cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
haltlose personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haltlose (floundering, aimless, irresponsible lifestyle) + personality disorder.
Senses: examples: text: People with chronic alcohol dependency have been said, not uncommonly, to have haltlose personality disorder. Those with haltlose personality disorder have features of frontal lobe syndrome, sociopathic and histrionic personality traits.
ref: 2000 June, Claus Langmaack, “Haltlose type personality disorder (ICD-10 F60. 8)”, in Psychiatric Bulletin, volume 24, number 6:
text: Nevertheless, the most disturbing aspect of this patient's life was his complete selfish, hedonistic, irresponsible, drifting, and aimless lifestyle, along with a complete lack of hold on life or on his self. His life history led us to study the fascinating concept of Bleuler's haltlose personality disorder, which came naturally as a comorbid diagnosis, based on some of the features now explained (Table 1).
ref: 2017 October, João Gama Marques, “Pharmacogenetic testing for the guidance of psychiatric treatment of a schizoaffective patient with haltlose personality disorder.”, in CNS Spectrums:
text: Non-limiting examples of adult personality and behavior disorders that affect the central nervous system include: a specific personality disorder (e.g., paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, a dissocial personality disorder—such as antisocial personality disorder—an emotionally unstable personality disorder—such as borderline personality disorder—histrionic personality disorder, an anankastic personality disorder—such as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, anxious (avoidant) personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, eccentric personality disorder, haltlose personality disorder, immature personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, passive-aggressive personality disorder, or psychoneurotic personality disorder); mixed personality disorder; a habit or impulse disorder (e.g., pathological gambling, pathological fire-setting (pyromania), pathological stealing (kleptomania), or trichotillomania); and Munchausen syndrome.
ref: 2018, Glenda Wrenn, Mental health assessment method and kiosk-based system for implementation (Patent application US20180103885A1):
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A ICD-10 personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of selfish, irresponsible and hedonistic behavior.
Related terms: antisocial personality disorder
histrionic personality disorder
Laibach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ljubljana (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Austria or Austria-Hungary).
surgery hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The official surgery hours were from nine until ten every morning from Monday to Friday and from five until six every evening except Wednesday.
ref: 1977, Edward Vernon, Practice Makes Perfect, page 18:
glosses: The time during which a medical doctor regularly receives patients to his or her surgery for consultation or treatment.
homocapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A blend of homosexual + capitalism or an affixation of homo- + capitalism.
Senses: synonyms: pink capitalism
rainbow capitalism
glosses: Capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity, especially pertaining to the gay, cisgender, western, white, and upper middle class men.
Related terms: homonationalism
homopatriarchy
homocapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homocapitalist
form: most homocapitalist
Etymology: From homo- + capitalist.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, homocapitalism.
glosses: Supporting or endorsing homocapitalism.
homocapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homocapitalists
Etymology: From homo- + capitalist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of homocapitalism.
ramshackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ramshackle
ramshackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ramshackle
ramshackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ramshackle
twiddlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twiddlesome
form: most twiddlesome
Etymology: From twiddle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Our physical anthropologists are keeping up with the twiddlesome technology of the physicists and chemists, while sticking to their own lasts.
ref: 1977, Annual Review of Anthropology, volume 6, page 9:
text: But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with twiddlesome tricks.
ref: 2012, Lloyd Evans, There will be blood:
glosses: Charactersied or marked by twiddling; trifling
igs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ig
SS.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SS. Cyril and Methodius
glosses: plural of S.
twaddlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twaddlesome
form: most twaddlesome
Etymology: From twaddle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by twaddling
smoochsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smoochsome
form: most smoochsome
Etymology: From smooch + -some.
Senses: examples: text: If pubs were judged entirely on decor, this one - on a quiet back street just off Cheyne Walk - would scoop honours galore. It's beautifully lit, with a gorgeous upper gallery, stained-glass windows, comfortable seating and, to top it all, a smoochsome Jeff Buckley track played on the pub stereo; […]
ref: 2006, Time Out London Bars, Pubs, and Clubs, page 35:
text: The smoochsome twosome were caught playing tonsil tennis as they drove into an underpass in Foshan, China, hoping to avoid attention.
ref: 2014, Andy Wells, The Daily Star:
glosses: Characterised or marked by smooching
muliebritie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muliebrities
Senses: examples: text: The Ladies of Rhodes hearing that you have loſt, / A capitoll part of your Lady ware, / Haue made their petition to Cupid, / To plague you aboue all other, / As one preiuditiall to their muliebritie.
ref: 1592?, attributed to Thomas Kyd, The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda. […], Printed by Edward Allde for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature G2, verso; republished as The Tragedie of Soliman and Perseda. […], London: Printed by Edward Allde, for Edward White, […], 1599, →OCLC, Act I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of muliebrity.
Central Luzon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of the Philippines. Capital: San Fernando.
padstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padstools
Etymology: From Middle English padstol, paddestol, padestol, equivalent to pad (“toad”) + stool. Cognate with Dutch paddestoel (“toadstool”).
Senses: glosses: toadstool
Related terms: paddock
shellpad
padstools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padstool.
socdem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑkdɛm/
Forms: form: socdems
form: SocDem
Etymology: Blend of social + democracy.
Senses: glosses: Social democracy.
examples: text: We find tankies tend to use pejorative terms to describe other ideologies in a toxic manner. E.g., anarkiddies, anarchildren, and anarkids instead of anarchists, succdems, succ dems, and succs instead of socdems, and westoids and libshits when referring to liberals. We also find "ultras" & "tankies" and "radlibs" & "tankies" pairs.
ref: 2025 June 13, Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn, “Roll in the Tanks! Measuring Left-wing Extremism on Reddit at Scale”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025:
glosses: A social democrat.
Coordinate terms: demsoc
ansoc
fathomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fathomly
form: most fathomly
Etymology: From fathom + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We know the Present ; the Past we have experienced, and are persuaded that the Future flows out from some fathomly abyss of being, of exhaustless source, itself being in its supreme sense, and beginningless in its nature.
ref: 1900, The Medical Herald, volume 19, page 27:
glosses: Very deep; abyssal.
fathomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fathomly
form: most fathomly
Etymology: From fathom + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A metropolitan suzerain, acclaimed to be, at once, par excellence, fathomly erudite, incomparably pious dauntingly charismatic, lustrous without pareil, admirably devout, soundly versed in lslam, remotely materialistic, flexibly oligarchic.
ref: 1988, Ahmed Beita Yusuf, Maitatsine, page 51:
glosses: Profoundly; deeply.
Onyx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
brotox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bro + Botox
Senses: examples: text: Brotox is becoming popular among men.
ref: 2016 February 1, Byker, “Islam LOVES Political Correctness”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
text: Tim O'Reilly, a 32-year-old building inspector from Kirribilli, New South Wales, has been getting 'brotox' regularly for the past two years, and he doesn't have any plans to stop.
ref: 2018 March 22, Emilia Mazza, “The rise of BROTOX: Building inspector, 32, spends $2,000 on cosmetic treatments over two years and has no plans to stop - despite his mates mocking him for 'being a girl'”, in The Daily Mail (Australia):
text: And now, the next frontier is here with some barbers offering “brotox” – or Botox – for men.
ref: 2018 June 5, Ashleigh Austen, “Barbershops are now offering 'brotox' injections”, in The New York Post:
text: (see title)
ref: 2018 August 22, Raquel de Brito, “'Brotox' on the rise”, in The West Australian:
glosses: The use of Botox treatments by men.
Fancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fänʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Fan-ch'eng
Etymology: From Mandarin 樊城 (Fánchéng).
Senses: examples: text: During March, Mr. J. Thorne, and Mr. Sturman made the journey from Fancheng (Hupeh) to Singanfu (Shensi) via Kaifeng the capital of Honan.
ref: 1885 June, “Editorial Notes and Missionary News”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume XVI, number 5, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 236:
text: At its close, Mr. Chou invited Mr. Ronning to return for a more serious discussion of problems of mutual concern. Mr. Ronning is leaving next Saturday for a trip to his birth place at Fancheng, in Hupeh Province in central China.
ref: 1971 May 4, “CHOU REMINISCES WITH ‘OLD FRIEND’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023, page 8:
text: From Wuhan, the great tri-city metropolis of Central China in the Yangtze River valley, they had gone by overnight train to Fancheng in the rich agricultural country of Hupei Province. "Fancheng is three hundred miles up the Han River, as Dad describes it from the days when he used to travel on the big sailing junks," she said.
ref: 1972, Seymour Topping, Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 233–234:
text: The campaign's objective was not clearly stated, but Guan Yu led his army along the Han River northward until he laid siege to Fancheng (present-day's Fancheng District in Xiangyang, Hubei).
ref: 2014, Frankie KT Neo, “Flooding of Han River at Fancheng [水淹七軍]”, in Guan-Yu the Hero: Romance of the Three Kingdoms [關羽，三國演義英雄], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 51:
english: 關羽，三國演義英雄
translation: 關羽，三國演義英雄
text: A farmer works in the field in the Fancheng District of Xiangyang City, central China's Hubei Province, May 21, 2018.
ref: 2018 May 22, “A look at working farmers across China(2/9)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 28 May 2018:
glosses: A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
bennying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of benny
bennied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of benny
bennied up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bennied up
form: most bennied up
Senses: examples: text: Another driver applicant admitted getting "bennied up" and leaving a refrigerated truck loaded with shrimp and frog legs stranded in the Arizona desert.
ref: 1971, Robert J. Ferguson, The scientific informer, page 132:
text: On the last day of the trial Max arrived bennied up and in drag.
ref: 2011, Noel Tovey, Little Black Bastard, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bennied-up.
bennied-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bennied-up
form: most bennied-up
form: bennied up
Senses: examples: text: The next time you sit down at your table with meat, fruit and vegetables, give thanks for it — and for that so-called (by you) bennied-up killer of the highway, the "gypsy," for bringing it to you.
ref: 1971, Popular Mechanics - Volume 136, page 8:
text: Now what I should have done was ask for one of those pills, pop it before a game, and report on what it was like to watch a game bennied-up.
ref: 1989, Roy Blount, Jr., About Three Bricks Shy ... and the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever, →ISBN:
text: The spontaneous, improvisatory, perhaps bennied-up writer is not a raving verbiage-machine hurling out every word that comes to mind.
ref: 1998, David Sterritt, Mad to be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film, →ISBN, page 194:
text: I felt more comfortable with a bennied-up driver of a big bus than I did with a coffeed-up pilot of a little airplane.
ref: 2008, Michael Supe Granda, It Shined: The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, →ISBN, page 276:
glosses: Intoxicated by benzedrine or other amphetamines.
Synonyms: stoned
shanto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of Guyanese music, related to calypso and mento.
algorithmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algorithmists
Etymology: From algorithm + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies algorithms.
algorithmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algorithmist
kanaima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanaima
form: kanaimas
Etymology: Borrowed from various Cariban sources such as Ye'kwana kanaimö, Kari'na kanaimo, Pemon kanaimö.
Senses: glosses: A destructive possessing spirit according to the beliefs of parts of South America.
kanaimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanaima
piaiman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piai.
synonyms: word: piai
waracabra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waracabras
form: warakabra
Etymology: From Lokono warakaba.
Senses: examples: text: […] it may be a lithe, graceful ocelot, so intent on stalking an unsuspecting bush-turkey or a sleepy monkey that your nearness is unnoticed; or again it may be a flock of trumpet-birds or waracabras feeding and dancing in some tiny open glade.
ref: 1929, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, Thirty Years in the Jungle, page 115:
text: Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.
ref: 1953, Robert H. Pierson, Paddles Over the Kamarang: The Story of the Davis Indians, page 7:
text: The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is distributed north of the Amazon River, in Ecuador, Colombia, south Venezuela, north-east Brazil, north-eastern Peru and the Guianas. Locally the species is known as ‘Waracabra‘.
ref: 2011 September 18, “Grey-winged Trumpeter”, in Stabroek News:
glosses: trumpeter (bird)
waracabras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waracabra
Liangzihu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: Liang-tzu-hu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 梁子湖 (Liángzihú).
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, Lung-chhüan ceramics gained an extremely wide market, both in China and abroad. Several kilns set up in competition to manufacture Lung-chhüan-style wares. For example, in the Sung-Yuan periods I-yang 益陽 in Hunan province was active, while the Liang-tzu-hu 梁子湖 kiln district of Hupei province was a major kiln centre with hundres of kiln localities making Lung-chhüan style greenwares.
ref: [2004, Rose Kerr, Nigel Wood, edited by Rose Kerr, Science and Civilization in China, volume 5, number 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 580:
text: In this experiment, super soft soil in the Liangzihu District of Ezhou city was processed. The author embedded the temperature and humidity sensors to monitor the moisture and temperature changes of the soil near the cathode and anode, and the multimeter was used to measure the current, voltage, and the displacement, which was collected with the sump during the electro-osmosis process.
ref: 2016, Lin Rong-Bing et al., “Influence of anode follow-up on electro-osmosis”, in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning IV, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 424:
text: Echeng, Huarong and Liangzihu are the three districts within the jurisdiction of Ezhou.
ref: 2021, Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy: The Link Policy, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: A district of Ezhou, Hubei, China.
tickle the ivory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tickles the ivory
form: tickling the ivory
form: tickled the ivory
form: tickled the ivory
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tickle the ivories.
oister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oisters
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless it is certain, that oisters, and cockles, and mussels, which move not, have no discriminate sex
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of oyster.
11th commandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 11th commandments
form: 11th Commandment
form: eleventh commandment
form: Eleventh Commandment
Etymology: In reference to the biblical Ten Commandments, carrying the implication that the convention is of very high importance (similar to the Ten Commandments).
Senses: examples: text: A “hood,” he said, isn’t necessarily a neighborhood, adding that the same culture is seen on Wall Street, “where the 11th commandment is ‘Thou shalt not get caught.’ ”
ref: 2016 September 29, Cathy Locke, “Philosopher Cornel West calls honesty, integrity ‘countercultural’”, in The Sacramento Bee, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2018:
text: Some of the accused did not know Basil’s real identity; the others stuck by the old-school criminal’s 11th commandment, “Thou shalt not grass.”
ref: 2018 September 8, Duncan Campbell, “After the Hatton Garden heist: 'The actors will profit more than the criminals'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2018:
glosses: A well-known convention (often the most well-known of a certain field) which supposedly can not or should not be broken.
11th commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 11th commandment
11th Commandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 11th Commandments
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of 11th commandment.
eleventh commandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eleventh commandments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 11th commandment.
Eleventh Commandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eleventh Commandments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 11th commandment.
11th Commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 11th Commandment
eleventh commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eleventh commandment
Eleventh Commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eleventh Commandment
Father Charles goes down and ends battle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mnemonic for the order of sharps: F C G D A E B.
on a plate
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
text: United looked listless, but found the inspiration they were badly lacking in Rashford. First the 21-year-old collected a long ball, bounced through a half-hearted challenge from Maya Yoshida and laid a chance on a plate for Lukaku.
ref: 2018 December 1, Tom Rostance, “Southampton 2 - 2 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: on a platter
on a silver platter
glosses: Within easy reach; easily achieved.
Related terms: on one's plate
matteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mattness.
nonglucosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glucosylated.
Senses: glosses: Not glucosylated
Related terms: nonglycosylated
nonhemolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hemolyzed.
Senses: glosses: Not hemolyzed
nonkeriothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + keriothecal.
Senses: glosses: Not keriothecal
nonlateralised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lateralised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonlateralized.
nonmetastasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metastasizing.
Senses: glosses: Not metastasizing
norisoprenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norisoprenoids
Etymology: From nor- + isoprenoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from an isoprenoid by loss of a methylene group; many of them are congeners in wine
norisoprenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norisoprenoid
normoblastosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normoblast + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: On discharge the leucocytosis and normoblastosis had disappeared.
ref: 1959, Arie Van der Sar, The occurrence of carriers of abnormal haemoglobin S and C on Curac̜ão:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The (often excessive) production of normoblasts.
normoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to normoplasia
glosses: Misspelling of normoblastic.
normouricemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + uricemia.
Senses: glosses: A normal level of uric acid in the blood
Related terms: normouricemic
normouricemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + uricemic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to normouricemia
normouricemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normouricemics
Etymology: From normo- + uricemic.
Senses: glosses: A patient who has normouricemia
nostocalean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nostocaleans
Senses: glosses: Any cyanobacterium of the order Nostocales
nostocaleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nostocalean
nutrikinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The application of pharmacokinetics to nutrition
Related terms: nutrikinetic
nutrikinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nutrikinetics
obaichthyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obaichthyids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the family Obaichthyidae
obaichthyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obaichthyid
octahydrocurcumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The metabolite of curcumin (3S,5S)-1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)heptane-3,5-diol that shows anticancer activity
Synonyms: octahydrocurcuminoid
octahydrocurcuminoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octahydrocurcuminoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of octahydrocurcumin, and related compounds
synonyms: word: octahydrocurcumin
word: and related compounds
octahydrocurcuminoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octahydrocurcuminoid
DeYoung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Dutch de Jong.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
De Young
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Dutch de Jong.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
de Young
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Dutch de Jong.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
octaplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of octuplex.
octasulfane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binary compound of hydrogen and sulfur H₂S₈
DelVecchio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Del Vecchio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Del Vecchio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Del Vecchio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Maguikay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Mandaue, Cebu, Philippines.
Casili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Tejero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines.
pikal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pikals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picul.
oculorespiratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹətəɹi
-ɛspəɹətɔːɹi
-aɪɹətəɹi
-ɛspəɹətəɹi
-aɪɹətɔːɹi
Etymology: From oculo- + respiratory.
Senses: examples: text: The oculorespiratory reflex (ORR) is evoked by traction on the extrinsic muscles of the eye (Blanc et al. 1989). It produces slowing of the respiratory rate and / or shallow respiratory movements.
ref: 1991, Sobhy Morsy Mostafa, Anaesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery, page 30:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That affects the eyes and the respiratory system.
Derived terms: oculorespiratory syndrome
odacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odacines
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the genus Odax
Related terms: odacid
odacines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odacine
ANDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of automated nondestructive testing.
oligolignan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligolignans
Etymology: From oligo- + lignan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligomer composed of lignan monomers
oligolignans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligolignan
oncotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From onco- + -tropic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That has an affinity for tumours
Related terms: oncotropism
operonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formation of operons in a genome
osteoactivin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein that regulates osteoblast differentiation and function
ovatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovatoxins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of toxins, related to the palytoxins, produced by the dinoflagellate Ostreopsis ovata.
ovatoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovatoxin
androphagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andro- + -phagia.
Senses: glosses: A sexual paraphilia based on the idea of cooking and eating men.
dress clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clothes intended to be worn on special occasions.
Chequers agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chequers agreement
Etymology: Named after Chequers, the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, where the white paper was formulated.
Senses: glosses: A white paper published in July 2018 outlining the relationship the UK was seeking with the European Union after Brexit.
stancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stance
stanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stance
cognitariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒɡ.nɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ət/
ipa: /ˌkɑɡ.nɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ət/
Forms: form: cognitariats
Etymology: Blend of cognitive + proletariat.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A social group formed by people with high academic training, who receive a low salary not in accordance with their educational level.
Related terms: precariat
pachycormiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachycormiforms
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the order Pachycormiformes
pachycormiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pachycormiform
paleocribellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + cribellate.
Senses: glosses: Describing extinct cribellate spider
paleomammalogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleomammalogists
Etymology: From paleo- + mammalogist.
Senses: glosses: A zoologist whose speciality is extinct mammals
paleomammalogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleomammalogist
parallepipedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of parallelepipedal.
paramyovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of paramyxovirus.
hand wash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand washes
form: hand washing
form: hand washed
form: hand washed
form: hand-wash
form: handwash
Etymology: From hand + wash (verb).
Senses: examples: text: hand wash only; tumble dry low
text: When management of the toney Copley Plaza Hotel ordered housekeepers recently to put down their mops and hand wash the floors, a furor arose among the hotel cleaning staff. Local union representatives and others concerned with issues affecting women workers also rallied in anger to protest the directive, which in essence forced housekeepers to scrub on their hands and knees.
ref: 1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “Copping To The Mop Scandal”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 1:
coordinate_terms: machine wash#Verb
glosses: To wash by hand.
Chequers plan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chequers plan
Senses: examples: text: A letter to the Sunday Telegraph signed by more than 30 Tory association chairmen complaining that the prime minister’s Chequers plan “does not deliver the Brexit that we, as Conservatives, promised”.
ref: 2018 September 30, Matthew d'Ancona, “The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of Chequers agreement.
synonyms: word: Chequers agreement
North Macedonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /noɹθ ˌmæs.əˈdoʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /noɹθ ˌmæs.əˈdoʊn.jə/
ipa: /nɔːθ ˌmæs.əˈdəʊ.nɪ.ə/
Forms: form: Northern Macedonia
Etymology: From north + Macedonia. Suggested as a name for the republic since at least the 1990s. Part of the official name of the country since February 2019.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:North Macedonia.
glosses: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of North Macedonia. Capital and largest city: Skopje. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992. The current name was adopted in 2019 to resolve a naming dispute with Greece.
glosses: The northern part of the geographical region known as Macedonia.
glosses: The northern part of the modern Greek province of Macedonia.
glosses: The northern part of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
Related terms: Republic of North Macedonia
Macedonia-Skopje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Macedonia + Skopje. From being the Macedonia whose capital is Skopje.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Republic of North Macedonia.
synonyms: word: Republic of North Macedonia
Related terms: Similar terms
Congo-Brazzaville
Congo-Kinshasa
cafés con leche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish cafés con leche.
Senses: glosses: plural of café con leche
overcutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcutters
Etymology: From over- + cutter.
Senses: examples: text: It is estimated that the capacity of an overcutter is three times that of a chain-breast machine and twice that of a shortwall machine;
ref: 1917, Coal Mining Catalogs, page 606:
text: The top and bottom portions of the machine are exactly alike and it may consequently be turned over and employed as an overcutter as well as an undercutter.
ref: 1926, Coal Age - Volume 30, page 67:
text: In addition to its work on longwall faces, the A.B. Fifteen has been adapted for shortwall work either as undercutter or as overcutter, particular care having been taken to give it increased manoauvrability by the provision of special pulleys, and increased mobility by the addition of a tilting underframe.
ref: 1960, Colliery Guardian Overseas, page 50:
text: Deep settlement points revealed that ground losses were concentrated at the overcutter at the front of the shield which had a radius 19 mm greater than the body of the shield to aid in negotiating the short radius turn.
ref: 1999, Gabriel Fernandez, Robert A. Bauer, Geo-engineering for Underground Facilities, →ISBN:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A device used to cut into rock walls from above.
overcutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcutter
ladsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ladsy
form: most ladsy
Etymology: From lads + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of laddish.
synonyms: word: laddish
electromer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromers
Senses: examples: text: One of the important premises in understanding the notion of electromer is that electromer species are formed at molecular separations and relative orientations as to maximize the rate of the radiative cross-transitions.
ref: 2004, Jan Kalinowski, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Principles, Characteristics & Processes, →ISBN:
glosses: A substance that differs from another only in the distribution of electrons within the atoms of both substances.
Derived terms: electromeric
electromers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromer
shortwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortwalls
Etymology: From short + wall.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to its work on longwall faces, the A.B. Fifteen has been adapted for shortwall work either as undercutter or as overcutter, particular care having been taken to give it increased manoauvrability by the provision of special pulleys, and increased mobility by the addition of a tilting underframe.
ref: 1960, Colliery Guardian Overseas, page 50:
text: Under this philosophy, the extra daily shortwall production of 55 tons of clean coal would be costed at $8.39 per ton.
ref: 1977, Larry E. Green, Eugene Robert Palowitch, Comparative shortwall and room-and-pillar mining costs, page 16:
topics: business
mining
coordinate_terms: longwall
glosses: A short wall of coal that is mined in a single slice.
shortwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortwall
Zhashan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jäʹshänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 奓山 (Zhāshān).
Senses: examples: text: 16) we should establish water works at the county seat of Xinzhou county and at Shamaoshan town in Hannan and help the people in 20 small towns including Xinchong, Zhashan, Liji, and Daqiac town to carry out their projects to improve their potable water, and solve the potable water problem for another half million of our rural people;[…]
ref: 1986 May 19 [1986 March 10], Guanzheng Wu, “Wuhan Mayor Gives Government Work Report”, in China Report Economic Affairs, page 33:
text: With the investment of 4.3 billion yuan, we constructed 270 urban and towns projects. We carried out the pilot of “transferring some power to strengthen towns”. Zhashan Street was included as one of the pilots in national small town comprehensive concomitant reform, and 11 street towns were approved as provincial key center towns and feature towns.
ref: 2013 October 21, “武汉市2013年政府工作报告 [Report on the Work of the Government Delivered at the Second Session of the Thirteenth Wuhan Municipal People’s]”, in 武汉市外事办, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021:
english: Report on the Work of the Government Delivered at the Second Session of the Thirteenth Wuhan Municipal People’s
translation: Report on the Work of the Government Delivered at the Second Session of the Thirteenth Wuhan Municipal People’s
text: From 23 June 2021 to 27 June 2021, members of the research team went to Zhashan, Caidian District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, to conduct the research.[…]The Respondents Were Rural Residents of three Rural Villages in Zhashan in the Tornado-affected area of Caidian District, Wuhan City.
ref: 2022, Tai-Min Wu, Qin Yang, Yu-Jie Huang, Bao-Liang Zhong, Juan Zhang, Lian-Zhong Liu, “Prevalence and correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptomatology in tornado-affected rural residents”, in Frontiers in Psychiatry, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2023:
glosses: A subdistrict of Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
glosses: A community in Zhashan, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
glosses: A village in Zhashan, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
route-march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: route-marches
form: routemarch
form: route march
Senses: examples: text: Half of the unit was preparing for some training exercise, apparently a route-march carrying full kit.
ref: 2012, Rosemary Rowe, Whispering of Spies, →ISBN:
text: He then proceeded to lead them on a route-march at a blistering pace that many struggled to keep up with.
ref: 2013, Stuart Tootal, The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission, →ISBN:
text: We had been out on a route-march. You know, I daresay, that nowadays a route-march is not simply a matter of marching. In a route-march there is involved a certain amount of field training.
ref: 2013, Gerald Kersh, The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories, →ISBN:
text: This young officer came up to me and asked me whether I would mind marching more slowly -- they were running out of puff. I thought I was supposed to go on a route-march and be back by a certain time.
ref: 2015, Colleen Ryan Clur, Pixie Annat: Champion of Nurses, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A long march for training purposes.
examples: text: Anna, she sensed, was the kind of indomitable woman who could go on a route-march for seven days and nights without sleeping.
ref: 1998, Jill Neville, The Love Germ, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A long grueling walk.
route-march
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: route-marches
form: route-marching
form: route-marched
form: route-marched
form: routemarch
form: route march
Senses: examples: text: The troops drilled, trained, route-marched, and adapted to military life and to each other.
ref: 2011, James Hurst, Game to the Last: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli, →ISBN:
text: The Battalion of East Surreys billeted in its sad empty houses was route-marched through the rain around Stirling.
ref: 2013, Alan Whicker, Whicker’s War and Journey of a Lifetime, →ISBN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To go or send on a route-march.
examples: text: I always describe Deaf School as my tertiary education, I was route-marched around galleries and museums for the entire week, with running commentaries by informed people.
ref: 2013, Paul Du Noyer, Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party, →ISBN:
glosses: To go or send on a long, exhausting tour by foot.
route-marches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of route-march
route-marches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of route-march
route-marching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of route-march
route-marched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of route-march
route march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: route marches
Senses: examples: text: Well, there was route march, and then there was route march. As practiced by good soldiers, such as the fighters of the Che Loi Brigade, it was a spread-out formation in which one burst from a gun could not hit more than a few men, one small chemical-reaction explosive couldn't take down more than one or two.
ref: 1999, David Sherman, Dan Cragg, Starfist: School of Fire, →ISBN, page 153:
text: On 14 March the Battalion undertook a twenty-mile route march to Bouchon, and the following day a march of fourteen miles to Doullen.
ref: 2000, Mark Lloyd -, London Scottish in the Great War, →ISBN, page 71:
text: He detested the man, always shouting at him and the other squaddies, always finding reasons to give them fatigues, an extra route march, another hour marching round the parade ground.
ref: 2014, James Gervois, Misplaced Expectations, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of route-march.
route march
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: route marches
form: route marching
form: route marched
form: route marched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of route-march.
route marches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of route march
route marches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of route march
route marching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of route march
route marched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of route march
routemarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: routemarches
Senses: examples: text: By contrast with Pomerania, the administration of the Country of Lippe in eastern Westphalia was much more aware of ruthlessly having to humor and buy off men and officers in billet and on routemarch between nearby battlefronts.
ref: 1983, Society In Change, page 47:
text: Some miles from Waiouru they pass a squad on routemarch.
ref: 1984, Owen Marshall, The Day Hemingway Died, and Other Stories, page 77:
text: When I was a young soldier, and had not yet acquired the tobacco vice (which began with scrounging cigarettes at routemarch halts when everyone else lit up and I felt left out) I used to win cross-country races.
ref: 2009, George MacDonald Fraser, The Complete McAuslan, →ISBN:
text: How intelligent are the Chinese jugglers, keeping cracked plates spinning in the air ; not to mention the Salvation Army with their tan-truming tamboureens and utilitarian music to help us on the routemarch towards heaven.
ref: 1929, Eugene Jolas, Transition - Issues 18-20, page 209:
text: This layout, however, does mean that staff have a routemarch to reach the rooms from the service areas
ref: 1985, Nusantara, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of route-march.
routemarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: routemarches
form: routemarching
form: routemarched
form: routemarched
Senses: examples: text: Again, the men in the ranks have to routemarch almost daily during the season, while Lieutenant So-and-so has worn the pack on but one occasion ; on the others, he finds it more pleasant to equip himself in the orthodox manner, ...
ref: 1899, Horace Wyndham, The Queen's Service: Being the Experiences of a Private Soldier in the British Infantry at Home and Abroad:
text: The occasionally dodgy AI is irksome, though - having routemarched through a kilometre of jungle with your team supposedly following behind, you may turn around to find that they've literally got stuck in a ditch some distance away.
ref: 2001, Kate Berens, Geoff Howard, The Rough Guide to Videogaming, →ISBN:
text: Billeted in seaside houses and drilled on the high school playground, routemarched through the Lammermuirs and abseiling up and down the sand cliffs, lectured at and made to deliver instant ten minute lecturettes, much of it seemed just a carry-on from the school and university corps - except that we had white bands round our shoulder straps and caps FS, and proper blancoed gaiters BD in place of Oxford's crummy leather ones.
ref: 2004, Trevor Clark, Good second class (but not even C.3):
text: Instead, Mendini offered visitors, who might simply be en route from the station to the old town, the chance to dip into the collections, see only what they wanted, not be routemarched through room after room of artefacts.
ref: 2000, Ken Powell, City Transformed: Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 224:
glosses: Alternative form of route-march.
routemarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of routemarch
routemarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of routemarch
routemarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of routemarch
routemarched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of routemarch
trochlears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochlear
protectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protectories
Etymology: From protector + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in its work with destitute children, the protectory did everything it could to keep families together.
ref: 2004, Stephen O'Connor, Orphan Trains, →ISBN:
text: Newly ordained priest Fr. Nelson H. Baker was assigned to the parish in 1876 During his time as pastor, Father Baker oversaw the construction of a protectory, infant home, hospital, trade school, and Our Lady of Victory Basilica.
ref: 2011, Gerald L. Halligan, John Koerner, Lackawanna, →ISBN, page 7:
text: An expression of the rise of twentieth-century Jewish ethnic politics, the tenacious commitment Marshall displayed on behalf of a project like the protectory has been unjustifiably ignored by historical scholarship.
ref: 2013, Matthew Mark Silver, Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America, →ISBN:
glosses: A charitable institution dedicated to the support and protection of orphans or vulnerable children.
protectory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protectory
form: most protectory
Etymology: From protector + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth chapter is devoted to steady-state protectory systems that counteract ozone and other reactive oxygen species.
ref: 2003, Victoria V. Roshchina, Valentina D. Roshchina, Ozone and Plant Cell, →ISBN, page ix:
text: Further, serotonin itself (Roshchina 2001a) and its derivatives, such as melatonin (Posmyk and Janas 2009), may also play a protectory role as antioxidants in various plants.
ref: 2010, Mark Lyte, Primrose P.E. Freestone, Microbial Endocrinology, →ISBN:
text: Although the Habsburgs were also granted capitulations in 1616, which included articles concerning the Catholics in the empire, it was the French who assumed the protectory role for the missions and other Catholics, partly because of the displomatic status quo.
ref: 2014, Özlem Çaykent, Luca Zavagno, The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean, →ISBN:
glosses: Acting as a protector; protective.
protectories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protectory