cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reinstatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinstatements
Etymology: From reinstate + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Many people are unhappy with the sacking of the chief constable and demand his immediate reinstatement.
text: Barry removed Pawlisch last July and the former board member has sought reinstatement to his seat, thus far without success.
ref: 1983 December 3, “Citizeens Support Ousting of Homophobic Health Commissioner”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 2:
text: CBR calculated the estimated cost of reinstatement of the route, based on 2012 prices for the original Borders Railway project, as £644m.
"Admittedly, that's about four years out of date now, so it's looking more like a billion pounds," says Walton.
ref: 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: The act of restoring something to its previous state.
Derived terms: nonreinstatement
ordinal variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinal variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A variable with values whose order is significant, but on which no meaningful arithmetic-like operations can be performed.
Coordinate terms: categorical variable
nominal variable
cardinal variable
interval variable
ratio variable
Related terms: ordinal scale
elementary functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementary function
topological spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topological space
binomial distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binomial distributions
Senses: examples: text: The first two have long histories in statistical theory, the binomial distribution having been discovered by James Bernoulli about 1700 and the Poisson distribution, which is a limiting form of the binomial distribution, by S. D. Poisson in 1837.
ref: 1979, M. G. Bulmer, Principles of Statistics, Dover, page 81:
text: The number of hits by a player in a given number of at-bats can be represented by a binomial distribution where the probability of a hit is the player's "true" batting average.
ref: 2003, Jim Albert, Teaching Statistics Using Baseball, Mathematical Association of America, page 263:
text: In any application of the binomial distribution, we must clearly specify which outcome is the success and which is the failure. The binomial distribution model allows us to compute the probability of observing a specified number of successes when the process is repeated a specific number of times (e.g., in a set of patients) and the outcome for a given patient is either a success or a failure.
ref: 2008, Lisa Marie Sullivan, Essentials of Biostatistics, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 67:
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: The discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of n independent trials, each of which yields success with probability p.
Derived terms: negative binomial distribution
Related terms: binomial random variable
binomial test
gemuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomuti (“fibrous substance”).
TTY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TTYs
Senses: glosses: teletypewriter (originally), or a text display device, as used by the deaf to read voice communication converted to text by a communication assistant device (CA).
TTY
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of talk to you.
Related terms: english: Talk to you later
translation: Talk to you later
word: TTYL
english: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
translation: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
word: TDD
HCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Harvard College Observatory.
HCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hearing carryover, a service or device that allows speech-disabled users with hearing to listen to the person they are calling.
pocketbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocketbook
ankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anker
atomic winters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic winter
vasa vasorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin vāsa, plural of vās (“vessel”) + vāsōrum, the genitive plural of vās (“vessel”). Meaning "vessels of the vessels."
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The capillaries that supply blood to vessels larger than 1 mm. They supply blood to the adventitia and middle tunicae.
shotgun sequencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed through analogy with the effect of a shotgun blast, which contains many small pellets.
Senses: examples: text: In shotgun sequencing of genomic DNA, fragments of a genome are sequenced and computationally reassembled to determine the genome of an organism
ref: 2005, Selene K Swanson with Michael P. Washburn, “The continuing evolution of shotgun proteomics”, in Drug Discovery Today, →DOI, page 719:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: shotgun cloning
glosses: A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
aDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aDNAs
Etymology: Initialism, from ancient DNA.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any DNA sample recovered from biological samples not intended for DNA use, including historical and archeological samples.
posttranslational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-translational
Etymology: From post- + translational.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the period after a protein has been translated from mRNA.
Derived terms: posttranslational modification
intraresidue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɹəˈɹɛzɪdu/
Etymology: From intra- + residue.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: Occurring in or arising from the residue of an amino acid, the portion which has been incorporated into a protein's final structure.
Synonyms: intraresidual
subluxated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + luxated.
Senses: examples: a subluxated joint
glosses: Partially dislocated.
ectodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛktoʊdoʊˌmeɪn/
Forms: form: ectodomains
Etymology: From ecto- + domain.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The portion of a polypeptide on a cell membrane that extends beyond the membrane into the extracellular space.
Synonyms: exodomain
Derived terms: ectodomain shedding
Related terms: endodomain
ectodomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectodomain
colorectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colo- + rectal.
Senses: examples: text: She has always struggled with her gastrointestinal health, and when she started to have symptoms similar to those of colorectal cancer, she called her primary care physician, who referred her to a gastroenterologist, who ordered a colonoscopy. She did not have cancer.
ref: 2023 May 26, Jacqueline Howard and Kyla Russell, “As colorectal cancer rises among younger adults, some seek colonoscopies earlier”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the colorectum.
Derived terms: anticolorectal
colorectal cancer
colorectally
noncolorectal
pericolorectal
pioneer axon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pioneer axons
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An axon that lays down the initial growing path for the other axons of the same neuron to follow.
cosmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑzmɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɪd/
Forms: form: cosmids
Etymology: Blend of cos + plasmid
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of plasmid (often used as a cloning vector) constructed by the insertion of cos sequences, which are DNA sequences of the lambda phage.
Derived terms: fosmid
cosmids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmid
thermolabile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermolabile
form: most thermolabile
Etymology: From thermo- + labile.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Subject to destruction/decomposition or change in response to heat.
Derived terms: thermolability
homomultimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homomultimers
Etymology: From homo- + multimer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A multimeric protein consisting of two or more identical components.
Derived terms: homomultimeric
homomultimerization
Related terms: heteromultimer
homomultimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homomultimer
pipettor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipettors
Etymology: From pipette + -or.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pipette.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An automated device for pipetting.
pipettors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipettor
fishing rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishing rod
record players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of record player
multimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimeter
Istro-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Istro- + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Istro-Romanian people, culture or language.
Istro-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Istro-Romanians
Etymology: From Istro- + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: A person of Istrian and Romanian ethnicity.
Istro-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Istro- + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: An endangered Eastern Romance language spoken in the Istrian region of Croatia, and related to Romanian, Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Istro-Romanian terms
Aromanian
Megleno-Romanian
Moldavian
Romanian
Vlach
theophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theophobias
Etymology: From theo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: We see not how, even on this scheme most ingenious as it is, the atheist can expect to find relief from his tormenting theophobia, or escape that object of his greatest dread, a superhuman being, whether he styles him a God or a Daemon.
ref: 1845, Tayler Lewis, Plato Contra Atheos: Plato Against the Atheists, page 131:
text: In many scientific circles there is an absolute theophobia, a dread of the Creator.
ref: 1909, Erich Wasmann, The Berlin Discussion of the Problem of Evolution, page 47:
text: "Patriotism and theophobia are the sources of great tragedies and terrifying pictures.
ref: 1913, Robert Loyalty Cru, Diderot as a Disciple of English Thought, page 421:
text: "One might postulate at this point that persons suffer from theophobia, contempt for one thought to usurp their prerogatives.
ref: 2005, Morris A. Inch, Elder Brother: A Christian Alternative to Anti-Semitism, page 81:
glosses: The fear of God or gods.
Related terms: theophobe
theophobic
theophobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theophobia
ygoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […]That keepes thy body from the bitter fit;
Dead long ygoe I wote thou haddest bin,[…]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ago.
outport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outports
Etymology: From out- + port.
Senses: examples: text: Outport or provincial contacts like those of Cogan, Vassal, Bidgood, or Samuel Cole were exceptions. To a remarkable extent the first exchanges of goods were carried on between London and Boston. In fact, the bulk of the traffic originated in a few streets of the English capital.
ref: 1955, Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, page 36:
glosses: A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
qualifier: Labrador
glosses: Any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's.
Related terms: outlying
outpost
boxroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxrooms
Etymology: From box + room.
Senses: examples: text: Upstairs, the house had five bedrooms, four bathrooms and a boxroom.
glosses: Alternative spelling of box room
one-sidedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more one-sidedly
form: most one-sidedly
Etymology: From one-sided + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Macaulay was concerned to interpret the seventeenth century in terms of the triumph of the Whigs as champions of public rights; and he upheld this one-sidedly but not malignantly.
ref: 1913, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature:
glosses: In a one-sided or biased manner.
examples: text: The man smiled one-sidedly.
ref: 1915, B. M. Bower, chapter 11, in The Flying U's Last Stand:
text: There was nothing Julia could tell her about sterilizing, or talcum powder, or keeping light out of the baby's eyes, or turning her over in her crib from time to time so that she shouldn't develop one-sidedly.
ref: 1915, Kathleen Norris, chapter 4, in The Story of Julia Page:
glosses: In a manner which physically favors or uses only one side of something.
Synonyms: unilaterally
combinatory logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Model of computation based on combinators.
higher-order function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher-order functions
Senses: examples: text: A higher-order function is a function that operates on other functions instead of on data values. Some of these take data arguments and manufacture functions to order; others, like the imap() function of Chapter 4, transform one function into another one.
ref: 2005, Mark Jason Dominus, Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 325:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: HOF
glosses: A function that takes one or more functions as an input, and returns a function as a result.
higher-order functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higher-order function
combinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.bɪˌneɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑm.bɪˌneɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈkɑm.bɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ]
Forms: form: combinators
Senses: examples: text: M is a closed λ-term (or combinator) if FV(M) = ∅. The set of closed λ-terms is denoted by Λ⁰.
ref: 1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl^([ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/HBK.ps]), retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
Derived terms: supercombinator
combinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combinator
binomial coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binomial coefficients
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: a coefficient of any of the terms in the expansion of the binomial (x+y)ⁿ, defined by n choose k=(n!)/(k!(n-k)!), read as "n choose k"
binomial coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binomial coefficient
differential geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differential geometries
Senses: examples: text: 1945, Eric Temple Bell, The Development of Mathematics, 2nd Edition, 1992 Republication, page 358,
[…] projective differential geometries of the American and Italian schools do not seem to have attracted physicists.
text: 1962, I. M. James, The Mathematical Works of J. H. C. Whitehead, Volume 1: Differential Geometry, page 189,
The general theory of manifolds of class 2 is a sub-class of differential geometries, which contain the theory of affine connections, curvature and osculating sub-spaces.
text: Note that projective differential geometry is a basis for Euclidean and non-Euclidean differential geometries since metric properties of submanifolds of Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces should only be added to their projective properties.
ref: 1993, M. A. Akivis, V. V. Goldberg, Projective Differential Geometry of Submanifolds, page v:
text: In this sense, C#123;k#95;0#125; is the natural hypothesis of differentiability in the particular question of differential geometry.
ref: 2012, Heinrich W. Guggenheimer, Differential Geometry, page 145:
topics: geometry
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of geometry, especially geometric structures on differentiable manifolds, using techniques from calculus, linear algebra and multilinear algebra.
Related terms: algebraic geometry
analytic geometry
projective geometry
differential topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Field dealing with differentiable functions on differentiable manifolds.
contraharmonic means
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraharmonic mean
partial differential equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial differential equation
differential equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of differential equation
ordinary differential equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinary differential equation
A-levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-level
A*'s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A*
come to grief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to grief
form: coming to grief
form: came to grief
form: come to grief
Senses: examples: text: J. R. R. Tolkien
These elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps.
text: Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.
ref: 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:
glosses: To suffer a disastrous outcome.
bodhran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊɹɑːn/
ipa: /ˈbɔːɹɑːn/
Forms: form: bodhrans
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish bodhrán.
Senses: glosses: A type of frame drum used in Irish music struck traditionally with an animal bone, or in modern times, with a piece of wood.
wikipedia: bodhran
Derived terms: bodhranist
diabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diabolisms
Senses: examples: text: The Witchcraft Reader By Darren Oldridge
In a small minority of Italian trials, one finds a mixture of charges that cannot be categorized as either sorcery or typical diabolism.
text: "Demon Possession in Elizabethan England - Page 200"
Such incidents were, of course, interpreted by sympathizers as evidence of saintliness and by opponents as evidence of diabolism.
glosses: Worship of the devil; Satanism
examples: text: "The Fiend's Delight" By Dod Grile
The atrocities constituting this "cold collation" of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals.
text: What are the teachings we would then derive from communities like that of Guam, simply similar to those found by many travellers with plain groups of men not yet contaminated with the diabolisms of human law
ref: The Railroad Trainman, Volume 17
text: An Authentic Copy of the Minutes of Evidence on the Trial of John Smith
These diabolisms some of the religious negroes had been provoked to retort upon their tempters, in a manner said to be disrespectful ; and for this insolence they have been repeatedly flogged and confined in the stocks
glosses: Character, action, utterances, creative works, behavior or principles appropriate to the devil.
examples: text: And this new Donation of the ecstacies of the Saints was a noble foundation for what he was now projecting , the Farce of DIABOLISM and EXORCISMS.
"Religion and Society in Latin America"
ref: 1762, William Warburton, The Doctrine of Grace:
glosses: Possession by Satan or other demonic forces.
examples: text: By Authors Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia By Adam Weiner
Bely's attribution of an "Ahrimanian" spirit to Petersburg resonates on many levels of the novel, confirming not only that the core of Petersburg is diabolism, but also indicating how that diabolism relates to the novel's sense of its authorship.
text: "Out of the Darkness, Or, Diabolism and Destiny By John Wesley Grant"
Thus was the Watchman torn from the wall, and diabolism, darkness and desolation were enthroned.
glosses: The property of having attributes that are demonic or Satanic.
Related terms: diabolical
WFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WFFs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wff; well-formed formula.
well-formed formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well-formed formulas
form: well-formed formulae
Senses: examples: text: This program works correctly on all well-formed formulas but it blows up on illegal input.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A statement that is expressed in a valid, syntactically correct manner.
Hyponyms: axiom
Meronyms: symbols
Related terms: well-posed
well-formed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-formed
form: more well-formed
form: best-formed
form: most well-formed
Senses: examples: text: If the parser says it is good, then it must be well-formed and is part of the language.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.
Hyponyms: formed
Derived terms: well-formedness
Related terms: well-formed formula
potayto, potahto
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /pəˈteɪtoʊ pəˈtɑːtoʊ/
Etymology: Supposedly uses the American English and British English pronunciations of the word potato, by analogy of tomato (see tomayto, tomahto). Unlike tomato, only the former pronunciation is used in either American or British English. Allusion to George Gershwin's song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off": "You like potato (/pəˈteɪtoʊ/) and I like potato (/pəˈtɑːtoʊ/)".
Senses: examples: text: "He says he has never had a **remission**. You thought he was being smug about 'lack of relapse(s)'."
I think it's more like "potato - potahto." No remission to me says unchanging and, hence, no relapse.
ref: 2001 August 31, Robert Hickey , “Re: Vegetarian (fruitarian?) all raw food diet - Ca-AEP”, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis (Usenet):
text: "Who's whining, pissant? I'm berating!"
Potato, potahto.
ref: 2002 July 2, Dave Witzel , “Re: beers in NYC”, in alt.beer (Usenet):
text: What he liked to call helpful, however, was more like Gwen's idea of controlling and manipulative. Potayto, potahto, and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
ref: 2004, Elaine Cunningham, Shadows In The Darkness, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 49:
text: "In Common Lisp (and presumably Emacs Lisp), functions are as first-class as in Scheme and elsewhere. You just have to do a bit extra to use them as first-class values, that's all."
Potayto, potahto. That 'bit extra' is what makes them 'not first-class denotable' in my book.
ref: 2007 October 7, David Rush , “Re: Nested Lambda function gives error in common lisp, guile, emacs lisp but works in scheme. Why?”, in comp.lang.scheme (Usenet):
glosses: That is a distinction without a difference.
wikipedia: George Gershwin
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Synonyms: same difference
tomayto, tomahto
number field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number fields
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: algebraic number field
knee-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee-pads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knee pad.
knob-jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob-jockeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knob jockey.
frivilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of frivolous.
pot-luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned to ſoul a Plate with him, [...]
ref: 1741, unknown [formerly attributed to Daniel Defoe], The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, the British Amazon, commonly called Mother Ross: […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for R[ichard] Montagu, →OCLC, part II, page 76:
text: Me, to pot-luck, may any friend invite: / The treat, I can return, is my delight.
ref: 1782, M[arcus] Val[erius] Martial[is], “XXXIII. To an Entertainer.”, in The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial, in Twelve Books: […], London: Printed by Baker and Galabin, […]; and sold … by B. White [et al.], →OCLC, book VII (On the Convivial Manners of the Romans), page 327:
text: Last evening, at the Free Trade Club, a dinner was given by Hon. Robert R. Roosevelt to a large number of his friends. Though invitations had been issued for a week previous, the feast was decidedly of an impromptu character as far the viands went. [...] Cards of invitation of an amusing character were issued, on which the menu was indicated, with the names of the improvised cooks who were to concoct gumbo, lobster cutlets, plumb pudding, various salads, and coffee. […] Course followed course in the most tumultuous way. Culinary inspirations and cookery nocturnes of all flavors and tastes crowded one on another. Anything like system was discarded, and this was thought likely to destroy the artistic effects of this pot-luck picnic.
ref: 1879 March 26, “The pot-luck picnic. An impromptu and enjoyable dinner–a display of culinary skill.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2019, page 5:
text: How to get rich of Dutch Henry taxed the wits of the invaders. The whole morning and the early afternoon went to pot-luck firing from the trench along the draw, but although it was often asserted that Henry must long since be dead—having returned none of the shooting that was meant to call his fire—no one manifested the curiosity necessary to prove the assertion by closing in on the cabin.
ref: 1921 August, Frank H[amilton] Spearman, “The Raid of the Falling Wall”, in Laramie Holds the Range, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published November 1921, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of potluck.
boundary-rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundary-riders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boundary rider.
tortoise-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortoise-shells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
tortoise-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of tortoiseshell.
noncumulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cumulative.
Senses: examples: text: There is often a sad, noncumulative pattern to working-class lives. In some professions as you get older, you rise to more responsible positions. And that was true under the old seniority-based work rules in factories.
ref: 2016 September 20, David Brooks, “Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not cumulative.
examples: text: The payment consists of $3 billion in common stock for $25.35 a share as well as $6 billion in perpetual noncumulative convertible preferred stock with a 10 percent dividend and a conversion price of $31.25 a share.
ref: 2008 September 29, Louise Story, “Morgan Stanley Completes Mitsubishi Deal”, in The New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not having an accumulating right to receive dividends unpaid in previous periods.
Derived terms: noncumulatively
Eskimologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eskimologists
form: eskimologist
Etymology: From Eskimology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: During the later half of the 19th century interest was largely diverted to discussion of the typological character of Eskimo languages- whether they were polysynthetic in the same sense as many North American Indian languages are, as maintained, for instance, by the Danish Eskimologist Hinrik Rink (1891).
ref: 1998, Michael D. Fortescue, Language Relations Across Bering Strait, page 36:
glosses: One who studies the Eskimo people; one who studies Eskimology.
eskimologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eskimologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Eskimologist.
Hawai'ian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hawai'ian
form: most Hawai'ian
Etymology: From Hawai'i + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hawaiian.
Hawai'ian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawai'ians
Etymology: From Hawai'i + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hawaiian.
Hawaiʻian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hawaiʻian
form: most Hawaiʻian
Etymology: From Hawaiʻi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hawaiian.
Hawaiʻian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiʻians
Etymology: From Hawaiʻi + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Today Molokaʻi is often called the Friendly Isle, possibly due to the fact that the largest population of Native Hawaiians live there. Historically, Molokaʻi has been a place for the spiritual leaders of the Hawaiʻian culture to gather.
ref: 2007, Jake Goldberg, Joyce Hart, “Geography: The Island State”, in Hawaiʻi (Juvenile Literature), Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of Hawaiian.
dirt poor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dirt-poor.
like death warmed over
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: like death warmed up
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Ill, unwell.
like death warmed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like death warmed over.
clear as mud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of clear as day + mud. Compare muddy (“unclear, blurry”).
Senses: antonyms: word: clear as mud
word: inevident
word: nonevident
word: muddied
word: muddled
word: non-obvious
word: nonobvious
word: opaque
word: subtle
word: unclear
word: unobvious
word: unevident
qualifier: simile
glosses: Unclear; difficult or impossible to understand or interpret.
sesamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sesame + -in. It was isolated in 1893.
Senses: glosses: An extract of sesame seeds; a component of sesame oil.
Related terms: sesamolin
uilleann pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪl.ən ˌpaɪps/
Forms: form: uilleann pipe
Etymology: Partial calque of Irish píb uilleann, literally "elbow pipe".
Senses: glosses: The bagpipes of Ireland, which have a bellows strapped around the wrist and arm to inflate the bag rather than the player blowing to do so.
uilleann pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪl.ən ˌpaɪp/
Forms: form: uilleann pipes
Senses: examples: text: A body representing and composed of uilleann pipe players.
ref: 1999, Fintan Vallely, The companion to Irish traditional music, page 299:
glosses: singular of uilleann pipes, (normally used in plural).
trauma naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Totally naked for medical assessment, often because the clothes were cut off by trauma scissors.
Shanxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑnˈʃi/
enpr: shänʹshēʹ
homophone: Shaanxi
Forms: form: Shānxi
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Shan-hsi
form: Shanhsi
form: Shansi
form: Xansi
Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 山西 (Shānxī, “[Land] West of the [Taihang] Mountains”), in reference to the location of the province's central Fen River valley.
Senses: examples: text: Shi-whang-ti having obſerv’d in viſiting his Empire that the Northern Provinces, eſpecially Pe-che-li, Shan-ſi, and Shen-ſi, were much expoſed to the ſudden Incurſions of the Tartars ; he fent a formidable Army, which having driven them back a great way beyond the Frontiers of the Empire, he immediately put in Execution the Scheme he had form'd to ſecure his Country againſt ſuch dangerous Neighbours, by building a Wall from the Sea to the Extremities of the Province of Shen-ſi.
ref: [1738, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 172:
text: The Tachai Production Brigade is part of the Tachai Commune in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, in Northern China. It’s tucked away in the Taihang Mountains, a bit over two hundred miles southwest of Peking, in an area with poor soil, serious erosion, and rock-strewn, mountainous terrain.
ref: 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Agriculture: The Foundation”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:
text: First-phase liquefaction and storage facilities are in Qinshui county, Shanxi province while the second phase is in nearby Yangcheng county. Shanxi is the nation's largest coal-producing region accounting for about 25 per cent of the nation's output.
ref: 2008 April 21, Eric Ng, “China Leason budgets 200m yuan to expand gas liquefaction”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
text: Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”
ref: 2017 October 21, Chris Buckley, “In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2017, Asia Pacific:
text: A fire at a coal company's office in China's northern Shanxi province on Thursday killed at least 25 people and injured dozens more, according to Chinese state media.
Shanxi is a major coal-producing hub in China.
ref: 2023 November 16, “China: Fire at coal mine company kills dozens”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2023, China:
glosses: A province in the northern part of China. Capital: Taiyuan.
Related terms: Not to be confused with Shaanxi
jumelle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French jumelle.
Senses: glosses: Twin; paired; said of various objects made or formed in pairs, such as a binocular opera glass, a pair of gimmal rings, etc.
jumelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French jumelle.
Senses: glosses: An object made or formed as a pair, such as a binocular opera glass.
Related terms: gemel
Macedo-Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macedo-Rumanian
Etymology: From Macedo- + Romanian.
Senses: glosses: The Aromanian language (usually)
glosses: The Megleno-Romanian language (sometimes)
vester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesters
Senses: examples: text: The remainder having once vested in the son of the fourth daughter, it cannot divest by any subsequent event. This is not one of the cases in which a remainder may open, to let in interests accruing since the vester; […]
ref: 1845, England. Court of Common Pleas, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of ... (page 374)
topics: law
glosses: The establishing of a vested interest.
vestibulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.əm/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊləm
Forms: form: vestibula
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin vestibulum (“a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance”). Doublet of vestibule.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vestibule of the ear.
Derived terms: vestibular
vestibulo-
copulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to copulation
Derived terms: anticopulatory
paracopulatory
postcopulatory
precopulatory
pseudocopulatory
Lipan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lipans
form: Lipan
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American tribe of Texas and northern Mexico.
Lipan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Athabascan language these people speak.
salmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salmon
salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salad
freckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freckle
Hunan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːˈnɑːn/
ipa: /huːˈnæn/
enpr: ho͞oʹnänʹ
Forms: form: Hu'nan
form: Hu-nan
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Hu Nan
form: Hoonan
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 湖南 (Húnán) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-nan², literally “south of the lake”, referring to Lake Dongting. Doublet of Honam.
Senses: examples: text: Foreign Missions.—Pursuing the Fulton pledge system of two-cents-a-week-for-Missions, our young people have contributed to the support of their representative in China, Rev. T. J. Preston. He has recently gone to our station at Chang-teh, in the Hunan Province, China.
ref: 1899 May, “Report of Permanent Committee on Christian Endeavor”, in Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, volume 69, Nashville, TN, page 21a:
text: The specimens on which the original description of O. Henryi was based were sent to Kew in 1886 by Mr. A. Henry, who had obtained them at Patung in Hupeh, Central China. Since then species has been met with in the adjoining provinces of Hunan and Szechuan.
ref: 1909, “OLIGOBOTRYA HENRYI”, in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 5, page 8238:
text: Toward the end of 1916 the Siems-Carey Co., allied with the American International Corporation, entered into a contract with the Chinese Government for the construction, among others, of a railway in the district-the Chuchow-Chinchow Line-which is to connect southern Hunan with the eastern seaboard of Kwangtung.
ref: 1917 April 6, “HONG KONG”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52a, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, page 14:
text: On the day after the feast of Pentecost (May 31, 1784) the three boats left Chao-ch'ing and without any mishap passed all the customs stations in Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Hunan.
ref: 1948, Bernward H. Willeke, Imperial Government and Catholic Missions in China During the Years 1784-1785, St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, page 31:
text: The first task was to clear the Hunan province of all hostile forces so as to make it possible for the various armies to converge on Wuhan area, including Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang on the Yangtze.
ref: 1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Beginnings (1924-1927)”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 42–43:
text: Mao was born in Hunan in November 1893.
ref: 1976 August 29, “Mao Tse-tung's four marriages”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 34, Taipei, page 3:
text: Ch'i-chi, whose family name was Hu, was born in the Ch'ang-sha area of Hunan.
ref: 1999, Red Pine, Mike O'Connor, editors, The Clouds Should Know Me By Now, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting. Capital: Changsha.
wikipedia: Columbia University Press
Saul B. Cohen
Derived terms: Hunan hand syndrome
Quanzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃwɑnˈt͡soʊ/
enpr: chə-wänʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Cyuanjhou
form: Ch'uan-chou
form: Ch'üan-chou
form: Chuanchou
Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 泉州 (Quánzhōu, literally “spring prefecture”).
Senses: examples: text: Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the foundations of Quanzhou’s South Gate Tower and southern wall we excavated more that twenty large white gravestones, inscribed in Arabic on both sides. They obviously had been taken from a demolished Islamic mosque. The area overlooked in the Jin River and was known as South Quanzhou, or the “Foreign District.” It was here that merchants from overseas and their families had lived during Song and Yuan.
ref: 1984, Zhuang Weiji, quotee, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 147:
text: Located on the Jin River, Quanzhou was China’s principal port during the Song and Yuan dynasties.
ref: 2016, “Fujian”, in China, DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 297, column 1:
text: He said that four years ago, the island began receiving water from the Jin River, in Quanzhou, China, and now 70-80% of Kinmen's water comes from China.
ref: 2023 February 8, Kelvin Chen, “Swiss parliamentarian delegation visits Taiwan's Kinmen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023, Politics:
glosses: A prefecture-level city in southeastern Fujian, China.
Synonyms: Zeitoun
Zaitun
Zayton
Zaytun
Zaytoun
Zeytoun
Chinchew
Chinchu
Chin-chiu
Tsuan-tsiu
Chuanchow
Derived terms: Quanzhounese
Quanzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃwɑnˈt͡soʊ/
enpr: chə-wänʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Ch'uan-chou
form: Ch'üan-chou
form: Chuanchou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 全州 (Quánzhōu, literally “round prefecture”).
Senses: glosses: A county in Guilin, Guangxi, China.
Zhangzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑŋˈt͡ʃoʊ/
ipa: /ˈdʒæŋˈdʒəʊ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/
enpr: ˈjäŋ-ˈjō
enpr: jängʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Chang-chou
form: Changchou
form: Jhangjhou
form: Changchow
form: Chang-chow
Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 漳州 (Zhāngzhōu), from its former status as the seat of Zhang Prefecture, named for the Zhang River.
Senses: examples: text: ``It looked as if the winds would carry you away the minute you stepped outside,″ the newspaper quoted Ding Jianmu, an official with the city government in Zhangzhou, another Fujian city, as saying.
Seven people in Zhangzhou were killed by collapsing buildings and walls. Another five died in Xiamen and 18 were killed in the nearby city of Quanzhou.
ref: 1999 October 11, “Typhoon Leaves 30 Dead in China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022:
text: My ancestors came from the region of Zhangzhou in Fujian, China.
ref: 2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 20:
glosses: A prefecture-level city in southern Fujian, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Synonyms: sense: from Hokkien
word: Changchew
word: Chiangchew
word: Tsiang-tsiu
word: Lungki
Derived terms: Zhangzhounese
biographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biography
gemstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemstone
bonuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonus
bonuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bonus
anamneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anamnesis
Eskimologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eskimologist
man boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man boobs
form: man-boob
Senses: examples: text: The obese boy often wore a shirt while swimming at the pool in order to hide his man boobs.
text: McPhee would have had a hairy canary if the flabby, sweaty bastard before her started gyrating to music and taking his egg stained jumper off to reveal his man boobs.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Lee Thomson, How Kirsty Gets Her Kicks:
synonyms: man titty
moob
glosses: One of a pair of large or womanly breasts on a man caused by pectoral fat, or sometimes a hormonal condition such as gynecomastia.
man-boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-boobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of man boob.
buttplug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttplugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butt plug.
molestache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molestaches
Etymology: Blend of molest + mustache
Senses: examples: text: > rivers looks like a kid toucher.
rivers definitely has the molestache action goin on.
ref: 2001 January 27, Scott “devotion100”, “Re: Weezer's mustaches”, in alt.music.weezer (Usenet):
text: I think that this level of arrogant cynicism is very instructive...you know...like how watching a mulleted drunk in a wife-beater, boxers and a molestache smacking his kids on COPS teaches us about how NOT to raise a family.
ref: 2002 December 28, C. Lee, “Re: i wonder what kind of movie we would come up with”, in alt.horror (Usenet):
text: 2004 April 1, Douglas C. Niedermeyer (pseudonym), “Scary molestache completes coaching staff”, in the Daily Nebraskan, 2004 April 1 joke issue.
text: Also known as the “molestache,” this sexified upper lip hair is often seen on men wearing short shorts, Blue Blocker sunglasses, lots of gold jewelry, […]
ref: 2005 March 10, Bryce Donovan, “Easy ladies, there's enough Bryce to go around”, in The Post and Courier, Evening Post Publishing Company:
text: (He earned the name Mario Mugshot in my circle because he looks like Mario from Super Mario Bros, and he has a molestache and messy hair like you would see on a child molester in a mugshot)
ref: 2005 May 26, Thomas, “Re: Pistons will win Game 3”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.det-pistons (Usenet):
text: 2007 January 6, “Gurriato”, “Re: Estamos todos manipulados” (“Re: We are all being manipulated”), in alt.usage.spanish and other groups, Usenet,
He wears a britstache (also called a molestache, a combination of the words mustache and molest). El Renacuajo's mustache is scrawny and creepy, much like most wearers of the molestache.
glosses: A type of scrawny or unkempt mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
grass jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A jellylike dessert found in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, made by boiling grass or leaves of a plant in the mint family (Platostoma palustre) with potassium carbonate, and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency.
amelogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amelogenins
Etymology: From amelo- + -genin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in the enamel of teeth
ectara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi एकतारा (ektārā, literally “one-string”), ultimately from Classical Persian یکتار. Related to sitar.
Senses: glosses: A one-stringed musical instrument from India.
engraftment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engraftments
Etymology: From engraft + -ment.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: transplant, transplantation
glosses: The act of engrafting, or something engrafted.
Derived terms: nonengraftment
postengraftment
reengraftmentxenoengraftment