cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
perken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perkens
form: perkening
form: perkened
form: perkened
Etymology: From perk + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Us perkened so, staring at each other, not rightly knowing one the other—such a goodly percentage of familiar skin now been quenched back of hiding cloth.
ref: 2001, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 599:
text: She saw him and kind of perkened up [perked up] her gait a little bit.
ref: 2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby, page 72:
text: But Lawrence,” he adds, perkening, “I hope you were planning to take my Elizabethan poets course next year?”
ref: 2011, Lynn Coady, Mean Boy:
glosses: To make or become perked or perky.
Synonyms: perk
occurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of occurrences.
dummy light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummy lights
Etymology: From dummy + light.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of idiot light (“warning light”).
synonyms: word: idiot light
extra: warning light
glosses: A type of stop light (traffic light) set in the middle of the intersection, and not at the sides, corners or above (thus forming a crash hazard). These lights are placed similarly to how traffic police platforms are set dead center of intersections.
Childeric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Childéric, from Frankish *Hildirīk via Latin Childericus. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Hildirīks.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of mainly historical use, borne by several kings of the Franks.
hyperghetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperghettos
form: hyperghettoes
Etymology: Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata
wikipedia: Loïc Wacquant
RosaLee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosalee
Etymology: A re-spelling of Rosalie.
Senses: examples: text: “I'm twenty-three years old.I can decide what— and when—I drink. And please stop calling me RosaLee. I'm RL,now. Everybody calls me RL.” “But, baby, RosaLee is so dignified. So significant. When we named you after Mrs.Parks, I never dreamed—” “It's old-fashioned. I hate it. It's burdensome. Like I have to live up to it. Ain't even any—”
ref: 2007, Evelyn Palfrey, Dangerous Dilemmas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
volatility buffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: volatility buffers
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A pool of capital or other financial instrument through which a person can reduce the impact of losses to their assets in the event of market unpredictability, especially in retirement.
if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck
Senses: glosses: A subject can be identified by observing its habitual characteristics.
Synonyms: when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck
Related terms: duck test
duck typing
downgang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downgangs
Etymology: See down + gang (“way, passage”)
Senses: glosses: A downhill way, usually a path way.
accolents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accolent
spends time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spend time
spending time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spend time
spent time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spend time
public offering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public offerings
Senses: glosses: An instance of securities of a company or a similar corporation being made available to the public, usually by causing them to be listed on a stock exchange.
Synonyms: PO
Hypernyms: offering
Hyponyms: alt: FPO
word: follow-on public offering
alt: IPO
word: initial public offering
Coordinate terms: float
Derived terms: alt: FPO
word: follow-on public offering
alt: IPO
word: initial public offering
word: PO
public offerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public offering
tender offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tender offers
Senses: examples: text: The potential deal — where OpenAI would sell existing company shares in a so-called tender offer — could total $300 million, depending on how many employees agree to sell their stock, they said.
ref: 2023 January 7, Erin Griffith, Cade Metz, “A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: corporate finance
glosses: A type of public takeover bid in which a prospective acquirer invites all stockholders of a publicly traded corporation to tender their stock for sale at a specified price during a specified time, subject to the tendering of a minimum and maximum number of shares.
tender offers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tender offer
Koxinga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɔkˈsɪŋɡə/
Etymology: From a Portuguese transliteration of Taiwanese Hokkien 國姓爺／国姓爷 (Kok-sèng-iâ).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China's southeastern coast.
SPLEED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of spin-polarized low-energy electron diffraction.
Related terms: sense: spin-polarized low-energy electron diffraction
word: LEEM
sense: spin-polarized low-energy electron diffraction
word: LEED
chimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimo
cross-phrasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-phrasing
noyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noyan
Bechwana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bechwanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bechuana.
Bechwanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bechwana
tropicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalismo with substitution of -ism. By surface analysis, tropical + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Or is it possible that tropicalism is not a geographical zone, but rather a zone of the spirit, the zone of highest passion, the immense homeland of zealots?
ref: 1993, Gabriela Mistral, Marjorie Agosin, A Gabriela Mistral:
glosses: Anything that is characteristic of Tropicália, a Brazilian artistic movement.
Related terms: tropicalist
tropicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tropicalist
form: most tropicalist
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista with substitution of -ist. By surface analysis, tropical + -ist. Piecewise doublet of tropicalista.
Senses: examples: text: This sort of juxtaposition, which suggested that under-development was inscribed in the process of conservative modernization in Brazil, would become a hallmark of tropicalist cultural production.
ref: 2014, Christopher Dunn, Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture:
glosses: Of, or characteristic of tropicalism.
tropicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropicalists
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista with substitution of -ist. By surface analysis, tropical + -ist. Piecewise doublet of tropicalista.
Senses: examples: text: Led by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the tropicalists made an effort to assimilate rock and roll — at the time the most important kind of musical expression of the young on the planet — and mix it with most authentic Brazilian musical styles.
ref: 2012, Carlos Almada, Flavio Henrique Medeiros, Brazilian Electric Guitar:
synonyms: tropicalista
glosses: A follower or proponent of tropicalism.
tropicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropicalists
Etymology: From tropical + -ist. Piecewise doublet of tropicalista.
Senses: examples: text: Most tropicalists, (scientists from developed countries working on tropical environments) come from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
ref: 1994, Peter McDonald, editor, The Literature of Soil Science:
glosses: A scientist specializing in studying of tropical environments.
tropicalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropicalist
bioxalomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioxalomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of antibiotics produced by Streptomyces bacteria.
bioxalomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioxalomycin
volatile memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volatile memory
cross-contaminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-contamination
recollisional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recollision + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to recollision.
sleep dep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛp
Etymology: Clipping of sleep deprivation. By surface analysis, sleep + dep(rivation).
Senses: glosses: Sleep deprivation.
dereligionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + religion + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of dereligionizing.
Santa Fe County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Santa Fe.
Galveston County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. Largest city: League City. County seat: Galveston.
Monroe County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Monroe.
Senses: glosses: One of 67 counties in Alabama, United States. County seat: Monroeville.
glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Clarendon.
glosses: One of 67 counties in Florida, United States, which includes the Florida Keys and part of the Everglades. County seat: Key West.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Forsyth.
glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Waterloo.
glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Bloomington.
glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Albia.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Tompkinsville.
glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Monroe.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Aberdeen.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Paris.
glosses: One of 62 counties in New York, United States. County seat: Rochester.
glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Woodsfield.
glosses: One of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, United States. County seat: Stroudsburg.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Madisonville.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Union.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Sparta.
Stephens County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Toccoa. Named after Alexander H. Stephens.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Duncan. Named after John Hall Stephens.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Breckenridge. Named after Alexander H. Stephens.
Related terms: Stevens County
Kayser-Fleischer ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kayser-Fleischer rings
Etymology: Named after Dr. Bernhard Kayser and Dr. Bruno Fleischer, the German doctors who first described them in 1902 and 1903.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dark ring surrounding the iris of the eye, indicative of various liver diseases.
sesquilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From sesqui- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, it is believed that this sesquilingual discourse is due to the absence of suitable terms in the inferior language.
ref: 1976, Herbert Pilch, Empirical Linguistics, Munich: Francke, published 1976, page 152:
text: Ireland's sesquilingual situation is thus the inverse of the 'normal' European situation, where English is the prestige language and the native language of lower prestige.
ref: 2007 Hildegard L.C. Tristram, "On the 'Celticity' of Irish Newspapers - A Research Report," in The Celtic Languages in Contact: Papers from the Workshop Within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies, Bonn, 26-27 July 2007, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2007
glosses: Pertaining to one language, plus a second in a limited capacity, degree, or content.
examples: text: Being already sesquilingual, the Hong Kong Chinese are therefore quite receptive to the teaching of another language.
ref: 1978, Joseph Yam Ting Woo, “Bilingualism in Hong Kong: The Orient Anglicized”, in Bilingual Research Journal, volume 2, number 2:
text: 'Sesquilingual' is not a mythical animal like the native speaker or foreign learner, but a newfangled term for someone who is good in one language, say English, and only half as...
ref: 1993 Jan, Thomas M. Paikeday, “Who needs IPA?”, in English Today, volume 9, number 1, pages 38–42:
text: 2004 Bill Sherk, 500 Years of New Words, Dundam, 2004, p. 187.
The author of this dictionary coined the term sesquilingual in 1975 to describe people who know one language and part of another, a term that probably applies to the majority of Canadians, who know English and a smattering of French, or vice versa.
glosses: Able to communicate fluently in one language, but only to a degree in another.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: sesquilingualism
Related terms: bilingual
monolingual
nanopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanopharmaceuticals
Etymology: From nano- + pharmaceutical.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any pharmaceutical produced using nanotechnology, or manufactured in the form of nanoparticles.
Monty Hall problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monty Hall problem
lemonime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemonimes
Etymology: Blend of lemon + lime
Senses: glosses: A citrus hybrid of lemon and lime.
lemonimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemonime
sesquilingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquilingualisms
Etymology: From sesquilingual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The transitional zone can be regarded as the dialect boundary, where the two different dialects meet but there is no significant gap in mutual intelligibility due to the sesquilingualism of the native speakers.
ref: 1972 R. David Zorc, "The Western Subgroup of Bisayan," Oceanic Linguistics Vol. 11, No. 2 (Winter, 1972), pp. 110-139
text: In Pilch's terminology, sesquilingualism ("mastery of one-and-a-half languages") occurs when "all members of a given society speak the inferior [sic] language, but only some of its members speak the prestige language, usually in a more or less imperfect manner as a 'foreign language.'"
ref: 1978 Clyde Thogmartin, "Some 'English' Words in French," The French Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Mar., 1984), pp. 447-455
glosses: The condition of being sesquilingual; the ability to speak one language fluently, and a second language only to a limited extent.
Related terms: monolingualism
bilingualism
sesquilingualisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquilingualism
Galilean binoculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: opera glasses
Zogbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zogbot
Genseric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: m
form: Gaiseric
form: Geiseric
Etymology: From Latin Gensericus.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of mainly historical use, borne by a king of the Vandals.
kaingin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaingins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caingin.
kaingins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaingin
Kayser-Fleischer rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kayser-Fleischer ring
tsambouna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsambounas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsampouna.
tsambounas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tsambouna
RSMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSM
kouras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koura
johnins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johnin
lymphadenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphadenias
Etymology: From lymph + -adenia.
Senses: examples: text: At the tumour period the diagnosis is easier, and the differential diagnosis chiefly concerns cutaneous lymphadenia and sarcoma.
ref: 1910, Ernest Gaucher, Charles Frederic Marshall, Diseases of the skin: including radiotherapy and radiumtherapy:
text: Lymphadenids cover the eruptive varieties allied to the lymphadenias.
ref: 1925, International Medical and Surgical Survey, page 286:
text: The lymphangitis and the lymphadenitis affect the upper as well as the inferior limbs and the genitalia (epididymitis, pain, and hyperesthesia scrotal might occur; being complicated in advanced stages with lymphadenia and scrotal elephantiasis).
ref: 2016, J. H. Pabón, Clinical Parasitology: Practical Consultation:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Chronic inflammation and enlargement of the lymphatic glands, such as is found in Hodgkin's disease.
lymphadenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphadenia
-adenia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to diseases of the glands.
swivellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swivelling
swivelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swiveling
phosphatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphating
nonmeasurables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmeasurable
anadenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + -adenia.
Senses: examples: text: I have convinced myself in the postmortem room that many persons dying with the diagnosis of senile decay present extensive anadenia, generally combined with dilatation of the stomach.
ref: 1892, Carl Anton Ewald, Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs - Volume 2, page 533:
text: From the above it is apparent that the clinical picture of achylia gastrica does not suffice to establish the diagnosis of anadenia ventriculi.
ref: 1895, Medical Record, page 6:
text: In anadenia there is an increase of the connective tissue accompanied by round cell infiltration, and a consequent choking up of the glands of the stomach, ending in loss of secretion of free HCl and other products
ref: 1907, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Insufficiency or lack of glands, especially those of the gastrointestinal system.
fibro-adenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibro-adenias
Etymology: From fibro- + -adenia.
Senses: examples: text: In disease of the spleen, especially Banti's disease or fibro-adenia of the spleen, the increase of leukocytes is absent or slight, with no relative lymphocytosis.
ref: 1923, International Medical Digest, page 316:
text: The more advanced the disease, the larger the number of follicles affected by fibro-adenia, but it is rare to find.
ref: 1931, Alfred Piney, Recent Advances in Haematology, page 280:
text: For the conception that there is a special form of cirrhosis secondary to splenic fibro-adenia, Banti is largely responsible.
ref: 1937, George Blumer, The Practitioners Library of Medicine and Surgery:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The growth of fibrous tissue on a gland.
fibro-adenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibro-adenia
rescue grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescue grass
heteradenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -adenia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any condition where a gland grows in an abnormal location or, more rarely, where the gland is abnormally formed.
Adenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adenia
tert-butylhydroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tert-butylhydroquinones
form: tertbutylhydroquinone
form: tertbutyl hydroquinone
form: tert-butyl hydroquinone
Etymology: From tert-butyl + hydroquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A preservative of fats and oils, used in food. An aromatic organic compound that is a type of phenol. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, substituted with a tertbutyl group.
Synonyms: tertiary butylhydroquinone
tertiary butyl hydroquinone
t-butylhydroquinone
t-butyl hydroquinone
TBHQ
Hypernyms: butylhydroquinone
hydroquinone
quinone
tert-butyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tert-butyls
Etymology: From tert- + butyl.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tertiary butyl.
synonyms: word: tertiary butyl
Derived terms: méthyl tert-butyl éther
t-butyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t-butyls
Etymology: From t- + butyl.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tertiary butyl.
synonyms: word: tertiary butyl
Derived terms: methyl t-butyl ether
MEWPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MEWP
with 'bated breath
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of with bated breath.
Martineau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Martineaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Martineau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Chileanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chileanism
salt horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt horse
Church encoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Church encodings
Etymology: Named after Alonzo Church.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus, by forming them into a mathematical structure embedded in the lambda calculus.
wikipedia: Alonzo Church
Related terms: Church numeral
Church's theorem
Church encodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Church encoding
Disneyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Disney + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We are primarily staying at [Shades of Green] due to the wonderful bargain and I am aware of a certain lack of Disneyness at the place.....
ref: 1998 October 15, Lisa_T, “Re: SoG? Wake up calls---”, in rec.arts.disney.parks (Usenet), message-ID <362554e5.54481332@news.eagnet.com>:
text: It's not the lack of originality, it's the Disneyness. The director of "The Little Mermaid", "Aladdin" and "Hercules" is going to do "Hard Core" SciFi ?
LOL !!!
Remember folks, Disney were behind Mission to Mars !
ref: 2000 September 25, Phoebe O'Hare, “"Hard Core" SciFi ?”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (Usenet), message-ID <39CF3AB7.E1E08D8F@prodigy.net>:
glosses: The values and characteristics associated with Disney.
spacedive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacedives
form: space dive
Etymology: Blend of space + skydive
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A skydive from outer space, usually an orbital drop or direct insertion from beyond orbit, complete with (re-)entry heating.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A skydive that starts from orbit.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A skydive that starts above the Karman line.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A skydive that starts above the Armstrong line.
Derived terms: english: a person who spacedives
translation: a person who spacedives
word: spacediver
english: the spacedive activity
translation: the spacedive activity
word: spacediving
spacedive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spacedives
form: spacediving
form: spacedived
form: spacedove
form: spacedived
form: space dive
Etymology: Blend of space + skydive
Senses: glosses: To perform a spacedive.
disbalancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbalance
Schwarzschild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schwarzschilds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwarzschild.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Schwarzschild black hole
Schwarzschild cosmology
Schwarzschild density
Schwarzschild method
Schwarzschild metric
Schwarzschild model
Schwarzschild radius
Schwarzschild solution
Schwarzschild vacuum
sclero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).
Senses: glosses: sclerous; hard
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: sclera
toyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toyles
form: toyling
form: toyled
form: toyled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of toil.
toyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of toil.
toyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toyle
toyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toyle
toyles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toyle
toyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toyle
quadraunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadraunt
alvar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alvars
Etymology: From Swedish alvar (“alvar”), from alv (“subsoil”). Possibly related to Old High German Alp (“alpine pasture; alp”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A limestone pavement.
go-it-alone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊ ɪt əˈləʊn/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊ ɪt əˈloʊn/
Etymology: From the verb go it alone.
Senses: examples: text: The president is taking the United States back to the nightmares of the world before the Second World War: closed borders, limited trade, and a go-it-alone national race to the bottom.
ref: 2017 January 27, Jeremi Suri, “How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2017:
glosses: Done alone or independently, especially of something that is normally or better done in groups.
Related terms: word: go it alone
steel blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steel blue
spacedives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacedive
honeybunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeybunch
hostorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostoria
Senses: examples: text: Eventually the fungus produces a structure called an infection peg or hostorium.
ref: 1993, Turf Management Digest, page 97:
glosses: Alternative form of haustorium.
plant a seed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plants a seed
form: planting a seed
form: planted a seed
form: planted a seed
Senses: examples: text: My only regrets are that T2 failed to get to grips with the new era of #indyref and Scottish national identity – for which Renton’s famous “shite” speech helped plant a tiny seed in 1996 – and that the second film didn’t give the women characters much to do, especially the excellent Kelly Macdonald and Shirley Henderson.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To do something that will produce results or change in the future.
Britflick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Britflicks
Senses: examples: text: Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A film produced by the British film industry.
Super 8
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A motion picture film format introduced in the 1960s, nominally 8 millimetres wide, but having smaller perforations than earlier formats, allowing for greater exposed area.
Britflicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Britflick
confront one's demons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confronts one's demons
form: confronting one's demons
form: confronted one's demons
form: confronted one's demons
Senses: examples: text: But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars.
Synonyms: face one's demons
meet one's demons
high-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-wires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highwire.
high-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a wire strung high above the ground which is used for acrobatic stunts.
examples: text: T2 isn’t as good as T1: it is a little too long and unwinds a bit into caper sentimentality, broad comedy and self-mythologising. But it has the same punchy energy, the same defiant pessimism, and there’s nothing around like it. This sequel was a high-wire act, but Boyle has made it to the other side.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Very risky and daring.
trigger men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trigger man
kicking back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick back
kicks back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick back
kicked back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick back
Vila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When it became obvious that Vila would be the capital of the New Hebrides, Dr H. Bolton from Edinburgh was appointed to the mission and, in 1911, Paton Memorial Hospital was built.
ref: 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: The capital and largest city of Vanuatu; in full, Port Vila.
Vila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vilas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Vila.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Vila Vila
Vidal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in eastern San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Viana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Luanda Province, Angola.
glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Maranhão, Brazil.
glosses: A town in Navarre, Spain.
Related terms: Viana do Castelo
PHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Public Health Service.
glosses: Initialism of Pampanga High School.
physicalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: physicalises
form: physicalising
form: physicalised
form: physicalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of physicalize.
peritrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritracks
Etymology: From peri- + track.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of taxiway.
synonyms: word: taxiway
physicalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of physicalise
physicalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of physicalise
physicalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of physicalise
pigboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigboats
Etymology: From pig + boat, in reference to the unsanitary conditions aboard early submarines.
Senses: glosses: submarine
champagne bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champagne buckets
Senses: glosses: A bowl or bucket designed for holding ice cubes or crushed ice that is used to chill a bottle of champagne.
orthotactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The orthotactics of Spanish usually use the letter u after the letter g to signal a hard g, whereas the orthotactics of Italian usually use the letter h for that purpose.
text: The name a chung is a late, secondary invention of probable non-Tibetan origin, and is therefore not found in the Tibetan texts on orthography and ''orthotactics […]
ref: 1996, Sanford Steever, “Tamil writing”, in The World's Writing Systems, Oxford University Press, page 432:
text: […] orthotactics defined as abstracting permissible and probable letter sequences, patterns, and positions in written words […]
ref: 2009, Todd L. Richards et al, "fMRI activation differences between 11-year-old good and poor spellers' access in working memory to temporary and long-term orthographic representations", Journal of Neurolinguistics 22.4, page 329
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The restrictions a language applies to the positions and patterns of graphemes in written words.
Related terms: orthographic
orthographically
orthotactic
orthotactically
phonotactic
phonotactics
works through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work through
working through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work through
worked through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work through
Mainland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest island in the Orkney Islands council area, to the north of Scotland.
glosses: The largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, to the north of both Orkney and Scotland.
coordinate_terms: Lower Mainland
Coast
Interior
glosses: A historical region of British Columbia, British North America, British Empire.
Derived terms: sense: Mainland, B.C.
word: Lower Mainland
Hilderic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Hildericus, from Vandalic Hildirix, from Proto-Germanic *Hildirīks.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of mainly historical use, borne by a king of the Vandals.
Algeresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: in the style of author Horatio Alger, typically of poor boys earning riches through wealthy benefactors.
tidder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tidders
form: tiddering
form: tiddered
form: tiddered
Etymology: From Middle English tidren, from Old English tīdrian, tȳdrian (“to become weak or infirm; be frail”), from Proto-Germanic *tūdrijaną (“to become brittle or weak; exhaust”), from Proto-Germanic *tūdrijaz (“brittle; weak; exhausted”), equivalent to tid + -er.
Related to Old English tiddre, tyddre, tēdre, tīdre, tȳdre (“weak; fragile”), West Frisian tear (“tender; gentle”), Dutch teder (“tender; fond; gentle; loving”), German Low German teder (“fine; delicate; sensitive; tender; weak”).
Senses: examples: text: Their doings now were jubilational—
What quiet folks would call sensational.
Their goodies they unpack excitedly,
Their Common Grandsire greet delightedly,
With gentle, sympathetic tiddering.
When from his tree-top he called diddering,
All "gramps," Wag said, are worth considering.
ref: 1916 July, Rose O'Neill, “The Kewpies and their Fairy Cousin”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 63, number 1, page 88:
glosses: To treat with tenderness; fondle
Synonyms: coddle
cosset
dandle
pamper
Related terms: tiddle
hog-Morse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the similarity in American Morse code between the codes for "home" and "hog" which differ only in the symbol spacing.
Senses: glosses: Error-ridden Morse code transmitted by an inexperienced or inept operator.
champagne buckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champagne bucket
persuasibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persuasibility
'Namgis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'Na̱mg̱is
form: Nimpkish
Etymology: From Kwak'wala 'Na̱mg̱is.
Senses: examples: text: Cranmer was instrumental in having some 750 traditional objects returned to the nation from private collections and museums. He was also known for his advocacy in preserving the 'Namgis culture and language.
ref: 2024 January 6, “'He just did so much for so many people': Loved ones remember 'Namgis Nation hereditary chief Bill Cranmer”, in CBC News:
glosses: An indigenous nation, part of the Kwakwaka'wakw, in central British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Island.
orthotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An orthotactic rule of thumb that nearly any English-speaking schoolchild has heard is to put 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.
text: Of course, pronounceability is closely tied to orthotactic regularity: letter strings that are orthotactically irregular will tend to be unpronounceable.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Grainger et al., “Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal readers”, in Brain and Language, 87.3, page 433:
glosses: Relating to orthotactics.
Derived terms: orthotactically
Related terms: orthographic
phonotactic
orthotactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthotactic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: According to grapheme-grapheme recoding theory the pseudohomophone effect is due to recoding from a representation of the stimulus grapheme to a representation of an orthotactically related grapheme.
ref: 1984, Guy Van Orden, A ROWS is a /ROZ/ is a ROSE: Visual, Phonological, Developmental, and Strategic Influences Upon Lexical Access:
text: Of course, pronounceability is closely tied to orthotactic regularity: letter strings that are orthotactically irregular will tend to be unpronounceable.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Grainger et al., “Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal readers”, in Brain and Language, volume 87, number 3, page 433:
glosses: In terms of orthotactics.
tiddered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tidder
tidders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tidder
tiddering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tidder
demiurgoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demiurgos (alternative form of demiurges).
raw_tags: in earlier works
steviols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steviol
patriarchal church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: patriarchal churches
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A church serving as the seat of a patriarch.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A church in Rome that previously served as the seat for one of the 5 patriarchs during visits to the city, St John Lateran, St Peter’s, St Paul’s outside the Walls, St Mary Major’s, and St Lawrence’s outside the Walls.
Synonyms: patriarchal basilica
manageries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of managery
deflectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deflectional
form: most deflectional
form: deflexional
Senses: examples: text: In this case the governing deflectional mode is symmetric and the critical load, denoted by qer, corresponds to the relative maximum (in absolute value) of Q for the load-displacement relation given by eqs.
ref: 2012, George J. Simitses, Dynamic Stability of Suddenly Loaded Structures, page 148:
glosses: Of or pertaining to deflection.
spaghettify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spaghettifies
form: spaghettifying
form: spaghettified
form: spaghettified
Etymology: Back-formation from spaghettification, equivalent to spaghetti + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: If, for example, a black hole eats enough to triple its mass, then it will have grown three times as wide. For this reason, black holes in the universe can be almost any size, but not all of them will spaghettify you before you cross the event horizon.
ref: 2007, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole:
text: First, the intense gravitational forces around a black hole may 'spaghettify' space travellers before they even reach the event horizon, and second, the theory may be fully confirmed only if someone were prepared to test it.
ref: 2013, David Wilkinson, Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: To stretch an object into a long thin shape under the influence of a very strong gravitational field gradient, such as found near a black hole.
spaghettifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spaghettify
spaghettifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spaghettify
oddship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oddships
form: Oddship
Etymology: From odd + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: It appears, to be but yesterday that there stepped from this Chair one of the weightiest Oddships of modern times who now reposes under the shade of an equally gigantic umbrella.
ref: 1928, Booklets - Volume 49
text: Each member has a special cognomen and is known and addressed as Brother Idler, Brother Spectator, or Corinthian. The president is called 'His Oddship'.
ref: 2011, Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles:
glosses: oddity, often used as a form of address.
oddships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oddship
institutional racisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of institutional racism
dried fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dried fruit
neutron activation analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutron activation analysis
ACMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ACM
stylisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylism
women of easy virtue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman of easy virtue
disheritances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disheritance
negationisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negationism
sprung back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of spring back
antistressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antistressors
Etymology: From anti- + stressor.
Senses: examples: text: The woman who is daydreaming is generating antistressors that will reduce her cortisol level […]
ref: 2005, Russell Farris, Per Marin, The Potbelly Syndrome:
glosses: Any substance that reduces stress.
antistressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antistressor
Marshall-Lerner conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marshall-Lerner condition
quittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quitting
yearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yearers
Etymology: From year + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Five yearers" were said to be allowed to grow moustaches or even marry a wife if such a thing were available. If "four yearers" mixed with "one yearers" the worst was suspected and very often turned out to be true.
ref: 1983, Mordecai Richler, The Best of modern humor:
text: He feels the resentment of lower-class recruits and NCOs against the 'one-yearer' with higher education, who does not even have to sleep in the murk of the barracks.
ref: 2009, Joachim Radkau, Max Weber:
glosses: A period of a certain number of years.
raw_tags: in combinations
yearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yearer
Your Dukeness
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Proud to make the acquaintance of your Dukeness," I said, hastily swallowing a quantity of tobacco-juice.
ref: 1888 October 27, “The Fakir In England”, in Grip, volume 31, number 803, page 4:
text: 1985, "A Gummi by Any Other Name", season 1, episode 9 of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Duke Sigmund Igthorn: I've always known I was a genius, but this time I've surpassed myself.
Ogre: Oh yes, […] Your Dukeness.
glosses: A pseudo-title of respect used towards a duke.
kippeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kippeens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kippen.