cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pass rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pass rushes
Senses: examples: text: Coach Ron Rivera was hired to restore pride and discipline (and winning seasons) to a decaying franchise, and for a defensive-minded coach, buttressing the pass rush with the best defensive end prospect in the class is a reasonable way to start.
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defensive tactic which involves one or more players charging towards the quarterback either to get a sack or other pressure.
pass rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pass rush
pass rusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pass rushers
Senses: examples: text: A late-scoring push forced overtime, but even in added time, the team was forced to go for a field goal on their initial drive after a pass rusher forced an overthrow from Purdy. This allowed Mahomes in and the emerging all-time great doesn’t often make mistakes.
ref: 2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A defensive player who engages in a pass rush, who attempts to sack or pressure the quarterback.
pass rushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pass rusher
gold brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold bricks
Senses: examples: text: WHEN YOU do business with a man who is willing to sell himself, you musn't be surprised if you find that you have bought a gold brick.
ref: 1986, Philander C. Johnson, Senator Sorghum's Primer of Politics, page 20:
text: In addition, that place became a haven for some of our drunks and gold bricks.
ref: 2002, Nancy Bruce, Grinning from Ear to Ear, page 47:
text: The funny thing is I never met a gold brick on the ship.
ref: 2013, Anthony J. DiFiore, Papa Remembers, page 45:
text: In their minds, he was the ultimate “gold brick” and“smart ass”—and they were right.
ref: 2014, George W. Neill, Infantry Soldier: Holding the Lines at the Battle of the Bulge:
text: How do we know that the avouching unknown could not have been sold a gold brick?
ref: 2015, Joseph Lewis French, The Best Psychic Stories: Famous People:
glosses: Alternative form of goldbrick.
gold brick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gold bricks
form: gold bricking
form: gold bricked
form: gold bricked
Senses: examples: text: Stupid, ignorant, unsuspicious, trusting, it did not take long for this suave promoter to "gold brick" the poor widow of her little insurance money and the little savings of years.
ref: 1931, Fur Trade Journal of Canada - Volumes 9-11, page 22:
text: Oh yes, I got plenty of good exercise all morning so decided to gold brick in the afternoon.
ref: 2005, Thomas Larson, The Vagabonds: Escape From Europe In 1939, page 248:
text: Tina Marie tried to gold brick her way out of going to school, complaining of a sore throat, but Mom wasn't falling for it.
ref: 2007, Larry Groves, Seasons in Time, page 111:
glosses: Alternative form of goldbrick.
gold bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold brick
gold bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gold brick
gold bricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gold brick
gold bricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gold brick
gold-brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold-bricks
Senses: examples: text: Pomposity of style is confined to sellers of spurious goods, whether gold-bricks, medicines, or scholarships.
ref: 1811, H. W. Hammond, Style-book of business English, page 6:
text: A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.
ref: 1906, Harry Houdini, The Right Way to Do Wrong, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of goldbrick.
gold-brick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gold-bricks
form: gold-bricking
form: gold-bricked
form: gold-bricked
Senses: examples: text: All of this costs money, but if we all determine to put our own shoulder to the wheel instead of seeing how we can gold-brick we can make Democracy work right here in our own state.
ref: 1944, Minnesota PTA Bulletin - Volume 20, Issue 4:
text: ... great numbers of “happy employees who are extremely loyal to the organization because they can gold-brick, be apathetic, and be non-involved in worrying about the effectiveness of the company.”
ref: 1965, Samuel Feinberg, How Do You Manage?, page 36:
text: No; any man is likely to be stronger than any institution—a GI can gold-brick the Pentagon.
ref: 1966, Paul Goodman, Five years, page 197:
glosses: Alternative form of goldbrick.
cyboteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyboteurs
Etymology: Blend of cyber- + saboteur
Senses: glosses: One who sabotages computer systems or networks.
Related terms: cybotage
cyboteurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyboteur
gold-bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold-brick
gold-bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gold-brick
gold-bricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gold-brick
gold-bricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gold-brick
biobleaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biobleach
Eurotorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurotort
plugpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plugpoint
autapotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aut- + apotypic.
Senses: examples: text: The monophyly of the limbatus group is based on the presence of autapotypic female coxital plates; the plates are only feebly developed in the more primitive Central American species.
ref: 1969, Ginter Ekis, Herbert Friedmann, James F. McKinney, Synonymy of the Fish Families Cheilobranchidae, page 129:
text: The presence of three in this lineage is interpreted to be autapotypic.
ref: 1981, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology - Issues 340-349, page 13:
text: Absence in Neohaemonia is judged an autapotypic loss.
ref: 1987, Transactions of the American Entomological Society:
glosses: Apotypic with regards to its own taxonomic category.
multivariateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multivariate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being multivariate.
ATDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of acceptance-test-driven development.
itchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From itchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of an itch.
labellessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From labelless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of labels.
ornamentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ornamentless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of ornaments.
supportlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supportless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of support.
flashlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flashless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a flash.
garblessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From garbless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of clothing.
glandlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glandless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of glands.
grandchildlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grandchildless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of grandchildren.
gritlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gritless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of grit.
eyebrowlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eyebrowless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of eyebrows.
disklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diskless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a disk or disks.
dowerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dowerless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a dower.
feetlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feetless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of feet.
flecklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fleckless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of flecks.
evidencelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evidenceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of evidence.
fervourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fervourless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of fervour.
fervorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fervourlessness.
guardlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guardless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a guard or guards.
hingelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hingeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of hinges.
referentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From referentless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a referent.
referencelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From referenceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a reference.
regionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regionless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of regions.
Dund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Dundee taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Dundee, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Chest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Chester taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Glam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Glamorgan taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Glamorgan, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
antispeciesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-speciesism
Etymology: From anti- + speciesism.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: speciesism
glosses: An ethical stance which opposes the unjustified consideration or treatment of sentient individuals who are not classified as belonging to a certain species.
Derived terms: antispeciesist
Bedf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Bedfordshire taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Bedfordshire, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
anti-speciesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antispeciesism.
antispeciesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antispeciesists
Etymology: From anti- + speciesist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of antispeciesism.
antispeciesists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antispeciesist
filarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /fɪˈlɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filarial.
tattyfilarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtætɪfɪˈlɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌtætəfɪˈlɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more tattyfilarious
form: most tattyfilarious
Etymology: Coined or popularised by British comedian Ken Dodd.
Senses: glosses: Hilarious; very funny.
wikipedia: Ken Dodd
Related terms: filarious
Mihaescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mihaescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Mihăescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Calinescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calinescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Călinescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
secretaryess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretaryesses
form: secretaress
Etymology: From secretary + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: “He clearly comes within my province,” said the Secretaryess of Foreign Affairs. “I will attend to his case.” / “No, I will,” cried all the other Secretaryesses, and after that all of the unofficial electors said that they would.
ref: 1905 December 9, “The Isle of Beautiful Woman”, in The San Francisco Call, volume XCIX, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., page 8, column 4:
text: "Why," defiantly explains the secretaryess of the treasury, "I ran my department just as I ran my home. I have had everything charged.
ref: 1915, John Ames Mitchell, Life, page 1083:
text: Yea, the police procession of technical units, of Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. secretaries and secretaryesses, the days of the college boy ambulanciers and society women in pretty white nursie outfits, of Lady Bountifuls on missions of mercy (pictures in the Sunday rotogravure sections of the New York papers)—all is over.
ref: 1918 July 27, “Appraising the Americans: The Wild Shouts, the Rush of the Cars As a Tonic for Paris”, in Concordia Daily Blade, volume XVII, number 62, Concordia, Kan., [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/128038848/ page [4]], columns 3–4:
text: Well, Mrs. Simpson, you sure are there as press secretaryess for the Ladies Social Club.
ref: 1930, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 524:
text: At Lost Rosary's conclusion, in a purported conversation with publisher Donahoe, McCorry levels the same accusation at the secretaryess herself:
ref: 2017, Peter D. O'Neill, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: a female secretary.
treasureress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From treasurer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: For if it be true, that Mary is the Treasureress of all graces, and that the love which she bears to the elect is the source of their happiness and glory, what must be the glory of St. Joseph, whom she was obliged to love in preference to all the saints, as a good spouse is obliged to love her spouse, in preference to all others!
ref: 1848, Begin. The Knowledge and Love of Saint Joseph, page 9:
text: He then became the first chairman of the organization with Mrs. L.M. Soelaeman and Mrs. Baharudin occupying the positions of secretary and treasureress respectively.
ref: 1993, The Muslim Ummah and Family Planning Movement in Indonesia, page 166:
text: The texts of the codex, especially the instruction for the convent's treasureress, might indicate that she was the foremost user of the manuscript, but the excellent state of its preservation indicates that the codex was not a handbook subject to regular use.
ref: 2005, Götz Pochat, Erzählte Zeit und Gedächtnis: narrative Strukturen und das Problem der Sinnstiftung im Denkmal, page 30:
glosses: a female treasurer.
homescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homescreens
form: home screen
Etymology: From home + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Gary Bettman pulls his iPhone, with its homescreen picture of his grandchildren, from his pocket and dials up Colin Campbell, the league's director of hockey operations...
ref: 2012, Jonathon Gatehouse, The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Remade the NHL and Changed the Game Forever, page 154:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: splash screen
glosses: The main or first interface shown in a graphical user interface.
pseudolife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudolives
form: pseudo-life
Etymology: From pseudo- + life.
Senses: examples: text: A carved slave in the grave of an Egyptian aristocrat was just stone, a painted basket of food was just a painting, until consecration endowed them with a pseudolife, a ghostly existence between this and the next life.
ref: 1970, Peter Fingesten, The eclipse of symbolism, page 21:
text: He could remember anything, in that short life or in the long, long pseudolife that followed, provided only that he could remember where to look for it in his stored memories.
ref: 1980, Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, page 202:
text: To judge by this sample, wherever the discipline of philosophy of science has been touched by cognitive science the result has been a zombie — philosophy of science killed dead and brought back to ghoulish, mindless, pseudolife.
ref: 1992, Ronald N. Giere, Cognitive Models of Science - Volume 15, page 465:
text: Dolls, stuffed toys, and character dolls can be given pseudolife.
ref: 1999, Richard Ham, Clinical Management of Stuttering in Older Children and Adults:
glosses: Something that has many of the characteristics of life but which is not life.
examples: text: Yes, it's a kind of suicide, this being committed to the pseudolife of mass organizations — daily suicide. Under the command of television you surrender your life to this or that organization.
ref: 1974, Willem L. Oltmans, On growth - Volume 1, page 86:
text: In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the riverway of the pseudolife.
ref: 1983, Professor Ladislav Matejka, Benjamin A. Stolz, Cross Currents 1983: Yearbook of Central European Culture, page 15:
text: What is more, parents and teachers perpetuate that pseudolife onto their children. The children devalue other aspects of their unique identity, and are treated as labels instead of fingerprints.
ref: 1986, William Henry Schubert, Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibility, page 358:
text: This patient was tom between living a pseudolife—by attempting to bury all self-awareness—and taking the risk of looking back and experiencing and sharing her memories, accumulated pain, hate, guilt, shame, and neediness for emotional support and sensual contact.
ref: 1993, Samuel Slipp, Jules Bemporad, Curative Factors in Dynamic Psychotherapy, page 185:
glosses: An inauthentic life; a life that lacks something necessary for being meaningful or worthwhile.
examples: text: Such pseudolives leave one out of touch with one's self, one's feelings, one's desires, needs, and hopes. Illustrative may be the homosexual who has pretended to be otherwise, or the "family man" who has remained faithful but is depressed and miserable.
ref: 1974, Quality of Life: The later years, page 136:
text: People live to be seen, sometimes even “faking life” in hopes that their “pseudolife” goes viral.
ref: 2015, Ramani Durvasula, Should I Stay or Should I Go?:
glosses: A false image of one's life.
pseudolives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudolife
pseudo-life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-lives
Etymology: From pseudo- + life.
Senses: examples: text: With a precision denying the seemingly eccentric or at best random movements of the rest of his limbs — which now fluttered and twitched like those of a dead frog, electrically coerced into a pseudo-life of their own—the arm and hand of the naked man swept down and sliced open the corpse from just below the ribcage, through the navel and down to the mass of wiry grey pubic hair.
ref: 2009, Brian Lumley, Necroscope - Volume 1:
text: Participation structure: the number of active or potential participants in an interaction, amount they say, the speed at which they say it, whether they are interacting privately or public, and in real life or pseudo-life
ref: 2011, David Crystal, Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide:
text: Turning, she sank against it, fighting against asking John to come back so she wouldn't be alone, so she wouldn't be so conflicted about the decision she'd made to chuck her pseudo-life in Seattle and stay in Magnolia Bend.
ref: 2014, Liz Talley, The Sweetest September:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudolife.
pseudo-lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-life
black top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black tops
Senses: examples: text: One day the county put the word out that they was going to put down black top on the rock roads.
ref: 2007, Lee Wells, Escape From Mississippi:
text: Maybe they will pass a bill requiring an investigation into just how much black top and concrete is used in the transportation system.
ref: 2008, Floyd Grooms, Global Warming, A Different Approach, page 12:
text: Rolling down the black top little white broken lines swiftly passing my face, I look like I'm going through a time warp slicing through the darkness of space.
ref: 2012, Ron Hester, Inside My Mind, page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of blacktop.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, top.
black top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: black tops
form: black topping
form: black topped
form: black topped
Senses: examples: text: We won't black top your property for you because this is your own property, but we will loan you the money interest free if you will black top your driveway, providing you will give us another lease on that other 50 feet of land that you bought free.
ref: 1955, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Distribution Problems, page 1025:
text: The State will black top the road and stabilize the shoulders before returning it to the town.
ref: 1969, Annual Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Steuben County:
text: The PWD will black top the road and immediately either the PHED or Power Corporation will dig up the road to lay pipes or cables.
ref: 2015, Ningthouja Lancha, Kangla Lanpung Volume XI Issue 1: Winter 2015:
glosses: Alternative form of blacktop.
black tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black top
black tops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of black top
black topping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of black top
black topped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of black top
black-top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: black-tops
form: black-topping
form: black-topped
form: black-topped
Senses: examples: text: In Lincoln County, Minn., we consider it advisable to black-top our roads when the traffic count reaches 100 vehicles a day.
ref: 1950, Better Roads - Volume 20, page 37:
text: We have that there, too, and they black-topped it.
ref: 1972, United States. Commission on Highway Beautification, Highway beautification:
text: You wouldn't by any chance remember whether they black-topped that trail from Aztec to Dulce?
ref: 1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of blacktop.
black-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-tops
Senses: examples: text: Using very simple language, it tries to raise awareness of how badly we are treating the earth and how many of the things I remember from when I was growing up have vanished or are covered with black-top.
ref: 2003, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits, page 9:
text: The black-top felt rugged under his jaw and cheek, yet warm from the moisture.
ref: 2008, Jade Cameron, Bryony Wynne-Jones, Freedom Rider, page 1:
text: I assigned that area to him and drove my car further north on the black-top.
ref: 2012, Charles O. Maul, Can Do in Yottabytes, page 154:
glosses: Alternative form of blacktop.
black-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of black-top
black-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-top
black-topping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of black-top
black-topped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of black-top
black-topped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more black-topped
form: most black-topped
Senses: glosses: Having a top that is black.
glosses: Paved with asphalt.
sound byte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She spoke in a consultant's sound byte fashion, which translates text into your head holistically, calmly, slowly, and full of quotations.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of sound bite.
Ocasek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ocaseks
Etymology: From Czech Ocásek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
gumby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumbies
Senses: examples: text: Eddy Delwood wove an exaggerated tale about him. It was a story about the day's big climb.
"So the gumby's up there fifteen minutes now...He's not movin', just standin' there."
ref: 1984, Steve Roper, Ascent: The Mountaineering Experience in Word and Image, page 61:
text: "Beattie...What's a gumby?"
"It's what I thought you were the first day: a beginner, a rookie, green as grass and wet behind the ears. Something you've never been, Spider-Man. Though the way you climbed just now...well..."
ref: 2008, V. M. Jones, Out of Reach, page 230:
text: You do notice one guy (not a gumby, he's done A5 climbs) who doesn't really hoist any equipment, never leads the climb, never finds routes, and conveniently forgets to bring his ropes.
ref: 2011, Stephen E. Schmid, Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone, page 155:
text: Caroline was silent. Probably standing there, watching with pity. Or maybe she'd left. Why would she stay to watch the gumby climb anyway?
ref: 2018, Sarah Nicole Lemon, Valley Girls, page 183:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An inexperienced climber.
Related terms: gumby gumby
gumbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumby
lacertoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacertoids
Senses: glosses: Any lizard of the suborder Lacertoidea
lacertoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacertoid
lactamization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactamizations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The conversion of a lactone into a lactam
Derived terms: macrolactamization
lactamizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactamization
lassopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lassopeptides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lasso peptide.
lassopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lassopeptide
lepidotrichial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to lepidotrichia
levofolinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levofolinates
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of levofolinic acid
levofolinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of folinic acid
Related terms: levofolinate
licochalcones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licochalcone
lignostilbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignostilbenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A stilbene that is a component of some lignins
ligstroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ligustroside.
ligustral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aldehyde 2,4-dimethyl-3-cyclohexenecarboxaldehyde present in privet
lithothamnioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithothamnioids
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Lithothamnion of red algae.
lithothamnioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithothamnioid
tractionlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tractionless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of traction.
poetrylessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poetryless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of poetry.
normlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more normlessly
form: most normlessly
Etymology: From normless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without a norm.
fuellessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuelless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of fuel.
incomelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incomeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of income.
matelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mateless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of a mate.
Esav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.sav/
Senses: examples: text: Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation.
ref: 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:
synonyms: Esau
glosses: The son of Yitzhak and Rivka and the older twin brother of Yaakov.
Yaakov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjaː.koʊv/
ipa: /ja.(ʔ)aˈkoʊv/
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, Yaakov is associated with the month of Elul, a month characterized by contemplation, in which we, Yaakov’s children, consider our own needed transformation.
ref: 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:
synonyms: Jacob
glosses: The son of Yitzhak and Rivka, twin brother of Esav, and patriarch of the Jews.
you never miss the water till the well runs dry
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
form: you never miss the water until the well runs dry
Senses: glosses: People tend to take things for granted that are easily available.
you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you never miss the water till the well runs dry.
Rikers Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Cause you might have been robbin', you might have been whylin' / But you won't be smilin' on Rikers Island
ref: 1990, “Rikers Island”, in Wanted: Dead or Alive, performed by Kool G Rap and DJ Polo:
text: I have pieced it together by now: The Iranians are operating a terrorist sleeper cell in the United States, one arm of which operates out of the prison on Rikers Island.
ref: 2010, Seth Edgarde, Hart Island, Blackbird Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An island in the East River between Queens and the Bronx, New York that is home to New York City's main jail complex.
examples: text: Mayor de Blasio on Friday vowed to shutter Rikers Island within a decade and replace the violence-plagued correction complex with “at least a few new facilities” to lock up inmates elsewhere in the city.
ref: 2017 March 31, Yoav Gonen, Rebecca Rosenberg, Golding, “New York City to close Rikers Island”, in New York Post:
glosses: The jail complex on the island.
Derived terms: Rikers
subcategorizand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcategorizands
form: subcategorisand
Etymology: From subcategorize + -and.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: The item which carries subcategorization information for the occurrence of other elements in the phrase or word.
The word which does so.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: The item which carries subcategorization information for the occurrence of other elements in the phrase or word.
The morpheme which does so.
subcategorizands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcategorizand
subcategorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcategorizer
naplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From napless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of napping or sleeping.
organlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of organs.
passportlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From passportless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a passport.
pianolessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pianoless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Again, I say: if you find this off-the-cuff stuff sufficient, and are not put off by the pianolessness, the banjos, the electric bass, or the sameness of it all, then you'll find this a good $3 (right!) worth.
ref: 1974, Jazz Digest, volume 3, page 9:
text: Much has been made of the pianolessness of Rollins's Vanguard bands and their subsequent influence within and without jazz.
ref: 2007, Phil Freeman, Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs:
glosses: Absence of a piano.
prospectlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prospectless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of prospects.
quenchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quenchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: unquenchability
quenchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quench + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be quenched.
unquenchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Inability to be quenched.
queuelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From queueless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a queue (the hairstyle).
riblessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ribless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of ribs.
rodlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rodless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of rods.
scopelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scopeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of scope.
muslinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muslinoma
prebookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prebook + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be prebooked.
hime cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hime cuts
Etymology: From Japanese 姫カット, literally "princess cut".
Senses: glosses: An Asian hairstyle consisting of straight, usually cheek-length sidelocks and a frontal fringe. The rest of the hair is usually worn long and straightened.
hime cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hime cut
archieparchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archieparchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archeparchy.
archieparchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archieparchy
one for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: one to begin, two to show, three to make ready, and four to go
Senses: examples: text: “Yes, I'll make Simpledoria get out of the way. Come here, Simpledoria. Now, Bill, put your heels together on the edge of the walk. That's right. All ready? Now then! One for the money—two for the show—three to make ready—and four for to GO!” Another silence. “By jingo, Bill Hammersley, you've beat me! Ha, ha! That was a jump! What say?”
ref: 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party, New York: Harper & Brothers, pages 22–23:
text: And then they swung him back and forth, and back and forth, saying: "One for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to go." And up they tossed him into the air.
ref: 2007, William Bernard McCarthy, Cinderella in America, page 268:
glosses: A countdown prior to exerting some effort, such as launching a burden or running a race.
put her there
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: put 'er there
Senses: glosses: Inviting a person to shake one's hand.
macromobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + mobility.
Senses: glosses: The ability of a mobile phone to move between different networks while in use
magnetoencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + encephalic.
Senses: glosses: Describing magnetic resonance imaging of the brain
maltopentaoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltopentaosides
Senses: glosses: Any glycoside of maltopentaose
maltotetraosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from maltotetraose
maradolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maradolipid
mechanoregulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanoregulators
Etymology: From mechano- + regulator.
Senses: glosses: Any material that produces mechanoregulation
mechanoregulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanoregulator
medicoeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medico- + economic.
Senses: topics: economics
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to economic aspects of medical treatment
megacarnivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacarnivores
Etymology: From mega- + carnivore.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large carnivore
megacarnivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacarnivore
megastudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastudies
Etymology: From mega- + study.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large study
megastudies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megastudy
mercaptosuccinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptosuccinates
Etymology: From mercapto- + succinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of mercaptosuccinic acid
mercaptosuccinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptosuccinate
mesacanthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesacanthids
Senses: glosses: Any acanthodian fish of the family Mesacanthidae
mesacanthids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesacanthid
metallochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallo- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemistry (especially the organic chemistry and biochemistry) of metals
methoximations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methoximation
NJIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Jersey Institute of Technology.
gyniatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyniatries
form: gyniatrics
Senses: glosses: The study of women's diseases; gynecology.
gyniatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyniatry
microarea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microareas
Etymology: From micro- + area.
Senses: glosses: a very small area
microareas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microarea
microarrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microarrangements
Etymology: From micro- + arrangement.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of microparticles
microarrangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microarrangement
microconchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microconchids
Senses: glosses: Any fossil worm of the order †Microconchida
microconchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microconchid
microglobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + globular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of microglobules
microlactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlactins
Senses: glosses: A milk product produced by cows that have been treated with immunostimulants
microlysimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlysimeters
Etymology: From micro- + lysimeter.
Senses: glosses: A very small lysimeter
microlysimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlysimeter
micromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micromeral.
glosses: Relating to micromerism.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to micromeric acid and its derivatives.
micromeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to micromeres
microsomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to microsomes
microsuspension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsuspensions
Etymology: From micro- + suspension.
Senses: glosses: A suspension of microparticles
microsuspensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsuspension
minishaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minishakers
Etymology: From mini- + shaker.
Senses: glosses: A small shaker (laboratory equipment).
minishakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minishaker
mixopapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of myxopapillary.
mobilopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobilopathies
Etymology: From mobile + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any medical condition characterised by impaired movement
mobilopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobilopathy
Belf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Etymology: Shortened form of Belfast taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: Queen's University of Belfast, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Eliasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eliasian
form: most Eliasian
Etymology: From Elias + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist.
Ungerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ungerian
form: most Ungerian
Etymology: From Unger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Roberto Mangabeira Unger (born 1947), Brazilian philosopher and politician.
antinecessitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinecessitarian
form: most antinecessitarian
Etymology: From anti- + necessitarian.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a necessitarian viewpoint.
Sadeian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sadeian
form: most Sadeian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sadean.
Brigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Brighton.
Senses: glosses: University of Brighton, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
investings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of investing
invertings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverting
Westmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Westminster.
Senses: glosses: University of Winchester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Semai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A semisedentary ethnic group living in the central Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
Semai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Aslian language.
sedentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedentary
rascal stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sonofabitch stew
chocomilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocomilks
Senses: examples: text: The DTRI milk was processed mainly into fresh milk (43%), white cheese (22%), and chocomilk (21%).
ref: 1994, University of the Philippines at Los Baños. Dairy Training and Research Institute, Annual Report, page 9:
text: In Mexico, chocomilk powder is fortified with iron.
ref: 1999, Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India), IFCON 98, page 253
text: 'Give me a chocomilk, if at least you've got one that's good and cold.'
ref: 2011, Nicolas Freeling, A Long Silence, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: chocolate milk.
Soays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soay
scalphunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalphunters
Etymology: From scalp + hunter.
Senses: glosses: A warrior who collects the scalps of vanquished enemies.
examples: text: There is one class of spook we have not encountered as yet. This is the scalp-hunter, or defector-hunter. Quite often a scalp-hunter will be more valuable than almost any other intelligence operator.
ref: 1982, Richard Deacon, With My Little Eye: The Memoirs of a Spy-Hunter, page 103:
text: But agency policy is that the case officer is, in the jargon, a "scalp hunter" who must turn a contact into an agent […]
ref: 2002, Angelo Codevilla, Informing Statecraft, page 82:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: An agent who vets potential defectors.
Related terms: scalphunting
scalphunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalphunter
kelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kelter
kilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilter
Buchberger's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by Austrian mathematician Bruno Buchberger.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for transforming a given set of generators for a polynomial ideal into a Gröbner basis with respect to some monomial order.
wikipedia: Bruno Buchberger
Gröbner basis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gröbner bases
Etymology: Introduced in 1965 by Austrian mathematician Bruno Buchberger, who named them after his academic advisor Wolfgang Gröbner.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of generating set of an ideal in a polynomial ring K[x1, ..,xn] over a field K. It allows many important properties of the ideal and the associated algebraic variety to be deduced easily, such as the dimension and the number of zeros when it is finite.
wikipedia: Bruno Buchberger
Wolfgang Gröbner
Kisshōten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 吉祥天 (Kisshōten).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The Japanese version of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi: goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.