Biological Approaches, page 202:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To direct the stereochemistry of a reaction.
Related terms: stereodirection
stereodirects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stereodirect
stereodirecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stereodirect
stereodirected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stereodirect
stereodirection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + direction.
Senses: examples: text: Coleman and Fox (24) give such an example in which the catalyst system has two reactive sites which are equivalent except for a difference in capacity for stereodirection.
ref: 1968, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, page 761:
text: With the free allylic alcohols, in turn, results could be interpreted by assuming stereodirection by hydrogen bonding between the peracid and the hydroxy group.
ref: 2008, Mihály Nógrádi, Stereoselective Synthesis: A Practical Approach (page 130)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of stereodirecting.
Related terms: stereodirect
PWCer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PWCers
Etymology: From PWC (“personal water craft”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Unless you get an early start, the trout fishing can get tough in the summer, when swimmers, skiers and PWCers swarm all over the lake, but most of them go home after Labor Day, and trout fishing comes on strong again until the season closes at the end of September.
ref: 2012 April, Terry Rudnick, Washington Fishing: The Complete Guide to Lakes, Streams, and Saltwater (Moon Outdoors), 7th edition, Berkeley, CA: Avalon Travel, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 393:
glosses: A person who rides a personal water craft (PWC).
data journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here's an interesting thing: data journalism is becoming part of the establishment. Not in an Oxbridge elite kind of way (although here's some data on that) but in the way it is becoming the industry standard.
ref: 2011 July 28, Simon Rogers, “Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It attracted a “nascent data journalism community” including other journalists, developers, data scientists, advocates of open data and others who did not want simply to consume stories, but engage with the underlying facts.
ref: 2021 September 13, Pamela Duncan, “‘Numbers you can tell stories with’: a decade of Guardian data journalism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Emma Pierson, a computer scientist and data scientist, studied 1 million matches on eHarmony and wrote up her results on the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight.
ref: 2022, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of journalism based on the analysis of large data sets.
Related terms: data journalist
data science
matmul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matmuls
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of matrix multiplication.
data journalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data journalists
Senses: examples: text: Poorly structured and messy data means data journalists need to convert it to structured data or to clean (prepare) it so that the data can by analysed on a computer. A data journalist from the Financial Times obtained data from the EU data portal.
ref: 2022, Jingrong Tong, Data for Journalism: Between Transparency and Accountability, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who is doing data journalism.