cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slim pickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After the factory closed, it's slim pickings for work in this town.
text: ... they were among the citizens of the Great Republic who got shut into Paris during the siege, and had reason to complain of "the slim pickings" even their dollars commanded during that tragic episode of our neighbours' history.
ref: 1876, The Gentleman's Magazine, July to December issue, pg. 208:
text: Only at one season during the year does the average Haitian get more than these slim pickings; that is in mango-time, and then the roads and trails are carpeted with the yellow pits.
ref: 1920, Harry Alverson Franck, Roaming Through the West Indies, The Century Co., page 153:
text: But in a year of slim pickings in the super-coach business -- Cowher and Carroll preferred to wait another day -- there was not much left to choose from.
ref: 2008, Mike Wise, The Washington Post, "Redskins Looked Below the Radar," February 10, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020903082_pf.html
glosses: A small amount, especially of money; paucity.
gainly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: gainlier
form: more gainly
form: gainliest
form: most gainly
Etymology: From Middle English gaynly, geȝȝnlike, geynliche, equivalent to gain (“straight, direct, convenient, favourable, kindly”, adjective) + -ly (adverbial/adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Suitably; fitly; conveniently; readily.
glosses: Thoroughly; completely; (with adjectives) very.
gainly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gainlier
form: more gainly
form: gainliest
form: most gainly
Etymology: From Middle English gaynly, geȝȝnlike, geynliche, equivalent to gain (“straight, direct, convenient, favourable, kindly”, adjective) + -ly (adverbial/adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Proper; suitable; becoming.
glosses: Ready to help; kindly; gracious.
glosses: Graceful; tactful.
raw_tags: of conduct
qualifier: attitude; or movement; attitude; or movement
glosses: Shapely; handsome.
raw_tags: of bodily form
Derived terms: gainliness
gainliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gainly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being gainly.
Mithra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (miθra), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitrás (literally “(that which) causes binding”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (literally “to bind”); cognate with Sanskrit मित्र (mitra, “friend, companion”). Doublet of Mitra.
Senses: glosses: A particular divinity (yazata) in Zoroastrianism and later Iranian history and culture, the hypostasis of "contract", "oath".
examples: text: The cult of Mithra had been spread by soldiers and had thrived particularly in the frontier provinces of the empire.
ref: 1991, Robert Schilling, "Roman Religion", Roman and European Mythologies, UChicago Press, p. 67. (English language translation of a French text)
text: The Roman Mithra was best known for his act of slaying a bull; yet there is no indication that the Iranian Mithra ever made his way into a bullpen for any reason. The Roman Mithra didn't appear at all interested in contract enforcement or escorting demons into hell.
ref: 2008, James Patrick Holding, Shattering the Christ Myth, Xulon Press, page 202:
glosses: Roman Mithras.
Related terms: Mithraeum
Mithras
Mitra
Mithridates
Mehran
canyoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canyon + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid sport in which participants travel along a canyon using a variety of techniques that may include walking, climbing, jumping, abseiling, or swimming.
canyoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From canyon + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of canyon
Synonyms: word: canyoneering
word: kloofing
Related terms: coasteering
mountaineering
blain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: blains
Etymology: From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian blein (“blain”), Dutch blein, blegn (“blain”), Middle Low German bleine (“blain”). Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime (“blister”), Old Swedish blēma (“blister”), French bleime (“an inflammation of a horse's hoof”).
Senses: glosses: A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.
Derived terms: chilblain
Britannic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: brĭ-tănʹĭk
ipa: /bɹɪˈtænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more Britannic
form: most Britannic
Etymology: From Latin britannicus.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Britain, Great Britain or the United Kingdom; British
antinicotinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more antinicotinic
form: most antinicotinic
Etymology: From anti- + nicotinic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: That inhibits the actions of nicotine and nicotine-like agents on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
antinicotinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: antinicotinics
Etymology: From anti- + nicotinic.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that has this action
bioelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + electricity.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any form of electricity generated within an organism, especially by a muscle or nerve.
Related terms: bioelectric
electrogenesis
nicotinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From nicotine + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Nicotine, a stimulant found in tobacco, long used by Native Americans, taught scientists about the existence of our own nicotinic receptors, which influence neuronal excitement.
ref: 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to nicotine or nicotinic acid or its derivatives.
glosses: Of or pertaining to niacin.
Synonyms: nicotinal
nicotinian
nicotinean
Derived terms: antinicotinic
nicofibrate
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
antiresistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiresistants
Etymology: From anti- + resistant.
Senses: glosses: Any substance added to a pesticide to reduce its resistance to pests.
aphicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphicides
form: aphidicide
Etymology: From aphid + -cide.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Any pesticide intended to kill aphids
Related terms: aphicidal
caps and small caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Formatting of text that leaves uppercase letters as they are but converts lowercase letters to small caps.
scrutinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrutinates
form: scrutinating
form: scrutinated
form: scrutinated
Senses: glosses: To scrutinize.
cicisbei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cicisbeo
martiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martialities
Etymology: From martial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The Romans' martiality was much greater than that of its contemporaries.
text: 2007 — Vincent Quinn Textual Practice 113: Luxurious Sexualities
Hume argued that the new modes of behaviour which developed in a commercial society actually improved the nation's martiality.
text: Antony and Cleopatra heralds the decline of Roman honour and the shift from martiality to eros,
ref: 2002, Shakespeare Survey, Kenneth Muir:
glosses: suitability for war, likelihood of success in war, tendency to wage war
Synonyms: bellicosity
coline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colines
Etymology: From co- + line.
Senses: examples: text: hyperplanes concurrent in a coline
ref: 1995, Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, László Lovász, Handbook of Combinatorics: Volume 1, page 831:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of a line.
mindblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mindblowing
form: most mindblowing
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mind-blowing.
Derived terms: mindblowingly
coasteering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of coast + mountaineering
Senses: glosses: A hybrid sport involving the traversal of a coastline without mechanical aids, usually by some mixture of jumping, walking, climbing and swimming.
Related terms: canyoneering
mountaineering
canyoneering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
operational definition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operational definitions
Senses: examples: text: The operational definition of a well-behaved student might be set at the threshold of "no more than 2 detentions in each semester".
text: To divide the spectrum of spicy sauces into three categories of "mildly spicy", "moderately spicy", and "extremely spicy", we set the operational definitions of "mild", "moderate", and "extreme" as (a) 0 to 3 × 10³ Scoville units, (b) more than 3 × 10³ up to 100 × 10³, and (c) more than 100 × 10³, respectively.
text: The position of certain recent publications is examined and criticized because they seem to imply (a) that under some circumstances ambiguous concepts are more useful than precise ones and (b) that operational difinitions are of limited usefulness in sociology because of their dependence upon quantitative characteristics, whereas some items referred to by sociological concepts are "essentially qualitative in nature." Both assumptions are here questioned.
ref: 1942, George A. Lundberg, Operational Definitions in the Social Scienceshttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/219004
text: Those sociologists who advocate greater use of operational definitions have been challenged to define "operational definition" operationally. This paper attempts to meet that challenge.
ref: 1943, Stuart C. Dodd and Ethel Shanas, Operational Definitions Operationally Definedhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2770015
text: By analysing the practical utility of definitions of life in scientific practice, we propose that definitions of life in these domains should be considered in a non-standard and weaker sense, as operational definitions. This choice of terminology is inspired by the use of the same term in the scientific literatures of Origins of Life and Synthetic Biology (e.g., Fleischaker, 1990; Luisi 1998). We use the term ‘operational’ in a wide sense, referring both to (1) the possibility to define something by means of operations (e.g., defining an entity by measuring or building it following a specific procedure), and (2) the idea that the contents of the definition (e.g., the conditions for life) can be operationalised for empirical research, that is, can be built, manipulated and tested in the laboratory.
ref: 2017, Leonardo Bich & Sara Green, Is defining life pointless? Operational definitions at the frontiers of Biologyhttps://philarchive.org/rec/BICIDL
hypernyms: definition
;
meaning
;
identity
;
characterization
coordinate_terms: conceptual definition
ostensive definition
;
dictionary definition
lexical definition
;
stipulative definition
glosses: A showing of something — such as a variable, term, or object — in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity.
Related terms: operationalism
operationalization
operationalize
conceptual definition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptual definitions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
hypernyms: definition
;
meaning
;
identity
;
characterization
coordinate_terms: operational definition
ostensive definition
;
dictionary definition
lexical definition
;
stipulative definition
glosses: A definition in terms of concepts, instead of in terms of the results of measuring procedures or exemplification alone.
plutonium dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The yellow-brown solid, PuO₂, formed by the spontaneous oxidation of plutonium metal; it is used in mixed oxide fuel for nuclear reactors
mixed oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any mixture of the oxides of more than one metal, but especially the blend of plutonium and uranium oxides that is used (as MOX fuel) in nuclear reactors
classification scheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classification schemes
Senses: glosses: The descriptive information for an arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics which the objects have in common.
Gena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnə/
homophone: Jena
homophone: Jenna
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gena.
glosses: A female given name, a rare variant of Gina or short form of Genevieve.
holiday ownership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: time-share
Junie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uːni
Etymology: From June + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
examples: Junie Cobb, Junie Chatman
glosses: A pet form of the male given name Junius.
glosses: A pet form of the female given name June.
multi-ownership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multi-ownerships
Etymology: From multi- + ownership.
Senses: glosses: time-share
imperialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imperializes
form: imperializing
form: imperialized
form: imperialized
form: imperialise
Etymology: From imperial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To invest with imperial authority, character, or style.
examples: text: The competition to imperialize foreign lands was another cause of World War I.
glosses: To bring to the form of an empire.
Related terms: deimperialize
imperialization
imperializer
computational linguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.
ref: 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §7.1
topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.
red week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red weeks
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A week that is in high demand because it is in a holiday high season. Especially used in time-share, but not limited to this industry.
glosses: A week of industrial unrest which occurred in June, 1914 in the Italian provinces of Romagna and the Marche.
Related terms: Red Week on Wikipedia. Italian week of unrest.
œuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of œuvre
comparative linguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.
Derived terms: comparative linguist
lexicologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicology
high season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high seasons
Senses: glosses: In the tourist industry, the period of highest demand. In a sun and sand resort this means the hottest months, whereas in a ski resort, this means the coldest months.
Synonyms: peak season
red week
Related terms: midseason
peak season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peak seasons
Senses: glosses: In the tourist industry, the period of highest demand.
Synonyms: high season
red week
semasiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːmeɪsɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪ/
ipa: /sɪmeɪsiˈɑləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: semasiologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σημασία (sēmasía, “the meaning of a word”) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Stylistics seemed to have become a four-letter-word in German semasiology, a fact that shows how far official German semasiology had shifted away from Reisig's initial outline, and how different it was from Bréal's semantics of language-use and Wegener's semantics of communication.
ref: 1992, Brigitte Nerlich, Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830-1930, →ISBN:
text: "The early theories of semasiology attempted to account for meaning shifts in language."
ref: 2001, Federica Busa et al., The Language of Word Meaning:
text: It must be left to students of musical semasiology to account for the psychological association that exists between the spiritual concept of goodness and saintliness and the notational accident of the absence of sharps and flats in the key signature, which results in the 'whiteness' of the music.
ref: 2002, Nicolas Slonimsky et al., The Listener's Companion: Great Composers and Their Works:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression.
Coordinate terms: onomasiology
Derived terms: semasiological
semasiologist
Related terms: semantic
semantics
semantron
sematic
sematology
sememe
semiotic
semiotics
semasiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semasiological
form: most semasiological
Etymology: From semasiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to semasiology.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the meaning of a lexeme.
Coordinate terms: onomasiological
biosemiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + semiotics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A growing field that studies the production, action and interpretation of signs in the biological realm.
Related terms: biosemiosis
biosemiotic
low season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low seasons
Senses: glosses: In the tourist industry, the period of lowest demand. In a sun and sand resort this means the coldest and wettest months, whereas in a ski resort, this means the warmest months.
Synonyms: off-season
white week
Related terms: midseason
white week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white weeks
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A week that is in low demand because it is in a holiday low season. Especially used in time-share, but not limited to this industry.
semiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiosises
Etymology: Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: Any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning.
wikipedia: Charles Sanders Peirce
Derived terms: anthroposemiosis
biosemiosis
endosemiosis
exosemiosis
phytosemiosis
zoosemiosis
shitcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitcans
Etymology: From shit + can, originally military slang.
Senses: examples: text: One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.
ref: 2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19:
text: One had done time at Mount Penang and the other had been at Yasma Boys' Shelter, so our backgrounds bound us together, which was just as well: the cell was very small, with three beds, a three-gallon shitcan and no plumbing in a space about the size of the bathroom in an average Sydney terrace.
ref: 2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152:
text: I answered that the rotation of the Earth couldn't be interrupted by the appearance of such a one-year volunteer like me on it, that the laws of nature were stronger than the stripes of one-year volunteers and that I would wish to know who could make me spitshine some shitcan that I didn't crap up, although I'd even have a right to do that after dealing with the swine kitchen at the regiment, after that rotten cabbage and soaked mutton meat.
ref: 2009, Jaroslav Hašek, The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War:
synonyms: word: shit bowl
word: shitbucket
word: shitpot
word: shitter
word: can
word: bedpan
word: can
word: chamber
word: chamber pot
word: chemical toilet
word: commode
word: Cousin John
word: crapper
word: gazunder
word: guzunder
word: honey bucket
word: honeypot
word: Jerry
word: jerry
word: john
word: johnny
word: jordan
word: latrine
word: mingo
word: necessary stool
word: pan
word: pee pot
word: pisspot
word: piss pot
word: po
word: pot
word: potty
word: potty-chair
word: shitbucket
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: slop bucket
word: stool
word: stool of easement
word: throne
word: thunder mug
word: toilet
word: urinal
glosses: A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
examples: text: Everything down the shitcan.
ref: 1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150:
text: Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it."
ref: 1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass:
text: For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.
ref: 2002, Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, The War of Art:
synonyms: word: waste bin
word: wastebin
glosses: A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
examples: text: Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.
ref: 2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133:
text: It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.
ref: 2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:
text: Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.
ref: 2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380:
synonyms: word: shitbox
word: shitbucket
word: piece of shit
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: A shoddy vehicle.
shitcan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shitcans
form: shitcanning
form: shitcanned
form: shitcanned
Etymology: From shit + can, originally military slang.
Senses: examples: text: They had to shitcan him.
ref: 1983, Thomas G. Foxworth, Michael Laurence, Passengers, page 198:
text: But I guess we can shitcan the robbery angle, right?
ref: 1992, Carsten Stroud, Lizardskin, page 244:
text: Shitcan that shit. I don't want it in the house.
ref: 2007, Duff Brenna, The Law of Falling Bodies, page 225:
text: I will have to come up with a foolproof scheme to shitcan the violin.
ref: 2008, Baka Imre, The Sound of Guns, page 50:
text: Shitcan the rhetoric and study the action.
ref: 2012, Gregg Shotwell, Autoworkers Under the Gun:
glosses: Alternative form of shit-can.
structuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structurations
Etymology: From structure + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A theory proposed by Anthony Giddens in an attempt to reconcile theoretical dichotomies of social systems such as agency/structure, subjective/objective, and micro/macro perspectives.
Keziah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keziahs
form: Kizziah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (Qəṣî‘āh).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kezia.
glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Kezia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keziah
Etymology: From Hebrew קְצִיעָה (“cassia tree”). Compare cassia.
Senses: glosses: The second of the three daughters of Job.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Keisha
Lakeisha
Jemima
denotational semantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: An approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects called denotations which describe the meanings of expressions from the languages.
Related terms: axiomatic semantics
operational semantics
denotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denotation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to denotation.
Derived terms: denotationally
denotational semantics
ecolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + linguistics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of the relationships between language, ecology, and the environment, especially how linguistic practices influence and reflect human interactions with the natural world.
Synonyms: ecological linguistics
Mitra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit मित्र (mitra). Doublet of Mithra and Mithras.
Senses: examples: text: [In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position
ref: 1989, Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam, “Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide,”, in Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees, page 200:
glosses: A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
examples: text: when about 1350 B.C. a treaty was concluded between the king of Mittanni [...] and the Hittite ruler [...], the former calls upon the gods Mitra, Indra, Varuna, and the Nâsatya as guarantors of his sworn obligations.
ref: 1963, Jørgen Læssøe, People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence, Routledge,, page 86:
glosses: A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
examples: text: As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra.
ref: 1923, John Nicol Farquhar, The Religious Quest of India, OUP, page 120:
text: We cannot account for Roman Mithras in terms borrowed from Persian Mitra.
ref: 2001, Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”).
Mitra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali মিত্র (mitrô).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sanskrit.
cattle grids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattle grid
cosmic latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We just can't leave God out of our lives even if there isn't the slightest possibility that an anthropomorphic God exists that can stand outside the universe and look on the cosmic latte color and see us.
ref: 2003, Frederick Kramer, Thickets of Qualia, page 208:
text: Between the walls, which have been redone a univeige, a cosmic latte shade—the floors have similarly been buffed of my traces.
ref: 2016, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, page 8:
glosses: A creamy white color calculated to be the average color of the universe.
rollerblader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerbladers
Etymology: From rollerblade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rollerblades.
Synonyms: in-line skater
di-pimethane rearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: di-pimethane rearrangements
form: di-pi-methane rearrangement
form: di-π-methane rearrangement
Senses: glosses: A photochemical reaction of a molecular entity comprising two p-systems, separated by a saturated carbon atom (a 1,4-diene or an allyl-substituted aromatic analog), to form an ene- (or aryl-) substituted cyclopropane. The rearrangement formally amounts to a 1,2 shift of one ene group (in the diene) or the aryl group (in the allyl-aromatic analog) and ‘bond formation’ between the lateral carbons of the non-migrating moiety.
trigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigraphs
Etymology: From tri- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Letter “i” is pronounced as /aɪ/ when followed by the trigraph “ght”, as in right /raɪt/.
text: Then, practice reading fluency sentences together that contain words with trigraphs and other mastered words.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sarah Forst, “How to Teach Trigraphs DGE & TCH”, in The Designer Teacher:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
examples: text: These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.
ref: 1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
Related terms: digraph
tetragraph
pentagraph
hexagraph
heptagraph
octagraph
monophthong
diphthong
triphthong
ligature
rheoplethysmograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheoplethysmographs
Etymology: From rheo- + plethysmograph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for the measurement of variation in volume of organs by measurement of variations in electric impedance
triphthongal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From triphthong + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a triphthong.
monophthongization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophthongizations
form: monophthongisation
Etymology: From monophthongize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: diphthongization
triphthongization
glosses: The process of becoming monophthong, for a diphthong or triphthong.
Eurolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + linguistics; coined by Norbert Reiter in 1991 (German equivalent: Eurolinguistik).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A young branch of linguistics which deals with questions on the languages of Europe.
wodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /wɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: wodges
Etymology: Probably an alteration of wedge.
Senses: examples: text: He paid a wodge of dosh for his new motor from the car dealership.
text: […] if Eben comes to me with that there hankychy and slips a big wodge of hard Hamsterdam ’bacco and a square bottle o’ stuff as hasn’t paid dooty into my hands in the dark some night, what am I to do?
ref: 1900, George Manville Fenn, chapter 16, in The Lost Middy:
text: I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.
ref: 1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 14, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971:
text: Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.
ref: 2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, number 399:
text: MAIRE MIRKIN (played by Brid Brennan):”Sit down please the both of you. You’ve intruded right into the middle of our nightcap, young man. I was just about to serve a toddy to Hector and myself. Can I fix you one?”. ARM (played by Cosmo Jarvis): A wha…? HECTOR: Do, dear, yeah. And, um (clicks tongue) cut us a few wodges of brack while you’re at it.
ref: 2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott):
glosses: A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad
Related terms: wodgy
WiMAX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access: a telecommunications technology providing wireless data, voice and video over long distances.
Related terms: Wi-Fi
GPRS
knottier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of knotty: more knotty
encunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encunts
form: encunting
form: encunted
form: encunted
Etymology: From en- + cunt.
Senses: glosses: To penetrate vaginally.
Related terms: uncunt
decunt
knottiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of knotty: most knotty
knotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knot
knotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knottings
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The formation of a knot.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The swelling of the bulbus glandis.
kneeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knee
kneeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːɪŋ
Forms: form: kneeings
Senses: glosses: A blow made with the knee
kinglier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kingly: more kingly
kingliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kingly: most kingly
kinkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of kinky: most kinky
knits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
homophone: nits
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knit
knits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
homophone: nits
Senses: glosses: plural of knit
knits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
homophone: nits
Etymology: Probably the same word as nit, a louse's egg.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Small particles of ore.
embugger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embuggers
form: embuggering
form: embuggered
form: embuggered
Etymology: From em- + bugger, modelled on French enculer
Senses: examples: "He embuggers bucks." - from the English translation of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver
"...I clap him into my anus again, embugger Emma, and sweetest ecstasy crowns our pleasure anew..." - from the English translation of the Marquis de Sade's Juliette by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver
glosses: to bugger; to engage in anal intercourse
deafly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfli/
Forms: form: more deafly
form: most deafly
Etymology: From deaf + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deaf manner; without the aid of a sense of hearing.
Related terms: tone-deafly
dazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪ.zi/
rhymes: -eɪzi
homophone: daisy
Forms: form: more dazy
form: most dazy
Etymology: From daze + -y.
Senses: glosses: In a dazed condition.
Derived terms: daziness
danceress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danceresses
Etymology: From Middle English daunseresse; equivalent to dancer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female dancer.
Synonyms: dancerette
teacheress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtiːt͡ʃəˈɹɛs/
Forms: form: teacheresses
form: teachress
Etymology: From Middle English techeresse, equivalent to teacher + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The plan of the Teacheress to erect a large building for us, and to educate our daughters, pleases us exceedingly, and we send fifteen rupees to assist the Teacheress in providing for them.
ref: 1858 August, a letter to Mrs. Mason, quotee, “Christians in Burmah”, in The Wesleyan Junior Offering:
qualifier: archaic except India
glosses: A female teacher.
fanti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanpol
form: fantis
Etymology: Blend of fan + anti (“a fan who objects to something on moral or sociopolitical grounds”).
Senses: examples: text: Fantis condemn "problematic" ships & fanfic more often and with more vigor than they condemn harassment in fandom.
ref: 2023 January 23, discourse catharsis (@lizcourserants), Twitter:
text: I love toxic ships, but I was so turned off by the fantis that I visibly cringe whenever I see it
ref: 2023 January 31, Alchemilla (@vitavillis), Twitter:
text: I’m just so sick of fantis acting like every proshipper only ships the most fxcked up nasty stuff when some of us don’t want to touch the extreme fictional stuff.
ref: 2024 March 8, GODZILLA'S WIFE (@GojiraSpouse), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: anti
fancop
fandomentalist
fandom Frollo
fanpol
Frollo
glosses: One who moralises within a fandom space, especially over sexual content and shipping.
cootchie-cootchie-coo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coochie-coochie-coo.
licensure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licensures
Senses: glosses: The act of conferring a license for an activity.
examples: text: The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the then-dominant natural healers — a range of herbalists, midwives, and homeopathic doctors.
ref: 1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8:
glosses: The condition of being licensed.
Derived terms: delicensure
postlicensure
prelicensure
relicensure
Jacko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæ.kəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæ.koʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
Etymology: From Jack + -o.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for a person whose name is Jack, whose surname is Jackson, or similar.
Derived terms: Wacko Jacko
syngeneic transplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syngeneic transplantations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A transplantation in which donor and receiver are genetically identical twins.
candidiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkændɪˈdaɪəsɪs/
Forms: form: candidiases
Etymology: Candida + -iasis
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fungal infection of any of the Candida (yeast) species.
Synonyms: thrush
yeast infection
Derived terms: congenital cutaneous candidiasis
oral candidiasis
pluralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluralisations
Etymology: From plural + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pluralization.
all of the sudden
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Alternative form of all of a sudden.
tar and feather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tars and feathers
form: tarring and feathering
form: tarred and feathered
form: tarred and feathered
form: tar-and-feather
Senses: examples: text: 1855 — George A. Smith, Journal of Discourses, Volume 3 "Preaching the Gospel"
"O," say they, "if you talk with a Mormon Elder, you are sure to get worsted; tar and feather them, mob them, and stone them out of the country, for if you listen to them, you will be deceived."
text: ...they'd be along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they'd tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I didn't wait for no breakfast—I warn't hungry.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
glosses: To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person.
Related terms: ride on a rail
tar-and-feather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tar-and-feathers
form: tars-and-feathers
form: tar-and-feathering
form: tarring-and-feathering
form: tar-and-feathered
form: tar-and-feathered
form: tarred-and-feathered
form: tarred-and-feathered
Senses: examples: text: The villagers had a strong desire to tar-and-feather Injun Joe and ride him on a rail, for body-snatching, but so formidable was his character that nobody could be found who was willing to take the lead in the matter, so it was dropped
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, chapter XI, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
glosses: Alternative form of tar and feather.
wafflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waffler
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Etymology: From Russian Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика (Ukraínskaja Sovétskaja Socialistíčeskaja Respúblika). Compare Ukrainian Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка (Ukrajínsʹka Radjánsʹka Socialistýčna Respúblika).
Senses: glosses: The Bolshevik state of Ukraine (1919–91), a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1922–91), member of the United Nations since 1945.
Synonyms: Republic of Soviets of Ukraine
a predecessor 1917
Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic
official name 1919–1936
Ukrainian SSR
UkrSSR
UkSSR
Russian
Ukrainian RSR
URSR
Ukrainian SRR
USRR
Ukrainian
treechange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -iːtʃeɪndʒ
Forms: form: treechanges
Etymology: From tree + change, modelled after seachange. According to the Australian author and demographer Bernard Salt, the word was coined by “a subeditor” in 2003 and thereafter adopted by him.
Senses: examples: text: Treechange refers to the trend for baby boomers to seek out lifestyle property in country towns usually within a two–three hour drive of a capital city. The drivers of treechange and seachange are the same: people wanting a simpler life in a pleasant town with all the amenities not too far from their interests in the city.
ref: 2006, Bernard Salt, “Values and Mores”, in The Big Picture: Life, Work and Relationships in the 21st Century, Prahran, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books, published 2007, →ISBN, part 1 (Life), page 23:
text: For example, the ‘seachange’ and ‘treechange’ movements have seen transitions in rural and regional communities, with the influx of wealthy city-dwellers increasing the price of housing and demanding the provision of particular services and facilities[…].
ref: 2007, Susan Thompson, “Planning for Diverse Communities”, in Susan Thompson, editor, Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 204:
text: She told me about a time she and a photographer were sent out to do ‘another treechange story’ – a feel-good piece, she explained, about mainlanders moving to Tasmania.
ref: 2010, Anna Krien, Into the Woods, page 138:
text: This is supported by consultant reports she found online, whose interpretations of ABS data point to the emergence of seachange and treechange towns that have increasing demand for services. (Seachange and treechange are terms used to describe people moving out of cities to coastal or rural areas.)
ref: 2010, Philip Thomas, Profit from Property: Your Step-by-step Guide to Successful Real Estate Development, Milton, Qld.: Wrightbooks; Richmond, Vic.: John Wiley & Sons Australia, published 2011, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: seachange
glosses: A movement of people from cities to the countryside.
coordinate_terms: seachange
glosses: An act of relocating from an urban to a rural community.
Derived terms: treechanger
primary research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Research that involves the collection of previously ungathered data, rather than the analysis of that which is already available.
Related terms: secondary research
field research
secondary research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Research performed through the summary, collation or synthesis of the results of existing research.
Related terms: primary research
desk research
secondary source
tertiary source
Jahve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahweh.
Herra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Herras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Herra. This surname is mostly found in Costa Rica.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
scientific research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientific researches
Senses: hypernyms: research
science
glosses: Research performed using the scientific method.
historical research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Research performed using the historical method.
scholarly method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public.
Synonyms: scholarship
Related terms: scientific method
historical method
philosophical method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophical methods
Senses: glosses: A method used by philosophers involving such elements as skepticism and methodic doubt, argumentation, and presentation of arguments for criticism by other philosophers.
coffee house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coffeehouse.
tertiary source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiary sources
Senses: qualifier: general scholarship and historiography
glosses: A selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both.
Synonyms: tertiary work
Related terms: primary source
secondary source
secondary research
historical method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.
Related terms: scientific method
scholarly method
XMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XMAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of extensible management agent.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extended memory area.
XMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of eXtranet Multichannel Architecture, a banking client software.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Expanded Memory Adapter.
argyrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argyroses
Etymology: From argyr- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of argyria.
synonyms: word: argyria
arseniasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arseniases
Etymology: From arsenium + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Chronic arsenic poisoning.
arsenicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsenical
arthropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthropathies
Etymology: From arthro- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: arthrosis
glosses: Any of several diseases of a joint.
Derived terms: arthropathic
neuroarthropathy
oligoarthropathy
osteoarthropathy
polyarthropathy
spondyloarthropathy
ascaricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascaricides
Etymology: From ascar- + -icide.
Senses: glosses: Any pesticide intended to kill roundworms (Ascaridida).
autoantigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoantigens
Etymology: From auto- + antigen.
Senses: glosses: Any antigen that stimulates autoantibodies in the organism that produced it; an antigen produced by the self (that is, by one's own tissues).
Derived terms: autoantigenic
Related terms: autoantibody
autoimmune
autoimmunity
immune complex