cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
acada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acadas
Etymology: Clipping of academic.
Senses: examples: text: Saying these much in Nigeria's present political climate, and coming from someone who has been out of the country for a considerable length of time, provides an opportunity for cheap baseless attacks and accusations of an “acada' trying to compare Nigeria to more advanced countries.
ref: 2009, Angelicus-M. B. Onasanya, The Urgency of Now!: Building a True Nigerian Nation, page 153:
glosses: A current or former university student.
acada
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of academic.
Senses: examples: text: He had asked, 'So do the literate acada people also do that?'
ref: 1987, Kowus Bisi-Williams, The Black Godfather, page 32:
glosses: Relating to a university or academic studies; educated.
calciotraumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcio- + traumatic.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the effect on teeth of a diet that is very rich in calcium
calcipenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calci- + -penia.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: hypocalcemia, hypocalcaemia
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: hypocalcia#Noun
glosses: Calcium deficiency.
Derived terms: word: calcipenic
Related terms: word: hypercalcemia
alt: near-antonyms
word: hypercalcaemia
word: hypercalcemic
word: hypercalcaemic
word: hypocalcemic
word: hypocalcaemic
word: hypocalciuria
word: hypocalciuric
wiring loom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiring looms
Senses: examples: text: Due to the extent of damage to the ceiling panels in the cabin, all the panels were removed and the wiring looms were visually inspected while the aircraft was at Learmonth. No defects were observed.
ref: 2011 December 19, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, “1.12.5 Aircraft wiring examinations”, in In-flight upset - 154 km west of Learmonth, WA, 7 October 2008, VH-QPA, Airbus A330-303, archived from the original on 05 May 2022, page 50:
text: The next task is to pass the cable wiring loom through the boat. If you have ducting running along the inside of the hull this is ideal, but most boats will not be equipped with such luxuries, so you will have to find the best way through and then protect the cables with cable trunking (plastic protection).
ref: 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, The Boat Improvement Bible, page 108:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A wiring harness; a bundle of wires, tied together but not enclosed in a rigid conduit, that transmit signals or electrical current within a device.
glosses: An insulating tube used to bundle individual wires into a wiring harness.
calcivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calciviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the family Caliciviridae
achaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achabas
Etymology: From Hausa acaba.
Senses: examples: text: I flagged down a passing achaba and rode into town, where my achaba man asked passers-by for directions to the conservation project.
ref: 2012, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, page 163:
glosses: A motorcycle taxi.
calcospherite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcospherites
Etymology: From calco- + spherite.
Senses: glosses: A small spherical particle formed by the action of calcium salts on some proteins
Related terms: calcospheritic
calculosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lithiasis.
synonyms: word: lithiasis
calcyclin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain calcium-binding protein
calelectrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calelectrins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a certain group of calcium-dependent annexin proteins
calicectasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calicectases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caliectasis.
African nutmeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African nutmegs
Senses: synonyms: calabash nutmeg
glosses: A tree from tropical Africa, Monodora myristica (Annonaceae).
synonyms: calabash nutmeg
glosses: The seed of that tree, used as a spice.
glosses: Another tree from Western tropical Africa, Pycnanthus angolensis (syn. P. kombo) (Myristicaceae)
calabash nutmeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calabash nutmegs
Senses: glosses: A tree from tropical Africa, Monodora myristica.
glosses: The seed of that tree, used as a spice.
Synonyms: African nutmeg
caliectasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caliectases
Senses: glosses: dilatation of a calix of the kidney
callosomarginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calloso- + marginal.
Senses: examples: text: The callosomarginal trunk varies inversely with the arose from A3 or A4 with equal frequency as well as from size of the pericallosal artery.
ref: 1987, Bryce Weir, Aneurysms affecting the nervous system, page 324:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the sulcus between the corpus callosum and the cingulate gyrus.
calpactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calpactins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of calponins that bind actin
calspectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fodrin.
synonyms: word: fodrin
fodrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fodrins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of spectrins that bind actin
icecross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ice + -cross.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An ice skating sport, involving racing over an obstacle course similar to that found in snowboardcross, skiercross, or BMX.
Hyponyms: english: a discipline of icecross, involving a downhill course, like that of boarder-X or skier-X, except on ice instead of snow
translation: a discipline of icecross, involving a downhill course, like that of boarder-X or skier-X, except on ice instead of snow
word: icecross downhill
boarder-X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of boardercross.
boarder X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of boarder cross.
boarder-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boardercross.
skier-X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of skiercross.
skier X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of skier cross.
skier-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skiercross.
ice-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of icecross.
ice cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of icecross.
icecross downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A discipline in the winter sport of icecross, involving racing down a downhill obstacle course, like that of boarder-X or skier-X, except on ice instead of snow.
uniski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniskis
Etymology: From uni- + ski.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monoski (A type of sit-ski.)
synonyms: word: monoski
extra: A type of sit-ski.
dualski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dualskis
Etymology: From dual + ski.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biski (A type of sit-ski.)
synonyms: word: biski
extra: A type of sit-ski.
biski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biskis
Etymology: From bi- + ski.
Senses: glosses: A type of sit-ski, with a pair of skis mounted underneath the suspension cushioned chair, used by wheelchair-bound skiers in downhill skiing and para-alpine. It is paired with outriggers, ski poles that have skis attached to the bottom, instead of the pick/spike, to function as outrigger runners for the skier sitting in the sitski.
glosses: A type of sit-ski, used in para cross country skiing, with a chair solidly mounted to a pair of side-by-side cross country skis. It is paired with ski poles much like normal cross country poles.
Synonyms: dualski
Coordinate terms: monoski
occipitoanterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the occiput facing anteriorly or anterolaterally.
occipitoposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the occiput facing posteriorly or posterolaterally.
occipitotransverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the occiput facing transversely (i.e. laterally).
transcerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Through or across the cerebrum.
cervicobregmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the anterior fontanelle and the junction of the neck with the floor of the mouth.
centriciput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle part of the head; the part of the head situated between the occiput and sinciput.
sacroanterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the sacrum facing anteriorly or anterolaterally.
sacroposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the sacrum facing posteriorly or posterolaterally.
sacrotransverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the sacrum facing transversely (i.e. laterally).
sacrolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the sacrum facing laterally.
occipitolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the occiput facing laterally.
Derived terms: occipitolaterally
mentoanterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the chin facing anteriorly or anterolaterally.
ice cross downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of icecross downhill.
ice-cross downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of icecross downhill.
camerostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camerostomes
Etymology: From Latin camera (“chamber, vault”) + -stome.
Senses: glosses: A ventral depression of the anterior cephalothorax of soft ticks that contains their mouth parts
camptomelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital bending in the long bones of the limbs
Related terms: camptomelic
camptomelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to camptomelia
Derived terms: camptomelic dwarfism
camptomelic dysplasia
camsylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camsylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of camphorsulfonate.
synonyms: word: camphorsulfonate
Derived terms: trimethaphan camsylate
camphorsulfonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camphorsulfonates
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of a camphorsulfonic acid
camphorsulphonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camphorsulphonic acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camphorsulfonic acid.
cancerigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancerigenic
form: most cancerigenic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carcinogenic.
synonyms: word: carcinogenic
cancerocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancerocidal
form: most cancerocidal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cancericidal.
cantharidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantharidates
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of cantharidic acid
cantharidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cantharidates
form: cantharidating
form: cantharidated
form: cantharidated
Senses: glosses: To treat with cantharides
suboccipitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suboccipital
micromanagerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micromanagerial
form: most micromanagerial
Etymology: From micro- + managerial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to micromanagement.
prefabricator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefabricators
Senses: glosses: One who prefabricates.
prefabricators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefabricator
prefabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefabbers
Etymology: From prefab + -er.
Senses: glosses: prefabricator
canthomeatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cantho- + meatal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or joining the lateral canthus of the eye and the external auditory meatus
Derived terms: canthomeatal line
canthomeatal plane
prefabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefabber
messengerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more messengerial
form: most messengerial
Etymology: From messenger + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a messenger.
capillaropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillaropathies
Etymology: From capillaro- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the capillaries
Synonyms: microangiopathy
Derived terms: capillaropathic
point person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point persons
form: point people
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, not every bride-to-be can afford to hire a wedding planner to help her prepare for her big day. Rather than trying to oversee the events of the day yourself, why not assign someone the duty of acting as your point person? A point person is someone who will be responsible for making sure that deliveries are received, that the room is set up properly, and the bride and groom show up on time.
ref: 2013, Camille Zarrelli, Top Ten Things: Every Bride Should Do When Planning Her Wedding, →ISBN:
text: The ideal bridge between the company and the production vendor's team is the point person (project manager, contact person, lead person, or liaison) and at least one backup point person.
ref: 2017, Gerry Souter, Buying and Selling Multimedia Services, →ISBN:
text: Finally, the initial contact often becomes the project's point person, helping to organize, motivate, and communicate with participants throughout the project.
ref: 2018, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Xiaojun June Chen, Michael P. Downton, Managing Educational Technology, →ISBN:
glosses: The person in the most prominent position on something, such as a spokesperson or manager.
examples: text: Once he is sure the point person is on the bearing the reference person can move up to the position of the point person and the point person can continue on the bearing.
ref: 1997, Glen Stedham, Bush Basics: A Common Sense Guide to Backwoods Adventure, →ISBN:
text: As soon as your point person begins to deviate, instruct him to correct his direction. The point person needs to adjust only slightly to stay in a straight line.
ref: 2007, Martin Volken, Scott Schell, Margaret Wheeler, Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering, →ISBN:
text: If you have two or more people in your party, at least one of whom has some experience and a compass, you can implement a point person to guide you in the absence of recognizable landscape features. The point person acts as the group's reference point, trekking out in front of the designated navigator but remaining close enough to stay visible and communicate verbally, with the use of hand signals, or with a flashlight.
ref: 2017, Walter Glen Martin, Prepper's Survival Navigation, →ISBN:
hyponyms: point man
point woman
glosses: One who goes ahead of a group in order to indicate the direction in which it should move.
Related terms: spokesperson
contact person
scuggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skuggery
Etymology: From scug + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The exposure is rich, racy and instructive. It fully corroborates all the statements of corruption, rascality and "scuggery" made by Professor Turner in his recently published report, and will convince the public that the corruption of the recent legislature of Illinois has not one-half been told.
ref: 1867, One of the "ring", “Document Number 20 History of the Champaign "Elephant"”, in The Movement for Industrial Education and the Establishment of the University 1840-1870 (Semi-Centennial History of the University of Illinois; I), Urbana: University of Illinois, published 1918, page 506:
text: "When I'm boss of this dormitory I'll stop that sort of scuggery." // "Scuggery" was a Whyborough word used to indicate anything unsportsmanlike.
ref: 1923, Archibald Marshall, Jimmy the New Boy, Frederick A. Stokes Co., page 33:
text: the Minister of State for Urban Affairs (Mr. Ouellet) does not care about national unity but will use any kind of skullduggery, thuggery and skuggery to try to keep in office,[…]
ref: 1978 June 30, House of Commons [Canada] Debate, 30th Parliament, 3rd Session, volume 6, page 6945:
text: "I want to see the slam-thrash that's done them bloody murders caught," […] "no matter who. We've had no such scuggery in the Dales since I can remember."
ref: 2002, Patricia Frances Rowell, A Perilous Attraction (Harlequin Historicals), Harlequin, published 2014, →ISBN:
glosses: Dishonest behaviour; criminal conduct; villainy
Balud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Masbate, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines.
Bacolod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɐˈko.lod/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /bɑˈkɔləd/
ipa: /bɑːˈkɔːləd/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Bacólod, ultimately from Hiligaynon bakolod (“hill”).
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Alangilan, Alijis, Banago, Bata, Cabug, Estefania, Felisa, Granada, Handumanan, Mandalagan, Mansilingan, Montevista, Pahanocoy, Punta Taytay, Singcang-Airport, Sum-ag, Taculing, Tangub, Villamonte, Vista Alegre — barangays of Bacolod (excluding barangays 1 to 41)
glosses: An independent city, the provincial capital of Negros Occidental, Negros Island Region, Philippines.
Patong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai ป่าตอง (bpàa-dtɔɔng).
Senses: glosses: A town in Kathu district, Phuket Province, Thailand.
glosses: A beach in Phuket Province, Thailand.
Luib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet on the Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG5627).
glosses: A locality in Glen Dochart, Stirling council area, Scotland, the site of a closed railway station; the Luib Hotel still exists (in 2020) (OS grid ref NN4927).
Camansi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Montevista, Davao de Oro, Philippines.
Boac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Marinduque, Philippines.
caprizant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caprizant
form: most caprizant
Senses: examples: text: The caprizant Pulse is to be perceived in the upper or lower Part, but hardly at all in the Middle, from an Aneurism, Tumor, &c.
ref: 1757, Herman Boerhaave, Dr. Boerhaave's Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic:
text: T. Dia. Dico that the pulse of this gentleman is the pulse of a man who is not well. Mr. Dia. Good. T. Dia. That it is duriusculus, not to say durus. Mr. Dia. Very well. T. Dia. Irregular. Mr. Dia. Bene. T. Dia. And even a little caprizant.
ref: 1879, Molière [pseudonym; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin], translated by Charles Heron Wall, The Dramatic Works of Molière: Tr. Into English Prose:
text: Nay, in Dicrot, Caprizant, and other inordinate pulses, diverse pulses strike in lesse space than the open mouth of an artery can open, shut, and open again, which acts are requisite to the beginning of a second pulse.
ref: 1896, William Selby Church, The Rise of Physiology in England: The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, page 66:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having irregular, leaping beats.
raw_tags: of a pulse
lukong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lukongs
Etymology: Probably from Cantonese 勞工 /劳工 (lou⁴ gung¹).
Senses: examples: text: The lukongs, No. 33 and 27 were again brought up charged with the robbery of 500 cash.
ref: 1869 May 18, The Hongkong Daily Press, The suspicious lukongs, page 3:
text: The charge against two lukongs of assaulting a coolie to the danger of his life, on the 21st ult., has been remanded for another week.
ref: 1900 September 14, China Mail, The Charge against Lukongs, page 2:
text: The woman is alleged to have given him a saucy answer, whereupon the lukong caught hold of her by the jacket.
ref: 1908 February 20, The Hongkong Daily Press, page 2:
text: A lukong was then placed before the Court on a charge of aiding and abetting the youth.
ref: 1909 December 20, Hongkong Weekly Press, page 523:
text: The other five lukongs, who were in plain clothes, were taken to the Police Station, and on a search being made, several hundereds of dollars were found in their joint possession.
ref: 1927 September 22, The Hongkong Daily Press, page 5:
glosses: constable of Chinese descent
capsulolenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From capsulo- + lenticular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: relating to the lens (of the eye) and its capsule
Derived terms: capsulolenticular cataract
capsulorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsulorrhaphies
Etymology: From capsulo- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: repair of a torn capsule, especially in a joint
capsulotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsulotomes
Etymology: From capsulo- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument used to incise the capsule of the lens of the eye
carbamoylaspartate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamoylaspartates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-carbamoyl derivative of aspartate
Derived terms: carbamoylaspartate dehydrase
carbamoylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamoylases
Etymology: From carbamoyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the conversion of an N-carbamoyl-amino acid into ammonia, carbon dioxide and the free amino acid
carbamoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamoylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that adds or transfers a carbamoyl group or compound
Derived terms: decarbamoylation
transcarbamoylation
carbobenzoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of benzyloxycarbonyl.
synonyms: word: benzyloxycarbonyl
benzyloxycarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzyloxycarbonyls
Etymology: From benzyl + oxy- + carbon + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical C₆H₅-CH₂-O-CO- that is used as a protecting group for amino groups
Synonyms: carbobenzoxy
twenty-five cent word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenty-five cent words
Senses: examples: text: The old man chuckled. “Well, you can bandy twenty-five cent words all you want, but— Say! we’ve never had a talk like this before, have we? […]”
ref: 1950, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in The Town and the City, New York: Harcourt, published 1983, page 331:
text: 1988, Howard Rosenthal, Not With My Life I Don’t: Preventing Your Suicide and That of Others, Muncie, Indiana: Accelerated Development, Inc., Chapter 4, p. 18,
Some of the most incredible cases I have ever worked with involve the act of pulling strands of hair from one’s own head. Psychiatrists and psychologists have a twenty-five cent word for this behavior. They call it Trichotillomania.
text: Remember that while the English language has lots of “twenty-five cent” words like perturb or effrontery, statuesque or decorous, it also has lots of essential short, sturdy words like of or but, say or stop or glow.
ref: 2015, Barbara Baig, Spellbinding Sentences, Blue Ash, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 37:
glosses: Synonym of ten-dollar word.
synonyms: word: ten-dollar word
twenty-five cent words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twenty-five cent word
terrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrifications
Etymology: From terror + -ification or alternatively terrific + -ation.
Senses: glosses: An act of terrifying.
raw_tags: used in Scotland
terrifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrification
unbeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unbeast.
unbeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbeast
unbeasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbeast
Hyrcanus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Hyrcanus, from Hyrcania, see it for more.
Senses: glosses: A male given name notably born by figures in Hasmonean Judaea
parasurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parasurfs
form: parasurfing
form: parasurfed
form: parasurfed
Etymology: From para- + surf.
Senses: glosses: To participate in parasurfing
Related terms: parasurfing
parasurfer
para surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: para surfs
form: para surfing
form: para surfed
form: para surfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasurf.
para-surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: para-surfs
form: para-surfing
form: para-surfed
form: para-surfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasurf.
Derived terms: para-surfer
parasurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + surfing.
Senses: glosses: A parasport, an adapted form of surfing for the disabled.
glosses: Synonym of kiteboarding (“kitesurfing”)
synonyms: word: kiteboarding
extra: kitesurfing
Synonyms: sense: disability sport
word: adaptive surfing
Related terms: parasurfer
parasurf
parasurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From parasurf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parasurf
parasurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasurfers
Etymology: From para- + surfer.
Senses: glosses: A participant in parasurfing, one who parasurfs.
Related terms: parasurfing
parasurf
para surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: para surfers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasurfer.
para-surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: para-surfers
Etymology: From para-surf + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasurfer.
para surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasurfing.
para surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of para surf
para-surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parasurfing.
para-surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of para-surf
DePaso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
h8s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h8
h8s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of h8
h8ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of h8
h8ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of h8
h8er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: h8ers
form: h8r
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hater.
h8ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h8er
h8r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: h8rs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of h8er.
h8rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h8r
Ataturkists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ataturkist
locutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locutor
referentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: referentiations
Senses: glosses: The formation of a reference to something.
Related terms: dereferentiation
georeferentiation
referentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of referentiation
all that and a bag of potato chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all that and a bag of chips.
law of tangents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: A statement about the relationship between the tangents of two angles of a triangle and the lengths of the opposing sides.
Related terms: law of cosines
law of cotangents
law of sines
unprovokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + provokable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be provoked.
unevokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + evokable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be evoked.
evokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From evoke + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of evocable.
Derived terms: unevokable
OTD
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Tickets for the concert will cost £15 OTD.
glosses: Initialism of on the door.
glosses: Initialism of on this day.
examples: text: message OTD
glosses: Initialism of of the day.
Related terms: MOTD
WOTD
virtual assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual assistants
Senses: glosses: A person employed to provide professional administrative services to clients, working remotely from a home office.
glosses: A software agent that can perform tasks and services for an individual.
virtual assistants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtual assistant
bi now, gay later
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: A pun on the marketing phrase "buy now, pay later".
Senses: examples: text: One of the most common misconceptions about bisexuality is that it's some kind of stepping-stone on the way to coming out "all the way," as gay and/or lesbian. This pernicious stereotype, sometimes referred to as “bi now, gay later,” is often used to warn straight people away from dating bi folks. […] If “bi now, gay later” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.
ref: 2016, Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: "And I did that usual sort of bi now gay later thing, so I was like I'm bisexual, I'm bisexual, I like women as well. Just to make it more acceptable."
ref: 2021, Estella Ferraro, Wilful Blindness: On the Relationship of Identity, Agency and Personal, Springer Nature, page 162, quoting a man named John
glosses: A slogan suggesting that bisexual people tend to become exclusively homosexual later in life.
wikipedia: buy now, pay later
Related terms: BUG
lesbian until graduation
tard guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tard guards
Senses: synonyms: tard wrangler
glosses: A person employed to look after people with mental disabilities, particularly involving restraint and protecting the person from harming himself or others.
tard guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tard guard
dekulakizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dekulakises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dekulakize
dekulakizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dekulakising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dekulakize
dekulakized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dekulakised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dekulakize
bossdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boss + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Popular bossdom, the typical government style found in open New Unions (and later, similar organizations), is distinguished by centralized organization, a hierarchical corps of appointed officials, a membership dispersed across a number of industries, and a low level of members' identification with and participation in the union. These features were a product of the trade unions' origins as bodies constructed around a core of professional organizers […]
ref: 2013, Paul Smith, Unionization and Union Leadership: The Road Haulage Industry:
glosses: The realm or sphere of bosses.
bracketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracketers
Etymology: From bracket + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that breaks down natural language into certain grammatical components.
glosses: A person belonging to a specified income bracket or tax bracket.
bracketers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracketer
erythrocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrocytopenias
Etymology: From erythrocyte + -o- + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Erythropenia.
macaroni pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaroni pies
Senses: glosses: A casserole dish based on baked macaroni and cheese, with or without a pastry crust.
macaroni pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaroni pie
macaronical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macaronical
form: most macaronical
Senses: glosses: macaronic
Persianisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Persianization.
de-kulakize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-kulakizes
form: de-kulakizing
form: de-kulakized
form: de-kulakized
Senses: examples: text: Later, [Mikhail] Gorbachev asked me: "What do you think he is, exactly?" / "A farmer," I [Shevardnadze] said. "A good manager. But if you like, we can de-kulakize him. Then there won't be any farm, milk, or livestock."
ref: 1991, Eduard Shevardnadze, translated by Catherine A[nn] Fitzpatrick, The Future Belongs to Freedom, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of dekulakize.
supertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertides
Etymology: From super- + tide.
Senses: glosses: An extreme oceanic tide
Related terms: supertidal
supertides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertide
lift and shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The practice of deploying existing on-premises software to the cloud, with minimal changes to its architecture.
rochlederite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The resinous part of melanchyme.
rose-tint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rose-tints
form: rose-tinting
form: rose-tinted
form: rose-tinted
Etymology: Back formation from look through rose-tinted glasses
Senses: examples: text: James thought in silence for a bit. He considering making something up, or rose-tinting the truth.
ref: 2016, Ellie Rose McKee, Wake: Poetry and Short Stories, →ISBN, page 16:
text: The future is often varnished, and that may be expected, but rose-tinting the present may be equally commonplace.
ref: 2016, Richard Bolden, Morgen Witzel, Nigel Linacre, Leadership Paradoxes: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World, →ISBN:
text: This was the heyday of street begging 'characters' when French war veterans, real or bogus, played on the public's sympathy with ghastly wounds (real or fabricated), and a later generation looked back on it nostalgically undoubtedly exaggerating and rose-tinting the reality.
ref: 2016, Lionel Rose, 'Rogues and Vagabonds': Vagrant Underworld in Britain 1815-1985, →ISBN:
text: I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety.
ref: 2018 January, “Wild Things”, in North and South:
glosses: To look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was.
rose-tint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rose-tints
form: rose-tinting
form: rose-tinted
form: rose-tinted
Senses: examples: text: But not for the sun-burst on high, And not for the rose-tinting ray, But for something far holier, I Will bless the sweet coming of May.
ref: 1838, Frances Sargent Osgood, A wreath of wild flowers from New England, page 250:
text: Rose on the Monday eventful, old Sol, in his splendour of Autumn, Softly rose-tinting the baréd limbs of the lime and the sturdy Old oak conquer'd at last; rose-tinting the weeping willows, Drooping their amber leaves to the bank of the swollen river.
ref: 1863, The Eagle: A Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 53:
text: Mr. Moore has this year a dangerous rival in a little known artist, Mr. thomas Somerscales, who sends a seascape "Corvette shortening sail to pick up a ship-wrecked crow", in which the heavy bosom of the ocean, dark azure under a serene evening sky freed from the clouds which, rose-tinted by the sunset, are just sinking below the horizon, is presented in unsurpassable fashion.
ref: 1893, The Academy and Literature - Volume 43, page 466:
text: The evening was clear and the last vestiges of sunset were still rose-tinting streamers of cirrus across the sky.
ref: 1994, Norman Harrison, The Three Men of Gragareth, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: To tint with the color rose; to suffuse with a rosy hue.
rose-tints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rose-tint
rose-tinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rose-tint
rose-tinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rose-tint
rose-tinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rose-tinted
form: most rose-tinted
Senses: examples: text: But it was different out upon the rose-tinted waters of the central lake.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Suffused with a rosy hue.
Synonyms: rose-coloured
rose-hued
Derived terms: rose-tinted spectacles
worn rose-colored glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wear rose-colored glasses
vegetative nervous systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetative nervous system
PSNS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSNSs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of parasympathetic nervous system.
strict construction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strict constructions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A narrow interpretation of a law, especially a law that contains ambiguity
Mediterranean triad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Mediterranean triad
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The three traditional staples of Mediterranean cuisine, consisting of wheat, olive oil, and wine.
redaguerreotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redaguerreotype
Nicos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nikos
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of a male given name (Νίκος) used in Greece.
ground levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground level
overfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfarm
underfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: underfarms
form: underfarming
form: underfarmed
form: underfarmed
Etymology: From under- + farm.
Senses: glosses: To farm too little.
underfarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfarm
underfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfarm
underfarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfarm
alants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alant
administrative leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of administrative leave
dataism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dataism
Etymology: From data + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Dataism and dadaism are the hard core of strict empiricism, a philosophy incongruously held by many theoreticians and underlying much research planning. It encourages the blind accumulation of superficial information that leads nowhere because it comes from nowhere and takes place in a vacuum of ideas.
ref: 1998, Mario Bunge -, Philosophy of Science: From Explanation to Justification, →ISBN, page 211:
text: Dataism is becoming 'a belief in a new gold standard of knowledge about human behavior', van Dijck writes, and argues that it is crucial to be aware of the different reasons for and contexts within which data is gathered. We also need to realise that data is interpreted by analysts.
ref: 2014, Jill W. Rettberg, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology, →ISBN:
text: Thus a newly formed somatechnics of the sensored body is beginning to emerge, in which everyday activities modulate in accordance with the modulations of the control society, and in which the body is produced within a security-based governmentality epitomised in the ideology of dataism.
ref: 2016, Holly Randell-Moon, Ryan Tippet, Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality, →ISBN:
glosses: The belief that all knowledge consists of data and that scientific theories should only be the simplest systematizations of that data.
Related terms: scientism
Dataism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The dichotomy between Dataism and Interpretationism in China is quite reminiscent of this German scene.
ref: 1981, Centre for Translation Projects, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Renditions - Issues 15-18, page 17:
text: In place of the founding tenets of modernity – liberalism, democracy and personal autonomy – there is a new religion: Dataism. Its followers – many of whom reside in the Bay Area of California – put their faith in information by encouraging us to see it as the only true source of value.
ref: 2016 August 24, David Runciman, “Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari review – how data will destroy human freedom”, in The Guardian:
text: Powered by understanding our own drivers, we will begin to pray at the alter of Dataism: humanity's new religion.
ref: 2017 June 26, Jessica Sier, “Homo Deus: Praying at the alter of Dataism in a future I don't want to reach”, in The Australian Financial Review:
glosses: Alternative form of dataism.
examples: text: He regards it above all as 'Dataism' - a term and an art opposed to the iconoclasm of Modernism in general and Dadaism in particular. Dataism restates traditional aesthetics through formal practices.
ref: 1993, Frank Popper, Art of the electronic age, page 87:
text: One of the Cyberart aspects is the "Dataism" This art is opposed to the iconoclast features of Dadai"sm. By his formal practices, the Dataism reaffirms the traditional aesthetic.
ref: 1999, Jean-Claude Heudin, Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity:
text: Arts Westchester's Dataism exhibition is scheduled to open in the fall of 2019 in its downtown White Plains gallery.
ref: 2018 March 12, Aleesia Forni, “ArtsWestchester receives $30000 from National Endowment for the Arts”, in Westfair:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A movement that emphasizes traditional aesthetics and formal practices.
dataist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dataist
form: most dataist
form: Dataist
Etymology: From data + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Hara way offers a powerful new myth — the cyborg — for our postmodern dataist era which, according to her, follows a "command-control-communication-intelligence" code.
ref: 1996, American Studies, page 652:
text: If the retro-futures are based in externalization and visibility, then one notices in the architecture of Future World the very erosion of the visible and the dataist implosion behind the mirrors of anonymous technocultural interfaces.
ref: 2003, Scott Bukatman, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century, →ISBN:
text: And rest assured, as the productivity of the dataist world surges, we will be kept fed and entertained.
ref: 2017 May 22, (Steve) Sichang Long, “Humanity has become too empowered to make sense of our future”, in e27:
glosses: Pertaining to or characterized by dataism.
dataist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dataists
form: Dataist
Etymology: From data + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Operating a computer is not a complex task. Anybody can be taught to operate a computer. On the other hand, the smartest computer dataist cannot sit down at the control of a computer he had never seen before and make it do anything.
ref: 1982, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in the Medicare Pacemaker Industry:
text: There are not enough chefs and too many "dataists" handling data that our current disciplines cannot possibly prepare, serve, and digest what they make by themselves.
ref: 1992, Todd Siler, Breaking the mind barrier: the artscience of neurocosmology, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: One who works with data.
examples: text: If the Temeraire represents grounded theory (and other dataists) and at her last berth postmodernism waits, what about hermeneutics and critical theory?
ref: 2000, Mats Alvesson, Kaj Sköldberg, Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research, →ISBN, page 321:
glosses: A proponent of dataism.
dataists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dataist