cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Beech Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Arkansas.
examples: text: A couple of broad ideas they determined included converting Indianapolis into a single, countywide government led by a strong mayor, and, for political purposes, omitting the school districts and the cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Southport and Speedway from any consolidation efforts.
ref: 2014 May 24, Jeff Wachter, “40 Years After Unigov: Indianapolis and Marion County’s experience with consolidated government”, in Abell Foundation, page 6:
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A city in Marion County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Bullitt County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Carter County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Kentucky.
A former unincorporated community in Fulton County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Kentucky.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in McLean County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Tennessee.
An unincorporated community in Anderson County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Tennessee.
An unincorporated community in Dyer County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Tennessee.
An unincorporated community in Grainger County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Tennessee.
An unincorporated community in Knox County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A number of places in Tennessee.
An unincorporated community in Trousdale County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
tumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tumb
tumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tumb
crown graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown graphs
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An undirected graph with 2n vertices in the two sets { u₁, u₂, ..., uₙ } and { v₁, v₂, ..., vₙ } and with an edge from uᵢ to vⱼ whenever i ≠ j.
crown graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown graph
Counter-Mannerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + mannerism.
Senses: examples: text: The decisive factor in the origins of Colonial painting in Peru came a few years later from late Italian Mannerism and Counter-Mannerism.
ref: 1975, The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors:
text: Nevertheless the artists did not create in "Counter-Mannerism" a wholly new stvle in the way that Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci were to do in the last decade of the century; it seems that, once trained in Mannerism, they could never entirely lose that touch of elegance and that beguiling preciosity which are still very evident in Barocci 's Deposition.
ref: 1978, Gary R. Walters, Federico Barocci, anima naturaliter, page 72:
text: Domenico Cresti (or Crespi), known as “il Passignano” (from the name of the district of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, near Florence, where he was born, 1559–1638), was a painter of the late-Renaissance or Counter-Mannerism style; he was educated by the Vallombrosan monks.
ref: 2019, Stefano Gattei, On the Life of Galileo:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A trend in the late sixteenth century that rejected some of the distortions of Mannerism, returning to a more classicist emphasis on clarity.
scorpion spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorpion spiders
Senses: glosses: A whip spider or vinegaroon, any spider of order Uropygi (now often Thelyphonida)
glosses: Certain spiders in order Araneae
Platyoides and other genera of family Trochanteriidae, of Africa, which can fold their fourth pair of legs over their back like a scorpion.
glosses: Certain spiders in order Araneae
Arachnura in the family Araneidae (scorpion-tailed spiders)
pink peppercorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink peppercorn
headlings
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English hedlinges, hedlynges, equivalent to headling + -s. Cognate with Scots heidlingis (“headlong”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headling (“headlong; precipitately”).
V/STOL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V/STOLs
form: S/VTOL
form: SVTOL
form: VSTOL
Etymology: Blend of VTOL + STOL.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of vertical/short takeoff and landing.
Derived terms: eVSTOL
Related terms: STOL
STOVL
V/STOVL
VTOL
VTOSL
cardiomiopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cardiomyopathy.
caveolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having caveolae
centrotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrotypes
Senses: examples: text: This centroid represented a hypothetical organism with a centrotype selected as the actual organism closest to the centroid for each cluster ( Sneath and Sokal 1973 ) .
ref: 1994, Canadian Journal of Microbiology: - Volume 40, page 951:
text: The final partition is obtained in an iterative procedure that relocates an object, i.e. puts it into another cluster if that cluster's centrotype or centroid is closer.
ref: 1994, I.E. Frank, Roberto Todeschini, The Data Analysis Handbook, page 229:
text: The criterion function to be minimized is usually the sum of the average dissimilarities between each centrotype and all of the other patterns of the same cluster.
ref: 2008, Frédéric Cao, José-Luis Lisani, Jean-Michel Morel, A Theory of Shape Identification, page 227:
text: The strain closest to the centroid was designated the "centrotype" (indicated with the superscript "CT"). The centrotype organism can be thought of as the "Reference Strain" which most closely represents the essential and discriminating features of each cluster as a whole.
ref: 2012, F.G. Priest, Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana, B.J. Tindall, Bacterial Diversity and Systematics, page 217:
qualifier: cluster analysis
glosses: The data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.
centrotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrotype
certobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ceratobranchial.
chronobiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrono- + biometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the change of biometric data over time
clitodectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clitorectomy.
coagulometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a coagulometric manner
collagenolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a collagenolytic manner
collagenomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collagenoma
copathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copathologies
Etymology: From co- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A pathosis that occurs along with another
Related terms: copathologic
copathologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copathology
costolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From costo- + lateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: costal and lateral
costolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From costo- + laterally.
Senses: glosses: In a costolateral manner
craniocentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + central.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the centre of the cranium
cryoimmunocytochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + immunocytochemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: immunocytochemistry at low temperatures
cyclodecanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + decanone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alicyclic ketone that has ten carbon atoms
decanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic ketone that has ten carbon atoms
Derived terms: cyclodecanone
cystojejunostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystojejunostomy
full-bearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mohinder Singh slowly lost his full-bearded smile of confidence.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972:
glosses: Of the face, having a thick beard and moustache.
rice-spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice-spirits
Senses: examples: text: "There is nothing to drink. No, wait. I have some rice-spirit. We could drink that with altar-wine."
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 261:
glosses: An alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.
rice-spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice-spirit
decapicone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decapicones
Etymology: Blend of decapitate + cone
Senses: glosses: A transparent plastic cone in which a laboratory mouse or rat is held prior to decapitation or other process, or to induce stress as part of an experiment.
decapicones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decapicone
dendrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrifications
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The construction of a tree, typically from category data
dendroflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrofloras
Etymology: From dendro- + flora.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The flora that inhabits a tree
dendrogramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: dendrogrammatic
glosses: Relating to, or composed of dendrograms.
diaminoquinazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaminoquinazolines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any diamino derivative of a quinazoline
diaminoquinazolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaminoquinazoline
diazacyclohexane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazacyclohexanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any diaza derivative of cyclohexane
Synonyms: diazinane
piperazine
earthpond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthponds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earth pond.
earthponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthpond
earth pond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth ponds
Senses: glosses: An artificial pond that does not have a lining
echointensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echointensities
form: echo intensity
Senses: glosses: The intensity of an echo, typically in an ultrasonography image
echointensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echointensity
'plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'planes
Senses: examples: text: The 'plane did two hundred and forty miles in two and a half hours - the trucks had taken nine days
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 22:
text: "It was a 'plane crash."
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 279:
text: Jargodin stood for a long time after the 'plane was out of sight.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 246:
glosses: Dated spelling of plane (“airplane; aeroplane”).
'plane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'planes
form: 'planing
form: 'planed
form: 'planed
Senses: examples: text: They 'planed over isolated oases of green timber, in each of which were plainly seen the white ashes of native fires.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 22:
glosses: Dated spelling of plane (“airplane; aeroplane”).
'planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'plane
little-girlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more little-girlish
form: most little-girlish
Senses: examples: text: She lisped slightly, little-girlish, looking at him still while drinking whisky steadily from a full glass.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 281:
glosses: Like or characteristic of a little girl.
ignition key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignition keys
Senses: examples: text: She fitted the ignition-key into the switch deftly.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 283:
glosses: A key that starts the combustion engine of a motor vehicle.
ignition keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignition key
double-deck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The normal methods of road delivery are by driving the cars individually, or by car transporters which convey as many as eight vehicles on massive articulated double-deck trailers.
ref: 1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:
text: The 'Superliners', the double-deck passenger cars intended for long hauls, were the subject, not only of internal disputes at Pullman Standard, but also of a contractual disagreement between the builders and Amtrak.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 127:
glosses: having two decks or levels, one above the other
double-deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-decks
Senses: glosses: bunk bed; double bed
Related terms: double-decker
gestes antagonistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geste antagoniste
make the headlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the headlines
form: making the headlines
form: made the headlines
form: made the headlines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hit the headlines.
synonyms: word: hit the headlines
grab the headlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grabs the headlines
form: grabbing the headlines
form: grabbed the headlines
form: grabbed the headlines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hit the headlines.
synonyms: word: hit the headlines
Naufal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːfəl/
ipa: /ˈnɔfəl/
ipa: /ˈnɑfəl/
Forms: form: Nawfal
Etymology: From Arabic نَوْفَل (nawfal), meaning "extremely generous". It can also mean "handsome young man" or "sea" or "ocean".
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A female given name.
state-assisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Reagan Government was to be much more financially restrictive than the previous Carter team. One of the most immediate effects of the new financial policies to affect the Corporation was that concerning the 403(b) state-assisted trains.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 130:
glosses: Assisted, funded, or subsidised by a government.
Auburndale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A village in Newton, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Queens, New York.
glosses: A village and town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A community in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
post-Brexit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + Brexit.
Senses: examples: text: In a step that may stoke concerns in Britain that Brexit could hasten the fragmentation of the UK, diplomats are planning to ask leaders of the EU’s 27 post-Brexit member countries to endorse the idea in a summit on Saturday.
ref: 2017 April 28, Alex Barker, Arthur Beesley, Vincent Boland, “EU prepares for post-Brexit membership for united Ireland”, in The Financial Times:
text: Senior EU figures have attacked Theresa May’s post-Brexit immigration plan with the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, signalling that he expects a row with the British prime minister at an upcoming “moment of truth” summit.
ref: 2018 October 2, Daniel Boffey, “EU anger over May's post-Brexit immigration plan”, in The Guardian:
text: Tens of thousands of low-skilled migrants could come to the UK to work for up to a year under proposed new post-Brexit immigration rules. The measure, which would last until 2025, is intended to protect parts of the economy reliant on overseas labour.
ref: 2018 December 19, “Immigration: White Paper sets out post-Brexit rules for migrants”, in the BBC:
text: Theresa May's government consistently rejected proposals and amendments to the 2018 Withdrawal Act to maintain current rights and protections post-Brexit. She appeared content to see the back of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, a huge loss which would mean less power to protect rights for women, and also to do away with the 2006 and 2010 Equalities Acts.
ref: 2019 November 25, Mary Honeyball, “Boris Johnson's Brexit day would be a dark day for women”, in The New European, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2019:
text: Member states, MEPs and the new EU commission are all gearing up to launch a discussion on the future of post-Brexit Europe early next year.
ref: 2019 November 26, Eszter Zalan, “EU gears up for post-Brexit renovation”, in The EU Observer:
text: ‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit [title]
ref: 2023 October 6, Heather Stewart, “‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Under the post-Brexit trade agreement with the U.K., 45 percent of the components in cars entering the EU must be made in either the U.K. or the EU, or face a tariff of 10 percent.
ref: 2025 January 28, Jordyn Dahl and Nicolas Barré, “Car industry wants EU to clone US local content rules”, in Politico.eu:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Referring to the time after the UK leaves the EU.
cissplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cissplains
form: cissplaining
form: cissplained
form: cissplained
form: cis-splain
form: cisplain
Etymology: From cis + -splain, after mansplain.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.
ref: 2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480
glosses: To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.
Coordinate terms: femsplain
mansplain
whitesplain
womansplain
straightsplain
Related terms: cissplainer
cissplaining
non-passenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-passengers
Etymology: From non- + passenger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonpassenger.
examples: text: The electric locomotives, which have been a familiar sight for so many years, are to be withdrawn from passenger service, but a few will be retained for miscellaneous non-passenger duties.
ref: 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan service revised”, in Trains Illustrated, page 584:
text: The last but necessary characters to be described in the later 1970s, were the non-passenger locomotives brought into Amtrak stock with the purchase of the North-East Corridor from Conrail in 1976.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak; The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 137:
glosses: Not involving or relating to passengers.
non-passengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-passenger
Yoneda functor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yoneda functors
Etymology: Named after the Japanese mathematician Nobuo Yoneda (1930–1996).
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functor from a given category to the category of functors from that given category to Set (the category of sets) which maps any object of the given category to a hom functor represented by that object and any morphism to a natural isomorphism induced uniquely by that morphism according to the Yoneda lemma.
Related terms: Yoneda embedding
Yoneda lemma
slumbercoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumbercoaches
form: slumber coach
Etymology: From slumber + coach.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A type of sleeping car.
rides or dies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ride or die
riding or dying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride or die
rode or died
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ride or die
slumbercoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumbercoach
slumber coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumber coaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slumbercoach.
slumber coaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumber coach
bi-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + level.
Senses: examples: text: Train No. 8, the 'Empire Builder', Amtrak's Chicago to Seattle train, winds through the mountains of America's west, on its 2,281 mile journey to the West Coast. The 'Empire Builder' was Amtrak's first train to be equipped with the popular bi-level 'Superliner' cars.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak:The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 141, photo caption:
glosses: Alternative form of bilevel.
bi-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bi-levels
Etymology: From bi- + level.
Senses: examples: text: Last but not least amongst the two level cars, a number of Chicago & North Western's bi-levels were upgraded to HEP compatibility, and although only a handful were converted, the C&NW's cars were a significant design.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak:The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 138:
glosses: Alternative form of bilevel.
bi-levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bi-level
sun-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-shots
Senses: examples: text: Using sun-shots from the Kew pier, its true azimuth was determined in June 1957.
ref: 1985, P. A. Salino, Geomagnetic Measurements at Argentine Islands 1957-82:
text: At noon he was able to make his first sun-shot in all those weeks of sailing.
ref: 1999, Wilbur Smith, Monsoon: A Courtney Novel, page 10:
text: Even if I had an accurate time, which I have tried hard to get with no success, I could not take a sun-shot because of the fog.
ref: 2012, Francis Chichester, Alone Across The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative form of sun shot.
sun-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sun-shot
form: most sun-shot
Senses: examples: text: The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:
text: To divert me I had only the Times, an article I was editing, and my own reflection, pensive and sleepy, framed in the sun-shot window.
ref: 1997, Robert Cohen, The Here and Now, page 15:
text: “You set right down now, baby,” he said, and he made a pretence of having something to do inside the mill, while June watched the creaking old wheel dropping the sun-shot sparkling water into the swift sluice, but hardly seeing it at all.
ref: 2010, John Fox Jr, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:
glosses: Alternative form of sunshot.
sun-shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-shot
homeworkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homework + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The phrase “in our set-up" refers partly to the fact that the Walnut Street School was and still is a homeworkless school.
ref: 1936, University of Pennsylvania Bulletin, Volume 23, page 230:
text: The Italian members of our class, most of whom lined-up daily in the homeworkless line, started to mentally measure the kid's feet for a pair of cement shoes.
ref: 1993, Robert E. Beckwell, Hi...Good-Bye, Detroit!, →ISBN, page 185:
text: He's been sucking you away from the church of the homeworkless?
ref: 2011, Pat Schmatz, Bluefish, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Without homework.
sun shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun shots
form: sun-shot
Senses: examples: text: Not so long ago, most surveyors thought that sun shots and star shots were more trouble than they were worth.
ref: 1987, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ACSM technical papers, page 167:
text: I first learned to navigate by using hand-held sextants to take sun shots, star shots, or by looking out the window reading a map.
ref: 2014, Cecil G. Foster, MiG Alley to Mu Ghia Pass: Memoirs of a Korean War Ace, page 144:
text: Al can't take sun shots in the fog to check their location, so David adjusts the propellers to climbing pitch and opens the throttles to maximum boost, easing the control column back.
ref: 2014, Cynthia J. Faryon, Incredible Tales of the Royal Canadian Air Force, page 26:
glosses: A measurement of the angle of the sun, made using a sextant, usually at noon.
examples: text: When hunting for subject matter for your sun shots, investigate the picture possibilities you previously passed up as being run-of-the-mill scenes.
ref: 1949 December, Ray Atkeson, “Get the Sun In Your Pictures”, in Popular Photography, volume 25, number 6, page 159:
text: I then salvaged both by sandwiching them with sun shots made with a 400mm lens.
ref: 1981, Petersen's Photographic Magazine - Volume 10, Issues 1-6, page 122:
text: So we had these three different types of sun shots; and each required its own discipline and technique."
ref: 2007, Cinefex - Issues 108-111, page 29:
glosses: A photograph that includes the sun.
sun shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun shot
Logi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɡi/
Forms: form: Hálogi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse Logi (“jötunn of fire”),
personification of logi (“flame, blaze”), from
From Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame”). Related to Middle High German lohe, more distantly to Latin lucere (“to shine, to light”), Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”). All ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Compare Old Norse Hálogi.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: also known as Hálogi he is the jötunn (giant of Norse mythology) of fire; he is the personification of fire in Norse mythology.
Synonyms: Hálogi
sunangel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunangels
Etymology: From sun + angel.
Senses: glosses: A South American hummingbird of genus Heliangelus.
Hypernyms: coquette
Hyponyms: amethyst-throated sunangel
Bogotá sunangel
flame-throated sunangel
gorgeted sunangel
Longuemare's sunangel
Mérida sunangel
orange-throated sunangel
purple-throated sunangel
royal sunangel
tourmaline sunangel
sun-angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-angel
Silvis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.
Rocky Mount
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Miller County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A city in Edgecombe County and Nash County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Franklin County, Virginia, United States.
Chula Vista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish chula vista (“beautiful view”).
Senses: examples: text: If all goes according to plan, the ersatz city hall will soon be relocated to a former lumber warehouse in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, at which point construction on the rest of Town Square will start.
ref: 2016 December 12, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Time-Travel Therapy”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2017:
glosses: A city in San Diego County, California, United States.
Mira Loma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A former census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States, now part of the cities of Eastvale and Jurupa Valley.
suck butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks butt
form: sucking butt
form: sucked butt
form: sucked butt
Senses: synonyms: suck ass
glosses: To be terrible; be of extremely poor quality.
sun-angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-angels
Senses: examples: text: The little group of hummers, called by the poetical name of sun-angels, are all remarkable for the exceeding lustre of the feathers decorating their throats.
ref: 1877, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volumes 45-46, page 131:
text: The mars sun-angel is a native of the Andes, and is a very rare bird, no other of the species has the same colouring.
ref: 1883, Thomas John Barnardo, Our Darlings, page 54:
text: In most hummingbirds, only the male is iridescent, but in the South American tourmaline sun-angel, some females are as well, while others are plain-coloured.
ref: 1986, BBC Wildlife, volumes 4-5, page 126:
glosses: Alternative form of sunangel.
examples: text: According to poetical conception this was Uriel the sun-angel.
ref: 1881, The Epistle to the Hebrews, page 270:
text: "This is not a woman!" declared Philip with heat and eagerness, " at least not the sort of woman I have ever known! This is a forest-empress, sea-goddess, or sun-angel !..."
ref: 1888, Marie Corelli, Thelma: a Norwegian Princess, page 24:
text: It is especially popular in Persia where at one time Meher or Mithra, the sun or sun-angel, was held in high veneration.
ref: 1899, Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, volume 9, Part 2, page 216:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sun, angel.
sun-bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-baths
Senses: examples: text: Baths of various kinds are indulged in, but the chief bath relied on is the "sun-bath."
ref: 1883, John Wells Thatcher, On the road, page 45:
text: Personally, I am very glad that I remained behind when the troops and so many of our citizens left, for though the living is rough and the climate is infernal, still by dint of the three voyages which I have made for amber to the Baltic, and the excellent prices which I obtained for it here, I shall soon be in a position to retire, and to spend my old age under my own fig tree, or even perhaps to buy a small villa at Baiae or Posuoli, where I could get a good sun-bath after the continued fogs of this accursed island.
ref: 1911, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The First Cargo”, in The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales:
text: The nights' rests were therefore seldom long, but the mid-day rests, during which a glorious warm sun-bath was enjoyed, were taken on a proportionately generous scale, affording opportunities for taking observations both for altitude and longitude.
ref: 2011, Alexander Leslie, The Arctic Voyages of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 1858-1879, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of sunbath.
sun-baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-bath
sun bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun baths
Senses: examples: text: Every large hospital now has quarters where patients may take the healing sun bath at certain times of the day. You can take your sun bath in the same manner as the air bath.
ref: 1912, The Progressive Woman:
text: He was taking a sun bath, stripped to the waist and sprawling on a claybank in the open, staring into the western sky with a hand shading his eyes.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, Monday's Mob:
text: The cures produced are ascribable to two causes: first, to the healthy influence of the sun bath, and secondly, to the very powerful influence of the patient's imagination.
ref: 2015, Paul Collins, Banvard's Folly:
glosses: Alternative form of sunbath.
sun baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun bath
airbath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbaths
Senses: examples: text: Generally an evaporation of water from the surface of the body takes place during the airbath.
ref: 1910, Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education:
text: An airbath should be taken preferably at sunrise or sunset, in front of a widely opened window, or on a terrace.
ref: 1923, Journal of the Outdoor Life - Volume 20, page 153:
text: The combination of air and nakedness present in the airbath regenerated shattered neves.
ref: 2005, Chad Ross, Naked Germany: health, race and the nation, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of air bath.
An exposure to fresh air.
examples: text: The pump cylinders, the porous media and the different pressure transducers are all set in a temperature controlled airbath.
ref: 1999, Society of Core Analysts., Proceedings, page 179:
text: Prepare an airbath system by wrapping paper or cloth around the top of a 15-18-mm test tube until it just fits into a 25-mm test tube.
ref: 2003, C. Alton Hassell, Paula Marshall, Chemical Investigations for Changing Times, page 165:
glosses: Alternative form of air bath.
Sealed environment with controlled temperature.
airbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airbath
air bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air baths
form: air-bath
form: airbath
Senses: examples: text: I could punch keys on a logic without gazing into somebody's bedroom while she is giving her epidermis an air bath and being led to think things I gotta take out in thinkin'.
ref: 2010, Tom Easton, Judith K. Dial, Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions that Came True:
text: Cleverly he'd chosen four who not only strip themselves at the slightest provocation to enjoy a cold air bath but are free of the usual licentious habits of such types.
ref: 2014, Greg Hollingshead, Bedlam: A Novel of Love and Madness:
text: He threw the window wide open, delighted to enjoy an air bath; but next moment, the wind seemed to bring with it a vague breath of essence of bergamot, mingled with a smell of jasmine, cassia and rose-water.
ref: 2015, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain:
glosses: The exposure to fresh air, especially when naked or nearly naked.
examples: text: After achieving the satisfactory pressure, heating of flask is carried out by using a water bath, oil-bath or air bath.
ref: 2010, V. K. Ahluwalia, Pooja Bhagat, Renu Aggarwal, Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry, page 98:
text: The colorless needles can be further purified by bulb-to-bulb distillation (air bath temperature 90 – 110 °C).
ref: 2014, W. A. Herrmann, Synthetic Methods of Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry:
text: To finalize the design, you need to decide whether the system should be placed in an air bath or a water bath.
ref: 2015, Roger G. Harrison, Paul W. Todd, Scott R. Rudge, Bioseparations Science and Engineering:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sealed system containing air with a controlled temperature.
examples: text: Every large hospital now has quarters where patients may take the healing sun bath at certain times of the day. You can take your sun bath in the same manner as the air bath.
ref: 1912, The Progressive Woman:
text: They would be allowed to take sponge baths every other day, or use the newly invented “air bath.”
ref: 2013, Erika Judit Kovács, RE-EMERGENCE, page 62:
glosses: Synonym of compressed-air bath.
synonyms: word: compressed-air bath
air baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air bath
air-bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-baths
Senses: examples: text: It amused poor Dencombe, as he dawdled in his tepid air-bath, to think that he was waiting for a revelation of something at the back of a fine young mind.
ref: 1895, Henry James, The Middle Years:
text: The chapter is then closed with a critical comparison between air-bath, water-jacket and contact heating ovens.
ref: 2010, Thorsten Teutenberg, High-temperature Liquid Chromatography:
text: Hardly were the words out of my mouth when his lordship leaped from the bed, and in the scantiest drapery imaginable, seized me by the collar, inflicting such a shaking as I would willingly have exchanged for a tertian ague from the Pontine marshes. The sudden air-bath probably cooled his choler, for, in a few moments, we found ourselves in a pacific explanation about the luckles pencil..
ref: 2012, Captain Theodore Canot, Adventures of an African Slaver:
text: If one is forced to take one's sun and air-bath in the bedroom, the brightest room in the house should be chosen for sleeping in, instead of being reserved for a drawing-room; and, above all things, away with curtains and hangings.
ref: 2013, J. P. Muller, My Sun-Bathing and Fresh-Air System:
glosses: Alternative form of air bath.
air-baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-bath
sunangels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunangel
table lighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table lighters
Senses: examples: text: Smoke rose high - cigarette and golden table-lighters brought round by undeferential white-coated flunkeys - but there was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
glosses: A lighter for cigarettes, etc., often ornately decorated, designed to be kept or placed on a table.
table lighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table lighter
Salem Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name (until 1752) of Danvers, Massachusetts, United States.
bird chorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird choruses
Senses: examples: text: He went back to bed and dozed till the dawn came – the mass-produced invariable tropical dawn, greeted by no bird-chorus, a dawn assignable to all months in this land of no seasons.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 301:
hyponyms: dawn chorus
glosses: The collective singing and vocalising of birds.
bird choruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird chorus
belamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + lamp + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There lay his stud of polished darlings, the belamped streamlined docile monsters of years of collecting.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 304:
glosses: Fitted with a lamp or lamps.
echostructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echo + structural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to echostructure.
electrospinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrospinners
Etymology: From electro- + spinner.
Senses: glosses: A device used in electrospinning
encephalopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From encephalo- + pathogenic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That causes encephalopathy
endocortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From endo- + cortically.
Senses: glosses: In an endocortical manner
enteroneuroendocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + neuroendocrine.
Senses: glosses: enteric and neuroendocrine
eosinophilopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to eosinophilopoiesis
erhlichiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ehrlichiosis.
erucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The anticancer compound 4-(methylthio)butyl isothiocyanate present in brassicas
evaporatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to evaporation or to an evaporator
exosuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosuits
form: exo-suit
Etymology: From exo- + suit.
Senses: glosses: An exoskeletal suit
exosuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exosuit
extracellulase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extra- + cellulase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: extracellular cellulase
paunchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paunch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 357:
glosses: Having no paunch.
dream-world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dream-worlds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dreamworld.
dream-worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dream-world
dream world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dream worlds
Senses: examples: text: TfL has sanctioned investment in serious development work. But again, is a target date of 2032 for opening the first section over a freight spur between Brent Cross and Cricklewood living in a dream world?
ref: 2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dreamworld.
dream worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dream world
sea-brink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-brinks
Senses: examples: text: Fenella strode on, rose to the bar and stood for an instant as if standing on the waves, then entered the new sea-brink, and soon was far out, swimming strongly.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 372:
glosses: The edge of the sea; the seashore.
sea-brinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-brink
ice-creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cream
earth mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth mother
Great Earth Mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Earth Mothers
Senses: examples: text: In the East women want to identify themselves with their biological function. And that makes them all woman. Compartmentalisation is our big crime in the West. Normah should have been the Great Earth Mother.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 397:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
paganism
religion
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Earth Mother.
seedcracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedcrackers
Senses: glosses: A finch of the genus Pyrenestes.
gefilte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Yiddish
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of gefilte fish.
Laboyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Laboya + -n.
Senses: examples: text: As it is the most splendid creation within the Laboyan textile tradition, the value of this type of large men's wrap was perhaps always twofold.
ref: 1993, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Ruth Barnes, David J. Stuart-Fox, editors, Weaving Patterns of Life: Indonesian Textile Symposium 1991, Switzerland: Museum of Ethnography, Basel, →ISBN, page 254:
text: Moreover, ambiguity may be tactically advantageous, as suggested by Edgar Keller's (1992: 258) account of a rich, self-made Laboyan who favored an idiosyncratic style of tying his headcloth, with the ends handing down.
ref: 1997, Webb Keane, “Chapter 3: Things of Value”, in Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: From, or pertaining to, Laboya.
Related terms: Lamboyan
Tallurutiup Imanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inuktitut Tallurutiup Imanga (ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ (tallorotiop imanga)).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lancaster Sound.
synonyms: word: Lancaster Sound
Lancaster Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lancaster + sound.
Coined in 1616 by Arctic explorer Englishman William Baffin in honour of his patron Sir James Lancaster.
Senses: glosses: A channel between Baffin Island and Devon Island, the eastern end of the Parry Channel and thus the Northwest Passage, leading into Baffin Bay to the east (the body of water separating Baffin Island from Greenland), and Viscount Melville Sound to the west.
Synonyms: Tallurutiup Imanga
doornboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doornbooms
Senses: glosses: Vachellia horrida, a low, spreading East African shrub or tree with large thorns.
Branford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Bramford.
Senses: glosses: A town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A town in Suwannee County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Readville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Read + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Foxboro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in southern Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States.
Foxborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Fox + borough, after Charles James Fox.
Senses: glosses: A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
wikipedia: Charles James Fox
Related terms: word: Foxboro
Attleboro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally spelt Attleborough after a British town.
Senses: glosses: A city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.