cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
xertz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɝts/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ts
Forms: form: xertzes
form: xertzing
form: xertzed
form: xertzed
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Every weekend, I have to xertz my breakfast as fast as possible, otherwise I would be late for my swimming lessons.
text: Xertz means to swallow quickly, as in what you do to liver so your tongue doesn't have time to figure out what it is. […] The quality of a beer drinker can be seen in his ability to xertz a yepsen, yill-caup or yaffle in under eight seconds.
ref: 1987 January 13, “Humour”, in The Gateway, Edmonton, Alb.: University of Alberta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Mr. Burns: Quit stammering, Mr. Limbaugh! I know why you want a job. You suffer from a humongous impetus to xertz your liquor, you drunkulous monolith! Now get out of my office! You're fired!
ref: 1999 March 20, ChaiTheDog, “[FANSCRIPT]: "Marge the Missionary" Act II”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):
text: On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:42:21 +0200, "Annette" in epiphoric fashion, xertzed pozzuolana and rendered this dittology: […]
ref: 2000 June 15, Spuddie, “Errr.. Spuddie?”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet):
text: Thank you especially, Anna and Howard Vosburgh. Your help and friendship are invaluable, especially the way you helped me avoid slang in the editing process as we bibbled and xertzed coffee.
ref: 2014, Jessica Dotta, “Acknowledgments”, in Mark of Distinction (Price of Privilege Trilogy; 2), Carol Stream, I.L.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 434:
glosses: To down all of (a food or drink) with great speed; to chug or scoff down.
bihawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bihawk
Krevinian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Krevin
glosses: An extinct dialect of Votic.
Krevin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Krevinian.
karite butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Shea butter.
gorgious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorgious
form: most gorgious
Senses: examples: text: [T]o ſelect among ten thouſand faires, / A Lady farre inferior to the moſt, / In faire proportion both of limbe and ſoule: / To take her from auſterer check of parents, / To make her his by moſt deuoutfull rightes, / Make her commandreſſe of a better eſſence / Then is the gorgious world even of a man.
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. […], revised edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
text: Baſes and tinſel Trappings, gorgious Knights / At Jouſt and Touneament; then marſhal'd Feaſt / Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneſhals; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 36–37:
text: And almoſt all have their Crooks enriched with Devices, Cyphers and Ribands, and the propriety of their Habits, ſerves to render them more aimable: It is not gorgious, but it is graceful, and although neither Purple, nor Precious-Stones glitter in them; […]
ref: 1681, [Georges] de Scudery, translated by a Person of Honour, Amaryllis to Tityrus. Being, the First Heroick Harangue of the Excellent Pen of Monsieur Scudery. A Witty and Pleasant Novel. Englished by a Person of Honour, London: […] Will. Cademan, […], page 31:
glosses: Obsolete form of gorgeous.
qintarka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qindarka.
hypopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypopodium
Hannity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hannitys
form: Hannities
Etymology: From Irish [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish
malapropistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malapropistically
form: most malapropistically
Etymology: From malapropistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Subterranean descent can land in an underworld, be it Hell or Elysium or the other side of the earth, the Antipodes, which Alice malapropistically calls "the Antipathies"—not so exact an opposite to our side as the Looking-Glass Country, but a topsy-turvydom of sorts like Butler's Erewhon.
ref: 1994, Harold Bloom, Classic Fantasy Writers, Chelsea House, →ISBN, retrieved 02 May 2023, page 45:
text: exhibition / (A) This word has two meanings: a financial allowance or endowment (a term still current in some British universities) and a gift or present. It is also used once malapropistically by Verges to Dogberry mistaking the word for 'commission' (ADO 4.2.5).
ref: 2015, Vivian Thomas, Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 02 May 2023:
text: The crowd slips from chanting "No Popery," to, malapropistically, "No Property," then Grip the Raven begins chanting "No Popery," and Barnaby Rudge the idiot takes up the cause, as if to say ideology can be easily parroted and is, for all its public claims, idiotic.
ref: 2019, Nicholas Birns, The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space, Lexington Books, →ISBN, retrieved 02 May 2023, page 178:
glosses: In a malapropistic way.
canzons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canzon
cuckcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckcakes
Etymology: Blend of cuck + cupcake
Senses: coordinate_terms: cuckquean
cuckold
bull
glosses: A woman who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
cast-iron plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cast-iron plants
Senses: glosses: Aspidistra elatior, a leafy houseplant of Japanese origin.
sonnetteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonnetteers
Senses: examples: text: The humble Addreſs of your Majeſty’s Poet Laureat, and others your Catholick and Proteſtant diſſenting Rhymers, with the reſt of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferiour Verſifiers and Sonnetteers of Your Majeſty’s Ancient Corporation of Parnaſſus.
ref: 1697, Poems on Affairs of State. The Second Part. Written During the Reign of K. James the II. Against Popery and Slavery, and His Arbitrary Proceedings. […], London, page 18:
text: A few sonnets he wrote—would he have been Italian had he not done so?—but they are of the dogmatic, self-anatomizing character common to that age, and closely copied by our own sonnetteers of Elizabethan times.
ref: 1874, Charles Christopher Black, “Leonardo da Vinci in Science and Literature”, in Leonardo da Vinci and His Works: […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 123:
text: Unless you could say “a poor copy, but all that survives of this previously unrecorded 15th-century sonnetteer”, mostly you gave or threw away the lower ranks.
ref: 2003 April 19, EK, “Bibliophile”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 7:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sonneteer.
sonnetteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonnetteer
sonnetteers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sonnetteer
Aldabra rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aldabra rails
Senses: examples: text: The last remaining flightless bird of the Indian Ocean is the Aldabra rail, Dryolimnas aldabranus. Confined to Aldabra, the rails are surviving well on the islands of Picard, Polymnie and Malabar, which are the best places to see[…]
ref: 2008, Lyn Mair, Lynnath Beckley, Seychelles, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 37:
text: The Aldabra rail bird is the only animal to return from extinction without being cloned. I don't mean people thought it was extinct and it was rediscovered. The Aldabra rail bird was completely wiped out but returned from the dead.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), James Egan, 3000 Facts About Animals, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 99:
text: The Aldabra Rail is a flightless bird found only on the remote coral atoll of Aldabra, 420 km to the north-west of the northern tip of Madagascar. On Madagascar itself lives another rail, called the White-throated Rail,[…]
ref: 2013 June 12, Clifford Frith, The Woodhen: A Flightless Island Bird Defying Extinction, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Fossils of Aldabra rails have been found that date back 136,000 years, but it is known that the atoll was submerged by rising sea levels during the late Pleistocene (126,000 to 11,000 years ago). This would have wiped out the [population].
ref: 2020 October 20, Marianne Taylor, The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: A flightless bird which inhabits Aldabra in the Indian Ocean (variously considered a distinct species Dryolimnas aldabranus or a subspecies of Dryolimnas cuvieri), noted for having gone extinct about 136,000 years ago and then reevolved 100,000 years ago.
Related terms: de-extinction
iterative evolution
Elvis taxon
PayPaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PayPalers
Etymology: From PayPal + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The company had merged with Sequoia [Capital]-backed X.com, and [Michael] Moritz had insisted on a grown-up CEO to run the combined company. The offer that came back from investors was a $200 million round at a $500 million pre-money valuation. Sounds rich, right? The PayPalers were insulted. It was the height of the bubble; they all thought PayPal was the next great [Silicon] Valley company and should be worth far more than that.
ref: 2008, Sarah Lacy, “Sell Out”, in Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, Gotham Books, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., →ISBN, page 237:
text: It’s not that he [David Marcus] thinks PayPal should be a stand-alone; he says he would prefer if eBay simply sold it to a more natural fit, such as a Visa. “Another giant in the space would pay a huge premium for PayPal.” [Elon] Musk and other former PayPalers like [David Oliver] Sacks would prefer that it operate as a stand-alone, arguing that, once unchained, it could eventually be worth $100 billion (compared with the $40 billion or so it’s valued at today).
ref: 2014 February 26, Steven Bertoni, “The wallet wars”, in Chicago Tribune, 166th year, number 57, section 1A, page 11, column 3:
text: A half-dozen years later, Peter Thiel, a cofounder of PayPal, led (meaning he put in more money than anyone else) a small group of Silicon Valley veterans investing in Facebook only a few months after [Mark] Zuckerberg had launched a social network aimed at connecting classmates and friends. Thiel personally invested $500,000 in Facebook in 2004. Eight years later, after the company went public, his stake was worth more than $1 billion. Fellow PayPaler Reid Hoffman was preoccupied with a new company he had cofounded called LinkedIn, but he threw in another $37,500—an investment that would be worth more than $100 million.
ref: 2019, Gary Rivlin, “Venture Capital 101”, in Becoming a Venture Capitalist, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 17–18:
glosses: An employee of PayPal.
PayPalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PayPaler
Yorkshire parkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorkshire parkin
construction grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹʌkʃən ˈɡɹæ.mə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈstɹʌkʃən ˈɡɹæ.mɚ/
Forms: form: construction grammars
Senses: glosses: A family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns with meanings, are the fundamental building blocks of human language.
sonnetteering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sonnetteer
sonnetteered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sonnetteer
yarden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardens
Etymology: Blend of yard + garden.
Senses: examples: text: It sank contentedly down on all fours, angling its head for easier access. Torin sat down next to the creature, smoothing its white coat. “You've welcomed all of the beings back to this small garden, or yarden, Rebecca.
ref: 2008, Eliel Luma Fionn, Return from Purple Earth, page 8:
text: But if you don't plan or properly plant, these shrubs will pass away in your yarden in less than a month.
ref: 2011, Jerry Baker, Flower Power!, page 280:
text: Fast forward to 2010—to me and my yarden, my “if you don't like something, do something about it” upbringing, that empty lot on Peterson and Campbell, and that photo on the butcher shop wall—[…]
ref: 2014, LaManda Joy, Start a Community Food Garden, page 8:
text: Sometimes I'll drop in a small handful of organic raisins or dried berries, but most times I'll also go outside and pick things from my yarden (what I like to call my yard, since many of the edibles growing there occur naturally) […]
ref: 2018, Jereme Zimmerman, Brew Beer Like a Yeti:
text: I also let plants have their way a bit, which may make my yarden look untended, or wild.
ref: 2019, Brooke Criswell, Tea of Tranquility, page 16:
text: Microcosm is my “yarden” (yard garden). While the space they occupy right outside my bedroom window isn't large, the products of their labor are recognized by many. […] My yarden quickly became the local figurehead of anti-neoliberal resistance. It also became hypervisible to those who disagreed with my alternative ways and made working outside potentially dangerous.
ref: 2022, Z. Zane McNeill, Y'all Means All, pages 98, 106:
glosses: An area which is both a yard and a garden.
yardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarden
Aldabra rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aldabra rail
Oropeza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oropezas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oropeza.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Related terms: Oropesa
Pittington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish east of Durham, County Durham, England, which contains the settlements of High Pittington and Low Pittington.
Hallgarth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Kendal, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5094).
glosses: A small village and conservation area in Pittington parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3243).
Buddle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
SNU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNUs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: TNU
glosses: Initialism of solar neutrino unit.
synonyms: SNY
glosses: Initialism of sensitive needs unit (“part of a prison for prisoners who cannot safely be housed with the general population”).
sleep aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep aids
Senses: glosses: Any drug, nutritional supplement, device, or behavioral method used to help a person to fall asleep, stay asleep, or have better sleep quality.
examples: Near-synonym: sleeping pill
glosses: Any drug, nutritional supplement, device, or behavioral method used to help a person to fall asleep, stay asleep, or have better sleep quality.
A pill (containing a drug or nutritional supplement) for this purpose.
Related terms: sleepless
sleeplessness
undersleep
shift leads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shift lead
paddle pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddle pops
Senses: examples: text: For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.
ref: 2006, Lisa Kervin, Research for Educators, page 148:
glosses: An ice lolly (UK); a popsicle (US)
oil terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil terminals
Senses: glosses: An industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products
oil terminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil terminal
Colliery Row
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Near the village of Vienna, now known as Colliery Row, a locomotive (probably one built by George Stephenson for the Hetton Coal Company, in 1822) was set in motion, and the Duke, "after examining minutely the nature and construction of the machine and its operation expressed himself highly gratified with it."
ref: 1948 January and February, “Notes and News: Duke of Wellington's Early Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:
glosses: A western suburb of Houghton-le-Spring, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3249).
vaughanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaughnite
Etymology: From Vaughan + -ite, after David John Vaughan, English mineralogist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral containing mercury, sulfur, antimony and thallium that is found in Canada.
ionocalorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ionocaloric + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of ionocaloric effects.
ionocaloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iono- + caloric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to the thermal effects due to a change in ionic environmental conditions, such as due to the dissociation of ionic compounds (salts).
Derived terms: ionocaloric refrigeration
Related terms: ionocalorics
pooping wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooping waves
Etymology: From poop (“stern”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wave of water that crashes over the stern of a ship and onto the deck.
Related terms: poop deck
Middle Rainton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The site of a former village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and West Rainton parish, County Durham, England, adjacent to the village of West Rainton (OS grid ref NZ3247).
Related terms: East Rainton
West Rainton
m'sieurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of m'sieur
trough lollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trough lolly
logges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logge
AFTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AFTSes
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: AFSS
hypernyms: FTS
FSS
glosses: Initialism of autonomous/automated/automatic flight termination system. A self-activating self-destruct system found on rockets
AFSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AFSSes
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: AFTS
hypernyms: FSS
FTS
glosses: Initialism of autonomous/automated/automatic flight safety system. A self-activating self-destruct system found on rockets
relatinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relatinize
inconceptualisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconceptualisable
form: most inconceptualisable
Senses: examples: text: As a medium the human voice is distinct from language; it has its origin in a time before language (i.e. in the noise of prelinguistic babble), and functions as an index for that which goes beyond or cannot be expressed in language (e.g. in the display of inconceptualisable emotion).
ref: 2011, Alice Lagaay, “Towards a (Negative) Philosophy of Voice”, in Lynne Kendrick, David Roesner, editors, Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of inconceptualizable.
unalternating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alternating.
Senses: glosses: Not alternating.
postpositioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of postposition
postpositioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpositionings
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form.
ref: 2020, Shannon Dubenion-Smith, “A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects”, in Janet Zhiqun Xing, editor, A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West (Trends in Linguistics; 327), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 245:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.
postpositioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of postposition
postpositionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postpositioning
rough patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rough patch
TOTPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TOTP
chart music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pop music present in the music charts.
defleshings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defleshing
get the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the door
form: getting the door
form: got the door
form: gotten the door
form: got the door
Senses: examples: text: I'll get the door. Someone's knocking to be let in.
text: Can you get the door? I'm carrying these heavy crates.
glosses: To open a door to help another person to pass through.
Danubian corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The caves lie on a migration route into western Europe known as the Danubian Corridor.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 179:
topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A route along the valleys of the Danube and Rhine Rivers taken by of various ancient migrations of Eastern cultures into the north and northwest of Europe.
appification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From app + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: While appification makes the former Web-based tools and apps more accessible, and improves users' quality of life, […]
ref: 2015, Barbara Guzzetti, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, page 417:
text: Our focus is on investigating the architecture-level decisions that are specific to the appification process.
ref: 2015, Danny Weyns, Raffaela Mirandola, Ivica Crnkovic, Software Architecture: 9th European Conference, ECSA 2015, page 38:
text: Tubi TV exemplifies an app's effort to step into this long, complicated global evolution of mobile television (Goggin 2012), and as such, it is emblematic of why the appification of television […]
ref: 2018, Jeremy W. Morris, Sarah Murray, Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps, page 243:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The conversion of traditional programs, websites, etc. into small, self-contained apps targeting mobile devices.
knob lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob locks
Senses: glosses: A door lock whose cylinder is located within the doorknob and not the main body of the door.
knob locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knob lock
Rip Van Winkleish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rip Van Winkleish
form: most Rip Van Winkleish
Etymology: From Rip Van Winkle + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Rip Van Winkle.
Rip Van Winklesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rip Van Winklesque
form: most Rip Van Winklesque
Etymology: From Rip Van Winkle + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Rip Van Winkle.
debauchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debauching
drywors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry wors
Etymology: From dry + wors, a calque of Afrikaans droëwors.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of droewors.
droewors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drywors
Etymology: From Afrikaans droëwors (literally “dry sausage”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of dried sausage similar to boerewors.
perlocute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perlocutes
form: perlocuting
form: perlocuted
form: perlocuted
Etymology: Back-formation from perlocution.
Senses: examples: text: […] a case in which a question illocuted as a genuine, non-rhetorical question is erroneously perlocuted as a rhetorical question.
ref: 1994, Cornelia Ilie, What Else Can I Tell You?, Almqvist & Wiksell International, page 41:
text: Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.
ref: 2002, Marco Rühl, Arguing and Communicative Asymmetry, Peter Lang Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Whether the interactive effect of perlocuting occurs is under the addressee's responsibility.
ref: 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: To achieve a perlocutionary effect.
raw_tags: with the effect as object
Related terms: locute
illocute
perlocutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perlocute
perlocuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perlocute
perlocuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perlocute
toilet wand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet wands
Etymology: Originally a trademark, ToiletWand.
Senses: examples: text: With easy to grab cleaners and towels you can quickly polish up a sink and with toilet wands available you can easily swish out a toilet.
ref: Genalin Jimenez, 10 Steps to Simplify Your Life and Declutter with the 'Live More with Less' Philosophy (page 216)
text: Marly suffered through various commercials for snack foods, new cars and toilet wands before the news came back on.
ref: 2006, Karen Kendall, Midnight Madness, page 218:
text: She was desperate for him to see her as someone other than Matt's annoying little sister, with her nose in a book and a toilet wand in her hand.
ref: 2013, Virginia Kantra, Carolina Girl:
text: The thought of someone looking over her designs with a critical eye nearly crippled her, but she wouldn't be wielding toilet wands for the rest of her life.
ref: 2015, Jules Bennett, Maid for a Magnate, page 41:
glosses: A kind of disposable toilet brush with a spongy head that is infused with cleaning fluid.
toilet wands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet wand
West Rainton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in West Rainton and Leamside parish, County Durham, England, north-east of the city of Durham (OS grid ref NZ3246).
Related terms: East Rainton
Middle Rainton
underhooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underhook
underhooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underhook
overhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhooks
Etymology: From over- + hook.
Senses: examples: text: He used overhooks to block the punches, but he didn't seem to know any submissions off the overhooks.
ref: 2005, Eddie Bravo, Jiu-jitsu Unleashed, page 12:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A clinch hold performed by putting an arm over the opponent's arm, and encircling the opponent's arm or upper body.
overhook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhooks
form: overhooking
form: overhooked
form: overhooked
Etymology: From over- + hook.
Senses: examples: text: Overhook one of his arms just above the elbow (here the right arm overhooks the opponent's left arm).
ref: 2004, Mark Hatmaker, No Holds Barred Fighting: Savage Strikes, page 128:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To use such a hold upon.
Related terms: underhook
overhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhook
overhooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhook
overhooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhook
overhooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhook
overbelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + belief.
Senses: glosses: Excessive belief.
Our Lady's bedstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lady's bedstraw (“the plant Galium verum”).
synonyms: word: lady's bedstraw
extra: the plant Galium verum
yellow bedstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lady's bedstraw (“the plant Galium verum”).
synonyms: word: lady's bedstraw
extra: the plant Galium verum
Ouled Naïl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ouled Naïls
form: Ouled-Nail
form: Ouled Nail
Senses: glosses: An Arab tribal confederation living in the Ouled Naïl Range, Algeria.
examples: text: The Ouled-Nails had extinguished their candles at a cry from one of their number, and the only light within the yard came feebly from the open and half-blocked door of the café.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: A female dancer, performer, courtesan, etc., from this group.
OLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ordinary language philosophy.
ordinary language philosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinary language philosophies
Senses: synonyms: word: OLP
word: Oxford philosophy
glosses: A philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings resulting from philosophers distorting or forgetting how words are ordinarily used to convey meaning in non-philosophical contexts.
ordinary language philosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinary language philosophy
Gellnerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gellnerian
form: most Gellnerian
Etymology: From Gellner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
catcallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catcalling
throw pearls before swine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws pearls before swine
form: throwing pearls before swine
form: threw pearls before swine
form: thrown pearls before swine
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cast pearls before swine.
synonyms: word: cast pearls before swine
venlaxafine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of venlafaxine.
crispy water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This salad is awful: it's nothing but crispy water.
glosses: Iceberg lettuce.
Shiney Row
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as such in 1821. Origin of Shiney unknown.
Senses: glosses: A village north-west of Houghton-le-Spring, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3252).
e-truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-trucks
Etymology: From e- + truck, as with e-bike and various other such terms.
Senses: examples: text: Daimler Truck is a leading maker of electric trucks, and DFDS [an international shipping and logistics company] is one of logistics' biggest e-truck customers, yet widespread adoption is a long way off.
ref: 2022 April 6, Sean Ashcroft, “E-truck use in logistics limited by cost and infrastructure”, in Supply Chain Digital, retrieved 03 May 2023:
text: E-truck makers typically start with a standard chassis from the likes of Ford Motor Co. or General Motors Co. Although those automakers are rolling out their own e-trucks, their transition has been slow, in part because such rigs are often less profitable than diesel versions. That leaves plenty of room for the upstarts, who fit the chassis with electric motors, battery packs and software.
ref: 2023 May 1, Kyle Stock, “Helping e-vans delilver: new subsidies can make battery-powered vans price-competitive with diesel versions”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, numbers 2023-05-01:
glosses: An electric truck: a motor truck whose propulsion is electric, especially one that is fully electric as opposed to hybrid electric.
Hypernyms: english: electric vehicle
translation: electric vehicle
word: EV
Hyponyms: e-van
Coordinate terms: e-bus
e-car
e-trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-truck
Excaliburs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Excalibur
e-van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-vans
Etymology: From e- + van, as with e-bike and various other such terms.
Senses: examples: text: Electric vans are cheaper overall than diesel vehicles, according to a new study of the total cost to buy and operate them in Europe. So, it’s no surprise that a survey of van buyers in Europe, also published today, finds that most want to go electric. But the supply of e-van models is lacking, which is why they account for only 3% of sales — lagging far behind battery electric cars (9%). […] Over one-third (36%) of van fleets surveyed already have at least one electric van while almost another third (32%) plan to buy an e-van this year, according to the poll of 745 fleets across Europe by Dataforce for T&E. A further 16% are considering buying an e-van in the next five years.
ref: 2022 March 31, Editorial staff, “Electric vans cheaper overall than diesel, study finds”, in CleanTechnica, retrieved 03 May 2023:
ref: 2023 May 1, Kyle Stock, “Helping e-vans delilver: new subsidies can make battery-powered vans price-competitive with diesel versions”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, numbers 2023-05-01:
glosses: An electric van: a motor truck with van body whose propulsion is electric, especially one that is fully electric as opposed to hybrid electric.
Hypernyms: english: electric vehicle
translation: electric vehicle
word: EV > e-truck
e-vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-van
course-correct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: course-corrects
form: course-correcting
form: course-corrected
form: course-corrected
Etymology: A back-formation from course correction.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: To alter the current course of an aircraft or other vessel to ensure it is directed towards the intended destination.
examples: text: I’ve occasionally gone on TV and movie fasts, usually to course-correct after overindulging in too many screen-based activities. But books are a constant and during no period of my life was I more immersed in books than as a teenager.
ref: 2017 January 21, Bim Adewunmi, “Why I love... author Nicola Yoon”, in The Guardian:
text: For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts. She is joined by women at various stages of their basketball careers, many focused on redemptive arcs of their own.
ref: 2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make adjustments to an ongoing process or project in order to achieve a desired outcome.
Zeldas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zelda
CSSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CSS
CSSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CSS
redemption arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redemption arc
Szlamowicz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Szlamowiczes
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
redemptive arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redemptive arcs
Senses: examples: text: A grim social-realist drama from New Zealand that labors to twist its narrative into a redemptive arc, “The Justice of Bunny King” has an unsteady tone to match its ungainly title.
ref: 2022 September 29, Ben Kenigsberg, “‘The Justice of Bunny King’ Review: No Way Out”, in The New York Times:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”).
synonyms: word: redemption arc
extra: story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings
examples: text: For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts. She is joined by women at various stages of their basketball careers, many focused on redemptive arcs of their own.
ref: 2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of redemption arc (“series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings”).
synonyms: word: redemption arc
extra: series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings
redemptive arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redemptive arc
Merlins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Merlin
First Contact Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: First Contact Days
Etymology: first contact + day.
From the fictional instance of official first contact in the Star Trek fictional universe for Earth, occurring in the 1996 film First Contact on 5 April 2063. Taken by Trekkies as a day to celebrate Star Trek.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: April 5th, an annual occasion to celebrate Star Trek.
wikipedia: en:Star Trek: First Contact
Synonyms: Star Trek Day
Coordinate terms: sense: fandom days
word: Aliens Day
sense: fandom days
word: Alien Day (26 April)
sense: fandom days
word: Back to the Future Day (21 October 2015)
sense: fandom days
word: May the Fourth (4 May)
sense: fandom days
word: Revenge of the Sixth (6 May)
sense: fandom days
word: Star Trek Day (8 September)
pelletty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pelletty
form: most pelletty
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pellety.
Aboyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on the River Dee in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5298).
Derived terms: Aboyne dress
identicard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identicards
Etymology: Blend of identity + card
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An identity card.
identicards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identicard
spindalises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindalis
Cheshire cats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheshire cat
piaies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piaie
Africanized bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africanized bees
Senses: synonyms: word: Africanized honey bee
word: killer bee
glosses: A hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis), and known for being defensive and aggressive.
Africanized bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Africanized bee
Africanized honey bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africanized honey bees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Africanized bee.
synonyms: word: Africanized bee
Afghan fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afghan foxes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Blanford's fox.
synonyms: word: Blanford's fox
Afghan foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afghan fox
unaffricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + affricated.
Senses: glosses: Not affricated.
aldolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aldolizes
form: aldolizing
form: aldolized
form: aldolized
Etymology: From aldol + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To (cause to) undergo aldolization; to convert into an aldol.
aldolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aldolize
aldolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aldolize
aldolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aldolize
amphibolitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amphibolitizes
form: amphibolitizing
form: amphibolitized
form: amphibolitized
Etymology: From amphibolite + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into amphibolite.
amphibolitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amphibolitize
amphibolitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amphibolitize
amphibolitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amphibolitize
amphibolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amphibolizes
form: amphibolizing
form: amphibolized
form: amphibolized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amphibolitize.
amphibolitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion into amphibolite.
amphibolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amphibolitization.
amphibolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amphibolize
amphibolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amphibolize
amphibolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amphibolize
anhydridization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion into an anhydride.
Modbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6551).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Tea Tree Gully, South Australia, named after the Devon village.
athbash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atbash.
euphyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euphylline.
at intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: His face was beautiful to look upon, and softly coloured like a girl’s face, and his expression one of gentle melancholy, mixed with some disdain; but fiery glints awoke at intervals in his eyes, and the lines of swift determination hovered round the mouth below his curled moustachios.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: now and again; intermittently
lightning speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning speeds
Senses: glosses: An extremely high speed; great rapidity.
lightning speeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightning speed
attachment parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: AP
glosses: A parenting philosophy that aims to promote the attachment of parent and infant through parental empathy, responsiveness, and bodily closeness.
wild carrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild carrots
Senses: examples: text: A concoction consisting of saffron, orange blossoms, dried dates, anise, wild carrots, and egg yolk, boiled in clear water into which honey and the blood of two freshly killed doves have been poured, is recommended by Arabs as a sexual inducement.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 212:
glosses: Daucus carota
Synonyms: European wild carrot
bird's nest
bishop's lace
Queen Anne's lace
Atwood's machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atwood's machines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Atwood machine.
kyanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of kyanization.
wedding card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding cards
Senses: glosses: A personal note conveying congratulations and best wishes to a couple on their wedding day.
wedding cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding card
audio card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio cards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sound card.
synonyms: word: sound card
audio cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio card
wasp beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasp beetles
Senses: glosses: A longhorn beetle of species Clytus arietis, that resembles a wasp,
caieque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caieques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caique.
caieques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caieque
wasp beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasp beetle
wart hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wart hogs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of warthog.
war lord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war lords
Senses: examples: text: On February 16, 1927, Chiang met the northern forces in open battle before Hangchow, and inflicted a smashing defeat. The middle-Yangtse war-lord fled north.
ref: 1938, Robert H. Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of warlord.
wart hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wart hog
war lords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war lord
war horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warhorse.
wall paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall papers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wallpaper.
aminophyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aminophylline.
pulmophylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: aminophylline.
wait one's turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits one's turn
form: waiting one's turn
form: waited one's turn
form: waited one's turn
Senses: coordinate_terms: wait out
glosses: To wait until it is time for one to do or receive something.
aviator glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aviator sunglasses.
synonyms: word: aviator sunglasses
Tea Tree Gully
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: A local government area in South Australia, which includes the suburb; in full, the City of Tea Tree Gully.
view point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: view points
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of viewpoint.