cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
I-language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced by Noam Chomsky.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of internal language: language as perceived and understood in the individual rather than as transmitted and shared in the world or community.
wikipedia: Noam Chomsky
Coordinate terms: E-language
hematidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematidrosis.
haematospermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematospermia.
hematospermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemato- + sperm + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of blood in the semen
Related terms: hemospermic
hemiatrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiatrophies
Etymology: From hemi- + atrophy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: atrophy that affects only one half of the body
hemiatrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiatrophy
argumentativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argumentative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being argumentative.
hemidesmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The dried root of Hemidesmus indicus, from India and used medicinally as a tonic or diuretic.
nephrogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephro- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Of renal origin.
glosses: Involved in forming the kidney.
Synonyms: nephrogenetic
neurastheniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurastheniacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurasthenic.
neurastheniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurastheniac
neuropathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropathists
Etymology: From neuropathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A neurologist.
neuropathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropathist
neuroplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroplasms
Etymology: From neuro- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: The protoplasm of a nerve cell.
Derived terms: neuroplasmic
neuroplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroplasm
neurosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neurosis + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a neurosis.
neuropath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: n(y)o͝or′ə-păth′
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpaθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ɔː.əˌpaθ/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpæθ/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈn(j)ɔː.əˌpæθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊɹ.əˌpæθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊə̯.əˌpæθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʉ(ː)ə̯.əˌpɛθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)oː.əˌpɛθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʉɹ.əˌpaθ/
ipa: /ˈn(j)uwə̯ʳ.oˌpat̪/
ipa: /ˈn(j)oːʳ.oˌpat̪/
ipa: /ˈn(j)uːɾ.oˌpat̪/
rhymes: -ʊɹəpæθ
Forms: form: neuropaths
Etymology: From neuro- + -path.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person with neuropathy, perhaps also including (in outdated nosology) a neurosis: someone who has, or is predisposed to, some disease of the nervous system.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physician with specialization in neuropathy, corresponding to today's specialties of neuropathologist or neurologist: one who focuses on nervous conditions in pathology.
neuropaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropath
neurospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurospasms
Etymology: From neuro- + spasm.
Senses: glosses: A nervous spasm or twitching of a muscle.
neurospasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurospasm
neurotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotherapies
Etymology: From neuro- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of nervous diseases.
neurotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotherapists
Etymology: From neuro- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in the treatment of nervous diseases.
neurotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotherapy
neurotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotherapist
nosotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noso- + -trophy.
Senses: glosses: The care and nursing of the sick.
nosogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noso- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The development of disease.
Synonyms: nosogeny
nosogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nosogenesis.
synonyms: word: nosogenesis
novaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of novain.
novain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novaine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic compound obtained from extract of meat.
neuromatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuroma + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a neuroma.
neuromimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + mimesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: hysterical or neurotic simulation of disease
Related terms: neuromimetic
neuromyositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + myositis.
Senses: glosses: neuritis accompanied by inflammation of the related muscles
normoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or having the character of a normoblast.
gasserectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: gasserectomies
Etymology: From Gasser + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The excision of the Gasserian ganglion.
gasserectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasserectomy
vermilion flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermilion flycatchers
Senses: glosses: Pyrocephalus rubinus, a small, bright red passerine bird in the Tyrannidae family.
vermilion flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermilion flycatcher
demuxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demux
demuxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demux
zomboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zomboid
form: most zomboid
Etymology: From zombie + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The effects which are supposed to be produced can be caricatured as inactivity (the zomboid slump in front of the box) or, at the other extreme, a manic activity […]
ref: 1991, David Lusted, The Media Studies Book: A Guide for Teachers, page 106:
text: The coffins eventually reached cold storage, where they were to lie for another six weeks. Enter the sangomas. The antidote for zombies requires that sangomas reunite the zomboid spirits with their bodies.
ref: 2003, Brett Bailey, The Plays of Miracle & Wonder, page 33:
glosses: Zombielike.
zomboid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zomboids
Etymology: From zombie + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A person who resembles a zombie.
rile up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: riles up
form: riling up
form: riled up
form: riled up
Senses: synonyms: word: burn up
word: wind up
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To rile; to aggravate.
riled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rile up
Sys Rq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SysRq.
monkey about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monkeys about
form: monkeying about
form: monkeyed about
form: monkeyed about
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monkey around.
synonyms: word: monkey around
ICME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICMEs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of interplanetary coronal mass ejection: a disruption of the fast and slow solar winds.
Synonyms: ion storm
ion storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ion storms
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ICME.
synonyms: word: ICME
ion storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion storm
ICMEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ICME
forever home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forever homes
Senses: examples: text: We were so glad to rescue Jezebel from the shelter and bring her to her forever home.
text: Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven.
ref: 2022 July 23, “A She-Cat Tamed By The Purr Of Her Humans”, in Not Always Right, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022:
glosses: A permanent home found for a child or animal who is to be adopted.
examples: text: We put in the strongest bid that we could, because we wanted the home so bad — it felt like our forever home from the first moment we stepped inside.
synonyms: forever house
glosses: A home in which a resident settles with the expectation of living there for the rest of their life.
Derived terms: furever home
forever homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forever home
unlifting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lifting.
Senses: examples: text: Do you know what pain treads the unlifting darkness with cleft hooves, with webbed feet?
ref: 1979, Poetry Australia, numbers 70-72, page 67:
text: For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression. For Joan, these years were a tempest of youth and a burgeoning literary career.
ref: 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers:
text: There had been no collieries on this side of the line, and now that the murky atmosphere, which had been an unlifting blight upon the midland plain, was gone for ever, the fields showed as fairly as though no pollution had ever touched them.
ref: 2010, Sydney Fowler Wright, Deluge, page 94:
glosses: That does not lift or abate.
anthropotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthropo- + theism.
Senses: glosses: The ascription of human form and nature to the gods, or the belief that gods are deified human beings.
psychosemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + semantic.
Senses: examples: text: Although the topic of psychosemantics might, at first blush, seem to be remote from the present concerns about color ontology, it has sometimes been alleged that the argument from perceptual variation that we have been considering depends in a certain way on psychosemantic matters -- or, at least, on the unsatisfactory status of extant psychsemantic theorizing.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: Relating to psychosemantics.
Romanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Romanly
form: most Romanly
Etymology: From Roman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Roman manner; like a person from (Ancient) Rome.
soteriologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soteriologists
Etymology: From soteriology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies soteriology.
soteriologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soteriologist
anthracomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthraco- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “coal”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”).
Senses: examples: text: Around the vestry were tripods for anthracomancy, skulls for necromancy, mirrors for enoptromancy, or perhaps for putting on stage makeup.
ref: 2015, John C. Wright, The Architect of Aeons, page 322:
glosses: Divination by studying burning coals
anopisthographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + opisthographic.
Senses: examples: text: Anopisthographic presentation is not unknown in the manuscript book, and a more extensive analysis of the binding techniques used for such material is called for than can be presented here.
ref: 2009, Peter W. Parshall, The Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe, page 105:
glosses: Not opisthographic; bearing writing on one side only.
B. Litt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin "Baccalaureatus Litterarum".
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Letters.
white arsenic oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white arsenic.
synonyms: word: white arsenic
paper punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper punches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hole punch.
synonyms: word: hole punch
sunnestead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunnesteads
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sunstead.
tutay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tutays
form: tutaying
form: tutayed
form: tutayed
Senses: examples: text: There is an air of greatness in Tutaying men.
ref: 1697, John Dennis, A Plot and No Plot:
glosses: Alternative form of tutoy.
second-division
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being in the second division (the bottom half of the standings).
raw_tags: of a team or club
cought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of caught.
glosses: Misspelling of caught.
examples: text: The third day he cought up bloud, and some little issued from his Wound that day and the next.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several chirurgical treatises, page 369:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of coughed.
downflex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downflexes
form: downflexing
form: downflexed
form: downflexed
Etymology: From down- + flex.
Senses: examples: text: Second, the unusually thick (2 to 5 km, Berry and Barr, 1971; Hall, 1973; Grantz et al., 1979) sediment cover in Canada Basin may serve to downflex the underlying oceanic crust and produce a greater than normal state of stress across the adjacent margin which is presently coupled to the seafloor basement.
ref: 1982, R. A. Scrutton, Dynamics of Passive Margins, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Some of these sediments may act as locally uncompensated loads that generate the strong observed gravity highs, downflex the surrounding lithosphere to produce the broad flanking gravity lows, and contribute to the stress regime responsible for present offshore seismicity.
ref: 1990, Arthur Grantz, Leonard Johnson, J. F. Sweeney, The Arctic Ocean region - Issue 1, page 235:
text: As with other gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures, the image may become redded out or obscure; when lost, withdraw the insertion tube a bit, insufflate, downflex, and search the image for visual landmarks.
ref: 2000, Michael V. Sivak, Gastroenterologic Endoscopy - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 851:
glosses: To force downward without breaking.
examples: text: The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.
ref: 1967, Institute for Oceanography, Collected Reprints-national Ocean Survey, page 305:
text: As along the eastern United States, continental shelves commonly acquire a prism of sediments as the continental margin downflexes.
ref: 1974, Daniel N. Lapedes, McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of environmental science, page 114:
glosses: To bend or stretch downward.
downflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downflexes
Etymology: From down- + flex.
Senses: examples: text: The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline.
ref: 1972, Geological Society of America Bulletin - Volume 83, page 1850:
text: The axis of a topographic trench of Java-Sumatra type is thus displaced far seaward, about 200 km, from the position of the fundamental downflex in the subducting oceanic plate.
ref: 1979, Warren Bell Hamilton, Tectonics of the Indonesian region, page 31:
glosses: Something that has been forced to curve downward.
examples: text: Dinosaurs, as well as growing taller, developed a more pronounced downflex to lower their heads closer to the ground for better cropping techniques.
ref: 1991, Antony Milne, The Fate of the Dinosaurs: New Perspectives in Evolution, page 90:
glosses: Something that can bend in a downward direction.
downflex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From down- + flex.
Senses: examples: text: There is no downward flexibility in expenditure and credit levels. But outputs and supplies are downflex.
ref: 1974, Seshadriyengar Lakshmi Nara Simha, Inflation in India, page 77:
text: If the real wage rate is not downflex, the pace of adoption of technical change depends upon the elasticity in the savings supply schedule.
ref: 1976, Vadilal Dagli, Financial Institutions of India, page 49:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Showing flexibility in a downward direction.
downflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downflex
downflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downflex
downflexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downflex
downflexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downflexings
Senses: examples: text: In certain regions of horizontal platform strata, there occur sharp downflexings of strata in the form of monoclines.
ref: 1981, Arthur Newell Strahler, Physical geology, page 453:
text: Thus the "step-like thickening of the crust" mentioned by Sobczak & Stephens (1974) may be coincident with a block fault system at the margin of the Franklinian geosyncline, movements along which caused downflexing and subsidence that controlled trough sedimentation.
ref: 1982, Nares Strait and the drift of Greenland, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: An act of downflexing or an instance where something has been downflexed.
downflexings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downflexing
downflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downflex
downflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downflexed
form: most downflexed
Senses: examples: text: Small rather open light-green widely suckering rosettes, ours only 3-4 dm. tall; leaves 3-4 dm. long, 3-4.5 cm. wide, linear-lanceolate, spreading, usually straight, the horny margins continuous, firm, sinuate; teeth 4-6 mm. long, variously curved but not generally downflexed, usually with 1 to 3 secondary teeth along the midblade
ref: 1970, Donovan Stewart Correll, Marshall Conring Johnston, Manual of the vascular plants of Texas, page 421:
text: The subspecies, distinguished from the typical race from N.E. Himalaya in the male genitalia where the valve is more elongate and strongly downflexed, is known from Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo.
ref: 1982, Henry Sackville Barlow, An introduction to the moths of South East Asia, page 202:
text: Same downflexed right shoe and right arm over the face.
ref: 2010, Janice Daugharty, Whistle: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Curved or flexed downward.
second division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second divisions
Senses: examples: text: Let me pause to explain “second division” to those for whom the term has little or no significance. For the first half of the twentieth century the classic, constant number of baseball teams in a league was eight. Not six, not ten, not twelve, not fourteen. Eight. […] Even if a club failed to win the pennant, it was important to finish second, third or fourth—that is, in the upper half or first division of the league. […] “First division” came to mean something admirable, “second division” was denigrating.
ref: 1991, Robert W. Creamer, Baseball and Other Matters in 1941, page 37:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The half of the standings containing the teams with the worst records.
first division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first divisions
Senses: examples: text: Let me pause to explain “second division” to those for whom the term has little or no significance. For the first half of the twentieth century the classic, constant number of baseball teams in a league was eight. Not six, not ten, not twelve, not fourteen. Eight. […] Even if a club failed to win the pennant, it was important to finish second, third or fourth—that is, in the upper half or first division of the league. […] “First division” came to mean something admirable, “second division” was denigrating.
ref: 1991, Robert W. Creamer, Baseball and Other Matters in 1941, page 37:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The half of the standings containing the teams with the best records.
risk assessments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risk assessment
afterplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From after- + play.
Senses: glosses: In human sexual behavior, the erotic acts done after finishing sex.
Related terms: foreplay
respectablize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: respectablizes
form: respectablizing
form: respectablized
form: respectablized
Etymology: From respectable + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make respectable.
respectablized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of respectablize
respectablizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of respectablize
respectablizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of respectablize
to speak of
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: not enough to speak of
text: no [X] to speak of
text: Q: How many people heeded the advice to bring an umbrella? A: Not enough to speak of.
text: There was no air conditioning to speak of. [ = There was some, but it was wholly inadequate.]
text: While he spoke thus, the good man leaped with joy; and as he was a widower, they advised him to put himself agian to the ranks. 'No raillery,' said he, 'if I were always as young, I might yet do something to speak of.
ref: 1792, Jean François Marmontel, C. Dennis, Robert Lloyd, Moral Tales By M. Marmontel Translated From the French by C. Dennis and R. Lloyd, page 130:
text: There were no tall buildings to speak of, certainly nothing in the way of skyscrapers, no brownstones […]
ref: 1980, Charlotte Vale Allen, Promises, page 79:
text: But some have no parents, or none to speak of, and are living with a grandmother or uncle or married sister or sister who's not married but has three tots of her own to look after, or this unruly student's helping her to take care of them with babysitting or a paying after-school job.
ref: 2013, Stephen Dixon, 30 Pieces of a Novel, →ISBN:
text: Completely disorientated by the explosion of dust, it was only now she realised she was running through Tina’s flat. It was even grottier than Zoe’s. There was no furniture or carpet to speak of.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Sufficient; important or significant enough to be worth mentioning.
Related terms: speaking of
speak of
dragsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragsman
palpebronasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From palpebra + -o- + nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the nose and the eyelids.
Related terms: nasal
palpebral
Arnold Palmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arnold Palmer
Jehanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jehannes
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
clock is ticking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: tick-tock (interjection)
text: I have the feeling that even while the clock is ticking we are moving on to terrible things.
ref: 1922, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 2, in The Great Prince Shan:
text: The clock is ticking for Mikhail Gorbachev too. Of all the failures of political and economic theory in this century, the Soviet failure is the most spectacular.
ref: 1986 April 23, James Reston, “Washington The Ticking Clock”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Dec 2015:
text: "We know the clock is ticking, and the longer it takes us to find the person who has been kidnapped, the less likely the case is to have a successful outcome."
ref: 2006 February 19, Alasdair Palmer, “‘We know the clock is ticking. Kidnap is a murder waiting to happen’”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 22 Dec 2015:
text: The clock is ticking. And with every tick, the Trudeau government’s goal of bringing 25,000 refugees from the Middle East to Canada by the end of the year grows more improbable.
ref: 2015 November 12, John Ibbitson, “Politics notebook: Clock is ticking for Trudeau to resettle 25,000 refugees”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 22 Dec 2015:
synonyms: clock is running
time is ticking
time is short
coordinate_terms: time is up
time is ripe
time is of the essence
qualifier: almost always preceded by the and often followed by for
glosses: Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
Related terms: time flies
clock is running
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -ʌnɪŋ
Etymology: From clock + is + running.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clock is ticking.
synonyms: word: clock is ticking
mooringpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooringposts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mooring post.
SECO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SECOs
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of sustainer engine cutoff.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of secondary engine cut-off.
Related terms: english: main engine cut-off
translation: main engine cut-off
word: MECO
english: booster engine cutoff
translation: booster engine cutoff
word: BECO
english: engine cut-off
translation: engine cut-off
word: ECO
mooring post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooring posts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bollard, or similar fixed post that a vessel may be moored to
lip flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip flaps
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.
examples: text: […] pick it up earlier or later where there is no lip-flap. But if you must take it there, then you must precede it with another shot of the same speaker at a different angle, hopefully closer.
ref: 1972, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 5, number 7, part 12, page 46:
text: “So when we translate,” Lam was saying, “it's all about what we call lip flaps. Like, how many times does mouth move? We match translation more to mouth than to what words really mean.
ref: 2009, Shawn Klomparens, Two Years, No Rain, page 49:
text: For the dubbed version, we would start with this translated script and then work to create a new script, which would closely match the lip flaps and intonations of the character onscreen
ref: 2010, Josef Steiff, Tristan D. Tamplin, Anime and Philosophy: Wide Eyed Wonder:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A movement of an actor's lips, which is to be matched as closely as possible in a dubbed version of the film.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lip, flap.
mosaicplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosaicplasty
nasoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasoplasties
Etymology: From naso- + -plasty.
Senses: examples: Alef, Matthew; Irwin, Chetan; Smith, Darren; Afifi, Ahmed; Jiang, Shao; Vecchione, Lisa; Ford, Matthew; Decesare, Gary E; Deleyiannis, Frederic W.-B; Losee, Joseph E (2009). "Nasal Tip Complications of Primary Cleft Lip Nasoplasty". Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 20 (5): 1327–33. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3181ae4115. PMID 19816250. "Complications of primary nasoplasty, at the time of definitive primary cheiloplasty, are underreported in the literature."
McDaniel, Jarred M; Alleyne, Brendan; Gosain, Arun K (2013). "Secondary Cleft Nasoplasty at Primary School Age". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 132 (4): 933–43. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182a053f1. PMID 24076684. "Fifty-three patients underwent secondary cleft nasoplasty with resorbable plate placement as a columellar strut."
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose.
glosses: An instance of such surgery; one operation (procedure).
Synonyms: rhinoplasty
nose job
noselift
discom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoms
Senses: glosses: Acronym of distribution company (especially for electricity).
long underwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Two-piece underwear with long legs and long sleeves that is normally worn during cold weather.
Synonyms: long johns
thermal underwear
thermal underwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of long underwear.
synonyms: word: long underwear
classfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classfellows
Etymology: From class + fellow.
Senses: glosses: classmate
DISCOM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DISCOMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of division support command.
tambora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamboras
Etymology: From Spanish tambor.
Senses: glosses: A two-headed Dominican drum used in merengue music.
sun-stead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-steads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sunstead.
sun-steads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-stead. (Alternative form of sunsteads.)
tape machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape machines
Senses: glosses: tape recorder
Mizrahi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪzˈɹɑːhi/
/-xi/
Forms: form: more Mizrahi
form: most Mizrahi
form: Mizrachi
Etymology: From Hebrew מזרחי (mizrakhí, “eastern”).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to Jews of Middle Eastern origin, and their traditions, customs, and rituals.
Mizrahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪzˈɹɑːhi/
/-xi/
Forms: form: Mizrahis
form: Mizrahim
form: Mizrachi
Etymology: From Hebrew מזרחי (mizrakhí, “eastern”).
Senses: examples: text: In a move aimed at avoiding the mistakes made by many of the Jewish institutions in which students have grown up, the guidebook encourages students creating new Jewish organizations to ensure that “JOCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) feel included and comfortable,” to maintain a “[s]upportive network of closed spaces for marginalized people,” and to directly“[a]cknowledge and confront Ashkenormativity.”
ref: 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: A Mizrahi Jew.
Related terms: Ashkenazi
Ashkenazic
Ashkenazim
Sephardi
Sephardic
Sephardim
pharaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharao
Caanan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Canaan.
Gothenburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Gothenburgers
Etymology: From Gothenburg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
bespeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bespeared
form: most bespeared
Etymology: From be- + speared.
Senses: examples: text: The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.
ref: 1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277:
text: My definition of war will stand on my definition of militarism, and my definition of militarism goes back thru the Roman milites, helmeted and bespeared, massed in legions or formed in testudines, back to the slopes of Kabulstan and the plains of the Jumna and the Ganges, […]
ref: 1915, Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the […] Annual Meeting, volume 53:
glosses: Equipped or furnished with a spear.
Gothenburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gothenburger
re-hire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-hires
form: re-hiring
form: re-hired
form: re-hired
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rehire.
re-hires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-hire
re-hiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-hire
re-hired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-hire
Justyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Justyns
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Justin.
net blotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net blotches
Senses: glosses: A plant disease caused by fungi of the genus Pyrenophora, especially a disease of barley caused by P. teres.
direct case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct cases
Senses: examples: text: 19. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases.
ref: 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun case which covers the nominative and possibly other cases such as vocative and/or accusative (the precise definition depends on the case system in question; the term is used especially in simple systems with two or three cases)
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A synonym for the nominative case, based on the definition by Peter Edmund Laurent https://books.google.ca/books?id=66NWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=direct&f=false
Related terms: grammatical case
direct cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct case
handtame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more handtame
form: most handtame
form: hand-tame
Etymology: From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).
Senses: examples: text: I badly wanted a little more time to work on training them, but simply couldn't find it — so while they grew up friendly and confident, you couldn't exactly called them handtame.
ref: 2003, From The Heart of a Bird - Page 50
text: This is a really popular image with British photographers when photographing Atlantic puffins, which can be hand-tame — indeed, I have had puffins playfully tugging at my laces while sitting on a cliff top!
ref: 2011, David Tipling, The Bird Photography Field Guide:
text: Tamir was all her joy. She had him hand-tame, spoiled him most tenderly.
ref: 2015, Cherry Wilder, A Princess of the Chameln:
glosses: Tame and accustomed to being held in the hand; (by extension) mild; meek; humble; docile
Derived terms: hand-tameness
handtame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handtames
form: handtaming
form: handtamed
form: handtamed
form: hand-tame
Etymology: From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).
Senses: examples: text: Even children can handtame wild birds, if they follow Al Martin's simple directions.
ref: 1964, Senior Citizen, volume 10, page 40:
text: So now that you've decided to handtame your canary, just where do you start?
ref: 2003, Brats in Feathers, Keeping Canaries - Page 49
glosses: To cause (someone or something) to become accustomed to being handled
hand-tameness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handtameness
form: hand tameness
Etymology: From Middle English handtamenesse, equivalent to handtame + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In any case it is easy to strike up a very happy relationship with one's garden Robin without even approaching the hand-tameness sought by Lord Grey.
ref: 1984, Chris Mead, Robins:
text: O It's Vour Choice: Many people lose their parrots' hand tameness because they take it for granted.
ref: 1999, Sally Blanchard, Sally Blanchard's companion parrot handbook:
text: Sadly, people allow their Green-wings to lose their hand tameness and, therefore, compromise their pet potential.
ref: 2003, Companion Parrot Quarterly - Issues 59-64 - Page 56
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being handtame
Jew's-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jew's-ears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jew's ear.
triple option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple options
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A formation that allows the quarterback to pass the ball or to give the ball to the fullback or to one of two running backs.
nickelback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkəlbæk/
rhymes: -ɪkəlbæk
Forms: form: nickelbacks
form: nickel back
Etymology: Blend of nickel + cornerback. Modelled on quarterback: both the quarter (“25 cents”) and the nickel (“5 cents”) are American coins, though quarterback was not named for the coin. Coined due to the nickelback's role as the fifth defensive back on the field, thus the connection to the 5-cent nickel.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fifth defensive back (in addition to two cornerbacks and two safeties) who is deployed for additional pass coverage.
Related terms: dimeback
quarterback
nickelback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkəlbæk/
rhymes: -ɪkəlbæk
Forms: form: nickelbacks
Etymology: From nickel + back.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nickelback.
dimeback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimebacks
form: dime back
Etymology: Blend of dime + cornerback. Modelled on quarterback: both the quarter (“25 cents”) and the dime (“10 cents”) are American coins, though quarterback was not named for the coin. Coined due to the dimeback being one additional defensive back more than the nickelback, since the 10-cent dime is more than the 5-cent nickel. See more at nickelback.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sixth defensive back (in addition to two cornerbacks, two safeties and a nickelback) who is deployed for additional pass coverage.
Related terms: nickelback
quarterback
Egg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A Koenigsegg car.
examples: text: Heh, i don't think she was that cunning to begin with, but romancing the Egg has rubbed off on her ;D.
ref: 2015 October 10, SerNugll, Reddit:
text: I'm a big fan of the Egg because he's so complex and intriguing.
ref: 2017 November 8, GreenDragonPatriot, Reddit:
text: Either BioWare got a new voice actor for The Egg (derogatory) or Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will feature another villain to contest against — and knowing Dragon Age like I do, it’s likely the latter.
ref: 2023 December 4, Ash Parrish, “Dragon Age: Dreadwolf has another new trailer, and promises more details in 'Summer 2024'”, in The Verge:
qualifier: Dragon Age fandom slang
glosses: The character Solas from the Dragon Age franchise (referring to his baldness).
raw_tags: with the
anacardic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Anacardium + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: At the request of Defence Food Research Laboratory, 14 new anacardic compounds synthesised from tetrahydroanacardol were screened for toxicity to insect and albino rats.
ref: 1967, Central Food Technological Research Institute (India), Annual Report - Central Food Technological Research Institute, page 2:
text: The kernels yield an oil, anacardic oil, used in the preparation of varnishes, typewriter rolls, paints and water-proofing paper.
ref: 1993, S. N. Pandey, Ajanta Chadha, A Text Book Ofbotany: Plant Anatomy and Economic Botany, →ISBN:
text: Thus, it was concluded that the exudate of the resistant genotype contained four anacardic acid components.
ref: 2000, David L. Hallahan, J. A. Callow, Plant Trichomes, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: Pertaining to cashews (Anacardium occidentale).
Derived terms: anacardate
anacardic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Anacardium + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Resin heat- product of a mixture of modified liquid anacardic and modified pine wood resin.
ref: 1959, Institute of Paper Chemistry, Abstract Bulletin - Volume 30, Issues 1-6, page 706:
text: It contains phenols, tannin and anacardic.
ref: 2013, Ojo Joseph Bamidele, Natural Therapy Miracle, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Ellipsis of anacardic acid.
hand-tame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hand-tame
form: most hand-tame
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handtame.
economy of scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economies of scale
Senses: glosses: singular of economies of scale
brachysm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”); compare brachy-.
Senses: examples: text: Some forms of disordered growth have been recognized in the United States, such as tomosis or leafcut, and brachysm or shortening of the internodes of the fruiting branches.
ref: 1916, US Bureau of Plant Industry, Report of the Chief, page 23:
text: In teosinte there is no such indication of brachysm, all branches having elongated internodes. The first indication of the contamination of teosinte with maize is in the direction of brachysm, as instanced by a shortening of the pistillate rachis, resulting in displacing the alignment of the seeds and a shortening also of the lateral vegetative branches.
ref: 1924, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 27, page 578:
text: The intermittent brachysm of line 59 was recessive to the non-brachytic, normal condition.
ref: 1957, Proceedings of the American Society for Horticultural Science, volume 70, page 102:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Unusually small size resulting from the shortening of internodes.
Related terms: brachytic
nanism
acylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Not cylindrical.
Derived terms: acylindrically
constacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From consta(nt) + cyclic.
Senses: qualifier: coding theory
glosses: Being a linear code with the property that, for some constant λ, if (c₁,c₂,...,cₙ) is a codeword then so is (λcₙ,c₁,...,cₙ₋₁).
Related terms: negacyclic
negacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nega- + cyclic.
Senses: qualifier: coding theory
glosses: constacyclic where the constant λ is -1
e-marking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + marking.
Senses: glosses: The use of computer technology to mark academic work.
e-teaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + teaching.
Senses: glosses: teaching via electronic media, especially via the Internet
e-trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-tray
ditellurides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditelluride
tritelluride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritellurides
Etymology: From tri- + telluride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any telluride having three tellurium atoms in each molecule or unit cell.
tritellurides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritelluride
undelineated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + delineated.
Senses: glosses: Not delineated.
unbearability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + bear + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: For it must be confessed that coins current, like feudal tyrants, may sometimes reach the point of unbearability; men can put up with their exacting and impracticable nature no longer.
ref: 1857, “Terror in the till”, in The National Magazine, volume 1, page 300:
text: My wrist used to ache to the point of unbearability.
ref: 1932, The Argosy, volume 12, page 61:
text: Feeling stuffed to near unbearability, the pair slowly made their way back towards home.
ref: 2015, Sybil Howe, Simple Reality:
glosses: The quality of being unbearable.
unbearableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unbearable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unbearable.
subhyaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hyaline.
Senses: examples: text: Phialides hyaline or translucent pale brown, their supporting cells dark to medium brown, subhyaline to hyaline towards the tip, terminal and lateral, up to three phialides inserted laterally between septa of the conidiophore.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Partly or imperfectly hyaline.
stromatoporoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stromatoporoid
spoligopatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoligopattern
solanderiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solanderiids
Senses: examples: text: This conflicts with the data on modern solanderiids, which are exclusively marine.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Enigmatic Fossils from the Lower Carboniferous Shrimp Bed, Granton, Scotland”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Solanderiidae of cnidarians within the class Hydrozoa.
solanderiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solanderiid
monomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɑnəˌmɔɹfəˈlɑd͡ʒəkəl/
Etymology: From mono- + morphological.
Senses: examples: text: However, most preparation methods are tedious and complicated; do not easily produce monomorphological single crystals.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Seeded Growth Route to Noble Calcium Carbonate Nanocrystal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of a single morphology.