cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hypervaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervaluations
Etymology: From hypervalue (“to value extremely highly or closely”) + -ation, or equivalently, hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: Internet stocks whose hypervaluations have given them the currency to make rapid acquisitions to build market share while running deeper deficits have been the exception.
ref: 2020, Richard E. Ottoo, Valuation of Corporate Growth Opportunities, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, pages 18–19:
text: The hypervaluations of many new economy firms that made no business profits whatsoever opened up the possibility that financial asset appreciation might delink altogether from business profit making.
ref: 2022, Jonathan Levy, Ages of American Capitalism, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 645:
synonyms: overvaluation
glosses: An excessive estimation of the worth of something; extreme valuation.
examples: text: At the same time, at a deeper level, the cartoons made fun of the hypervaluation of maleness on which machismo in Ecuador depended.
ref: 2002, Anthropology Beyond Culture, Berg Publishers, →ISBN, page 18:
text: For example, the hypervaluation of Jackie O.'s pearls is causally anomalous in that it cannot be explained in terms of more typical determinants of value, such as the materials or their aesthetic value.
ref: 2005, Susan A. Gelman, The Essential Child, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: This sort of hypervaluation of sickness and suffering would indeed have undermined the rule of the monastery. It is difficult to imagine how a monastery could function in an orderly fashion with members bringing conditions such as this upon themselves.
ref: 2005, Andrew Todd Crislip, From Monastery to Hospital, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: The state of something being valued extremely highly.
Cohoctah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township and unincorporated community therein, in Livingston County, Michigan, United States.
hypervaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypervaluation
uninterruptible power supplies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uninterruptible power supply
power grabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power grab
know one's head from one's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's head from one's ass
form: knowing one's head from one's ass
form: knew one's head from one's ass
form: known one's head from one's ass
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know one's ass from a hole in the ground.
synonyms: word: know one's ass from a hole in the ground
broad hint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad hints
Pyrenean chamois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pyrenean chamoises
form: Pyrenean chamois
Senses: synonyms: izard
glosses: Rupicapra pyrenaica, a goat-antelope that lives in the Pyrenees and the Apennine Mountains of central Italy.
Lancefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlænsfiːld/
Etymology: The name may come from Glasgow; John Haswell was born in Lancefield, Glasgow in 1812. Two streets in the Anderston area exist, Lancefield Quay and Lancefield Street, but it is no longer recorded as a place name.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Lancefieldella
Lancefield grouping
Rosemarket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Rose" refers to the Roose Hundred, thus no connection with the flower.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9508).
wikipedia: Roose Hundred
BCNIE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BCNIEs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of blood culture-negative infective endocarditis.
Pilbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
forlays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forlay
forlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forlay
forlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forlay
misprofess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprofesses
form: misprofessing
form: misprofessed
form: misprofessed
Etymology: From mis- + profess.
Senses: examples: text: Keep me back, O Lord, from them who misprofess arts of healing the soul, or of the body, by means not imprinted by thee in the church for the soul, or not in nature for the body.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions:
text: Consequently, such actions miseducate the public and misprofess what dentistry is about, and they violate the dentist's obligations to integrity and education.
ref: 2002, David T. Ozar, David J. Sokol, Dental Ethics at Chairside, page 291:
glosses: To profess falsely; to teach incorrectly or make an incorrect claim.
misprofesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprofess
misprofessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprofess
misprofessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprofess
Guillard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guillards
Etymology: Borrowed from French Guillard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn from Proto-Germanic].
Odrysians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Odrysian
postoccurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + occurrence.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: preoccurrence
text: Risk prevention can be subdivided into two major parts: preoccurrence activities and postoccurrence activities. Preoccurrence activities include all tasks and functions associated with preventing incidents that might give rise to losses. Postoccurrence activities are those tasks and functions that can be carried out after the incident to help mitigate the potential or real loss.
ref: 1986, Gary P. Kraus, “Introduction to Risk Management”, in Health Care Risk Management: Organization and Claims Administration, Washington, D.C.: Beard Boooks, published 2000, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: After an occurrence.
azzhoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azzhoe
bang like a dunny door in a gale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs like a dunny door in a gale
form: banging like a dunny door in a gale
form: banged like a dunny door in a gale
form: banged like a dunny door in a gale
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bang like a dunny door.
synonyms: word: bang like a dunny door
bang like a shithouse door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs like a shithouse door
form: banging like a shithouse door
form: banged like a shithouse door
form: banged like a shithouse door
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bang like a dunny door.
synonyms: word: bang like a dunny door
bang like a dunny door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs like a dunny door
form: banging like a dunny door
form: banged like a dunny door
form: banged like a dunny door
Senses: synonyms: word: bang like a dunny door in a gale
word: bang like a shithouse door
glosses: To have sexual intercourse very frequently or very vigorously.
misconjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconjunctions
Etymology: From mis- + conjunction.
Senses: examples: text: There is no misconjunction so absurd as that of safety and wrong, because it is a moral misconjunction, showing our mortal state itself to be out of joint, even down to its lowest foundations; […]
ref: 1869, Horace Bushnell, Moral Uses of Dark Things, page 147:
glosses: A bad or wrong conjunction.
misconjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconjunction
one's head off
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He has been worrying his head off all morning about how he will do on the finals.
text: [Tom] said now she couldn’t ever count them spoons twice alike again to save her life; and wouldn’t believe she’d counted them right, if she did! and said that after she’d about counted her head off, for the next three days, he judged she’d give it up and offer to kill anybody that wanted her to ever count them any more.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, chapter 37, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, London: Thomas Nelson, page 327:
text: 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, New York: HarperFlamingo, p. 103,
Late in the fall, the milky green bushes surrounding every house and path suddenly revealed themselves as poinsettias. They bloomed their heads off and Christmas rang out in the sticky heat […]
glosses: Without restraint, hesitation, or inhibition; endlessly.
Falcon tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Falcon tubes
Etymology: From a brand name from the manufacturer Becton Dickinson.
Senses: glosses: conical centrifuge tube (usually 15 ml or 50 ml) with a screw-cap
Falcon tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Falcon tube
jiffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jiffles
form: jiffling
form: jiffled
form: jiffled
Senses: glosses: To fidget; to act restlessly.
jiffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jiffle
jiffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jiffle
jiffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jiffle
joggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joggly
form: most joggly
Etymology: From joggle + -y.
Senses: glosses: That joggles or shakes; loose; tottering.
joule thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joule thieves
Senses: glosses: A small, low-cost self-oscillating voltage booster, typically used for driving small loads.
joule thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joule thief
Abbey Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Axminster parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, south of the town (OS grid ref SY2997).
glosses: A hamlet in Boxley parish, Maidstone borough, Kent, England, north of the town of Maidstone (OS grid ref TQ7558).
Joulean heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Joule heat.
synonyms: word: Joule heat
Joule heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Joulean heat
glosses: Heat produced by the passage of an electric current through a conductor.
Related terms: Joule heating
Jorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jorists
Senses: glosses: A follower of Jorism.
Jorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jorist
Jorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A messianic separatist Spiritualist sect influenced by Anabaptism during the 16th century, viewing its leader David Joris as the third David and stressing direct guidance by the Holy Spirit and the achievement of total righteousness under the Law (Pentateuch).
Related terms: Jorist
Davidjorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jorism.
synonyms: word: Jorism
Davidjorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Davidjorists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jorist.
synonyms: word: Jorist
Davidjorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Davidjorist
szn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: szns
Senses: examples: text: Spooky season is finally upon us, and with it comes pumpkin spice-flavored everything, 31 Nights of Halloween on Freeform, and, of course, costume-planning. Now thanks to TikTok—the Gen-Z video app that popularized "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X—we also have a new supernatural song to herald in the most holy of haunted #szns.
ref: 2019 September 17, Rose Minutaglio, “TikTok's 'Spooky Scary Skeletons' Is the Halloween Remix You Didn't Know You Needed”, in Elle:
text: October marks the start of myriad unofficial seasons: spooky season, pumpkin spice season, cuffing season, cozy season, hoodie season and, of course, decorative gourd season. (Or “szn,” for those inclined to abbreviate.) […] For Harry Styles fans, the singer’s New York City tour dates mean that it’s Harry szn. Adele fans insist that her impending album is ushering in Adele szn.
ref: 2021 October 11, Shane O’Neill, “October Isn’t Just a Month Anymore. It’s a Whole Szn.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2021:
text: With a new szn fast approaching (that's if Dua ever returns to the UK), one can only hope that her autumn/winter wardrobe is just as impressive. Because we sure do need the inspo!
ref: 2022 September 2, Lia Mappoura, “Dua Lipa’s plunge swimsuit has the deepest neckline we’ve ever seen”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: It's officially The Summer I Turned Pretty szn, and to say we're excited about the second installment of the hit show is a serious understatement.
ref: 2023 July 15, Gretty Garcia, “All the Deets on How Old the Cast of ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Is on the Show and IRL”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: In a spooky szn special edition of referencing pop culture, Sabrina [Carpenter] recently released the "Taste" music video (yaknow, the one guest starring Jenna Ortega, the new-age scream queen we deserve?!) laden with classic horror references.
ref: 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Abbreviation of season.
szns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of szn
Justinianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Justinianists
Etymology: From Justinian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the emperor Justinian.
glosses: A student of civil law.
Justinianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Justinianist
jokist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jokists
Etymology: From joke + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: VESTRY, a bandit confederation of practical jokists addicted to laying funny mud traps in thoroughfares for simple pedestrians to walk into.
ref: 1889, Judy's Annual, page 123:
text: Of course, by the time the dénouement was reached the chuckling jokists had quietly entered their own tents, with all the apparent innocence galliards of that description know well how to assume.
ref: 1894, Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer, Memories of the Mutiny, volume 2, page 471:
glosses: A joker; one who plays jokes.
jokists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jokist
Jessean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jessean
form: most Jessean
Etymology: From Jesse + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the biblical Jesse.
pop-up book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop-up books
Senses: glosses: A book whose sturdy construction allows paper and artwork to rise up from each page when exposed to the air.
pop-up store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop-up stores
Senses: glosses: A store, often portable, existing in one place for a short time only.
jigglety
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: jogglety
glosses: The sound of something moving in a loose, tottering manner.
jogglety
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jigglety.
synonyms: word: jigglety
jocuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Sideroxylon foetidissimum.
bleps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blep
bleps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blep
blepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blep
blepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blep
semiconcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + concrete.
Senses: glosses: Not entirely concrete; between concrete and abstract.
semicoriaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + coriaceous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly coriaceous.
semicurvilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + curvilinear.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly curvilinear.
semimystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + mystic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partially mystic.
semicarbonaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + carbonaceous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly carbonaceous.
postcapitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcapitalist
semiparalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + paralysis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hemiparalysis.
synonyms: word: hemiparalysis
plumaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plumaceous
form: most plumaceous
Senses: glosses: fluffy; downy
Derived terms: semiplumaceous
semiplumaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + plumaceous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly plumaceous.
semiquinquefid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + quinquefid.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly quinquefid.
beige prose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In contradistinction to purple prose.
Senses: coordinate_terms: purple prose
glosses: A style of writing that favors brevity and simplicity.
semisecondary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + secondary.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Being or relating to a kind of advanced primary school focusing on practical subjects.
brown adipose tissues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown adipose tissue
semitorpid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + torpid.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat torpid.
semiwoody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + woody.
Senses: examples: a semiwoody shrub
glosses: Somewhat or partly woody.
aphacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphacias
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aphakia.
semiadnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + adnate.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly adnate.
semicrescentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a half crescent.
womans up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woman up
womaning up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woman up
womaned up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of woman up
aphacic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aphakic.
iGeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Generation Z.
synonyms: word: Generation Z
iGen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From i- + Gen(eration), from having grown up with the internet and in particular smartphones. Popularized by American psychologist Jean Twenge in her book iGen (2017).
Senses: examples: text: You should have heard some of the alternatives. According to MTV, other potential names included the Plurals, the Navigators, the Regenerators, iGen, ReGen and the Homeland Generation.
ref: 2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Clipping of iGeneration; synonym of Generation Z.
wikipedia: iGen (book)
Post-Millennials
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Generation Z.
synonyms: word: Generation Z
Generation K
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by British economist and author Noreena Hertz in 2015. The K stands for Katniss Everdeen, a character in the young-adult novel The Hunger Games (2008).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Generation K.
glosses: A demographic cohort identified in 2015, consisting of 13- to 20-year-olds who are relatively anxious, intent on being unique, and concerned about inequality.
wikipedia: Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games
semidecay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + decay.
Senses: glosses: Partial decay.
semidecayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + decayed.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly decayed.
semidecaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + decaying.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly decaying.
semidead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + dead.
Senses: examples: text: His skill with weapons is neither representation nor modeling: it is flashy filmic style displayed by a semidead man.
ref: 2012, Sara Anson Vaux, The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood, page 53:
glosses: Somewhat or partly dead.
semideltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + deltaic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly deltaic.
semiductile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + ductile.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly ductile.
digital immigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital immigrants
Senses: topics: engineering
human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
technology
synonyms: non-digital native
antonyms: digital native
glosses: A person who was born or raised before the widespread use of digital technology.
semilanceolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + lanceolate.
Senses: glosses: Half-lanceolate, longitudinally divided.
digital immigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital immigrant
lobster-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster-women
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobsterwoman.
lobster woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster women
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobsterwoman.
where is the lie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of where's the lie.
where's the lie tho
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of where's the lie.
hyporegenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyporegenerative
form: most hyporegenerative
Etymology: From hypo- + regenerative.
Senses: coordinate_terms: hyperregenerative
glosses: Characterized by insufficient regeneration.
hyperregenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperregenerative
form: most hyperregenerative
Etymology: From hyper- + regenerative.
Senses: coordinate_terms: hyporegenerative
glosses: Characterized by excessive regeneration.
lobster-women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobster-woman
lobster women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobster woman
deep and meaningful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep and meaningfuls
Senses: synonyms: D&M
glosses: A heart-to-heart discussion. .
subaquean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: underwater
subcouncil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcouncils
Etymology: From sub- + council.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary council.
subcouncils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcouncil
subdrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdrills
Etymology: From sub- + drill.
Senses: examples: text: Learners can go through the series of subdrills and review old drills in a systematic manner. The various subdrills may be selected by the learner from a menu such as that shown in Fig. 4.11.
ref: 2013, David Jonassen, Instruction Design for Microcomputing Software:
glosses: A training exercise forming part of a larger training exercise or system.
subdrills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdrill
Kuhane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Subiya
glosses: A Bantu language spoken along the Zambezi River in Namibia, Zambia, and Botswana.
Subiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Subia
Senses: glosses: A Bantu-speaking ethnic group native to southern Africa, part of the larger Lozi group.
Subiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Subia
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kuhane (“Bantu language”).
synonyms: word: Kuhane
extra: Bantu language
deep and meaningfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep and meaningful
submarinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From submarine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Adopting the counsel of despair, they resolved on the campaign of unrestricted submarinism which, their Admiralty advised them, would bring the United Kingdom to the verge of starvation by April.
ref: 1919, Maninda Chandra Sinha, Writings and Speeches, page 36:
glosses: The use of submarines in warfare.
seabottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seabottom
stray bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stray bullets
Senses: glosses: A bullet that, after being fired from a gun, hits an unintended target.
stray bullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stray bullet
superfecund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfecund
form: most superfecund
Etymology: From super- + fecund.
Senses: glosses: Highly fecund.
glosses: Exhibiting superfecundity.
subordinatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subordinating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to subordinate.
suborbitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + orbitary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of suborbital.
synonyms: word: suborbital
subpurlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpurlins
Etymology: From sub- + purlin.
Senses: glosses: A structural member laid across the purlins.
subpurlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpurlin
desizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desize
desizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desize
desized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desize
subscriptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subscriptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subscriptive manner; as a subscript.
subsorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsorters
Etymology: From sub- + sorter.
Senses: glosses: An assistant sorter.
subsorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsorter
substructional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From substruction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a substruction.
soundfront
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sound + front; compare oceanfront.
Senses: examples: text: This community offers oceanfront and soundfront residences starting in the $ 600,000s.
ref: 2007 05, Tabbie Nance, Martha L. Hall, Insiders' Guide North Carolina's Central Coast and New Bern, By the Sea Publications Incorporated, →ISBN:
text: The community has some 12 miles of bulk-headed deepwater canals and soundfront lots, all easily accessing Albemarle Sound. Oregon Inlet, the closest ocean inlet, is approximately 25 miles by boat south of Colington Island.
ref: 2012 January 10, Karen Bachman, Insiders' Guide® to North Carolina's Outer Banks, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 363:
text: Located on the north side of the causeway, this soundfront restaurant is a favorite with families, thanks to all the wildlife visible from the dock and outdoor boardwalks.
ref: 2018 May 1, Renee Wright, Explorer's Guide North Carolina's Outer Banks (Third Edition) (Explorer's Complete), The Countryman Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Of property or real estate: adjacent to (the shore of) a sound.
subunequal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + unequal.
Senses: examples: text: Suffruticose; ramuli subterete, glabrous; leaves unequal, elliptic-ovate; acuminate-acute, and subunequal at the base, coarsely crenate serrated; […]
ref: 1861, Nicol Alexander Dalzell, Alexander Gibson, The Bombay Flora, page 188:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Barely equal; approaching unequal.
fanwright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanwrights
Etymology: From fan + wright.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes fans for use in winnowing.
fanwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanwright
fatihas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatiha
chaparral birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaparral bird
Brunswick stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunswick star
leap for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaps for joy
form: leaping for joy
form: leapt for joy
form: leapt for joy
form: leaped for joy
form: leaped for joy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jump for joy.
misrelegate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrelegates
form: misrelegating
form: misrelegated
form: misrelegated
Etymology: From mis- + relegate.
Senses: examples: text: "Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight.
ref: 1965, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 19, page 625:
text: However, this anticipates what needs to be shown, and ignores what I have just claimed: the widespread failure to recognize that the dialogue is indeed about virtue, being instead misrelegated to the specialists of academic epistemology, with only its famous "paradox" (perhaps along with Socrates' seemingly bizarre resolution) being extracted for use in elementary courses and textbooks introducing "The Basic Problems of Philosophy."
ref: 2001, Zdravko Planinc, Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls, page 63:
text: He is “misrelegated to a state mental hospital” where he is studied, categorized, made subject to discipline “at the hands of well-meaning representatives of the social order” (Bell 9).
ref: 2013, Gabe Rikard, Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia, page 72:
glosses: To relegate inappropriately.
misrelegates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrelegate
misrelegating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrelegate
misrelegated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrelegate
P1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P1s
Senses: examples: text: Qualifying went well the other day, I qualified P1.
text: He scored several P1s throughout the season.
glosses: Abbreviation of position one, a common abbreviation used in motorsport to signify the frontmost starting position.
Related terms: pole position
nail lacquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail lacquers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nail polish.
synonyms: word: nail polish
nail lacquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail lacquer
jumps for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump for joy
jumping for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump for joy
jumped for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump for joy
leaped for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leap for joy
leaping for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leap for joy
leaps for joy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leap for joy
for no good reason
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: for nothing
antonyms: not for nothing
with good reason
glosses: Without any rightful cause or justification.
for some reason
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: for some reason or other
Senses: glosses: Expressing uncertainty for the cause or justification of some event or happening.
in reason
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of within reason.
synonyms: word: within reason
with reason
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Having a justifiable or legitimate cause.
chaparral hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaparral hens
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The female roadrunner.
chaparral hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaparral hen
x-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-words
Etymology: From x, abbreviating xenophobia, + word.
Senses: examples: text: The “X word[”] / Although the conference extensively referred to the nation’s need for “social cohesion” among migrants and South Africans, the word “xenophobia” was almost never uttered during the two-day affair.
ref: 2011 July 4, Kathleen Chaykowski, “Avoiding the X word — Jo’burg responds to refugees”, in Mail & Guardian:
text: Before one uses the X-word to describe people with less-liberal views on immigration, one should recall its meaning – an extreme or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
ref: 2014 June 27, Michael Y.P. Ang, The Independent:
text: Bitter NY Times Throws Around X-Word (Xenophobia), Threat of Violence to Insult Pro-Brexit
ref: 2016 June 25, @BlissTabitha, Twitter:
text: In the past fortnight, following a fresh outbreak of xenophobic violence in Durban, President Cyril Ramaphosa condemned the “violence against foreign nationals in South Africa”, without mentioning the x-word.
ref: 2019 April 7, “Editorial: Xenophobia – Call it by its name”, in City Press:
text: I hope they use my classic thread of REAL xenophobia OUTSIDE of the USA, since the X-word is thrown around like bread at pigeons.
ref: 2020 December 24, @NoGamesOnNotice, Twitter:
glosses: The word xenophobia.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
x-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-words
Etymology: From x- as an abbreviation for cross- in crossword.
Senses: examples: text: After Dieter got up from solving his Stern-Xword puzzle―I was hanging over his shoulders ... in order to fill some ... spaces in the crossword puzzle[.]
ref: 2003, “From the Flowery Couch”, in Eurinda, page 325:
text: So while this week's column may be a bit tedious, it may also lay the basis for a vital part of x-word preparation (prep).
ref: 2005 October 23, Colin Dexter, “How to solve crosswords”, in The Guardian:
related: word: xword
glosses: Abbreviation of crossword.
Derived terms: xword puzzle
x-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-words
Etymology: From x, abbreviating auxiliary, + word.
Senses: examples: text: To change a statement into a question that can be answered “yes” or “no,” one must place an X-word (one of twenty-three auxiliaries or modals) at the beginning of the sentence.
ref: 1969, Jacqueline Griffin, “Remedial Composition at an Open-Door College”, in College Composition and Communication, volume 20, number 5, →JSTOR, page 361:
text: The only five x-words that offer any choice of verb form are am, is, are, was and were, and this very limited choice represents the important difference between active and passive voice, for example is eating versus is eaten.
ref: 1977, Linda Ann Kunz, “X-word Grammar: Offspring of Sector Analysis”, in Journal of Basic Writing, volume 1, number 3, →JSTOR, page 68:
text: Past time X-words are did, had, was, were; […]
ref: 2018, Sue Livingston et al., “Effect of X-Word Grammar and Traditional Grammar Instruction on Grammatical Accuracy”, in English Language Teaching, volume 11, number 3, →DOI, page 121:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One of a group of fundamental English auxiliary or modal verb forms.
digital storage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The recording or storing of information (data) in a digital, machine-readable medium.
digital meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital meters
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of measuring device which records the use of electricity and water, and which then electronically reports the usage to a utility company at regular intervals.
digital meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital meter
digital electronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
technology
glosses: A field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.
digital dark age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital dark ages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
information-technology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decays.
digital gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital gaps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of digital divide.
synonyms: word: digital divide
digital gaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital gap
pans out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pan out
panning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pan out
panned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pan out
Tiwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiː.wə/
rhymes: -iːwə
Senses: glosses: A group of two, or possibly three, related Tanoan languages spoken by the Tiwa Puebloans, and possibly the Piro Pueblo, in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Brasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brasians
Etymology: Blend of British + Asian
Senses: glosses: A British person of South Asian-extraction/heritage/ethnicity.
Hyponyms: Brindian
Coordinate terms: Indian
Related terms: Asian
Blasian
Central Asian
East Asian
Eurasian
North Asian
Northeast Asian
Northwest Asian
South Asian
Southeast Asian
Southwest Asian
West Asian
Black British
Bretish
Breton
Brit
British
Britisher
Briton
Northeast Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographic region of Asia bordering the west coast of the northern Pacific Ocean; generally including Japan, Korea, northeast China and the Russian Far East, and sometimes including all of China and Siberia.
Derived terms: Northeast Asian
Related terms: Asia
Central Asia
East Asia
Eurasia
North Asia
Northwest Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Southwest Asia
West Asia
cat taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat tax
tax hike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax hikes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
synonyms: tax rise
glosses: A sudden increase in taxes.
tax rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax rises
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tax hike.
synonyms: word: tax hike
tax hikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax hike
tax rises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax rise
direct tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct taxes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
coordinate_terms: indirect tax
glosses: A tax imposed upon a person or property as distinct from a tax imposed upon a transaction.
indirect tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indirect taxes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
coordinate_terms: direct tax
glosses: A tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of the market price of the goods or services purchased.
direct taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct tax
indirect taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indirect tax
tax due
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxes due
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: The total amount a taxpayer must pay to the government or other entity.
taxes due
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax due
license fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: license fees
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
synonyms: licensing fee
glosses: An amount of money collected from an individual or an organization by the government or other entity in order to legitimize an activity.
licensing fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licensing fees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of license fee.
synonyms: word: license fee
license fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of license fee
licensing fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licensing fee
tax fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax frauds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tax evasion.
synonyms: word: tax evasion
tax frauds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax fraud
K-T
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of KT (“Cretaceous–Tertiary”).
dog taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog tax
sticklewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickleworts
Etymology: From stickle + wort.
Senses: glosses: Agrimonia eupatoria (agrimony)
K/T
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of KT (“Cretaceous–Tertiary”).
post-capitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-capitalist
Algeo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Scottish surname, a nickname originally spelled Al(d)jo, from an expression composed of Scots auld (“old”) + jo (“joy”) (from Middle English joye).
* As an Italian/Venetan surname, from a variant of the male given name Alceo.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
empty morph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty morphs
Senses: examples: text: An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).
ref: 2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
coordinate_terms: null morpheme
glosses: A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning.
Related terms: empty morpheme
empty morphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empty morph
Jinning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈnɪŋ/
Forms: form: Kinning
form: Chinning
Etymology: From the Mandarin 金寧 (Jīnníng).
Senses: examples: text: On Kinmen’s northwest tip, in Jinning District, the Guningtou Battlefield was the scene of a 56-hour bloodbath that began when Communist troops landed on the shore in the early hours of October 24, 1949.[…]
Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.
ref: 2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 200–202:
text: Reaching NTD12,878 in average alcohol spending per capita in 2014, Jinning Township of Kinmen County is defined as outliers for out valuing the other regions; and is accommodated beyond graph boundary. The high alcohol spending in Jinning Township also vastly contributes to the majority of alcohol expenditure of Kinmen County. For examples, the total expenditure in Kinmen County is NTD369,011,239.91 in 2014; while the expenditure of Jinning Township, Kinmen County reaches NTD351,670,052. Moreover, the total expenditure of 2015 in Kinmen County decreased by NTD200 million NTD, which corresponds to the declining total expenditure in Jinning Township, Kinmen County.
ref: 2018, Chien-wen Shen et al., “Big Data Visualization of the Alcohol Expenses in Taiwan”, in Data Mining and Big Data: Third International Conference, DMBD 2018, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219:
text: Significant differences in place attachment were also founded among those coming from different townships. An ANOVA post hoc test - the Fisher's LSD test - reveals that the place attachment of residents in Jincheng Township and Jinning Township was significantly higher than that of residents in Jinhu Township and Jinsha Township.
ref: 2021, Wan-Yu Liu et al., “Impacts of Environmental Change on Place Attachment”, in Joseph S. Chen, editor, Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, volume 16, Emerald Publishing, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108:
text: According to the Kinmen County Tourism Department website, Wind Lion Gods, or "Wind Lion Masters" (風獅爺) in Chinese, are stone lions originally brought to Kinmen from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in China to protect the group of islands from evil spirits, bad luck and natural disasters, including monsoon winds which are particularly fierce during the winter months.[…]
For those in the county, Chang recommended that visitors check out a chubby yellow wind lion in Jinning Township's Huxia Village that he found particularly cute.
ref: 2025 January 29, Wu Wen-jung, Wu Kuan-hsien, “Wind Lion Gods preserve Kinmen's history and folk culture”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2025, Culture:
glosses: A rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
Jinning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈnɪŋ/
Forms: form: Kinning
form: Chinning
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉寧 /晋宁 (Jìnníng).
Senses: examples: text: The finds at Shihchaishan, near Chinning county in Yunnan province, deserve special mention. Between 1955 and 1960 some 40 tombs of the Kingdom of Tien of the Western Han period were unearthed there.
ref: [1973 July, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle (II) — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 7, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, columns 1-2:
text: The conflict was set off by efforts to build a logistics center for the distribution of manufactured goods in Jinning, a county under Kunming’s jurisdiction, the Kunming government said in a statement on Wednesday.[…]
Some residents in Jinning voiced doubt that the men trucked into the village were construction workers,[…].
ref: 2014 October 15, Austin Ramzy, “8 Killed in Clash Over Development in Southwestern China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022, Sinosphere:
glosses: A district of Kunming, Yunnan, China.