cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
half-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *half-free, from Old English healffrēo (“half-free”), equivalent to half- + free. Cognate with Dutch halfvrij (“half-free”), German halbfrei (“half-free”), Danish halvfri (“half-free”).
Senses: examples: text: Many half-free slaves were forced to continue to work for the Dutch West India Company even after they were set free, and the company even required half-free blacks to pay a yearly tax consisting of crops that they had raised on their farms.
ref: 2013, Matthew W. Cody, Peter Stuyvesant: Dutch Leader of New Netherland (New York):
text: “Half-free” meant that the slaves themselves were now free, but their children would return to slavery. The Dutch gave a half-free slave named Gratia d'Angola a 10acre farm in the 1640s, centered around what is today one block of Greene Street between Prince Street and Houston Street, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.
ref: 2014, William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts:
text: Yet first, the anonymous rabbis and students begin the sequence of explorations in legality of marriage between half-free people by using more general rules of betrothal.
ref: 2015, Ernst van den Hemel, Asja Szafraniec, Words: Religious Language Matters:
glosses: Halfway or partially free.
Synonyms: semifree
high angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high angels
form: high-angel
Etymology: From Middle English heh-engel, from Old English hēahengel, from Proto-West Germanic *hauhaangil (“archangel”). Cognate with German Hochengel.
Senses: examples: text: And blessed art thou that diddest believe. For all things that have been spoken to thee from our Lord shall be performed. Second, that the angel Gabriel, which spake to the virgin, was an high angel, and an high messenger.
ref: 1856, Charles Lloyd, Formularies of Faith Put Forth by Authority During the Reign of Henry VIII:
text: In that night his Excellency also met the Taker-away-of-life ; and he begged of that high angel, "When thou takest away the souls of my people, do so easily, kindly, and gently."
ref: 1889, Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, Mohammed and Mohammedanism:
text: Nor, again, would anybody guess, without previous knowledge or elucidation, that a highwayman was a kind of robber, a high-head a kind of coiffare, a high-low a kind of boot, a high-man a kind of loaded die, or that, when our ancestors spoke of a high-father, a high-angel, and a high-bishop, they meant a patriarch, an archangel, and an archbishop respectively.
ref: 1889, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary & Philosophical Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 172
text: Such a man continues to progress in this state till an imperceptible [tru]th opens between his mind and the minds of the seraphic order of high angels.
ref: 1965, The Islamic literature - Volume 11 - Page 31
text: Many foretell Michael's tide far and wide five nights on past the equinox when earls and ceorls keep harvest time with the high angel's feast remembered together throughout the land.
ref: 2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England and the influence of Ramsey Abbey on the major English monastic schools:
text: Vohumano came to be considered, first as one of the highangels attendant on him, and then formally as one of his six councillors.
ref: 2004, George Rawlinson, The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World:
text: The high angel, Michael, flanked by the two commanders, continued his relentless attack bearing grimly and deliberately down upon the two dark leaders, Python and Jezebel.
ref: 2008, Miriam E. Bellamy, Demons in the Sanctuary:
text: As Sagittarius examined the pictures, the writer told of meeting both a High Angel, one named Tyrrell, and an Arch Demon, a Seraph, one of the four Seraphim who fell in the rebellion. Sag thought about the matter. A third of Heaven.
ref: 2008, Merrll O'Brian, 665 the Council Of: (Part One) - Page 241:
text: So to Keil and a host of others he is the preincarnate Christ, while Michael is a high angel.
ref: 2010, Merrill C. Tenney, The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4:
glosses: Archangel.
tetracarbon dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The linear oxocarbon having four carbon atoms
tricarbon dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The linear oxocarbon having three carbon atoms
highbishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highbishops
form: high-bishop
form: highbishop
Etymology: From Middle English *heahbischop, from Old English hēahbisċop (“archbishop, pontiff; (Jewish) high-priest”), equivalent to high + bishop.
Senses: examples: text: The Four Masters call him High-bishop of Connaught, because he was doubtless the most distinguished prelate of his time, for as yet there was no metropolitan See of Tuam.
ref: 1902, John Healy, Insula sanctorum et doctorum:
text: Maurice, the highbishop mentioned in the charter, was Muireadhach Ua Dubhthaigh who took part in the peace negotiations with Cormac Mac Carthaigh at Abhall Ceitearnaigh in 1134.
ref: 1949, Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Page 54:
text: She was asserting ecclesiastical suzerainty as 'highbishop' much as the Ui Nelll kings of Tara were claiming suzerainty over other provincial kings.
ref: 1980, Kathleen Hughes, The church in early Irish society - Page 112:
text: The Three Tribal Thrones of the Isle of Britain: Arthur as the High Prince in Menevia and Dewi as the High Bishop and Maelgwn Gwynedd as the High Elder; Arthur as the High Prince in Celliwig in Cornwall and Bedwin as the High Bishop and Caradoc Breichbras as the High Elder; [...]
ref: 2007, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael A. Faletra, The History of the Kings of Britain:
glosses: Archbishop.
high king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high kings
form: high-king
form: highking
Etymology: From Middle English *heah-kyng, from Old English hēahcyning (“high-king; God”), equivalent to high + king.
Senses: examples: text: […] is eighth in descent from Aedh Slaine, Highking of Ireland, in the Southern Uí Néill pedigrees.
ref: 1950, The Journal of Celtic studies - Volume 1 - Page 80
text: Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow.
ref: 2012, Holly Taylor, Dreamer's Cycle Series:
text: This time it was Roderic O'Connor, the high-king of all Ireland, with sixty thousand men levied from all the clans of the island. They encamped around Dublin in four separate bodies – the high-king and his men of Connaught at Castle Knock; [...]
ref: 2012, Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War:
text: […] And health to thee, O high-king, after I am gone, and to all the nobles of the Greeks.
ref: 2012, Togail na Tebe: The Thebaid of Statius - Page 281
hyponyms: ardri
glosses: A chief king or ruler; a great, superior, or supreme king; a king of kings.
high king
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: high-king
form: highking
Etymology: From Middle English *heah-kyng, from Old English hēahcyning (“high-king; God”), equivalent to high + king.
Senses: glosses: The king of kings: God; often, Jesus Christ.
Derived terms: high kingship
headwound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌwund/
Forms: form: headwounds
form: head wound
Etymology: From Middle English hæfved-wunde, from Old English hēafodwund (“a wound in the head”), from Proto-Germanic *haubudawundō, *haubidawundō (“injury to the head, headwound”), equivalent to head + wound. Cognate with Old Frisian hāvedwunde (“headwound”), Dutch hoofdwond (“injury to the head”), Old Saxon hōvidwunda (“headwound”), German Hauptwunde (“headwound”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (haubiþwunds, “wounded in the head”).
Senses: examples: text: Miladi's injury was pronounced to be the most severe in this respect; but Milor, in addition to his headwound, had broken bones and a snapped rib, which was thought to be pressing on his lungs.
ref: 1872, James Payn, A Woman's Vengeance:
text: The illustration accompanies a section of text setting out directions for estimating the size of a headwound.
ref: 1999, Tony Hunt, The Medieval Surgery:
glosses: A wound or injury to the head.
headwounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headwound
Singapore daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Singapore daisies
Senses: glosses: Sphagneticola trilobata, a ground-covering weed.
shiply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shiplier
form: more shiply
form: shipliest
form: most shiply
Etymology: From Middle English *schipli, from Old English sciplīċ (“naval, relating to a fleet”), equivalent to ship + -ly. Compare shiplike.
Senses: examples: text: But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.
ref: 1942, Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water:
text: There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades.
ref: 1953, William Sansom, Pleasures strange and simple:
text: They anchored at the island, which they had named Bear Island, for several days while they worked on their ship; repairing sails and doing shiply things of which Jacob still had little inkling.
ref: 2012, Stuart Wilson, Ice Haven:
glosses: Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.
shiplord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiplords
Etymology: From Middle English schyplord, from Old English sċiphlāford (“shipmaster, skipper”, literally “ship-lord”), equivalent to ship + lord.
Senses: examples: text: “And what would you have us do then, shiplord?” Nish na'am spoke bitterly.
ref: 2000, Esther Friesner, To Storm Heaven:
text: The position of shiplord came with pay.
ref: 2002, Harry Turtledove, Colonization: Aftershocks - Page 427:
text: Since it seemed to lead in the right direction and its banks were virtually uninhabited, the shiplord declared it good fortune and chose to press on.
ref: 2003, Dave Duncan, Paragon Lost: A Chronicle of the King's Blades - Page 373:
glosses: A shipmaster; skipper; captain.
king of herrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kings of herrings
Senses: glosses: The giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne.
giant oarfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant oarfish
form: giant oarfishes
Senses: glosses: The king of herrings, Regalecus glesne.
Weberian apparatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Weberian ossicles taken as a whole; the structure connecting the swim bladder to the auditory system in fishes.
shipbreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship-breach
Etymology: From Middle English schipbreche, schipbrüche, from Old English scipbryċe, scipbroc, scipġebroc (“shipwreck; that which washes ashore from shipwreck, wreckage”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to ship + breach. Cognate with Scots schipbrek (“shipwreck”), Dutch schipbreuk (“shipwreck”), German Schiffbruch (“shipwreck”).
Senses: examples: text: Also in shipbreach men flee to a board, and are oft saved in peril.
ref: 1893, Bartholomew Anglicus [i.e., Bartholomaeus Anglicus], translated by John Trevisa, edited by Robert Steele, Medieval Lore: An Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal and Plant Folk-lore and Myth of the Middle Age, London: Elliot Stock, page 93:
text: [...] and the third with an harp, and they please so shipmen, with likeness of song, that they draw them to peril and to shipbreach [shipwreck], but the sooth [truth] is, that they were strong [w]hores, that drew men that passed by them to poverty and to mischief.
ref: 1999, Robert M. Torrance, Robert M. Torrance:
glosses: Shipwreck.
BlackBerries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of BlackBerry
BlackBerrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of BlackBerry
rete mirabile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːti mɪˈɹɑːbɪleɪ/
Forms: form: retia mirabilia
form: rete mirabilis
Etymology: From Medieval Latin rete mirabile (literally “wonderful net”) (14th century).
Senses: examples: text: His description of the rete mirabile, the network of arteries at the base of the brain, shows he dissected animals as well as human corpses, since it does not exist in humans.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 65:
text: In whales, the rete mirabile also allows oxygenated blood to be supplied to the brain slowly, helping to avoid the problems human beings experience when swimming at depth – principally the bends.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 175:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A complex of blood vessels found in some vertebrates that preserves a gradient of a certain solute or particle, originally specifically the network of arterioles at the base of the brain in some ungulates and other mammals.
retia mirabilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rete mirabile
reta mirabilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of retia mirabilia.
rete mirabilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retia mirabilia
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rete mirabile.
physostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physostomes
Etymology: From physo- + -stome.
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: A fish with a bladder open to its esophagus.
Related terms: physostomous
physostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physostome
gill rakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gill raker
chukars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chukar
chukar partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chukar partridges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chukar.
synonyms: word: chukar
chukar partridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chukar partridge
BlackBerried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more BlackBerried
form: most BlackBerried
Senses: examples: text: I began to see the same fleece-clad, BlackBerried DINKs at the open houses I'd race to each Sunday.
ref: 2007, Diane Mapes, Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 255:
text: It's good to know whom our resident army of blue-suited, BlackBerried lobbyists are taking to lunch and treating to junkets, and what they want in exchange.
ref: 2007 April 18, Laurie Roberts, “Officials work hard to stymie lobbyist for parents rights”, in Arizona Republic:
text: The Sevens has long been an annual coping mechanism for the BlackBerried and Burberried expatriate set, the well-heeled bankers, brokers, lawyers and property developers across the Asia-Pacific region.
ref: 2009 March 29, Mack McDonald, “A Little Rugby With Your Cross-Dressing?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Carrying and/or using a BlackBerry device.
BlackBerried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of BlackBerry
preoperculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preoperculum
preopercle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preopercles
Etymology: From pre- + opercle.
Senses: glosses: The preoperculum.
preopercles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preopercle
websurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: websurfs
form: websurfing
form: websurfed
form: websurfed
Etymology: From web + surf.
Senses: glosses: To browse or peruse websites.
Derived terms: websurfer
websurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of websurf
websurfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of websurf
Targum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Targums
form: Targumim
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of targum.
trilobitology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trilobite + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of trilobites.
Related terms: trilobitologist
piquerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French piquer + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Piquerism, then, is usually perpetrated on others within some close physical proximity.
ref: 1983 October 1, Ronald M. Holmes, The Sex Offender and the Criminal Justice System, Springfield: C. C. Thomas, →ISBN, →OL, page 150:
text: Often, the sexual mechanisms inherent in piquerism are ignored during the assessment of sexually sadistic crimes.
ref: 2002, Wade C. Myers, Juvenile Sexual Homicide, London, San Diego: Academic Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 145:
text: This triggered his piquerism, the act of stabbing, slicing flesh for arousal.
ref: 2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore):
glosses: Sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).
Hypernyms: paraphilia
Related terms: piquerist
piquerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piquerists
Etymology: From French piquer + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: "The kind of person you want is a piquerist," he told me. […] "It's a pathological condition: it means the realization of sexual satisfaction from penetrating a victim by sniper activity. Or stab wounds, or even bites."
ref: 1990, Andrew Vachss, Blossom, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, →OL:
text: Presumably the piquerist does not initially engage in mutual carving but begins with small stabs or piercings and eventually intensifies his/her acts to encompass carving for sexual gratification.
ref: 2005 July 25, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, Pearson Education, →ISBN, →OL, page 242:
text: To classify him as a piquerist would be... too simplistic.
ref: 2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon):
glosses: One with a sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).
Hypernyms: paraphile
Related terms: piquerism
Blin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bilin
form: Bilen
form: Belen
form: Bilein
Etymology: From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group from Eritrea.
Synonyms: sense: ethnic group
word: Bogos
Blin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bilin
form: Bilen
form: Belen
form: Bilein
Etymology: From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.
Senses: glosses: The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.
Related terms: byn ⁠
Wiktionary’s coverage of Blin terms
Bogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bogos
Senses: glosses: A member of the Blin people.
Bogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Cebu, Philippines.
Bilin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Blin.
Bilen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Blin.
Belen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Blin.
Belen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Belén (“Bethlehem”). Doublet of Bethlehem.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A city in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States.
Bogos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bogo
Bilein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Blin.
Gi'iz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ge'ez.
blinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blan
form: blun
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blin
data hiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Synonym of information hiding.
synonyms: word: information hiding
information hiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data hiding
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: The technique to hide information so that it is invisible from the outside of an object. (It is a principle of segregation of design decisions that are most likely to change, so that other parts of the program are protected from extensive modification.)
cats-o'-nine-tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-o'-nine-tails
desk rage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A sudden fit of anger caused by office-related stress or environment.
aniline yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A yellow azo dye, 4-phenyldiazenylaniline
underking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underkings
form: under-king
Etymology: From Middle English underking, from Old English undercing, undercyning (“under-king, viceroy”), possibly from Proto-West Germanic *underkuning, from Proto-Germanic *underkuningaz, equivalent to under- + king. Cognate with Dutch onderkoning (“viceroy”), German Unterkönig (“underking”), Danish underkonge (“underking”), Swedish underkung (“underking”).
Senses: examples: text: From the Johore capital on the island of Pulau Penyengat in the Riau Archipelago, where Parani's brother became "underking" to a puppet Malay sultan, the Bugis extended their control over the tin negeri of Kedah and Perak, [...]
ref: 1987, David P. Chandler, David Joel Steinberg, In Search of Southeast Asia:
text: Bede himself used it in this context, among others, referring for example to Peada, Penda's son and the underking of the Middle Saxons, as a princeps.
ref: 1995, N. J. Higham, An English Empire:
text: “I am an advisor in his role as an InterSec director, Lord Guardian, not his counselor as underKing to the Inverni.” Aran made a dismissive gesture with his hand. “A distinction without a difference. [...]”
ref: 2010, Mark Del Franco, Face Off:
glosses: An inferior or subordinate king; a viceroy.
underkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underking
0D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 0d
form: 0-D
form: 0-d
Senses: glosses: Initialism of zero-dimensional.
0-G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of zero microgravity.
glosses: Abbreviation of zero gravity.
0I
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of zero inventory.
0TLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0TLPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of zero transmission level point.
1-A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1-As
Senses: glosses: A selective service class denoting that the registrant is available for service in the military
Related terms: draft
1-A-O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A selective service class denoting that the registrant is only available for noncombat military service due to their conscientious objector status
Coordinate terms: 1-O
1B1T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of one ball, one tracer, meaning that the normal rounds in the gun are alternated with tracer rounds.
1-C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A selective service class denoting that the registrant is already a member of the armed forces or also the NOAA or the Public Health Service.
1/C
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single conductor wire or cable.
1 Cor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 1 Cor.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 Corinthians.
1AESS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Abbreviation of Number 1A Electronic Switching System.
Related terms: 1ESS
1ANCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Number 1A network control point.
Related terms: 1NCP
1ASES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1ASESs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Number 1A service evaluation system.
1AVSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1AVSSs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Number 1A voice storage system.
1BH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1BHs
form: 1B
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of one-base hit.
1D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: 2D
3D
4D
glosses: Abbreviation of one-dimensional.
1D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1Ds
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of first down.
1D
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The British boy band One Direction.
Derived terms: 1Der
1-D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one-dimensional.
1-D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A selective service class denoting that the registrant is already a reserve member of the armed forces or a student taking military training, as in ROTC or an accepted aviation cadet applicant.
1/d
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Once per day, used for prescription directions.
1-D RCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1-D RCMs
form: 1D RCM
form: 1DRCM
Senses: examples: text: Although the 1-D RCM can predict only horizontally, diurnally, and seasonally averaged conditions, it is capable of estimating the first-order climate responses of the atmosphere, which is our intention in this study.
ref: 1983, Richard P. Turco et al., “Nuclear winter: Global consequences of multiple nuclear explosions”, in Science, volume 222, number 4630, →ISSN, page 1284:
text: [C]limate is far to^([sic]) complex to describe in a 1-dimensional fashion. Fortunately, 3-D models of the earth-atmosphere system, so-called General Circulation Models (GCM's), exist which more or less confirm the responses computed by 1-D RCM's.
ref: 1989, C.J.E. Schuurmans, “Changes in Atmospheric Composition and Climate”, in Atmospheric Ozone Research and its Policy Implications, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 79:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of one dimensional radiative-convective model.
1EAX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Number 1 electronic automatic exchange.
1ESS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Abbreviation of Number 1 Electronic Switching System.
Related terms: 1AESS
1FR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1FRs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of one-party flat rate.
1FTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one for the road.
1-G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of normal gravity, as in 1X gravity.
1GBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of one-gigabaud fiber channel.
1GL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1GLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: 2GL
3GL
4GL
5GL
glosses: Initialism of first-generation language, i.e. machine language.
1-H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1-Hs
Senses: glosses: A selective service class denoting that the registrant is not currently subject to induction processing.
1H4
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Initialism of Henry IV, Part 1, by William Shakespeare.
Related terms: 1H6
1H6
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Initialism of Henry VI, Part 1, by William Shakespeare.
Related terms: 1H4
1-h TL FM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of one-hour timelag fuel moisture.
1 Jn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 John.
1 KG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 1 Kgs, 1 Kings.
1LT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1LTs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of first lieutenant.
1MM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1MMs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of one megabyte modem.
Related terms: 1MMS
1MMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1MMSes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of one megabyte modem system.
Related terms: 1MM
1MR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of one-party message rate.
1NCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Number 1 network control point.
Related terms: 1ANCP
1/O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: First Officer.
1-O
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: A selective service class denoting that the registrant a conscientious objector available for alternate service contributing to maintenance of national health, safety, or interest.
Coordinate terms: 1-A-O
geopotential height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geopotential heights
Senses: glosses: The height above sea level of a given pressure in the atmosphere
virtual temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual temperatures
Senses: glosses: The temperature that a dry parcel of air would need in order to have the same density as a parcel of a specific temperature and humidity.
potential temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potential temperatures
Senses: glosses: The temperature a parcel of air would have if brought adiabatically to a standard reference pressure
Related terms: equivalent potential temperature
equivalent potential temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivalent potential temperatures
Senses: glosses: The temperature a parcel of air at a specific temperature would have if raised from a specific pressure level to zero millibars, had all moisture condensed from it, and then lowered to 1000 millibars.
convective temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convective temperatures
Senses: glosses: The approximate surface air temperature which must be reached for surface-based convection to initiate
skew-T log-P diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skew-T log-P diagrams
Etymology: The chart contains a skewed temperature axis (Skew-T) and a logarithmic pressure axis (Log-P).
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thermodynamic diagram used for weather forecasting and atmospheric analysis.
pressure gradient force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure gradient forces
Senses: glosses: The force resulting from a pressure gradient
Hemera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛməɹə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἡμέρα (Hēméra).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The personification and elemental goddess of the day. Her husband is Aether.
Related terms: ephemeral
euhemerism
comfies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From comfy + -ies, from comfortable.
Senses: examples: text: Tired but clean, I dressed in my comfies and went into the kitchen to get my food […]
ref: 2009, David Cullen, Knock on My Door, page 127:
glosses: Comfortable casual clothing typically only worn at home, e.g. pyjamas.
srs bsns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRS BSNS
Etymology: Abbreviation of serious business.
Senses: examples: text: (insert rant about how data protection is srs bsns and how Europe is trying to do the right thing and how the US is doing the wrong thing.)
ref: 2008 July 4, Jens Tingleff, “Re: YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: Really? Are space-faring ghosts "srs bsns" to people like yourself?
ref: 2008 August 19, Jonathon Barbera, “Re: When are the UFOs coming down for the UFO Cult?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: Treasure really was, in his sister's words, srs bsns, to dragons.
ref: 2013, R. Cooper, A Boy and His Dragon, Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Something that is serious, important, formidable, etc., or is treated as such.
SRS BSNS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you folks can't take being laughed at, you've really got to lighten up. I find you and Monica funny. It's all SRS BSNS for you. It's life-or-death-every-second-of-every-day.
ref: 2008 February 17, Ananamuss [username], “Re: dissent”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: Oh, it's always been SRS BSNS. :)
ref: 2010 October 3, Stephen Granade, “Re: Rule #2 in the Comp”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):
text: We spoke to a bunch of them — including MIT's Ethan Zuckerman, and Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain and David Weinberger — to find out why the world's most ridiculous Internet fan fest is suddenly concerned with SRS BSNS.
ref: 2012 May 2, “Serious ROFLcon is serious”, in The Phoenix:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of srs bsns.
electric fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric fences
head_nr: 1
form: electrical fence
Senses: examples: text: To ward off deer, Mr. Haas, an ornithologist, has installed an electric fence around his garden in the park.
ref: 1985 September 29, Lindsey Gruson, “Despite protests, deer hunts are set”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Jan 2013:
text: [W]hen Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain joked about a killer electric fence to keep migrants out, political electric shocks surged rapidly south of the Rio Grande.
ref: 2011 October 17, Ioan Grillo, “Cain's Electrified-Border Joke: No Laughing Matter in Mexico”, in Time:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A fence containing metal wire through which an electric current is passed, as a deterrent which will shock people or animals trying to breach or climb the fence.
electrical fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrical fences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electric fence.
lawn jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn jockeys
Senses: glosses: A statue of a jockey (racehorse rider) meant for being stood on a lawn.
Synonyms: jocko
lawn jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawn jockey
how do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæwˈduw/
Senses: examples: text: How do, bud? I'm bettin' this is your first time visitin' a shop, am I right or am I right?
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube:
glosses: Alternative form of how do you do.
groomzillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groomzilla
whistle pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistle pig
the change
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Menopause.
examples: text: GWM, very fem, considering the Change
ref: 1991 August 24, Keith De Blasio, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 13:
glosses: A sex change
well-wishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-wishing
form: most well-wishing
Senses: examples: text: When he arrived home, he was already expected by his well-wishing neighbours.
glosses: Extending good wishes.
well-wishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well-wishings
Senses: glosses: An act of extending good wishs to someone else.
well-wishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of well-wish
recovery boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery boilers
Senses: glosses: A boiler for recovering the sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in a chemical wood pulping process.
glosses: Ellipsis of heat recovery boiler (“a boiler used to recover heat from a hot process stream, such as flue gas from a gas turbine”).
couplezilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: couplezillas
Etymology: From couple + -zilla.
Senses: examples: text: > However, I still think a wedding is one of the few times a couple can be
> completely selfish and think of themselves only.
Oh no, COUPLEZILLA!
ref: 1999 June 3, Peggy Galbraith, “Re: cake...”, in alt.wedding (Usenet):
text: You're probably a great relief to work with after some of the couplezillas she's inevitably seen. The last real doozy of a story I heard was the groom who insisted that they MUST have an aisle runner because they were paying $10,000 for the wedding and had to have everything just so.
ref: 1999 August 24, Wende A. Feller, “Re: Coordinator Update!”, in alt.wedding (Usenet):
text: Then, no they're not wrong at all, they're being a couplezilla.
[…]
I say.. Couplezilla go ahead and embrace your zilla-ness. This is the stuff that makes great wedding horror stories...
ref: 2000 January 31, Z. Santiago, “Re: Cheif^([sic]) Bridesmaid needs help! (LONG)”, in alt.wedding (Usenet):
meronyms: bridezilla
groomzilla
weddingzilla
glosses: A couple who, in the course of planning their wedding, display difficult, selfish, and narcissistic behavior relating to the event.
passed pawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passed pawns
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pawn that has passed beyond enemy pawns on its own or adjacent files, and that hence has a clear run to the first or eighth rank.
Synonyms: passer
Hypernyms: pawn
Hyponyms: outside passed pawn
remote passed pawn
couplezillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couplezilla
field trial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field trials
Senses: glosses: A contest between gun dogs
glosses: A practical test, especially one conducted in the wild
test run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test runs
form: testrun
Senses: glosses: An initial trial of a device or system to test its basic function.
intersubstitutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + substitutability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intersubstitutable.
unrugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrug
unrugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrug
hyperconjugations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperconjugation
filling gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filling gases
Senses: glosses: Any nonreactive gas that is used to fill containers of perishable produce, tyres etc
wavemeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavemeter
judgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌdʒi
Forms: form: judgier
form: judgiest
form: judgey
Etymology: From judge + -y, late 2000s.
Senses: examples: text: But when he just announced, matter-of-factly, that he really liked pot, and hash, and acid, and speed, and meth, and coke, well…it kind of seemed like, I don't know, everybody has a hobby. I shouldn't be so judgy.
ref: 2009, MaryJane Morrison, “Signs of Doom”, in Barbara Davilman, Liz Dubelman, editors, What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 94:
text: I can't blame her for thinking this way. Because until very recently, I had bought into it all too. “Don't get all judgy, Mel," she says.
ref: 2011, Megan McCafferty, Bumped, page 276:
text: Riley lowered his eyebrows and crossed his arms and tried to look non-judgy even if he felt a little judgy.
ref: 2012, Anne Regan, Animal Magnetism, page 126:
text: How to Stop Being So Judgy [title]
ref: 2025 May 23, Jancee Dunn, “How to Stop Being So Judgy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Inclined to make (disapproving) judgments; judgmental.
Derived terms: judginess
judgy-pants
ganzá
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganzás
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese ganzá, from Kimbundu nganza (“gourd”).
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian cylindrical rattle used as a percussion instrument, especially in samba music.
uninspirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninspirational
form: most uninspirational
Etymology: From un- + inspirational.
Senses: glosses: Not inspirational.
snoopable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snoopable
form: most snoopable
Etymology: From snoop + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Ensure that passwords are not unnecessarily snoopable over the wire when authenticating.
ref: 2012, Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause Nozaki, Information Security Management Handbook, Sixth Edition, page 254:
glosses: Capable of being snooped or spied on; subject to covert interception or surveillance.
belle sabreuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belles sabreuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French belle (“lovely”) + sabreuse (“swordswoman”), after beau sabreur.
Senses: examples: text: The newspaper accounts show that several attempts were made, and not without success in two or three instances, to deprive la belle sabreuse of the points she had made, and to place her hors de combat.
ref: 1896 March, Claxton Wilstach, “The Señorita of the Sword”, in Godey's Magazine, volume CXXXII, number 789, pages 257–260:
text: Quite sexy, those scars, though, in a belle sabreuse sort of way.
ref: 1998, Luke Jennings, Beauty Story, Hutchinson, page 161:
text: Exhausted, I canter through postpandrial naps atop a Senegalese camel, and in full beau geste. "En avant, ma belle sabreuse!" shouts Tintin into the teeth of the wind.
ref: 2006, Louise Mushikiwabo with Jack Kramer, Rwanda Means the Universe, St. Martins Press, page 143:
glosses: A gallant swordswoman; a dashing female adventurer.
Related terms: beau sabreur
telecheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telechecks
Etymology: From tele- + check.
Senses: examples: text: The court had to decide if a "telecheck" had been "signed" by the purported "drawer," and in doing so the court had to determine whether a "telecheck" is a negotiable instrument[…]
ref: 2003, Daniel V. Davidson, Brenda E. Knowles, Lynn M. Forsythe, Business law: principles and cases in the legal environment, page 498:
text: Although very different laws apply, telechecks and electronic transfers may appear virtually the same to a consumer reading a bank statement.
ref: 2008, Carolyn L. Carter, Jonathan A. Sheldon, Unfair and deceptive acts and practices, page 357:
glosses: A check (financial instrument) that is not written out and signed by the drawer, but verbally authorized over the telephone and then printed and stamped by the payee.
Synonyms: demand draft
telechecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecheck
spacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spackier
form: spackiest
Etymology: From spack + -y, ultimately from spastic.
Senses: glosses: incompetent or physically uncoordinated
spacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spackies
Etymology: From spack + -y, ultimately from spastic.
Senses: glosses: A spazmo.
spackies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacky
telefantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telefantasies
Etymology: From tele- + fantasy.
Senses: examples: text: Many made-for-TV telefantasies are pilots for potential series; introducing the cast, establishing the premise and setting the stage for future installments are as important as the story itself.
ref: 2000, Fraser A. Sherman, Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan, page 2:
text: To an extent, then, it can be argued that Torchwoods cult status reflects not just its position as a telefantasy' Doctor Who spin-off but also its place as “authored” TV drama, interpretable as part of Russell T. Davies's body of work[…]
ref: 2010, David Lavery, The Essential Cult TV Reader, page 279:
glosses: A television serial with a fantasy theme.
telefantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telefantasy
telia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telium
telebooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebooths
Etymology: From tele- + booth.
Senses: examples: text: One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.
ref: 2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3:
text: We have telebooths that take us considerable distances in an instant.
ref: 2007, Charles Edward Harris, Suns of God, page 196:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A booth from which one can teleport to another location.
telebooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebooth
bagsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bagsy
antipublicity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipublicity
form: most antipublicity
Etymology: From anti- + publicity.
Senses: examples: text: This is a judge who is antipublicity, anti-media, anti-interference in his court.
ref: 2002, Cathy Winkler, One Night: Realities of Rape, page 234:
glosses: Opposing publicity.
come correct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes correct
form: coming correct
form: came correct
form: come correct
Senses: examples: text: I'm fresh like Dougie when I get my specs / And on the microphone, I come correct
ref: 1994, “Sure Shot”, in Ill Communication, performed by Beastie Boys:
text: Here, Tamar warns guys to come correct. "I won't be no ho / Just drop my clothes / And all the silly things that you're used to," she boldly sings.
ref: 1999?, Vibe (volume 7, number 10, December 1999 to January 2000, page 250)
text: "Let me tell you what I found out," she confessed in words that challenged her generation to come correct on the state of its psyche, "The enemy was me. I hated me."
ref: 2006, Craig Hansen Werner, A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America, page 329:
text: Sis, they know they have to come correct; a lot of men want to be needed by a woman, to make them feel like a man.
ref: 2011, Jody Prince, Wanting to Live the Lavish Life, page 27:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To behave properly or decently; to do the right thing.
Naassene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Naassenes
Etymology: Ancient Greek, possibly from Hebrew נָחָשׁ (“snake”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who claimed to have been taught their doctrines by Mariamne, a disciple of James the Just
Naassenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Naassene