cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corpse camps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corpse camp
corpse camping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corpse camp
corpse camped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corpse camp
PVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: polymers
glosses: Initialism of polyvinyl pyrrolidone.
qualifier: polymers
glosses: Initialism of polyvinylphenol.
glosses: Initialism of crospovidone.
topics: video-games
coordinate_terms: PVE
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of PvP.
Derived terms: english: PVP-iodine
translation: PVP-iodine
word: PVP-I
call-in show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call-in shows
Senses: examples: text: Billed as "the first and only" nationwide call-in show," it invites listeners to "call collect from anywhere in North America to have a heart-to-heart squawk."
ref: 1969 April 6, Beatrice Berg, “Let's Not Burn, Baby, Burn, Let's Talk, Baby, Talk”, in New York Times, page D19:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: In television or radio programming, a type of talk show in which a host and one or more guests sometimes converse with members of the listening or viewing audience who telephone the show while the program is being broadcast.
Synonyms: phone-in show
Related terms: broadcast delay
chat show
pescetarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pescetarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A dietary choice in which a person, known as a pescetarian, eats any combination of vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans and fish or seafood, but not mammals or birds. Some animal products, such as eggs and dairy, may or may not be part of the diet.
battle fatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Psychological fatigue caused by taking part in battle.
Synonyms: sense: condition
word: shellshock
sense: condition
word: PTSD
sense: condition
word: combat fatigue
shell-shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shell shock.
shell-shock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shell-shocks
form: shell-shocking
form: shell-shocked
form: shell-shocked
Senses: examples: text: [Two goals in two minutes] shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shell shock.
battle fatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: military fatigues worn in battle, a form of battle dress
Synonyms: combat fatigues
Related terms: battle dress uniform
BDU
combat fatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: military fatigues worn in combat, a form of battle dress
Synonyms: battle fatigues
Related terms: battle dress uniform
BDU
combat fatigue
fqih
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fqihs
form: fuqaha'
form: faqih
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).
Senses: examples: text: In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human.
ref: 1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge, page 171:
text: So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school.
ref: 1998, Alison Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women, SUNY Press, page 84:
glosses: Alternative form of faqih.
Saratov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Сара́тов (Sarátov).
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Volga Region, Volga Federal District, European Russia, Russia.
glosses: An oblast of the Volga Federal District, European Russia, Russia. Seat: Saratov.
Voronezh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vəˈɹɒnɪʒ/
Etymology: From Russian Воро́неж (Vorónež).
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
examples: text: Residents of the city of Voronezh insisted today that lanky, three-eyed extraterrestrial creatures had indeed landed in a local park and gone for a stroll and that a seemingly fantastic report about the event carried Monday by the official press agency Tass was absolutely true.
ref: 1989 October 11, Esther B. Fein, “U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2012, Section A, page 6:
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
glosses: A left tributary of the Don in Tambov, Lipetsk and Voronezh Oblasts, Russia.
Ulyanovsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʊlˈjɑːnɒfsk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Улья́новск (Ulʹjánovsk), named (1924) after Vladimir Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.
Senses: glosses: An oblast of Russia.
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, on the Volga river. Birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born Ulyanov).
Synonyms: english: original name, 1648-1924
translation: original name, 1648-1924
word: Simbirsk
Related terms: alt: Vladimir Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin
word: Ulyanov
battlezone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battlezones
Etymology: From battle + zone.
Senses: glosses: The area in which a battle takes place.
Related terms: battleground
cavortings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavorting
demonstratorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonstratorships
Etymology: From demonstrator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: A position as a demonstrator (at a university etc.).
dummkopf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummkopfs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dummkopf.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person; a dolt, dimwit, or blockhead.
giftwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftware
giftware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftwares
Etymology: From gift + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: The sole witness was the president of the petitioner corporation, an "Importer and manufacturer of lamps, giftwares, and artwares."
ref: 1954, United States Customs Court Reports: Cases Adjudged in the United States Customs Court, volume 32, page 510:
text: We owned a company called Black Is More Than Beautiful, a giftware company. We produced calendars and gift cards and things like that.
ref: 1989 April 15, Chris Bull, Phill Wilson, “Having A Say In My Life”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: Items designed to be bought as gifts
hellhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellhouses
Etymology: From hell + house.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hell house.
inflatables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inflatable
net pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: What remains from gross pay after taxes and other deductions have been taken away
reimaginings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reimagining
soundtracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soundtrack
pop-up menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop-up menus
form: popup menu
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A context menu.
suffrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sufferance.
soundtracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soundtrack
popup menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popup menus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pop-up menu.
dummkopfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dummkopf
demonstratorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstratorship
meridiungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meridiungulates
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the South American mammals of the extinct clade †Meridiungulata.
multitubercolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multitubercolates
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of extinct mammals of the order Multituberculata
cogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogen
cogenerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogenerators
Etymology: From co- + generator.
Senses: examples: text: Its cogenerator at One Bryant Park, a glassy 54-story skyscraper rising at the corner of 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is scheduled to come online this summer.
ref: 2009 February 25, Alec Appelbaum, “Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat for Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: A combined heating plant and power generator.
Related terms: cogeneration
cogenerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogenerator
tokays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tokay
tokajis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tokaji
orcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”).
Senses: glosses: Use of an oath to enhance the believability of a statement.
polyglotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyglotisms
form: polyglottism
Etymology: From polyglot + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use, notably in speech, of several languages.
glosses: The ability to communicate in several languages.
furmint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furmints
Etymology: From Hungarian furmint, from Middle French fromenté (“a type of grape”). Doublet of frumenty.
Senses: examples: text: […] the furmint (muscatel) of Somlo, full of fire and of the noble aroma drawn from the volcanic earth in which the grapes are grown, […]
ref: 1958, Thomas Schreiber with Lynton Hudson, Hungary, page 40:
text: […] from the wine regions of the Tokaj mountains (where the "froment" grape, the ancestor of the furmint, was introduced by Walloon settlers) […]
ref: 1975, Zoltán Halász, A Short History of Hungary, page 39:
text: Varietals commonly affected by botrytis include chenin blanc, furmint, muscadelle, muscat, riesling, sauvignon blanc, and semillon.
ref: 2005, Mary Cech with Jennie Schacht and Tim Patterson, The Wine Lover's Dessert Cookbook, page 20:
text: It was made from the furmint grape, which is better known in Hungary’s lusciously sweet tokays, but this was delicate, floral and just right with a tart chicken curry dish.
ref: 2009 February 25, Eric Asimov, “Asian Fusion, via the Wine List”, in The New York Times:
text: I’m not sure if it qualifies as a trend just yet, but you may have noticed more of the central and eastern European grape variety furmint cropping up in your wine shop in the past couple of years.
ref: 2016 August 14, David Williams, “The rise of furmint”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A type of grape grown in Hungary, commonly used in tokays.
glosses: A white wine made from this grape.
press office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press offices
Senses: glosses: A department within a company or organization with responsibility for dealing with the press.
Related terms: press officer
pantodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantodonts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of many extinct mammals of the suborder Pantodonta
pantolest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantolests
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several extinct mammals of the suborder †Pantolesta
hazle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hazles
Senses: examples: text: Kate like the hazle twig / Is ſtraight, and ſlender, and as browne in hue / As hazle nuts, and ſweeter then the kernels: […]
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 216, column 2:
glosses: Archaic form of hazel.
hazle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hazle
form: most hazle
Senses: examples: text: She must be very lively, and have hazle eyes. I care for nothing else.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: Archaic form of hazel.
microturbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microturbines
Etymology: From micro- + turbine.
Senses: examples: text: Related also installed cogens with microturbines, smaller versions of the conventional engine, at Tribeca Green, an apartment complex in Lower Manhattan.
ref: 2009 February 25, Alec Appelbaum, “Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat for Power”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small turbine, usually a gas turbine.
microturbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microturbine
pantiliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantiliners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantyliner.
phone-in show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone-in shows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of call-in show.
synonyms: word: call-in show
mahaila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahailas
Etymology: From Turkish.
Senses: glosses: A large riverboat, formerly used as a naval vessel in Arabian countries.
mahailas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahaila
mahaleb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mahleb.
mahlab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mahlab is a delicious but somewhat obscure spice that comes from the seed of a cherry tree. A member of the peach and almond family, mahlab or St. Lucie cherries are harvested for their pits, which are cracked open to reveal small light-brown kernels.
ref: 2015, Lindsay Herman, Herb & Spice Companion: The Complete Guide to Over 100 Herbs & Spices:
glosses: Alternative form of mahleb.
mahant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahants
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi महान्त (mahānt), from Sanskrit महान् (mahān, “great”).
Senses: glosses: A head or chief of a monastery.
mahants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahant
woollybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woollyback
mahewu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zulu.
Senses: examples: text: “Do you know,” Tracey says to the Bachmanns as the guests are […] offered sweet fizzy drinks, rich tii hobvu, a gourd of mahewu, or a glass of chilled sparkling wine.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 351:
glosses: A sour beverage from Africa, made from cornmeal.
black mamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black mambas
Etymology: Predominantly the Zulu language iMamba
Senses: glosses: A large venomous snake found in Africa, taxonomic name Dendroaspis polylepis. Despite the name, this species of snake is not black; its colour ranges widely from olive-brown, khaki or grey, sometimes to darker hues, especially when old. The inside of the mouth is black, but in spite of a recent urban legend there is no indication that that has anything to do with the name "black mamba", which is a much older usage than any such suggestion.
black mambas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black mamba
Æsop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The conjuror reminds us — of course in vain — that the quickness of the hand deceives the eye; proverbs remind us that all that glitters is not gold; and Æsop’s story of the greedy dog reminds us that the reflections of bones can be mistaken for bones until it comes to eating them.
ref: 1954, Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, pages 93–94 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
text: It was his fault. It was all his fault. From liar to murderer, like in the Æsop fable.
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, chapter eleven, § I, page 316 (1992 paperback ed., Mandarin Paperbacks
glosses: Obsolete form of Aesop.
king cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king cobras
Senses: glosses: A large venomous snake found in East Asia (Ophiophagus hannah), the longest venomous snake in the world.
donorcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donorcycle
briar-patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briar-patches
Senses: examples: text: Hobbes: I'm sick of going over and through every obstacle on the hill.
Calvin: Every obstacle?!? We missed the briar patch, didn't we?!
Hobbes: By going down the gully and into the stream, yes.
ref: 1989 January 3, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: A dense thicket of thorny plants; ground made impassable by the impenetrable overgrowth of prickly vegetation.
examples: text: I do not want to spend long in examining the arguments for this general deprecation of sense-perception or the intellectual motives for denying all credentials to sense-perception in order to enhance those of calculation, demonstration or religious faith. I want to get quickly to the much thornier briar-patch, the place, namely, where scientific accounts of perception seem to issue in the consequential doctrine that observers, including the physiologists and psychologists themselves, never perceive what they naïvely suppose themselves to perceive.
ref: 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 94 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
glosses: An intellectual or philosophical issue abounding with seemingly unresolvable problems; a theoretical quandary or impasse.
incognizant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incognizant
form: most incognizant
Etymology: From in- + cognizant.
Senses: glosses: Lacking knowledge; unaware (of)
mahlstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahlsticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maulstick.
mahlsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahlstick
mahmudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahmudis
Senses: examples: text: Even when the latter rose to 14 mahmudis in 1692 and 1693, they were still sent profitably to India.
ref: 2013, Rudi Matthee, The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars, page 73:
glosses: A gold coin formerly used in India.
mahmudis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahmudi
mahoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahoes
Etymology: Taíno mahou
Senses: glosses: Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.
Talipariti elatum (syn. Hibiscus elatus, blue mahoe)
glosses: Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.
Talipariti tiliaceum (syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus, seaside mahoe)
glosses: Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.
Thespesia populnea (seaside mahoe)
mahoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahoes
Etymology: From Maori.
Senses: glosses: Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics.
Alectryon macrococcus, a tree in the soapberry family, endemic to Hawaii.
glosses: Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics.
Any tree of genus Melicytus, in the violet family, known from southeastern Australia and New Zealand, especially Melicytus ramiflorus.
footgear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foot + gear.
Senses: examples: text: It was rumored to be the haunt of grubby drunks, rubby-dubs we called them; they were said to drink rubbing alcohol and sleep in telephone booths and vomit on your shoes in the streetcar. But now it’s art galleries and bookshops, boutiques filled with black clothing and weird footgear, the saw-toothed edge of trend.
ref: 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
glosses: Sturdy footwear.
mahoganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mahoganizes
form: mahoganizing
form: mahoganized
form: mahoganized
Etymology: From mahogany + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To paint or treat (wood) to give it the appearance of mahogany.
mahoganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mahoganize
mahoganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mahoganize
mahoganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mahoganize
mahorka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of makhorka.
red knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red knots
Senses: glosses: Calidris canutus, a species of wading bird.
gotten it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get it
penalty goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penalty goal
Dinka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dinkas
form: Dinka
Etymology: From Dinka Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (“people”).
Senses: synonyms: Janghey
glosses: A member of a tribe of South Sudan.
Dinka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dinka Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (“people”).
Senses: glosses: The Nilo-Saharan language spoken by these people.
hot potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot potato
hot-potato routing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routing.
Senses: qualifier: networks
glosses: A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.
Synonyms: deflection routing
chain-smokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chain-smoke
graphics engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphics engines
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software engine in an application responsible for all functions pertaining to the graphics.
chain-smoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chain-smoke
graphics engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphics engine
Crake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of crake.
red ring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: red rings
form: red ringing
form: red ringed
form: red ringed
Etymology: From red ring of death.
Senses: examples: text: My 360 red ringed and I had to ship it to Texas to get it fixed.
topics: video-games
glosses: Of an Xbox 360 video game console, to experience a general hardware fault, the red ring of death.
red rings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of red ring
red ringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of red ring
red ringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: My 360 red ringed and I had to ship it to Texas to get fixed.
glosses: simple past and past participle of red ring
fuschias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fuchsias.
astrochimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrochimps
Etymology: 1960, from astro- + chimp, following astronaut. Referring to initial space flight tests involving animals.
Senses: examples: text: Ham the astrochimp is the first earthly creature to do intelligent tasks in space. He and the other astrochimps prepared for this accomplishment at machines like the one at right where they learned to push levers correctly in response to flashing lights.
ref: 1961 February 10, “Great Triple Play”, in Life, volume 50, number 6, page 22:
text: The real hero of the early American space programme was Ham the "astrochimp", who went up before any of the first American Mercury astronauts (India plans £1.7bn manned space mission by 2015, 24 February; Letters, passim).
ref: 2009 February 25, “Letters: Ham the 'astrochimp', the real hero of the space race”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A chimpanzee used in a spaceflight program.
Synonyms: chimponaut
astrochimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrochimp
overlegislate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlegislates
form: overlegislating
form: overlegislated
form: overlegislated
Etymology: From over- + legislate.
Senses: glosses: To create more rules than is necessary or sensible.
overlegislating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlegislate
overlegislated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlegislate
overlegislates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlegislate
döner kebap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: döner kebaps
Senses: examples: text: The Zeybek Mangal Restaurant […] specialises in döner kebaps and has pleasant streetside tables. A portion of döner or one of their many other kebaps, with a salad and something to drink, costs about US$5.
ref: 1993 November, Tom Brosnahan, Turkey: A Travel Survival Kit, 4th edition, Hawthorn, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 316, column 1:
text: Each year it becomes increasingly difficult to find traditional foods in Venice. There’s no market for them. All that tourists seem to want to eat is mass market gelato and döner kebaps, and the native Venetians are dying out.
ref: 2011, Michael Krondl, “Sugar and Spice: Italy”, in Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 119:
text: “Sounds like a gyro or a shawarma,” you say. We said the same, except that there are some crucial differences. First of all, döner kebaps taste better.
ref: 2012 January 20, Mick Vann, “Verts Berlin-Inspired Kebap”, in Louis Black, editor, The Austin Chronicle, volume 31, number 21, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, page 34, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of doner kebab.
snarkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snark + -less.
Senses: glosses: without mechanical snags
glosses: normally polite; not snarky
raw_tags: of a person
showground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showgrounds
Etymology: From show + ground.
Senses: glosses: An outdoor arena or area where entertainment events and shows are held.
showgrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showground.
methylamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylamphetamines
Etymology: From methyl + amphetamine.
Senses: examples: text: Catherine was arrested by Sydney police last July and has been charged with 14 offences, including supplying the drugs methylamphetamine, ketamine and GHB.
ref: 2009 February 24, “Sophie sister drug charges”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: methamphetamine
roma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romas
Senses: examples: text: Swap the vegetables for roma tomatoes (seeded), steamed new potatoes, carrots, and chickpeas (rinsed and drained); add a pinch of curry to the vinaigrette.
ref: 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Roma (“a variety of tomato”).
romas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roma
Barnaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia.
web sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web site
cruise ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruise ship
Gorno-Altaysk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorno-Altaisk
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Altai Republic, Russia.
culture shocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture shock
flea markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea market
loan translations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loan translation
loses face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lose face
lost face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose face
crimes of passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crime of passion
old guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old guard
marriages of convenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriage of convenience
platybasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more platybasic
form: most platybasic
Etymology: From platybasia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to platybasia
platybasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A developmental condition characterized by an upward bulge in the base of the posterior cranial fossa.
Derived terms: platybasic
pleurodire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleurodires
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of side-necked turtles of the suborder Pleurodira
podocnemidid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podocnemidids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of side-necked turtles of the family Podocnemididae
Related terms: podocnemid
poikilothermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of having a body temperature that varies or fluctuates, depending on the temperature of the environment; cold-bloodedness.
Synonyms: cold-bloodedness
poikilothermism
Hypernyms: bloodedness
Coordinate terms: homeothermy
homoiothermy
warm-bloodedness
Related terms: word: ectotherm
word: ectothermic
word: ectothermy
word: endotherm
word: endothermic
word: endothermy
word: heterotherm
word: heterothermia
word: heterothermic
word: heterothermy
word: homeotherm
word: homoiotherm
word: homoiothermous
word: homotherm
word: poikilotherm
word: poikilothermal
word: poikilothermic
word: poikilothermous
word: thermal homeostasis
word: thermoconformer
word: thermoregulation
word: bradymetabolism
word: daily torpor
english: also Siberian hamster, Russian winter white dwarf hamster
translation: also Siberian hamster, Russian winter white dwarf hamster
word: Djungarian hamster
word: Phodopus sungorus
word: metabolism
english: also sand puppy or desert mole rat
translation: also sand puppy or desert mole rat
word: naked mole rat
word: Heterocephalus glaber
word: tachymetabolism
word: warm-blooded
pleurodires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleurodire
polaronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polaron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polarons.
beer gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer garden
poloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poloids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A closed loop that has been twisted in a third dimension.
Derived terms: poloidal
poloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poloidal
form: most poloidal
Etymology: From poloid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Two different pathways, called poloids, are obtained depending on whether A is considered as the fixed frame, or whether B is considered as the fixed frame. The two poloidal curves roll on each other, […]
ref: 2013, Gary T. Yamaguchi, Dynamic Modeling of Musculoskeletal Motion, page 150:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a poloid.
examples: text: A poloidal magnetic field has closed field lines that begin and end on fictitious “poles," as in the case of a bar magnet or William Gilbert's lodestone.
ref: 2023, William Lowrie, The Earth's Magnetic Field, page 47:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Between the poles of a magnet.
examples: text: The magnetic field can be written as the sum of a poloidal field and a toroidal field, and many of the concepts of dynamo theory revolve around the question of how to generate a toroidal field from a poloidal field and, conversely, how to generate a poloidal field from a toroidal field.
ref: 1999, Michael W. McElhinny, Phillip L. McFadden, Paleomagnetism: Continents and Oceans, page 11:
text: While the slope of the toroidal velocity distribution at the outer surface is generally in good agreement with the observed surface value, poloidal velocity consistently shows reduced energy at low harmonics .
ref: 2012, Ren Wang, Keiiti Aki, Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics Part I, page 497:
glosses: Having a direction on a torus perpendicular to a line that traces around the outside of a torus, or on a sphere perpendicular to the equator, going through both poles.
Derived terms: poloidally
terminal control area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminal control areas
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a volume of controlled airspace set up at the confluence of airways in the vicinity of one or more major airports to protect traffic climbing out from and descending into the airports
Related terms: control area
ABCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABCPs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of asset-backed commercial paper.
bonelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bonelessly
form: most bonelessly
Etymology: From boneless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a boneless manner.
bonusless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bonus-less.
bonus-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bonus + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a bonus.
dodgily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dodgily
form: most dodgily
Etymology: From dodgy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dodgy manner
interdealer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-dealer
Etymology: From inter- + dealer.
Senses: glosses: Between dealers.
interdealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdealers
form: inter-dealer
Etymology: From inter- + dealer.
Senses: glosses: A broker who buys or sells on behalf of another trader, so as to maintain anonymity in the transaction.
printworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printworks
form: print works
form: print-works
Etymology: From print + works.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial publisher or a building where printing takes place.
synonyms: word: printing house
extra: an institutional or commercial publisher or a building where printing takes place
glosses: Synonym of printing press, the machinery involved in printing.
synonyms: word: printing press
extra: the machinery involved in printing
pulsatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pulsatingly
form: most pulsatingly
Etymology: From pulsating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pulsating manner
undammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undam
undammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dammed.
Senses: examples: text: When you fly over an undammed river like the Fraser I grew up with, the plume of silt spewed into the ocean is astonishing, a good three kilometres of brown refusing to mix with the green of the ocean.
ref: 2008, Brian Harvey, The End of the River:
glosses: Not having been dammed.
undam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undams
form: undamming
form: undammed
form: undammed
Etymology: From un- + dam.
Senses: glosses: To remove a dam from (a river).
glosses: To free from a physical or figurative obstruction.
unflustered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflustered
form: most unflustered
Etymology: From un- + flustered.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the cars he deflates are parked on the gravelled drives of expensive homes, where security systems trigger floodlights as soon as anyone intrudes on to the grounds.Will is unflustered, and continues as if he were still in the dark.
ref: 2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Not flustered; calm.
polycistronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycistronic
form: most polycistronic
Etymology: From poly- + cistronic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Encoding multiple different polypeptides.
raw_tags: of mRNA
Derived terms: polycistronically
polydactylies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydactyly
polydnavirions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydnavirion
polydnavirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒlɪdnəˈvɪɹiɒn/
Forms: form: polydnavirions
Etymology: From polydna(virus) + virion.
Senses: glosses: The virion of a polydnavirus
polyethyleneimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyethyleneimines
form: PEI
Etymology: From poly- + ethyleneimine.
Senses: glosses: A polymer of ethyleneimine, often mixed with acrylamides
ethyleneimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethyleneimines
Etymology: From ethylene + imine.
Senses: examples: text: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
ref: 2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: aziridine
Derived terms: polyethyleneimine
polyphenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphenylalanines
form: poly-phenylalanine
Etymology: From poly- + phenylalanine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide (or fragment) containing only phenylalanine
polyphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphosphonates
Etymology: From poly- + phosphonate.
Senses: glosses: Any polymer of one or more phosphonates
found objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of found object
U-boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of U-boat
polyploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyploidizations
Etymology: From polyploid + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: hybridization that leads to polyploidy
Derived terms: autopolyploidization
depolyploidization
endopolyploidization
eupolyploidization
hyperpolyploidization
palaeopolyploidization
overmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overman
polyprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyproteins
Etymology: From poly- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein (especially ones produced by viruses) that cleave to produce a number of polypeptides, some of which act as hormones
overmans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overman
overmanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overman
overmanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overman
overmanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more overmanned
form: most overmanned
Senses: glosses: Excessively manned; overstaffed
coate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of coat.
polytomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytomies
Etymology: From poly- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: polychotomy
glosses: A section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships cannot be fully resolved to dichotomies.
Related terms: polytomic
polyubiquitylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + ubiquitylated.
Senses: glosses: polyubiquitinated
Related terms: polyubiquitylation
polyubiquitylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyubiquitylations
Etymology: From poly- + ubiquitylation.
Senses: glosses: polyubiquitination
podding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pod
storm-trooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm-troopers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stormtrooper.
storm-troopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm-trooper
thought experiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thought experiment
ponceau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒn.səʊ/
/pɒnˈsəʊ/
Forms: form: ponceaus
form: ponceaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French ponceau.
Senses: examples: text: It should be mentioned that considerable divergence exists in the fastness of the various ponceaus, a circumstance still insufficiently known and appreciated in practice.
ref: 2013, Georg Von Georgievics, The Chemical Technology of Textile Fibres:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of red pigments, some of which are used as indicators.
pondermotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pondermotive
form: most pondermotive
Senses: examples: text: One such effect is the pondermotive energy which is a key to the understanding of intense field effects.
ref: 2001, S. C. Abbi, Nonlinear Optics and Laser Spectroscopy, page 146:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the ability of light to cause motion, due to the momentum of its photons
Related terms: ponderomotive
porewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porewater
porewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porewaters
form: pore water
form: pore-water
Etymology: From pore + water.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The water that fills the pores between the grains of sediment etc.
Related terms: pore water pressure
mass spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass spectra
Senses: glosses: The output of a mass spectrometer.
portabellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portabello
massacrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massacrer
portabello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portabellos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of portobello.
synapsid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnapsɪd/
Etymology: From translingual Synapsida, from syn- + Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch”).
Senses: examples: text: We are synapsid tetrapods, a group of reptiles that almost went extinct 200 million years ago in competition with the better-designed dinosaurs.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 26:
glosses: Pertaining to the class Synapsida, of animals which have an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each.
synapsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnapsɪd/
Forms: form: synapsids
Etymology: From translingual Synapsida, from syn- + Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch”).
Senses: glosses: Any animal (all mammals) of the class Synapsida.
Synonyms: word: mammal-like reptile
word: stem mammal
sirenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪˈɹiːniən/
/sʌɪˈɹiːnɪən/
Forms: form: sirenians
Etymology: From the scientific name, translingual Sirenia.
Senses: examples: text: The cetaceans (whales and dolphins) together with the sirenians (sea cows and manatees) are the sea mammals best-adapted to the seas of today, but it is the cetaceans that have most engaged the attention of mankind as both prey and fellow sentient being.
ref: 2011 September 22, Richard Shelton, “Sheep, pig, whale”, in Times Literary Supplement:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of aquatic, herbivorous mammals of the order Sirenia, a manatee or a dugong.
Synonyms: sea cow
edgebanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edgebandings
form: edge banding
form: edge-banding
Etymology: From edge + banding.
Senses: examples: text: Pressure-sensitive edgebanding tape is the simplest and fastest to apply.
ref: 1996, Jack Gavin, “Edgebanding Tools and materials for hiding a panel's edges”, in Veneering, Marquetry and Inlay, page 46:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: Veneer or laminate of the same type of material as used for the surface of furniture and with width matching standard thicknesses of such material, used to conceal the exposed edges.
Related terms: edgebander
edging
MDF
particleboard
plywood
ovipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin, neuter plural of oviparus (“oviparous”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: oviparous organisms
ovipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oviparae
Etymology: From New Latin, feminine of oviparus (“oviparous”).
Senses: examples: text: Since even in one sample of erigeronensis (e.g., Brickellia sp., Rincon Springs, San Diego County, California, leg. R. van den Bosch, no. 61-2-14c), an ovipara has siphunculi of 1.00 mm, but an aptera vivipara of the same size, 0.79 mm, such a discriminant based on length of siphunculi is not very helpful, and thus erigeronella Soliman is considered a synonym of erigeronensis Thomas (cf. escalantii Knowlton, 1928).[…]A third form, resembling typical erigeronensis, with the hind tibiae black in oviparae, but which has a last rostral segment with a total of about 16-22 hairs, is known only as oviparae from Haplopappus acradenius (Garnet, Riverside County, California, January 16, 1964, H.R.L., no. 137).
ref: 1966 November, Hilgardia, volume 37, number 15, page 583, columns 1–2:
text: The ratios of mean eggs laid/mean oviparae produced for the two groups relate to the mean weights of oviparae in those groups (Fig. 32) and a linear relationship is assumed between the points. The number of eggs laid by each ovipara of the heavier group is approximately 80% of its egg complement, using Brown’s (1975) results from dissections of oviparae of similar weight.
ref: 1980, N. D. Barlow, Anthony Frederick George Dixon, Simulation of Lime Aphid Population Dynamics, Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Crema (1969) reported that nine short-day photoperiods were required to switch the vetch aphid from virginopara to ovipara production and that the embryos were determined as virginoparae or oviparae on about the fourteenth day of their development, at which time they had fully formed but undetermined germaria.
ref: 1980, Stanley D. Beck, Insect Photoperiodism, 2nd edition, Academic Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: An aphid in its oviparous form.
placentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a placentate embryo
glosses: Having a placenta.
walkups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkup
blue-bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-blood
blue bloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue blood