cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
on special
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Short grain rice is on special this week.
ref: 2022 April 8, Jo Abi, 9Honey:
text: If a particular item is on special this week, when can I expect it to go on sale again?
ref: 2017 March 22, hmoody, Whirlpool:
text: This wine is outstanding. I recently ordered 2 cases of this when it was on special.
ref: 2022, Garry Lee, Nugan Estate:
glosses: For sale at a reduced price.
Synonyms: word: on sale
word: on offer
manoeuvreable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manoeuvreable
form: most manoeuvreable
Etymology: From manoeuvre + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
Derived terms: unmanoeuvreable
Great Torrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Torrington
glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4919).
Related terms: Black Torrington
Little Torrington
pre-COVID
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-Covid
Etymology: From pre- + COVID.
Senses: examples: text: The Cathay Pacific Group expects to resume 70% of pre-COVID passenger capacity levels by end of 2023
ref: 2022 November 24, Cathay Pacific:
text: The Albanese Government is helping more Australians get travelling again, with passport wait times now back to pre-COVID normal.
ref: 2023 March 19, Department of Foreign Affairs (Australia):
text: Although most schools have returned to pre-COVID procedures, it is still possible that a local COVID outbreak may result in a return to altered arrangements in schools.
ref: 2023, University of New England:
text: As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
ref: 2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, pages 52-53:
glosses: Before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monkhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Beaumont parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3458).
glosses: A suburb of Pontefract, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4522).
lock it in, Eddie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A phrase commonly used by contestants on the Australian version of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? gameshow, hosted by Eddie McGuire. See Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: You can register here. Session will be delivered via Teams. Lock it in Eddie.
ref: 2023 August 22, Gareth Furber, Flinders University:
text: No idea who either of them are, but it's a rumour on the internet so it's got to be 100% legit. Lock it in Eddie.
ref: 2021 May 18, MrSimtang, Whirlpool:
text: Once we’ve met, you'll need to pay the non-refundable retainer to lock it in Eddie!
ref: 2023, “Archived copy”, in Henry Paul Photography, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023:
text: We have a winner. Dual Brownlow medallist. Lock it in Eddie.
ref: 2004 April 14, Lidge, Big Footy:
glosses: Used to signal certainty, commitment.
sarcophagussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Even when years put the lid on my monarchy / Still I was reckoned a priceless old thing, / Carefully potted like meat of Maconnochie, / Turned into mummied, sarcophagussed king.
ref: 1918, “Pharaoh’s Complaint—From Bloomsbury”, in Motor, volume 32, page 570:
text: The beauty of men is dead, or defaced and sarcophagussed / Under vile caricatures; the enormous inhuman / Beauty of things goes on, the beauty of God, the eternal beauty, and perhaps they’ll see it.
ref: a. 1963, Robinson Jeffers, “To Kill in War Is Not Murder”, in The Beginning & the End and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1963, →LCCN, series II (Do You Still Make War?), page 28:
text: He switched the royal mummy for his winnings. The doubloons from Monte Carlo await us, sarcophagussed in all their sub-marine splendour!
ref: 1994, Geoffrey McSkimming, “A Beast in the East”, in Cairo Jim and the Sunken Sarcophagus of Sekheret (The Cairo Jim Chronicles; 3), Walker Books, published 2006, →ISBN, part 1 (Felonious Submergence), page 31:
text: She deals with the cosmos and cosmic beings (the Dark, the Thaarn, the Sarcophagussed Alien).
ref: 2001 November 28, se...@gaudaprime.com, “Synchro-watch : Shadow”, in alt.fan.blakes-7 (Usenet):
glosses: Rare form of sarcophagused.
qere perpetua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qere perpetuum
Hanging Langford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Steeple Langford parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0337).
Adm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adms
Senses: examples: text: Particularly notable was the presence not just of Nato’s military chief, the American Gen Christopher Cavoli, but also Adm Sir Tony Radakin, Britain’s most senior military officer, who is now acknowledged in Washington and Kyiv as an increasingly important actor in helping Ukraine overcome the Russian invaders.
ref: 2023 August 26, Dan Sabbagh, “‘That’s our guy’: how UK military chief became key Nato liaison in Ukraine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of Adm. (“Admiral”).
Steeple Langford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, between Warminster and Salisbury (OS grid ref SU0337).
flank speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flank speeds
Senses: examples: text: In a magnificent beau geste, the destroyer, hopelessly trapped, turned as if to flee, threw out a smoke screen, and when the [enemy ship] charged into it, rammed her at flank speed […]
ref: 1988, William Manchester, The Last Lion, volume 2, page 635:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The maximum speed of a ship.
Farrant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
re-prints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-print
re-prints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-print
re-print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-prints
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-three pages, compriſing a re-print of the two letters, as promiſed in the title-page; […]
ref: 1795 May, The Monthly Review, volume XVII, page 102:
text: PHARMACY CUSTOMERS prefer 4x6in prints — 80 per cent; like next-day service — 42 per cent (only 4 per cent of all pharmacy prints are re-prints or enlargements).
ref: 1995 March 18, “Film facts”, in Chemist & Druggist, page 454:
text: Indeed, there were only two articles in this issue, both re-prints.
ref: 1997 October, “Out of the Past: 27 Years Ago in the Wood Duck”, in The Wood Duck, volume 51, number 2, Hamilton, Ont.: Hamilton Naturalists’ Club, →ISSN, page 37, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of reprint.
re-print
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-prints
form: re-printing
form: re-printed
form: re-printed
Senses: examples: text: Whereas upon the humble Requeſt of Our Truſty and Wel-beloved Servant, JOHN OGILBY, Eſquire, We were Graciouſly pleaſed by Our Warrant of the 25. of May, in the ſeventeenth Year of Our Reign, to grant him the ſole Privilege and Immunity of Printing in fair Volumes, Adorned with Sculptures, Virgil Tranſlated, Homer's Iliads, Æſop Paraphraſed, and Our Entertainment in Paſſing through Our City of London, and Coronation, together with Homer's Odyſſes, and his fore-mentioned Æſop with his Additions and Annotations in Folio, with a Prohibition, that none ſhould Print or Re-print the ſame in any Volumes, without the Conſent and Approbation of him, the ſaid John Ogilby, his Heirs, Executors, or Aſſigns, within the term of Fifteen Years next enſuing the Date of Our ſaid Warrant;[…]
ref: 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n10/:
text: THE laſt Free Briton, only Re-prints the Beginning of a Pamphlet, Entitled, A Letter from a Member of Parliament to his Friends in the Country, concerning the Duties on Wine and Tobacco. As this Letter has already been printed in a Pamphlet, and as Mr. Walſingham intends to Re-print it in his Free Briton, we ſhall not print it a third Time.
ref: 1733, The Bee: or, Universal Weekly Pamphlet. Containing Something to Hit Every Man’s Taste and Principles., volume I, London: […] W. Burton, […]; for Richard Chandler, […]; Cæsar Ward, […]; and Sold by J. Roberts, […], page 234:
text: Another translation of Corinna has been published by a bookseller in the city; but far am I from being alarmed on that account, as to the sale of this, when I consider that a French edition has been re-printed in London, and sold off almost immediately; […]
ref: 1807 July 20, D[ennis] Lawler, “The Translator’s Preface”, in [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, pages i–ii:
text: The Doll is aware of the problem and is re-printing the HC12 leaflet, but cannot say when it will be distributed.
ref: 1996 April 27, “Tights error”, in Chemist & Druggist, page 549:
glosses: Alternative form of reprint.
re-printing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-print
re-printed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-print
JIPMER
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jipmer
Senses: examples: text: This assurance was given to a delegation of JIPMER doctors, who called on Senior Superintendent of Police, Law and Order, Narra Chaitanya, on Thursday, August 24, 2023, to thank him for initiating a fair probe into an incident involving the assault of a doctor at the paediatric ward of the hospital.
ref: 2023 August 25, “Puducherry police say they can set up an outpost at JIPMER if space is provided”, in The Hindu:
glosses: Initialism of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, a medical school in Pondicherry, India.
soldier-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soldier-like
form: most soldier-like
Senses: examples: text: Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 145:
text: She curtsied at seeing two tall soldier-like gentlemen before her.
ref: 1885, G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, “At Home at Last”, in For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, […], page 349:
text: Jason’s dad, unlike his own, was a soldier-like man, precise, on time, sharp-eyed.
ref: 2003, Rachel Wyatt, Time’s Reach, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Alternative form of soldierlike.
like a champ
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Wow, you took that punch like a champ.
text: Here's Barbara Mikulski, who enters like a champ with great big hair.
ref: 2012 September 5, Elspeth Reeve, “DNC Recap: Bill Clinton's Night”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2021:
text: As I'm walking through the festival entrance, a man casually vomits before continuing on, unfazed. ¶ Twenty-year-old me thinks, "Dope. That guy knows how to get faded like a champ!" ¶ Thirty-year-old me thinks, "I'm concerned for the boy's health and the general sanitation of this festival. Where are the comment cards located?!"
ref: 2015 June 10, Farley Katz, “Music Festivals in Your Thirties”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2017:
text: My sunny front lawn, however, grows like a champ. It grows so well that a passer-by, concerned about my boisterous crop of dandelions, once suggested I use her landscaping crew to corral my wild patch. "They can really get those dandelions under control," she said.
ref: 2019 April 26, Ronda Kaysen, “I'm Done Mowing My Lawn”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
glosses: Very well; with great success or skill.
findableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From findable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being capable of being found.
Jipmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of JIPMER.
Sixtine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: sixteen
Etymology: From New Latin sixtīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The ceremonies of Holy Week at Rome, have been much spoken of. Foreigners come thither expressly, during Lent, to enjoy this spectacle; and as the music of the Sixtine Chapel, and the illumination of St. Peter, are beauties unique in themselves, it is natural that they should excite a lively curiosity; […]
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 38:
text: And yet this very ancient Latin version gives us this various reading, in its very earliest editions, long before the appearance of the Sixtine and Clementine editions, with their Papal sanctions.
ref: 1857, John Radley, A Defence of the Proceedings of the British & Foreign Bible Society in Reference to the (So-Called) Roman-Catholic Versions: with a Plea for Their Continued Circulation, 3rd edition, London: W. Kent and Co., […], page 21:
text: The Sixtine edition (Rome, 1587) was an officially sponsored edition commissioned by Pope Sixtus V.
ref: 1995, Ernst Würthwein, translated by Erroll F. Rhodes, The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica, 2nd edition, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of Sistine.
rabulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabulisms
Senses: glosses: a tendency to shyster or to quibble.
Related terms: rabulous
rabulistic
christianity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And we wish heartily, that leaving these weak nots of Trueth, to the Papists, chief acclaimers of them, amongst christians, (that we speak nothing of aliens from christianity) ye would be pleased to adhere, with us into the holy Scriptures […]
ref: p. 1638, “The XIV. Duply”, in Generall Demands Concerning the Late Covenant […], published 1662, page 168:
text: I must tell you that christianity hath new christened it
ref: 1768 [1657], Jeremy Taylor, Sacred Prolusions: or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert:
text: That wealth and splendour have not the charms that you ascribe to them with the bulk of mankind, is evident even from the history of Monachism, one of the corruptions of christianity.
ref: 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, section VI:
text: Corinna followed the procession, which repaired to the temple of St. Peter, which was then lighted only by an illuminated cross. This sign of grief, alone and shining in the august obscurity of this immense edifice, is the most beautiful image of christianity in the midst of sublunary darkness.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] IV.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 48:
text: The old saying that all is not gold which glitters, is true in respect to most of the prevailing systems of christianity in which the outside glitter and superficial tinsel will be found the device of man, while craft has cast a veil over that which is really the work of God.
ref: 1807, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, “Eichhorn's Introduction to the New Testament”, in The Critical Review of Annals of Literature, volume X, number V, London, page 450:
text: It was reserved for chivalry, embodying the spirit of christianity, to demolish this old, moss-grown bastile of the social state, and restore its captives to freedom, and the rights and prerogatives of freedom.
ref: 1840, “Chivalry and the Crusades”, in The American Miscellany of Popular Tales, Essays, Sketches of Character, Poetry, and Jeux d’Esprit, volume II, number 38, London: G. Berger, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; […], →OCLC, page 134, column 1:
text: If we read the Epistles of St. Paul, we shall soon discover what efforts the Jewish converts made to bring the Gentile converts into the observance of every Jewish custom compatible with christianity: and as we do not discover in those Epistles any traces of a dispute on this head between the Jewish and Gentile converts, we may fairly conclude that the Gentile converts adopted without hesitation the time-honoured manner of praising the true God made use of by the Jewish converts, instead of the Pagan mode of singing, which was then associated in their minds with every thing unclean and abominable.
ref: 1847, William Kelly, “Introduction”, in A Grammar of Gregorian, or Plain Chant Music, London: Thomas Richardson and Son, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:
glosses: Obsolete form of Christianity.
poutiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pouty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The rose may leave your cheek, the rich, red poutiness of your lip may fade into whiteness, the large and lustrous eye may grow languid in its hidden grief, but the soul will not lose its tyrant passion.
ref: 1853, John Pierce Brace, chapter 18, in The Fawn of the Pale Faces, New York: D. Appleton, page 144:
text: the over-full upper lip which left a somewhat incongruous impression of child-like poutiness upon her face
ref: 1921, Arthur Stringer, chapter 2, in The Wine of Life, New York: Knopf, page 23:
text: She didn’t talk to me for the rest of the night. And though I laughed at her poutiness, in the end she was right […]
ref: 2016, Shobha Rao, “The Road to Mirpur Khas”, in An Unrestored Woman, London: Virago, page 174:
glosses: The quality of being pouty.
chase moonbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chases moonbeams
form: chasing moonbeams
form: chased moonbeams
form: chased moonbeams
Senses: examples: text: The Guardian's housing specialist was outraged by Tom's conviction that the city was chasing moonbeams in applying for compulsory purchase orders to build two little Manchesters in Mobberley and Lymm.
ref: 2009, Harold Evans, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography:
text: Then for many others it's become a chase around the block looking for miracles that are never there. Here, there and everywhere they search, chasing moonbeams and ending up disillusioned.
ref: 2010, Raymond Arroyo Jr., Lead Us Not into Temptation:
text: Oh, you can scoff, Mr White, but you siblings that thirst for glory chase moonbeams.
ref: 2021, Richard Woodman, A King's Cutter, page 27:
text: Ah, Luna! you may hide your face; And, Doctor, you're a hopeless case, If you allow yourself to chase The silly moonbeams without discretion. Better go and attend to your profession.
ref: 2023, Charles Billingslea, The Addison Reunion Papers, page 216:
glosses: To waste time in a fruitless attempt.
chases moonbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chase moonbeams
chasing moonbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chase moonbeams
chased moonbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chase moonbeams
faultfound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of faultfind
newbie gains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you’re starting off skinny, you can probably get newbie gains for several months.
ref: 2024 September 13 [2023 March 31], Shane Duquette and Marco Walker-Ng, “The Newbie Gains Guide for Skinny Guys”, in Bony to Beastly:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Rapid increases in muscle mass when a person begins training.
hap-hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hap-hazard
form: most hap-hazard
Senses: examples: text: He would in this way discover which mixture of soil, or what sort of manure was required,—a very different thing from proceeding upon hap-hazard experience.
ref: 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2:
text: To assert that no good had ever come from hap-hazard practice in the past would, perhaps, be incorrect. For aught I know the initial practice with any given drug among savage people is hap-hazard, and we all know that some valued practices with drugs are simply in imitation of practices with them among savage people.
ref: 1897, Charles S. Mack, chapter V, in Principles of Medicine: Designed for Use as a Text-book in Medical Colleges, and for Consideration by Practitioners Generally, Chicago: The W.T. Keener Company, page 50:
glosses: Alternative spelling of haphazard.
hap-hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hap-hazard
form: most hap-hazard
Senses: examples: text: Besides, it is one thing to predict or operate hap-hazard, and quite another to have definite, positive convictions, leading naturally to the anticipated result.
ref: 1868, John S[tephen] Wright, “My former Opinions And Predictions were based upon a reasonable Hypothesis”, in Chicago: Past, Present, Future, Chicago: Horton & Leonard, page 3:
text: Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane.
ref: 1940, William Plotts, Isogeotherm, Or Monist Theory of Stratified Mineral Occurrence and Origin, page 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of haphazard.
Rubiales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rubialeses
Etymology: From Spanish Rubiales.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
arch-artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch-artists
Etymology: From arch- + artist.
Senses: examples: text: But the arch-artist, Nature, had not let centuries pass idly. The western wall was clad with ivy, through which a boursault rose here and there reared its blossom aspiringly; [...]
ref: 1856, L. S. Lavenu, chapter I, in Erlesmere; or, Contrasts of Character, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 3:
text: [Michelangelo] will shortly be our theme for another article or two, wherein the arch-artist will be discussed, with special reference to the history and characteristics of his great architectural works.
ref: 1868 September, the editors, “Michael Angelo”, in Samuel Sloan, Charles J. Lukens, editors, Sloan's Architectural Review and Builders' Journal, Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, page 218:
text: [Artists] are merely repeating nature's earliest promptings, as when first the great arch-artist moulded our pendent sphere, painted its varied surface with inimitable hues, and bid the jubilant stars, nature's first poets, sing together the morning hymns of creation.
ref: 1890 December, A.H. Morrison, “Art in Literature”, in Archibald Macmurchy, editor, The Canada Educational Monthly and School Magazine, volume 12, page 366:
glosses: An artist of ultimate or superior quality; a maestro.
Wolstons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wolston
identity restoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: ID restoration
glosses: The restoration of an individual's previous identity, credit score, etc. after harm done by identity theft.
speculum literature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Speculum literature
form: speculum-literature
Etymology: From Latin speculum (“mirror”) in the title of these works.
Senses: examples: text: Mirror or speculum literature, as Jourda and Cottrell have noted, can be traced back through medieval tradition to Augustinian, Biblical and Platonic sources.
ref: 1989, Paula Sommers, “Le Miroir: Biblical Ascent”, in Celestial Ladders: Readings in Marguerite de Navarre’s Poetry of Spiritual Ascent, Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., →ISBN, page 50:
text: However, insofar as these plays resemble statecraft or speculum''' literature, they also exhibit the rhetorical instability of statecraft discourse, in which antithesis fails to contain the tyrant. […] In “The Background and Sources of Preston’s Cambises,” English Studies 31 (1950): 129–35, and “The Authorship and Political Meaning of Cambises,” English Studies 36 (1955): 289–99, for example, W. A. Armstrong describes Cambyses as an example of speculum''' literature, in which the “naiveness” of characterization reflects the rhetoric of statecraft (p. 294).
ref: 1990, Rebecca W[eld] Bushnell, “Tyrannical Vices: Morality Plays and Humanist Drama”, in Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
text: As Anna Musso has pointed out, the adaptation of the genre to a female dedicatee places the text outside the normal run of speculum''' literature and identifies it with the rising literature in defence of women, which argued against their inferiority to men.
ref: 2004, Stephen John Campbell, “Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara”, in The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Paintings), page 184:
text: The sententious lessons of Lydgate’s great work contributed to the continent-wide development of a sub-genre of speculum''' literature: ‘advice to princes’.
ref: 2016, Rory Loughnane, “The Medieval Inheritance”, in Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (Genre), page 39:
text: The Speculum humanae salvationis, or ‘Mirror of human salvation’, is an anonymous composition, originally written in Latin, in rhyming verse, sometime between 1309 (as a reference to the Avignon papacy indicates) and 1324 (the date on two copies) as part of the genre of encyclopedic speculum literature.
ref: 2022, “Introduction”, in An Illustrated Speculum Humanae Salvationis: Green Collection MS 000321, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.
wikipedia: British Library
Jean de Vignay
Vincent of Beauvais
Speculum literature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Berges’s view (p. 343) that this work stands outside the tradition of Speculum''' literature can only be valid for the mirrors preceding it; […]
ref: 1982, Herbert Grabes, “A typology of works bearing mirror-titles”, in The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance, Cambridge, Cambs: Cambridge University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, part one (The mirror as title-metaphor), chapter section c (Exemplary texts bearing mirror-titles), subsection iii (Admonitory and unmasking mirrors: the deterrent image), page 60:
text: His remarks on the medieval tradition of Speculum''' literature, into which he places the Roman, are, of course, intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive; […]
ref: 1986, John V[incent] Fleming, “Garden of the Roman de la Rose: Vision of Landscape or Landscape of Vision?”, in Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, editor, Medieval Gardens, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, →ISBN, page 227:
text: The saint king’s biographies, compiled in the court, and the Hungarian royal chronicle, compiled in different segments at different times, could both be classified as a form of Speculum''' literature.
ref: 1993, Kornél Szovák, “The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St Ladislas)”, in Anne Duggan, editor, Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe, King’s College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of speculum literature.
speculum-literature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This speculum-literature did, of course, not disappear at once in the 16th century.
ref: 1871, A[ntonius] van der Linde, translated by J[an] H[endrik] Hessels, “Speculum nostræ Salutis”, in The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, Critically Examined […], London: Blades, East, & Blades, […], page 84:
text: In this medieval tradition this science’s ethical-political function was emphasised; thus it became part of speculum'''-literature.
ref: 2006, Rhoda Schnur, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, editors, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Bonn, 3–9 August, 2003, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, →ISBN, page 159:
text: This evokes the medieval tradition of speculum'''-literature with its strong didactic slant.
ref: 2007, Cordula Politis, The Individualization of Fortune in the Sixteenth-Century Novels of Jorg Wickram: The Beginnings of the Modern Narrative in German Literature, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Alternative form of speculum literature.
Parsons puzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parsons puzzles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Parsons problem.
synonyms: word: Parsons problem
Parsons puzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parsons puzzle
Parsons problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parsons problems
Etymology: Named after Dale Parsons.
Senses: synonyms: Parsons puzzle
glosses: A kind of computer programming puzzle in which the respondent is asked to choose from a selection of source code fragments in order to construct a program that will solve a given problem.
wikipedia: Dale Parsons
Parsons problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parsons problem
dark fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark funguses
form: dark fungi
form: dark matter fungus
Etymology: Back-formation from dark fungi, from dark fungal matter/fungal dark matter; compare dark matter.
Senses: glosses: A fungus that is only known from the detection of its fungal DNA signature in environmental DNA (“eDNA”) sampling.
Related terms: biological dark matter
marine dark matter
microbial dark matter
black fungus
dark matter
wood-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-ears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wood ear.
black fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black funguses
form: black fungi
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mucormycosis.
synonyms: word: mucormycosis
glosses: A fungus of order Sphaeriales.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: wood ear
word: woodear
word: tree-ear
word: tree ear
word: wood jellyfish
word: tree jellyfish
word: wood-ear fungus
word: wood ear fungus
word: woodear fungus
word: tree-ear fungus
word: tree ear fungus
word: wood jellyfish fungus
word: tree jellyfish fungus
word: wood-ear mushroom
word: wood ear mushroom
word: woodear mushroom
word: tree-ear mushroom
word: tree ear mushroom
word: wood jellyfish mushroom
word: tree jellyfish mushroom
word: wood-ear
glosses: Synonym of wood-ear.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: dark cep
word: black cep
word: bronze cep
word: dark bolette
word: black bolette
word: bronze bolette
word: queen bolette
word: bronze bolete
extra: Boletus aereus
glosses: Synonym of bronze bolete (Boletus aereus).
glosses: Synonym of black yeast.
synonyms: word: black yeast
Related terms: taxonomic: Alphitobius laevigatus
word: black fungus beetle
taxonomic: Metalectra tantillus
word: black fungus moth
taxonomic: Asindulum nigrum
word: black fungus gnat
word: dark fungus
viper's bugloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the old Leech Books gives the formula for a salve against the "elfin race and nocturnal goblin visitors." Fourteen herbs, including wormwood, viper's bugloss and fennel, were first gathered.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 257:
glosses: Any plant of species Echium vulgare, family Boraginaceae, native to most of Europe and western and central Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere.
expressions of interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expression of interest.
throw an ant into a sty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws an ant into a sty
form: throwing an ant into a sty
form: threw an ant into a sty
form: thrown an ant into a sty
Senses: glosses: To cause confusion.
autoexpanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Execute the downloaded file (ExBPAUpdate.exe); it's an autoexpanding Zip file and will create a set of folders for the supported language-specific versions.
ref: 2006, Kieran McCorry, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Deployment and Migration SP1 and SP2, page 387:
text: In the next chapter you will learn techniques for creating autoexpanding tables using range names.
ref: 2014, Neale Blackwood, Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants, page 164:
text: Foam cuffs are not commonly used; they contain autoexpanding foam composed of polyurethane foam covered by a silicone sheath, which conforms to the patient's airway shape.
ref: 2018, Terence Pires de Farias, Tracheostomy: A Surgical Guide, page 34:
glosses: That expands automatically.
autoexposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoexpose
autoexposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoexpose
autoexposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoexpose
Lizeka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of South African usage.
BEMU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BEMUs
Senses: examples: text: With its Networker Class 165 diesel multiple units […] now 30 years old, Chiltern issued two procurement notices in September 2022 for "between 30 and 70 existing or converted BEMUs" with a circa £200m contract value. A second notice, also for 30-70 units, called for new BEMUs with a circa £400m contract value.
ref: 2023 August 23, Mel Holley, “Network News: ... while Chiltern Railways targets low-emissions stock”, in RAIL, number 990, page 7:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of battery-electric multiple unit.
BEMUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BEMU.
statement of accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statement of accountses
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: account statement
battery electric multiple unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battery electric multiple units
form: battery-electric multiple unit
form: BEMU
Senses: examples: text: "The subject of this [2023] procurement notice does not include full BEMUs. Chiltern is now seeking offers for other low-emissions solutions as a possible alternative or in addition to full battery electric multiple units."
ref: 2023 August 23, Mel Holley, “Network News: ... while Chiltern Railways targets low-emissions stock”, in RAIL, number 990, page 7:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An electrically driven multiple unit or railcar whose energy is derived from rechargeable batteries driving the traction motors.
witches' thimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
glosses: The foxglove.
love philtre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love philtres
Senses: examples: text: Hecate [...] knew the properties of every herb, as would be supposed, since she relied upon them for concocting poisonous doses, love philtres, and potions to produce dreams that would reveal the future.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
text: Perch: In the head of this fish there are small stones that sorceresses used in concocting love-philtres.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 180:
glosses: love potion
love philtres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love philtre
battery electric multiple units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battery electric multiple unit.
ICROA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance.
newlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of newly: more newly
Isanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Isan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Isan (“relating to Isan or its people or language”).
synonyms: word: Isan
extra: relating to Isan or its people or language
fairies' horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairies' horses
Senses: examples: text: As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:
glosses: ragweed
fairies' horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairies' horse
ultra-conservative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultra-conservative
form: most ultra-conservative
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ultraconservative.
helluvan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of helluva; used before a vowel sound.
start in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts in
form: starting in
form: started in
form: started in
Senses: examples: text: When she starts in about her teas, she just won't stop for hours!
synonyms: start out
glosses: To begin (to do something); to get started.
moon-beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon-beams
Senses: examples: text: The silence of the place; the pale waves of the Tiber, the moon-beams, which shed their mild radiance upon the statues placed on the bridge, and gave to those statues the appearance of white spectres, steadfastly regarding the current of the waters, and that of time, which no longer concerned them; […]
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book II. Corinna at the Capitol.] Chap[ter] IV.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: Were there no stockings of Zetland wool soft enough for these pretty feet and ancles, that glance so white in the moon-beam?
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in The Pirate. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 248:
text: Andersen (Orient. Reise-Beschreib. i. 8) refers to an effect, which he says is common, and which he had often seen, of sleeping in the moon-beams, of making the neck stiff, so that it could not be turned from side to side as before.
ref: 1868, Albert Barnes, Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, on the Book of Psalms, volume III, London: […] Edward Knight, […]; sold by Hamilton, Adams, & Co., […], page 257:
glosses: Archaic form of moonbeam.
moon beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon beams
Senses: examples: text: Our ships careering through and upon the heaving billows, dashing beds of snowy foam far around, and leaving a broad wake behind, as they sank and rose with the swellings of the sea, and then plunged again furiously on their way—the bright gleaming in the moon beams of the little sail out, while the naked spars above, in the deep rolls of the vessel, swept widely and swiftly in black and clearly defined lines against the sky—all combined in forming a glorious sight for the eye of an enthusiast; […]
ref: 1831, C[harles] S[amuel] Stewart, “Letter III. Occupation and Amusements.”, in A Visit to the South Seas, in the U. S. Ship Vincennes, During the Years 1829 and 1830; with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, volume I, New York, N.Y.: John P. Haven, […], page 27:
text: He said it was a most lovely thing to watch this silver dance, lit by the moon beams and played for by a little barefoot Lewis boy who had borrowed his grandfather’s fiddle and slipped away to the sea.
ref: 1966, Otta F[lora] Swire, The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends, Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd, page 51:
text: Comes Winter again, with its white, foggy shroud, as the sun presses low, mantled heavy with cloud, but on mountain tops bare, I oft sense your grace, shadows silver, in silence, lit by moon beams, your face.
ref: 2013, Allan Sankirtan, “My Sweet Summer Muse”, in The Dreams of Our Dreaming, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of moonbeam.
moon beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon beam
moon-beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon-beam
pay-per-click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay per click
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: word: PPC
glosses: An online advertising model in which the advertiser pays the publisher (typically a search engine or website owner) whenever the ad is clicked by a user.
book on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: books on
form: booking on
form: booked on
form: booked on
Senses: examples: text: Having woken at 0900 the previous morning, he had not slept during the day and had already been awake for 11 hours when he booked on.
ref: 2023 August 23, “Network News: RAIB cites driver fatigue as factor in 28mph collision”, in RAIL, number 990, page 12:
glosses: To register (for duty).
booked on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of book on.
worlds of difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world of difference
Marxite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Marx + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: At recent Marxite conventions, evidence of the growing power of the more conservatively rational element attracted general attention, and was hailed with the utmost of gratification by all political parties opposed to violent, revolutionary changes in the status quo.
ref: 1903 August 13, James Neilson Woods, “The Poor Men’s Trust”, in William Marion Reedy, editor, The Mirror, volume 13, number 27, Saint Louis, Mo., →OCLC, page 5:
text: Herr Bebel’s book, Woman, is an ample statement of the evils of woman’s lot under the existing régime, but the few pages upon the future of woman with which he concludes are eloquent of the jejune insufficiency of the Marxite outlook in this direction.
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Revolutionary Socialism” (chapter XI), in New Worlds for Old, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 233:
text: High taxation of necessities ground down the labourer; high protection made his bread dear, and when he adopted in self-defence the Marxite doctrines of class-war the only reply of the Government was to strike at him in blind terror.
ref: 1928, Janet Trevelyan [Printed as "Mrs. G. M. Trevelyan"], “Modern Italy” (chapter X), in A history of Italy, London: Ernest Benn Limited, →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: Synonym of Marxist.
synonyms: word: Marxist
Marxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marxites
Etymology: From Marx + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hyndman, the leader of one party in the Federation, was, and still is, a Marxite, and to him the whole body of Marx’s doctrine is the Socialist orthodoxy.
ref: 1914, A[arthur] Clutton-Brock, “Morris as a Socialist” (chapter VIII), in William Morris: His Work and Influence, London: Williams and Norgate, →OCLC, page 153; republished New York: H[enry] Holt and company, 1914:
text: But it must immediately be added, as a considerable set-off, that the average Marxite never understands rent, and confuses employers with capitalists and profits with interest in a way which the modest disciples of General Walker despise.
ref: 1930, Bernard Shaw, “Karl Marx and “Das Kapital” [First Notice]” (chapter V), in Bernard Shaw & Karl Marx, A Symposium, 1884-1889, New York, Printed for Random House by R. W. Ellis: The Georgian Press, →OCLC, page 116:
text: I have been accused of being a Communist, a left-winger, a Muscovite, a Marxite, in advocating this sort of thing. I have been accused of all those things. Evidently, we have not been able to get the idea over to the American people.
ref: 1953, Committee on Banking and Currency, quoting The Chairman (Homer E. Capehart), “Monday, March 23, 1953”, in Standby Economic Controls: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, 83d Congress, 1st Session, on S. 753, a Bill to Provide Standby Economic Controls, and S. 1081, a Bill to Provide Authority for Temporary Economic Controls, volume 2, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 721:
glosses: Synonym of Marxist.
synonyms: word: Marxist
Related terms: Marx
Marxian
marxisant
Marxism
Marxoid
Marxites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This gave the Marxites control, and to make their victory more lasting the headquarters were removed from London to New York.
ref: 1900, Frederic Faries Heath, “A Brief History of Socialism in America”, in Social Democracy Red Book, Terre Haute: Debs Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 32:
text: Those who have been anticipating all the Beatitudes when the Marxites do everything for everybody at the expense of everybody else must have been pained at the proceedings of the Socialist Congress at Magdeburg as reported yesterday.
ref: 1910 September 23, “A Fatal Blow at Socialism”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2023, page 12:
glosses: plural of Marxite