cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
infra dignitatem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infra dig.
synonyms: word: infra dig
San-min Doctrine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Three Principles of the People.
synonyms: word: Three Principles of the People
federal subject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal subjects
Etymology: Calque of Russian субъект федерации (subʺjekt federacii).
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A constituent entity of Russia, its top-level political division; it includes all federated entities: republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal importance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, all of which are, constitutionally, equal subjects of the federation.
Related terms: federal district
federal state
federal territory
federation
Russian Federation
federal subjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federal subject
Llanbadoc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, west of the River Usk (OS grid ref SO3700).
federal territory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal territories
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A region or area that is under the direct jurisdiction of a federation's national government, but is not part of any federated state.
Related terms: federal district
union territory
federal territories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federal territory
recusatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Containing a libel or a recusation.
nonpalatalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: / nɒnpælətəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: / nɒnpælətəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: nonpalatalizations
Etymology: From non- + palatalization.
Senses: examples: text: The presence or absence of the palatalization is marked by the following vowels (or by one of two special letters, ъ, the 'hard sign', denoting the nonpalatalization, and ь, the soft sign noting the palletization).
ref: 2012, Martin Neef, Anneke Neijt, Richard Sproat, The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language, page 59:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of not being palatalized, of not pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is nonpalatalized.
past active participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: past active participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: present active participle
glosses: A participle that describes an action that has been completed in the past.
present active participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: present active participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: past active participle
glosses: A participle that expresses an action that occurs at the same moment as the action of the main verb, regardless of the of tense the main verb.
past active participles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of past active participle
present active participles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of present active participle
positive airway pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positive airway pressures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mode of respiratory ventilation used in the treatment of sleep apnea.
positive airway pressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positive airway pressure
prostatic acid phosphatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostatic acid phosphatases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
oncology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An enzyme produced by the prostate, which may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases.
prostatic acid phosphatases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostatic acid phosphatase
Whitecliff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet with industrial remains in Coleford parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO5610).
wikipedia: + Ironworks
Whitecliff
rules-based order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If ever there was an example of how Mr. Trump is uninterested in maintaining the post-World War II “rules-based order” and replacing it with superpower politics, this was it.
ref: 2025 January 27, David E. Sanger, “Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: A set of global, rule-based, structured relationships based on political liberalism, economic liberalism and liberal internationalism since the late 1940s.
Related terms: Pax Americana
hydroformates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroformate
thioadenosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioadenosine
thioacylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioacylation
thioamidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioamidation
thioantimonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioantimonate
thioazafluoranthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioazafluoranthene
thiocarboxyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiocarboxyl
thiocarboxylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiocarboxylation
thioiodides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioiodide
thiolactonases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiolactonase
homewreck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homewrecks
form: homewrecking
form: homewrecked
form: homewrecked
Etymology: Back-formation from homewrecker, equivalent to home + wreck.
Senses: examples: text: you can't homewreck people who are just dating you are single till you're married
ref: 2024 July 13, @sassychopsuey, Twitter:
text: Is it aura to homewreck a relationship
ref: 2024 July 19, @haterperson6714, Twitter:
glosses: To cheat while one is already married, thus causing the dissolution of the marriage.
homewrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homewreck
homewrecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homewreck
thiopropyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiopropyl
prostatic adenocarcinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostatic adenocarcinoma
thiosulfides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiosulfide
thiopyryliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiopyrylium
third bests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third best
throstells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throstell
Thunderdomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thunderdome
thyroid hormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyroid hormone
titerplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titerplate
titrosamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titrosampler
TJLCers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TJLCer
tomorrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomorrower
Kyzylbashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kyzylbash
second years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second year
third years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third year
fourth years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth year
summary jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of summary + jurisdiction.
Senses: examples: text: […] I would (so far as regards children under fourteen years) take from magistrates their present power of summary jurisdiction, and substitute very extensive powers of a different nature ; […]
ref: 1849, John Adams, Summary Jurisdiction: A Charge to the Grand Jury of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Middlesex, page 17:
topics: law
glosses: The authority of a court of law to summarily issue a conviction, typically for a petty crime, without requiring a trial by jury.
Han dynasty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Han dynasty
Etymology: Partial calque from Chinese 漢朝／汉朝 (Hàncháo).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese dynasty that lasted from 202 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
Coordinate terms: Qin dynasty
Xin dynasty
Three Kingdoms
Jin dynasty
Derived terms: Western Han dynasty
Eastern Han dynasty
vexel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vexels
Senses: examples: text: [Discussing assets of the Russian bank of Kertch.] […] vexels remained in hand […] 2,990 vexels or bills of exchange discounted for 1,412,025 […]
ref: 1877, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Commercial Reports Received at the Foreign Office from Her Majesty's Consuls, page 846:
text: Promissory notes (or "vexels" as they are called in Russia and Ukraine) are securities which entitle the owner the right to claim certain property of the debtor (issuer). Under conditions of tight money supply and high interest rates, vexels came into vogue[…]
ref: 1999 January 1, Non-payment in the Electricity Sector in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of veksel.
vexel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vexels
Etymology: Coined in the early 1900s by a trustee of Cornell University, from Latin vexō (“shake”) and German wechseln (“change”).
Senses: examples: text: […] highly sensitized individuals of neurotic tendencies who manifest in their state of unrest a morbid desire to change everything. […] Let us [...] classify such people by combining a Latin and German root and calling the individuals "vexels" (Latin vexare, to shake : German wexeln, to change). Vexels appear in practically every large group of people who are organized for any purpose whatsoever, and they must be reckoned with as a definite psychologic factor[…]
ref: 1915, Robert T. Morris, Educational Review ..., page 460:
text: […] in which what a Trustee of Cornell once called "vexels" or mischief-makers can break the continuity of an institution and set back for years its best interests. The very fact that "vexels" know that some excellent men in responsible positions sometimes advise that at any cost[…]
ref: 1917, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, Educational Review, page 419:
glosses: A troublemaker, a person who wants to change things.
vexels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vexel
veksels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veksel
Penallt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Trellech United community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5210).
ædifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ædify
ædified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ædify
pussy-bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy-bows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pussy bow.
Kythnos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Greece, in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos
Whitebrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Trellech United community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5306).
jvara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit ज्वर (jvara).
Senses: glosses: Fever in ayurvedic medicine.
castware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cast + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Ceramic products formed by casting clay-water mix into moulds.
psychopedagogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopedagogists
Senses: glosses: An educational psychologist.
Tutshill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Tidenham parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England, across the River Wye from Chepstow in Wales (OS grid ref ST5494).
spec out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: specs out
form: spec's out
form: specing out
form: spec'ing out
form: speced out
form: speced out
form: spec'd out
form: spec'd out
form: spec'ed out
form: spec'ed out
Senses: examples: text: The engineer has been asked to spec out a new model line.
coordinate_terms: lay out
sketch out
glosses: To create (draw up) the list of specifications for (something); to specify all the attributes of (something).
glosses: Synonym of spec up (improve, optimize, or maximize the attributes of (something).
synonyms: word: spec up
extra: (improve, optimize, or maximize the attributes of (something)
spec'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spec; alternative spelling of specced.
spec'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spec; alternative spelling of speccing.
specs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spec out
speccing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spec'ing out
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spec out
spec'ing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spec out; alternative spelling of speccing out.
specced out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spec'd out
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spec out
spec'd out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spec out; alternative spelling of specced out.
push one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes one's way
form: pushing one's way
form: pushed one's way
form: pushed one's way
Senses: examples: text: As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.
ref: 1958 February 24, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 125:
glosses: to make one's way by pushing.
pushes one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push one's way
pushing one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of push one's way
pushed one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push one's way
Bun-ayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Kankanaey Bun-ayan. See that for more details.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Labbay, Legleg, Lower Bun-ayan, Upper Bun-ayan — sitios of Bun-ayan
glosses: A barangay of Sabangan, Mountain Province, Philippines.
afterafterparty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterafterparties
Etymology: From after- + afterparty.
Senses: glosses: An afterparty after the afterparty.
afterafterparties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterafterparty
ergological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ergology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ergology.
arteriological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arteriology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to arteriology.
tombo ahi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese トンボ (tonbo, “dragonfly”, a nickname for the albacore tuna; its long pectoral fins are likened to the wings of a dragonfly) + ahi, from Hawaiian ʻahi (“yellowfin tuna”).
Senses: synonyms: word: tombo
glosses: Albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
M/Y
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M/Ys
form: MY
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of motor yacht.
sternotracheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sterno- + tracheal.
Senses: glosses: Of a muscle, connecting the trachea to the sternum.
tight slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight slaps
Senses: glosses: A hard slap.
Damask rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damask roses
Senses: examples: text: Summer is literally breath-taking with the scent of Damask roses, but perhaps Christmas is its high time.
ref: 1955 December, Lucy M[aria] Boston, “Christmas at ‘Green Knowe’”, in Jennie D[orothea] Lindquist, editor, The Horn Book Magazine of Books and Reading for Children and Young People, volume XXXI, number 6, Boston, Mass.: The Horn Book, Incorporated, →ISSN, page 471:
text: ‘Celsiana’ is one of the Damask roses that forms a vigorous, upright bush 4 ft. or 5 ft. high, perfect for the back layer of a mixed flower border.
ref: 1992 February, Liz Druitt, G[eorge] Michael Shoup, “Old European Roses”, in Landscaping with Antique Roses (A Fine Gardening Book), Newtown, Conn.: The Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 131, column 1:
text: Stone pavilions striped in ochre, black and terracotta sheltered beneath mulberry trees, rock and leaf shadows, reflected in the uisge of tiny lochs, danced in the House of Joy that was the garden scent of Damask roses, […]
ref: 2002, Suhayl Saadi, “Paradise Gardens Carpet (for the National Museums of Scotland, 2002); Glasgow: Mantle of the Green Hollow”, in Bashabi Fraser, Alan Riach, editors, Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish & South Asian Poetry, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, published 2017, →ISBN, page 184:
text: The scent of Damask roses drifted in from his gardens on the warm air.
ref: 2008, Bertrice Small, chapter 7, in The Sorceress of Belmair (The World of Hetar; 4), Toronto, Ont.: HQN, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of damask rose.
Damask roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Damask rose
kleisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪzmə/
Forms: form: kleismas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλεισμένος (kleisménos, “closed”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A very small interval that is the difference between 6 just minor thirds and a perfect twelfth.
kleismas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kleisma
bumble puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumble-puppy
form: bumblepuppy
Etymology: Of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A game in which players attempt to project metal balls into nine holes in a flat wooden board; nineholes.
examples: text: Cecil was absent—one did not play bumble-puppy when he was there.
ref: 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 104:
glosses: Any of various childish or informal games.
examples: text: Templeton isn't the sort of chap to play bumble-puppy bridge with a girl like that unless he's getting something out of it.
ref: 1947, W. Somerset Maugham, Creatures of Circumstance:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A simplified form of whist; whist or bridge played unskilfully.
glosses: Swingball or tetherball.
Derived terms: bumblepuppist
Dingestow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Mitchel Troy community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4510).
Mitchel Troy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4910).
hedgeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgefuls
form: hedgesful
Etymology: From hedge + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: One thrush or robin may mutilate a hundred bunches of grapes in a day, with one or two pecks at a bunch, and Nature “does the rest.” Count the robins by flocks and the thrushes by hedgefuls, and what one knows all soon know, and they go to the place where food is plentiful—the result can be easily computed.
ref: 1891 September 5, Benj[amin] Buckman, “Some Hot Blasts for the Birds. Crude Sentiment vs. Common Sense.”, in The Rural New-Yorker, volume L, number 2171, New York, N.Y., page 639, column 1:
text: Hedgesful of fragrant flowers are beautiful too, but nothing can attain the supreme beauty of these great gnarled trees, their black branches heaped high with scented snow.
ref: 1917, Charles Henry Mackintosh, Gardens in Duluth: Rambles around the Summer City with Charles Erwin Roe […], Duluth, Minn.: Stewart-Mackintosh, Inc., page 15:
text: The very last thing a proper lady would ever do is allow her face to get so dangerously close to a hedgeful of bristles.
ref: 2016, Mary Hogan, “South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club”, in The Woman in the Photo, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, Gale, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: An amount held in a hedge.
hedgefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedgeful
hedgesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedgeful
shrubful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrubsful
Etymology: From shrub + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A shrubful of nannie-berries at the foot of an ancient vineyard brimmed Myra’s cup to overflowing.
ref: 1906 October, Julia A[ugusta] Schwartz, “All Kinds of Sense”, in Elinor’s College Career […], Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, Part III (The Junior Year), page 208:
text: On bright days, they [sparrows] sit, peering, as from windows on their individual branches, chattering, calling, like a noisy shrubful of watching concierges.
ref: 2013, Esther Woolfson, “Flying through the Storm”, in Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary, London: Granta Books, →ISBN, section “Midsummer”, page 269:
text: And it turns out, from a thorough reading of the research and its conclusions, that super-greedy cedar waxwings are most likely to be killed by the berries, because unlike most other birds they often clean entire shrubsful in one fell swoop, gorge on many more berries at one time, then store them in their craw until the berries ferment and poison the birds.
ref: 2017 December 22, Felder Rushing, “Nandina Bamboo shrub isn’t as bad as you think”, in Clarion Ledger, volume 178, number 297, Jackson, Miss., →ISSN, page 15A, columns 1–2:
glosses: An amount held in a shrub.
shrubsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrubful
tristyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + -styly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being tristylous
pussycat bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussycat bows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pussy bow.
synonyms: word: pussy bow
pussycat bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussycat bow
Trothy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Monmouthshire, Wales, a tributary of the River Wye.
cradle of civilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradles of civilization
Senses: examples: text: Egypt was the first cradle of agriculture; it was, therefore, the first cradle of civilization.
ref: 1859, Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society during the year 1858, page 56:
glosses: A location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations.
truckology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... for example, the electrician whose sign proclaimed him to be an "electrologist"; or another example, the moving van carrying the sign "specialist in truckology."
ref: 1947, The Business School Executive:
text: Diploma M.I.T. (Meritorious Institute of Truckology): This Certifies That Mr ______ has satisfactorily completed the prescribed Elementary Course; recognizes a Frame when he sees one and can spot a classy Chassis a mile off
ref: 1952, NADA Magazine:
text: ... In the 1978 movie, "Convoy", we witness trucking figures as Rubber Duck, the Michelangelo of Truckology, Lyle " Cottonmouth " Wallace, the sneaky snakey ole bear, Love Machine, a queenless driver, Dangerous Curves, and Widow Woman, the lady trucker enough to take on four husbands.
ref: 1991 January 1, Rothe, J. Peter (John Peter), The Trucker's World: Risk, Safety, and Mobility, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Knowledge concerning trucks.
first-name
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: first-names
form: first-naming
form: first-named
form: first-named
Etymology: Denominal verb of first name.
Senses: examples: text: Physicians are first-named only by close family, friends, and colleagues in the United States. […] First-naming has extended itself to one group who formerly were sacrosanct: teachers and professors. […] Since it is, indeed, a privileged patient who first-names his or her physician, one cannot help feeling, in many such instances, that this is a way of affirming special status.
ref: 1982, Elaine Chaika, “Style of speech”, in Language: The Social Mirror, Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, sections 18 (Summons, greetings, address) and 21 (The United States, a case in point), pages 46–48:
text: Most adults are in the habit of addressing children, menial workers and the disadvantaged by their first names. […] As onerous as this arrogation may appear, it is not nearly as malignant as the present custom of first-naming women, minorities and the elderly, particularly if they happen to be ill. […] The most useful test of whether unsought informality presents problems is this: when practitioners feel comfortable being first-named by their patients.
ref: 1983 September, Peter H[artley] Gott, “Forced Familiarity”, in Connecticut Medicine: The Journal of the Connecticut State Medical Society, volume 47, number 9, New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut State Medical Society, →ISSN, pages 578–579:
text: By last-naming those whom I am expected to last-name and by answering to my first name when those who are authorized to first-name me do so and by insisting that those unauthorized to first-name me use my last name, I submit to and enforce the distribution of status that drives naming conventions.
ref: 2016, Sarah Conrad Sours, “Mad Manners: Courtesy, Conflict, and Social Change”, in Ann W[illiams] Duncan, Jacob L[ynn] Goodson, editors, The Universe is Indifferent: Theology, Philosophy and Mad Men, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: The Lutterworth Press, published 2017, →DOI, →ISBN, Part 1 (Business Ethics), pages 55–56:
synonyms: Christian-name
coordinate_terms: last-name
glosses: To address (someone) by first name.
first-names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of first-name
first-naming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of first-name
first-named
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of first-name
last-name
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: last-names
form: last-naming
form: last-named
form: last-named
Etymology: Denominal verb of last name.
Senses: examples: text: In some schools or businesses, inferiority is underscored by last-naming alone. Superiors receive [title + last name], but inferiors are called by their last names alone. If novels and mystery stories are to be believed, in England servants were often last-named without titles, as were students. As late as the 1950s, in the staid New England high school I went to, boys were last-named alone, but girls were [Miss + last name]. In some schools or social circles today, mutual last-naming by peers is a sign of intimacy or affection.
ref: 1982, Elaine Chaika, “[Style of speech] The United States, a case in point”, in Language: The Social Mirror, Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 49:
text: The most useful test of whether unsought informality presents problems is this: when practitioners feel comfortable being first-named by their patients. If you expect to be called Doctor or Nurse so-and-so, reciprocate the respect by last-naming your patients.
ref: 1983 September, Peter H[artley] Gott, “Forced Familiarity”, in Connecticut Medicine: The Journal of the Connecticut State Medical Society, volume 47, number 9, New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut State Medical Society, →ISSN, page 579, columns 1–2:
text: By last-naming those whom I am expected to last-name and by answering to my first name when those who are authorized to first-name me do so and by insisting that those unauthorized to first-name me use my last name, I submit to and enforce the distribution of status that drives naming conventions.
ref: 2016, Sarah Conrad Sours, “Mad Manners: Courtesy, Conflict, and Social Change”, in Ann W[illiams] Duncan, Jacob L[ynn] Goodson, editors, The Universe is Indifferent: Theology, Philosophy and Mad Men, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: The Lutterworth Press, published 2017, →DOI, →ISBN, Part 1 (Business Ethics), pages 55–56:
coordinate_terms: first-name
glosses: To address by last name.
last-names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of last-name
last-naming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of last-name
bouj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bujj.
castramentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castramentations
Senses: examples: text: [The methods of] castramentation are said to have been introduced into Britain by Brutus. Caesar describes both as having attained, in his time, the highest perfection. The British castramentation was, in some important respects, superior to the[…]
ref: 1914, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, Prehistoric London: Its Mounds and Circles, page 117:
text: The duties of engineers include the services of reconnaissance, castramentation, fortification, sieges, demolitions, general construction, roads and railroads, and such other special services of an engineering nature as may arise. […] The service of castramentation has to do with the selection of ground for camps, and the laying out and preparation of camps for occupancy.
ref: 1915, Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.), Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, page 671:
text: ... castramentation includes the selection , laying out , and preparation of camps and cantonments , the reconnais- sance and the municipal and sanitary engineering incident thereto , and may include the installation , operation and[…]
ref: 1916, Minnesota Federation of Engineering Societies, Bulletin - Minnesota Federation of Engineering Societies, page 71:
text: This is true of the art of encampments, "castramentation," which has always mobilized projections and inclined planes. […
ref: 1998, Assemblage, page 66:
text: The science of encamping an army is called castramentation , derived from castra (the Latin word for camp). The armies of ancient Rome were highly regarded for the regularity of their legionary camps, which served as a model of proper Civil War castramentation. A castramentation officer was usually appointed […]
ref: 2004, Joyce E. Salisbury, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: 19th century, Greenwood:
glosses: Alternative form of castrametation
castramentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castramentation
baby kissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A practice in which politicians kiss babies in order to garner public support.
wreath'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wreath
potty breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potty break
bibulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bibulate
bibulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bibulate
bibulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bibulate
Valoises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Valois
like smack
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: He ran down like smack.
glosses: very quickly
motor plow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor plows
Senses: glosses: A farm tool that loosens or turns soil before the planting or sowing of seeds.
motor plows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor plow
Llandenny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Raglan community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4103).
language-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a software development technique that involves creating a new programming language to solve problems, in which the programmer treats a language as a software building block.
production hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of development hell.
synonyms: word: development hell
data-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a software engineering approach that focuses on data as the central point of an application.
component-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: Of or pertaining to a software development approach that focuses on building components that are loosely-coupled and reusable.
attribute-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: Of or pertaining to a technique that adds metadata, or attributes, to program code, which affect the system's semantics.
agent-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm where the construction of the software is centered on the concept of externally specified software agents.
wreatheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wreathe
process-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm that separates the concerns of data structures and the concurrent processes that act upon them.
glosses: Focusing on the methods, procedures and steps involved in completing a task or achieving a goal, rather than the final outcome.
project-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
management
glosses: Focusing on delivering a product within a set time frame, budget, and scope.
prototype-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: Of or pertaining to a style of object-oriented programming that uses existing objects as prototypes to reuse behavior.
role-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
glosses: Of or pertaining to a form of computer programming which aims at expressing objects in terms that are analogous to a human conceptual understanding of the world.
Glascoed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A place in Wales:
A hamlet in Cefnmeiriadog community and Bodelwyddan community, Denbighshire (OS grid ref SH9973).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A village in Llanbadoc community, Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3301).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A hamlet in Kerry community, Powys (OS grid ref SO0888).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A hamlet in Brymbo community, Wrexham borough county borough (OS grid ref SJ2754).
oriented graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriented graphs
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A directed graph having no opposite pairs of directed edges.
oriented graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oriented graph
stares someone in the face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stare someone in the face
staring someone in the face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stare someone in the face
stared someone in the face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stare someone in the face
keeps quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep quiet
keeping quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep quiet
kept quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep quiet
forcible entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcible entries
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
synonyms: forced entry
glosses: The unlawful seizure of the possession of real property by force or threats of force or an unlawful entry into or onto another's property, especially when accompanied by force.
forced entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced entries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forcible entry.
synonyms: word: forcible entry
forced entries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced entry
forcible entries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcible entry
forced sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced sales
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: An involuntary transaction in which the sale is based upon legal and not economic factors, such as a decree or execution, other than the mere inability to maintain the property.
forced sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced sale
trading in influence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of influence peddling.
synonyms: word: influence peddling
thiomidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiomidate
thiomidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiomidates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of thioimidate.
wreathedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of wreathe
whitetopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍaɪ-/
ipa: /waɪˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍaɪ-/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: whitetopias
form: whitopia
form: Whitetopia
Etymology: Blend of white + utopia. First use appears c. 1964. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: perhaps the name of their towns should be Whytopia (more of an elegant suburban ring to it than Whitetopia) and Blaquetopia.
ref: 1964, Saturday Review Associates, Saturday Review - Volume 47, Part 2, page 71:
text: Like contemporary Whitetopias, Black philosophers are marked as unwanted and assigned to the back of the proverbial philosophical bus.
ref: 2017, Carl Mika, Michael A. Peters (editors), The Dilemma of Western Philosophy:
text: A whitetopia is whiter than the nation, its respective region, and its state.
ref: 2019, Laurie Essig, Love, Inc. - Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, page 166:
text: I'll bet this faggot lives in Whitetopia. He doesn't have to live around DIEversity, though he should be required to.
ref: 2020 January 18, GLOBUS, “Majority of Blacks Believe Fat Tubby Is Racist and Other Wonderful Poll Numbers”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: Their flight had ended 60 miles east in a place realtors had promised them would be a tree-lined Whitetopia. And for thirty years it was.
ref: 2021, Charles Haddad, Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe, page 20:
coordinate_terms: blacktopia
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: A white or white-majority suburb or community.
whitetopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitetopia
Cefnmeiriadog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cefn Meiriadog
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Denbighshire, Wales.
Bodelwyddan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SH9975 / SJ0075).
momtini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑmˈtini/
ipa: /mɒmˈtiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: momtinis
Etymology: Blend of mom + martini
Senses: examples: text: SIP: The guest of honor enjoys a momtini (seltzer cut with red currant syrup or similar in a martini glass), while everybody else sips a Gin Martini with Pickled Ramps (see page 203).
ref: 2011 March 29, Jessie Knadler, Kelly Geary, “Can Jam Can Drink and Be Merry”, in Tart and Sweet: 101 Canning and Pickling Recipes for the Modern Kitchen: A Cookbook, Harmony/Rodale, →ISBN, page 195:
text: It also explores the latest drinking trends among girls and women of all ages—from those who binge drink in order to get the quickest high and momtini mothers, whose boozy children's birthday parties and playdates help them cope with the monotony of motherhood, to closet drinkers who sip their white wine (or harder stuff) in the privacy of their own pantries.
ref: 2012 May 7, Kitty Harris, edited by Jodie E. Gould, Women and Recovery: Finding Hope, Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: Do you relax with a cocktail after the kids are safely tucked away in bed, or are you a fan of momtini play dates, where alcoholic beverages are as ubiquitous as juice boxes?
ref: 2015 April 28, Jodie Gould, High: 6 Principles for Guilt-Free Pleasure and Escape, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: […] Greg Siefert, or Bobby, or Ryan, who'd since been charged with making something called a momtini, carrying a tray for all the ladies.
ref: 2016 July 26, Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
text: What if I tell Carissa, and she gets upset with me and kicks me out of Moms' Night? No more bonding? No more dirty momtinis? No more insulting Nancy Smith's bushes? Her bushes are so disorganized!
ref: 2022 February 27, Kashana Cauley, “Beef Mommas House Adventure” (12:21 from the start), in The Great North, season 2, episode 12, spoken by Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman):
glosses: A cocktail consumed by a mother.
momtinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momtini
has someone by the short and curlies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have someone by the short and curlies
having someone by the short and curlies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have someone by the short and curlies
had someone by the short and curlies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have someone by the short and curlies
model collapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model collapses
Senses: synonyms: AI inbreeding
AI cannibalism
AI autophagy
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Degradation of output quality caused by training on synthetic data.
plop downs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plop down
plop downing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plop down
plop downed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plop down
joyflight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪˌflaɪt/
Forms: form: joyflights
Etymology: From joy + flight.
Senses: examples: text: But choppers are noisy, and these locals who happen to live near a joyflight circuit have had enough.
ref: 2019, “Chopper chaos”, in A Current Affair:
glosses: A flight in an aerial vehicle taken for enjoyment.
joyflights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joyflight
larkishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more larkishly
form: most larkishly
Etymology: From larkish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a larkish manner.
pop down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops down
form: popping down
form: popped down
form: popped down
Senses: glosses: To place on a surface.
glosses: To pay a quick visit.
plops down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plop down
plopping down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plop down
plopped down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plop down
pops down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop down
popping down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pop down
popped down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop down
party membership card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party membership cards
form: party-membership card
Senses: examples: text: The Speaker of the Saskatchewan legislature has cut up his party membership card and accused some members in Premier Scott Moe's caucus of intimidating him to the point that he fears the government House leader is packing a handgun.
ref: 2024, Jeremy Simes, “'Enough is enough': Saskatchewan Speaker says he was repeatedly harassed, threatened”, in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:
text: Voters turned their back on traditional parties and on politics in general—consequently, party membership has been declining rapidly. The proportion of the electorate who carries a party membership card has fallen from 9 percent in 1963 to 2.5 percent in 2002, narrowing the recruitment base substantially.
ref: 2003, Monique Leijenaar, Kees Niemöller, “Netherlands: Political Careers between Central Party Dominance and New Pressures” (chapter 14), in The Political Class in Advanced Democracies: A Comparative Handbook, pages 259–277:
synonyms: party card
glosses: A membership card of a political party.
sees the world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see the world
seeing the world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see the world
saw the world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see the world
seen the world
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see the world
Callowhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname
glosses: A neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.