cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
safe place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe places
Senses: examples: text: Store your jewelry in a safe place.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see safe, place.
examples: text: My office is a safe place to talk about prior trauma.
synonyms: safe space
glosses: A place free of judgment, aspersion, or other repercussion.
pluck up one's courage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plucks up one's courage
form: plucking up one's courage
form: plucked up one's courage
form: plucked up one's courage
form: pluck up the courage
form: pluck up courage
Senses: synonyms: gather up one's courage
screw up one's courage
glosses: To muster the bravery and will to do something.
Related terms: grow some balls
misinflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinflates
form: misinflating
form: misinflated
form: misinflated
Etymology: From mis- + inflate.
Senses: examples: text: This unit uses sophiscated integrated circuits, so the machine itself can tell you if the cuff is misaligned or misinflated or if the batteries are weak.
ref: 1982, Saturday Review - Volume 9, Issues 1-6:
text: But is there anything that anyone just naturally does, as long as one is not distracted or misinflated by so-called artificial moral ideals?
ref: 1989, Richard Eldridge, Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell, On Moral Personhood, page 127:
text: Electric discharges are arrested via the ground contact so that the airbag cannot misinflate.
ref: 1994, Annual Connectors and Interconnection Technology Symposium Proceedings, volume 27, page 43:
text: According to a 2005 report approximately 74% of all 15-passenger vans had at least one tire misinflated by 25% or more.
ref: 2008, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Improving Roadway Safety, page 86:
glosses: To inflate improperly.
misinflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinflate
misinflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinflate
misinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinflate
misinflect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinflects
form: misinflecting
form: misinflected
form: misinflected
Etymology: From mis- + inflect.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns.
ref: 1869, The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, page 264:
text: In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns).
ref: 1980, Elinor Shaffer, Comparative Criticism:
text: This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion.
ref: 1989 ·, Richard Fleming, Michael Payne, The Senses of Stanley Cavell, page 234:
text: They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it.
ref: 1998, Starling Lawrence, Montenegro: A Novel, page 31:
glosses: To inflect incorrectly.
misinflects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinflect
misinflecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinflect
misinflected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinflect
pseudonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudonations
Etymology: From pseudo- + nation.
Senses: examples: text: Does Minerva, the name of the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom, seem inappropriate for a pseudonation created by some California promoters?
ref: 1973, Forbes, volume 112, page 87:
text: Such a pseudonation will have its political parties split into ethnic or religious branches...
ref: 1991, J. N. Nanda, Conflicts and Co-existence, India, page 12:
text: Many state nationalisms are based on nothing more than a putative or postulated nation, i.e. a pseudonation–as became very clear after the fact in the cases of the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR.
ref: 2008, Egbert Jahn, Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, page 45:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.
pseudonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonation
pseudo-nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-nations
Etymology: From pseudo- + nation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudonation.
pseudo-nations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-nation; alternative form of pseudonations
misinfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɪnfluəns/
Forms: form: misinfluences
form: misinfluencing
form: misinfluenced
form: misinfluenced
Etymology: From mis- + influence.
Senses: examples: text: It would still continue to work within as a disturbing and perturbing potency, which detracts from the proper freshness and vigour of the moral zeal, which misinfluences man more or less to yield inclinations and undercurrents of feeling, which do not appear in directly definite offences but still imperceptibly induces in the one direction or the other a state of inertness, of selfish pusillanimity or a prevailing tone of sharpnes and bitterness of disposition of mind;
ref: 1853, Julius Müller, translated by W. Pulsford, The Christian doctrine of sin, page 285:
text: We do not want a great organization such as is now being brought about through farmers' movements to misrepresent the grain dealsers of this Nation to the point where they will arouse in the hearts and minds of the producers a prejudice against our services, or arouse in the hearts and minds of the consumers of America a prejudice against our services, and we are gathered here now for the purpose of providing ways and means for bringing to the attention of both classes the real service we render, in order that our interests will be protected against the chicanery, the socialism, the anarchy, the infamy of those things that are being brought to bear to misinfluence and misdirect the farmers and others of this country whose interests are bound to suffer when ours do.
ref: 1922, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Investigation of Organizations Engaged in Combating Legislation for the Relief of Agriculture, page 223:
text: As more and more people become aware of this systematic program of government partiality towards those special interests “compatible ” with the prejudices of the fonctionnaires, demagogues, intellectuals, and others who misinfluence “public policy", they also become aware of the need to organize politically either to press upon the state claims of their own, or to resist the claims of others.
ref: 1976, Edwin Vieira, Of Syndicalism, Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, page 827:
glosses: To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.
misinfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈɪnfluəns/
Forms: form: misinfluences
Etymology: From mis- + influence.
Senses: examples: text: So I must also keep in mind as I write this that what I describe, again, may not tend to truth because of some environmental misinfluence.
ref: 1968, James McClure, The Hanging of the Angels, page 256:
text: At one and the same time it is considered to be the in-profession, the sophisticated career, the forward-looking opportunity, the world of the avant-garde and at the same time it is reckoned to be a misinfluence, a sham, a hypocritical calling that could do with a bit more hypercriticism from its followers.
ref: 1969, Advertisers Weekly: Organ of British Advertising - Volume 242, page 25:
glosses: A bad influence; something that misinfluences.
examples: text: We can supplement them; we can keep them from exerting any great misinfluence; in short , we can use them instead of being used by them .
ref: 1930, The English Journal - Volume 19, page 238:
text: The sailors, soldiers, and other members of the armed forces have left their mark on society. Some marks are misinfluence, misrepresentation, illegitimate children, and misinterpretation of the ways of society in the prospective territories.
ref: 1959, Red, White, and Black: Ernow and Erlong Past, Present and Future, page 41:
glosses: The act or status of misinfluencing.
misinfluences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinfluence
misinfluences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misinfluence
misinfluencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinfluence
misinfluenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinfluence
misindoctrination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Indoctrination with a bad or wrong ideology.
sodium gluconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of gluconic acid.
Related terms: E576
unloopable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + loopable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be looped.
bustitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bustitute
bustituting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bustitute
bustituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bustitute
topic of conversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topics of conversation
Senses: glosses: Something currently talked about.
banging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bang on
bangs on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bang on
misingest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misingests
form: misingesting
form: misingested
form: misingested
Etymology: From mis- + ingest.
Senses: examples: text: A radiograph of the abdomen indicated that the blade of a hand reamer was misingested in the stomach wall of a young patient who was undergoing endodontic treatment.
ref: 1974, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 169:
text: Most misingested dental prostheses are easily removed by endoscope or fall naturally into the stomach.
ref: 2006 March, Y Moriwaki, H Toyoda, T Kosuge, M Sugiyama, “A case of esophageal foreign body (dental prosthesis with sharp clasp) saved by emergency thoracic esohagectomy with simultaneous reconstruction”, in Japanese Journal of Gastrenterologic Surgery, volume 39, number 3:
text: A 9-month-old male infant, 8 kg, was referred to our hospital for a known BB in his abdomen, which had been misingested 5 days previously.
ref: 2007 March, WJ Soong, YS Yuh, “Ingested button battery retrieved by a modified magnet endoscope”, in Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, volume 70, number 3:
glosses: To ingest by accident.
misingests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misingest
misingesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misingest
misingested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misingest
misinhale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinhales
form: misinhaling
form: misinhaled
form: misinhaled
Etymology: From mis- + inhale.
Senses: examples: text: The So-it-goes motif from Slaughterhouse 5, which had half Haight Ashbury misinhaling at the raw truthfulness of its recurrence, pops up in an even more irritating form, 'Hi ho'.
ref: 1976, The New Review - Volume 3, Issues 31-36 -, page 72:
text: She misinhaled and got lost for a moment in a storm of coughing.
ref: 1979, Peter Collier, Downriver, page 234:
text: She had not smoked pot in a dozen years, but she toked smoothly as ever. No misinhaling.
ref: 1997, Chris K. James, A Fling With a Demon Lover, page 102:
glosses: To have trouble when inhaling.
misinhales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinhale
misinhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinhale
misinhaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinhale
misinherit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinherits
form: misinheriting
form: misinherited
form: misinherited
Etymology: From mis- + inherit.
Senses: examples: text: And this incongruence of the inner constitution of man's soul is invincible and universal: his nature is a disordered jumble of misinherited tendencies.
ref: 1891, Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of Evolution, page 104:
text: He confessed at the last that he had betrayed the trust of the dead, and misinherited a fortune .
ref: 1900, Charles Dickens, Andrew Lang, Christmas stories, page 333:
text: This prepared a legacy that the further acquaintance of the seventeenth century could only misinherit because seventeenth-century American settlers concentrated on "developing" the land, not on describing it.
ref: 1966, Peter A. Fritzell, Landscapes of Anglo-America During Exploration and Early Settlement, page 3:
text: You might come to see the well ventilated dwellings of Shelley's imagination as striving toward an unguarded welcoming of, and trusting commitment to that human “breath made words,” which is our terms as our (Kantian) conditions (what we say together) and what together we so routinely and endemically misuse and misinherit, but not without the thereby accumulating potentiality of an aversive recoil into the exits of desire that has “been expressed at any time only by breathers of words, mortals, [so that] their strokes may be given now , and may gather together now-- in a recoiling-- all the power of world-creating words" (pp. 25).
ref: 2013, Edward T. Duffy, Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism, page 167:
glosses: To inherit incorrectly.
misinherits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinherit
misinheriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinherit
misinherited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinherit
Boudouard reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boudouard reaction
misinject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinjects
form: misinjecting
form: misinjected
form: misinjected
Etymology: From mis- + inject.
Senses: examples: text: It is quite easy to misinject the adjuvant and deliver the bulk of the inoculum into a caudal blood vessel.
ref: 1988, Robert A. Greenwald, Herbert S. Diamond, CRC Handbook of Animal Models for the Rheumatic Diseases, page 11:
text: Roe admitted that he may have misinjected drugs during the abortion.
ref: 1996, Mark Crutcher, Lime 5: Exploited by Choice, page 71:
text: Using MRI, it was possible to distinguish between cells that were injected into the lymph nodes and cells that were misinjected and to monitor the migration of the former (Fig. 2) (22).
ref: 2008, Martin G. Pomper, Juri G. Gelovani, Molecular Imaging in Oncology, page 505:
glosses: To inject (a substance) incorrectly.
examples: text: If the Botox injecting physician overdoses the patient with Botox, or if he or she misinjects the patient — injects Botox into the wrong muscles — the consequences to the patient can be grave indeed.
ref: 1964, American Jurisprudence Trials, page 495:
text: He also showed me his syringe and the place on his arm where he had misinjected himself the night before and caused a puffy, swollen spot.
ref: 1971, Joan Hatch Shapiro, Joan Hatch Lennox, Communities of the Alone, page 102:
glosses: To inject (a person) incorrectly.
misinjects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinject
misinjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinject
misinjected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinject
ternery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜːnəɹi/
ipa: /tɝnəɹi/
homophone: ternary
Forms: form: terneries
Etymology: From tern + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Altogether Harvie-Brown has visited a great many Hebridean terneries, and paid special attention to their inhabitants.
ref: 1888, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas Edward Buckley, A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, Edinburgh: David Douglas, page 140:
text: The reason dead fish are so often found in a ternery is that these are the ones that have proved to be too much for the chicks to swallow.
ref: 1991, John Hay, chapter 13, in The Bird of Light,, New York and London: Norton, page 117:
glosses: A colony of terns.
terneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ternery
foster fail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foster fails
Senses: glosses: The situation in which a person intends to foster an animal temporarily but winds up adopting the animal permanently.
foster fails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foster fail
recaffeinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recaffeinates
form: recaffeinating
form: recaffeinated
form: recaffeinated
Etymology: From re- + caffeinate.
Senses: glosses: To supply with more caffeine.
recaffeinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recaffeinate
recaffeinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recaffeinate
recaffeinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recaffeinate
æneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æneous
form: most æneous
Senses: examples: For citations see: aeneous
glosses: Alternative form of aeneous.
Six Bells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from the name of a public house.
Senses: glosses: A suburb and ward in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO2203).
prehumously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prehumous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Prior to the coming event, the father of the as-yet-unborn Tristram is indulging in some serious speculations with the Doctor relevant to the site of the human soul. Tristram relates prehumously, one might say, the prevailing thoughts of his father:[…]
ref: 1926, Medical Life, volume XXXIII, page 270:
text: (Whenever my demise, I can assure you what I say today will not ever be published posthumously or even “prehumously” … )
ref: 1973, James C. Humes, Instant Eloquence: A Lazy Man’s Guide to Public Speaking, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Micky does not see the point of Harold’s choice to race the tide. Harold’s last words are ‘Well, you will some day.’ There is a point, then; Harold sees it immediately and prehumously, while Micky will see it posthumously. The literal meaning of ‘see’ lends spatial context to the ‘point,’ the temporal context of which is established by Harold’s last words. The mathematically literal meaning of ‘point’ is ‘position without extension.’
ref: 1976, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, page 198:
text: Announce death-defying journals & book—a style which can be published anytime. Maybe I should do a posthumous book out of journals prehumously.
ref: 1979, The Journals of A. H. Maslow, Monterey, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 868:
text: Even more evocative of the De Vulgari as a whole than Dante’s deceit is the extraordinary chronology of these sinners’ punishment: just as the De Vulgari is Dante’s prehumous Hell, so do these suffer Hell prehumously, their souls consigned there while their bodies yet live.
ref: 1981, Warman Welliver, Dante in Hell: The De Vulgari Eloquentia, Ravenna: A. Longo Editore, page 30:
text: We were pleased to note that a couple of our own were honored prehumously a few months ago for their contributions to dentistry.
ref: 1995, The Journal of the California Dental Association, page 70:
glosses: Before death.
Synonyms: antemortem
anthumously
premortem
anthumously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anthumous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And the social problem will not worry us, so long as millionaires are creators rather than wasters; so long as they turn into philanthropists anthumously; so long as the son of a blacksmith may become wealthy, and President;
ref: 1957, Albert Guérard, Fossils and Presences, Stanford University Press, page 23:
text: […]of whom are B. P. Hasdeu, Mihai Eminescu, Ion Luca Caragiale – with a thorough and telling pleading on the decisive impact of Eminescu’s poetry (anthumously and posthumously published) with its Romantic-type inherent sublimity.
ref: 1988, Romanian Review, page 77, column 2:
text: I will thus henceforth call “poetic collection” a collection of poems, in verse or in prose, published or at least created by one, or exceptionally more than one, poet, in principle before his death; a collection published posthumously but created anthumously, such as Vigny’s Destinées, strictly corresponds to this definition;
ref: 2005, “Fantasy Landscape”, in Dorrit Cohn, transl., Essays in Aesthetics (Stages; volume 20), translation of original by Gérard Genette, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Before death.
Synonyms: antemortem
prehumously
premortem
singing girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singing girls
Senses: examples: text: She was a stranger in Palembang: she had fled from some one in the interior, and had lately entered the house of Tumunggung Nora Wangsa; who was patron, also, of another singing girl present, called Sahdeeah.
ref: 1856, Walter M. Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden: And a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, Sampson Low Son & Company, page 213:
text: The Guide to the Yoshiwara gives a list of fifty-five singing-girls, besides a host of minor stars. These women are not to be confounded with the courtesans.
ref: 1870, “Tales of Old Japan, No. II—The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 14:
text: A girl is not considered disgraced if, for her parent's sake, she sells herself into the life of a "singing girl", geisha, or plain prostitute.
ref: 1943, Clyde B. Camerer, Peter E. Huth, “The Social Evil in Japan”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 41:
text: One was a revolt of the people of Medina, who had publicly withdrawn their allegiance to Yazid, in spite of his attempts to conciliate their leaders, in reaction, we are told, to the caliph's personal unsuitability for his office—charges such as enjoyment of singing girls and playing with a pet monkey are brought against him in the tradition.
ref: 2000 July 13, G. R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate, AD 661-750, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A young woman of low social status (often enslaved) who performs as a musician and entertainer, especially in Asian societies.
Related terms: sing-song girl
pentacarpellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + carpellate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having five carpels
Braby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pentaphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -phonic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Composed of five notes
forraign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forraign
form: most forraign
Senses: examples: text: discarded into a Forraign Service, for a pretty shadow of Exilement
ref: 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England:
text: Whence comes it, that in Christendome there has been, almost from the time of the Apostles, such justling of one another out of their places, both by forraign, and Civill war? such stumbling at every little asperity of their own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men?
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 44, in Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, page 334:
text: [T]he Soveraign Power, and Iuriſdiction both in the Roman and German Empires, and in moſt forraign Chriſtian Kingdoms, was, and yet is, in the Senate, People, Parliaments, States, Dyets; yet this is no empeachment at all to their royall Supremacies, or Titles of Supreme Heads, and Governours, within their own Dominions, [...]
ref: 1643, William Prynne, “The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to Their Soveraignes, in Doctrine and Practise. […] The Second Edition, Enlarged.”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of foreign.
Potterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet north of Barwick in Elmet, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4038).
glosses: A village in Aberdeenshire council area, north of Aberdeen, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9415).
glosses: A surname.
Hackmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hackmanns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hackmann, occupational surname for a butcher or woodcutter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hin
Hackmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hackmann
Haverly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haverlys
Etymology: Unexplained. Probably from a lost or unattested location.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Harts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hartses
Etymology: (surname) Borrowed from Dutch Harts, but also a patronymic form of the surname Hart.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
glosses: Misspelling of Herts.
Hartses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harts
Haverlys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haverly
Gellert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gellerts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gellert and Hungarian Gellért.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gellerts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gellert
Gravinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gravina
TUFU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: TOFU
glosses: Initialism of trust upon first use.
white stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] he was selling the white stuff and it's hard to bust cocaine dealers because they operate in areas that are hard to control.
ref: 2009 November 24, Elias Khoury, The Journey of Little Gandhi: A Novel, Picador, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Damion would go pick up the white stuff - coke - for his mom so that he didn't have to . That wore out quick. Now Damion was making him sell the stuff for him!
ref: 2010 April 23, Deanna Sparrow, The Legend of the Draugons, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 20:
text: "No, man, the real shit is cocaine. And when motherfuckers start going hungry here, they find it as an excuse to sell the white stuff to the tourists. You don't want to do that because the news goes right to the bosses of the real cartels,” Oscar said and offered me the joint again.
ref: 2019, Lucas D. Camaney, Bohemian Rhetoric, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: The drug cocaine.
examples: text: […] in selling the white stuff in little bottles, which, as Coleman has guessed, was dope. It was heroin and morphine. They also sold opium.
ref: 1928, Herbert Asbury, The Tick of the Clock, page 169:
text: Turkey's three-year ban against growth of the poppy - now lifted - is the reason why white heroin has been in such short supply in this country. "I shudder to think what's going to happens when the white stuff starts flowing [again]," said Vernon D. Meyer, […]
ref: 1975, Federal Drug Enforcement: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, of the United States Senate Committee on Government Operations, page 132:
text: Sometimes you couldn't get opium, maybe no ship had come in. so I changed to the white stuff — heroin. This was when I was about thirty-five years old. I bought it all over the place — uptown, downtown, Chinatown.
ref: 2013, David T. Courtwright, Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use, page 84:
glosses: The drug heroin, or sometimes the drug morphine.
examples: text: But after being in it for more than an hour, he wasn't at all sure about the white stuff. His hands were so cold they were numb.
ref: 1901, Bradley Gabriella, Mice and Spice, page 28:
text: Starting on 12 December the white stuff started falling and from then 'til spring the ground was continually covered with snow, ice, slush and mixtures of each at any one time.
ref: 1962, Captain James H. Hughes, “Winter at White Plains”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 9, page 15:
text: The white stuff was coming quick and heavy, the wind driving it around the clearing in flurries, decreasing visibility to less than a few yards in the dark gray of late afternoon.
ref: 2000, Robert Marcum, White Out, page 58:
text: They rolled down the hills with hands full of the white stuff which was coming down in earnest.
ref: 2001, Andrei Codrescu, An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and what Happened Afterwards), page 290:
text: ... we were getting appreciable amounts of the white stuff, and it was sticking around long enough to bring out the unmistakable crashing rumble of the snowplows.
ref: 2005, Molly Wolf, White China: Finding the Divine in the Everyday, page 99:
glosses: Snow.
Geerdes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geerdeses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Geerdes.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gehling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gehlings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gehling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gehlings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gehling
Geerdeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Geerdes
Cecis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ceci
Frankenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frankenberg
Bushaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bushaws
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rabulistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rabulistic
form: most rabulistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rabulous.
synonyms: word: rabulous
Rabelaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Rabelaisianism.
synonyms: word: Rabelaisianism
Clarkstons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clarkston
Bushaws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bushaw
radiocast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocasts
Senses: glosses: A radio broadcast.
radiocast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiocasts
form: radiocasting
form: radiocast
form: radiocast
form: radiocasted
form: radiocasted
Senses: glosses: To broadcast by radio.
radiocasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiocast
radiocasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radiocast
radiocasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiocast
radiocasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radiocast
radiocaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocasters
Senses: glosses: A radio broadcaster.
radiocasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiocaster
radiobroadcaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiobroadcasters
Senses: examples: text: A radiobroadcaster or other entity which does not supply the copyright agency with […] complete data on the use of performances […] [and] a copy of the contract […] shall be punished […]
ref: 1990, Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., volume 38, page 226:
text: It is not for naught that employees of the radiobroadcaster are saying among themselves that the current status at Czech Radio is the result of the hard struggle between the "sixty-eighters" and those who are "younger," […]
ref: 1993, Daily Report: East Europe. Supplement, numbers 26-36, page 11:
glosses: A broadcaster via radio.
radiobroadcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiobroadcaster
radiolocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiolocates
form: radiolocating
form: radiolocated
form: radiolocated
Senses: glosses: To locate by radiolocation.
radiolocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiolocators
Senses: glosses: An instrument that carries out radiolocation.
radiolocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radiolocate
radiolocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radiolocate
radiolocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiolocate
radiolocators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiolocator
McCary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCarys
form: McCarry
form: McGary
Etymology: Variant of McGarry or an Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhiachra (“son of Fiachra”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
ragseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragsellers
Etymology: From rag + seller.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells rags.
ragsellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragseller
rakehellish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rakehellish
form: most rakehellish
Etymology: From rakehell + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rakehell.
synonyms: word: rakehell
Manuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manus
railroadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more railroadish
form: most railroadish
Etymology: From railroad + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] from the moment I cleared the station shed, and raised my eyes from the railroadish bustle all around to the soaring triumph of the Ch'ien Men, or Principal Gate, […]
ref: 1924, Hubbard Hutchinson, Far Harbors Around the World, page 234:
text: His uniform is more nautical than railroadish
ref: 2017, Malcolm Jameson, Vengeance in Her Bones and Other Sci-Fi Adventures:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a railroad.
McCarys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCary
railwayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more railwayish
form: most railwayish
Etymology: From railway + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a railway.
rampingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rampingly
form: most rampingly
Etymology: From ramping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In Rome it appears to be a standing rule that every authenticated guide shall be a violent Socialist and therefore rampingly anticlerical in all his views.
ref: 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised:
glosses: With rage or violence.
cizye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turkish cizye, from Arabic جِزْيَة (jizya). Doublet of jizya.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jizya (“Islamic poll tax”).
synonyms: word: jizya
extra: Islamic poll tax
rasamala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasamalas
Senses: glosses: The evergreen tree Altingia excelsa.
rasamalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasamala
Garganos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gargano
Paynton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Paynton No. 470, Saskatchewan, Canada.
McManuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McManus
reboundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rebound + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to rebound or be rebounded.
reconfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconfuses
form: reconfusing
form: reconfused
form: reconfused
Etymology: From re- + confuse.
Senses: glosses: To confuse again.
reconfuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfuse
Naish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naishes
Etymology: Variant of Nash.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A low-level subgroup of Sino-Tibetan languages that include Naxi, Na, and Laze.
reconfusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconfuse
reconfused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconfuse
reconcilee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconcilees
Etymology: From reconcile + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is reconciled.
reconcilees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconcilee
reconcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconcretes
form: reconcreting
form: reconcreted
form: reconcreted
Etymology: From re- + concrete.
Senses: glosses: To concrete again.
recondemn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recondemns
form: recondemning
form: recondemned
form: recondemned
Etymology: From re- + condemn.
Senses: glosses: To condemn again.
reconcreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconcrete
reconcretes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconcrete
reconcreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconcrete
recondemned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recondemn
recondemns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recondemn
recondemning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recondemn
recountless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recount + -less.
Senses: glosses: Too many to list; innumerable.
recriticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recriticizes
form: recriticizing
form: recriticized
form: recriticized
Etymology: From re- + criticize.
Senses: glosses: To criticize again.
Dorward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorwards
form: Dorwart
Etymology: Scottish occupational surname for a doorkeeper, from Old English duru (“door”) + weard (“guard”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
recriticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recriticize
recriticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recriticize
recriticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recriticize
redeemeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeemeresses
Etymology: From redeemer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: So I guess tracking down redeemers, or redeemeresses, was never Merlin's strong point.
ref: 1999, Jaimy Gordon, Bogeywoman, page 110:
glosses: A female redeemer.
Synonyms: redemptress
redemptrix
redeemeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redeemeress
recuperance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: recuperation
regimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: regimental
Camperdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the naval Battle of Camperdown, fought off Camperduin in the Netherlands.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2772).
glosses: An area and park in the City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3632).
glosses: A settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: An inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A rural town in south-western Victoria, Australia, named after the Earl of Camperdown.
Derived terms: Camperdown elm
batch-edit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: batch-edits
form: batch-editing
form: batch-edited
form: batch-edited
Senses: glosses: To carry out a batch edit
batchedit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: batchedits
form: batchediting
form: batchedited
form: batchedited
Senses: glosses: edit in batch; change a whole group of items in one
Synonyms: batch-edit
McLuckie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McLuckies
Etymology: Corrupt form of McLucas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
burn barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burn barrels
Senses: glosses: A large metal container in which waste materials are disposed of by burning.
preprostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + prostatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior to the prostate
prostatovesical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the prostate and the seminal vesicles
Llanishen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in north Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1781).
glosses: A village in Trellech United community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4703).
Trellech United
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Trellech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh tre + llech.
Senses: glosses: A village in Trellech United community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5005).
Pirbright
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9455).
Sandycove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 2527).
when in doubt, do nowt
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: -aʊt
Etymology: nowt is a dialectal form of nought, used here for the rhyme.
Senses: synonyms: when in doubt, abstain
when in doubt, leave it out
glosses: When faced with a difficult decision, it is better not to take unnecessary risks.
misinspect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinspects
form: misinspecting
form: misinspected
form: misinspected
Etymology: From mis- + inspect.
Senses: examples: text: Our Kansas hard wheat is such a distinctive type that it is not easy to misinspect or unfairly treat it, although the tendency at times is to mix some other wheat with it, and pass it off as Kansas wheat; but we have a grade that covers that class of wheat, which is kown as mixed wheat, composed of any kind of sound wheat from any locality.
ref: 1902, Grain and Farm Service Centers, volume 8, page 307:
text: He can use that instrument every day and miscalibrate and misinspect a large percentage of the equipment he is supposed to certify.
ref: 1967, EEE - Volume 15, Issues 1-12:
text: The United States argued that its negligence occurred either in Japan, where the plane's plans were misinspected, or in Korea, where the military had failed to transmit the plane's distress signals to rescue personnel.
ref: 1988, Julie Zatz, FTCA Exeception: Claims Arising in a Foreign Country, page 20:
text: Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is "shy or dimwitted" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.
ref: 2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146:
glosses: To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting.
misinspects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinspect
misinspecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinspect
misinspected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinspect
misinspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misinspections
Etymology: From mis- + inspect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: On-line installation of this inspection equipment resulted in a 20 % reduction in misinspection of defects in travelling strip.
ref: 1985, Madhav N. Sinha, Walter W. O. Willborn, The Management of Quality Assurance, page 263:
text: It doesn't do much good for your people to document the work they've done if you don't pay attention to what they've written. Incomplete misinspection — another dropped object.
ref: 1987 September, “Chock Talk”, in TAC Attack, volume 27, number 9, page 14:
text: Quality control, a separate department, spot checks first-line tubes ( those tubes passed by the inspectors ) for defects or other misinspections.
ref: 1988, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 2:
text: Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects .
ref: 2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64:
glosses: An inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.
misinspections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misinspection
misinstall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinstalls
form: misinstalling
form: misinstalled
form: misinstalled
Etymology: From mis- + install.
Senses: examples: text: If possible, the evaluator should insert the same type of defects (or simulate the defects) that occur in the components of the circuits involved. If a particular decoder chip on a certain board is often misinstalled, for example, one should misinstall the component.
ref: 1984, Allan C. Stover, ATE: Automatic Test Equipment, page 187:
text: Thermostats are quite reliable, but may not work because they are misinstalled, fall out of adjustment, need cleaning, or because components malfunction.
ref: 1996, Gene Schnaser, The Home Repair Emergency Handbook:
text: A family, school, society, or religion can misinstall our sexuality. Then that dimension of our personality does not work for us in healthy ways.
ref: 2014, David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Love:
text: Those experienced in such installations know what to do, but most construction crews do not—they will inevitably misinstall.
ref: 2018, William D. Kimmel, Daryl Gerke, Electromagnetic Compatibility in Medical Equipment, page 227:
text: Malicious Apps often disguise as normal Apps, the common form is the free version of paid Apps, users often misinstall such malicious Apps.
ref: 2021, Ding Wang, Weizhi Meng, Jinguang Han, Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments:
glosses: To install improperly or by mistake.
Derived terms: misinstallation
misinstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinstall
misinstalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinstall
misinstalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinstall