cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thin slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thin slices
Senses: examples: text: Bernieri is an expert in what's known as "thin-slicing methodology". His research is based on the theory that we make a reasonably accurate assessment of a person from observing just a few seconds, or a "thin slice", of their behaviour.
ref: 2009 March 7, Rosie Ifould, “Acting on impulse”, in The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A minimal amount of information or experience used to make quick inferences about something through thin-slicing.
thin slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thin slice
Beal conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beal conjecture
form: Beal's conjecture
Etymology: Formulated in 1993 by Andrew Beal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A conjecture stating that, if Aˣ+Bʸ=Cᶻ, where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor.
Hjelmslev transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hjelmslev transformations
Etymology: Named after Johannes Hjelmslev.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method for mapping an entire hyperbolic plane into a circle with a finite radius.
wikipedia: Johannes Hjelmslev
thin-slice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thin-slices
form: thin-slicing
form: thin-sliced
form: thin-sliced
Etymology: Back-formation from thin-slicing.
Senses: examples: text: If you've ever changed seats on a train or crossed the road to avoid someone, because there was something "not quite right about them", you've used your ability to thin-slice. […] but we thin-slice people in all kinds of situations, not just when we feel threatened.
ref: 2009 March 7, Rosie Ifould, “Acting on impulse”, in The Guardian:
text: Of course, first impressions are critical in any context, but especially when there's a potential relationship on the line[…]. That's because humans have a natural desire to "thin slice"—as in, digest small amounts of information (like, what's in your bio) to determine bigger decisions (read: whether this person is worth a date...or more).
ref: 2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To make quick inferences about something through thin-slicing.
Hjelmslev transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hjelmslev transformation
rubberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubberous
form: most rubberous
Etymology: From rubber + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rubbery.
synonyms: word: rubbery
smackaroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smackeroonies.
Harris tweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harris tweed
hel-shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Shoes that were purportedly placed on the dead so that they could walk to Valhalla.
thin-slicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Thin-slicing" refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behaviour based on very narrow slices of experience. […] Thin-slicing is not an exotic gift. It is a central part of what it means to be human.
ref: 2009 March 7, Rosie Ifould, “Acting on impulse”, in The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The process or ability of making quick (and often accurate) inferences about the state or characteristics of someone or something based only on minimal information or experience (“thin slices”).
Related terms: thin slice
thin-slice
thin-slicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thin-slice
HIH
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of his/her Imperial Highness.
Himalayan cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Himalayan cypresses
Senses: synonyms: Bhutan cypress
Kashmir cypress
glosses: a cypress tree of species Cupressus torulosa, native to the mountainous northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, primarily the Himalayas.
Himalayan cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Himalayan cypress
Bhutan cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bhutan cypresses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Himalayan cypress (Cupressus torulosa)
synonyms: word: Himalayan cypress
extra: Cupressus torulosa
Bhutan cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bhutan cypress
Himalo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: the Himalo-Chinese subregion
text: Himalo-Caucasian
glosses: Himalayas
great masquerader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the great masquerader
form: great masqueraders
Senses: examples: text: Catapano does not stand alone in his view that symptoms of syphilis, known as "medicine's great masquerader," are often mistaken for those of HIV infection.
ref: 1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Synonym of great imitator.
synonyms: word: great imitator
great masqueraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great masquerader
I like that
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “The man who took your letter, Snubby, […] won't be able to decode it — and if he could, he'd only read a lot of rubbish!”
“Well, I like that!” said Snubby indignantly. “Bruce and I don't write rubbish, let me tell you.”
ref: 1959, Enid Blyton, The Ragamuffin Mystery:
text: “Well of course,” Reilly said. “Am I not a wondrous cat, all-seeing, all powerful etcetera?”
“I like the all-seeing a lot better,” Katie said sleepily, and promptly went to sleep.
“Huh, I like that! I really like that!” Reilly snapped. “Women! You just can't trust them these days! Huh, huh, huh!”
ref: 2015, Amber Jo Illsley, Reilly - Running Full Circle:
glosses: Expressing indignation ironically
Port Jackson pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Port Jackson pines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Oyster Bay pine.
synonyms: word: Oyster Bay pine
Illawarra mountain pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Illawarra mountain pines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Oyster Bay pine.
synonyms: word: Oyster Bay pine
Jacksonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jackson + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Jacksonianism
glosses: Support for Andrew Jackson's politics and policies.
Jacksonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jacksonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jacksonism.
synonyms: word: Jacksonism
multi-cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multicancer.
MCED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCEDs
Senses: examples: text: Caro is among a pioneering group of people in the US and UK who have elected to take part in a new form of cancer screening known as multi-cancer early detection tests (MCED). […] Critics of MCEDs also warn that a deluge of test results could put additional pressure on already overstretched health services.
ref: 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of multi-cancer early detection.
MCEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MCED
Isnag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isneg
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian ethnic group native to Apayao Province in the Philippines' Cordillera Administrative Region.
Isnag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isneg
Senses: glosses: Their language.
Isneg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Isnag.
Isneg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Isnag.
Isnik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of İznik.
pap test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pap tests
Senses: examples: text: Studies show that the rollout of pap tests, which detect abnormalities in cervical cells, is mainly responsible for a 75 per cent fall in the incidence and mortality of the disease in the US.
ref: 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pap test.
Japanese ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese ivies
Senses: glosses: The plant Hedera rhombea.
synonyms: Boston ivy
glosses: The plant Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Japanese ivies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese ivy
Japanese flood fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tsutsugamushi.
synonyms: word: tsutsugamushi
green pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green pheasants
Senses: synonyms: Japanese green pheasant
Japanese pheasant
glosses: Phasianus versicolor, an omnivorous bird native to the Japanese archipelago.
green pheasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green pheasant
Japanese pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese pheasants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of green pheasant.
synonyms: word: green pheasant
Japanese pheasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese pheasant
fire the starting gun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fires the starting gun
form: firing the starting gun
form: fired the starting gun
form: fired the starting gun
Senses: examples: text: The TV and radio star Noel Edmonds, who is expected to join ITV’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here jungle camp this week, is also likely to fire the starting gun on a £60m lawsuit against Lloyds Bank.
ref: 2018 November 19, Kalyeena Makortoff, “Noel Edmonds likely to file £60m Lloyds lawsuit on Wednesday”, in The Guardian:
text: Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.
ref: 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:
hypernyms: start#Verb
glosses: To launch or trigger an event or situation.
raw_tags: followed by on
Related terms: jump-start
jump the gun
kick off
kick-start
Japanese pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese pines
Senses: synonyms: Japanese red pine
glosses: The tree Pinus densiflora.
synonyms: Japanese black pine
glosses: The tree Pinus thunbergii.
Japanese pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese pine
eastern bearded dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern bearded dragons
Senses: synonyms: common bearded dragon
bearded lizard
Jew lizard
frilly lizard
glosses: Any of species Pogona barbata of lizards.
eastern bearded dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern bearded dragon
Jew lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jew lizards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eastern bearded dragon (“Pogona barbata”).
synonyms: word: eastern bearded dragon
extra: Pogona barbata
Jew lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jew lizard
rulemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rulemakers
Etymology: From rule + maker.
Senses: examples: text: But if he can say, "This is my decision and if you don't like my decision you can have it reviewed" (and if the Board does its job properly and he is doing his job properly he will be supported in most of his decisions), and the decision will have been reviewed and will have been supported, we think he will act with greater courage and be a stronger rulemaker, a more decisive rulemaker than if there is no provision to support his position by review. This is a procedure adopted in many organizations including my own. / On this point, we think we will make him a stronger rulemaker, not a weaker rulemaker.
ref: 1958, U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, quoting Mr. Sayen, “Federal Aviation Agency Act, S.3880”, in Hearings, 85th Congress, Second Session, volume 4, U.S. Government Publishing Office, page 94:
text: A rulemaker must typically make and coordinate many empirical conclusions dependent on raw material outside the conventional evidentiary categories of "testimony" and "exhibits." For example, the rulemaker must often draw upon prior experience, expert advice, the developing technical literature, ongoing experiments, or seasoned predictions.
ref: 1979, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Government Publishing Office, page 518:
text: It is important to distinguish between who has regulatory power and the consequences of one actor violating the regulatory power of another actor. CAS [the Court of Arbitration for Sport] has established that the superior rulemaker's rules are not directly applicable and cannot in case of conflict take precedent over an inferior rulemaker's rules. Even in the face of a blatant conflict, the inferior rulemaker's rules remain valid and binding in relation to governed clubs, individuals, and other members. The superior rulemaker's only recourse is to impose sanctions against the inferior rulemaker.
ref: 2019, Johan Lindholm, “7: CAS's normative contribution”, in The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence: An Empirical Inquiry Into Lex Sportiva, T.M.C. Asser Press, →ISBN, page 192:
coordinate_terms: ruletaker
glosses: A maker of rules: a person, deity, or other agent (usually a sentient one, in most contexts) who makes the rules.
Related terms: word: decision-maker
word: decision-making
word: lawmaker
word: lawmaking
word: rulemaking
word: ruleset
word: rule set
english: often hyponymous
translation: often hyponymous
word: regulator
rulemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rulemaker
Jhukar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A phase of the Late Harappan culture in Sindh that continued after the decline of the mature Indus Valley civilisation in the 2nd millennium BC, and was followed by the Jhangar phase.
pap smear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pap smears
Senses: examples: text: An “urban myth” that lesbian women do not need pap smears because they do not have sex with men means they are putting their health at risk, a study from the University of Sydney has found.
ref: 2016 January 22, Melissa Davey, “'Urban myth' that lesbian women don't need pap smears is a health risk – study”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pap smear.
pap smears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pap smear
pap tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pap test
Judge Lynch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A personification of lynch mobs or lynch law.
Junior Leaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Junior Leaguers
Senses: glosses: A member of the Junior League, a private, nonprofit educational women's volunteer organization founded in 1901 that aims to improve communities and the social, cultural, and political fabric of civil society.
Junior Leaguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Junior Leaguer
Jamnapari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamnaparis
form: Jamunapari
form: Jumnapari
Senses: glosses: A goat of an Indian domestic breed originating in Uttar Pradesh.
Jamnaparis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamnapari
Jamunapari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamunaparis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jamnapari.
Jumnapari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jumnaparis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jamnapari.
Jamunaparis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamunapari
Jumnaparis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jumnapari
Kabinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Lomami province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kamehameha Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A public holiday on June 11 in the U.S. state of Hawaii, honoring Kamehameha the Great.
Keemun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Keemuns
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 祁門 /祁门 (kei⁴ mun⁴), the name of the county where the tea was originally produced.
Senses: glosses: A variety of Chinese black tea.
Keemuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Keemun
Kellogg oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kellogg oaks
Etymology: Named after Albert Kellogg.
Senses: glosses: The North American tree Quercus kelloggii.
Kellogg oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kellogg oak
Paps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pap
Keplerian telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Keplerian telescopes
Etymology: Invented by Johannes Kepler in 1611.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An improvement on the Galilean telescope, having a convex lens as the eyepiece instead of Galileo's concave one.
Keplerian telescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Keplerian telescope
Kerry Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kerry Blues
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kerry Blue Terrier.
synonyms: word: Kerry Blue Terrier
Irish Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish Blues
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kerry Blue Terrier.
synonyms: word: Kerry Blue Terrier
Irish Blue Terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish Blue Terriers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kerry Blue Terrier.
synonyms: word: Kerry Blue Terrier
keytainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keytainers
Etymology: Blend of key + container, originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: And in my mind I was looking at something else, a set of brand-new car keys in a keytainer stamped: “The Packard House,” upstairs, in a dead man's pocket.
ref: 2005, Tony Hillerman, Rosemary Herbert, Sue Grafton, A New Omnibus of Crime, page 76:
glosses: A small portable case for a person's keys.
keytainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keytainer
Khashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Khashgai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qashqai.
Queen's Bench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of King's Bench (when the monarch is female)
synonyms: word: King's Bench
extra: when the monarch is female
regmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regmakers
form: regemaker
form: regmaaker
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans regmaker, from reg (“right”) + maker (“maker”).
Senses: examples: text: It is dark inside after the bright sun but I feel for my chair and reach for the salt for my eggs and I hear him say in a slow begging voice Anna get me a regmaker.
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 26:
synonyms: pick-me-up
glosses: A drink or medicine taken as a hangover cure.
Babylon willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babylon willows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of weeping willow (“Salix babylonica”).
synonyms: word: weeping willow
extra: Salix babylonica
Babylon willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babylon willow
regmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regmaker
Peck's bad boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peck's bad boys
Etymology: After Peck's Bad Boy, a character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
Senses: examples: text: I was not "a character" in any sense, could not have been the original of any sensational story from the best boy in Sunday school to a Peck's bad boy.
ref: 1885, Horace Smith Fulkerson, Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi, page 80:
text: Bucky had a reputation around his Hughestown neighborhood, too, where the adults thought of Bucky as something of a Peck's bad boy.
ref: 2011, Jack Smiles, Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's Boy Wonder, page 7:
glosses: A mean-spirited young prankster.
wikipedia: Peck's Bad Boy
Satan's bolete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satan's boletes
Senses: synonyms: Devil's bolete
Satan's mushroom
glosses: The poisonous mushroom Rubroboletus satanas.
Satan's mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satan's mushrooms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Satan's bolete.
synonyms: word: Satan's bolete
Devil's bolete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Devil's boletes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Satan's bolete.
synonyms: word: Satan's bolete
Stewart's wilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Stewart's disease
glosses: A disease of corn caused by the bacterium Pantoea stewartii.
Stewart's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Stewart's wilt.
synonyms: word: Stewart's wilt
Turner's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turner syndrome.
Mymensingh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bengali ময়মনসিংহ (moẏmonśiṅho).
Senses: glosses: The capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh.
Derived terms: Mymensingh District
Mymensingh Division
Karankawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Native American people concentrated in southern Texas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, largely in the lower Colorado River and Brazos River valleys, and consisting of several independent seasonal nomadic groups who shared a language and culture.
Kechuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Quechuan.
Kechuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Quechuan.
Meursault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meursaults
Senses: glosses: A wine produced in the commune of Meursault in Côte de Beaune of Burgundy, France.
Meursaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meursault
Yamantaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yamāntaka
Etymology: From Sanskrit यमान्तक (yamāntaka).
Senses: glosses: A Buddhist deity who represents the end of the cycle of rebirth, samsara.
Synonyms: Vajrabhairava
MHWN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: MLWN
glosses: Initialism of mean high water neaps.
MLWN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: MHWN
glosses: Initialism of mean low water neaps.
I 'm
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: “It ’s easy to bid one rack one’s brain— / “I ’m sure my poor head aches again / “I ’ve scratched it so, and all in vain.
ref: 1842–1845, Robert Browning, “[Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.] The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child’s Story. […].”, in Poems […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1849, →OCLC, stanza IV, page 308:
text: “I ’ll busk you as braw as a queen, sweet lass, / I ’ll busk you as braw as a queen; / I ’ve guineas to spare, an’, hark ye, what ’s mair, / I ’m only twa score an’ fifteen, sweet lass, / Only twa score an’ fifteen.”
ref: 1857 [1845], Peter Still, “Ye needna’ be courtin’ at me”, in Charles Rogers, editor, The Modern Scottish Minstrel; or, The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, […], page 222:
text: “I ’m wonderin’ too what he ’ll say, an’ where he ’ll preach her.”
ref: 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter II, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 15:
text: And, first you know, queer shadows steal / From out the corners, so / Right where I hung my clothes I ’m sure / There ’s Something moves, and oh, / I feel a crawly, creepy chill / ’Way from my head to feet, / And little girls feel comf’tabler / To hid beneath the sheet!
ref: 1907, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, page 544:
glosses: Obsolete form of I'm.
MLWS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: MHWS
glosses: Initialism of mean low water spring tides.
MHWS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: MLWS
glosses: Initialism of mean high water spring tides.
Miao-Yao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hmong-Mien (“a language family”).
synonyms: word: Hmong-Mien
extra: a language family
Mollweide projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mollweide projections
Etymology: First published in 1805 by mathematician and astronomer Karl (or Carl) Brandan Mollweide (1774–1825) of Leipzig.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: Babinet projection
glosses: An equal-area, pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for maps of the world or celestial sphere.
Mollweide projections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mollweide projection
Babinet projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babinet projections
Etymology: It was reinvented and popularized in 1857 by Jacques Babinet.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Mollweide projection.
synonyms: word: Mollweide projection
Mollier diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mollier diagrams
Etymology: Invented in 1904 by Richard Mollier.
Senses: synonyms: H-S chart
glosses: A chart that plots total heat against entropy, describing the enthalpy of a thermodynamic system.
Mollier diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mollier diagram
H-S chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: H-S charts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mollier diagram.
synonyms: word: Mollier diagram
H-S charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of H-S chart
chemiclaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chemiclave
chemiclaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chemiclave
pistoliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistolier
top-boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top-boot
Peruvian daffodil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peruvian daffodils
Senses: glosses: Various plants of the genus Ismene of perennial bulbs.
glosses: Various plants of the genus Paramongaia of perennial bulbs.
glosses: Various plants of the genus Pamianthe of perennial bulbs.
glosses: Various plants of the genus Hymenocallis of perennial bulbs.
glosses: Chlidanthus fragrans, a bulbous geophyte native to Peru and Argentina.
Peruvian daffodils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peruvian daffodil
PFCE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PFCEs
Senses: coordinate_terms: MFCE
glosses: Initialism of physical functional capacity evaluation.
MFCE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFCEs
Senses: coordinate_terms: PFCE
glosses: Initialism of mental functional capacity evaluation.
MFCEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MFCE
PFCEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PFCE
Philippine cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philippine cedars
Senses: glosses: Toona calantas, a tree in the mahogany family.
Philippine cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philippine cedar
Philippine fowl disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Newcastle disease.
synonyms: word: Newcastle disease
Mlabri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mrabri
Etymology: From Thai มลาบรี (má-laa-brii).
Senses: synonyms: Phi Tong Luang
glosses: An ethnic group of Thailand and Laos, traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Mlabri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mrabri
Etymology: From Thai มลาบรี (má-laa-brii).
Senses: synonyms: Phi Tong Luang
glosses: Their language.
Mrabri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mlabri.
Mrabri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mlabri.
screenworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more screenworthy
form: most screenworthy
Etymology: From screen + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: With its setting on and around Sanibel Island and its lively cast of Florida eccentrics, Randy Wayne White's bestselling crime fiction series about marine biologist and secret agent Doc Ford has always seemed screenworthy.
ref: 2013 November 27, Colette Bancroft, “TV series in the works for Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford character”, in Tampa Bay Times:
text: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s rise to the top of US politics is undeniably screenworthy, but unlike the woman herself, Cath Clarke finds ‘On the Basis of Sex’ a tad dull
ref: 2019 February 22, Cath Clarke, “‘On the Basis of Sex’: Ginsburg’s superhero origin tale lacks a little spirit”, in The Big Issue:
glosses: Worthy of being screened; deserving of being adapted into a film or television show.
coinsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinsmiths
Senses: examples: text: Every village has a coinsmith who keeps the coins regulated. All coinsmiths are appointed by Prince Goscislaw. I am the noble coinsmith for both the Prince and the Emperor.” “How many coins does the Emperor have?” asked Berty.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), IE Castellano, The World In-between, Laurel Highlands Publishing:
glosses: A smith who makes coins.
JKR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Pen name from the initials of Rowling’s and her paternal grandmother’s names, Joanne and Kathleen, respectively.
Senses: examples: text: JKR, you are very good at quoting statistics but the plain figure that you have chosen to ignore is that we have the highest rate of teen pregnancies in western Europe.
ref: 2010 April 15, Janice Small, “JK Rowling is wrong on single parents”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author.
rejuvenational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rejuvenation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to rejuvenation.
spearsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearsmiths
Senses: examples: text: ... Be thou neither cobbler nor spearsmith[…]
ref: 1906, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell, American Journal of Philology, page 3:
text: This is supported by the fact that he was raised in the Yariyamachi (Spearsmith Block) of Osaka, in the shadow of the great Osaka castle, where metalworkers and merchants dealing in their wares dwelled.
ref: 2015 December 31, Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A smith who makes spears.
Newton-on-Ouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5159).
Linny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Luna + Ginny.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.
Pansmione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Pansy + Hermione.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Pansy Parkinson and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.
pansusceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pansusceptible.
Pansy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From pansy (“type of flower”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Derived terms: Pansmione
procline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proclines
form: proclining
form: proclined
form: proclined
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōclīnō (“I bend or lean forward”).
Senses: examples: text: In Class II cases the maxillary incisors retrocline and the eruption of teeth in the maxillary buccal segments is directed distally during treatment. In the mandibular arch the lower incisors tend to procline and the teeth in the buccal segments erupt in a more mesial direction.
ref: 2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 308:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: retrocline
glosses: Of teeth, to lean forward.
examples: text: These curves do have a tendency to procline the incisors so the wires are often tied back (e.g. a wire ligature tied from the molar to a ball hook on the archwire between the lateral incisor and canine) to maintain the arch length and minimise incisor proclination.
ref: 2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 273:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: retrocline
glosses: To cause (teeth) to lean forward.
Related terms: proclination
recline
retrocline
Pictou disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pyrrolizidine alkaloidosis
Winton's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pictou disease.
synonyms: word: Pictou disease
pyrrolizidine alkaloidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyrrolizidine + alkaloid + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: Pictou disease
Winton's disease
glosses: A disease caused by chronic poisoning from ingesting plants that contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
retrocline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retroclines
form: retroclining
form: retroclined
form: retroclined
Etymology: Compare procline.
Senses: examples: text: In Class II cases the maxillary incisors retrocline and the eruption of teeth in the maxillary buccal segments is directed distally during treatment. In the mandibular arch the lower incisors tend to procline and the teeth in the buccal segments erupt in a more mesial direction.
ref: 2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 308:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: procline
glosses: Of teeth, to lean backward.
examples: text: These curves do have a tendency to procline the incisors so the wires are often tied back […] to maintain the arch length and minimise incisor proclination. Alternatively, torque can be placed in the archwire to retrocline the incisors.
ref: 2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 273:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: procline
glosses: To cause (teeth) to lean backward.
Related terms: procline
recline
retroclination
bed-chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-chambers
Senses: examples: text: […] Carloſtein hardly uttered a ſentence, as his friend and he returned to their lodgings, where, pretending to be diſpoſed to ſleep, he retired immediately to his bed-chamber, and paſſed the night meditating on the accompliſhments of Laura.
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], “Carlostein and Seidlits arrive at Naples”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 133:
text: These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:
text: Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 99:
text: Her neck and arms were bare, her hair hung down in delicate rings, and they were just as beautiful as they were that night two months ago, when she walked up and down this bed-chamber glowing with vanity and hope.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber”, in Adam Bede […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fourth, page 312:
glosses: Alternative form of bedchamber.
bed-chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed-chamber
neo-Platonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-Platonists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonist.
neo-Platonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neo-Platonist
form: most neo-Platonist
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonist.
neo-Platonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-Platonist
Pierced Nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pierced Noses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nez Perce.
synonyms: word: Nez Perce
Pierced Noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pierced Nose
hiding-places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiding-place
Piffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Piffers
Etymology: From PIF + -er, from their earlier name of Punjab Irregular Force.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Frontier Force Regiment, an infantry regiment of the army of Pakistan.
Piffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Piffer
PIF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Using its estimated $650bn in assets, the government-controlled PIF now owns Newcastle United, and Saudi Arabia is said to aspire to host the World Cup in 2030.
ref: 2023 June 28, Chris Stein, “Saudi leader trying to avoid ‘pariah’ status with LIV-PGA merger, says campaigner”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia.
glosses: Initialism of Punjab Irregular Force.
Derived terms: Piffer
PIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of public information film, a type of public service announcement.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of program information file, a file defining how a DOS program should be run under a multitasking environment.
Proclian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Procline
Etymology: From Procl(us) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Proclus (412–485), Greek Neoplatonist philosopher.
Procline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Procl(us) + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Proclian.
Pilgrim Father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pilgrim Fathers
Senses: glosses: A male Pilgrim (settler of the Plymouth Colony).
Pilgrim Fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pilgrim Father
Pilagá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Guaicuruan language spoken in the Bermejo and Pilcomayo River valleys, western Formosa Province, in northeastern Argentina.
PINS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PINS
Senses: glosses: Acronym of person in need of supervision (“a juvenile not currently living with a parent or guardian”).
Plott Hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Plott Hound
PMIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of project management information system.
glosses: Initialism of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
neo-Platonism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonism.
Neo-Platonism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonism.
Neo-Platonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neo-Platonists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonist.
Neo-Platonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Neo-Platonist
form: most Neo-Platonist
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonist.
Neo-Platonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neo-Platonist
Port Salut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A semisoft pasteurised cow's milk cheese from Pays de la Loire, France, with a distinctive orange rind and a mild flavour.
neo-Platonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neo-Platonic
form: most neo-Platonic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonic.
Neo-Platonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Neo-Platonic
form: most Neo-Platonic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neoplatonic.
Prandtl number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prandtl numbers
Etymology: By surface analysis, Prandtl + number. Named after the German physicist Ludwig Prandtl.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A dimensionless number (symbol Pr) defined as the ratio of momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity.
Prandtl numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prandtl number
Ettingerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ettingerian
form: most Ettingerian
Etymology: From Ettinger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bracha L. Ettinger (born 1948), Israeli artist and feminist psychoanalyst.
Popovets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Popovtsy
Senses: glosses: singular of Popovtsy
Prony brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prony brakes
Etymology: Invented by Gaspard de Prony in 1821.
Senses: glosses: A device to measure the torque produced by an engine, essentially by wrapping a cord or belt around the output shaft and measuring the force transferred to the belt through friction.
Prony brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prony brake
providentialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: providentialisms
Etymology: From providential + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The belief that all events are predetermined by God or fate.
Related terms: providentialist
providentialistic
providentialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of providentialism
providentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: providentialists
Etymology: From providential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in providentialism.
providentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From providential + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to providentialism.
providentialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more providentialistic
form: most providentialistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to providentialism.
providentialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of providentialist
Mobians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mobian
Flambures
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flambureses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
guaranteedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From guaranteed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a guaranteed manner; assuredly, certainly.
stair-case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stair-cases
Senses: examples: text: As this Place [Kensington Palace] opens to the Weſt, there are Two great Wings build, for receiving ſuch as neceſſarily attend the Court, and a large Port-cocher at the Entrance, with a Poſtern, and a Stone Gallery, on the South-ſide of the Court, which leads to the great Stair-caſe.
ref: 1742, [Daniel Defoe], “Letter III. Containing a Description of Part of Middlesex; and of the Whole County of Hertford.”, in A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] J[ohn] Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: The lower part of the house had been now entirely shewn, and Mrs. Rushworth, never weary in the cause, would have proceeded towards the principal stair-case, and taken them through all the rooms above, if her son had not interposed with a doubt of there being time enough.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185:
text: This little quay communicated with a rude stair-case, already repeatedly mentioned, which descended from the old castle.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Archaic form of staircase.
stair-cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stair-case
Actaeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Actaeon
Actaeons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Actaeon
well-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well-houses
Senses: examples: text: "When did Sir Robert give away his sister's dog?" / "It was just a week ago to-day. The creature was howling outside the old well-house, and Sir Robert was in one of his tantrums that morning.[…]"
ref: 1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published June 1927, →OCLC, page 284:
glosses: Alternative form of wellhouse.
Unicodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Unicodifies
form: Unicodifying
form: Unicodified
form: Unicodified
form: unicodify
Etymology: From Unicode + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: I think now that people have had time to "Unicodify" their applications with 5.8.x, starting to collect the tricks required and found useful would not be a bad idea.
ref: 2004 January 3, Jarkko Hietaniemi, “Re: Keeping byte-wise processing as an option”, in perl.unicode (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make (something) compatible with Unicode.
Related terms: unicodification
Unicodification
unicodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unicodifies
form: unicodifying
form: unicodified
form: unicodified
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Unicodify.
Pupin system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pupin system
form: Pupin's system
Etymology: Invented by Mihajlo Pupin (1858–1935), Serbian physicist.
Senses: glosses: A means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire.
Related terms: pupinization
pupinize
pupinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pupin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The use of the Pupin system to extend the range of long-distance telephone communication.
Related terms: pupinize