cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
X-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-wings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of x-wing.
X-wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-wing
y-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: y-wings
form: Y-wing
Senses: qualifier: sudoku
glosses: A three-cell combination in a sudoku grid which allows the elimination of a candidate in a fourth cell.
Coordinate terms: x-wing
y-wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of y-wing
Y-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y-wings
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of y-wing.
Y-wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Y-wing
killer sudoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killer sudokus
Senses: glosses: A sudoku variant where the grid also contains cages which must sum to the total where indicated, without repeating any digit within the cage.
killer sudokus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killer sudoku
arsebiscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsebiscuits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arse biscuit.
sandwich sudoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich sudokus
Senses: glosses: A sudoku variant where numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of the digits sandwiched between the digits 1 and 9 in the corresponding row or column.
sandwich sudokus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwich sudoku
arse biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arse biscuits
Senses: glosses: A piece of dried excrement that remains attached to the hair of the anus.
consuless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consulesses
Etymology: From consul + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: You [children] have been told, that Buonaparté is—“a very good?—man:”—that “A Chief-Conſul—” (self-appointed; and all but omnipotent)—“A Chief-Conſul, and proſtitute Conſuleſs, are far better than your old-faſhioned Kings and Queens.
ref: 1790, Johnny’s Epistle:--- —&c. &c. &c.—, page 6:
text: The Consul and Consuless finding the magnificent and beautiful reſidence of St Cloud, too circumſcribed for their grand levee and feſtival days, are about to have the Palace of Verſailles refitted.
ref: 1802 December 27, Caledonian Mercury, number 12,684, Edinburgh: […] Robert Allan, […], column 3:
text: If you leave us an only daughter, no matter; she shall be Consuless, and Pontificia Maxima, into the bargain. We want a series of hereditary Consuls, and Consulesses.
ref: 1818, Junius Secundus, Constantine and Eugene, or an Evening at Mount Vernon, Brussels: […] P. J. de Mat, […], page 200:
text: However, the 8-month-old battle probably will be unsuccessful, because [Eugene Vincent] Wanless, who prefers to be called Consul Eugene, refuses to obtain the required car insurance on grounds that insurance companies are “false idols” and only God can prevent auto accidents anyway. Wanless, who resides with his wife, Consuless Alice, in an apartment on SR A1A with a breathtaking view of the ocean, claims to represent God the Father as “Consul Eugene of the Society of Universal Love” and “Aquarian-Age ambassador.”
ref: 1974 December 1, Mona Ross, “He Won’t Trust in Insurance Companies”, in The Palm Beach Post-Times, volume XLI, number 49, West Palm Beach, Fla., page B5, column 1:
glosses: A female consul or the wife of one.
Derived terms: vice-consuless
consulesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consuless
arse biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arse biscuit
arsebiscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsebiscuit
dancerette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancerettes
Etymology: From dancer + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.”
ref: 1910 August 15, Public Opinion, volume X, number 117, Chambersburg, Pa., columns 2–3:
text: I was a dancerette back in the day.[…]We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome.
ref: 2012 September 30, Christy L Solomon, “Stop the coddling”, in The Sunday Tampa Tribune, 118th year, number 38, Tampa, Fla., page 3:
text: So, when his mother — a debutante dancerette who ran with the Very Coolest Kids in a high school near Temple Terrace at the dawn of the disco era — attempted to warn him against exhibiting evidence of lameness, he cut her off.
ref: 2013 August 25, Tom Jackson, “Yo, freshmen: These four years will fly”, in The Pasco Tribune, page 1, column 1:
glosses: A female dancer.
Synonyms: danceress
dancerettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancerette
road bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road bridges
form: roadbridge
Senses: glosses: A bridge intended for road traffic, which in most cases can also be used by pedestrians, especially if footpaths are provided.
Related terms: footbridge
railway bridge
railroad bridge
going down like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go down like a lead balloon
anglerette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anglerettes
Etymology: From angler + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: To further clear the atmosphere I wish to acknowledge that this new light on bait-casting was shed by Mrs. William Heddon, whose skill as a bait-caster entitles her to the laurel wreath among the anglerettes.
ref: 1911 June 25, Eau Claire Sunday Leader, thirty-first year, Eau Claire, Wis., column 1:
text: One 5-year-old anglerette, according to CCA’s Karen Ripple, asked her 4-year-old sister, “Did your tummy jump? My tummy jumped when I caught my first fish.”
ref: 2002 December 1, Keith Walters, “It’s time to worry when your tummy doesn’t jump”, in The Sunday Star, Easton, Md., page 7B, column 1:
text: Cape Coral anglerette Faith Richards caught her redfish in Estero Bay with Get Hooked Charters Capt. Matt DeAngelis.
ref: 2013 December 5, The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla., page D3:
glosses: A female angler.
anglerettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anglerette
road bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road bridge
Pârjol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Pârjol.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Pârjol, Bacău County, Romania.
POK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: PoK
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the disputed region of Azad Kashmir under Pakistani control, also applying to the nearby territory of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Synonyms: english: Azad Jammu and Kashmir
translation: Azad Jammu and Kashmir
alt: Azad Kashmir
word: AJK
IOK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: IoK
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Indian-occupied Kashmir, the disputed union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, also including the nearby union territory of Ladakh, in northern India.
Synonyms: english: Indian-occupied Jammu [and] Kashmir
translation: Indian-occupied Jammu [and] Kashmir
word: IOJK ()
testamentrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […]make nominat and conſtitute the ſaid W. my Spouſe to be ſole Tutrix & Teſtamentrix during her Widowity allennerly to my ſaid Daughter, for guiding and governing her perſon and Eſtate during her Pupillarity, and failing of her by Marriage or Death, I nominat and appoint F. G. H. I. K. and L. or any three of them who ſhall accept, the ſaid F. alwiſe being one during his Lifetime to be her Tutors as ſaid is.
ref: 1702, “An Latter Will and Teſtament”, in A Compend or Abreviat of the most important Ordinary Securities of, and concerning. Rights Personal and Real, Redeemable and Irredeemable; of common Use in Scotland. […], Edinburgh: […] the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, […], page 250:
text: With regard to what form must be gone through in the making of a will, the will must be in writing and signed at the end thereof by the testamentrix in the presence of two or more competent witnesses.
ref: 1902, Records and Briefs in Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Minnesota, pages 168–169:
text: The testamentrix leaves all of which she may die possessed to her husband, Isaac Parker, and to Mrs. Ada Hosmer Banks, share and share alike.
ref: 1909 June 2, “Three Wills Probated”, in The Times-Democrat, volume 46, number 18,674, New Orleans, La., page 12, column 4:
text: “On April 23, 1616, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra died, married to Doña Catalina Salazar, Leon street: he received the sacraments from the Licentiate Francisco Lopez; he asked that he be buried in [the convent of] the Trinitarian nuns; he ordered two requiem masses said and the rest at the will of his wife, who is testamentrix, and the Licentiate Francisco Nuñez who lives there.”
ref: 1995, La solidaridad, page 207, column 1:
glosses: A female testamentor.
Windell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Windells
Etymology: Two main origins:
* A variant of the English surname Windle.
* Borrowed from Swedish Windell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wigal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wigals
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Weigel or Wiegel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wigals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wigal
Windells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Windell
Bardell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bardells
Etymology: Variant of Bardwell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Barrueta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barruetas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Barrueta, a surname of Basque origin. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Barruetas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barrueta
Bardells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bardell
Arenivas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arenivases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Arenivas. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Arenivases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Arenivas
Zappone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zappones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Zappone.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Zappones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zappone
betoppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The betoppered “bottle-necker” shelters from the wrath of the Mexican Chief.
ref: 1930 August 1, “Private Flying and Club News”, in Flight, number 1127 (volume XXII, issue 31), number 31, page 864:
text: This might seem heretical, for discount houses, with their silk-betoppered representatives and their excellent lunches might appear the very core of the City.
ref: 1981 October 22, “Are the discount houses clever enough to survive in a gyrating money market?”, in Hamish McRae, editor, The Guardian, London, page 18:
text: Among the many veiled or black-betoppered faces registering distaste in his direction, Watson was surprised to see a good many Chinamen.
ref: 1984, William Rushton, “The Plot Thickens at Number Ten”, in W.G. Grace’s Last Case or The War of the Worlds - Part Two, Methuen, published 1985, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of be-toppered.
Yellen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yellens
Etymology: Probably a variant of Yelland or Yellin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zarrella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zarrellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Zarrella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Zarrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zarrella
Yellens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yellen
Romagnolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Romagnoli
Rondinellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rondinelli
high-res
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hi-res
Senses: examples: text: While scanning the planet Pregel, you discovered several marker buoys orbiting it. Chief Engineer Adams secured some high-res optical images of the buoys, which appear to have been neglected for some time. Each one was marked with the Baetika Colony insignia.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pregel, Turian Insignia Recoverd:
antonyms: low-res
glosses: Clipping of high-resolution.
highway patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highway patrols
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Any police unit which is primarily responsible for overseeing and enforcing of regulations on roads and highways.
Related terms: traffic police
hike out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hikes out
form: hiking out
form: hiked out
form: hiked out
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to lean over the edge of a boat, in order to counterbalance its weight when it is tilted, to avoid heeling.
McChesney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McChesneys
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Irish Mac an tSasanaigh (“son of the Englishman”), from Sasanach (“Englishman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hip-shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of shooting from the hip.
Related terms: hip-shooter
tophatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tophat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The scene was a solitary lamppost, with a tophatted tippler leaning on it.
ref: 1950 November 15, “Floats and Bands In Homecoming Pre-Game Parade”, in Stuff, volume 14, number 5, Collegeville, Ind., page four, column 3:
text: Under that clown hat at the right is E. A. Shalders, with tophatted N. R. H. Fleming, R. T. A. (Gorilla) Cooper, tophatted W. Gardner Barker and Mrs. (Senora) M. A. Reilly.
ref: 1957 November, Coffee and Tea Industries and the Flavor Field, page 45:
text: The tophatted ghost sighed.
ref: 1970 August/September, Lorna P. Gulston, “Two More for Champagne”, in The Ladder, volume 14, number 11/12, page 27, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of top-hatted.
historical novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historical novels
Senses: glosses: A novel whose story is set in a particular historical setting.
Related terms: historical novelist
historical fiction
jog bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jog bras
Senses: glosses: jogging bra
live birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live births
Senses: antonyms: stillbirth
glosses: A birth in which the foetus is alive
lip-reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lipreading.
lip-reading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of lip-read
Vosganian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vosganians
Etymology: Variant of Voskanyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
lift pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æs
Forms: form: lift passes
Senses: glosses: A ticket conferring access to a ski lift, or all the ski lifts in a certain area.
McChesneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McChesney
life imprisonment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life imprisonments
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.
topics: law
glosses: A sentence of imprisonment of thirty years.
Coordinate terms: life sentence
life event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life events
Senses: examples: text: Sally went through most of her life events with her husband.
glosses: A major event in one's life, normally bringing about a substantial change.
mail-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail-outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mailout.
betiaraed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + tiara + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This year the big rooms at the Hotel Cecil were more crowded than ever, and there was not a vacant chair on the dais, where the betiaraed patronesses sit to watch the dancing.
ref: 1928 July 14, “The Caledonian Ball”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 168, Winnipeg, Man., page 10, column 4:
text: With the annual Presidential dinner to the Cabinet as a curtain-raiser, there is a short intermission—just one day—before the Diplomatic Reception, when it seems as if the White House becomes a setting for a Graustarkian novel, so bejeweled, besashed, beturbaned, and betiaraed are the guests.
ref: 1938 December 12, Derek Fox, “No “Grilled Millionaire” for Breakfast … White House Perks Up … Yule Gifts, Social Doings”, in The United States News, volume six, number fifty, Washington, D.C., page 2, column 4:
text: Lithe and rubber necks crane as the Great Ladies (or are those Fascinating Ladies?) step daintily into the lobby, bejewelled, befurred and betiaraed.
ref: 1947, Eve Brown, “Culture With a Capital K”, in Champagne Cholly: The Life and Times of Maury Paul, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., page 133:
glosses: Synonym of tiaraed.
synonyms: word: tiaraed
Boscarne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality west of Bodmin, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0467).
besashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-sashed
Etymology: From be- + sash + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: With the annual Presidential dinner to the Cabinet as a curtain-raiser, there is a short intermission—just one day—before the Diplomatic Reception, when it seems as if the White House becomes a setting for a Graustarkian novel, so bejeweled, besashed, beturbaned, and betiaraed are the guests.
ref: 1938 December 12, Derek Fox, “No “Grilled Millionaire” for Breakfast … White House Perks Up … Yule Gifts, Social Doings”, in The United States News, volume six, number fifty, Washington, D.C., page 2, column 4:
text: The tone was definitely festive, save for one besashed and besotted celebrant who moaned, as he lunched past the statue of Queen Victoria, that “I’ve been barred.”
ref: 1993 July 11, Jim Coyle, “Tradition in decline: Orange to the core and loyal to the cause”, in The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page B1, column 2:
text: I recall a bevy of queenlettes, all besashed and bathing suited, observing the procession having already traversed the route.
ref: 2020 June 10, Jerome Christenson, “A drum, horses and a parade”, in La Crosse Tribune, volume 117, number 26, La Crosse, Wis., page B3, column 3:
glosses: Synonym of sashed.
synonyms: word: sashed
be-sashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The gains are great—yet I still remember with delight and awe the shouts of “Wonderful! Counsellor!” from the huge, sweating enthusiastic, be-sashed mass of humanity that made up the Royal Choral Society of my youth, and will be desolate if I never hear again Mozart’s strange and wonderful (though dramatically inappropriate) counterpoints to “The people that walked in darkness.”
ref: 1974 December 5, Hugo Cole, “Handel without bars: Hugo Cole on tonight’s DIY Messiah”, in The Guardian, page 10, column 6:
text: Just how badly do you want your Thin Mints? Because if you think some little girl in green — pigtailed, bereted and be-sashed — is going to deliver them to your front door, you may be in for a very long wait.
ref: 1996 February 6, Kim Franke-Folstad, “Cookies from cyberspace: Girl Scouts turn to ’net sales for fun, profit”, in The Tennessean, volume 92, number 37, Nashville, Tenn., page 1D:
text: It’s about the fifth-most important beauty pageant in the country, my be-sashed seatmate informs me.
ref: 2006 March 25, Jojo Robles, “Filipino Geishas”, in Pacific Daily News, volume 37, number 52, Hagåtña, Guam, page 14, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of besashed.
torniquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torniquets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tourniquet.
menless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From men + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A beast that caused unto fatherless children, unto menless women, unto womenless men (who thus became through his evil will), tears and sad thoughts, has this day been looked upon by the Sun and laid low.
ref: 1901, Frank Hamilton Cushing, “Átahsaia, the Cannibal Demon”, in Zuñi Folk Tales, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, page 377:
text: Womenless men—[…]. Menless women—female bachelors, divorcées, authentic and spurious widows—were mostly told off each in one room.
ref: 1905, Emil Friend, “The Alliance”, in Masks: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Geo. W. Ogilvie & Co., page 19:
text: […]only women in the living room / no men / only women passing a bottle between them / menless / some are sad about it / being menless[…]with the menlesss women complaining[…]
ref: 2000, Dael Orlandersmith, “The Gimmick”, in Beauty’s Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, pages 74–75:
glosses: Without men.
Related terms: manless
pig-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Flash forward 10 years: Grandfather is now irrevocably, helplessly in love with the tall, pig-tailed woman (age: 14), currently holding down second base for the Westminster High School varsity softball team.
ref: 2002 March 25, Bard Lindeman, “Cute Grandbaby Story contest prompts memories”, in Florida Today, page 3E:
text: Yes, this pig-tailed little woman with the “Canadian Girls Kick Ass” tank top has a kinky side.
ref: 2004 August 31, Caroline Skelton, “Patti Fedy in ... The Hunt”, in Times Colonist, 146th year, number 260, Victoria, B.C., page D4, column 1:
text: Here’s the twist on the 1976-77 original, which starred Louise Lasser as the pig-tailed American housewife in a daze from the modern ills of consumerism:[…]
ref: 2021 July 29, Matthew Gilbert, “TBS commits to ‘Mary Hartman’ remake on show creator Norman Lear’s 99th birthday”, in The Boston Globe, volume 300, number 29, Boston, Mass., page B5, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of pigtailed.
behelmeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-helmeted
Etymology: From be- + helmet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Massed deeply back from the avenue were the ranks of citizen soldiery, the natty tars in their tasteful blue uniforms, the regular troops, French, Italian, and other societies, with gay banners and flags, and a whole host of red-shirted, behelmeted volunteer firemen.
ref: 1886 October 29, “The Great Land Parade”, in The New-York Times, volume XXXVI, number 10,970, New York, N.Y., page 2, column 1:
text: Everywhere the locals look, the Jolly Raider flies, their beloved, behelmeted figure with the eyepatch and crossed swords, and the promoters’ slogan for this game: The Passion Returns.
ref: 1989 August 25, Mark Heisler, “A Second Coming: The Raiders’ Return Is Only Temporary, but Oakland’s Loyal Fans Are Hoping for Something More Permanent”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., column 1:
text: Others, mostly behelmeted casual bikers whose enthusiasm for motorcycling is a monthly Sunday morning ride, also took in the gleam of the chrome and outrageous styling, but were confused that it had a Honda badge on it rather than Harley’s winged logo.
ref: 2003 November 21, David Booth, “Honda’s Rune an impressive and intoxicating easy rider”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page H4, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of helmeted.
synonyms: word: helmeted
be-helmeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I’VE had a mixed motoring week which will at once endear me to the growing legions of Greenies — and bring their wrath down on my be-helmeted head.
ref: 1997 August 13, “From silent might to ghastly guzzling”, in Evening Standard, London, page 51:
text: A tourist who had somehow wandered into the Civic Center from the Tenderloin saw the be-helmeted, truncheon-toting SWAT squad posted in front of the museum and said, “This is a city that protects its culture.”
ref: 2003 March 21, P.J. Corkery, “It’s Friday … yesss!”, in The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Calif., page 3:
text: The photo of Michael Dukakis be-helmeted in the tank would pass into history.
ref: 2014 June 6, Joe Queenan, “What Others Are Saying”, in Chicago Tribune, 166th year, number 157, Chicago, Ill., page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of behelmeted.
Nanstallon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lanivet parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0367).
Jean Lafitte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jean Laffite
form: Jean Laffitte
form: Jean Lafite
Etymology: Named after notorious 18th century French pirate Jean Lafitte
Senses: glosses: A town in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
wikipedia: en:Jean Lafitte
Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of the rebel president, Jefferson Davis, of the 19th century secessionist country of the Confederate States of America.
Senses: glosses: An administrative district of the United States.
Ellipsis of Jefferson Davis County.
glosses: An administrative district of the United States.
Ellipsis of Jefferson Davis Parish.
Derived terms: County of Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis County
Jefferson Davis Parish
Parish of Jefferson Davis
Related terms: Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of the rebel president, Jefferson Davis, of the 19th century secessionist country of the Confederate States of America.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Jeff Davis County, a county in Georgia, USA.
glosses: Ellipsis of Jeff Davis County, a county in Texas.
Derived terms: County of Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis County
Related terms: Jefferson Davis
Plymouth Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inlet or sound off the English Channel, and south of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX45).
Synonyms: english: as used on Ordnance Survey maps
translation: as used on Ordnance Survey maps
word: The Sound
Malmquist bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Swedish astronomer Gunnar Malmquist, who first described the effect in 1922.
Senses: glosses: A type of selection bias, where brighter objects appear to be more common at further distances; caused by a larger actual sample gathering region per square degree at further distances, and that dimmer sources drop out of sight due to distance.
wikipedia: en:Gunnar Malmquist
Coordinate terms: bias
observational bias
observation bias
selection bias
selection effect
statistical bias
systematic bias
Derived terms: classical Malmquist bias
Eddington-Malmquist bias
statistical Malmquist bias
systematic Malmquist bias
Apache tear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apache tears
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Apache tear.
synonyms: marekanite
glosses: A rounded nodule of obsidian.
Related terms: word: Pele's tears
english: Rupert's drop
translation: Rupert's drop
word: glass tear
Pele's tear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pele's tears
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pele's tear.
glosses: singular of Pele's tears
Susquehanna Depot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Erie Railroad depot and workshops established there.
Senses: glosses: A borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
wikipedia: Erie Railroad
Synonyms: Susquehanna
Smarandache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smarandaches
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Smarandache.
Senses: glosses: A Romanian surname.
Derived terms: Smarandache function
Summitville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From summit + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A town in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Sullivan County, New York, United States.
glosses: A village in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.
misnotify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misnotifies
form: misnotifying
form: misnotified
form: misnotified
Etymology: From mis- + notify.
Senses: examples: text: This is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference based on a Virginia Supreme Court case in which a party was denied appeal as untimely, but the party had been "misnotified" as to the entry of a final order.
ref: 1991, The White Paper: Activities of the General Assembly of Virginia, page 91:
text: Studies of the accuracy of death certification have revealed that fibrosing alveolitis is underdiagnosed in life and misnotified at death, and therefore the real prevalance is likely to be higher than previously estimated;
ref: 1996, D. J. Weatherall, J. G. G. Ledingham, D. A. Warrell, Oxford Textbook of Medicine - Volume 2, page 2786:
text: They had met at ten, misnotified by the boy — though I had given him a written notification to shew them; appointing the hour to meet at 11.
ref: 2017, John Quincy Adams, David Waldstreicher, John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848:
glosses: To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.
misnotifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misnotify
misnotifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misnotify
misnotified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misnotify
misnotification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misnotifications
Etymology: From mis- + notification.
Senses: examples: text: One of them is the question of notifying this large mass of people as to whom no field referrals were made–as to whom there is no systemic linkage and as to whom we will have a large percentage of undeliverables–and unfortunately, some mismatches and some misnotifications.
ref: 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight, Collection of Delinquent Taxes by Internal Revenue Service, page 256:
text: Relief Measure in the case of Misnotification on Method of Filing Dissatisfaction
ref: 1989, Korea Customs Law and Regulations, page 258:
text: So there was no misnotification as far as that goes.
ref: 1992, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations, Friendly Fire/casualty Notification Procedures, page 135:
text: Publicly, in a letter to local authorities, Pepco President William Sim blamed at least some of the company's woes on its new automated answering system and said his company had identified and corrected the cause of the customer misnotification.
ref: 2004, Public Utilities Fortnightly, page 64:
glosses: The act of misnotifying.
misnotifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misnotification
misnourished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misnourished
form: most misnourished
Etymology: From mis- + nourished.
Senses: examples: text: Many who are not hungry are the new misnourished. The misnourished consume too many processed foods and an unbalanced diet.
ref: 1977, Anne Moyer Halpin, Better Food for Public Places, page 71:
text: Nevertheless, as we will show, many American youths are "misnourished."
ref: 2009, Jay Bhattacharya, Janet Currie, “Youths at Nutrition Risk: Malnourished or Misnourished?”, in Jonathan Gruber, editor, Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis, page 483:
text: While there are sections of the population who are malnourished and misnourished we have made progress, generally speaking.
ref: 2013, Thomas E. Jordan, Allen J. Edwards, Development in the Preschool Years: Birth to Age Five, page 240:
text: She points out that in the United States, we have many misnourished children; that is, children get enough to eat, but their diets do not provide the necessary nutrients.
ref: 2016, Rosalind Charlesworth, Understanding Child Development:
glosses: Having sufficient food, but lacking the proper nutrients.
subcu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subcutaneous
misnumerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misnumerates
form: misnumerating
form: misnumerated
form: misnumerated
Etymology: From mis- + numerate.
Senses: examples: text: Ff. 127 and 128 are also misplaced, but not misnumerated.
ref: 1962, Frédéric Lyna, Scriptorium: - Volume 16, page 38:
text: It appears vegetative types and sub-types are misnumerated and confusing.
ref: 1974, Eastern Powder River Coal Basin, Development of Coal Resources: Environmental Impact Statement, page 173:
text: If participants were incorrect either because they couldn't remember correctly the last numerlog counted because they misnumerated, the experimenter suggested: " Would you try that again?"
ref: 1983, Child Study Journal - Volume 13, page 98:
text: Because those who are undercounted, overcounted, or misnumerated may not be included in these estimates, it is difficult to ascertain the number of males to females.
ref: 2009, Patricia Dixon, We Want for Our Sisters what We Want for Ourselves, page 78:
glosses: To numerate incorrectly; to misnumber.
misnumerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misnumerate
misnumerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misnumerate
misnumerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misnumerate
numerlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerlogs
Etymology: From Latin numerus (“number”) + -log.
Senses: examples: text: They show the children's understanding that the final digit of a numerlog sequence has a special status .
ref: 1982, George E. Forman, Action and Thought:
text: A child was said to use this principle if on one or more of the counts of a given set size he repeated the last numerlog in his enumeration (as in "one, two, three; three"), or if he enumerated the set on one trial and on a subsequent trial gave only the final numerlog from his previous enumeration.
ref: 2009, C. R. Gallistel, Rochel Gelman, The Child's Understanding of Number, page 122:
text: We suggest that for small numerosities, the preverbal counter can run much faster than the verbal counting routine, so that the magnitude (the preverbal numeron) that represents the numerosity of an array is specified long before the verbal counting process has arrived at the correct numerlog It is specified so much sooner that one can get the correct numerlog more quickly by using the preverbal counting mechanism (subitizing) to get the preverbal numeron and use the preverbal numeron to retrieve the numerlog.
ref: 2013, William Kessen, Andrew Ortony, Fergus Craik, Memories, Thoughts, and Emotions, page 76:
glosses: The name of a numeric amount.
numerlogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numerlog
numerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numeron
misobey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misobeys
form: misobeying
form: misobeyed
form: misobeyed
Etymology: From mis- + obey.
Senses: examples: text: the dispatcher may properly perform his duties in issuing an order, which may then be misunderstood or misobeyed through negligence, forgetfulness, absentmindedness, or in some other manner, with no opportunity for the dispatcher to detect such errors in time to avoid accident.
ref: 1915, The Railway and Engineering Review - Volume 57, page 243:
text: This right had been accepted by relative tribals but misobeyed and effaced by non-tribals and foreign peasants.
ref: 1983, Human Science: Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, page 141:
text: It is possible to take liberty with secular and vedic injunctions: one may obey, not obey or misobey them, but the same cannot be done with regard to objects of knowledge.
ref: 1990, Lalit Kishore, Lal Srivastava, Advaitic Concept of Jīvanmukti, page 121:
glosses: To obey incorrectly; to make a mistake in following orders.
Related terms: disobey
misobeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misobey
misobeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misobey
misobeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misobey
Chumulangma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 珠穆朗瑪／珠穆朗玛 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ), Wade-Giles romanization: Chu¹-mu⁴-lang³-ma³.
Senses: examples: text: […]而后者则由于挤压的结果，不断向上翘起，从而形成了号称“地球之巅”的珠穆朗玛峰和一系列海拔七、八千米高耸入云的山峰。
ref: 1977 May 6 [1976], Liao Wei-hua [廖卫华], “Fossil Coral Offers Mute Testimony to Shifting of Earth's Axis [珊瑚化石和地球赤道的变迁]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 380, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from K'o-hsueh Shih-yen, No 12, 1976, p 23, column 1 [科学实验], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Scientific and Technological, page 26:
english: 科学实验
translation: 科学实验
text: "The Chinese mountaineers," he continued, "are a contingent fearing neither hardship nor death, back in 1960 and 1975 they twice ascended Mt Chumulangma from the north slope.
ref: 1977 August 26 [1977 August 25], Hsu Yin-sheng, quotee, “Peking 25 Aug Rally Welcomes Chinese Mountain Climbers”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 166, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 1:
text: The procession was heading toward Chumulangma, the most distant of the six mountains.
ref: 2000, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, chapter 22, in Wheelers (Fiction), Warner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 463:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhumulangma (refers to Mount Everest).
misoblige
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misobliges
form: misobliging
form: misobliged
form: misobliged
Etymology: From mis- + oblige.
Senses: examples: text: Flaminius (whose Statue is next that of Appollo) that good-natured man, who had rather converse with those that wanted his help, doing good, than those whose he wanted, receiving good; that thought it a kindnesse to serve others, and loved them most intirely whom he had misobliged; was born and bred in a warlike time, and served under Marcellus against Hannibal, in whose stead (when he was slain in an ambush) he was made governour of Tarentum then re-taken, where he shewed himself so good a man, and so expert a Souldier, that he was appointed their Leader that were to inhabit the new Cities of Narnia and Coffa;
ref: 1665, The Worthies of the World, page 234:
text: But Salome, somewhat jealous of the favour lavished by the young lady on her rather flighty assistant, shook her head, and said she was sorry to misoblige Miss Laura, but Nattee was getting more shiftless every day; she hadn't done work enough since breakfast to pay for her keep, and she couldn't, with any conscience, think of letting her go away till the afternoon chores were all done up, and they were hardly begun as yet.
ref: 1865, The Sutherlands, page 80:
glosses: To disoblige.
misobliges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misoblige
misobliged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misoblige
misobliging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misobliging
form: most misobliging
Senses: examples: text: For a misobliging word, She'll durk her neighbour o'er the boord,
ref: 1807, Walter Scott, Historical ballads, page 209:
text: I wanted to read, and Sophy wanted to paint, and we were both very misobliging, and we only came because we had to, so we oughtn't have any presents.
ref: 1905, Sara Andrew Shafer, Beyond Chance of Change, page 88:
text: 'No need to assume it isny,' Lady Egidia counterd. 'I hope you areny going to be misobliging, Robert. This is important, and I think we're short o time.'
ref: 2016, Pat McIntosh, The Lanimer Bride:
glosses: Disobliging.
misobliging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misoblige
misoccupy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misoccupies
form: misoccupying
form: misoccupied
form: misoccupied
Etymology: From mis- + occupy.
Senses: examples: text: It may well be supposed that these grave religious writers would look on it as a profanation to waste valuable ink and parchment, and misoccupy their own precious time, in perpetuating the useless, heathenish, and often lewd fictions, which they would gladly see banished from the memory of the human race.
ref: 1861 Spetember, “Relics of Early Celtic Literature”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 58, number 345, page 354:
text: Let them not be idle, or misoccupied.
ref: 1880, B. Solymos, Desert Life: Recollections of an Expedition in the Soudan, page 90:
text: It is not to be misused, like other books full of mad doctrine and chatter which misoccupy your mind with their beggarly pedantry, so grasp this volume of books of finely invented truth and with your eyes open, like dogs hunting for fleas;
ref: 1977, Gerald Thomas, The Tall Tale and Philippe D'Alcripe, page 81:
text: Their 'brutal persecutions', he told his friend and patron the Earl of Buchan, were 'unceasingly contrived to distract & misoccupy my attention':
ref: 2016, Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield, Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time:
glosses: To occupy with something inappropriate; to focus or spend on something unworthy.
examples: text: Desert you the misoccupied chair of justice arbitrator, the position that should be occupied by honor and contaminate not the air of heaven with the name of liberty, freedom and justice befouled by your construction.
ref: 1905, Emma Florence Langdon, The Cripple Creek Strike, page 165:
text: He deplored the fact that Chambers rather than someone like Thomas Sandby had been commissioned to build Somerset House, and he also audaciously argued that architects like Chambers had been more interested in filling their pockets than in promoting the grand style by causing the interior of buildings to be "frittered and broken by stucco ornaments of griffins, cobwebs, honey-suckles, pannels, and such like insipid, not to say disgusting trash, as misoccupy all the space around us, which ought to have been wisely and happily reserved for those highly cultivated efforts of Painting and Sculpture, so worthy the national reputation.
ref: 1981, The life and art of James Barry, page 139:
text: To misoccupy the spaces of shop and church is as self-destructive as avoiding them.
ref: 1998, Cynthia Wall, The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London, page 178:
glosses: To fill with something inappropriate; to provide the wrong contents for.
misoccupies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misoccupy
misoccupying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misoccupy
misoccupied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misoccupy
BIPV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: topics: business
construction
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of building-integrated photovoltaic.
solar shingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar shingles
Senses: glosses: A roof shingle with integrated photovolatics to produce electricity from solar radiation. A shingle-sized PV panel (solar panel) used as a shingle replacement.
Tbps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tbps
form: Tb/s
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: terabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1000 gigabits per second.
Coordinate terms: bps
kbps
Mbps
Gbps
Pbps
Ebps
Related terms: english: terabyte per second
translation: terabyte per second
word: TBps
Pbps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pbps
form: Pb/s
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: petabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1000 terabits or 10¹⁵ bits per second.
Coordinate terms: bps
kbps
Mbps
Gbps
Tbps
Ebps
Related terms: english: petabyte per second
translation: petabyte per second
word: PBps
shitoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtəɹɪs/
Forms: form: shitorises
Etymology: Blend of shit + clitoris.
Senses: examples: text: Can you reach my shitoris with your tongue, Chuck?
glosses: Prostate gland in the context of sexual stimulation.
chemoavoidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + avoidance.
Senses: glosses: avoidance of a chemical stimulant, typically by means of chemotaxis
chromoanagenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromo- + anagenetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chromoanagenesis
multibead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bead.
Senses: glosses: Composed of multiple (types of) beads
undecidualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decidualized.
Senses: glosses: Not decidualized
be-ringleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]be-ringleted and be-flounced à la vigeur, of those elegant publications—feathers waving, ribbons floating, brown gowns vandyked with orange, and scarlet trimmed with sky blue, &c. &c.
ref: 1830 January 14, Caledonian Mercury, number 16,911, Edinburgh, column 4:
text: His dress was ultra-fashionable, and he was be-jewelled, be-whiskered, and be-ringleted a merveille.
ref: 1858 September 30, The Brooklyn Daily Times, volume 11, number 183, Brooklyn, N.Y., column 6:
text: Not long after the poodle had departed this transitory life, Fridolina was seen to contemplate with great pensiveness the countenance of a be-whiskered and be-ringleted young man.
ref: 1869 January 23, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, volume XXXVIII, number 12648, Buffalo, N.Y., column 7:
glosses: Alternative form of beringleted.
be-ringletted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]and the flaunting lace caps of the women, the showy uniforms of the civil and military authorities, and the be-capped, be-piped, and be-ringletted Bürchen[-]classe who throng the streets, give the whole the appearance of a carnival on a grand scale.
ref: 1845 August 13, “The Preparations at Bonn”, in The Standard, number 6565, London, column 2:
text: […]and Frank was already quite ashamed of his suspicions, and beginning to discard them as entirely unfounded, when again the door was thrown open, and, accompanied by her husband—overdressed, be-flounced, be-ringletted, and panting from the recent labours of the toilet—the real fugitive made her appearance in the portly person of Gertrude’s stepmother, the second Mrs Blake.
ref: 1846 July 18, “Slips of the Tongue”, in Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, number 133, Edinburgh, page 38, column 1:
text: The modern woman is more outspoken than her be-ringletted grandmother would ever have dared to be;
ref: 1906 October 4, Rosalie Neish, “The Modern Woman”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page two, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of beringleted.