cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Amerindianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Amerindian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Amerindian.
contragravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contra- + gravity.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Antigravity.
Derived terms: contragravitic
dilute Russell's viper venom time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilute Russell's viper venom times
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: dRVVT
Russell's viper venom clotting time
Russell's viper venom time
Stypven time
glosses: The time measurement resulting from an in vitro diagnostic test based on the ability of the venom of the Russell's viper to induce thrombosis.
frost line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frost lines
form: frostline
Senses: examples: text: The uninsulated water pipes must be installed below the frost line to prevent them from freezing.
synonyms: frost depth
freezing depth
glosses: The depth to which the water present in the soil is expected to freeze in winter.
examples: text: Due to the thin layer of snow on the ground the frost line has penetrated unusually deep this year.
synonyms: frost front
glosses: The depth to which the water present in the soil is actually frozen in a given place at a given point in time.
examples: text: In our Solar System the frost line lies between Mars and Jupiter at about five astronomical units from the Sun.
topics: astrophysics
synonyms: snow line
ice line
glosses: In a solar system, the distance from the protosun beyond which hydrogen-containing gas compounds freeze.
dextrinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dextrinizes
form: dextrinizing
form: dextrinized
form: dextrinized
Etymology: From dextrin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert (starch molecules) to dextrin.
Related terms: dextrinization
dextrinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dextrinize
dextrinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dextrinize
Derived terms: dextrinizing time
dextrinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dextrinize
dextrinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dextrinizations
Etymology: From dextrin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of dextrinizing.
Derived terms: dextrinization time
dextrinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrinization
pyroconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + conversion.
Senses: glosses: A dry heat treatment of starch, causing dextrinization.
Russell's viper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russell's vipers
Etymology: Named in honour of Patrick Russell (1726–1805), Scottish herpetologist who first described many of India's snakes.
Senses: examples: text: Some weeks before, one of the masters at the College, an unpopular Parsee, had found a Russell's viper nosing round his classroom.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 164:
synonyms: chain viper
polonga
glosses: The venomous viper Daboia russelii.
Derived terms: dilute Russell's viper venom time
herpetologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From herpetological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of herpetology.
unpatentability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + patent + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unpatentable.
Zariski-Riemann space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zariski-Riemann spaces
Etymology: Named by Nagata (1962) after Oscar Zariski and Bernhard Riemann.
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A locally ringed space of a subring k of a field K, whose points are valuation rings containing k and contained in K. They generalize the Riemann surface of a complex curve.
wikipedia: Bernhard Riemann
Oscar Zariski
Synonyms: Zariski space
Zariski space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zariski spaces
Senses: glosses: Zariski-Riemann space
muhly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: myo͞o′-lē
ipa: /ˈmjuː.li/
ipa: /ˈmju.li/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: muhlies
Etymology: Shortening of translingual Muhlenbergia + -y.
Senses: glosses: Any of the many species of grasses of genus Muhlenbergia.
Derived terms: bush muhly
collaborationisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collaborationism
squanderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From squander + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being squandered.
Kostyantynivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kostiantynivka.
it's not funny
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's not even funny.
it isn't even funny
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's not even funny.
it isn't funny
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's not even funny.
it is not even funny
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's not even funny.
it is not funny
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of it's not even funny.
burnt the midnight oil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn the midnight oil
keeps the peace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep the peace
keeping the peace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep the peace
kept the peace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep the peace
benign neglect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reportedly coined in 1969 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, adviser to US President Richard Nixon, who recommended this policy with respect to the issue of US racial strife.
Senses: examples: text: So tranquil, so quiescent seems Black America in the Nixon Era that a presidential partisan could well argue that "benign neglect" has worked.
ref: 1971 February 22, Karsten Prager, “The Cooling Of America: Right On Toward a New Black Pluralism”, in Time, retrieved 16 Jul 2014:
text: [T]he Japanese have been intervening to hold down the value of the yen, while Washington has been adopting a policy of benign neglect towards the dollar.
ref: 2003 May 28, Larry Elliott, Charlotte Denny, “Strong euro causes weak smiles among Europe's policy gurus”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Jul 2014:
text: I deliberately choose houseplants that thrive on benign neglect.
ref: 2008 August 6, Ann Lovejoy, “Gardening: Camp can be a ball for houseplants”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 16 Jul 2014:
text: As a parent, I think that it’s time to declare a period of benign neglect when it comes to food.
ref: 2014 April 19, Mark Oppenheimer, “Let Them Drink Chocolate”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2014:
qualifier: set phrase; often politics or public policy; set phrase; often politics or public policy
glosses: A policy or strategy of deliberately taking no action concerning an issue, challenging situation, or other problem in the belief that this course will ultimately result in the best outcome possible.
Related terms: hands off
laissez faire
let nature take its course
let sleeping dogs lie
TERF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜːf/
ipa: /tɚf/
homophone: turf
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: TERFs
form: terf
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: examples: text: TERF1, TERF2
text: […] another protein, TERF2, binds at the 5'-terminus and fixes the telomere end at the tail. […] The figure schematically shows domain structure of TERF1. […] Interaction of this protein with nucleic acid requires polypeptide dimerization, which involves the TERF domain [12].
ref: 2004, Biochemistry (Moscow), volume 69, issues 1-4, page 118
topics: sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of telomeric repeat-binding factor.
examples: text: A MAWTS qualified TERF instructor is required for all TERF instructional sorties.
ref: 1980, United States Marine Corps, Aviation training and readiness manual:
text: […] Typical TERF altitudes for Navy and Marine Corps helicopters include low level (approximately 100 ft AGL), contour (50 ft AGL), and nap of the earth (NOE) (less than 50 ft AGL). A depiction of typical TERF modes in presented in Figure 3.
ref: 2003 October 12-16, The 22nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference : Proceedings : Indianapolis, IN, volume 2
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of terrain flight (“flight close to the ground, to avoid enemy detection or fire”).
buzz in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buzzes in
form: buzzing in
form: buzzed in
form: buzzed in
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to buy some more coffee. Could you buzz me in when I get back?
glosses: To open a remote-controlled door to allow (a person) to enter after sounding the doorbell or buzzer.
examples: text: It was the first contest to employ a "lock-out device": whichever contestant buzzed in first automatically shut the other out.
ref: 1979, Maxene Fave, Television Game Show Hosts: Biographies of 32 Stars, page 124:
text: He disliked the new ruling that contestants could only buzz in after Trebek finished reading the clue.
ref: 2015, David Baber, “Art Fleming”, in Television Game Show Hosts: Biographies of 32 Stars, page 101:
glosses: On a game show or similar competition, to press the buzzer to provide an answer.
Prahova County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name of Prahova River
Senses: glosses: A county of Romania.
Related terms: Prahova River
Prahova River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Advancing along the valley of the Prahova River, he delivered his first blows in the vicinity of Braşov, where he burned villages, forts, and towns, burned the crops to deprive the population of food, and killed men, women, and children as he progressed.
ref: 1989, Radu R. Florescu, Raymond T. McNally, Dracula: Prince of Many Faces, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:
text: Braşov lies 106 miles north of Bucharest via Highway 1, which generally parallels the Prahova River north of the capital, following it as it flows off the slopes of the Carpathians.
ref: 1990, Lydle Brinkle, Hippocrene Companion Guide to Romania, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
text: Geographically, the Prahova River separates the Eastern Carpathians from the Southern range and, historically, the valley was an important passageway between the principalities of Wallachia and Transylvania.
ref: 2013, Lucy Mallows, Rudolf Abraham, Transylvania (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: A river in Romania, Râul Prahova.
furtherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furtherly
form: most furtherly
Etymology: From further + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Favorable, advanced.
furtherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From further + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a further manner.
oreille de crisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oreilles de crisse
Etymology: From French oreille de crisse (“Christ's ear”).
Senses: glosses: Traditional Quebecois-style pork rinds.
oreilles de crisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oreille de crisse
prairie coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dried dung of buffalo or cattle.
hole in the head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holes in the head
Etymology: Calque of Yiddish לאָך אין קאָפּ (lokh in kop), from לאָך (lokh) + אין (in) + קאָפּ (kop).
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: A gunshot wound to the head.
glosses: Something very undesirable or unwanted.
raw_tags: in similes
Related terms: like a hole in one's head
like a hole in the head
like one needs a hole in the head
hole in the head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: related: word: hole-in-the-head
synonyms: head and lateral line erosion
glosses: A disease in fish that causes pits or lesions to form around the head or lateral line.
hydraulician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulicians
Etymology: From hydraulic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The hydraulic engineer is called in France a hydraulician. To the writer's knowledge there has been only one American professional hydraulic engineer who hung out the sign “hydraulician,” and that was a young Philadelphian who had been educated in one of the best French engineering colleges; but he hauled in the sign when he found that people did not know what it meant.
ref: 1892, Cassier's Magazine, volume 2, page 262:
glosses: One who studies hydraulics.
hydraulicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydraulician
Rouse number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rouse numbers
Etymology: Named after Hunter Rouse (1906–1996), hydraulician.
Senses: glosses: A ratio used in fluid dynamics to define a concentration profile of suspended sediment and which determines how sediment will be transported in a flowing fluid.
wikipedia: Hunter Rouse
goddists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goddist
mountain cranberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊn.tɪn ˈkɹænbɛɹi/
Forms: form: mountain cranberries
Senses: glosses: Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)l
glosses: Mountain bearberry (Actous alpina (syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).
Synonyms: sense: Arctostaphylos alpina
word: alpine bearberry
sense: Arctostaphylos alpina
word: black bearberry
Dâmbovița River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dâmbovița River
Senses: examples: text: Near Gemenea (Dâmbovița river) the archaeological data mention a pre-Roman Gethyc site (IV century B.C.) with an activity of extraction of gold from the Dâmbovița alluvial sands (Pârvari, 1967, pg 95) and possibly from Pleistocene Cândești gravels.
ref: 2004, Romanian Journal of Mineral Deposits, page 48:
text: Cotroceni Palace (Şos Cotroceni 1) lies along the western bank of the Dâmbovița River.
ref: 2004, Steve Kokker, Cathryn Kemp, Romania & Moldova (Lonely Planet), 3rd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:
text: 1532 England Sir Thomas More resigns over Henry’s divorce. Wallachia Vlad the Drowned is so named after he gets drunk and rides into the Dâmbovița river, where he drowns; Vlad Vintilă de la Slatina becomes prince.
ref: 2009, Gordon Kerr, Timeline of Kings & Queens, Canary Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
text: This is the narrowest crossing point from north to south of the entire valley, and thus is the best location in the Dâmbovița River valley to control traffic from the Danube Plain northward toward the Carpathians and Transylvania.
ref: 2015, Troy R Lovata, Elizabeth Olton, Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to the Present, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: A river in Romania.
Bistrița River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bistrița River
Senses: examples: text: One afternoon, while descending the eastern slopes of the Carpathians, following the northern Bistrița River, we came upon a tiny village of three or four houses, where a wedding was being celebrated.
ref: 1934 April, Henrietta Allen Holmes, “The Spell of Romania”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume LXV, number 4, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 436:
text: Over a pass the road ran down into Moldavia along the course of the Bistrița river.
ref: 1990, Georgina Harding, In Another Europe: A Journey to Romania (Hodder & Stoughton), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: Bistrița lies in northern Transylvania on the Bistrița River, in a region of hills covered with orchards.
ref: 2013, Lucy Mallows, Transylvania (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: A river in Romania, affluent of Siret.
Trotuș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Trotuș, from Hungarian Tatros.
Senses: glosses: A river in the region of Moldova, in eastern Romania.
ubicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ubicate
ubicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ubicate
ubicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ubicate
Instagram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪns.təˌɡɹæm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳsʈɑ.ɡram/
Etymology: Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Megan has 53 posts, follows all her followers and has 41.7k followers on Instagram.
text: He posted a gym reel on Instagram.
text: According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.
ref: 2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2025:
text: Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit
ref: 2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury:
text: One who is quickly causing controversy — although his 249K Instagram follower tally is a far cry from Tate’s 4.6 million before Tate was banned — is Myron Gaines, co-host of the Fresh and Fit podcast which markets itself as the No. 1 men’s podcast in the world.
ref: 2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post:
glosses: An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.
Synonyms: sense: clippings
word: Ins
sense: clippings
word: Insta
sense: clippings
english: 'Gram, gram, Gram
translation: 'Gram, gram, Gram
word: 'gram
word: IG
Derived terms: Bookstagram
Bookstagrammer
finsta
finstagram
foodstagram
foodstagrammer
foodstagramming
'gram
'Gram
gram
Gram
IG
Ins
Insta
Instaceleb
Instadad
Instafame
Instafamous
Instagrammability
Instagramability
Instagrammable
Instagramable
Instagrammer
Instamom
Instamum
Instapoet
Instapoetry
Instaverse
Instaworthy
rinsta
Schizogram
Studygram
studygram
studygrammer
Related terms: english: instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic
translation: instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic
word: insta-
Instagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪns.təˌɡɹæm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳsʈɑ.ɡram/
Forms: form: Instagrams
Etymology: Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Have you seen her Instagram lately?
text: She's been blowing up my Instagram!
glosses: A user's profile or account on this service.
examples: text: I saw one of her Instagrams last week, but I haven't talked to her since then.
glosses: A photograph or video shared on this service.
Instagram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪns.təˌɡɹæm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳsʈɑ.ɡram/
Forms: form: Instagrams
form: Instagramming
form: Instagrammed
form: Instagrammed
Etymology: Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: The thinking goes that if the modern audience watches TV on laptops, while Instagramming and checking emails at the same time, why would contemporary artists ignore that and insist on trapping them in a silent black box for an hour?
ref: 2013 July 5, Lyndsey Winship, “Mårten Spångberg, the bad boy of contemporary dance”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To use the social networking service Instagram.
examples: text: Her mother cried when she answered / Said she don't know what got inside this child's mind, she planted / A box of condoms on her dresser then she Instagrammed it.
ref: 2012, Nas, No I.D., Patrick Adams, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka, “Daughters” (track 5), in Life is Good, performed by Nas:
text: [see title]
ref: 2014 July 7, Kaitlan Collins, “Kim Kardashian Was Desperate To Leave The Hamptons So She Could Instagram”, in The Daily Caller:
glosses: To post an image or video to Instagram.
examples: text: To illustrate, I used B-roll of photos on the iPhone that were being “Instagrammed” (Figure 8.6) with fun filters along with screen captures of Instragram's No. 1 ranking in the iTunes App Store and the Apple website touting the iPhone 4S.
ref: 2012, Jefferson Graham, Video Nation, →ISBN, page 160:
text: In a world where it is de rigueur to announce your wedding on Facebook and show the world artfully Instagrammed pictures of your appendectomy, it's no surprise that the Bee has a social media presence.
ref: 2013 May 31, Kory Stamper, “The Spelling Bee turns Twitter into our national sports bar”, in The Guardian:
text: There he was, staring cheekily into the camera for a perfectly instagrammed photo which had been touched up to show off his muscles, raw sex appeal and wild, unkempt hair.
ref: 2014, Reenita Malhotra Hora, Operation Mom, →ISBN:
text: The cameras were out and we were all trying to get pictures of each other, which we then spent a further half an hour trying to Instagram to make us look as good as possible
ref: 2014, Rachael Chadwick, 60 Postcards: The inspirational story of a young woman's journey to celebrate her mother, one postcard at a time, →ISBN:
glosses: To digitally manipulate a photograph using filter effects.
Instagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Instagram
Instagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Instagram
Instagramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Instagram
Instagrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Instagram
vbication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vbications
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of ubication.
spox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɒks/
rhymes: -ɒks
homophone: Spocks
ipa: /ˈspəʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
homophone: spokes
Forms: form: spoxes
Etymology: Modification of the first syllable of spokesman or spokesperson.
Senses: examples: text: Offerdahl, Samantha PRESS SECY & SPOX SO-221
ref: 2018 September 14, Senate Telephone Directory: 2018, U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 110:
ref: 2022 November 11, Lara Seligman, Alexander Ward, Matt Berg, Lawrence Ukenye, “DoD’s new spox gives us his first interview”, in National Security Daily, Politico, retrieved 23 May 2023:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Abbreviation of spokesperson (primarily used in headlines).
us versus them
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: us-versus-them
form: us vs. them
Etymology: us + versus + them
Senses: examples: text: The inevitable result of disenfranchisement was that the disinterested would become even more disinterested; the schism “us” versus “them” would grow; and special groups—e.g., women members—would feel that they were inadequately represented.
ref: 1968, "Annual Representative Meeting, Eastbourne, 1968", British Medical Journal Supplement, (7/6/1968), pp. 1–36. p. 24
text: Is there “us versus them” polarization or ethnic or religious prejudice that might sanction or prompt violence toward an out-group?
ref: 1981, Martha Crenshaw, “The Causes of Terrorism”, in Comparative Politics, (13) 4, (July 1981), pp. 379-99. p. 390:
text: From this social perception follows the corollary us-versus-them argument. Anyone who learns that this marker of identity “offends the ear” joins the select group of those in the know, and will have a criterion by which he can both identify and judge the out-group who “desire to be up with the latest in thing,” and reassert his own membership in the club of those with taste.
ref: 1983, M. Stanley Whitley, "Hopefully: A Shibboleth in the English Adverb System", American Speech, (58) 2 (Summer 1983), pp. 126–49. p. 132
text: These bastards stole their power from the victims of the Us-v.-Them Years,
wrecking all things virtuous and true.
ref: 1992 October 5, R.E.M., “Ignoreland”, in Automatic for the People:
glosses: A state of opposition between two groups, mostly based on group membership.
Related terms: us against them
us-and-them
ingroup and outgroup
the Other
tribalism
nom. action.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of nomen actionis.
untranquilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untranquilly
form: most untranquilly
Etymology: From untranquil + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not tranquil.
swamp coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swamp cooler
pseudoarcheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + archeology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudoarchaeology.
pseudoarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uː.dəʊˌɑː.kiˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌsu.doʊˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: pseudoarchaeologies
form: pseudoarcheology
Etymology: From pseudo- (“fake”) + archaeology.
Senses: examples: text: Pseudoarchaeology appeals to people who are impatient with the deliberate pace of science and who like to believe that “there is always a faint possibility that…” Some of these “cult archaeologies” show all the signs of becoming personality cults, even religious movements.
ref: 2016, Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani, Archaeology: A Brief Introduction, 12th edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 45:
text: The chapters in part 1, “Case Studies in Alternative Constructions of the Past: Methods, Ideologies, and Practitioners,” present examples of the nature and culture of pseudoarchaeologies and related alternative constructions of the past.
ref: 2016, Jeb J. Card, David S. Anderson, editors, Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: pseudoscience
synonyms: alternative archaeology
cult archaeology
glosses: Pseudoscientific archaeology.
Related terms: pseudoarchaeological
pseudoarchaeologist
pseudohistory
pinjrapole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinjrapoles
form: panjarapole
form: panjrapole
form: pinjarapole
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati પિંજરાપોળ (piñjrāpoḷ).
Senses: glosses: An animal shelter of a type found almost exclusively in Gujarat.
Related terms: pinjra
pinjrapoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinjrapole
gaushala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaushalas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goshala.
gaushalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaushala
goshala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goshalas
form: gashala
form: gaushala
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गोशाला (gośālā), from Sanskrit गोशाला (gośālā).
Senses: glosses: An animal shelter for cows, which are sacred in Hinduism.
goshalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goshala
felte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of felt.
hitbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitboxes
Etymology: From hit + box.
Senses: examples: text: Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.
ref: 2023 December 27, Zachary Small, “Video Games Let Them Choose a Role. Their Transgender Identities Flourished.”, in The New York Times:
text: However, Fortnite players believe that each skin has varying hitboxes, offering them a competitive advantage.
ref: 2024 March 16, Rishabh Sabarwal, “Fortnite hitboxes: Do skins have a competitive advantage?”, in Dexerto:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: hit-box
glosses: An invisible shape bounding all or part of a model (in a video game, etc.) used in collision detection to determine whether another object collides with the model.
Derived terms: hurtbox
hitbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitboxes
Senses: related: word: hit box
synonyms: hitbox controller
leverless controller
leverless arcade controller
hypernyms: arcade controller
qualifier: genericized trademark
glosses: An arcade game controller that features an array of buttons instead of a joystick lever.
Related terms: fightstick
hitboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitbox
Craftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an architectural style prominent in the United States in the early 20th century.
Craftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Craftsmen
Senses: glosses: A building built in the Craftsman architectural style
Colonial Revival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an American architectural style that hearkens back to the architecture prominent in the United States when it was settled by the English, Spanish and Dutch.
Colonial Revival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colonial Revivals
Senses: glosses: A building built in the Colonial Revival Style.
Googie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːɡi/
Etymology: From Googie's Coffee Shop, name of a now-defunct coffee shop in West Hollywood, from the nickname of the original owner's wife.
Senses: examples: text: This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand.
ref: 2005, Vince Gilligan, “Pilot”, in Breaking Bad (script):
text: Its West Coast culture was open to bucking tradition, which fed into the sudden popularity of the Googie style. With its bold and ultramodern diagonal lines, bright signs, boomerangs, and cantilevered extensions, Googie was the look of the future.
ref: 2012, Jenny Jones, The Big Lebowski, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Thirty miles north of CosMc’s, the McDonald’s No 1 Store Museum once stood, a replica of the company’s stunning post-war sci fi Googie architecture that CosMc’s’ retro-details barely hold a candle to.
ref: 2023 December 14, Pearse Anderson, “‘Lonely, gray and being actively colonized by corporations’: we tried the McDonald’s spinoff, CosMc’s”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
wikipedia: Googies Coffee Shop
Alta California
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːltə ˌkælɪˈfɔː(ɹ)ni.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alta California (“upper California”).
Senses: glosses: A historical geographic region of New Spain, later Mexico, which today roughly comprises the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
Related terms: Baja California
California
Gulf of California
kalunti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The wood of Shorea hopeifolia (formerly Shorea kalunti).
big lie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big lies
form: Big Lie
Etymology: Reportedly from a remark by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, that a big lie is more likely to be believed than a small lie.
Senses: examples: text: In an interview, Lewis Brandon, the institute's director, said of reports of the Holocaust: “It's a myth, using the big lie technique, perpetrated solely to give the Zionists a shield against criticism of Israel and to justify massive American aid to Israel.”
ref: 1981 March 11, Robert Lindsey, quoting Lewis Brandon, “Auschwitz survivor sues for prize for proving Germans gassed Jews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022:
text: This is the big lie of contemporary art: not nothing being passed off as something, but the make-believe that the division between high and low has been destroyed and that we're all now capable of being artists.
ref: 2008 February 23, Howard Jacobson, “Why mock the expectation of beauty in art?”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2025, retrieved 17 Jul 2014:
text: Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly about the war in Afghanistan is that the international security assistance force (Isaf) and the Afghan national security forces are pushing the Taliban back.
ref: 2012 February 1, “Afghanistan: the big lie”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, retrieved 17 Jul 2014:
text: For Henry Poulaille, cinemas were the vendors par excellence of modern capitalism’s big lie, the “fantasy of a redistribution of wealth,” of upward mobility […]
ref: 2015, Jesse Cohn, Underground Passages, AK Press, →ISBN:
text: "I think the American public has a real good, clear look at who they are," Biden told reporters two days after the Capitol was attacked. "They're part of the big lie, the big lie."
ref: 2021 January 16, Melissa Block, quoting Joe Biden, “Can The Forces Unleashed By Trump's Big Election Lie Be Undone?”, in NPR, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2021:
qualifier: often politics or public policy; often preceded by the; often politics or public policy; often preceded by the
glosses: The policy or practice of insistently making a false claim which is so emphatic and grandiose that listeners and readers will reckon that the claim must be true because no one would dare to fabricate something so forceful and extravagant; a false claim produced by the application of this policy or practice.
wikipedia: Adolf Hitler
Big Lie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Lies
Senses: examples: text: When other panel members, after inspecting your evidence, reject your thesis, you claim that they did so for ideological reasons. […] Soon, the echo chamber you created drowns out dissenting views; even presidential candidates begin repeating the Big Lie.
ref: 2011 December 24, Joe Nocera, “The Big Lie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: First, we must do everything possible to ensure that China, and its contemporaneous disinformation campaign about the origin of the virus, will not succeed in proving that the Big Lie technique is alive and well in the twenty-first century.
ref: 2020, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Let’s acknowledge who created the template for Trump’s Big Lie. It was her father, Dick Cheney, whose Big Lie about the Iraq war led to the worst mistake in the history of American foreign policy.
ref: 2021 May 8, Maureen Dowd, “Liz Cheney and the Big Lies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2021:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of big lie.
achievement whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achievement whores
Senses: topics: video-games
hyponyms: completionist
glosses: A person who plays video games for the primary purpose of unlocking achievements.
Related terms: graphics whore
loot whore
flexisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɛk.sɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌflɛk.sɪˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
ipa: /flɛksə-/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Etymology: From flexi- + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: He resembles a Maine logger, full beard and all, but inside he feels like he's a lesbian. His love IS a lesbian. What is he? What is she? Bisexual? Ambisexual? Flexisexual?
ref: 1998, Linda Handel, Now That You're Out of the Closet, What About the Rest of the House?, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Personally, I identify as “flexisexual,” a word I invented because I'm attracted to more than just men and women, and because my patterns of attraction have changed over time.
ref: 2011, Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety, Seal Press, →ISBN:
text: Sixty percent of our user base identifies as lesbian and the other 40 percent identifies as other, which includes bisexual, curious, pansexual, flexisexual … anyone who doesn’t identify as fully gay.
ref: 2014 April 8, Andrea Park, “Hit lesbian dating app Dattch launches in the U.S.”, in Metro:
glosses: Having a fluid sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: bicurious
heteroflexible
homoflexible
flexisexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of flexible + sexuality.
Senses: examples: text: Dr D’Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.
ref: 2010 November 27, Louise Eccles, “Dawn of the flexisexual: The new word for the women who refuse to play it straight”, in Daily Mail:
text: Often, it begins in the enlightened college cocoon, where women can explore their sexuality, though a recent ABC report from San Antonio, Texas, said flexisexuality is also part of the high school culture.
ref: 2011 February 23, Susan Donaldson James, “Flexisexual: Girls Who Kiss Girls, But Like Boys”, in ABC News:
text: In fact, a growing proportion of Londoners are overturning the yoke of old-school monogamy and instead investigating the worlds of flexisexuality, of open or group relationships, of Living Apart Together (LAT), mono/non-mono and mono-gamish.
ref: 2014 March 14, Rebecca Newman, “Sex? Love? Commitment? The changing face of modern relationships”, in London Evening Standard:
glosses: The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.
consobrinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consobrinal
form: most consobrinal
Etymology: From Latin consobrin(us) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding that you are an equivalent to a septuaginarian antiquity, and are, therefore, by divers olympiads, my senior in longevity, the fiducial relationship of my position to the Pecks, Browns, and Smiths, as also to our collateral and maternal connexions, the Devotions, the Curtises, the Peabodys, the Handys, the Stones, the Bulls, and the Blossoms, in conjunction with the profound interest I feel in the destiny of my consobrinal niece, Abishag Peabody Peck, justify me in approaching you in a tone, firstly of expostulation, and secondly of congratulation.
ref: 1835, Robert Sands, The Writings of Robert C. Sands: In Prose and Verse. With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 2:
text: In the case of a very furious attachment, I dare say, she would have abated two avuncular baronets, a consobrinal lord, and a corresponding amount of rent.
ref: 1850, James Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, R.N.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cousin.
Synonyms: cousinal
many happies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: many happy returns
sodium lauroamphoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sodium 2-[1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-undecyl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-1-ium-1-yl]acetate, an amphoacetate used in moisturizers and other skincare products.
amphoacetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphoacetate
amphopropionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphopropionate
network motif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network motifs
Senses: glosses: A recurrent and statistically significant subgraph or pattern within any kind of network.
kernelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kernelates
Etymology: From kernel + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: apricot kernelate
sodium palm kernelate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of the acids derived from a kernel oil.
Bod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒd
Forms: form: the Bod
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: synonyms: Bodder
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: The Bodleian Library.
Derived terms: Bod card
Related terms: Bod-skad
Mbyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mbytes
Senses: examples: text: Acorn's Springboard is a PC card with an Arm chip, either 1Mbyte or 4Mbyte of ram and a 32-bit podule bus.
ref: 1990, Electronics World + Wireless World:
glosses: Abbreviation of megabyte.
Mbit
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Mb
glosses: Abbreviation of megabit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Mibit
glosses: Abbreviation of mebibit.
Mbytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mbyte
Mbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mbit
sodium cocoamphoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A surfactant and stabilizer derived from coconut oil.
monoethanolamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoethanolamide
cocamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of coco + amide
Senses: glosses: A mixture of amides of the fatty acids obtained from coconut oil, used in many surfactants.
cool pose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool poses
Etymology: Coined in the 1990s by Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson in Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A tough, fearless, aloof attitude said to be adopted by black men as a coping mechanism to deal with racial oppression.
Creweian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Creweian
form: most Creweian
Etymology: From Crewe + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew (1633–1721), Bishop of Oxford from 1671 to 1674, commemorated in an annual oration at Oxford University.
deaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dean
deaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːnd/
rhymes: -iːnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dean
highers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higher
highers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of higher
literae humaniores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Literae Humaniores
form: litteræ humaniores
Etymology: From Latin līterae hūmāniōrēs (literally “more humane literature”), originally in contrast with theology (the literae diviniores).
Senses: synonyms: Greats
Lit. Hum.
glosses: An undergraduate course of study focused on classics.
pigeon post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of homing pigeons to carry messages.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: The university's internal mail system.
pro-vice-chancellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-vice-chancellors
Etymology: From pro- + vice-chancellor.
Senses: glosses: A deputy to the vice-chancellor of a university.
sub-fusc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-fuscs
Etymology: Latin subfuscus (“dark brown”).
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Rare form of subfusc.
vitrector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitrectors
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A tool used to cut the vitreous humour for subsequent removal during a vitrectomy.
Teddy Hall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Diminutive of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
torpids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torpid + -s, since the boats used were slower than those in other races.
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A series of annual boat races held at Oxford University in Hilary Term.
hopeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hope + -ably.
Senses: examples: text: 1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU
Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.
text: The change reflects, hopeably, a significant improvement in this city's social climate.
ref: 1987 August 19, John DeMott, “Of Elvis and W.C. Handy”, in Tri-State Defender, page 5:
text: We have entered the 21st century and the third millennium — an era which hopeably would be qualitatively different from the earlier ones in terms of foundational postulates, value system, mindset and life styles.
ref: 2000, Punjab History Conference: Thirty-first Session, March 19-21, 1999 (Proceedings), Punjabi University Publication Bureau, page iii:
text: I used to illustrate the argument by the example that one can say "Regrettably, it is going to rain," but not "Regretfully, it is going to rain." When Preston went to Berkeley after receiving his PhD, in his first letter he wrote "Hopeably, everything is going well."
ref: 2000, Ansley J. Coale, Ansley J. Coale: An Autobiography, American Philosophical Society, pages 93–4:
text: The ramjet should have failed, and then whoever run the race to the Power Room should have yanked his smoking body out of the way and, hopeably, restarted it.
ref: 2006, Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Variable Star, Tor Books:
text: But we have established the importance of both in the mindset of Vermonters and, hopeably our legislators, which is what makes the essential challenges ahead even plausible.
ref: 2007 January 5, “Governor sets stage for new Vermont”, in St. Albans Messenger, page A4:
glosses: hopefully; in a way that one would hope for
yunno
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of you know.
Senses: examples: text: Yunno the night I was to your house, when he made remarks about me gittin' a few long-distance calls an' them goin' on his bill, I seen what he was!
ref: 1913, Helen van Campen, “The Woes of Two Workers”, in McClure's Magazine, XLII, No. 1 (Nov. 1913) pp. 65-8:
text: 1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU
Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.
text: "I mean ... I just need to disappear for a while ... Yunno, to take care of me."
ref: 2001, Moon Unit Zappa, America the Beautiful, Simon & Schuster:
glosses: you know
pidge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪdʒ/
ipa: /pədʒ/
rhymes: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: pidges
Etymology: Clipping of pigeonhole. First attested in the early 2000s; the verb is attested earlier than the noun.
Senses: examples: text: You must hand your assigned work into my pidge at Nuffield by 5pm the Thursday before. Don’t be late.
ref: 2004, Alberto Behar, Introduction to Microeconomics: Tutorial Pack, Oxford: Worcester College, page 1:
text: Toynbee examined the book with interest. 'He said it was put in your pidge?' he said.
ref: 2014, Emerald Fennell, Shiverton Hall: The Creeper, page 114:
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: A pigeonhole.
pidge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪdʒ/
ipa: /pədʒ/
rhymes: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: pidges
form: pidging
form: pidged
form: pidged
Etymology: Clipping of pigeonhole. First attested in the early 2000s; the verb is attested earlier than the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Please pidge your completed application form to the society president.
text: Possibilities to attract new members were: ¶ Pidge every fresher a flyer at the start of next Michaelmas
ref: 2001, “Finance & General Purpose Committee”, in PostScript, number 327, Oxford University Scout and Guide Group, page 6:
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: To post (something) in a pigeonhole.