cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mall-goth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mall-goths
Senses: examples: text: "The skull is all-purpose," said Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at The New Yorker. "It simultaneously refers to horror movies, to the Misfits and, by extension, all punk rock, and to a generalized culture of blackness and spookiness and the larger, mall-Goth culture."
ref: 2006 July 27, David Colman, “The heyday of the dead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
text: “Lester, what the fuck?” he said, grinning and laughing as he clapped Lester on the shoulder, taking a young mall-goth’s five bucks out of a hand whose fingernails were painted with chipped black polish. “What the hell is going on here?”
ref: 2009 November, Cory Doctorow, “Part II”, in Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor, Makers (A Tor Book), New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Next, are the wannabe mall-goths of the 2000s. Self-proclaimed "e-girls" and "e-boys" sporting chain link chokers and belts, big black bell bottoms, outfits plastered with images of roses, and "emo" accessories and makeup that strives for a look that breaks society's conventions, but falls short.
ref: 2019 April 26, Nevàn Campos, “Three Overused Fashion Trends”, in The Oarsman, Los Angeles, Calif.: Venice High School, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of mallgoth.
greviere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹɛvˈjɛəɹ/
Forms: form: grevieres
form: grevière
Etymology: From French grevière, grèvière (compare grévière), a rare extended form of grève.
Senses: examples: text: He is represented in full armour of the period in the brassarts and grevieres hinged, and cuffs upturned and lace edged.
ref: 1902, Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol, page 150:
text: The armour worn by a knight in the fifteenth century consisted of: 1. The cuirass, covering the breast and back. […] 9. The grevieres, guards between the knee and foot. 10. The soulières, coverings for the feet.
ref: 1889, John Anthony Sparvel-Bayly, New Studies in Old Subjects, page 20:
glosses: A greave (leg armor).
grevière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grevières
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greviere.
grevières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grevière
grevieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greviere
god tier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒd ˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑd ˈtɪɚ/
Forms: form: god-tier
form: godtier
Etymology: From god + tier (“rank, grade”).
Senses: glosses: The highest level; eliteness.
gorilla-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorilla-like
form: most gorilla-like
Senses: examples: text: The e-boy is her playful, middle-parted counterpart. Ears pierced. Nails painted. He makes us question what we once found so appealing about Zac Efron's eight-pack and Channing Tatum's gorilla-like shoulders.
ref: 2020 February 20, Grace Tucker, “E-boys and E-girls: a new, nonchalant counterculture”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gorillalike.
Alizadeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alizadehs
form: Alizade
form: Alizada
form: Alizadah
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian علیزاده ('alizâde), from علی ('ali, “Ali”) + زاده (zâde, “offspring”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Persian.
desk work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is also much 'desk work' to be done in reviewing statements, reading reports and analysing any data.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of deskwork.
Beta variant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: beta variant
form: Beta Variant
form: β variant
form: β-variant
form: Β variant
form: Β-variant
Senses: examples: text: Studies in Qatar, where the Beta variant once accounted for half of all infections, have found that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are 72 to 75 percent effective at preventing infection with Beta, a lower degree of protection than the shots provide against other variants.
ref: 2021 July 19, Emily Anthes, “The Beta Variant: What Scientists Know”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2023:
text: The Beta variant was selected because it was the prevalent SARS-CoV-2 strain at the time. Thus, after a prolonged interval after immunization with RBD-β, we had planned to challenge these animals with the Beta variant to assess the durability of protection against this variant.
ref: 2022 August 17, Prabhu S. Arunachalam et al., “Durable protection against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is induced by an adjuvanted subunit vaccine”, in Science Translational Medicine, volume 14, number 658, →DOI:
text: South Africa stopped offering the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine (which is not available in the U.S.) early in 2021 after clinical trials showed it did not provide strong protection against mild and moderate disease from the Beta variant. Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson also reported less protection against Beta.
ref: 2023 February 3, Kathy Katella, “Omicron, Delta, Alpha, and More: What To Know About the Coronavirus Variants”, in Yale Medicine, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
glosses: The highly virulent B.1.351 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: beta
Beta
South African variant
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
epauliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.poʊlˈjɛəɹ/
Forms: form: epaulieres
form: épaulière
Etymology: Borrowed from French épaulière.
Senses: examples: text: […] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
ref: 2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: The part of a suit of armor covering the shoulder; a shoulder plate.
Coordinate terms: spaulder
pauldron
espauliere
Related terms: epaulette
epaulieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epauliere
espaliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espalieres
Etymology: From French espalière.
Senses: examples: text: Some plate-armour protection for the legs was provided by the chauces de fer, and espalieres protected the shoulders ...
ref: 1994, Christopher Marshall, Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: [A] surcoat lay ready for me, along with some gauntlets, chauces de fer for my legs, and espalieres for my shoulders. I've rarely worn armor in my life, and then only for disguise.
ref: 2003, Alan Gordon, The Widow of Jerusalem: A Medieval Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Rare form of espauliere and epauliere (“shoulder armor”).
nomen correctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A name whose spelling is required or allowed to be intentionally altered under the ICZN rules of nomenclature but which does not have to be transferred from one taxon to another.
nomen protectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina conservanda
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: nomen conservandum
glosses: A name that has been protected by the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature and is valid to be used although it is known it does not comply with the requirements of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature
Gamma variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma variant
form: Gamma Variant
form: γ variant
form: γ-variant
form: Γ variant
form: Γ-variant
Senses: examples: text: Variants of concern, and in particular the gamma variant, have played an important role in the recent epidemic wave in Brazil, which began in early 2021.
ref: 2021 August 20, Ranzani, Otavio T., et al., “Effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine in older adults during a gamma variant associated epidemic of covid-19 in Brazil: test negative case-control study”, in bmj, volume 374, →DOI:
text: Among 45 persons tested with variant-of-concern RT-PCR, whole-genome sequencing, or both, the Gamma variant was detected for 68.9%.
ref: 2022 January, da Silva, Juliana F., et al., “Cluster of SARS-CoV-2 Gamma Variant Infections, Parintins, Brazil, March 2021”, in Emerging infectious diseases, volume 28, →DOI, page 262:
text: The percentage of the unvaccinated population had a significant effect on the increase in ICU admissions and on the increase of omicron, alpha, delta, and gamma variant cases.
ref: 2022 August 19, de Fátima Cobre, Alexandre, et al., “The impact of COVID-19 vaccine rejection on hospital admission and variants spread worldwide: implications for healthcare policy”, in Research, Society and Development, →DOI, page 1:
topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
virology
synonyms: gamma
Brazilian variant
glosses: The highly virulent P.1 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
Zeta variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeta variant
form: Zeta Variant
form: ζ variant
form: ζ-variant
form: Ζ variant
form: Ζ-variant
Senses: glosses: The P.2 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: zeta
Zeta
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Eta variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eta variant
form: Eta Variant
form: η variant
form: η-variant
form: Η variant
form: Η-variant
Senses: glosses: The B.1.525 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: eta
Eta
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
Theta variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theta variant
form: Theta Variant
form: θ variant
form: θ-variant
form: Θ variant
form: Θ-variant
Senses: glosses: The P.3 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: theta
Theta
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Zeta variant
Iota variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iota variant
form: Iota Variant
form: ι variant
form: ι-variant
form: Ι variant
form: Ι-variant
Senses: glosses: The B.1.526 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: iota
Iota
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
Kappa variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kappa variant
form: Kappa Variant
form: κ variant
form: κ-variant
form: Κ variant
form: Κ-variant
Senses: glosses: The B.1.617.1 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: kappa
Kappa
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
Epsilon variant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: epsilon variant
form: Epsilon Variant
form: ε variant
form: ε-variant
form: Ε variant
form: Ε-variant
Senses: examples: text: To learn more about the characteristics of the Epsilon variant, the researchers tested the resilience against the Epsilon variant of plasma from people who were exposed the virus, as well as vaccinated people. The neutralizing potency of the plasma against the Epsilon variant of concern was reduced about 2 to 3.5 fold.
ref: 2021 July 2, Leila Gray, “Epsilon variant mutations help spur COVID immune evasion”, in UW Medicine Newsroom, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023:
text: Studies have shown the Epsilon variant is indeed more transmissible and has reduced susceptibility to bamlanivimab, which prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider it a variant of concern (VOC) until it became less frequent in June 2021.
ref: 2021 December 7, Shangxin Yang et al., “Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Epsilon Variant and Hospitalization Status by Genomic Surveillance in a Single Large Health System During the 2020-2021 Winter Surge in Southern California”, in American Journal of Clinical Pathology, volume 157, number 5, →DOI:
text: The tendency of SARS-CoV-2 to become more infectious but less virulent with the epsilon variant is supported mechanistically by (1) the down-regulation of viral processing pathways seen in our multiomic analyses and (2) the lack of associations with increased hospitalizations.
ref: 2022 December 1, Jasmine T Plummer et al., “US Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Epsilon Variant: Highly Transmissible but With an Adjusted Muted Host T-Cell Response”, in Clinical Infectious Diseases, volume 75, number 11, →DOI:
glosses: The B.1.427 and B.1.429 strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: epsilon
Epsilon
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
slave wage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave wages
Etymology: Probably from the idea that the wage is so low that someone receiving it is nearly or de facto enslaved.
Senses: examples: text: What's the situation? / An un-united nation / Working for a slave wage / What would you pay? / Kicking down a closed door / Something you could fight for / It's time to pull up / your head off the floor
ref: 1995, “United Kids”, in Set Your Goals (cassette), performed by Civ, Lava Records, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: living wage
minimum wage
family wage
maximum wage
glosses: A very low amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work.
Related terms: wage slave
wage slavery
Lambda variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambda variant
form: Lambda Variant
form: λ variant
form: λ-variant
form: Λ variant
form: Λ-variant
Senses: glosses: The C.37 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: lambda
Lambda
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Mu variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
exwife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exwives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ex-wife.
exwives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exwife
Mu variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mu variant
form: Mu Variant
form: μ variant
form: μ-variant
form: Μ variant
form: Μ-variant
Senses: glosses: The B.1.621 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Synonyms: mu
Mu
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
slave wages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave wage
Omega variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Omega variants
form: omega variant
form: Omega Variant
Senses: examples: ref: 2021 November 11, Gwen Ackerman, “Israel Holds 'War Games' to Prepare for More Lethal Covid Strain”, in Bloomberg:
glosses: A hypothetical, extremely virulent strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Coordinate terms: Alpha variant
Beta variant
Delta variant
Epsilon variant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
Iota variant
Kappa variant
Lambda variant
Mu variant
Omicron variant
Theta variant
Zeta variant
Permian-Triassic extinction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: Great Dying
Permian-Triassic extinction event
Permian-Triassic mass extinction
end-Permian extinction
end-Permian extinction event
end-Permian mass extinction
hypernyms: mass extinction
extinction event
extinction-level event
coordinate_terms: late-Ordovician extinction
Triassic-Jurassic extinction
Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
Holocene extinction
Anthropogene extinction
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A volcanic mass extinction at the end of the Permian period 251.9 million years ago.
Great Dying
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Dying
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Synonym of Permian-Triassic extinction.
synonyms: word: Permian-Triassic extinction
End-Permian Extinction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Permian extinction.
synonyms: word: Permian extinction
coal gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The time period with few coal deposits from the Permian to middle Jurassic.
anoxic event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anoxic events
Etymology: From anoxic + event.
Senses: glosses: A period of time (e.g. in Earth's history) when large expanses of ocean are depleted of dissolved oxygen.
cross-docking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: logistics
glosses: freight terminal management practice of loading the cargo unloaded from inbound transport to the outbound transport with little or no storage in between
frag grenade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frag grenades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fragmentation grenade.
microhemagglutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + hemagglutination.
Senses: glosses: Microscopic hemagglutination: agglutination on a microscopic scale rather than on a gross (macroscopic) scale, especially as a test for the presence of antibodies.
reading lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reading list
brigander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briganders
Etymology: From Middle English brigander(s), from brigaunt, bregaund.
Senses: examples: text: Item ij holy water stokke
Item A fire skomer
i pair of briganders (coats of mail) and a salet (light helmet)
A pair of curas (cuirass)
ij old bills
ref: after 1510, "Inventories of … the Church of St. Margaret, 1511, 1572, and 1614-15", quoted in 1900, Westminster (London, England), A Catalogue of Westminster Records Deposited at the Town Hall, Caxton Street, in the Custody of the Vestry of St. Margaret & St. John, page 237
text: The Duke of Buckyngham stoode harnessed in olde euell fauoured bryganders.
ref: 1543, C. Harding, Grafton, page 497:
text: Harnessed in olde rusty briganders.
ref: 1611 (edition of 1632), Speed, Hist. Great Britain, IX, xviii, 915
text: A soldier wearing a brigander.]
ref: [1888, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, page 1102
text: ... with their “prickers” and “hoblers” armed in “coats of mail, briganders, palets or roundels, vanbrases, and rerebrases, and using horns and clarions." In this portentous and lively fashion they moved on to the borders[…]
ref: 1906, George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Alfred Rhead, Staffordshire Pots & Potters, page 70:
text: A brigander - better known as a brigandine - was a closefitting jacket lined with small overlapping plates of iron which were fastened by rivets to their textile covering.
ref: 1978, Martin R. Holmes, Shakespeare and Burbage: The Sound of Shakespeare as Devised to Suit the Voice and Talents of His Principal Player, London: Phillimore:
text: Every Alderman reviewed the men of his ward, putting aside "all such as had jacks, coats of plate, coats of mail, and briganders, and appointed none but such as had white harness, except such as should bear Moorish pikes."
ref: 2011, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: Synonym of brigandine.
synonyms: word: brigandine
briganders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brigander
revision week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revision weeks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reading week.
synonyms: word: reading week
reading break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reading breaks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reading week.
synonyms: word: reading week
revision weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revision week
reading breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reading break
polydystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɑliˈdɪstɹəfi/
Etymology: From poly- + dystrophy or poly- + dys- + -trophy.
Senses: glosses: Dystrophy comprising multiple types (multiple dystrophies), as for example in pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy.
preexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + exercise.
Senses: examples: text: preexercise stretching
text: preexercise snack
glosses: Before exercise.
fork-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fork-tongued
form: most fork-tongued
Etymology: From various depictions of the Devil with a forked tongue, much like a snake's.
Senses: glosses: deceitful, duplicitous, beguiling
premeet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + meet.
Senses: examples: text: premeet warm-up
text: premeet routine
glosses: Before a meet, as for example a track meet or swim meet.
swim meet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːt
Forms: form: swim meets
Etymology: From swim + meet., on the pattern of track meet and field meet.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athletic contest for swimming.
Related terms: field meet
track meet
swim meets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swim meet
runs across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run across
running across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run across
ran across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run across
took it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take it
megatall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatalls
Etymology: From mega- + tall.
Senses: topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A building approximately between 600 meters and 900 meters tall, (between 2000 feet and 3000 feet tall). A building taller than a supertall.
Hypernyms: skyscraper
Coordinate terms: highrise
high-rise
high rise
low-rise
low rise
lowrise
midrise
mid-rise
mid rise
skyscraper
Related terms: plain tall
supertall
tall
plain tall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain talls
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A building that is over forty storeys tall, but less than 300 m or 1000 ft tall.
topics: architecture
glosses: A tall building shorter than a supertall.
Synonyms: tall
Hypernyms: skyscraper
Coordinate terms: highrise
high-rise
high rise
low-rise
low rise
lowrise
midrise
mid-rise
mid rise
skyscraper
Related terms: megatall
supertall
tall
apostrophation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostrophations
Senses: examples: text: I shall you make relacyon
By way of apostrofacyon
Under supportacyon
Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32:
text: He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]
ref: 1908, George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, volume 2, page 361:
glosses: Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
examples: text: In some cases, however, the apostrophation failed of its purpose, if its purpose were indeed the reduction of redundant syllables: […]
ref: 1928, Johannes C. Andersen, The Laws of Verse, page 110:
text: Words are run together by apostrophation in lines 21, 24, 35, 44, 57, 58, 79, 83, 84, 102, and 103, producing such cumbrous (and then conventional) specimens as o’ th’, in ’s, i’ th’, and t’ hang.
ref: 1956, ed. Edward Niles Hooker; H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., The Works of John Dryden, Volume I: Poems, 1649-1680, page 174:
text: The post-generator performs orthogonal operations on the target language, like contractions and apostrophations.
ref: 2015 March, Siddhartha Ghosh, Aditi Ghotikar, and Soujanya Chaturvedula, “Natural Language Processing: A Machine Translation System for Indian Languages” in International Journal of Combined Research & Development (IJCRD), volume 4, issue 3, page 64
glosses: The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
wrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I shall you make relacyon
By way of apostrofacyon […]
How I, Skelton laureat,
Devysed and also wrate
Uppon a lewde curate, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–30, 33–35:
glosses: simple past of write
Faneuils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Faneuil
Kohlbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kohlberg
Leahys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Leahy
manefaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manefaire
Laheys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lahey
mezail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezails
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mezail.
glosses: Alternative form of mesail.
Capewells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Capewell
Alizadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alizadeh
mezails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezail
Thierses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thiers
Maugeris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maugeri
report back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reports back
form: reporting back
form: reported back
form: reported back
Senses: examples: text: Safety authorities and public bodies such as the ORR and Network Rail are required to report back to RAIB on how any recommendations addressed to them have been considered and what actions have or are planned to be taken.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
glosses: To deliver a spoken or written account or report of something one has been asked or required to do or investigate.
glosses: To return, to come back, usually in order to report information.
Wertenbakers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wertenbaker
Doorey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dooreys
Etymology: Variant of Dorey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dooreys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doorey
Farnols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farnol
Farnhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Farnhills
form: Farnol
Etymology: From Old English fearn (“fern”) + hyll (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE005465).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Farnhills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farnhill
Fornacalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fornicalia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Fornācālia.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman festival in honor of the goddess Fornax. Romans burned spelt (a kind of grain) as an offering on or around February 17th as an offering so that their ovens would not burn during the coming year.
half again
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Half again as long
translation: one and a half times as long
english: one and a half times as long
text: George just talked to a friend of his downtown; he has a new job for Gus! And, it pays half again as much as he's been making.
ref: 1965, Robert Riley Crutcher, “What's Buggin' Hazel”, in William D. Russell, director, Hazel, season 4, episode 22, spoken by Dorothy Baxter (Whitney Blake):
text: Maji orbits the Vamshi binary giant stars. Vamshi-A is a blue star of spectral class A4III which burns at half again the temperature of Sol. Vamshi-B is an aging red giant of class M5III, over 220 times the size of Sol.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maji planet description:
glosses: One and a half times, 150%.
Sherif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sherifs
Etymology: Variant of Sharif.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Seegars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seegarses
Etymology: Variant of Seager.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Seegarses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seegars
Sherifs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sherif
Westrum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westrums
Etymology: Borrowed from German and Norwegian Westrum.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Westrums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Westrum
Volantes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Volante
Woolstenhulme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woolstenhulmes
Etymology: Variant of Wolstenholme.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Woolstenhulmes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woolstenhulme
Bahrami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bahramis
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian بهرامی (bahrâmi).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Persian.
Battenfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Battenfields
Etymology: Americanized variant of German Battenfeld.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Battenfields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Battenfield
Bahramis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bahrami
Basto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bastos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Basto. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aronses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Arons
Armacost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Armacosts
Etymology: Variant of Armagost.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Batzel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batzels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Batzel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Armacosts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Armacost
Batzels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Batzel
McDermitts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McDermitt
Wolstenholmes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wolstenholme
Security Service
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Security Service
Senses: examples: text: In this section […] “intelligence service” means the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service or GCHQ […]
ref: 2010, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Other provisions about offences, section 13(6)”, in Bribery Act 2010, page 11:
glosses: MI5.
TRQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRQs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tariff-rate quota.
TRQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRQ
urticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urticoid
form: most urticoid
Etymology: From Latin urtica (“nettle”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: (Especially of a cystidium) shaped like a stinging-nettle hair (with a long straight pointed section and a swollen base).
Victoria Harbour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British monarch Queen Victoria.
Senses: examples: text: Putting the viewing platform on the roof will provide a much better view of islands to the south of Hong Kong Island, in the opposite direction from Victoria Harbour, which the tower faces.
ref: 2005 April 3, Keith Bradsher, “Makeover for a Chinese Harbor's Landmark”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, TRAVEL:
text: Saturday’s march — the ninth weekend of sustained protests — deviated from a route authorized by police and went into the tourist-heavy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, which looks onto Victoria Harbor.
ref: 2019 August 3, Shibani Mahtani, Anna Kam, “Hong Kong protests spill into tourist district with tear gas and arrests”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2019, Asia & Pacific:
text: One of two giant rubber ducks anchored in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour as part of an art installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman deflated on Saturday, to the disappointment of residents coming to see them in scorching heat.
ref: 2023 June 10, Jessie Pang, Marius Zaharia, “One of two giant rubber ducks in Hong Kong harbour deflates”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2023, Lifestyle:
text: Now on display at Hong Kong International Airport, the C919 will fly over the city’s Victoria Harbour on Saturday.
ref: 2023 December 13, “China debuts homegrown C919 jet in Hong Kong ahead of Victoria Harbour fly-past”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2023, Hong Kong:
glosses: A harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north.
uranoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranoscopes
Senses: glosses: Atlantic stargazer (Uranoscopus scaber)
salpingoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salpingoplasties
Etymology: From salpingo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical repair of the Fallopian tubes, especially the process of opening blocked Fallopian tubes.
salpingoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpingoplasty
tenoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenoplasties
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Surgery to repair a tendon involving the transfer of tissue.
tenoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenoplasty
uretherostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uretherostomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the urethra to allow for drainage.
uretherostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uretherostomy
O'Hare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: O'Hares
form: O'Hair
form: O'Haire
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAichir (“descendant of Aichear”), a byname from aichear (“sharp, keen”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Napolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Napoli
O'Hares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of O'Hare
McMullins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McMullin
Mayerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mayers
Mulkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mulkey
manifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪˌfɝ/
/ˈmæn.ə-/
/-fɛɚ/
Forms: form: manifers
Etymology: Manifer (mainfer, mainfere) ("gauntlet") and manefaire (mainfaire) ("horse's neck armor") are often taken to have originally been one word, attested in Middle English as mayndefer, maynfer, and maynefere in lists of armor used by men and their horses. Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon and Charles John ffoulkes take the meaning of "gauntlet" to be the original, from French main de fer (literally “hand of iron”); see manefaire (“horse's neck armor”) for more on that meaning.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the ordinary tilting armour extra pieces were worn : The grandguard and volant piece, very often riveted together; the elbow or pasguard, and the manifer or miton gauntlet for the bridle hand.
ref: 1898, The Archaeological Journal, page 312:
text: (vii) The manifer (reinforcing bridle gauntlet for the tilt) was examined in cross-section. The microstructure shows tempered martensite and bands of ferrite, associated with corrosion cracks.
ref: 2003, Alan R. Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period, BRILL, →ISBN, page 805:
text: Even from that distance, the Master of the Armoury could see that the gauntlets were masterpieces of construction, the left one a manifer or bridle gauntlet, designed to cover hand and lower arm on the exposed side of the jouster.
ref: 2013, Edward Marston, The Roaring Boy, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
glosses: A large gauntlet worn over the bridle hand during jousting tournaments.
wikipedia: Charles ffoulkes
Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon
mainfere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainferes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manifer (“gauntlet”).
mainfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainfers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manifer (“gauntlet”).
mainfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainfer
hitpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitperson
babbledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From babble + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Babeldom.
Babbledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From babble + -dom. Capitalisation due to confusion or influence from Babel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Babeldom.
apprehendedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of apprehend
oyster-tecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Kate Orff. Blend of oyster + architecture
Senses: examples: text: The vision for oyster-tecture is to create a network of oyster reefs that interlink from Texas to Maine.
ref: 2012 May 30, Neil Chambers, “The Viability and Vision of Oyster-tecture”, in Metropolis:
text: Such is the potential that the concept of oyster-tecture – the use of oysters as an architectural resource – was developed by landscape architect Kate Orff and presented in a 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
ref: 2016 November 17, Edward Helmore, “Oysters are making a comeback in the polluted waters around New York City”, in The Guardian:
text: The $60 million project, devised by landscape architect Kate Orff more than a decade ago and launched by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, uses an approach that Orff has dubbed “oyster-tecture”: partially submerged mounds of rubble mingle with shell structures implanted with living larvae.
ref: 2021 November 19, Julia Hotz, “New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods”, in Bloomberg CityLab:
glosses: The use of oyster reefs to mitigate the effects of storm surge and rising sea levels and to filter polluted water.
wikipedia: Kate Orff
fall into oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls into oneself
form: falling into oneself
form: fell into oneself
form: fallen into oneself
Senses: examples: text: He fell into himself, his half-closed eyes looking into an edgeless nowhere.
ref: 1964, The Illustrated Weekly of India - Volume 85, page 67:
text: He lost all sensation of time and space, fell into himself more completely than he had ever known possible, touched his life force with his consciousness for the first time.
ref: 2002, R.A. Salvatore, Transcendence:
text: Jot down a few sentences about your outer world, then fall into yourself; observe your inner thoughts and musings and then write from the part of you that is always watching.
ref: 2010, Sandy Grason, Journalution, page 142:
text: The more you hold on to the everyday, the farther away you are from surrendering. Fall. Fall into yourself, into the deep spaces that lie within.
ref: 2012, Genevieve Wood, Kindling Our Stars: Nurturing Bright and Dark Flames, page 136:
text: The celebrated Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, for example, in the 20th century will describe, almost hauntingly, his mid-life experience of falling into himself.
ref: 2015, James C. Harrington, Sidney G. Hall III, Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern:
glosses: To enter an introspective or meditative state.
examples: text: But you fall into yourself around these, these jokers. You become a mouse.
ref: 2002, Dana Johnson, Break Any Woman Down: And Other Stories, page 185:
text: When trials come and you fall into yourself and close your heart, suffering is increased and intensified.
ref: 2012, Tau Malachi, The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas:
text: Mama, who had been looking so strong this morning, seemed to fall into herself. Her blankets would swallow her alive if she sank further into the bed.
ref: 2017, Hannah Polanco, Words of Venom:
glosses: To become shy or withdrawn.
Argier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Theſe are the cruel pirates of Argier,
That damned train, the ſcum of Affrica, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: Obsolete form of Algiers.
manifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifer
davemaoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdeɪvˈmaʊ.aɪt/
Etymology: From Dave + Mao + -ite, after Chinese-American geophysicist Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao, who first described it from theory.
Senses: glosses: A high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite mineral with chemical formula CaSiO₃.
wikipedia: Ho-Kwang Mao
nocoiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nocoiner
mining pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mining pools
Senses: examples: text: The hashrate at major crypto mining pools – groups of miners in different locations that team up to produce bitcoin – including AntPool and F2Pool was on Thursday at 1215 GMT down around 14% from its level late on Tuesday, according to data from mining firm BTC.com.
ref: 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The pooling of resources by cryptocurrency miners who share their processing power and split the reward.
mining pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mining pool
digital scarcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: The lack of access to digital infrastructure such as the Internet.
examples: text: Until 2009 digital scarcity did not exist in any meaningful way. If I had a file on my computer – a picture of a cat, say – I could copy that file for as many people as I wanted at a price too low to calculate.
ref: 2018, Simon Dingle, In Math We Trust: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and the Journey To Being Your Own Bank, Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN:
text: With this technological design, Nakamoto was able to invent digital scarcity. Bitcoin is the first example of a digital good that is scarce and cannot be reproduced infinitely.
ref: 2018, Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 177:
text: The CryptoKitties team addressed the concept of digital scarcity for singular items by way of their digital collectibles. No two CryptoKitties are alike—each one is unique.
ref: 2021, Tiana Laurence, Seoyoung Kim, NFTs For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: A limitation, imposed through software, of digital information; in particular, the limitation on the total supply of a cryptocurrency or other crypto-based tokens.
morphosculptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphosculpture
morphosculptures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of morphosculpture
Bezabeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic በዛበህ (bäzabäh).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Amharic.
Bezabehs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bezabeh
Mexican divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican divorces
Senses: topics: human-sciences
law
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An easier, quicker, and less expensive form of divorce than a divorce in most US states, sought by some Americans.
lizard brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lizard brained
form: most lizard brained
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lizard-brained.
lizard-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lizard-brained
form: most lizard-brained
form: lizard brained
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Driven by instinct or impulse rather than rational thought.
Related terms: lizard brain
Mexican divorces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican divorce
Shinwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shinwells
Etymology: Variant of Shimwell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
reptilian brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reptilian brained
form: most reptilian brained
form: reptilian-brained
Senses: glosses: Of, or exhibiting a reptilian brain.
reptilian-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reptilian-brained
form: most reptilian-brained
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reptilian brained.
dihydrophenanthridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihydrophenanthridine
apostrophations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostrophation
pee play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pissplay.
synonyms: word: pissplay
piss play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pissplay.
sand spit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand spits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sandspit.
deconfessionalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deconfessionalise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deconfessionalization.
deconfessionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deconfessionalises
form: deconfessionalising
form: deconfessionalised
form: deconfessionalised
Etymology: From de- + confessionalise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deconfessionalize.
deconfessionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deconfessionalise
vantbras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vantbrases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vambrace.
vantbrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vantbras
deconfessionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deconfessionalise
deconfessionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deconfessionalise