cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
revenewe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenewes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of revenue.
revenewes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revenewe
verstes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verste
vesiculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vesiculate
vessail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vessails
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vessel.
vessails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vessail
vestural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vesture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to vesture, or clothing.
vicesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vigesimal.
synonyms: word: vigesimal
vincibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vincible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This category was further subdivided into those vincibly ignorant and those invincibly ignorant. The vincibly ignorant were those people who had had an opportunity to hear the gospel but had rejected it.
ref: 1996, James A. Donahue, M. Theresa Moser, Religion, ethics & the common good, page 112:
glosses: In a vincible manner.
we'uns
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of we-uns.
fosteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fosteresses
form: fostress
Etymology: From foster + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female fosterer.
on the viretot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In a great hurry.
hucksteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hucksteresses
form: huckstress
Etymology: From huckster + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female huckster.
Related terms: huckster
hucksterer
toe sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe sacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of towsack.
virous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virus + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: a virous disease
glosses: viral
launderess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launderesses
form: laundress
Etymology: From launder + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female launderer.
hucksteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hucksteress
biscuit hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Every looked at his hands and said, ‘Them's right powerful-lookin biscuit hooks you got, my friend.’
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: The hands.
Synonyms: meat hook
twitchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt͡ʃɪt/
Forms: form: twitchets
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from twitch + -et. First attested in the late 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Now I aint one of these twitchet-struck tomcats who's got it on his mind day in and day out, but I'm a man, goddammit, and you showed me what it's like for the first time to enjoy bein a man.’
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
text: The country boy felt of her legs, and patted her bottom, and kissed her bubbies, and then he begun to tickle her twitchet.
ref: 1976, Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, page 138:
glosses: The vulva or vagina.
visionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From visional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In or as a vision.
visitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visitator
apostolic visitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostolic visitors
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: In the Catholic Church, a papal representative with a transient mission to perform a canonical visitation of relatively short duration and to submit a report to the Holy See afterwards.
apostolic visitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostolic visitor
vizirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vizirates
Etymology: From vizir + -ate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vizierate.
vizirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vizirate
volitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of volitate
volitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of volitate
volitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of volitate
vorlages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Not content with the table displays, Daddy covered the sofa with our new ski-ing clothes, our beanies, vorlages, ankle-length tomato coloured pants, Mummy's furry earmuffs, their anoraks and my parka.
ref: 1964, Caroline Glyn, Don't Knock the Corners Off, page 184:
text: Next came the vorlages, copied from the Austrian guides, which are almost similar to the first trousers Mr Symonds designed for women. The vorlages have held the slopes against all comers ever since.
ref: 1966, Allison Adburgham, View of Fashion, page 56:
text: Another example of the same trap is vorlages. These tight-fitting trousers are only necessary for championship ski-ing where aerodynamic resistance is important, and yet everybody wears them!
ref: 1966, Climber and Rambler, volume 5, page 137:
text: "Air suits me," she had remarked, for she had bought two pairs of black vorlages and matched them with a series of thick sweaters in black and orange patterns and an orange snood.
ref: 1966, David Benedictus, This Animal is Mischievous, page 12:
text: The main requirements of clothing are a suitable pair of trousers or vorlages and a waterproof windcheater jacket or anorak, and even these may be hired for the duration of one's holiday if desired.
ref: 1968, Howard Bass, Winter Sports, page 22:
glosses: A particular style of tight-fitting ski pants.
Related terms: vorlage
vorlages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorlage
Vouvray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vouvrays
Senses: glosses: A white wine from the commune of Vouvray in central France.
Vouvrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vouvray
twitchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twitchet
communers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communer
Schiavone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schiavones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Schiavone.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
so much the better
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Its business was to block change, not advance it, and if it thereby obstructed something he himself, as a very conservative fellow, disliked, so much the better.
ref: 2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist:
glosses: That is or would be even better.
Synonyms: tant mieux
all to the better
assisted dying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I finished ECT in August 2020, and after a period of accepting there was no more treatment, I applied for assisted dying in December that year. It’s a long and complicated process. It’s not like you ask for assisted dying on a Monday and you’re dead by Friday.
ref: 2024 May 16, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Zoraya ter Beek, “Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The administration of medical procedures to hasten an individual's death; a legal form of assisted suicide.
Hyponyms: assisted suicide
euthanasia
XUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XUVs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of extreme ultraviolet.
examples: text: For example, positive obstacles such as fallen trees directly along the prescribed path would high-center the vehicle and negative obstacles such as culverts near certain intersections in the Urban course went undetected and became hazards for the XUV.
ref: 2006, Raj Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, James Sacra Albus, Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach, →ISBN, page 274:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of crossover utility vehicle or crossover sport utility vehicle.
Synonyms: sense: ultraviolet
english: extreme ultraviolet
translation: extreme ultraviolet
word: EUV
sense: crossover
english: crossover utility vehicle
translation: crossover utility vehicle
word: CUV
Hypernyms: sense: ultraviolet
english: ultraviolet
translation: ultraviolet
word: UV
sense: crossover
english: sport utility vehicle
translation: sport utility vehicle
word: SUV
Related terms: word: UV
word: UVA
word: UV A
word: UV-A
word: UVB
word: UV B
word: UV-B
word: UVC
word: UV C
word: UV-C
word: DUV
word: NUV
word: MUV
word: FUV
english: sport utility vehicle
translation: sport utility vehicle
word: SUV
english: compact utility vehicle
translation: compact utility vehicle
word: CUV
Persian cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Persian cats
Senses: glosses: A cat of a long-haired breed with a round face and short muzzle.
Hyponyms: Blue Persian
Persian cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Persian cat
jiju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jijus
Senses: glosses: brother-in-law
TRAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In February, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand South Carolina's TRAP law, which imposes 27 pages of requirements on abortion clinics—providing a virtual blueprint for states that want to create constitutional clinic regulations.
ref: 2001 September 24, Barry Yeoman, “The Quiet War on Abortion”, in Mother Jones:
qualifier: legislation
glosses: Acronym of targeted regulation of abortion providers.
qualifier: employment law
glosses: Acronym of training-repayment-agreement provision.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.
Derived terms: TRAP law
clampy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmpi/
Forms: form: more clampy
form: most clampy
Etymology: From clamp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The hermit crab must somehow sqeeze, His clampy claws and knobby knees
ref: 2010, Susan Blackaby Nest, Nook & Cranny, https://books.google.ru/books?id=YzuKGDXIKZQC&pg=PA16&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQg0MAU#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false
text: She held up the little metal clampy thing and squeezed the ends together.
ref: 2013, Laura Morrigan, Woof at the Door, https://books.google.ru/books?id=kSerwpK7So8C&pg=PT30&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNo4q2wJDLAhUlk3IKHYCrAQY4FBDoAQgaMAA#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false
text: The coffee table is a cluttered smorgasbord of medical shit - tubes and tapes and bags and scissors and clampy things.
ref: 2013, Eliza Gordon, Must Love Otters, https://books.google.ru/books?id=_cWvAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT39&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNo4q2wJDLAhUlk3IKHYCrAQY4FBDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false
glosses: Resembling a clamp; clamp-like.
examples: text: His hands grew clampy with cold.
text: 2005, Emmanuel Acheta, Duel With a Dictator. An African Woman's Political Struggle, https://books.google.ru/books?id=0nseN228J-QC&pg=PA154&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQhAMAc#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=falseː
Her hands were clampy, speech unsure and eyes half-closed.
text: The reptiles roared, throwing their heads back in exultation, and threw away their useless weapons, which they could no longer hold efficiently with their clampy hands.
ref: 2010, Lewis A. Walmsley, Glassidor, https://books.google.ru/books?id=kb7eci6LnDsC&pg=PA112&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQg6MAY#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false
glosses: unwieldy, clumsy, hard to wield or control (of hands).
docstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒk.stɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɑk.stɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: docstrings
Etymology: From doc + string; see doc (“documentation”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code, but remains available at run-time.
Related terms: here document
docstrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docstring
mercy me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Mercy me! Look at the state of you!
text: An...ancient demon's spirit?!? Mercy me, that sounds positively horrid.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: Expressing surprise or alarm.
GSRM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSRMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gender, sexual, or romantic minority.
Coordinate terms: GSM
Related terms: GM
SM
hookerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hookerish
form: most hookerish
Etymology: From hooker + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or befitting a prostitute.
Synonyms: whorelike
whorish
chromy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chromier
form: more chromy
form: chromiest
form: most chromy
Senses: glosses: chrome-like
bawsunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːsənt/
Forms: form: bausond
form: bawsond
Etymology: From Old French bausant (“black and white spotted”).
Senses: examples: text: Far off the bawsunt mountains jirk, Their kaim o' ribie trees. Like howlets roostin' roon' aboot, Are a' the seas.
ref: 1985, The Powys Review, volume 5, numbers 17-20:
glosses: Having white streaks or spots on a black or bay background (especially of an animal's or a mountain's face).
GCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of General Circulation Model.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of giant cell myocarditis.
GCM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: cloud computing
glosses: Initialism of Google Cloud Messaging, superseded by FCM.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Galois/Counter Mode.
double taxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double taxations
Senses: glosses: The levying of tax by two or more jurisdictions on the same income.
penislessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penisless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When he discovered that his patients symbolized male power in their dreams, fantasies and symptoms with phallic images, he speculated that during their early years these women had learned to equate powerlessness—their own and that of their mothers—with penislessness.
ref: 2011, Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition:
glosses: The state of being penisless; absence of a penis.
underwearlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underwearless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From his coaching perspective and locker-room observations, he had not witnessed underwearlessness as a current fad at Pleasant Valley.
ref: 2001, Victoria C. G. Greenleaf, A Handful of Ashes: One Mother's Tragedy, page 145:
text: Consider the conundrum of hiding panty lines by creating the illusion of underwearlessness.
ref: 2019, Natasha Stagg, Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019, page 123:
glosses: The state of being underwearless.
bikiniless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bikini + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a bikini.
anusless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anus + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an anus.
unpantied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pantied.
Senses: examples: text: During a conversation in the office of Principal Toby (Douglas McGrath), when he is gently critical of her behavior, she flashes him a glimpse of her unpantied crotch to disconcert him.
ref: 2019, Martha P. Nochimson, Television Rewired: The Rise of the Auteur Series, page 203:
glosses: Not wearing panties.
unbraed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She dragged herself up, her unknotted T-shirt swaying. Slydes eyed the large unbraed breasts tossing beneath...
ref: 2022, Edward Lee, Slither:
glosses: Alternative form of unbra'd.
Sakata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sakatas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 坂田 (Sakata).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
so much the worse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Ah! So much the worse! A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That is or would be even worse.
all to the better
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: If some people enjoy them, andI have evidence that some do, that is all to the better.
ref: 2011, Dayton Lummis, Spaceships and Liquor: Venus and Mars Are All Right Tonight, →ISBN:
glosses: Even better.
Synonyms: so much the better
holonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In force of its undecidable and holonic character, global sustainability can only be attained by resorting to suitable heuristics designed to guide global evolution.
ref: 2005, Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa, Mario Abram, Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, →ISBN, page 601:
text: The ego is still there and thus the unconsciousness as well, but one is temporarily unconscious of the fact that there is a seam between ones ego and any other holonic faction.
ref: 2008, Mike Loutzenhiser, The Role of the Indigenous African Psyche in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Early attempts in designing holonic manufacturing systems have taken a more technically oriented approach.
ref: 2013, S.M. Deen, Agent-Based Manufacturing: Advances in the Holonic Approach, →ISBN, page 23:
text: With this holonic knowledge, therapy participants establish a space wherein additional information can emerge from and assimilate with previous knowledge.
ref: 2014, Martin John Erickson, Thomas Carlson, Spirituality and Family Therapy, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Pertaining to holons; involving something that is simultaneously a self-contained entity and a part of a larger system.
bio-mechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænɪkəl
Etymology: From bio- + mechanical.
Senses: examples: text: The primary applications considered are bio-mechanical simulations of musculoskeletal systems.
ref: 2005, Mauro Ursino, Modelling in Medicine and Biology VI, →ISBN, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of biomechanical.
bio-mechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænɪkəl
Forms: form: bio-mechanicals
Etymology: From bio- + mechanical.
Senses: examples: text: Even in a bike park scenario, we must be prepared and capable of dealing with mechanicals and bio-mechanicals; a broken chain can easily be mended and a long walk therefore avoided.
ref: 2012, Clive Forth, Mountain Biking Pocket Guide, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An injury.
bio-mechanicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bio-mechanical
testificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testificate
menz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of men.
synonyms: word: men
Pennsylvania Dutchland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Up until recent decades Easter Monday was celebrated as a holiday in rural Pennsylvania Dutchland.
ref: 1960, Alfred Lewis Shoemaker, Eastertide in Pennsylvania: A Folk-cultural Study, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Perhaps pie cupboards were made and used in places beyond the Pennsylvania Dutchland.
ref: 1965, Earl Francis Robacker, Touch of the Dutchland, page 63:
text: Staying in Pennsylvania Dutchland, you can visit HersheyPark and cavort with Hershey candy characters, or visit Lancaster's Dutch Wonderland, now also operated by Hershey Estates, which is replete with many pseudo German references.
ref: 2004, Irwin Richman, The Pennsylvania Dutch Country, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Pennsylvania Dutch country; an area of southeastern Pennsylvania that historically had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch inhabitants. The region centers around the cities of Allentown, Hershey, Lancaster, Reading, and York.
fortés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forté
body washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body wash
Latimer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlætɪmə/
Forms: form: Latimers
Etymology: From latimer (“interpreter, speaker of Latin”), q.v. The village was named after a landowner with this name.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Latimer and Ley Hill parish, Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Chiltern district (OS grid ref TQ0098).
glosses: A placename:
A minor city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A minor city in Morris County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Latimer County.
Derived terms: Burton Latimer
Latimer and Ley Hill
Latimer County
Latimer Lake
Latimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlætɪmə/
Forms: form: Latimers
Etymology: From latimer (“interpreter, speaker of Latin”), q.v. The village was named after a landowner with this name.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of latimer.
Related terms: Lattimer
Lattimore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Vulgar Latin *latimarus (“translator, interpreter”), from Latin lătīnārius (“interpreter; Latinophone”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
on-the-go-ness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From on the go + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to this is the lack of proper rest, recreation and exercise; the constant on-the-go-ness; the late hours plus sweets, tobacco and alcohol.
ref: 1902, How to Create the Perfect Baby by Means of the Art Or Science Generally ...:
text: This level of “on-the-go-ness” is really no different from going to the mall—except for all the security checks they put you through these days.
ref: 2005, Cal Garrison, Witch on the Go: A Book of Spells to Take With You:
glosses: The state or condition of being on the go.
powderily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more powderily
form: most powderily
Etymology: From powdery + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] into the lane and past black bushes of sloe powderily bloomed with blue fruit in the sun.
ref: 1959, H. E. Bates, The Watercress Girl:
text: An obviously bleached blonde, thick pancake makeup flaking powderily off deep furrowed wrinkles on her face, confronted me.
ref: 1960, Harold Livingston, The Climacticon, page 98:
glosses: In a powdery manner.
enticeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enticeful
form: most enticeful
Etymology: From entice + -ful.
Senses: examples: 1969, Ignotus, AE, the open persuader
[…] such easy yet enticeful steps that every riser is an erection, and every tread a triumphant stance.
glosses: That has an ability or tendency to entice.
older-aged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more older-aged
form: most older-aged
Senses: examples: text: Older-aged me, wearing the same stupid snowflake scarf and the same shorts and the same mismatched socks and the same dorky eclipse glasses.
ref: 2014, Jan Strnad, The Murmuring Field: and other stories:
glosses: Having an older age.
love you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of I love you.
absconce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbˈskɒns/
ipa: /ˌæbˈskɑns/
Forms: form: absconces
Senses: glosses: A dark lantern used in church to read prayers etc during a service.
audiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audiation
acultomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acutomancy, influenced by Latin acūleus (“needle”), + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: divination using needles
admanuensis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See ad- and amanuensis.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In old English law, one taking a corporal oath, that is, by laying the hand on the Bible, in distinction from one taking the oath in other forms, or affirming.
prologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prologist
CWOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWOTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of complete waste of time.
trisikad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisikads
Senses: glosses: A pedicab.
herbal medicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbal medicine
dry wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry washes
Senses: synonyms: wash
glosses: A dry riverbed.
gathas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gatha
Nicolescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nicolescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Nicolescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
pumice raft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumice rafts
Senses: glosses: A collection of pumice stones that form a floating island of rock and sand, as pumice is less dense than water.
fanboyishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fanboyishly
form: most fanboyishly
Etymology: From fanboyish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From being fanboyishly intrigued with fatae when he first started, through to a deep distrust of them, Nicky now usually projected a very New Yorker attitude of “yeah, yeah, whatever.”
ref: 2011, Laura Anne Gilman, Tricks of the Trade:
glosses: In a fanboyish manner.
circumcizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumcizers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of circumcisor.
Trail of Tears
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trail of Tears
Etymology: First originated from a Choctaw chief who described the displacement, quoted in the Arkansas Gazette as a "trail of tears and death". Later popularised in reference to the Cherokees, where it is called ᏅᏃᎯ ᏚᎾᏠᏱᎸᎢ (nvnohi dunatloyilvi, literally “the trail where they cried”) in the Cherokee language.
Senses: glosses: The route followed by American Indians moved from their homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Derived terms: trail of tears
TOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Trail of Tears.
TOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TOTs
Senses: examples: text: When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.
ref: 2001, Daniel L. Schacter, chapter 3, in The Seven Sins of Memory, How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tip of the tongue.
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of turnover tax.
glosses: Initialism of transfer of technology.
lark's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larks' tongues
Senses: glosses: The tapered ending of a chamfer.
polyelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + electronic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having more than one electron
raw_tags: of an atom
pure quill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Have you sampled the pure quill, Tull?”
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
text: “Damn,” she said, “he was the pure quill, wasn't he? Him and you and Pardee and McKinnick come here drunk as lords and sing hymns till you passed out.”
ref: 1991, Peter Bowen, Kelly Blue:
glosses: The real thing, the genuine article.
Hone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Honesdale
Related terms: Sutton at Hone
Hiva Oa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhi.və ˈoʊ.ə/
Etymology: From South Marquesan [Term?], meaning long ridgepole.
Senses: glosses: The second largest island in the Marquesas, final resting place of Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel, home of many tikis.
Synonyms: word: Dominica
Tame
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English surname, from the adjective Middle English tame as a nickname, and in some cases a habitational surname from Thame in Oxfordshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
glosses: A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.
Derived terms: Tameside
doerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: If you still assert that a deed is being done then that deed must be regarded as doerless.
ref: 1898, Sarat Chandra Das, “Buddhist Account of the Four Vedas”, in Journal of the Buddhist Text and Anthropological Society, page 9:
text: Silence in action is the doerless doing that we've spoken of before, in which you just wash the dishes, just vacuum the floor.
ref: 1999, Sharon Salzberg, Voices of Insight:
text: Wu wei is the principle of following the Tao, the doerless doing with which Sabro Hasegawa created a work of art and out of which the great spiritual masters live their lives.
ref: 1999, David Guy, The Red Thread of Passion, page 124:
glosses: Not involving a doer.
Hare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an Irish surname, from ó hír (“descendant of Ír”), a personal name related to Old Irish sír (“long-lasting”).
* Also as an Irish surname, from ó Haichir (“descendant of Aichear”), from aichear (“sharp”).
* As an English surname, from the noun hare, originally as a nickname.
* Also as an English surname, from Ayre.
* Also as an English surname, from the obsolete Old English hær (“stone”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Hair.
* As a French surname, from the verb harer (“to stir up, excite”), from Old French harier, from Frankish *hariōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to devastate, lay waste”).
* As a German surname, variant of Harr.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: Synonym of Sahtú.
synonyms: word: Sahtú
glosses: A hamlet in Broadway parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST2915).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Williamson County, Texas, United States.
synonyms: Kawchottine
glosses: A dialect of Slavey, an Athabaskan language.
akanbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akanbe
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あかんべえ.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese gesture of pulling down one's eyelid and sticking out one's tongue, used to taunt people.
Jesusolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jesus + -o- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: The unitarianism of the second person is unable to discern any necessary connection between its cozy and sentimental Jesusolatry and passionate concern for the coming of justice for all people and for the renewal of the ravaged earth.
ref: 2004, Daniel L. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology:
synonyms: Christolatry
antonyms: idolatry
glosses: The worship of Jesus.
Christolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christo- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: The worship of Christ.
Coordinate terms: Jesusolatry
problematisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problematisations
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of problematization.
n-plex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From n + -plex.
Senses: examples: text: To prevent this scenario, a store repair process runs in the background for each n'''-plex group.
ref: 1992, Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter, Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques:
glosses: Multiplex of degree n.
Ponza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Ponza.
Senses: glosses: An island off the coast of Lazio, Italy in the Pontine Islands, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean.
Coordinate terms: Pontine
homeset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homesets
form: home-set
form: home set
Etymology: From home + set.
Senses: examples: text: This carries b'ack face eight point heads in caps and lower case: since most papers today use this same style head for homeset short stories, the match is perfect.
ref: 1919, New York State College of Agriculture, The Service Sheet - Volumes 1-8, page 11:
text: If you use much plate matter, make your choice of homeset heads to match those on the plate matter.
ref: 1920, Cornell Extension Bulletin - Issues 41-70, page 29:
text: In the local newspaper office, the printer sprinkled the sheets with water to moisten them for the new impressions and with homeset type printed the rest of the paper.
ref: 2002, Charles Johanningsmeier, Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace, →ISBN, page 42:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The type used as a standard by a specific publisher.
examples: text: The larger homeset dish (perhaps as large as two meters) would be much more difficult to mount than the .6-meter BSS-band dish used by STC and other operators.
ref: 1983, Mary Louise Hollowell, The cable/broadband communications books: 1982-1983, →ISBN:
text: DBS is the system of broadcasting television signals in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band from a very high power satellite in geostationary orbit (GSO) directly to a "homeset."
ref: 1993, Hsiao-Yun Hu, The development of cable television and satellite, page 68:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The equipment (satellite) for receiving signals from a direct broadcast satellite service.
examples: text: It is simple and economic to manufacture, and its performance has proven adequate for homeset operation.
ref: 1959, Journal of the Television Society - Volume 9, page 15:
text: Clypsis was a fantasy; you didn't actually expect to go there. You just watched on the homeset and dreamed.
ref: 1987, Jeffrey A. Carver, Clypsis, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Oh, you lucky homeset viewer, you're going to have a treat today.
ref: 1988, Thomas Wylde, Pitfall, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A device, such as a radio or television, which consumers use for home entertainment.
homesets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeset
fire lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire lanes
Senses: glosses: A passageway or access road that allows a firefighting apparatus such as a fire engine to pass through.
home-set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home-sets
Senses: examples: text: Agreeing to locate advertisements in advantageous places, they agreed also to carry a certain amount of material in “home-set” print in the news and editorial columns.
ref: 2015, Thomas D. Clark, Holman Hamilton, Three American Frontiers: Writings of Thomas D. Clark, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of homeset.
Type specific to a publisher
examples: text: [R]adio now depends enormously on its replacements. Last year home-set replacements in fact account for some 3,000,000 units, or nearly three-fifths of the total U.S. home-set sales.
ref: 2008, Kazuo Usui, The Development of Marketing Management, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of homeset.
Device for home entertainment
examples: text: The less 'fortunate', and I use the term advisedly, had only outward growth to adjust to, as spare tyres of rippling flesh burst forth from the space between elasticated hipster jeans and children's-sized short t-shirts; rolls of belly and blobs of overspilling back-cleavage, which at least ensured well-insulated kidneys, were complimented by 3-inch hoop earrings in gold plate and whole cans of ozone-devouring superset hair lacquer applied to home-set perms.
ref: 2007, Christopher Nosnibor, Bad Houses, →ISBN, page 21:
text: And her home-set perm looked, as the commercial had promised, like it had been done in a salon.
ref: 2014, Ken Wheaton, Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears, →ISBN:
text: Pappie's home-set remedy is what we used if we wanted to put curls in our hair.
ref: 2015, The Buntyn Family, Cornbread in Buttermilk: The Delicacies of Love and Sacrifice, →ISBN:
glosses: A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.
home-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In almost every home, behind the home-set, swirly glass window-pane, hung one of the blue star flags with one, or two, or more blue stars in its center indicating the male members of the family in the service.
ref: 2011, James Jones, Whistle, →ISBN:
glosses: Set by the user, as opposed to by a professional.
home set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home sets
Senses: examples: text: Whereas radio dramas and comedies encouraged audiences to gather around the home set in rapt attention to unfolding narratives, the restructuring of programming around short, autonomous “singles,” played in repeating cycles, seemed immediately ideal for providing "soundtracks" for both quick car trips and long cross-country drives.
ref: 2002, Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark, The Road Movie Book, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of homeset.
hydrocooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocoolers
Etymology: From hydro- + cooler.
Senses: examples: text: Most hydrocoolers use mechanical refrigeration. Figure 26 shows the approximate amount of refrigeration needed for an uninsulated hydrocooler, installed outside.
ref: 2008, James F. Thompson, F. Gordon Mitchell, Tom R. Rumsay, Commercial Cooling of Fruits, Vegetables, and Flowers, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Smaller hydrocooling operations may use crushed ice rather than mechanical refrigeration to produce chilled water. Typically, large blocks of ice are transported from an ice plant to the hydrocooler and then crushed and added to the water reservoir of the hydrocooler.
ref: 2012, Rodolfo H. Mascheroni, Operations in Food Refrigeration, →ISBN, page 268:
text: A continuous-flow immersion hydrocooler cools the packaged product by flooding as it is conveyed through a cooling tunnel.
ref: 2015, Chandra Gopala Rao, Engineering for Storage of Fruits and Vegetables, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Any of various devices for cooling produce by means of chilled water.
hydrocoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocooler
hydrocool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːl
Forms: form: hydrocools
form: hydrocooling
form: hydrocooled
form: hydrocooled
Etymology: From hydro- + cool.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it is often necessary to hydrocool fresh tomatoes to remove field heat and rapidly reduce respiration of the internal fruit tissue.
ref: 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, →ISBN, page 225:
text: The chlorination of the water used to hydrocool strawberries led to a significant reduction in botrytis fruit rot.
ref: 2005, Gerald M. Sapers, James R. Gorny, Ahmed E. Yousef, Microbiology of Fruits and Vegetables, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Smaller hydrocooling operations may use crushed ice rather than mechanical refrigeration to produce chilled water. Typically, large blocks of ice are transported from an ice plant to the hydrocooler and then crushed and added to the water reservoir of the hydrocooler.
ref: 2012, Rodolfo H. Mascheroni, Operations in Food Refrigeration, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: To cool by means of a hydrocooler.
hydrocools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hydrocool
hydrocooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrocool
hydrocooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hydrocool
flash cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash cut
Tiki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The first human, in Polynesian mythology.
charitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charities
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of charity.
gracelesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gracelesse
form: most gracelesse
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of graceless.
wofull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wofuller
form: wofullest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of woeful.
wofuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wofull: more wofull
wofullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wofull: most wofull
thogh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of though.
creadit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creadits
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of credit.
creadits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creadit
backshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backshoots
form: backshooting
form: backshot
form: backshot
form: backshotten
Etymology: From back + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: "And there are enough witnesses who know that you and your friend tried to backshoot me," Evan said.
ref: 2008, Robert J. Randisi, Texas Iron, →ISBN, page 31:
text: I can take anybody head-on in Anchor or Flux, but I don't want to get backshot by some jerk I can't even see while walking down an alley or across a street.
ref: 2013, Jack L. Chalker, Empires of Flux and Anchor, →ISBN:
text: He is brave and steady under pressure when he is called out, but when someone tries to backshoot him, Maddox becomes paranoid and violent.
ref: 2013, Bob Herzberg, Hang 'Em High, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: To shoot in the back.
Derived terms: backshooter
backshoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backshoot
backshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backshoot
phone jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone jacks
Senses: glosses: A telephone jack.
googology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡuːˈɡɑləd͡ʒiː/
Etymology: From Google + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: According to googology, Prince Charles is the anti-christ. Look it up.
ref: 2001 August 23, Edvins Augusts, “Pete Phoenix, are you English?”, in alt.astrology (Usenet):
text: Scroll down to 'googology 101' and 'googology 201', searching and advanced searching.
ref: 2003 May 21, Chakolate, “Dr. Phil and Menopause”, in alt.support.menopause (Usenet):
text: and now for some comparative googology […]
ref: 2006 May 29, kurt wismer, “Re: Rootkit?”, in alt.comp.virus (Usenet):
glosses: The Internet search engine Google, or the use of it to find out information.
googology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡuːˈɡɑləd͡ʒiː/
Etymology: From a blend of googol + -(o)logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of large numbers.
Derived terms: googological
googolplexian
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: googolplexians
Etymology: From googolplex + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: You've masturbated googolplexian times.
ref: 1989, Arthur Byron Cover, Stationfall, page 117:
text: the googolplexian other contrivances that make monastic Zen life what Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once called "the biggest joke that has ever been played in the spiritual realm. But it is a practical joke, very practical."
ref: 2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk:
text: Only 477,000 miles' worth of love? I love you that much times a googolplexian.
ref: 2014, Season Vining, Beautiful Addictions, page 274:
glosses: The number 10 raised to the power of one googolplex. It can also be written as 10^(10^(10^100)).
Related terms: googolplexplex
googolduplex
googolplex
navigation light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navigation lights
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: one of two or more lights fitted to a ship or aircraft, which indicate position and direction taken, especially important at night. Internationally recognised colours are red on the port side, and green on the starboard side.
Hypernyms: light
navigation lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navigation light
city bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city buses
form: city busses
Etymology: From city + bus.
Senses: synonyms: transit bus
glosses: A bus that carries people across a city.
Related terms: coach
motorcoach
transit bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transit buses
form: transit busses
Etymology: From transit + bus.
Senses: synonyms: city bus
glosses: A bus which carries people across a city.
commuter bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌs
Forms: form: commuter buses
form: commuter busses
Etymology: From commuter + bus.
Senses: glosses: A public transport bus used to transport commuters between two places, typically their homes and works and within a metropolitan area (not to be confused with shuttle bus)
stage bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage buses
form: stage busses
Etymology: From stage + bus.
Senses: glosses: A bus which carries people across a city.
foreshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshoots
Etymology: From fore- + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: When we consider the era in which Plato lived, before the Revelation of Christ had shed the sunbeams of its life and light upon the world, seeing only a foreshoot of the glorious day about to open, and conjecturing obscurely as to the true relationship and destiny of men, we are astonished at the beauty and justice of his sentiments, and his deep devotion to the laws of Eternal Order and Duty.
ref: 1845, The Phalanx: Organ of the Doctrine of Association:
text: Yet they offer no certain guarantees, since just one more all-out war could possibly so weaken the complex and sensitive foreshoot of evolution which is human society that the process might not be able to recover and go on to realize its unimaginable potentialities.
ref: 1962, The Western Humanities Review - Volumes 16-17, page 315:
text: Man is no longer an insignificant accident in an immense and indifferent universe, but the very center and foreshoot of the vast evolutionary process.
ref: 1987, Douglas Angus, The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age, page x:
glosses: The leading shoot.
examples: text: The sketch inclosed is for a barn 42 x 34 feet with 8 feet foreshoot and the same back shed.
ref: 1890, Carpentry and Building - Volume 12, page 81:
text: When they drove along under the "foreshoot" the horse lurched sideways and the front wheel caught behind a fence post.
ref: 1969, The Casselman Chronicle - Volumes 9-17, page 20:
topics: architecture
glosses: An overhang created by an upper level cantilevered over the lower level of a barn; forebay.