cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
union cemetery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union cemeteries
Senses: examples: text: Control and management of a union cemetery may be shifted from a union cemetery board to the combined boards of township trustees and municipal legislative authorities by appropriate action at any joint meeting provided for by R.C. 759.34 or R.C. 759.35; a board of township trustees which participates in the control and management of a union cemetery through joint meetings under R.C. 759.35 may contribute financially to the maintenance and operation of the cemetery.
ref: 1989, Office of the Ohio Attorney General, “Part 1989-058”, in Ohio Attorney General Opinions Archive (1846-1992), volume 1989, retrieved 10 Mar 2021, page 2-244:
glosses: A cemetery shared by more than one church congregation or municipality, usually to lighten the financial burden (cost per congregation or municipality) and usually nondenominational/nonsectarian.
qualifier: When capitalized as "Union Cemetery"
glosses: An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
examples: text: The house [Arlington House] became the headquarters of the Union Army. The cemetery was created in 1864 by Union Quartermaster Gen. Montgomery Meigs. Although born in Georgia, Meigs considered Lee a traitor and vowed to punish him by turning his beloved home into a Union cemetery.
ref: 2003 May 25, Randy Kraft, “Arlington held significance for Washington kin, Robert E. Lee”, in The Morning Call, retrieved 10 Mar 2021:
qualifier: when capitalized as "Union cemetery"
glosses: A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.
raw_tags: with "Union" in an attributive proper noun sense
Related terms: union church
union station
union cemeteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of union cemetery
union station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union stations
Senses: examples: text: The Burlington had built a union station at the junction, but the Union Pacific refused to stop its trains there until it received an interest in the townsite.
ref: 1978 May, Alice Howell, “Railroads in Buffalo County”, in Buffalo Tales [a newsletter of the Buffalo County Historical Society, Buffalo County, Nebraska], volume 1, number 5, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2016:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad station shared by more than one railroad company, usually to spread the costs and ease the logistics of serving a particular town by rail.
qualifier: When capitalized as a proper noun; "Union Station"; When capitalized as a proper noun; "Union Station"
glosses: An instance of such a station, as for example Union Station in Toronto or Union Station in Los Angeles.
Related terms: union cemetery
union church
union stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of union station
united church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: united churches
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A unified church (sect) comprising formerly separate sects that have joined.
Related terms: union church
united churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of united church
Rigas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rigases
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Ρήγας (Rígas).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Rigas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Riga
Lieuts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lieut.
black supremacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblæk suˈpɹɛməsi/
Senses: examples: text: Black supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown and yellow men, God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
ref: 1959, Martin Luther King, Jr, Address at the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention of the National Bar Association:
text: Within the Nation of Islam theory one may find all of the principles of black nationalism: black separatism, black supremacy, economic independence or "self-sufficiency," and political[…].
ref: 1971, Clinton B. Jones, Black Power: An Analysis of Select Strategies for the Implementation of the Concept, page 29:
text: Malcolm X's notion of psychic conversion can be understood and used such a way that it does not necessarily entail Black supremacy; it simply rejects Black captivity to white-supremacist ideology and practice.
ref: 1996, Theresa Perry, Teaching Malcolm X, page 143:
glosses: The ideology which holds that the black race is superior to all others.
examples: text: And yet the struggle in the Southern States has never been by the blacks for, and by the whites against, a black supremacy, but only for and against an arbitrary pure white supremacy.
ref: 1888, George W. Cable, “The Negro Question in the United States”, in The Library Magazine, page 17:
text: It is the demand for psychological equality and political power that frightens so many white people and which causes black power to be equated with black violence and even black supremacy.
ref: 1975, Lewis M. Killian, The Impossible Revolution, Phase 2: Black Power and the ..., page 123:
text: Whether the whites now live under majority rule or black supremacy is essentially a semantic matter, for the effects are the same either way. White rule in Africa was called white supremacy because blacks were legislatively barred from equality with whites.
ref: 2005, Gerald L'Ange, The White Africans: From Colonisation to Liberation, page 490:
glosses: A situation in which black people are privileged over other people in society.
examples: text: Great athletes, therefore, are born and not made; this idea of black supremacy in basketball is held by many blacks and whites alike, young and old.
ref: 2015, Lori Latrice Martin, White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs, page 81:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, supremacy.
Derived terms: black supremacist
Related terms: white supremacy
Belgicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgicisms
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The political ideology which supports the political and economic union of Belgium; Belgian nationalism.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Dutch word or phrase of Belgian origin, typically never or rarely present in the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A French word or phrase of Belgian origin, typically never or rarely present in the French spoken in France.
fever dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fever dreams
Senses: glosses: An intense or confusing dream, often caused by fever.
glosses: Any intense, vivid and surreal experience.
glosses: Any intense, vivid and surreal experience.
An outlandish and complex subject matter and plotline in media.
Related terms: nightmare
pianofortist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pianofortists
Etymology: From pianoforte + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. E[dward]. Knight completed his musical education in Germany, under the celebrated Ferdinand Ries, and was esteemed an excellent pianofortist and composer.
ref: 1834, United States Gazette, quotee, “Drama &c.”, in The Lady’s Magazine and Museum of the Belles-Lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume IV, number 8, London: […] J Page, […], section “Theatrical and Musical Intelligence”, paragraph “Death of Mr. E. Knight”, page 249, column 2:
text: “My love,” he answered, stopping and holding her still before him, “have you not yet perceived how your great-grandmother’s marriage will affect us? When the Countess of Halston marries her butler, no one will even think twice about her great-grand-daughter wedding a pianofortist.”
ref: 1976, Fiona Hill [pen name; Ellen Pall], Love in a Major Key, New York, N.Y.: Diversion Books, published 2014, →ISBN:
text: Miss Keele performed first and played exceptionally well, which was not surprising. She was by far a superior pianofortist.
ref: 2002, Valerie King [pen name; Caris Roane], A Rogue’s Embrace (Zebra Regency Romances), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, page 181:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person who plays the pianoforte.
Synonyms: pianist
Related terms: fortepianist
pianofortists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pianofortist
amivantamab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody used to treat some lung cancers
cannabidiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannabidiolates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of cannabidiolic acid
Related terms: cannabidiol
haemolysation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemolysation.
mobocertinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat some cancers
poziotinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug used to treat some cancers
preinterparietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + interparietal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a bome attached to the interparietal bone by a suture.
dreams come true
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dream come true
farmtown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmtowns
Senses: glosses: A farmhouse, farmyard and associated buildings
Descartesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Descartesean
Etymology: From Descartes + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Could Spinoza be freed from his stiff old Descartesian mathematical form and made more accessible to the public, it will perhaps come to light that he, above all others, has cause to complain of robbery of ideas.
ref: 1891, Germany, Lovell, Coryell & Company, […], translation of original by Heinrich Heine, page 364:
text: His highest reach of philosophy is the old Descartesian basis of belief in doubt.
ref: 1902, Poet Lore, page 132:
text: It is the post-Renaissance Descartesian dichotomy of dualism-god and devil-together with the Semitic division of god and devil that distort the Pagan Greek significations and epistemological suggestions.
ref: 2011, The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore), page 25:
text: This polarization unites the classical Descartesian dichotomy of a Cogito in opposition to an objective body and world.
ref: 2016, Mirella Misi, Ludmila Pimentel, “The Virtual Body Is Real!: Phenomenological and Postphenomenological Perspectives in Mediadance”, in Douglas Rosenberg, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, part III (“Practices”), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section “Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Embodiment”, page 559:
glosses: Synonym of Cartesian.
synonyms: word: Cartesian
Descartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Descartean
Etymology: From Descartes + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: If we have succeeded in purging our theories thoroughly of the Descartian dualism, we are, in principle, ready to deal also with the psycho-physiological dualism which is its modern successor. No doubt, the latter has changed with the fashions of thought sufficiently to discard the Descartian “substances”, and put in their place two series of “phenomena”—a series of psychical processes open only to introspection (its own?), and a series of physiological processes open to public observation like all other physical facts.
ref: 1920, R. F. Alfred Hoernlé, Studies in Contemporary Metaphysics, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, page 271:
text: By the turn of the 20th century, the Descartian model was no longer valid for intellectuals, humanists, artists, and scientists.
ref: 1987, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, page 48:
text: Thus, in a Bohrian world, there would be frequent communication among those who do micro- and macro-analysis, those who do cross-sectional and historical analysis, those who do aggregate, comparative, or case studies, those who undertake a Descartian or coevolutionary approach to studying the world.
ref: 2006, Geoffrey Wood, Phil James, editors, Institutions, Production, and Working Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Furthermore, this situation is helpful for demonstrating the way in which the Descartian paradigm is incapable of being an adequate guide to the rational choices of Catholic morality.
ref: 2020, Anthony Hollowell, “Ratio in Relatione”, in Ratio in Relatione: The Function of Structural Paradigms and Their Influence on Rational Choice and the Search for Trust, Pickwick Publications, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Synonym of Cartesian.
synonyms: word: Cartesian
antiserotonin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + serotonin.
Senses: glosses: That counters the effects of serotonin
autopsychography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopsychographies
Etymology: From auto- + psychography.
Senses: glosses: A psychography of oneself
faxx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facts.
faxx
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
brake gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fitting vacuum-operated two-cylinder block brakes is difficult: on hopper wagons very limited space is available for housing the complicated gear, and on 16-ton and 21-ton flat-bottom wagons, the brake gear is fouled by haulage and tipping equipment installed before the introduction of fitted mineral trains and often encroaching on the permitted available clear space between the inside of the wheels and below the axle.
ref: 1962 December, “Railway braking—progress and prospects”, in Modern Railways, page 400:
glosses: Alternative form of brakegear.
bombrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombracks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bomb rack.
bombracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombrack
bomb rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomb racks
form: bombrack
Senses: glosses: A rack on a bomber aircraft that holds bombs that are to be dropped.
Descartean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But Idea in its Descartean sense will apply with equal aptness to the thoughts which are traceable to the feelings.
ref: 1894 June, John W. Shull, “The Faculty of Language”, in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. […], volume 97, number 6 (whole no. 666), New York, N.Y.: Fowler & Wells Co., […], page 278, column 1:
text: Another feature that distinguishes James’ self from the Descartean Cogito is the inclusion of the body as part of the (material) self.
ref: 1993, Hubert J. M. Hermans, Harry J. G. Kempen, The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement, →ISBN, page 45:
text: In history books, ideas like Descartean dualism get presented as inevitable. Their implications are not examined, nor are they rigorously criticized. Descartean thought came along, and it caught on, but the reasons why it caught on are not examined.
ref: 2015, Vivienne E. Perkins, Letters to My Son: Meditations on the Gospel of Jesus Christ for a New Christian, WestBow Press, →ISBN, section “The totalitarian nature of the technological world”:
glosses: Alternative form of Descartian.
bullrout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullrouts
Senses: glosses: An Australian fish Notesthes robusta
bullrouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullrout
comliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of comeliness.
Descartesean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Descartes + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: This displays one side of the binary in all its Platonic-Descartesean arrogance.
ref: 1999, Richard Bleiler, other contributors, Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 312, column 2:
text: It had finally become clear to me that as long as one maintained that, in some Descartesean fashion, the individual was the ultimate judge of truth and the source of all legitimate authority, the Jewish group (or any other, for that matter) could not be given its proper due.
ref: 2002, Eugene B. Borowitz, “A Track: Leading on from God, the Ground of Our Values”, in Studies in the Meaning of Judaism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 99:
text: To a philosopher, theories of ideas—Descartesean, Lockean, Humean, and so forth—are the subject of intense and unresolved debate.
ref: 2019, Prateek Goorha, Jason Potts, “Preface”, in Creativity and Innovation: A New Theory of Ideas, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page xi:
glosses: Alternative form of Descartesian.
Palla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pallas
Etymology: * As an Italian surname, borrowed from Italian Palla.
* As a Catalan and Galician surname, from palla (“straw”).
* As a Hungarian surname, variant of Pál.
* As a Telugu surname, borrowed from Telugu పల్ల (palla) or Telugu పాళ్ళ (pāḷḷa).
* As a Punjabi Sikh surname, borrowed from Punjabi ਪੱਲਾ (pallā, “edge of a garment”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ledwith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ledwiths
Etymology: Probably a derivative of the old personal name Lutwidge.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ledwiths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ledwith
McKelvie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKelvies
Etymology: A variant of McKelvey.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McKelvies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKelvie
Markovitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Markovitzes
Etymology: * As a Jewish surname, variant of Markovich, Markowicz, Markowitz. This surname is mostly found in Israel.
* As a Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Slovene surname, Americanized from Markovic.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Furtick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Furticks
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Fertig.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Furticks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Furtick
Markovitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Markovitz
Goeden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goedens
Etymology: Borrowed from German and Dutch Goeden.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Goedens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goeden
Golobs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Golob
Bézier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Bézier.
Senses: examples: Pierre Bézier, b. 1910
glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Bézier curve
Grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grapeses
Etymology: Perhaps a habitational surname from a house bearing the sign of a bunch of grapes.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gandias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gandia
Grapeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grapes
Herdt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Herdts
Etymology: * As a south German surname, from the adjective hart (“hard”), also the noun Herd (“hearth”).
* Also as a German surname, shortened from the personal name Herto, itself from the root of hart.
* As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Herd, from hert (“stag”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hinners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinnerses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hinners.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hinnerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hinners
latchup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latchups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of latch-up.
Herdts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Herdt
McInnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McInneses
form: Mc Innes
form: Mcinnes
form: Macinnes
form: MacInnes
form: Mac Innes
form: M'Innes
form: Mainnes
form: MaInnes
form: Ma Innes
Etymology: Variant of McInnis.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Garbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garbe
Tookeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tookes
McInneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McInnes
regenerative braking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dead-man's handle, automatic train stop, quick-acting compressed-air brake specially suited for high-speed working, and regenerative braking are among the features of the new locomotives.
ref: 1947 March and April, “Swiss High-Speed Electric Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
text: Regenerative braking, whereby the car's kinetic energy is fed back to the supply line, has recently been introduced on the Kei-Han-Shin Kyuko Railway's commuter services feeding Osaka, instead of resistor braking, and on 52 lightweight cars built in 1960 and 1961 advantage has been taken of this feature to install constant speed controls.
ref: 1962 December, “Constant-speed electric multiple-units in Japan”, in Modern Railways, page 404:
text: Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.
ref: 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:
topics: automotive
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
glosses: A form of braking used on some electric vehicles in conjunction with the main braking system, where kinetic energy from braking is converted into electricity and fed back into the power supply by using the traction motors as generators.
Synonyms: regen
coking coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.
ref: 1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:
text: Among the numerous types of vehicles required are special 33½-ton vacuum-braked hopper wagons for iron ore imported at Newport docks, 21-ton vacuum-braked wagons for coking-coal and 56-ton vehicles for slabs and coils.
ref: 1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410:
glosses: Bituminous coal which is suitable for making into coke, for example for use in steel manufacture.
wikipedia: Coke (fuel)
Metallurgical coal
Related terms: coke
metallurgical coal
thermal coal
Sipeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sipes
United Staters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of United Stater
Eirean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Eireann
Etymology: From Eire + -an. "Éire" is the official Irish-language name of the state under its 1937 Constitution. In the United Kingdom "Eire" was used in English, officially until 1949 and unofficially for decades longer. The adjective "Eirean" was invented accordingly. See names of the Irish state.
Senses: examples: text: Clause 1 of this Bill enables the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make legislative provisions for hydro-electric, drainage, water and other schemes to be operated on both sides of the border in conjunction with the Eirean authorities.
ref: 1947 June 13, George Oliver "NORTHERN IRELAND BILL" Hansard HC Deb vol 438 c1468
text: Since Eire was a neutral country the Air Force could not place its own rescue-launches on her coasts, but the life-boats in Eire were part of the single life-boat fleet of the British Isles, and the Institution was able, with the consent of the Eirean Government, to do what the Air Ministry asked of it.
ref: 1957, “Lifeboats and Lifesaving”, in Encyclopaedia Brittanica, volume 14, page 26:
text: At the outset I must make it plain that I have no objection to the principle of the Anglo-Eirean Free Trade Agreement. On the contrary, I am in favour of full co-operation with Eire in trade, commerce and tourism from which both countries can derive considerable economic advantage.
ref: 1967 November 30, James Hamilton [later Duke of Abercorn] "NORTHERN IRELAND (MEAT INDUSTRY)" Hansard HC Deb vol 755 c797
text: 1982 December 16, "NORTHERN IRELAND RESIDENTS AND EIREAN PASSPORTS" Hansard HL Deb vol 437 c834WA
glosses: of the state called Eire or the Republic of Ireland, as distinct from the island of Ireland
Eirean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eireans
form: Eireann
Etymology: From Eire + -an. "Éire" is the official Irish-language name of the state under its 1937 Constitution. In the United Kingdom "Eire" was used in English, officially until 1949 and unofficially for decades longer. The adjective "Eirean" was invented accordingly. See names of the Irish state.
Senses: examples: text: Adjectives become missiles when used by an Eirean. The word “elegant,” for instance, is used by Mr. O'Casey as if it were a synonym for unmentionable crimes. It is applied to every non-Eirean he mentions.
ref: 1945 November 30, St. John Ervine, letter to The Spectator
text: As things are, Ulstermen are being kept more successfully in Ulster than Eireans are being kept in Eire.
ref: 1956 July 21, “Was Ulster Right?”, in The Economist, page 215:
text: The tragedy was that Northern Ireland (Scottish) Protestants thought themselves like the British. Northern Ireland (Irish) Catholics thought themselves like Eireans (proper Irish).
ref: 1996, Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street, Arcade, published 1997, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: A citizen of Eire
Synonyms: Eirish
Eireann
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Éireann "Ireland's; of Ireland", genitive case of Éire, "Ireland".
Senses: examples: text: The neutrality, however, causes some peculiar situations, such as that arising from the prohibition of uniforms other than those of the Eireann Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps. This would be simple if no one from Eire were a sailor, soldier, or airman in the British Forces, but thousands of them are, and as such they may not wear mufti unless on leave from the B.E.F.
ref: 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:
text: An Eireann member of the Forces can, however, elect to take his discharge here and stay here for good or proceed to Eire and return within the period of demobilization leave, that is eight weeks, and then remain.
ref: 1945 December 10, Sir William Jowett, "IRISH VOLUNTEERS AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT" Hansard HL Deb vol 138 c540
text: 1971 November 30, "EIREANN CITIZENS IN GREAT BRITAIN" Hansard HL Deb vol 326 cc140-2
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative spelling of Eirean.
never a dull moment
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: There is never a dull moment in the boat while girls are towing it.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 9, in Three Men in a Boat […] :
text: Never a dull moment in this novel; never, indeed, a moment when there was not some anxious situation to face, some formidable difficulty to overcome.
ref: 1907, John F. Macdonald, “French Life and the French Stage”, in The Fortnightly, volume 81, Chapman and Hall, page 168:
glosses: There is always something interesting happening; there is no chance of boredom.
joma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jomas
Etymology: From Cantonese 組媽 /组妈 (zou² maa¹).
Senses: qualifier: university slang
glosses: female group leader in orientation camps
burrowing junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrowing junctions
Senses: examples: text: The latter and the Basle-Gotthard freight traffic will both pass through Othmarsingen, but an additional line here and a burrowing junction will keep the Gotthard freights clear.
ref: 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Transformation at Zurich”, in Modern Railways, page 417:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A junction where the diverging line descends to a level where it can pass under the main line, the purpose being the avoidance of conflicting movements.
Related terms: flying junction
burrowing junctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrowing junction
quarre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarry.
leaves the nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave the nest
quarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quar
quarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Choked or blocked.
raw_tags: of a river
leaving the nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave the nest
left the nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave the nest
quartanary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quartanarian
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to a quartan
quarteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarteers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quartermaster.
synonyms: word: quartermaster
quarterdecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterdeckers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship that has a quarterdeck; an officer who serves on a quarterdeck
quarterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartermen
Etymology: From quarter + man.
Senses: glosses: A foreman in a shipyard
quartermastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quartermaster
quartermastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The duties of a quartermaster.
spool up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spools up
form: spooling up
form: spooled up
form: spooled up
Senses: examples: text: The large rotational inertia of the heavy compressor and turbine rotors makes the engine slow to spool up from idle.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To increase in rotational speed, producing an increase in thrust.
raw_tags: of a turbine engine
examples: text: Near-synonym: spin up
text: I guess it shows a couple of things, doesn't it; one is, when we're talking about 1941, although the industrial potential of the United States is there, the actual industrial production that we're so used to thinking of when it comes to World War II hasn't quite spooled up yet, because we're talking - we're talking there, about, as you say, they're quibbling about the Navy requisitioning a number of guns that's the equivalent to, later in the war, y'know, barrel-wise, the same number as you'd find as the heavy antiaircraft armament of a single battleship, and they're smaller guns[…]
ref: 2021 December 7, Drachinifel, 25:02 from the start, in Pearl Harbour - Context, History, and an account from someone who was there, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2022:
glosses: To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity.
Related terms: spoolup
spools up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spool up
spooling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spool up
spooled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spool up
spool down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spools down
form: spooling down
form: spooled down
form: spooled down
Senses: examples: text: All ground personnel MUST be made aware that big jet engines take a considerable time to spool down. We don't want any more mechanics getting sucked in or catapulted across the apron.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To decrease in rotational speed, producing a decrease in thrust.
raw_tags: of a turbine engine
Related terms: spooldown
spooled down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spool down
spools down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spool down
spooling down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spool down
lagged behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lag behind
hard class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One main line only can show any mile-a-minute running, and that is the straight and reasonably level 404 miles between Moscow and Leningrad. There are two diesel-hauled expresses in each direction daily—rather oddly carrying "hard class" passengers only—which cover the distance in 6hr 20min [...].
ref: 1962 December, “Beyond the channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A class of accommodation, typically on trains, which is less comfortable than other classes, and might have wooden seating.
colovaginoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colovaginoplasty
latchups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latchup
Progress
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A placename
A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A placename
A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township.
glosses: A programming language
Progress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Progresses
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Прогресс (Progress), from прогресс (progress).
Senses: glosses: Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.
Coordinate terms: Proton
Salyut
Soyuz
GBAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GBASs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of ground-based augmentation system, a system for improving the precision and accuracy of GPS signals to allow their use for low-visibility instrument approaches.
Derived terms: GLS
GLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GLSs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of GBAS landing system.
Coordinate terms: ILS
MLS
Trans-Siberian Railway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Over the Trans-Siberian Railway, although the journey from Moscow to Vladivostock or Pekin, 5,800 and 5,629 miles distant respectively, still extends into the ninth day, it has been cut by about 10hr.
ref: 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A network of Russian railway lines which stretch from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the Far East.
McLeish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McLeishes
form: McCleese
form: McClish
form: McLees
form: McLish
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Gille Íosa (“son of the servant of Jesus”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Woolner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woolners
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Wulfnoþ, a compound of wulf (“wolf”) + noþ (“daring, courage”). The finale -r represents the pronunciation of unaccented -nough, like in Woolnough.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A suburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, named after the Wulna Aboriginal people.
Cornes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
crush depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crush depths
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The depth at which a submarine's pressure hull will collapse under external water pressure, causing the submarine to implode.
Coordinate terms: design depth
operating depth
test depth
crush depths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crush depth
test depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test depths
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: The maximum depth at which a submarine is permitted to operate in peacetime.
Coordinate terms: crush depth
design depth
operating depth
test depths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test depth
design depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: design depths
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The maximum depth at which a submarine is designed to be able to operate safely.
Coordinate terms: crush depth
operating depth
test depth
design depths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of design depth
operating depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating depths
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: The maximum depth at which a submarine is permitted to operate when actively engaged in battle.
Coordinate terms: crush depth
design depth
test depth
operating depths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operating depth
crush load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crush loads
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: The maximum number of passengers that can physically fit within a transit vehicle without requiring severe contortions by said passengers.
examples: text: The frequent occurrence of crush loads is indicative of a severely overloaded system requiring immediate improvements to increase its passenger capacity.
topics: transport
glosses: The maximum number of passengers that can physically fit within a transit vehicle without requiring severe contortions by said passengers.
A situation in which one or more transit vehicles are carrying the maximum number of passengers that they can physically accommodate without requiring severe contortion of passengers.
crush loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crush load
alvinophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ælˌvaɪnəˈfɪliə/
/ælˌvɪnəˈfiljə/
Etymology: From Latin alvus (“belly”) + -ine + o + -philia
(See also alvine)
Senses: examples: text: This case report describes the development of problematic addictive sexual behaviour, possibly as a result of other psychiatric comorbidities including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), alvinophilia, and obsessional fetishism.
ref: 2016 March, R. Vella Baldacchino, J. Vella Baldacchino, “From hero to zero: The manifestation of addictive problematic sexual behaviour”, in European Psychiatry, volume 33, number S1:
text: He also may have been experiencing genuine alvinophilia, the navel fetish that falls about midway on the relative frequency range of those unusual sexual compulsions known as paraphilias (Scorolli, et al., 2007).
ref: 2017, Robert J Belton, “Forcing Insight with Sight and the Availability Heuristic”, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral:
glosses: Synonym of alvinolagnia.
synonyms: word: alvinolagnia
Amaravathi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अमरावती (amarāvatī).
Senses: glosses: A historical Buddhist town in Andhra Pradesh, India.
DEI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diː iː aɪ/
Senses: examples: text: The former president’s son Donald Jr. swiped at Ms. Griner’s identity when he wrote that the Biden administration “was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine,” using the corporate-world acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion.
ref: 2022 December 9, Jonathan Weisman, Ken Bensinger, quoting Donald Trump Jr., “Blowback Over Griner’s Release Exposes Depth of America’s Divisions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022:
text: The universities’ publicly stated positions imply that there is only one proper way to interpret the DEI trinity: through the concept of “anti-racism,” which may not mean what you think it means.
ref: 2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023:
ref: 2024 April 21, “Racist dog whistle: the right wing has weaponized ‘DEI’”, in The Guardian:
text: A second EO states that any “discriminatory” policies related to DEI in the military will be banned.
ref: 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops”, in CNN:
synonyms: EDI
DIE
glosses: Initialism of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Coordinate terms: woke
woke mind virus
politically correct
Derived terms: DEI hire
Related terms: DEIA
DEIB
JEDI
bacteriocuprein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bacterial form of erythrocuprein that contains two atoms of zinc
gravitrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitraps
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical trap, with a sticky interior, used to trap gravid mosquitos.
gravitraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravitrap
intradevice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + device.
Senses: glosses: Within a device
quartessence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartessences
Senses: glosses: Anything that is slightly less pure than a quintessence
backpriming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backprimings
Etymology: From back- + priming.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The addition of a secondary infusion to a patient by priming it with fluid from the first.
backpriming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From back- + priming.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backprime
polyribonucleotidyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A transferase that transfers polyribonucleotidyl groups.
resistosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resistosome
quartful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartfuls
Etymology: From quart + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount that fills a quart vessel
smidgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I just want a smidgy of that cake.
glosses: Synonym of smidgen.
synonyms: word: smidgen
smidgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smidgier
form: smidgiest
Senses: examples: text: She had a smidgy bit of dirt on her shoes.
glosses: Very small; tiny
pyretogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyretogenic
form: most pyretogenic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyrogenic.
synonyms: word: pyrogenic
quatercentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quatercentenary.
quatercentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatercentennials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quatercentenary.
smidgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We rode in the smidgiest car I have ever seen.
glosses: superlative form of smidgy: most smidgy
Khassonké
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A member of the Khassonké people.
Related terms: Kassonke
McLeishes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McLeish
Havlicek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Havliceks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Havlíček.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Havliceks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Havlicek
Backworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3072).
Conceicao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conceicaos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Conceição.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
Callegaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Callegari
Conceicaos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Conceicao
Durrells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Durrell
Cawthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cawthorns
Etymology: Variant of Cawthorne.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Eckerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eckersons
Etymology: Patronymic surname, from the Dutch personal name Ecker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Eckersons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eckerson
Cawthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cawthorn
Elpers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elperses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Elpers, probably a variant of Elbers.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Eleby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elebys
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of Ellerby.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Elebys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eleby
Elperses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Elpers
Dejarnett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dejarnetts
Etymology: Variant of Dejarnette.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Cugini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cuginis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cugini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cuginis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cugini
Dejarnetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dejarnett
Demauro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Demauros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian De Mauro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Doshier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doshiers
Etymology: Probably an American variant of French Dozier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Doshiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doshier
Demauros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Demauro
McGaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGaughs
Etymology: Variant of McGough.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Geddis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geddises
Etymology: Variant of Geddes.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Geddises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Geddis
McGaughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGaugh
McGoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGough
LNPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LNP
Billinghursts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Billinghurst
Greetland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greet + -land.
Senses: glosses: A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0821).
rice and peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈraɪs ən(d)ˈpiːz/
Forms: form: rice an' peas
Etymology: Compound of rice + and + peas.
Senses: synonyms: peas and rice
glosses: A West Indian dish of rice and most commonly kidney beans
cabosside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabossides
Senses: glosses: The fruit or pod of the cocoa plant
Related terms: cocoa bean