cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dive-under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dive-unders
Senses: examples: text: Services from Heathrow would use the existing Byfleet Junction, enabling trains to join the slow line of the South Western Main Line to Woking. The junction already has a dive-under.
ref: 2019 November 20, “Government delays Heathrow rail to consider other modes”, in Rail, page 25:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway junction where at least one track passes under other lines instead of crossing them on the same level, in order to avoid conflicting movements; an underpass.
extravenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extravenate
extravenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extravenate
extravenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extravenate
Cisplatina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Cisplatina.
Senses: glosses: The former Cisplatina Province or Cisplatine Province (Província Cisplatina), a province on this side of the River Plate (from the Brazilian perspective); it existed in the 1820s and was a focus of the Cisplatine War but then became part of what is now Uruguay.
eats something up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat something up
eating something up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat something up
ate something up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat something up
eaten something up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat something up
one night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the use of mercury compounds in the treatment of venereal diseases before the discovery of antibiotics.
Senses: examples: text: An eminent physiologist, in the bad old days when Salvarsan and certain other Hg compounds were the only known remedy for venereal diseases, is said to have warned his students that 'One night with Venus may mean a lifetime with Mercury'.
ref: 1976, Jenifer M. Baker, Marine ecology and oil pollution, page 13:
text: Vincent had opted for the mercury treatment, while Theo, afraid of the time involved ("One night with Venus, a lifetime with mercury')...
ref: 1995, Claire Cooperstein, Johanna: A Novel of the Van Gogh Family, page 112:
text: Early treatments with metals (arsenic, bismuth, mercury) led to the cynical summary of syphilitic infection as 'one night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury'.
ref: 1995, J. H. L. Playfair, Infection and immunity, page 146:
text: Many Welsh people had cause to regret the fact that, for one night of bliss with Venus, they spent a lifetime of regret with Mercury.
ref: 2005, Russell Davies, Hope and Heartbreak, page 311:
text: But he knew better than to get his hopes up. As the old saying went: one night in Venus and a lifetime of Mercury.
ref: 2012, Harold Anderson, Searching for Che, page 114:
glosses: A single sexual encounter can lead to a lifetime of disease and treatment.
dive-unders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dive-under
dropcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropcakes
Senses: examples: text: One announces that his private physician has put him on a diet, and warned him that the next dropcake he eats would kill him.
ref: 1971, The New York Times Theater Reviews - Volume 1:
text: Out fell my dropcake and tumbled into the water.
ref: 1976, Virginia Florey, An Indescribable Joy:
text: There it was, a green chunk the size of a dropcake, wrapped in a pink tissue.
ref: 2012, Charlotte MacLeod, The Wrong Rite:
glosses: Alternative form of drop cake.
dropcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropcake
drop-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-cakes
Senses: examples: text: I stood in despair contemplating my ten outstretched fingers, daubed and draped with embryo drop-cake, and looking for all the world like web-feet.
ref: 1872, Gail Hamilton, Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, page 18:
text: This should be of the consistency of a thoroughly medium stiff drop-cake.
ref: 1946, William E. Broeg, Roll & Hot Breads Make-up, page 84:
text: Beat to the consistency of drop-cake, and drop a tablespoonful for each biscuit on a buttered pan.
ref: 2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?:
glosses: Alternative form of drop cake.
drop-cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-cake
drop cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop cakes
form: dropcake
form: drop-cake
Etymology: From the way the dough is dropped onto cooking sheets for baking.
Senses: examples: text: For this reason, contrary to the effect in biscuits, the addition of more moisture to a drop cake results in a flatter cake.
ref: 1922, Washington Platt, The Technical Side of Biscuit & Cake Baking, page 20:
text: Drop cakes require a little more time than cookies.
ref: 1924, Woman's Institute Library of Cookery:
text: He sees drop cake and his face lights up.
ref: 1929, Joseph Carl McMullen, The Automatic Butler: A Farce in Three Acts, page 64:
glosses: A baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.
drop cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop cake
createdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From created + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of the Quran, affirmed the contrary – its uncreatedness – and made this a fundamental tenet of faith, as a way of asserting the superiority of the Quran to all human reasoning and knowledge.
ref: 2002, Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: The state, quality or measure of being created.
Perry Barr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0691).
Wymondham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndəm/
/ˈwaɪməndəm/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1101).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Wymondham and Edmondthorpe Parish Council) in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK8518).
Derived terms: South Wymondham
PVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PV
Lingwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lingwoods
Etymology: From either Old Norse lyng (“heather”) or Old English hlinc (“hill, slope, ridge, bank”) + wudu (“wood”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Lingwood and Burlingham parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3608).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Lingwood and Burlingham
Strumpshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG3507).
multimurders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimurder
fall up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls up
form: falling up
form: fell up
form: fallen up
Senses: examples: text: In fact, many of their winning mantras essentially describe the notion of falling up: "I've failed over and over again in my life," Jordan once said, "and that is why I succeed."
ref: 2011, Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage:
text: But with the gospel narrative, God provided a remedy whereby an imperfect creature can “fall up” to God's forgiveness
ref: 2012, James W. Geiger, Christianity and the Outsider:
text: When I experienced my career-ending injury, I eventually “fell up” and landed in an exciting new career in health care.
ref: 2014, Chris Van Gorder, The Front-Line Leader:
glosses: To benefit in the long run from what seems initially to be a setback.
examples: text: A balloon full of hydrogen "falls up" in obedience to the Law of Gravity
ref: 2009, Randall Garrett, The Highest Treason:
text: Not many people fall up the stairs, most accidents are on the way down!
ref: 2013, Sharon Marks, TBI - Our Never Ending Journey:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, up.
Related terms: fail upwards
falls up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall up
falling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall up
fell up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall up
fallen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall up
confusedlie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confusedlie
form: most confusedlie
Senses: examples: text: Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson] they say 's turned Epigrammatist, / Soe think not I, believe it they that list. / Peruse his booke, thou shalt not find a dram / Of witt befitting a true Epigram. / Perhaps some scraps of play-bookes thou maist see, / Collected heer & there confusedlie, / Which piece his broken stuffe; if thou but note, / Iust like soe many patches on a cote.
ref: 1614–1616, R. C., “Scribimus indocti doctique epigrammata passim”, in J[oseph] M[eadows] Cowper, editor, The Times’ Whistle: Or A Newe Daunce of Seven Satires, and Other Poems: … Now First Edited from MS. Y. 8. 3. in the Library of Canterbury Cathedral; […], London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC, part II (Certaine Poems, Comprising Things Naturall, Morrall, & Theologicall), page 132, lines 1–7:
text: Now ye have the Kingis letter and this ſupplicatioun both coppeit; read and conſidder both the ane and the uther, with the Counſallis anſuer ſent to the ſaid ſupplicatioun, quhilk is ſo ſtrangelie and confuſedlie ſet down that I can not wnderſtand the ſamen perfectlie weill.
ref: 1642, John Spalding, edited by James Skene, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England, from M.DC.XXIV. to M.DC.XLV. … In Two Volumes (Publications; no. 25), volume II, printed at Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club; printed by Ballantyne and Co., published 1829, page 51:
text: After the prayer, Mr. Byfield the ſcribe, reads the propoſition and the Scriptures, whereupon the Aſſemblie debates in a moſt grave and orderlie way. No man is called up to ſpeak; bot who ſtands up of his own accord, he ſpeaks ſo long as he will without interruption. If two or three ſtand up at once, then the divines confuſedlie calls on his name whom they deſyre to hear firſt: On whom the loudeſt and manieſt voices calls, he ſpeaks.
ref: 1643 December 17, R. Baylie [i.e., Robert Baillie], “[Letter to Mr. William Spang, 7 December 1643 [Julian calendar]]”, in The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, A.M. Principal of the University of Glasgow. M.DC.XXXVII.–M.DC.LXII. In Three Volumes (Publications; no. 73), volume II, Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club; [printed by Alexander Lawrie & Co. […]], published 1841, →OCLC, pages 108–109:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of confusedly.
PAW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PAWs
Senses: synonyms: PAW welding
glosses: Abbreviation of plasma arc welding (an arc welding technology).
synonyms: PAW weld
glosses: Abbreviation of plasma arc weld (a weld created with the PAW process).
Hypernyms: sense: PAW welding
english: arc welding
translation: arc welding
word: AW
Hyponyms: english: plasma tungsten arc welding
translation: plasma tungsten arc welding
word: PTAW
english: keyhole plasma arc welding
translation: keyhole plasma arc welding
word: K-PAW
word: keyhole PAW
word: micro-PAW
Coordinate terms: word: K-TIG welding
word: K-TIG
word: keyhole TIG welding
word: P-TIG welding
word: P-TIG
word: pulsed TIG welding
word: TIG welding
word: TIG
word: tungsten inert gas welding
english: gas tungsten arc welding
translation: gas tungsten arc welding
word: GTAW
word: MIG welding
word: MIG
word: metal inert gas welding
word: MAG welding
word: MAG
word: metal active gas welding
english: glass metal arc welding
translation: glass metal arc welding
word: GMAW
english: manual metal arc welding
translation: manual metal arc welding
word: MMAW
english: metal cored arc welding
translation: metal cored arc welding
word: MCAW
english: flux cored arc welding
translation: flux cored arc welding
word: FCAW
sargassoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sargasso
ilioischial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + ischial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ilioischiac
ilioischiatic
glosses: Relating to, or joining, the ilium and the ischium.
iminoarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The derivative of arginine 5-(diaminomethylideneamino)-2-iminopentanoic acid
immunotherapeutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immuno- + therapeutically.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: In an immunotherapeutic manner
immunounit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunounits
Etymology: From immuno- + unit.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A measure of the amount of antibodies present in a sample
immunounits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunounit
immunovirotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunovirotherapies
Etymology: From immuno- + virotherapy.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of immunotherapy and virotherapy
infodemiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to infodemiology
infodemiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Infodemiology can also be used to map information distribution and use patterns which can reveal bottlenecks in information flow.
ref: 2014, Tom Kwanya, Christine Stilwell, Peter Underwood -, Library 3.0: Intelligent Libraries and Apomediation, page 131:
text: Looking at the field of infodemiology today, one can differentiate between the following approaches; epidemiological surveillance based on: * ‘professional’, public information online (e.g. Health Map, Global Public Health Intelligence Network) * explicit, conscious information provided by users and affected individuals (e.g. Flu Near You, Grippeweb) * implicit information provided (mainly) unconsciously by users (e.g. Google Flu Trends; Yahoo research/Polgreen et al. 2008)
ref: 2016, Annika Richterich, “Using Transactional Big Data for Epidemiological Surveillance: Google Flu Trends and Ethical Implications of 'Infodemiology'”, in Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi, editors, The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data, page 49:
text: The infodemiology method was used to identify investigative reports and news stories dealing with the outbreak that appeared on authoritative media outlets worldwide.
ref: 2019, Ronald M. Baecker, Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives, page 105:
glosses: A form of epidemiology in which data is obtained via the Internet
Related terms: infodemiological
infracarinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + carinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath a carina
insulinotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of insulinotropic.
interchelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + chelation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: intermolecular chelation
interhexamer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + hexamer.
Senses: glosses: Between hexamers (typically of a viral capsid)
intersubclade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + subclade.
Senses: glosses: Between subclades
intertumorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inter- + tumorally.
Senses: glosses: In an intertumoral manner
intracaldera
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + caldera.
Senses: glosses: Within a caldera
isoimidazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoimidazoles
Etymology: From iso- + imidazole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of imidazole in which a double bond is transferred from the ring to form a >C=NH or similar group
wilful homicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilful homicides
Etymology: Calque of Maltese omiċidju volontarju.
Senses: examples: text: 211. (1) Whosoever shall be guilty of wilful homicide shall be punished with imprisonment for life. (2) A person shall be guilty of wilful homicide if, maliciously, with intent to kill another person or to put the life of such other person in manifest jeopardy, he causes the death of such other person.
ref: 2019, Criminal Code of the Republic of Malta (English version), article 211, subarticles 1 and 2
topics: law
glosses: murder; defined similarly as in English law
inwardest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inward + -est.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of inward: most inward
in lame man's terms
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of in layman's terms.
bodyshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body shop
goes over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go over
went over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go over
Oulton Broad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake (known as a broad) near Lowestoft in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England.
glosses: A suburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk, to the south of the broad (OS grid ref TM5292)
Oulton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oultons
Etymology: Various origins:
* The hamlet in Cumbria derives from the Old English personal name *Wulfa + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* The village in Norfolk derives from the Old Norse personal name Ouðulf + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* The village in West Yorkshire derives from Old English eald (“old”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Compare Olton, Outen.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY2450).
glosses: A village and civil parish of Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1328).
glosses: A hamlet near Norbury, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS, grid ref SJ7822).
glosses: A village near Stone in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9135).
glosses: A suburb of Lowestoft, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM5294).
glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3628).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Oulton Broad
Berkeley Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement, by the site of a former railway station, in Stinchcombe parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7200).
Iambe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάμβη (Iámbē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Thracian woman, daughter of Pan and Echo, granddaughter of Hermes.
Knaresborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE3557).
Doniford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Williton parish, West Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST0842).
Awsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4844).
Bricket Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in St Stephen parish, St Albans district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1302).
Dorridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1775).
Arch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Archibald or Archie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Archibald or Archie.
Higham Ferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP9668).
midcore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The nature of the platforms is not the only thing that has change. The gamers themselves are now diverse. The hardcore gamer is now joined by the midcore gamer who wants a fuller experience, but still casual, and the casual games gamer ...
ref: 2016, Michele Willson, Tama Leaver, Social, Casual and Mobile Games: The Changing Gaming Landscape, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
glosses: In between hardcore and softcore; intermediate.
Besses o' th' Barn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8105).
Blackfriars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area within the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3180).
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Blackfriars, Oxford.
Denmark Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and thoroughfare of London in the borough of Southwark and borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3276).
Sargassos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sargasso
aurora sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French sauce aurore, named from its reddish colour.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of creamy tomato sauce.
altarware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From altar + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: During this same period the friary was accused of pawning its precious altarware when the house treasury was short of funds.
ref: 1972, PL Nyhus, “The Observant reform movement in southern Germany”, in Franciscan Studies, volume 32:
text: The workshop he ran would have taken in commissions for everything from candlesticks, church furniture (altarware, tracery and bronze plaques) wedding gifts and anything else that required the skills of a craftsman in metal.
ref: 1987, Geoff Parr, Syllogisms: drawing upon fantasy and function:
text: It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli
ref: 1994 March, R Ousterhout, “Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, an Annotated Bibliography and Historiography by W. Eugene Kleinbauer”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 53, number 1:
glosses: Religious items made from precious metals such as chalices and patens, that are used on an altar during eucharist.
obscurationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obscuration + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policy of obscuration.
Attleborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈætəlbəɹə/
/ˈætəlbɹə/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0495).
glosses: A suburb of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3790).
Derived terms: North Attleborough
Related terms: Attleboro
seat rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seat rails
Senses: glosses: A crosspiece between the legs and below the seat of a chair or similar furniture.
seat rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seat rail
contemplationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contemplation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A doctrine of contemplation.
Related terms: contemplationist
protamoeba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protamoebas
form: protamoebae
Senses: glosses: A member of the Protamoebae.
protamoebae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protamoeba
protamoebas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protamoeba
Hafezian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hafezian
form: most Hafezian
Etymology: From Hafez + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Hafez (1315-1390), Persian poet.
contemplationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contemplationists
Etymology: From contemplation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of contemplationism.
contemplationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contemplationist
church of ease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churches of ease
Senses: examples: text: Very probable it is, on the other hand, that if the distinction of parishes was began before this time, it had hitherto made but a little progress; and that those few churches which had been erected in towns and villages, were chapels or churches of ease to the mother churches of the diocese rather than proper parish churches: it is probable that they had not fixed and settled pastors in them, but were generally supplied from those collegiate societies which at this time passed under the general name of monasteries; and that these foundations so exhausted the charity of the age as to stop the progress of parochial institutions, and thereby obstruct the propagation and interest of religion.
ref: 1756, The Ecclesiastical History Of England To The Eighteenth Century, page 141:
text: It contains 17 towns, 4 market towns, 465 villages, 156 Roman Catholic churches and 119 churches of ease, 40 Protestant and 5 churches of ease, 3 free churches, 211 Roman Catholic chapels, and 34 synagogues.
ref: 1837, Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume ?, page ?:
text: Another report of about the same date, made by several of the Lancashire clergy, confirms this account; they state that Popish fasts and festivals were everywhere observed, and that "crosses in the streets and waies, devoutly garnished, were pletiful, and that wakes, ale, greenes, May games, rushbearings, bearbaits, doveales, etc.," were all exercised on the Sabbath, and that the number of those who came to church many do more harm than good by their "crossinge and knockinges of theire breste and sometimes with beads closely handled" (i.e. partly concealed) and that at marriages they brought "the parties to and from churche with piping, and spend the whole Sabbothe in daunsinge,” and that the churches generally were in a ruinous condition, being “unrepaired and unfurnished,” whilst the “churches of ease (which were three times as many as the parish churches)" were many of them without curates, and in consequence were growing into "utter ruin and desolation."
ref: 2018, Henry Fishwick, A History of Lancashire:
glosses: Synonym of chapel of ease.
synonyms: word: chapel of ease
churches of ease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church of ease
Birkhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3534).
glosses: A location with a railway station in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9678).
Saltcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2441).
glosses: A location with a ruined castle near Gullane, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4682).
glosses: A hamlet in Drigg and Carleton parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref SD0797).
glosses: A town and rural municipality in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
Related terms: Salt Coates
bearbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearbaits
form: bear-bait
form: bear bait
Etymology: From bear + bait.
Senses: examples: text: Could any thing afford a stronger contrast to the grave and certainly severe study to which Elizabeth had habituated herself, than the vain and fantastic puerility of many of her recreations and habits, the unintellectual brutality of the bearbaits which she admired, or the gaudy and glittering pageants in which she delighted?
ref: 1840, Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret EGERTON (Countess of Wilton.), The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, page 287:
text: Congleton had a reputation for bearbaiting and went to some lengths to protect it, sending messengers to Knutsford and Bunbury to ensure that the bearwards got to the Congleton bearbait (see pp 639, 653).
ref: 2007, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills, Cheshire Including Chester, page lxxv:
text: A witness to a bearbait in 1575 intriguingly describes the animal's struggle like a kind of dance, who "if he were ta'en once, then by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing, and tumbling, he would work and wind himself loose from them."
ref: 2014, Richard Preiss, Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre, page 164:
glosses: An instance of bearbaiting.
examples: text: I went first this morning to the carcass of the bison we had killed for bearbait ; I found a bear had been there, and had already had his breakfast.
ref: 1940, Annals of Wyoming - Volume 12, page 97:
text: Even with the use of permits and other restrictions, baiting is still widely practiced, as shown by the following quote from T.V. Russell, Supervisor of Shoshone National Forest: "Enclosed is a copy of the bearbait permit we have been issuing on the Shoshone National Forest for the past two years. We have a general guideline that baits must be 2½-3 miles apart.
ref: 1974, Defenders of Wildlife -, Defenders of Wildlife News - Volume 49, page 5:
text: Horse patrols with Wyoming Game and Fish Department wardens located three illegal bearbait sites; two were located in ldaho and one barely into Wyoming.
ref: 1976, Endangered Species Technical Bulletin Vol. 1 No.1, page 14:
glosses: Bait used to lure bears.
examples: text: The worst ones for straying, curiously enough, were three broken-down old “bearbaits,” which went by themselves, as is generally the case with the cast-off horses of a herd.
ref: 1892, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 44, page 713:
text: Listen you ol' chunk of bearbait, you get ornery with me and I'll sic Mollie on you again.
ref: 1996, Matt Braun, Cimarron Jordan, page 89:
glosses: A person or animal that is not very useful or respected.
bearbait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bearbaits
form: bearbaiting
form: bearbaited
form: bearbaited
form: bear-bait
form: bear bait
Etymology: From bear + bait.
Senses: examples: text: Creditors, snarling, hound him on from without; mocked Hopes, lost Labours, bearbait him from within: to these torments his fixed-idea keeps him chained.
ref: 1857, Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, page 25:
text: He used to fight the larger negro boys when they would bearbait dogs by tying tin cans to their tails.
ref: 1937, Francois De la Roche, Mississippi Mood, page 129:
text: Talk show hosts bearbaited them, photo editors published unflattering, even demeaning pictures, and the print media ridiculed their intelligence, education, hair, clothing, and personal relationship—rather than addressing the issues.
ref: 2003, Bryan F. Le Beau, The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, page 245:
text: That was why they bearbaited him in the first place—they hoped for some uncivilized response they could further ridicule.
ref: 2016, Grace Callaway, Mayhem in Mayfair Quartet:
glosses: To torment or provoke.
bearbaits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearbait
bearbaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bearbait
bearbaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bearbait
North Ayrshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 formed in 1996, with its headquarters in Irvine. It includes the Isle of Arran.
bear baits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bear bait
bear-bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear-baits
Senses: examples: text: He describes another entertainment as often following the bear-bait, that of mercilessly whipping a blinded bear by five or six men standing circularly with whips; the bear unable to escape because of his chain, defended himself with all his force, throwing down all that came within his reach, tearing the whips out of their hands, and breaking them.
ref: 1856, John Harland, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall:
text: A bear-bait was one of the recreations offered to Elizabeth at Kenilworth, and in the Earl of Northumberland's Household Book we read of 20s. for his bear-ward.
ref: 1885, Samuel Maunder, Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, The Treasury of Natural History, page 53:
text: This freedom of speech in a holy place is less to be wondered at when it is known that the good rector and a party from the rectory usually witnessed the bear-bait from the churchyard adjoining the village green.
ref: 1892, Ernest Axon, Bygone Lancashire, page 180:
glosses: Alternative form of bearbait.
bear-bait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bear-baits
form: bear-baiting
form: bear-baited
form: bear-baited
Senses: examples: text: He also had flu, complained that the mysterious marking of his manuscripts had begun again and concluded: 'My senses tell me that the same hand which made Birmingham impossible and bear-baited me wherever I went, is responsible for my present situation.'
ref: 1976, Kenneth Eastaugh, Havergal Brian: the making of a composer, page 238:
text: Welles later provided a lively but quite fanciful account of how he bear-baited Hemingway:
ref: 1985, Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway, a biography, page 313:
text: Interest Rate Observer, and a debunker of U.S. stocks since the Dow was at 2,000, has appeared on Rukeyser's TV show, where he gets bear-baited: "World's going to hell again, eh, Jim?"
ref: 2000, John Rothchild, The Bear Book: Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of bearbait.
bear-baits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bear-bait
bear-baits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bear-bait
bear-baited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bear-bait
bear-ward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear-wards
Senses: examples: text: The ruder amusements of the age lost their attractions; and the royal bear-ward of Queen Elizabeth lodged a formal complaint at the feet of her majesty, that the play-houses had seduced the audience from his periodical bear-baitings!
ref: 1828, Sir Walter Scott, Essays: Volume 2: The Drama:
glosses: Alternative form of bearward.
bear-wards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bear-ward
cost-saving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cost saving
Senses: examples: text: Wales: Bangor: The recently restored station has had its two notable chimney stacks reinstated thanks to financial support from the Railway Heritage Trust. They had been removed in the 1980s as a cost-saving exercise.
ref: 2019 November 20, “Regional News”, in Rail, page 29:
glosses: Relating to a reduction in expenditure.
virginality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being virginal; purity and innocence.
drafthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drafthouses
Etymology: From draft + house.
Senses: examples: text: Going to Tiffany's on Young Circle in Hollywood for the 3-for-1's, open 'til 3 AM, now a cinema and drafthouse.
ref: 2000, Michael Ketover, How to Be a Better Birder: Travel Stories, page 147:
text: Music and singing, shouts and laughter came from many of the buildings they passed—inns and drafthouses and restaurants alive with the lives of ordinary people who had toiled all day in the sun.
ref: 2007, Christopher Golden, The Borderkind:
text: As for a winery effect on the Roseburg drafthouse (besides selling draft wine), he usually has a wine barrel-aged number available in a cask-conditioned firkin, like the red wine-aged Stock Ale I really dug.
ref: 2014, Brian Yaeger, Oregon Breweries, page 351:
glosses: A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
drafthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drafthouse
draft house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draft houses
Senses: examples: text: It also helped that the festival's main venue was the 250-seat Enzian Theater, an endearing hybrid of cinema, draft house and cappuccino art venue that makes sipping a beer while watching the story of a folksinging lesbian Tupperware lady (Lisa Udelson's Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic) seem perfectly natural.
ref: 2001, Filmmaker - Volumes 9-11, page 90:
text: Sandra Roeder said she lost at least a couple thousand dollars in fees when Butera didn't submit her paperwork for a new draft house she is opening and when the company didn't take care of the money owed to the city and county by her current bar.
ref: 2006, Indiana Beverage Journal - Volume 62, Issue 2, page 210:
text: Remember when there used to be a movie theater there. A draft house. The place that would sell you beer when you were only fifteen years old.
ref: 2008, Sean Carswell, Train Wreck Girl: A Novel:
glosses: Alternative form of drafthouse.
draft houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draft house
Tywyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and community with a town council in southern Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5800).
doots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doot
doots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doot
St Mellons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the city and county of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST2381).
Kait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /keɪt/
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Kaitlyn.
glosses: A village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Lakenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Norwich, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2307).
Polmadie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mainly industrial area in Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5962).
fingersmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡə(ˌ)smɪθ/
ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌsmɪθ/
Forms: form: fingersmiths
form: finger-smith
Etymology: From finger + smith.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you call yourself, then?"
"Me? I'm a fingersmith. I'm a professional fingersmith." He spoke the words solemnly and proudly, as though he were telling me he was the President of the Royal College of Surgeons or the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"I've never heard that word before," I said. "Did you invent it?"
"Of course I didn't invent it," he replied. "It's the name given to them who's risen to the very top of the profession. You've 'eard of a goldsmith and a silversmith, for instance. They're experts with gold and silver. I'm an expert with my fingers, so I'm a fingersmith."
"It must be an interesting job."
"It's a marvellous job," he answered. "It's lovely."
"And that's why you go to the races?"
"Race meetings is easy meat," he said. "You just stand around after the race, watchin' for the lucky ones to queue up and draw their money. And when you see someone collectin' a big bundle of notes, you simply follows after 'im and 'elps yourself.
ref: 1977, Roald Dahl, The Hitch-Hiker, Atlantic Monthly:
text: Mr Ibbs was found to have handled stolen goods: he was sent to Pentonville. Of course, he knew many of the men in there, and might be supposed to have had an easy time among them—except that, here was a funny thing: the fingersmiths and cracksmen who had been so grateful to get an extra shilling from him on the outside, now quite turned against him; and I think his time was very miserable.
ref: 2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 17, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 3, page 510:
glosses: pickpocket
glosses: midwife
hyperenhances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperenhance
hypoenhancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One would expect the area of hypoenhancement on first-pass imaging to be larger than that of hyperenhancement on delayed contrast-enhanced imaging.
ref: 2007, Applied Radiology, page 14:
text: Contrast-enhanced CT scans are commonly performed for the evaluation of symptoms suggestive of acute pulmonary embolism or aortic dissection but can incidentally detect areas of myocardial hypoenhancement that could trigger consideration of an acute MI.
ref: 2010, Christopher M. Kramer, Multimodality Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine, page 53:
text: Preoperatively, 611 segments (21%) had abnormal regional function, whereas 421 segments (14%) showed evidence of hypoenhancement.
ref: 2018, Warren J. Manning, Dudley J. Pennell, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance:
topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: The quality of showing poor enhancement; dimness or darkness in an image.
hyperenhancements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperenhancement
hypoenhance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypoenhances
form: hypoenhancing
form: hypoenhanced
form: hypoenhanced
Etymology: From hypo- + enhance.
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of subtle perilesional enhancement, the metastases hypoenhance relative to liver in all phases.
ref: 2015, Angela D. Levy, Koenraad J. Mortele, Benjamin M. Yeh, Gastrointestinal Imaging, page 424:
text: The enhancement characteristics of a PNET on CT may also have prognostic value, as lesions that hypoenhance on CT scan tend to have worse overall survival than lesions that are isoenhancing or hyperenhancing (5-year survival 54% vs 89% vs 93%).
ref: 2016, Nuzhat A. Ahmad, Management of Pancreatic Diseases:
text: Most (78%) lesions overall hypoenhance compared with background parenchyma.
ref: 2019, Jason M. Wagner, Ultrasound:
glosses: To produce hypoenhancement
hypoenhances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypoenhance
hypoenhancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypoenhance
isoenhancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + enhancement.
Senses: examples: text: This age correction was calculated by linearly interpolating the offsets perpendicular to isoenhancement lines between models with ages of 3, 8, and 15 Gyr.
ref: 2004, Justin H. Howell, Star Formation Histories of Nearby Elliptical Galaxies, page 19:
text: This technique enabled us to probe the direct interactions of the permeation enhancers with the rate-limiting domains of the SC and the partitioning enhancement of permeants in the intercellular lipids under isoenhancement conditions.
ref: 2004, Dissertation Abstracts International:
glosses: The quality of having the same level of enhancement.
examples: text: ...definitely malignant on the basis of the enhancement pattern during the arterial phase and enhancement degree during the portal and late phases compared with the liver (hypoenhancement indicating malignant and isoenhancement to hyperenhancement indicating benign).
ref: 2012, Ashton Acton, Issues in Medical Lasers, Imaging, and Devices Research and Application:
text: In contrast, 10–20% of HCCs, especially smaller (<20 mm) lesions, demonstrate hypoenhancement or isoenhancement in the arterial phase (Yoon et al. 2009; Lee et al. 2012; Matsui et al. 2011).
ref: 2018, Konstantin Nikolaou, Fabian Bamberg, Andrea Laghi, Multislice CT, page 462:
topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: A middle level of enhancement, neither bright nor dim.
isoenhance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: isoenhances
form: isoenhancing
form: isoenhanced
form: isoenhanced
Etymology: From iso- + enhance.
Senses: examples: text: On arterial phase postcontrast CT, most lesions (60%) show little to no enhancement, whereas the remainder isoenhance with liver parenchyma.
ref: 2012, William E. Brant, Clyde Helms, Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology, page 699:
text: Unlike tumors, these pseudolesions isoenhance relative to liver and do not disturb blood vessels.
ref: 2015, Angela D. Levy, Koenraad J. Mortele, Benjamin M. Yeh, Gastrointestinal Imaging, page 315:
glosses: To produce isoenhancement.
isoenhances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of isoenhance
isoenhancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of isoenhance
isoenhanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of isoenhance
inconclusible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconclusible
form: most inconclusible
Etymology: From in- + conclusive + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Journey to no end, Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible
ref: 1930, T. S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday:
text: Any occurrence recorded photographically is seized in the process of its unfolding and condensed into a single image in which all the inconclusible energies of movement and interaction are arrested as a pattern.
ref: 1996, Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art - Issue 1, page 150:
text: With regard to the story or novel or novella or long poem, or maybe merely lyric, epigram, haiku, couplet, line, or less, a word, sign, phoneme, brief pause, inconclusive pause, inconclusible breath, why dead go on, unless I say this such that, when all is said and done (not necessarily, but at least said), in February, such that this, by late September, or early October (at the latest) is that.
ref: 2000, Gad Hollander, Benching with Virgil, page 43:
text: Its 'evidence is less a stationary content than a principle, ... a ferment that exists for the progressive realization—in an inconclusible movement—of truth within the world'.
ref: 2007, Francesca Aran Murphy, God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited:
glosses: Having no conclusion; unfinished.
pepperettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepperette
return the favor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: returns the favor
form: returning the favor
form: returned the favor
form: returned the favor
form: return the favour
Senses: examples: text: Having received an unearned windfall, we are in debt. The moral scales are out of balance. The canonical way to restore a measure of balance is to return the favor to our benefactor, as per symmetrical reciprocity. However, the canonical way is not the only way. Another way is to pass the favor on, as per transitive reciprocity.
ref: 2006, David Schmidtz, The Elements of Justice, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Let's say Gertrude shared some of her food with you. This recognition in turn triggers a judgment that you ought to return the favor – that is, you ought to share some of your food with Gertrude when the opportunity arises.
ref: 2010, Scott M. James, An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: To do something for someone similar to what they did for you.