cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hai Lok Hong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hai Lok Hong
form: Hai Lok Hongs
form: Hailokhong
form: Hai-Lok-Hong
form: Hai-lok-hong
form: Hailok Hong
form: Hai-Lok Hong
Etymology: Possibly either Hailufeng Min 海陸豐 /海陆丰 or Teochew 海陸豐 /海陆丰. Compare Indonesian Hailokhong, Dutch Hailokhong. Doublet of Hailufeng.
Senses: examples: text: […]Hai-Lok-Hong sinkhehs ( a composite term for the Hai Hong and Lok Hong districts in Kwangtung province ) to pay back twice the amount of their real debt.2 The Labour Code of 1895 limited verbal contracts to thirty days and laid down[…]
ref: 1968, Emily Sadka, The Protected Malay States, 1874-1895, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press:
text: […] For instance, the Kelang Lama area (Fig. 3) was initially inhabited by Hakkas growing tapioca; the Teochius particularly from the Teoh Yeoh District (潮陽縣), 300 to 400 strong, occupied Keladi, and the Hailokhong (海陸豐) were located in the Belakang Tebok, both practising mixed-farming and pig-rearing. In the case of the contracted labourers, although the working conditions had been improved under British rule, abuses and harsh exploitations on the part of the[…]
ref: 1973, 南洋大學學報, volumes 7-9, Singapore: 新加坡南洋大學 [Singapore Nanyang University]:
text: […]the Chinese community in Medan. He had left a wife behind in China and married a peranakan girl from Penang. After the death of this second wife, he married another peranakan girl whose father was a Hai Lok Hong, descendants of Southern Chinese fighters and pirates. This girl who was to be Queeny's mother had a rebellious character, but proved to be a good choice to help him to entertain his distinguished guests which included the Sultan of Deli and the high officials from the Dutch community.[…]
ref: 1983, Archipel, volumes 25-26, SECMI - Société pour l'étude et la connaissance du monde insulindien, Association Archipel, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, École des hautes études en sciences sociales:
text: A Hailokhong is boisterous, hot-tempered and flares up easily; Keh and Macao calmer and more forbearing although more inclined to kill anyone they hate, or to make plans for doing so. The Hailokhong is usually considered to be the best cultivator, is stronger and better able to do heavy work than the other clans who, on the other hand, are more careful and […]
ref: 1989, Jan Breman, Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: […] Pangkalan Brandan was the most difficult and the least enviable. The Chinese in that region were mostly Hai Lok Hongs, descendants of Southern Chinese fighters and pirates, unruly and fearless; but grandfather Lim, himself a Hai Lok Hong, had them well under control.
ref: 2016 May 15, Queeny Chang, Memories of a Nonya, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN:
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: a person who traces his/her ancestry to Hailufeng or the surrounding area
Hai Lok Hong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Hailokhong
form: Hai-Lok-Hong
form: Hai-lok-hong
form: Hailok Hong
form: Hai-Lok Hong
Etymology: Possibly either Hailufeng Min 海陸豐 /海陆丰 or Teochew 海陸豐 /海陆丰. Compare Indonesian Hailokhong, Dutch Hailokhong. Doublet of Hailufeng.
Senses: examples: text: […]Wong Ying (Captain Macao), Hin Sam (Captain Kheh), Lam Sam (Kheh), Lam Be (Hai-lok-hong). The Gi-Hin Kongsi has existed in the town of Klang from the year Jini Ngo, corresponding to the English year 1862, when Hin Sui was Captain. The Gi-Hin Kongsi house was at Ampang. The men who established the[…]
ref: 1955, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 134:
text: […]principalities, eighty-eight Britons, forty Swiss, twelve Frenchmen, eleven Austrians, and twenty-four men from seven other nationalities. Clerks and overseers included Overseas Chinese, Euro-Chinese, and Sinjos (of mixed origin). The workers included Chinese who were Hailokhong, Keh, or from Macao; Indians who were Klings and Bengalese; Siamese, Tamils, and Malays from the multiethnic Straits Settlements; Bataks from Sumatra and Malayan Gajoes, Alas, and Mandailingers; Beweanese and Bandjeranasin from other islands-in addition to local peoples. Colonial societies were multicultural and hierarchical.
ref: 2002 November 21, Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 437:
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: of or relating to the linguistic variety under Southern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family and its speakers or people of heritage from Hailufeng
supranaturalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supranaturalism
allyloxymethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any allyloxy derivative of methyl.
sympathetectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathetectomy
synrhabdosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synrhabdosome
coffeeweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffeeweed
comfortroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfortroot
continuists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuist
corrodiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrodier
pugioniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pugioniform
form: most pugioniform
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin pugioniformis, from Latin pūgiō (“dagger”).
Senses: examples: text: pugioniformis (M. pugioniforme) has a tall thick st. to 2 ft.: lvs. to 6 in. long, glaucous, 3-angled, gradually tapering from base to apex (pugioniform or dagger-shaped): petals as long as calyx-lobes.
ref: 1930, “Conicosia”, in L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, editors, Hortus: A Concise Dictionary of Gardening, General Horticulture and Cultivated Plants in North America, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 168, column 2:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Dagger-shaped.
Dostoyevskiyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dostoyevskiyan
form: most Dostoyevskiyan
Senses: examples: text: Amos Oz (see Preface), in a literary essay dedicated to S.Y. Agnon’s artistry, wonders about the surprisingly close relations between Agnon and Y. Ch. Brenner (a highly prominent Israeli author, 1881–1921): “What, in God’s name, makes a bitter person, sentimental, of slack appearance and bad-tempered like Brenner, a person of a Russian mentality, perhaps a little Dostoyevskiyan, to endear a refined and soft young person, shy lyrical and coquettish, a delicate aromatic fruit spoiled in its protecting cover, like Agnon…?”
ref: 1987, Yair Mazor, The Triple Cord: Agnon, Hamsun, Strindberg; Where Scandinavian and Hebrew Literature Meet, Papyrus Publishing House at Tel Aviv University, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Grachev’s telegram to the Pacific Fleet stated that Adm. Gurinov had been dismissed for “…serious shortcomings in his organizational activity relating to leadership of the Fleet.” The accusation was formulated in the relatively classic way—it can be used to remove any commander, including a flag officer. And at any time, if we proceed on the Dostoyevskiyan basis that “…absolutely anyone can be blamed for anything.”
ref: 1994 June 8, “Pacific Fleet Commander’s Dismissal Called ‘Unfair’”, in Central Eurasia: Military Affairs (JPRS Report), page 16, column 1:
text: Many Russians believe, as they have in the past, that the Russian nation has a special word to say to the world, be it the Dostoyevskiyan idea of a Russian "god," the "truth" of "Pravda" during the Soviet period or the "unifying national idea" of the Yeltsin regime now.
ref: 1996 August 9, Paul Goble, “Analysis From Washington: Searching for a New Russian 'Truth'”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021:
text: […] and tradition-respect, in the terms of the Dostoyevskiyan I do not accept the world.
ref: 2002, Central European Political Science Review: Quarterly of Central European Political Science Association, volume 3, numbers 9–10, Hungarian Erasmus Foundation, page 200:
glosses: Alternative form of Dostoyevskian.
scalpeliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scalpeliform
form: most scalpeliform
Etymology: From scalpel + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Ostiolar peritreme elevated, scalpeliform, apex ending abruptly near middle of metapleuron.
ref: 1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 123:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Scalpel-shaped.
xyphus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mesosternum tumid with wide, punctured, longitudinal furrow between halves, xyphus quadrangular also punctured, its apex truncate.
ref: 1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 123:
text: Rostrum reaching to the end of the metasternum; first joint stout, reaching to the apex of the xyphus of the prosternum .
ref: 1865, John William Douglas, John Scott, The British Hemiptera: Hemiptera-Heteroptera - Volume 1, page 35:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A triangular part of the prosternum that is found between the bases of the anterior coxae.
embolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embolia
Etymology: From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἐμβόλιον (embólion, “insertion”).
Senses: examples: text: Hemelytral membranes small, not reaching apex of abdomen; costal margin of embolium rather evenly arcuate, hardly ampliate toward base. Connexivum well exposed, segmental angles rectilinear, not at all produced.
ref: 1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 117:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A narrow piece separating the costa and corium in certain insects of the suborder Heteroptera.
anteapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anteapical
form: most anteapical
Etymology: From ante- + apical.
Senses: examples: text: Legs flavescent, femora with coarse, coalescing round, castaneous spots, some forming anteapical annulus, tibiae with vague, irregularly scattered castaneous dashes; tarsi light castaneous.
ref: 1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 127:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: preapical
antonyms: postapical
glosses: Located in front of an apex.
Related terms: subapical
contruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contrude
serratiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serratiform
form: most serratiform
Etymology: From Latin serrātus (“saw”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Incomplete capsular encroachment includes areas of irregular, serratiform and/or undulating inner capsular contour, perpendicular dentate capsular incursions and horizontally disposed (entrapped) intracapsular follicles, which do not qualify, though they should prompt further detailed scrutiny, as should any unexplained area of capsular expansion.
ref: 2018, John C Watkinson, Raymond W Clarke, editors, Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, eighth edition, volume 1, Boca Raton, F.L. […]: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 668:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Saw-shaped.
good deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good deals
Senses: examples: text: He made a good deal of trouble for us.
text: We have a good deal of territory to cover.
text: The audience is generally unaware of the good deal of work that goes into its creation.
text: You may make a good deal of that little fact if properly worked.
ref: 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, How to Write a Blackwood Article:
text: A friend suggested that, if I really wanted to have the satisfaction of taking a difficult examination, I should pass the London Matriculation. It meant a good deal of labour and much addition to my stock of general knowledge, without any extra expense worth the name. I welcomed the suggestion. But the syllabus frightened me. Latin and a modern language were compulsory!
ref: 1825-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi
text: She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels.
ref: 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: Large number, amount, or extent.
raw_tags: with indefinite article
examples: text: I can offer you a good deal on that van.
text: There are plenty of good deals on flights.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, deal.
Related terms: a good deal
great deal
good deal
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: You got everything packed? Good deal!
text: "You lucky duck! Say, how's Connor!!! Is he three now!!" "He's five, actually, and doing just great!" "Five!! Oh good deal! Gosh, I haven't seen him in ages! He must be getting SO BIG!"
ref: 2002, Dale McGowan, Calling Bernadette's Bluff: A Novel, page 32:
text: "Hi Ted," my mom said. She handed him pillows and duffel bags. Everyone's ready." "Good deal. Let's hit the road."
ref: 2011 April 5, Traci Foust, Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20:
text: "So, they will be ready to go come Friday?" he asked. I gave him another thumbs up. […] "They will be ready." "Good deal. If anything changes, just let me know."
ref: 2020 November 18, Kevin Johnson, Bridging the Gap, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Excellent! Used to indicate approval, or agreement.
New Humanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, early twentieth-century US-American New Humanism—led by Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More—berates American culture and education. New Humanism's basis are the literary and social theories of English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who seeks to evoke the moral quality of past civilizations, “the best that has been thought and said,” in an age of materialism, industrialization, and relativism.
ref: 2021, Anthony B. Pinn, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Humanism, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 303:
coordinate_terms: New Criticism
glosses: A theory of literary criticism developed in the United States around 1900 by Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, opposing Romanticism and emphasizing the moral and spiritual content of literary masterpieces.
Related terms: neohumanism
soleiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soleiform
form: most soleiform
Etymology: From Latin solea (“sandal”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Their ascospores are ellipsoid or soleiform, 1- or rarely 3-septate, usually have a larger upper cell, are mainly olivaceous brown, have rounded or somewhat attenuated apices and a verruculose wall surrounded by a thin gelatinous sheath (Hawksworth, 1985).
ref: 2000, Jane Fröhlich, Kevin D. Hyde, Palm Microfungi, Hong Kong: Fungal Diversity Press, page 85:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Slipper-shaped; calceolate.
Stonebridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From stone + bridge.
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Barling Magna parish, Rochford district, Essex (OS grid ref TQ9188).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburban area in the borough of Brent, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2084); Stonebridge Park station is in this area.
glosses: A place in England:
A small village in Wretham parish, Breckland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TL9290).
glosses: A place in England:
A small settlement in Banwell parish, North Somerset, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3959).
glosses: A place in England:
A southern suburb of Dorking, Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ1747).
glosses: A place in England:
A locality in Solihull borough, West Midlands and North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2183).
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Ottawa, Ontario.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood of Saskatoon, Manitoba.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Collin County, Texas.
white-collar criminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-collar criminals
Senses: topics: business
criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: An individual who partakes in, or has been convicted of, a white-collar crime.
socio-philosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sociophilosophical.
stapediform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stapediform
form: most stapediform
Etymology: From Latin stapēs, stapedem (“stirrup”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The stapediform metathoracic spot, upon which its author lays such stress, occupies the whole centre of the petiolar area, between the longitudinal carinae and is usually subparallel-sided or gradually a little explanate throughout; on either side is a slight and oblique line above the hind coxae.
ref: 1915, Claude Morley, A Revision of the Ichneumonidae Based on the Collection in the British Museum (Natural History) With Descriptions of New Genera and Species, part IV: Tribes Joppides, Banchides and Alomyides, London: […] British Museum, page 43:
glosses: Stirrup-shaped.
white-collar criminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-collar criminal
5-to-the-em space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5-to-the-em spaces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thin space.
synonyms: word: thin space
5-em space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5-em spaces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thin space.
synonyms: word: thin space
5-em spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 5-em space
5-to-the-em spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 5-to-the-em space
struthiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more struthiform
form: most struthiform
form: struthiiform
Etymology: From New Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: The Rhea ('South American ostrich') of eastern South America had no struthiform relations in Central or North America, but seems most nearly related to extinct Eocene struthious birds once inhabiting Egypt; while it is also a distant relation of the Ostrich and still more distantly of the Madagascar Aepyornis.
ref: 1918 July, “African and South America”, in The Nineteenth Century and After, volume LXXXIV, number CCCCXCVII, London: Nineteenth Century & After Ltd, page 185:
glosses: Resembling an ostrich.
Related terms: struthian
struthious
trizonocolpate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + zonocolpate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three colpi aligned longitudinally, equidistant around the equator.
raw_tags: of a pollen grain
tetrazonocolpate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + zonocolpate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four colpi aligned longitudinally, equidistant around the equator.
raw_tags: of a pollen grain
Barling Magna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Rochford district, Essex, England.
PUL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Today's options are much more comfortable to wear and touch. Cloth diaper covers can be polyurethane laminate (PUL) over cotton or polyester, nylon, wool or fleece.
ref: 2007, Denise Fields, Alan Fields, Baby Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on Baby Furinture, Equipment, Clothes, Toys, Maternity Wear and Much, Much More!, Windsor Peak Press, →ISBN, page 211:
text: PUL is waterproof and yet can withstand the heat of the dryer, wool is breathable yet fairly waterproof and antimicrobial, hemp and bamboo are absorbent and have some antimicrobial properties.
ref: 2011, Peggy Wilson, The Naturally Frugal Baby, →ISBN, page 88:
text: PUL is a slippery material and is not very easy to sew. Using a dual feed will simplify the sewing process. You can also use a Teflon presser foot, which reduces the slippery aspect. Alternatively, place a sheet of tracing paper between the PUL and the presser foot.
ref: 2023, The Complete Manual of Sewing: 120 Visual Lessons for Beginners, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Abbreviation of polyurethane laminate (“a durable waterproof, machine-washable laminated fabric consisting of cloth and polyurethane”).
jacking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jack it
psycho-socio-philosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psycho-socio-philosophical
form: most psycho-socio-philosophical
form: psychosociophilosophical
Etymology: From psycho- + socio- + philosophical.
Senses: examples: text: An examination of the experiential motivations of drugged people was made through a psycho-socio-philosophical existentialist approach in which the drug experience assumes a peculiar value for the individual user.
ref: 1975, Excerpta medica: Drug dependence. Section 40 - Volume 3, page 678:
text: Having completed the study of man as a descendant of Primates, Kahn proceeds to discuss man's views of reality, the different concepts of self, the psycho-socio-philosophical framework within which man develops, and the sources of knowledge available to man about man.
ref: 2010, Jacinta Respondowska, Come Along: We Are Truth-Bound, page 220:
text: The most syncretic of all psycho-socio-philosophical texts in the Vedanta-Hindu tradition is the Bhagwadgita.
ref: 2023, David Birch, Australasian Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship:
glosses: Having psychological, social and philosophical aspects.
togethers
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From together + -s.
Senses: glosses: Together.
Related terms: get-togethers
trinacriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, it differs from the latter in often having trinacriform bracteoles, elliptic to suborbicular fruits 5-6 long mm and 4-4.5 mm wide, solitary vittae in the lateral furrow and 4 on the commissure, 5-toothed calyx, and oblong purplish petals.
ref: 1998 Spring, Peng Hua, Wang Yin-zheng, “A New Species of Ligusticum L. (Apiaceae) from Yunnan Province, China”, in Novon, volume 8, number 1, St. Louis, M.O.: Missouri Botanical Garden, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 50, column 2:
text: The high steric hindrance induced by the high carbon sugars and trinacriform architecture required that the core undecasaccharide was synthesized through a finely tuned linear assembly [2 + (1 + (3 + (1 + (1 + 3))))] rather than convergent strategies.
ref: 2022 August 17, Xiaopeng Zou, Jing Hu, Ming Zhao, Chunjun Qin, Yuntao Zhu, Guangzong Tian, Juntao Cai, Peter H. Seeberger, Jian Yin, “Chemical Synthesis of the Highly Sterically Hindered Core Undecasaccharide of Helicobacter pylori Lipopolysaccharide for Antigenicity Evaluation with Human Serum”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 144, number 32, Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14535:
glosses: Having three prongs or sharp points.
ha'way
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of howay.
Selattyn and Gobowen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in north-west Shropshire, England.
Medigans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Medigan
Selattyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Selattyn and Gobowen parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2633).
Nimmegen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Fifth Letter.
From Nimmegen, the 20. of May 1686.
ref: 1687, Gilbert Burnet, Dr. Burnet’s Travels, or Letters containing an Account of what Seemed moſt Remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany, &c., Amsterdam: Peter Savouret · W. Fenner, Book III., page 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Nijmegen.
UGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UG
expression templates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expression template
phoenixity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phoenix + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Her best course would be to marry another phoenix; but as she—poor girl!—cannot appreciate even her own phoenixity, much less that of another, she must perforce be content with a mere mortal.
ref: 1904, G. Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's profession, page 314:
text: No church in the Philippines can match the phoenixity of Ermita.
ref: 1980, Alejandro R. Roces, Fiesta, page 69:
text: But, as the district court observed in piercing the corporate veil, the corporation's "phoenixity provides Mottolo no haven from liability."
ref: 1991, Protecting the Corporate Parent, page 103:
text: The driver is a Chinese woman. Remarkable phoenixity.
ref: 2020, J. S. Salkar, Solipsis: The Divine Mirage:
glosses: The quality of being like a phoenix, especially that of recovering from destruction, or possession of an otherworldly beauty.
vergiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vergiform
form: most vergiform
Etymology: From verge (“a rod or staff”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Dana's statements that the feet are all vergiform and that the first and second peraeopods, though a little stouter than the gnathopods, are still slender, are irreconcilable with the undoubtedly subchelate character of those peraeopods in Haswell's I. punctatus.
ref: 1909, Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Off the Coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Sydney, NSW: Australian Museum, page 626:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.
viperiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viperiform
form: most viperiform
Etymology: From viper + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: These snakes have a decidedly viperiform look about them; the head is broad and triangular, the neck narrow, and the body robust.
ref: 1883 July, “Snakes”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume CLVIII, number CCCXXIII, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer; Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 222:
glosses: Resembling a viper; viperine.
plait fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plaits fog
form: plaiting fog
form: plaited fog
form: plaited fog
Etymology: From the fact that fog is too insubstantial to be plaited.
Senses: examples: text: The result for the supervisee is an experience like 'plaiting fog', that is, trying to hold together the different strands in a unified whole — and holding the tension between the needs of client, counsellor and organization.
ref: 1999, Michael Carroll, Elizabeth Holloway, Counselling Supervision in Context, page 189:
text: He believed that the project was largely "plaiting fog” and making too much of what it had achieved.
ref: 2003, Cathy Davis, Housing associations - rehousing women leaving domestic violence, page 57:
text: Like my life is one long session of plaiting fog.
ref: 2019, Craig Hallam, Down Days:
text: 'Currently, I'm plaiting fog,' Henry admitted.
ref: 2023, Nick Oldham, Death Ride:
glosses: To perform an action in which the result falls apart immediately or to work on organizing something that cannot be organized.
examples: text: Just as you can't plait fog, you can hardly have an informed debate about something that means quite different things to different people.
ref: 2010, Cath Irvine, Graham Firth, Ruth Berry, Understanding Intensive Interaction, page 19:
text: I though H had more chance of plaiting fog than coming back with an affirmative to his request.
ref: 2011, Philip Serrell, Sold to the Man With the Tin Leg:
text: "This is like trying to plait fog,” said Robson, now showing his frustration. “You can't have it both ways.”
ref: 2015, J.R Stephenson, Barclays - Bankers or Bandits, page 152:
text: Trying to pin down the meaning of the words themselves— 'spiritual', 'spirituality', 'religious experience'— is like trying to plait fog, but the endeavour is necessary, not least because interviewees will hear and use all these terms in different ways.
ref: 2016, David Nixon, Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness:
text: Never going to 'appen, love. I'll plait fog if it does.
ref: 2019, Kathryn Hughes, Her Last Promise:
synonyms: knit fog
plait sawdust
glosses: Used as a metaphor for accomplishing an impossible task.
plaits fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plait fog
plaiting fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plait fog
plaited fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plait fog
knit fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knits fog
form: knitting fog
form: knit fog
form: knit fog
form: knitted fog
form: knitted fog
Senses: examples: text: Identifying where it comes from or who is responsible is almost like trying to knit fog.
ref: 2001, Elaine Douglas, Bullying in the Workplace: An Organizational Toolkit, page 43:
text: Trying to get to the bottom of this feeling is like trying to knit fog.
ref: 2012, Gillian Ogilvie, Living without Lucy, page 208:
text: The first of the metaphors used to describe the working environment at HMP Hull demonstrates the belief that all the elements one might require are present, if only they could be brought together and coordinated in an effective manner—in other words: 'working here is like trying to knit fog!'
ref: 2013, Frank A. Stowell, Ray L. Ison, Rosalind Armson, Systems for Sustainability, page 450:
text: This is like trying to knit fog - it's an impossible dream.
ref: 2015, Elizabeth J Tucker, A Matter of Self-confidence - Part I:
text: James would tell you that all that debate about what you actually know or don't know is a bit like trying to knit fog. And about as useful.
ref: 2017, Marcus Weeks, What Would Nietzsche Do?:
glosses: Synonym of plait fog.
synonyms: word: plait fog
knits fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knit fog
knitting fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knit fog
knitted fog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knit fog
plait sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plaits sawdust
form: plaiting sawdust
form: plaited sawdust
form: plaited sawdust
Senses: examples: text: One person has described trying to get a group of toddlers to sit on a mat to listen to a story as 'like trying to plait sawdust.'
ref: 2003, Laurie Makin, Marian R Whitehead, How to Develop Children's Early Literacy, page 39:
text: The urinating gentleman in question was a main-scale teacher whose attempts to go therough the performance threshold appeared about as straightforward as trying to plait sawdust.
ref: 2007, Brian Carline, How to be a Successful Head of Year: A Practical Guide, page xi:
text: I can no more read an MRI scanner than “plait sawdust”.
ref: 2008, Phillip Taylor, Going Full Circle: My Fight Against Guillain Barre Syndrome, page 56:
text: If that was a penalty, I'll plait sawdust.
ref: 2010, Phil Shaw, Tell Him He's Pelé:, page 46:
text: Bob Smith who was office manager at Nelson and Colne College once said in a meeting 'We've plaited sawdust for that long all the pigeons have come home to roost'.
ref: 2010, Stanley Graham, Naive Occasional Papers. Volume Two, page 220:
glosses: Synonym of plait fog.
synonyms: word: plait fog
plaits sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plait sawdust
plaiting sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plait sawdust
plaited sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plait sawdust
Indonesianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Indonesianize
Indonesianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Indonesianize
Indonesianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Indonesianize
guerrilla theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "R.I.P. Brother, Sister, Friend, Lover, Unknown," read the cardboard tombstones in a mock cemetery set up by ACT UP/Boston on the front lawn of Fisons Pharmaceutical Corporation Aug. 4. In an audacious display of guerrilla theater, six ACT UP pallbearers, carrying a black coffin, led a procession of sign-toting protesters through the cemetery to the front door of the company.
ref: 1988 August 20, Chris Bull, “ACT UP Zaps Fisons Co.”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 1:
glosses: A form of protest performance art carried out in public.
when they go low, we go high
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: antonyms: when they go low, we go lower
when they go low, we go submarine
glosses: Used to indicate an unwillingness to stoop to an adversary's incivility or violence.
goysplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goysplains
form: goysplaining
form: goysplained
form: goysplained
Etymology: From goy + -splain.
Senses: examples: text: And so Walker makes the appropriate gestures of love for Israel, which is both a great beacon of democracy and a necessary prop that will be needed to bring about the End Times. He even made a point of goysplaining, at a Las Vegas Adelsonfest, that he named his son Matthew, which is Hebrew for "gift from God," and that he celebrates the Birth of Our Saviour Jesus Christ with both Christmas lights and "a menorah candle." See, he's trying real hard!
ref: 2014 December 10, Doktor Zoom, “Scott Walker Wished Jewish Friends A Merry Jewish Christmas And An Incendiary New Year”, in Wonkette, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024:
text: The people who goysplain think that because they went to the trouble of reading an article, watching a documentary, or Googling something, they now understand an entire faith and should be congratulated for it.
ref: 2015 March 30, Lilit Marcus, “The Art of Goysplaining”, in The Forward, New York, N.Y.: The Forward Association, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023:
text: This did not stop Clinton from "goysplaining" the holiday and accusing prominent left-wing Jews like Bernie Sanders of betraying their own people.
ref: 2016 April 18, Ben Norton, “Hillary Clinton "goysplains" to Bernie Sanders in Passover article, accusing him of betraying his people by criticizing Israel”, in Salon.com, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2023:
glosses: To condescendingly explain Jewish issues to a Jew as a goy (non-Jew).
Derived terms: word: goysplaining
goysplains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of goysplain
goysplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some may accuse me of goysplaining – him being Jewish, me not. But seeing as I'm his father, he's just going to have to get used to a lot more of where that comes from.
ref: 2017 April 6, Giles Fraser, “Israel makes sense only from the perspective of Passover”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2024:
glosses: The act of condescendingly explaining Jewish issues to a Jew as a goy (non-Jew).
goysplaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goysplain
goysplained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goysplain
3-to-the-em space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3-to-the-em spaces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thick space.
synonyms: word: thick space
3-em space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3-em spaces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thick space.
synonyms: word: thick space
3-to-the-em spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3-to-the-em space
3-em spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3-em space
blow in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows in
form: blowing in
form: blew in
form: blown in
Senses: examples: text: [Patrick Star is attempting to sweep the floor of the Krusty Krab with the wrong end of the broom] Hey pal, you just blow in from Stupid Town?
ref: 2000 February 3, “Big Pink Loser”, in SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 23a, spoken by Incidental 41 (Dee Bradley Baker):
synonyms: drop in
pop in
glosses: To unexpectedly and casually arrive.
glosses: To waste large amounts of something (typically money); to squander.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To activate a blast furnace by eliminating moisture and then igniting a large amount of fuel.
blows in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow in
blowing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow in
blew in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow in
blown in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow in
white-throated magpie-jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-throated magpie-jays
Senses: glosses: Calocitta formosa, a bird native to North America and Central America.
Related terms: black-throated magpie-jay
black-throated magpie-jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-throated magpie-jays
Senses: glosses: Calocitta colliei, a bird native to North America and Central America.
Related terms: white-throated magpie-jay
magpie-jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magpie-jays
Senses: glosses: Either of two bird species in the genus Calocitta.
Derived terms: black-throated magpie-jay
white-throated magpie-jay
boyclit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyclits
Etymology: From boy + clit; compare girldick.
Senses: qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The clitoris of a trans man.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: The penis of an effeminate man.
Related terms: mangina
boyclits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boyclit
bioremediates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bioremediate
close reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close readings
Senses: examples: text: Students almost universally hate close reading, and they rarely wind up understanding it anyway. Forced to pick out meaning in passages they don't fully grasp to begin with, they begin to get the idea that English class is about simply making things up (Ah yes—the tree mentioned once on page 89 and then never again stands for weakness and loss!)
ref: 2010 July 1, Heather Horn, “Stop Close Reading”, in The Atlantic:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text.
Related terms: New Criticism
dhaanto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːntəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɑntoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːntəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Somali dhaanto.
Senses: glosses: A style of traditional music and a folk dance of the Somali people.
coolieism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coolie + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Slavery gave the master power to destroy all the distinctive heathenism which the African brought with him, and he did destroy it. But coolieism gives the employer no such power, and he does not do it.
ref: 1996, Noel Martin Douglas Rae, Witnessing America, page 46:
glosses: The role or status of a coolie (type of Asian worker).
banakites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banakite
electrotonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrotonize
electrotonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrotonize
electrobus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrobuses
Etymology: From electro- + bus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electric bus.
synonyms: word: electric bus
electrobuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrobus
emydians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emydian
first best
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: first-best
Senses: examples: text: Here the government should avoid any policy that affects the workers' decision rules since it would harm efficiency, and the first-best way of pursuing distributional goals is through lump-sum transfers.
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 200:
text: Without a tariff, the competitive equilibrium outcome coincides with the first best allocation.
ref: 2025 May 24, Iván Werning, Guido Lorenzoni, Veronica Guerrieri, “Tariffs as Cost-Push Shocks: Implications for Optimal Monetary Policy”, in NBER Working Paper Series, number 33772, page 5:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Characterized by all optimality conditions being satisfiable.
first best
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first bests
form: first-best
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A situation where all optimality conditions are satisfied.
Related terms: second best
third best
first-best
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of first best.
alkamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkamine
second-best
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of second best.
third-best
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of third best.
alumites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alumite
alurgites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alurgite
dabke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dabkes
form: dabka
form: dabkah
form: dabkeh
form: dabki
form: debka
Etymology: Borrowed from North Levantine Arabic دَبْكة (dabka) and South Levantine Arabic دَبْكة (dabke).
Senses: glosses: A folk dance of the Levant.
achenocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achenocarp
Ahoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ahom
caterpillaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caterpillar
chammas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamma
Islamotard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamotards
Etymology: From Islamo- + -tard.
Senses: synonyms: muzzie
muslimtard
glosses: A Muslim.
courtmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtman
cowles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowle
millfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millfeed
Moists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moist
moities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moity
multitudinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitudinist
multirotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multirotation
monopneumonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopneumonian
moosecalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moosecall
moosecalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moosecall
cherry-pitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry-pitter
tournays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tournay
toscanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toscanite
tracheoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheoplasty
toxinfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxinfection
tricategorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + categorical.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tricategory.
trinitrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinitration
trophophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophophore
g@y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: g@yer
form: g@yest
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of gay.
g@y
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: g@ys
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of gay.
unnitrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not nitrified.
cumhals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumhal
nonfatigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fatigable.
Senses: glosses: Not fatigable.
nonfatiguable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonfatigable.
unfatigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fatigable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonfatigable.
synonyms: word: nonfatigable
unfatiguable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonfatigable.
synonyms: word: nonfatigable
Mortuary Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A pun with mortuary for the similar-sounding monastery, in reference to numerous fatalities resulting from the strong waves and currents there.
Senses: glosses: Monastery Beach, part of the Carmel River State Beach in California, United States.
transmigrationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The belief that the soul of a person passes into another body after death.
transmigrationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmigrationists
Senses: glosses: One who believes in transmigrationism.
coconut doggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut doggies
Etymology: Compound of coconut + doggy.
Senses: glosses: A capybara.
salemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salema
tool frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tool frames
Senses: glosses: A frame that is used to define the position and orientation of a tool attached to a robot arm.
toolframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolframes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tool frame.
schoolkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From school + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The ownership and operation of a (usually small and traditional) school.
coconut doggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut doggy
toolframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toolframe
tool frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tool frame
permban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permbans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of permaban.