cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skewjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskju.d͡ʒɑd/
Forms: form: more skewjawed
form: most skewjawed
Etymology: From skew + jawed.
Senses: examples: text: Though, after all, it's kinder skewjawed. I'd like tu see the closet It's only shelves, hey?
ref: 1877, Mary Kyle Dallas, The Grinder Papers, page 130:
text: Thinking that something about those stories I used to carry around in my pocket when I was a kid, reading them to shreds, must have been a little skewjawed.
ref: 1952, Zoe Lund Schiller, A Candle for a Star, page 209:
text: The sudden cold skewjawed the strings. He tuned three times before the strings quit warping off.
ref: 2012, Peter Bowen, Specimen Song:
text: Their thicknesses vary wildly; splotches hover over skewjawed jabs.
ref: 2016, Barbara Hurd, Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-heard Melodies, page 29:
glosses: Crooked, misaligned, or disorganized.
squeejawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squeejawed
form: most squeejawed
Senses: examples: text: If you try to place it by eye, it may get on “squeejawed,” and if you mark the cornerpoints beforehand, the results are likely to be less neat than if you follow the procedure suggested above.
ref: 1939, Edwin Way Teale, The Boys' Book of Photography, page 126:
text: Consequently, things often turn out pinched, lopsided or squeejawed.
ref: 1976, Phyllis C. Michael, Is my head on straight?: Meditations for women, page 83:
text: The truth was, her conscience was squeejawed with the burden of Jerry Graeme.
ref: 2009, Kennedy Foster, All Roads Lead Me Back to You:
glosses: Alternative form of skewjawed.
top-hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tophatted
Etymology: From top hat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".
ref: 1960 June, M.G.D. Farr, “Railbus services in the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 366:
text: While walking in the off-peak over the small wood-panelled footbridge [at Baker Street station] that connects the two original platforms - which itself resembles an old-fashioned railway carriage hoisted above the tracks - I would not be surprised to see a top-hatted man approaching me.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 38:
text: The top-hatted “drinking bird,” once a fixture in science classrooms for demonstrating the basics of thermodynamics, is making a surprising comeback — as the inspiration for a new clean-energy generator that could one day power your watch and phone.
ref: 2024 March 14, Billy Stockwell, “The ‘drinking bird’ makes a comeback and could power your gadgets with clean energy”, in CNN:
glosses: Wearing a top hat.
Synonyms: betoppered
toppered
tricky racket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ækɪt
Forms: form: tricky rackets
Etymology: Originally from tricky (“difficult”) + racket (“illegal scheme for profit”). Over time, this expression has lost its implication of illicitness.
Senses: examples: text: The puppet clique's anticommunist tricky racket is an intolerable challenge to the South Korean youths, students, and people desiring independence, democracy, and reunification and is an unbearable provocation against us who are making all efforts to remove the confrontation and mistrust between the North and the South and achieve the fatherland's independent and peaceful reunification.
ref: 1985, Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 170-179, page 491:
text: "This crimefightin' can be a tricky racket," said the demon.
ref: 2012, Matthew Hughes, Costume Not Included: To Hell and Back:
text: The internet used to be the Wild West. But more and more these days it's getting to be a tricky racket.
ref: 2018, Nicolás Obregón, Sins As Scarlet:
glosses: A type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.
tricky rackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricky racket
morfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morfas
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh morfa.
Senses: examples: text: [...] just inside the entrance to rabbits' burrows on the sandy "morfa" between Criccieth and Borth-y-gest, Carnarvonshire, and again in similar circumstances at Talybont [...] Fairly common in June on sandy "morfas" at Criccieth and Talybont, North Wales.
ref: 1947, James William Tutt, The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, volumes 59-60, page 46:
text: […] makes good use of the level areas across the morfas which fringe the Welsh peninsula. As a result, the special achieved flying averages of over a mile-a-minute from Ferryside to Loughor, with a maximum of 74mph for the 5.6 miles between Kidwelly and Pembrey.
ref: 2000, The Railway Magazine, volume 146, page 54:
text: The wildlife of the morfa, the saltmarshes, reflects the diversity of their setting whilst being distinctly Welsh. There is nothing immutable about this landscape and its wildlife; its heritage is one of change.
ref: 2017 October 19, Clive Chatters, Saltmarsh, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: A low wetland periodically flooded by salt water; a salt marsh.
zazas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zaza
Braime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪmi
Etymology: Blend of Brienne + Jaime.
Senses: examples: text: Bad news for all you Braime shippers out there, as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau doesn't think his character Jaime will get together with Brienne in Game of Thrones.
ref: 2017 July 14, Matthew Erao, “Game of Thrones: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Doubts Jaime/Brienne Romance”, in Screen Rant:
text: It also comes after he finally hooked up with Brienne, a long-in-the-making love connection that “Braime” fans have been waiting for since season two.
ref: 2019 May 7, Lindsey Romain, “What Is Jaime Planning to Do with Cersei?”, in Nerdist:
text: The final words of Dade's acknowledgements for the novel are directed at the Braime fandom, which she states to have been part of, with "some signs of that [noticeable] throughout this manuscript."
ref: 2023, Amanda Boyce, “The Fix-It Novel: How Commercial Authors Instrumentalize Fan Fiction's Subversive Potential”, in Kaitlin Tonti, editor, Fix-It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan Fiction, page 147:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Jonerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jonaerys
Etymology: Blend of Jon + Daenerys.
Senses: examples: text: You saw the way they were looking at each other in that ship’s cabin last week, and the director of that episode confirmed that Jonerys will be debuting soon.
ref: 2017 August 25, Jeremy Egner, “'Game of Thrones': 7 Questions for the Season 7 Finale”, in The New York Times:
text: The episode description of the season finale, titled The Dragon And The Wolf, points in that direction as well, with a subtle hint about a steamy 'Jonerys' moment.
ref: 2017 August 27, Kabita Maharana, “Jon Snow and Daenerys sex scene teased in Game of Thrones season 7 finale description”, in International Business Times:
text: If I read a fic by a Jonerys (Jon/Daenerys) shipper, I am likely to feel that Sansa is OOC, and if they read one of my stories, they probably wouldn't agree with my portrayal of Dany.
ref: 2023, Jessica Hautsch, Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities: Thinking Through Feels, page 178:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Jonsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Jon + Sansa.
Senses: examples: text: The moment sets the relationship between Jon and Sansa (Jonsa) at tension with the relationship between Jon and Dany (Jonerys).
ref: 2019 April 15, Henry McKenna, “Is Sansa Stark in love with Jon Snow?”, in USA Today:
text: Jonsa fans, convinced that Jon was just pretending to fancy Daenerys for political gain, went searching for subtextual support for their theories.
ref: 2019 April 21, Joanna Robinson, “The Game of Thrones Fan War Only George R.R. Martin Saw Coming”, in Vanity Fair:
text: This sentiment resonates with Jonsa shippers who have cast Jon and Sansa into stories ranging from Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Downton Abbey (2010-2015) to Emma (1815) and Tangled (2010) to The Princess Bride (1987) and The Breakfast Club (1985).
ref: 2023, Jessica Hautsch, Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities: Thinking Through Feels, page 192:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Jon Snow and Sansa Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Jonaerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Honestly, I wasn’t quite sure how to read that sequence, which gave fans their long-desired #Jonaerys coupling overlaid with Sam and Bran’s conversation definitively establishing that Jon is, at that moment, in the process of boning his aunt.
ref: 2017 August 28, Jacob Brogan, Sam Adams, “This Week’s Worst Person in Westeros: Cersei Lannister”, in Slate:
text: However, chances are that she, Jon or some other character will survive to rule, plus “Game of Thrones” isn’t the type to flash forward to a fully-grown Jonaerys offspring on the Throne.
ref: 2019 April 21, Jordan Moreau, “Best Fan Theories for the Final Season of ‘Game of Thrones’”, in Variety:
text: So this is actually, in some respects, a war between the Jon/Sansa (or Jonsa) lovers and the Jon/Dany (or Jonaerys) lovers.
ref: 2019 April 21, Joanna Robinson, “The Game of Thrones Fan War Only George R.R. Martin Saw Coming”, in Vanity Fair:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Alternative spelling of Jonerys.
Zidon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σιδών (Sidṓn) and Hebrew צִידוֹן (Ṣīḏōn), ultimately from Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn /⁠Ṣīdūn⁠/).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sidon, influenced by translation of Biblical Hebrew צִידוֹן.
Gendrya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Gendry + Arya.
Senses: examples: text: While likely an overt reference to Gendry's Baratheon heritage, but many Gendrya shippers also hope that secret has something to do with the younger Stark sister.
ref: 2019 April 10, Benjamin Fearnow, “Jamie x Brienne, Gendrya and Jonsa: The Weird and Wild Couples 'Game of Thrones' Fans Want to See Get Together”, in Newsweek:
text: Still, not everyone's onboard the Gendrya hype train.
ref: 2019 April 14, Jen Glennon, “Will Gendry And Arya Get Together On 'Game Of Thrones'? Premiere Hints 'Gendrya' Could Happen In Season 8”, in Newsweek:
text: 'Gendrya' shippers have eagerly awaited this moment since season one.
ref: 2019 April 25, Catherine Regen, “Game of Thrones strikes controversy”, in Old Gold & Black, page 19:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Gendry and Arya Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
acephobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪsˈfəʊbɪk/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: more acephobic
form: most acephobic
Etymology: From ace (“asexual”) + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: “Cold” and “emotionless” are simply acephobic and ignorant.
ref: 2015 July 5, George Norman, “Reclaiming celibacy”, in The Yorker, University of York, page 16:
text: The relationship between these two parts of me is underpinned by homophobic and acephobic assumptions.
ref: 2017 February 3, “Plus”, in Varsity, page 18:
text: Even those in the LGBTQ+ community can be acephobic.
ref: 2019, Samantha Billingsly, “The Gray Area: Another ignored minority”, in Sonoma State Star, 29 January - 4 February 2019, page 3:
glosses: Characteristic of or exhibiting acephobia.
woobification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From woobie + -fication.
Senses: examples: text: That is, the woobification of Logan is a successful narrative process only because the text can reasonable depend on and, consequently manipulate, a fannish investment in itself; […]
ref: 2006, Afşar Yegin, "Fan-textual Television: Narrative Structure, Virtuality and Fandom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Veronica Mars", thesis submitted to Istanbul Bilgi University, page 110
text: “Good” characters are also prone to woobification, if they are presented in canon as sympathetically angst-ridden and tormented: this class of woobie includes Remus, Sirius, Fox Mulder (X-Files) and Dean Winchester (Supernatural).
ref: 2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 100
text: For those unfamiliar with fanfiction, it means self-insertion and fantasy fulfillment through the woobification of a main character.
ref: 2014 January 27, Shannon Wang, “Techer^([sic]) reflects on motivation of Tumblr users”, in The California Tech, California Institute of Technology, page 4:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The act or process of turning a character into a woobie.
Related terms: english: romanticisation of morally ambiguous male characters
translation: romanticisation of morally ambiguous male characters
word: babygirlification
playersexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plā′ər-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌpleɪ.əˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌpleɪ.ɚˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: more playersexual
form: most playersexual
Etymology: From player + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: All of the marriageable characters in farming simulator Stardew Valley are "playersexual", meaning they will marry the player regardless of gender.
ref: 2016 December 29, Gita Jackson, “2016 Was A Great Year For 'Shipping Our Favourite Characters”, in Kotaku Australia:
text: The fact that 65 characters can be interested in a same-sex relationship within Skyrim but only with the player is indicative of the fact that these characters are not bisexual, pansexual, or some other form of plurisexual—they are playersexual.
ref: 2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page:
text: DA2 provides a notable contrast with both Origins and Inquisition in that all non-DLC romanceable characters are “playersexual”; […]
ref: 2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183:
topics: video-games
glosses: Attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.
raw_tags: of an NPC
Related terms: playersexuality
desperates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desperate
I'm telling a lie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "I seen one fellow in Jerusalem, wait, I'm telling a lie, it was in Alex, when I went there for a bit of leave, one fellow with a complete foxhunt on his back."
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of I tell a lie.
A/B/O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of alpha, beta, and omega.
Senses: examples: text: Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
ref: 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317
text: It also harnesses the a/b/o trope to increase the stakes of intimacy and trust in the context of sexual encounters, and to intensify descriptions of desire and sexual pleasure.
ref: 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 103
text: What is interesting is how A/B/O stories explore these sexual scripts, and how the characters in them negotiate the disjunctures between the dominant scripts and their desires in their own lives and interpersonal relationships, […]
ref: 2018, Milena Popova, "‘Dogfuck rapeworld’: Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent", Porn Studies
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of omegaverse (“subgenre of erotic speculative fiction”).
synonyms: word: omegaverse
extra: subgenre of erotic speculative fiction
joy-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joy-bells
form: joy bell
Senses: examples: text: The carriages rolled away to the ringing of a joy bell in the church tower, as was proper at a baptism.
ref: 1892, John Talbot Smith, Saranac: A Story of Lake Champlain, page 279:
text: "That bloody Jock Keir with the money rattling in his pocket. Tack wallah's joy-bells."
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17:
glosses: A church bell.
joy-bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joy-bell
omegaverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the omegaverse
Etymology: From omega + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: Still, just as important as the kinky aspects of the omegaverse are the emotional ones: the forcefulness of heat cycles and impulsive desire, the inevitability of imprinting and bonds, the joys and horrors of mpreg.
ref: 2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 321:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fictional alternate universe in which humanity has a dominance hierarchy based on stereotypical wolf pack dynamics, consisting of alphas (dominants), omegas (submissives), and betas (neutrals).
omegaverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omega + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: What omegaverse fanfiction does is to construct imaginary bodies and societies based on premises drawn from the discourses that surround sex and gender, and imagine what situations would arise if those premises were embodied and experienced by a familiar pop-cultural figure.
ref: 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 102
text: It may be worth considering if dark Omegaverse slash fiction, with its descriptions of excruciatingly detailed and shocking sexual fantasies, is a reflection of the social reality both fan fiction authors and readers have experienced within an unequal and discriminatory patriarchal society.
ref: 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 125:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction set in this fictional universe.
Synonyms: A/B/O
open-topper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open-toppers
form: open topper
Senses: glosses: A double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.
Synonyms: open-top bus
Related terms: open-top
open-topped
open-toppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open-topper
hype train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hype trains
Senses: examples: text: That new film is being advertised way too much, but it's working – everyone is joining the hype train.
glosses: An audience or other group of people who are hyped over something; people who highly and sometimes excessively anticipates something that has been highly advertised and promoted.
Related terms: bandwagon
open-top
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having an open top.
glosses: Having no roof, or having a top folded or detached.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
Synonyms: open-topped
Derived terms: open-top bus
Related terms: open-topper
open-top bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open-top buses
Senses: examples: text: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
topics: transport
vehicles
glosses: A double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.
Synonyms: open-topper
pin-pricked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pin-pricked
form: most pin-pricked
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
glosses: Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.
open-top buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open-top bus
color wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color wheel
compounding pharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compounding pharmacies
Senses: glosses: A pharmacy in which therapeutic drugs are created in small batches, generally when the patient needs a formulation which is not readily available from manufactured drugs.
compounding pharmacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compounding pharmacy
coconut apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut apple
like buggery
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: hurt like buggery
text: run like buggery
translation: run like a bat out of hell
english: run like a bat out of hell
text: sell like buggery
translation: sell like hot cakes
english: sell like hot cakes
glosses: Like hell.
hemotoxylins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemotoxylin
kombouchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of komboucha
less thans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of less than
lifting agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifting agent
sarcoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sarcoplasmic.
sedigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the particle size of sediments
semaglutide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semaglutides
Etymology: From sema- + -glutide (“glucagon-like peptide analog”).
Senses: examples: text: Last year, the situation began to change when Novo Nordisk received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market semaglutide. The drug can elicit a 15 percent to 17 percent weight loss in people with obesity.
ref: 2022 April 28, Gina Kolata, “Patients Taking Experimental Obesity Drug Lost More Than 50 Pounds, Maker Claims”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But now a new generation of medications has arrived, based on a better understanding of the biological underpinnings of obesity. […] One of these medications – semaglutide, sold under the brand name Wegovy – will soon be available in UK chemists in the form of a weekly, self-administered injection.
ref: 2023 February 23, Jason Halford, “It may be the most effective anti-obesity drug yet – but even Wegovy is no ‘wonder cure’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: As semaglutide has skyrocketed in popularity, patients have been sharing curious effects that go beyond just appetite suppression. They have reported losing interest in a whole range of addictive and compulsive behaviors: drinking, smoking, shopping, biting nails, picking at skin.
ref: 2023 May 19, Sarah Zhang, “Ozempic’s Next Act”, in The Atlantic:
text: The heart of the growth is semaglutide, Novo Nordisk’s synthetic version of a hormone known as glucagon-like peptide 1, or GLP-1, which helps the body regulate blood sugar levels.
ref: 2024 April 20, Eshe Nelson, Charlotte de la Fuente, “It Introduced Ozempic to the World. Now It Must Remake Itself.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A peptide used in the treatment of diabetes and as an antiobesity medication.
Hypernyms: GLP-1 RA
Hyponyms: word: Ozempic
word: Wegovy
english: brand names
translation: brand names
word: Rybelsus
Coordinate terms: fen-phen
liraglutide
metformin
semicrystallized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + crystallized.
Senses: glosses: Partially crystallized
semidegradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + degradable.
Senses: glosses: Partially degradable
semipolarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + polarized.
Senses: glosses: Partially polarized
simptomatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of symptomatology.
grab rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grab rail
unasinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hobbes entitles his sixth "Lesson," "Of Manners," and prostrates his adversaries with the following parting shot (taking care to italicize the complimentary epithets employed — italics were in great requisition in those days): "So go your ways, you Uncivil Ellesiastics, Inhuman Divines, Dedoctors of morality, Unasinous Colleagues, Egregious pair of Issachars, most wretched Vindices and Indices Academiarum [Hobbes* fire was frequently directed against the universities]; and remember Vespasian's law, that it is uncivil to give ill language first, but civil and lawful to return it."
ref: 1880, George Sylvester Morris, British Thought and Thinkers, page 164:
text: The translators and commentators seem to be unasinous in giving us two, apparently because the poet shouts "Wait!" at about the point where the anatomy lesson gets a little too precious.
ref: 1966, Dale L. Plank, Pasternak's lyric: a study of sound and imagery, page 62:
text: Here were representatives of three different, unasinous points of view, each deeply opposed to the others, and yet all attacking her!
ref: 1990, David Brin, Earth, page 254:
text: Lighting your hands on fire and lighting your feet on fire are unasinous.
glosses: Sharing the same amount of stupidity; displaying ignorance or foolishness by all.
subspeciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subspeciation
underfogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underfogged
form: most underfogged
Etymology: From under- + fogged.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, if the emulsion is overfogged it will be slow, since the number of holes required to bleach all developable centers will be larger; if underfogged, it will be fast but low in maximum density.
ref: 1977, Thomas Howard James, The Theory of the Photographic Process, page 189:
text: The contrast between the sharply focused vertical line and the blurred horizontal line is maximized. If the eye is underfogged or overfogged, the light distributions of the retinal images of point sources will be oval.
ref: 2006, William J. Benjamin, Borish's Clinical Refraction:
text: Proper understanding of airflow within the inlet duct to optimize the distribution of fog nozzles in order to avoid underfogged and overfogged areas.
ref: 2007, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power:
glosses: Insufficiently fogged.
overfogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfogged
form: most overfogged
Etymology: From over- + fogged.
Senses: examples: text: After noting the visual acuity without glass, the patient is greatly overfogged — to a point where vision is not more than 6/80.
ref: 1932, American Medical Association. Section on Ophthalmology, Transactions - Volume 83, page 73:
text: Therefore, if the rest of the correction is accurate, the cause of greater impairment in one eye is probably that it is overfogged.
ref: 1952, Sylvester Judd Beach, Principles of Refraction, page 97:
text: The contrast between the sharply focused vertical line and the blurred horizontal line is maximized. If the eye is underfogged or overfogged, the light distributions of the retinal images of point sources will be oval.
ref: 2006, William J. Benjamin, Borish's Clinical Refraction:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a focal point that is in front of the retina or observer; myopic.
examples: text: Clearly, if the emulsion is overfogged it will be slow, since the number of holes required to bleach all developable centers will be larger; if underfogged, it will be fast but low in maximum density.
ref: 1977, Thomas Howard James, The Theory of the Photographic Process, page 189:
text: Proper understanding of airflow within the inlet duct to optimize the distribution of fog nozzles in order to avoid underfogged and overfogged areas.
ref: 2007, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power:
text: On the video footage that I recorded, Ciço was in rare form, weaving among the other players on the overfogged stage, bantering to the crowd, placing his hand on Assis's shoulder and singing a line to him.
ref: 2014, Daniel B. Sharp, Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil, page 121:
glosses: Containing too much fog.
unregardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] or contemptible, fresh evidence of the constant working of the Divine power “for glory and for beauty,” and to teach it and proclaim it to the unthinking and the unregardless — this, as it is the peculiar province and faculty of the master-mind,[…]
ref: 1843, [John Ruskin], Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The old man did not touch the paddle, and he was unregardless of the lofty-sided steamer as the canoe slipped down the length of it into the darkness astern. He was too occupied in counting the wealth of tobacco showered upon him.
ref: 1917, Jack London, Michael, Brother of Jerry:
glosses: Not regarding, not paying regard or attention to (things).
Related terms: irregardless
condensing locomotive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensing locomotives
Senses: examples: text: In July 1864 the Metropolitan took delivery of some more condensing locomotives: beautiful green brass-bound tank engines from Beyer, Peacock & Co. of Manchester.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A steam locomotive which condenses exhaust steam by directing it into the water tank(s).
condensing locomotives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condensing locomotive
ransackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ransackles
form: ransackling
form: ransackled
form: ransackled
form: ranshackle
form: ranshakle
Senses: examples: text: And yet zay nothing for me, but devise All the strićt means, to ransackle me o' my money.
ref: 1633, Ben Jonson, The tale of a Tub.:
text: “You're making it very tough for me,” said Fox. “Someone went into Yerkes Flats last night right under the helicopter cover. They ransackled the place, killed the caretaker —"
ref: 1976, David Bergamini, Venus Development, page 183:
text: On the latter date, the Black Panther Party offices were ransackled by police; typewriters sashed, the office set on fire; newspapers and food for the breakfast program and supplies for the health clinic destroyed, and the arrestees beaten.
ref: 1978, Hampton V. City of Chicago, page 17:
text: I'd rather the sword drawn in a blink than the slow soul ransackled by the State.
ref: 2019, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Dolefully, A Rampart Stands, page 52:
glosses: To ransack.
ransackle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ransackle
form: most ransackle
Senses: examples: text: In the 34 years that he presided over Tuskegee. the school grew from two ransackle classrooms to 100 well-equipped buildings, more than 1,500 students.
ref: 1979, Diane Brundage, The Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Report, 1979, page 90:
text: In course of time many a such temple are lost to oblivion leaving only the images now kept in the newly built temples or in the ransackle houses.
ref: 1984, The Orissa Historical Research Journal:
text: The Jenukurubas of Hunsur Taluka, Mysore District Karnataka lived in ransackle shanties.
ref: 2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of ramshackle.
ransackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ransackle
ransackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ransackle
ransackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ransackle
ransackled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ransackled
form: most ransackled
Senses: examples: text: Another image of this type is noticed in a ransackled house attached to Gaúgešwari temple at Bayalisbati in Puri district.
ref: 1983, The Orissa Historical Research Journal - Issue 1, page 119:
text: Such attempts were intended to stabilise the political atmosphere and the ranshackled economy.
ref: 1990, I. E. S. Amdi, Wilberforce L. Hinjari, Party Systems, Democracy, and Political Stability in Nigeria:
text: An image of this form now worshipped in a ransackled house at Jambhira of Keonjhar district plants her right leg on the mount lion and the left on the pedestal near the demon who is in the theriomorphic shape.
ref: 1997, Harish Chandra Das, Iconography of Śākta Divinities, page 334:
glosses: Alternative form of ramshackle.
mcft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of million cubic feet; 28,316.85 cubic meters.
banging up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bang up
triprotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + protic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tending to donate three hydrogen ions (H⁺) in solution.
raw_tags: of an acid
Related terms: protic
walk turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks turkey
form: walking turkey
form: walked turkey
form: walked turkey
Etymology: From the way a domestic turkey moves, leading with the breast and bobbing back and forth.
Senses: examples: text: Out on the bar the north wind commenced to make the Yaquina walk turkey, standing her up on either end alternately and rolling her both ways at once.
ref: 1888, San Francisco Weekly Examiner:
text: The last time my rubber boots got hooked up in the staysail sheets, and as the sail was full of wind I walked "Turkey" for a little while with both feet in the air.
ref: 1995 -, Inland Seas - Volume 51, Issue 4, page 29:
glosses: To stagger or move with an ungainly gait.
examples: text: Why, swimming “dog fashion” can bear no comparison with it, while the almost frantic efforts of the young man to keep his toes on term firma, seemed to us a most vivid illustration of the days when the “big boys” used to make us “walk turkey".
ref: 1868, Beloit College Monthly - Volume 15, page 140:
text: As a people we have an insane and deep-rooted preference for noise over harmony, for force over reason, or we should not be taken by the slack of the pants and walked turkey up to the counter,
ref: 1932, The World's Work, page 54:
text: Amos Hathaway was found by his wife in the poolroom of Charlie Dismer Saturday night and was made to walk turkey right out of there.
ref: 1935, Pathfinder:
text: But when they came to be drummed out of camp they had to walk turkey or get a bayonet run into them.
ref: 1972, Detroit in Perspective - Volumes 1-2, page 39:
glosses: To walk with the chest pushed out in front (often due to being pushed or forced)
examples: text: There are a favored few who are allowed to do as they please ; but the rest of us must walk turkey, or spend our Saturday afternoons in doing extra duty.
ref: 1883, Harry Castlemon, The Rod and Gun Club, page 34:
text: "Jest let him get the grip on you that he got on me, an he'll make the best among ye walk turkey,” Bud retorted sharply.
ref: 1889, Harry Castlemon, True to His Colors, page 192:
text: Secretary Brower intends to lay down the law and make delinquents walk turkey.
ref: 1907, Typographical Journal - Volume 31, page 62:
text: The legislatures rap them for lower fares, the federal government makes them walk turkey, and they see a man with a gun behind every bunch of grass, whichever way they turn.
ref: 1915, E. C. Cook, Railway Journal - Volume 21, page 6:
glosses: To obey obsequiously; to toe the line.
walks turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk turkey
walking turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk turkey
walked turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk turkey
light-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light-shots
Senses: glosses: In Anglo-Saxon times, a contribution of wax payable to the church three times yearly; light-scot.
trundle shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Trundle shot is onely a bolt of iron sixteene or eighteene inches in length; at both ends sharpe pointed, and about a handfull from each end a round broad bowle of lead according to the bore of the Peece cast vpon it.
ref: 1627, John Smith, chapter 14, in A Sea Grammar, London: John Haviland, page 67:
text: He writes self-magnifyingly of his successes, while pricking out the defailments of others in words as sharp-ended as trundle-shot.
ref: 2001, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, New York: Viking, page 23:
glosses: A projectile used with naval artillery, made up of two lead balls joined by an iron bar 30 to 45 cm long, sharpened at both ends.
tough loves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tough love
tough loving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tough love
tough loved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tough love
tough-love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tough-loves
form: tough-loving
form: tough-loved
form: tough-loved
Senses: examples: text: The system's got some of our finest men being tough-loved to death!
ref: 1999, Estella Conwill Majozo, Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist, page 239:
text: In time, the counselors at the program tough-loved me into acknowledging that I was using my disabilities as an excuse to drink and drug.
ref: 2000, Malinda Teel, Fortitude: True Stories of True Grit, page 87:
text: He must be tough-loved by the Church.
ref: 2002, John Cantwell Kiley, The Breakaway Pope, page 41:
text: He tough-loved the hell out of me without ever knowing what tough love meant.
ref: 2004, Thomas Henderson, Frank Luksa, In Control: The Rebirth of an NFL Legend, page 87:
glosses: To practice tough love; to treat someone with compassion but applying stringent discipline in order to improve their behavior.
tough-loves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tough-love
tough-loving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tough-love
tough-loved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tough-love
point-instant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point-instants
Senses: examples: text: But out of time and space came point-instants, and out of point-instants came a universe.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 57:
topics: human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The smallest unit of space-time; a particular point along the continua of space and time.
point-instants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point-instant
flower-strewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flowerstrewn
Etymology: From flower + strewn.
Senses: glosses: strewn with flowers
flowerstrewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flower-strewn.
sociocommunicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sociocommunicative
form: most sociocommunicative
Etymology: From socio- + communicative.
Senses: glosses: socially communicative
sonohysterogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonohysterograms
Senses: glosses: An image produced by sonohysterography
sonohysterograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonohysterogram
spermatostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatostyles
Senses: glosses: A rod, produced by some beetles, on which sperm is embedded
spermatostyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatostyle
spherulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Composed of spherules
spinicaudatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinicaudatans
Senses: glosses: Any of the order Spinicaudata of clam shrimps.
spinicaudatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinicaudatan
Green Zone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊn
Etymology: Coined by the United States military.
Senses: glosses: A district of Baghdad, Iraq: A fortified high-security district of Baghdad established by the United States occupation force in the wake of the U.S.-Iraq War invasion of 2003, which contains major international hotels, international organizations and forces headquarters, Iraqi national ministries and government offices, and VIP residences.
Synonyms: word: International Zone
Coordinate terms: english: Baghdad outside of the Green Zone
translation: Baghdad outside of the Green Zone
word: Red Zone
stabilome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin stabilis + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: We have also demonstrated how these predicted values, or the “stabilome” can be used to ask questions about the global stability of specific classes of proteins.
ref: 2012 June 8, Ralph Patrick, “Mapping the stabilome: a novel computational method for classifying metabolic protein stability”, in BMC Systems Biology, volume 6:
glosses: The omics concept of stability of mRNA.
stayability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stayabilities
Senses: glosses: The probability that a cow will remain in a herd after it has calved
stenovalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Restricted to few types of environment
raw_tags: of an organism
stentectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: stentectomies
Etymology: From stent + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of a stent
stentectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stentectomy
stylonychiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylonychiids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Stylonychia of ciliates.
Synonyms: stylonychine
stylonychine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylonychines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stylonychiid.
synonyms: word: stylonychiid
subandean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Subandean
form: sub-Andean
Senses: glosses: Beneath the Andes
subapterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + apterous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brachypterous.
synonyms: word: brachypterous
subfunctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + functioning.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subfunctional.
subfunctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + functioning.
Senses: glosses: A reduced level of functioning
subhypotensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hypotensive.
Senses: glosses: Less than would produce hypertension
raw_tags: of a dosage
subictal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ictal.
Senses: glosses: Less that would produce an ictal seizure
subligamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From sub- + ligamental.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subligamentous.
suboscillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboscillators
Etymology: From sub- + oscillator.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An oscillator, in an electronic synthesizer, that operates an octave below another oscillator
suboscillators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suboscillator
subpolicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpolicies
Etymology: From sub- + policy.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate policy
subpolicies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpolicy
subserovar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subserovars
Etymology: From sub- + serovar.
Senses: glosses: A subset of a serovar
subserovars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subserovar
substomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + stomatic.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a stoma
sulfurylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfurylations
Etymology: From sulfuryl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with a sulfuryl group
sulphovanillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sulpho- + vanillin.
Senses: glosses: A solution of vanillin in sulphuric acid
superiormost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From superior + -most.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Most superior
supramultiplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + multiplicative.
Senses: glosses: Greater than multiplicative
supramultiplicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supra- + multiplicatively.
Senses: glosses: In a supramultiplicative manner
supraocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraocclusions
Etymology: From supra- + occlusion.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The projection of a tooth beyond the plane of occlusion
adjustable bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustable bends
Senses: glosses: a bend knot used to securely attach two lines or ropes in a firm, manner while still being able to adjust the length of the combined lines.
adjustable bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustable bend
adjustable hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustable hitches
Senses: glosses: a common name for various hitch knots, which, as the name suggests, are easily adjustable without untying from the post or ring etc.
adjustable hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustable hitch
adjustable loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustable loops
Senses: glosses: an end loop knot, which, as the name suggests, is easy to adjust the loop size without untying.
adjustable loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustable loop
alpine butterfly knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpine butterfly knots
Senses: glosses: A type of knot used to provide an anchor point on a long line. Much used by mountaineers. Also known simply as the butterfly knot.
alpine butterfly knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine butterfly knot